[...]st 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


="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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:116%"> 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


(="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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> (="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 lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> (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.”

="large lg5" stl="font-size:131%"> 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[...]