[...]ological apparition='lgc'>[s='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Something new was required to account for change; the logic informed a kind of paternal creation myth ='lgc'>[........='lgc'>] unchanging “matrix” for the generative principle of change. (In Zihlman's ="trms">story logic, both gathering and hunting emerged as repatternings, not op="trms">posites, in changed conditions of constraint and opportunity. ="trms">Narratives of both gathering and hunting ways of life produced genders and citizens.)
="lsts lst1">•tool-weapon equation in masculinist ="trms">scientific ="trms">narratives


as careful scrutiny of ="trms">wonders and marvels becomes a mainstay in European intellectual life, 17th century ="trms">natural philosophers began to understand ='strcls'>*="trms">wonder, ='strcls'>*curiosity, and ='strcls'>*attention as cloesly aligned and ="trms">mutually defining.

="trms">epistemological ="trms">beast ="trms">fable

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> un="trms">natural ="trms">history

knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-making practices of other times and places

tracing the web of ="trms">horror and delight

="ppl">Serres reminds us the ="trms">beast ="trms">fable tradition is as much about biomimicry as ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphizing.

finding ways of “going-on together” (="ppl">Verran)

“by experience and by af="trms">finity, some of us begin not with ="trms">Pasteur, but with the ="trms">monster, the outcast” (S. ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)

(="nms">ajayeb's) (politics of) administering discrete objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----(number ="trms">sys)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:129%"> (why should we engage in re="trms">figuration='qstn'>?)
(there are always a) multitude of ="trms">agencies un="trms">folding as the ="trms">world is continuously reconfigured (='lgc'>=/= to explain away='lgc'>: when multiple objects are collapsed into one.)
="prgrph">-“Within this dynamic ="trms">world it is impossible to ="trms">imagine that one single ="trms">story or one ="trms">narrative style can capture all of the liveliness and exuberance; ='strcls'>***we need to deploy multiple ="trms">stories about ="trms">agency. Some meticulously ="trms">="trms">empirical, some ="trms">imaginative. Some on the quantum scale, some on the people scale. ="trms">Different ="trms">agential ="trms">narratives enable ="trms">different ways of ="trms">responding and relating.” (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)

postcolonial moments='lgc'>: “occasions for theorizing, for telling ="trms">differences and samenesses in new ways” (="ppl">Verran)


='at'>#to create ‘aerating’ (tahviyeh تهویه) in ="nms">ajayeb, this in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes='lgc'>:
/ ="trms">crafting ="trms">translations with ="trms">ontological traction (enghebaz انقباض)
/ building ="trms">="trms">empirical tools that make ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">translation-work visible ='lgc'>{='at'>#pop-up ="trms">book='lgc'>}
/ ="trms">translation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*reconfigure sameness and ="trms">difference='strcls'>*
/ staying with ="trms">linguistic ="trms">differences (in ="nms">ajayeb) is a way of investigating the ="trms">ontological commitments embedded in ="trms">language.
="lsts lst4">◽="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. ='lgc'>[this also my ="trms">question in ="nms">iranian mystic mix,='lgc'>] rather the ="trms">difference will be to notice as difficulty in ="trms">translation.” (="ppl">Verran)

(for me working on ="nms">ajayeb is) ='strcls'>**lingering in the space of difficult ="trms">translations='strcls'>**
='lgc'>==> making recourse (motevasel shodan be متوسل شدن به) to a ='strcls'>*="trms">world of common referents='strcls'>* (space, time, and ="trms">matter)

='lgc'>[to continue thinking with ="ppl">Verran='lgc'>] on ='strcls'>*durations='strcls'>*, ='strcls'>*extensions='strcls'>*, and ='strcls'>*resistances='strcls'>* (in ="nms">ajayeb's case)
these three foundation objects need not to be saddled with the ="trms">history of Western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics and do noy require that common ground be located only in Western territory. “Therefore they offer more promise for cross-cultural ="trms">translation than the more conceptually nimble ='lgc'>[tardast تردست, zerang زرنگ ='lgc'>-- like the CEN or google='lgc'>] space, time, and ="trms">matter. Newborn and awkward to our ears, these strange terms announce themselves as ="trms">translation tools.” (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)


