[...]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)


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ="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'>]

(="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'>?

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="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'>?

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

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='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)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ="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


(="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”

="large lg5" stl="font-size:130%"> 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">relations[...]