[...]n 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)

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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:141%"> (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

(='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.)

='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.)

“="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

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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (biological) ‘resilience’ is a tricky thing to ="trms">narrate in ‘="trms">relational ="trms">worlds’ (='lgc'>=/= military ="trms">world) abounding with transforming and transformative ="trms">agencies='strcls'>***

to meet the future organisms that we are becoming (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">stories that figure us as='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{constituted, contaminated, vulnerable, ="trms">agential, creative, expressive,='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all at the same time; (how to hold them all together='qstn'>?)

(="ppl">Stryker > ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway > ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward > ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney > ="frds">Sina > ="nms">Cinderella)
='strcls'>***so much that constitutes me I did not choose, but, now constituted, I feel myself in a place of ="trms">agency='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (my) ="trms">ontological ="trms">obligation ='lgc'>{="trms">ontology='lgc'>: what there is and what debts we owe to it='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*involutionary ="trms">storytelling='strcls'>* (='lgc'>~/->='qstn'>? involuntary ="trms">storytelling)

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lives, ="trms">affects, and bodies of organisms='lgc'>: “energetic forces, coextensive overlappings, shared milieus make ="trms">species; ="trms">species are ="trms">sensuous ="trms">responses” ='strcls'>**="ppl">="ppl">Hayward

thinking with ="trms">animals ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{figural ='lgc'>+ ="trms">literal='lgc'>}
spiders, rats, ...

="large lg5" stl="font-size:147%"> “the ="trms">transitioning body is also a gossamer outstretch of homeliness, energetic force or potential, a discursive pulse, a throb of sensations distributed across sensoriums, spaces, and times, delimiting territory but also sensing zones, places, and coherences.”

criticism='lgc'> = speculative f[...]