(thinking with ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney / ="ppl">Verran='lgc'>:)
workflow on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- tracing ="trms">social connections (for which subjects is this useful='qstn'>? which ="trms">ecology of practices='qstn'>?)
="lstsrd">2- making ="trms">="trms">equipment ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (="trms">materials and ="trms">methods, an expanded and complicated version of ="trms">="trms">equipment-="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, providing accounts of the ="trms">material-discursive ="trms">apparatuses that are ="trms">materializing my ="trms">="trms">empirical objects, ='lgc'>=/= exercise in re="trms">presentation or audit hesab-rasi حساب رسی)
3- ="trms">narrating the ="trms">relation (re-="trms">materializing my found ="trms">="trms">empirical objects, re-enacting the objects)


="trms">interpretive ="trms">cosmology

(="nms">ajayeb's objects,) “They re="trms">present ="trms">different ="trms">storytelling practices that contribute to ="trms">different kinds of ="trms">worldings.” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] (through my engagement,) “They stimulate more com="trms">positions and decom="trms">positions='lgc'>--="trms">stories that ="trms">narrate ="trms">different beings and ="trms">different doings, none of which can claim final ="trms">ontological ="trms">authority, but that each to ="trms">different (ontic) work” (hopefully!)
="prgrph">-="trms">worlding='lgc'>: a choreography that generates ="trms">ontologies (="ppl">Thompson) ='lgc'>--&='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no self without a ="trms">world (="ppl">Carson)
="prgrph">-not as a voyeur or ="trms">anthropologist, but breathe in the ="trms">density and com="trms">position of their atmospheres
(people='lgc'> = ="trms">worlds)

ontic (hasti mojud-shenakhti هستی‌ موجود شناختی‌)='lgc'>: “factual” existence as ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">ontologic existence)

='lgc'>[="trms">ontological ="trms">interferences in ontic='lgc'>--='lgc'>{regular existence, ="trms">difference in little beings='lgc'>} for example, ontic is when we ask what time it is, and the answer is on the clock. (snafu is ontic, aporia ="trms">ontological='strcls'>*) when the ontic is disrupted ='lgc'>==> you have a “day off,” all ="trms">sort of things can invade and open up, demons come out, there is a suspension of ontic time, a (="ppl">Heideggerian) holiday='lgc'>]

="large lg6" stl="font-size:133%"> (="ppl">Verran) ='lgc'>[number are='lgc'>] “always ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to actively re-exist when we do the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right actions and say the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right words.” (can i do that with ="nms">ajayeb's objects='qstn'>? how='qstn'>?)
“The moon rose above the river” (en) ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “upward behind the onstreaming it mooned” (Tlon, a ="trms">language by Borges with no nouns, only ="trms">verbs)

(in old ="nms">Iran, there is a ="trms">measurement of time based on sa'd سعد and nahs نحس, the time of benevolent spirits and so on. the ="trms">sensuous time, ="trms">measurement is ="trms">affect)


knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge industry or “="trms">scientific factory”

how academic labor was implicated in capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">systems and contemporary forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/power

“ruse” (hile حیله, makr مکر, neyrang نیرنگ) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my tool in work on ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>? -//-='lgc'>[مکر زنان ,گربه نره و روباه مکار, minorities as="trms">sociated with this accent='lgc'>: women, ="trms">animals, machines,='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[ruse in Kelile Demne کلیله و دمنه='lgc'>]
ruse='lgc'>: a set of small, mostly unconscious tactics by which workers resist capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">systems (="trms">writing ="trms">love letters on company's time, factory workers who takes a scrap of fabric home for his ="trms">children to play with, etc.)
="prgrph">-“='lgc'>[h='lgc'>]ow to subvert the laws of the “="trms">scientific factory” through gift-giving, solidarity, and free exchange even when bosses and colleagues will not turn a blind eye” (="ppl">de Certeau)

(how to='qstn'>?) collectively ="trms">crafting critiques, commitments, ="trms">stories, and actions (in the ="trms">density and com="trms">position of ="nms">ajayeb's atmospheres)
="prgrph">-feeling out their “rhythms, valences, moods, sensations, tempos” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
="prgrph">-“real and virtual ="trms">worlds, future and ="trms">past ="trms">worlds, ="trms">fictional and theoretical ="trms">worlds, always happening and happening and happening” (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)


talking is also thinking


speculative valences (zarfiat ظرفیت) of ="trms">wonder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (through ="trms">wonder, which) ="trms">response-abilities are activated (='qstn'>?)

