[...] sawing, etc.) while telling (this is about removing the ="trms">codes of acting and re="trms">presentation process that ="trms">interupt the telling)
="lstsrd">3. everyday mundane talks, no ="trms">stage. ‘you’ in it. (is it a one-to-one mentoring='qstn'>?)
="lstsrd">4. convert into ="trms">language the objects from the basket, ="trms">write them down. since we are going to work with sign-="trms">language
="lstsrd">5. make the connections (probably together)
="lstsrd">6. special activities during the workshop='qstn'>? (cooking, drinking, etc.)
="lstsrd">7. ending of the workshop. what would be the closure='qstn'>? what do we build='qstn'>? how do we evaluate='qstn'>?


='lgc'>[what are you summoned by='qstn'>? ="trms">write about the person you see in the light of reverie='qstn'>? how to survive humanism='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

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='at'>#workshop, ="trms">fables
="trms">fable seen as a site where one ="trms">formulates concepts and ="trms">narratives that reorient one within one's own research practices
="prgrph">-(how can we) participate in shaping our objects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">relational ="trms">="trms">empiricism)
="prgrph">-learn through participating in ="trms">different (though not fixed nor ="trms">mutually ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive) ='strcls'>*micro="trms">worlds='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[micro="trms">world='lgc'>: a space where protocols and ="trms">="trms">equipments are standardized to facilitate the emergence and stabilization of new objects. (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-“banal and ordinary sites of getting on in collective life” (="ppl">Verran)
="prgrph">-bring your ‘found objects’ (objects, ="trms">categories, ="trms">stories, concepts, insights, ="trms">writing under influence, etc.) and put them in ‘telling’ (telling ="trms">stories about the lives of your found objects ='lgc'>=/= insisting on the solidity of our found objects='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--='lgc'>[solidity='lgc'> = stability ='lgc'>+ ="trms">authority='lgc'>] and in telling practices ='lgc'>=> (re)="trms">materializing your ="trms">="trms">empirical objects ='lgc'>=/= generating re="trms">liably-managed micro="trms">world)
="prgrph">-found objects are objects with which we inhabit ="trms">worlds (or micro="trms">worlds of our practices)
="prgrph">-(not claiming to occupy an) ="trms">ontological no-man's-land outside of the micro="trms">worlds ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> my frame is no more free of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics than any other
="prgrph">-towards an ongoing untidy recursive theory ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> keeping our objects, concepts, and insights in a state of generative transformation
="prgrph">-which “="trms">affective economies” animate our own bodies as artist and as people='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what feelings inform our works='qstn'>?

staying with ="trms">linguistic ="trms">differences (in each of our ="trms">stories or praxiography) is a way of investigating the ="trms">ontological commitments embedded in ="trms">language.
="trms">ontological ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">worlding ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> how ="trms">language participates in shaping our lived ="trms">worlds in some ways and not others.='strcls'>*** “it is not common for speakers of a ="trms">language to examine what type of ="trms">material objects their ="trms">language commits them to.” (="ppl">Verran)

solidity of found objects, in my case, the graphs and images i am making about ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the graphs now reiterate for me as rituals in ='mywrk'>my research micro="trms">world.
with these graphs i am trying ="trms">different ways of arranging space, time and ="trms">matter when speaking a ='strcls'>*sentence='strcls'>*. ...each ="trms">language figures space, time, and ="trms">matter into ="trms">different kinds of objects. in my ="trms">writing tools with ="nms">ajayeb, what type of ="trms">material objects my ="trms">language, or Hemedani or Qazwini's ="trms">language, commits us to='qstn'>? my graphs are “spatiotemporal particulars” and “="trms">sortal particulars”. trying to talk about ="trms">ontological assumptions embedded in the English (and any other) ="trms">language. the diagrams are ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs='strcls'>*. i am using ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigging instead of framework. ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> clever ="trms">technological ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs, are provisional constructions, setup for a ="trms">specific myth and dismantled after. sometimes old ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs are reused or repurposed for new ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs.
="prgrph">-resist peaceful ="trms">naturalization
="prgrph">-uncomfortable software
="prgrph">-building/creating ="trms">technologies as one way to do ="trms">ontological politics (in postcolonial context)
="prgrph">-my experiments with ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-(the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger in using) computer software to archive ="nms">ajayeb's or ="nms">ajib knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= lively collective ="trms">memory tool
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-the software that is slick and seamless runs the risk of the digital media appear as ='strcls'>*self-sufficient re="trms">presentations='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> living context)
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-archived and frozen in time
="prgrph">-="trms">sorting operations

(if i continue with digital tech in ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="nms">ajayeb i have to ask) how the digitized ="nms">ajib knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge can resist appropriation and ="trms">translation into an idiom that will not sustain its ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='strcls'>****
="lsts lst2">◦powerful ="trms">relational work that numbers (also='qstn'>?='lgc'> = ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='lgc'>=> etc.) perform ='lgc'>-> “numbers are a particularly smooth and manipulable meaning-making tools. they hide their seams well. they are slick and trustworthy” (Porter) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> they are “="trms">materialized ="trms">relations” (how can we tell a ="trms">story of ="trms">relations that for example numbers/math ="trms">materialize='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst2">◦highlighting parts of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: as part of a ="trms">material ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practice ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “highlighting” could easily be understood as ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor of dis="trms">embodied vision; highlighting is not about making things clear but about scribbling (bad-khat بدخط) as a mode of attention ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Descartes’) “="trms">natural light of reason”


