[...]='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


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


="large lg1" stl="font-size:126%"> (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


(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

(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, ...

“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 fantasy

undoing the eye's property of vision (Kelley and ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward)


(='lgc'>[my account of='lgc'>] ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">stories are) moral tales that model an ="trms">ecological attention to ="trms">relationality, vulnerability, and resilience ='lgc'>==> living well in a ="trms">world contaminated (by all ="trms">sorts of ="trms">linguistic and chemical ="trms">animacies)


="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ='strcls'>*traumatic hope='strcls'>*
(="ppl">Sedgwick='lgc'>: the reparatively ="trms">positioned ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader tries to recognize the fragments and part-objects she encounters or creates ='lgc'>~= what i am doing)

why tell ="trms">stories like this, when there are only more and more openings and no bottom lines='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> because there are quite de="trms">finite ="trms">response-abilities that are strengthened in such ="trms">stories (="ppl">La Guin > ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway > ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)

bottomless ="trms">story ='lgc'>==> ="trms">response-ability (an enabling of ="trms">responsiveness within particular relatings='lgc'>--Schrader 2010)

not only human call ='and'>& not only human ="trms">respond ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">world is full of “pro="trms">positions” (waiting to be registered by ="trms">interested bodies) ='lgc'>[yes we need to produce ‘="trms">interested bodies'='lgc'>]

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> “="trms">fables of ="trms">response-ability draw our attention to who is ="trms">interested and who is made ="trms">articulate in the ="trms">apparatuses and ="trms">ecologies we live inside.” (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)='strcls'>*****

what is a ="trms">narrative good for if it doesn't improve the quality of companionship (between human and nonhuman)='qstn'>? if it doesn't generate new sensitivities and enable ="trms">different patterns of ="trms">responsiveness='qstn'>?

="trms">stories of ="trms">relationship ='lgc'>==> enlarge our thinking ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= raising awareness='lgc'>]
these ="trms">stories cannot known in advance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> note on ="trms">fable ='at'>#workshop, when you are ex="trms">cited about an assigned ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading in a ="trms">specific way only to find out that the participants connect or disconnect to something i don't notice


='strcls'>*="trms">wonder, a mode of attention to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the perpetual newness of the ="trms">present (="ppl">I="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigaray)
="lsts lst1">•the other-="trms">worldliness of the ="trms">past (="ppl">Bynum)
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">aesthetics and politics of sf ="trms">worlding that generate sensitivities for ="trms">worlds-to-come (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers/="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:158%"> latent possible ="trms">worlds='lgc'>:
='strcls'>* could-have-beens
='strcls'>* almost-weres
='strcls'>* yet-to-comes


='strcls'>*ornamentation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (inducing) ="trms">wonder ='lgc'>+ (connection with) divine
="prgrph">-rich ornamentation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> honor something with our time, care, and attention
="prgrph">-‘en="trms">coding’ a ="trms">writing requires time and attention, decryption ='lgc'>==> value and meaning
mystery of the undecipherable ='lgc'>==> occult knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>{in a ="trms">book that enrolls and transforms ="trms">religious motifs, the experience of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (or rather not[...]