="nms">ajayeb is ="trms">crafted ="trms">responsive ="trms">stories about life ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">question of ="trms">responsibility ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what kind of ="trms">responsibilities are activated in the SF ="trms">worlding (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading it now) of ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?


(work on ="nms">ajayeb is about a practice of ='lgc'>[="trms">writing='lgc'>] ="trms">history as) ='strcls'>*="trms">worlding the ="trms">past='strcls'>*, to take the alterity of the ="trms">past ="trms">seriously and to be moved by textual encounter
="prgrph">-how can we not be subsumed by the sameness of the here-and-now='qstn'>? (collapsing of ="trms">difference into sameness)
(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is about) learning to tell better ="trms">stories about the ="trms">past='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*="trms">writing ='lgc'>~= (="trms">wonder='lgc'>:) a careful attention to ="trms">differences in the practice of ="trms">worlding the ="trms">past. (="trms">demanding like a cat walking on our keyboard, ="trms">interrupting you ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>])

(digital ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practices of) ="trms">data mining ='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading for the reactions of an implicit ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what the scholar of ="nms">ajayeb (in the medieval) might have felt='qstn'>?


="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh is grounded in the ="trms">history and ="trms">materiality of ="trms">scientific practices='lgc'>:
“="trms">Nature is neither knowable ...nor unknowable ...="trms">Nature is that about which ‘relevant knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ may be produced. If we pay due attention to it, we can learn, discern ="trms">relations, and multiply entities and ratios.” (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers 2011)

eliminativism='lgc'>: the belief that one ="trms">story or one set of practices (usually called rational or ="trms">scientific) can explain ="trms">nature.

a ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list understanding of ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">demands an ="trms">interpretive adventure of how, with ="trms">matter (in ="ppl">="ppl">Stengersian way), we get sensitivity, life, ="trms">memory, consciousness, passions and thought... ='lgc'>=/= inert or mechanistic notion of ="trms">matter

which ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors ="trms">stage ="trms">nature as “witty ="trms">agent and actor”='qstn'>?

="large lg1" stl="font-size:130%"> speculative commitment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> learn how to relate ="trms">differently ='lgc'>~-> (help us) name what we are doing in new and useful ways='strcls'>**** (="ppl">Verran)
the egg from outside it doesn't seem to be doing anything ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to give the egg the power to challenge (our) well-defined ="trms">categories
="prgrph">-how can we relate to the egg without breaking it='qstn'>? (="trms">ontological ='lgc'>+ ethical) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">pragmatism='strcls'>*='lgc'>: an art of consequences, an art of paying attention ='lgc'>=/= the logic of the omelet justifying cracked eggs


="nms">ajayeb is all about the ='strcls'>***="trms">staging of ="trms">nature='strcls'>***
='lgc'>{="ppl">="ppl">Latour:='lgc'>} reductionism offer an enormously ‘useful’ handle to allow ="trms">scientists to insert their ="trms">instrumentarium, their paradigms and produce a long series of practical effects.
(efficient handles ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">staging of ="trms">nature)

we must learn to tell trickster ="trms">stories ='lgc'>{a speculative sense that activates possibilities for thinking, feeling, and knowing within coyote ="trms">nature ='lgc'>=/= a closed conception of “reality itself"='lgc'>} OR ELSE we will end up settling for a rather vague version of what physics claim to be reality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~= a ="trms">generalized (='lgc'>==> irrelevant='qstn'>?) version of a ="trms">specific form of ="trms">authoritative knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which “simplifies away our ="trms">world in terms of idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list judgments about what would ultimately ="trms">matter and what does not” (, ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----> (who has ='qstn'>?) the power to explain, (who/what decides what kind is ='qstn'>?) relevant knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge


='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>] (="trms">wonder has everything to do with ="trms">stories,) ="trms">wonder in="trms">cites ="trms">storytelling
1 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> importance of ="trms">narratives in our knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-making practices
2 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politically robust ="trms">narratives (that ="trms">world us ="trms">differently)


can the ="trms">ontological be addressed without the ethical='qstn'>?
(feminism's answer is ‘no’) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">materialism that is immediately ="trms">ontological, ="trms">epistemological, and ethical (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="ppl">Delanda's ="trms">materialism)

="nms">ajayeb (='lgc'>+ ='mywrk'>my work on it ='qstn'>?) is a ="trms">pragmatic project to fabricate a ="trms">different kind of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge assemblage (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers > ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney > ="frds">Sina)
='lgc'>=/= (21st century) logics of capitalism
='lgc'>=/= toxic ="trms">categories of ="trms">modernity


i need (to learn) an inviting ="trms">rhetoric


="large lg6" stl="font-size:124%"> (="ppl">Roughgarden)
(='lgc'>[focus narrowly on='lgc'>] sexual selection ='lgc'>=/=) ="trms">social selection ='lgc'>: “...selection for, and in the context of, the ="trms">social infrastructure of a ="trms">species within which offspring are produced and reared”

co-parenting, ="trms">animal friendships, same-sex sex, non-reproductive sex, and other reproductive ="trms">social behaviors

='strcls'>*physio-="trms">semiotics='lgc'>: physical traits that have ="trms">social functions, that ="trms">communicate to other ="trms">members of the ="trms">social group

(="ppl">Darwin sexual selection ='lgc'>: claims that in humans, men are more jealous about sexual infidelity of their partners, whereas woman are more jealous of emotional infidelity. their theories based on a sexual conflict model, is that this is an evolutionary adaptation that helps males ensure that they raise their own offspring and helps females ensure that the males will stick around to provide for their ="trms">children.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is there another ="trms">story='qstn'>? (this is a speculative ='lgc'>+ ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">question) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> multiple evolutionary ="trms">stories are possible

(="ppl">Roughgarden ="trms">demands) a more ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous ="trms">relationship between ="trms">narrative and evidence (='lgc'>=/= prevalence of studies where the “='lgc'>[raw='lgc'>] ="trms">data are mined to effect an appearance of the confirmation of ='lgc'>[a single='lgc'>] hypothesis”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----she returns to the most potent ="trms">fables of sexual selection and re-tells them ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these new ="trms">stories make real ="trms">species-shaping ="trms">difference by contributing to the ="trms">social infrastructure within which offspring are produced and reared

='strcls'>***how many plots can the ="trms">data hold='qstn'>?='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatic='lgc'>='lgc'>---the answer is many not in="trms">finite ='lgc'>[="ppl">Strathern='lgc'>: “more than one but less than many"='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-practices of ='strcls'>*doing accuracy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">storytellers
="trms">relationships between ="trms">story and evidence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an invitation to invent new forms of accuracy that might be unfamiliar or awkward but could be ="trms">epistemologically ="trms">narrativelly politically generative (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)
(sometimes='lgc'>: ="trms">story ='lgc'>==> ="trms">data) the work to ="trms">craft just one good ="trms">story from the chaos of the ="trms">data is (not only political challenge ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem, but also) an ="trms">epistemological challenge


="large lg14" stl="font-size:121%">
(Lynn ="ppl">="ppl">Margulis)
='strcls'>*endo="trms">symbiosis='lgc'>: the theory that eukaryotic cells evolved by incorporating free-swimming bacteria, which later became organelles (cell organ) such as plastids and mitochondria
(ladder ='lgc'>=/=) horizontal gene transfer ='lgc'>: that the evolution and speciation are driven not by random genetic mutation and ="trms">natural selection, but by ="trms">symbiogenesis.