='prcnt'>%report on ="trms">fables of objects ='at'>#workshop (22.02.2017 HWD ="nms">apass)='lgc'>: attention to the sense and feeling of disparity, dispersity, stability, ="trms">sublimity, ="trms">authority, epicness, weakness, severity, solidity, scale, (a)="trms">social connections, and tangibility in the character of the object of each participants in the ="trms">stories we wrote. where were active and passive qualities located='qstn'>? how were ="trms">agencies distributed='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> evolution ="trms">story, ="trms">love ="trms">story ='lgc'>[the object falls in ="trms">love with...='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•daily ="trms">story
="lsts lst1">•="trms">beast feeding ="trms">story ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> training ="trms">story
evoking temporality of evolutionary time, face-to-face time, ="trms">historical time, tiny scale time,
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-each ="trms">story has a music, texture of colors, pattern of meaning and ="trms">affect
="lsts lst1">•bodyguard ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> fantastic creature invented to protect an organism (your “object”). this bodyguard can be organic, nonorganic, cyborg, any form, but always an ="trms">agent. tell us why/how this or that feature helps the bodyguard with its task
="lsts lst1">•generation ="trms">stories, describe and follow your object in three generations, its ="trms">child and grand="trms">child
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[for the second day or warm-up first day='qstn'>?='lgc'>] constraint based ="trms">writing='lgc'>: (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney > ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian Bök's “="trms">literary genetics” ="trms">poetics of encryption of ="trms">data; ="trms">poetic vectors, to “infect” the ="trms">language;) describe/="trms">story your object (or an operative “="trms">verb” within your discourse) with univocalics='lgc'>: without using “e” or only using a single vowel. or, first ="trms">write with 3, then 2, then 1 vowel.

="prgrph">-the workshop is about='lgc'>: what other ="trms">stories (of your object) are possible='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-in the workshop (I take a temporary ="trms">position to) challenge others to re-tell the ="trms">story of their ((="trms">epistemological) found) objects
="prgrph">-a ‘generative constraint’ might help opening up paths before you, away from our habits of ="trms">storytelling
="prgrph">-it is about getting a feeling for the resistances and potentials of ="trms">language in our (sometimes mundane) descriptive practices, “strange richness of missing the letters we need” (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)

the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors are dormant in our ="trms">routines of talking and noticing each other. how then, by ="trms">traversing the ="trms">routine, our “knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” and “="trms">community” took on new meaning, as they get a chance of being re="trms">articulated in ="trms">different ="trms">languages (or ="trms">differenlty infected ="trms">literature)
='lgc'>~-='qstn'>?='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> changing the ="trms">system of classification (of thought)

="prgrph">-in a way the workshop is about an ='strcls'>*approach='strcls'>* to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge generation (and not necessarily a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous critique nor directly evaluating the production of our knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)


='strcls'>***nothing is never merely a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='strcls'>***

='lgc'>[some ="trms">fables from ="trms">science studies:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Emily ="ppl">Martin's egg/sperm ="trms">story ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">stories of atomism, distribution of ="trms">agency, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--='lgc'>[The Egg and the Sperm='lgc'>: How ="trms">Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Hayward's microscope ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">tropes of ="trms">natural ="trms">history docu, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--='lgc'>[En="trms">folded Vision='lgc'>: Refracting The ="trms">Love Life of the Octopus='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Kenney/="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin/="trms">nature ="trms">fable ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the omnipotence of the “o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin” ="trms">story in our descriptions and ="trms">interactions with the ="trms">natural ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Scott ="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert's immunological “bouncer” ="trms">story ='lgc'>=/= immune ="trms">systems as in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ="trms">agents of ="trms">symbiosis
="lsts lst1">•Lynn ="ppl">="ppl">Margulis='lgc'>: life (made possible) by “combat” ='lgc'>[the survival ="trms">fable that TV series “The 100” and “Kelile Demne” for instance is based on='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> life by ="trms">networking
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>: the tale of “organism='lgc'> = a ="trms">system of division of labor with executive functions” (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> extraction of wealth among us)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Morton's ="trms">causality-="trms">story
="lsts lst1">•brain/body ="trms">story ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> where the “move” came from='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•="frds">Sina's “standing on the shoulders of giants” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/continuity, role of ="trms">authority and humility in ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--='lgc'>[http://www.sinaseifee.com/giants.html='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="frds">Sina's 3 little pigs ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> architecture/tech/ echics of encounter ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">story of the center and periphery ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--='lgc'>[http://www.sinaseifee.com/pigs.html='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•“weapon fathered man” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> Kubrick's african genes[...]