[...]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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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

(="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)

(="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,

the power that comes with ‘other’ (time/place of) styles of ="trms">composing

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> (='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 زنده)

(="trms">animacy='lgc'>: Usually, ="trms">animacy has to do with how alive or how sentient a noun is. In general, personal pronouns have the highest ="trms">animacy, the first-person being the highest among them. Other humans follow them, and ="trms">animals, plants, ="trms">natural forces such as winds, concrete things, and abstract things follow in this order; however, ="trms">according to the spiritual beliefs of the people whose ="trms">language possesses an ="trms">animacy hierarchy, deities, spirits, or certain types of ="trms">animal or plant may be ranked very highly in the hierarchy.)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ='strcls'>**="trms">animacy ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> multitude of ="trms">agencies
(what are the contemporary ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">animacy ="trms">stories='qstn'>?


(neo-="ppl">Darwinian's) standard evolutionary accounts of encounter between ="trms">species (in terms of “sexual deception”) ='lgc'>==> individuation, competition, efficiency ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and military values (, economic ="trms">tropes)
='lgc'>==> disenchanted “="trms">ecologies, populated by blind, reactive automations”

evolutionary ="trms">stories ='lgc'>=/= involutionary ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organisms become ='strcls'>*involved='strcls'>* with one another's lives

(involution, pich-dar پیچدار, act or an instance of en="trms">folding or entangling, an inward curvature or penetration; a function, transformation, or operator that is equal to its inverse, i.e. which gives the identity when applied to itself.)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:113%"> “="trms">mimetic ="trms">relations among plants and ="trms">animals take shape in the ="trms">thickness of the space between bodies, where ="trms">affect and sensations are ='strcls'>*transduced='strcls'>* through ='strcls'>*ex="trms">citable='strcls'>* tissues” (Myers ='and'>& Hustak)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective ="trms">ecologies, intimate encounters, ="trms">articulate orchids


(on ="nms">ajayeb,) ='strcls'>***creating sticky new attachment sites for thinking (human/nonhuman ="trms">relations)='strcls'>***
='at'>#='at'>#='at'>#learning multiple ="trms">writing tactics='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">thick description
="lsts lst1">•refiguring
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading against the grain
="lsts lst1">•="trms">citational poaching (shekar-e gheir-mojaz شکار غیر مجاز) (also, i am trying to quote Muhammad, ="ppl">Sa'di, ="nms">ajayeb, the ="trms">bird sometimes, and something is called in)
="lsts lst1">•speculative ="trms">fiction
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>==> to move/draw myself and my ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader into my ="trms">matter of care


project of ='strcls'>*="trms">narrative remediation='strcls'>*, to re-="trms">story, to ="trms">stage ="trms">matters of care ="trms">differently[...]