="ppl">="ppl">Margulis's attention to bacteria rather than attention to ="trms">animals ='lgc'>==> ="trms">different research ="trms">questions and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors, and ="trms">different ="trms">="trms">empirical objects

(her scholarly ="trms">crafts are amazing='lgc'>:) “was the moon that pulled the tide of life from its oceanic depths to dry land and up into the air.” (1998)

/="trms">science is an ="trms">interpretative adventure

(="ppl">="ppl">Margulis's insight into) the ="trms">history of consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the components that fused in ="trms">symbiogenesis are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready conscious entities='strcls'>***, al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready able to sense light and motion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are made through our endo="trms">symbiotic ="trms">histories ='lgc'>: our own “sensitivities to wafting (nasim نسیم) plant scents, tasty salted mixtures, police cruiser sirens, ="trms">loving touches and star light” (2005)
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] “These avant guard cells of the nasal passages, the taste buds, the inner ear, the touch receptors in the skin and the retinal rods and cones all have in common the ="trms">presence at their tips of projections (‘cell processes’) called cilia.”
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] “The spirochete group of bacteria in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes many harmless mud-dwellers but it also contains a few scary freaks='lgc'>: the treponeme of syphilis and the borrelias of Lyme disease. We ="trms">animals got our exquisite ability to sense our surroundings='lgc'>--to tell light from dark, noise from silence, motion from stillness and fresh water from brackish brine='lgc'>--from a kind of bacterium whose relatives we despise.”

re-thinking consciousness

(="ppl">="ppl">Kenney) ="ppl">="ppl">Margulis's speculations='lgc'>: they ="trms">mattered, they ="trms">worlded, they gathered

(="ppl">Williamson='lgc'>:) larvae and adult insects of the same ="trms">species do not have a common ="trms">ancestor(!)
(how ='qstn'>?, the capacity for) drastic ="trms">morphological change ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what would it be like to emerge as a moth with a new body, a new sensorium, with your caterpillar-self only a genomic ="trms">memory='qstn'>?
reincarnation from one ="trms">species to another

(need less='qstn'>?) just-so ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> facts to live with
(need more='qstn'>?) what-if ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculations to savor ='lgc'>--(gives taste to)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*paradigms='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> incommensurable ways of seeing the ="trms">world and practicing ="trms">science in it (="ppl">Kohn) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> seeds for sowing ="trms">worlds (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway) ='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibilities for thinking life='strcls'>***

(="ppl">="ppl">Kenney's proposal of) “bureau of what-if ="trms">stories”
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">Fables of Attention - ="trms">Wonder in Feminist Theory and ="trms">Scientific Practice 2013)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> (="ppl">="ppl">Margulis's) holobiont='lgc'>: multicellular eukaryotes plus their colonies of persistent ="trms">symbionts


="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">craft and undisciplined tradition can be called ="trms">="trms">empirical, it is an ='thdf'>example of an archival research (done by ="trms">historian.) i wan to highlight the ="trms">aesthetic quality of this activity.
='strcls'>*="trms">aesthetics='lgc'>: how elements are arranged together, how they are ="trms">composed, how they are brought into ="trms">relation in the space of a text (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney > ="ppl">="ppl">Latour, ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers, Bellacasa) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">La Guin's bag, bundle) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs
='strcls'>**="trms">aesthetics are political because they do consequential ="trms">relational work='strcls'>**

novels, ="trms">poetry, feminist theory, speculative ="trms">fiction, ="trms">bestiary ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">categories='lgc'>--these genres of com="trms">position ='strcls'>*gather together='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*="trms">stage='strcls'>* their “="trms">matters of care” in ways that perform ="trms">relations between things and teach their ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers to inhabit sometimes unfamiliar, ="trms">agential ="trms">world. they are practices of sf ="trms">worlding.

="trms">fiction ='lgc'>==> attitude ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> holds things

(emphasis on) ="trms">worlds that come together through dispersal (vofur وفور), induction (makesh مکش), volatility (farar فرّار), toxicity, drift,

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> the power that comes with ‘other’ (time/place of) styles of ="trms">composing

(='strcls'>*="trms">bestiary is ="trms">agential ="trms">world='strcls'>*, that's why it is so ="trms">interesting when you are available to it as a ="trms">child. i am drawn to it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">agency ="trms">bestiary sets to betray the ="trms">anthropocentric binary='lgc'>: “active human ='lgc'>=/= passive ="trms">nature”)
(how to tell='qstn'>?) faithful and fantastic ="trms">stories ='lgc'>==> better companion ="trms">species

='strcls'>*a shift in humanities scholarship
(feminist ="trms">science studies, the post humanities, the ="trms">ecological humanities, ="trms">animal studies, queer theory,) [...]