[...]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)

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

(="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



(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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (="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 lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (="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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:164%"> (emphasis on) ="trms">worlds that come together through dispersal (vofur وفور), induction (makesh مکش), volatility (farar فرّار), toxicity, drift,

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,) humanities scholars have re="trms">presented their ="trms">matters of care with an ="trms">aesthetic (and therefore political) commitment to ="trms">narrating ="trms">stories with an emphasis on the ="trms">relationality among ="trms">agencies, forces, ="trms">phenomena, and entities usually kept separate, in the background, or out of the ="trms">story altogether (lde a Bellacasa)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> redistribution of ="trms">agencies
political stake ='lgc'>==> ="trms">aesthetic tactics

="trms">poet laureates of queer ="trms">animacies
“malek-o-sho'ara-e atefiate mahsus-e edrakat-e zende” (ملک الشعرا عاطفیات محسوس ادراکات ز[...]