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[...]f 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

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


(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 lg14" stl="font-size:106%"> (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'>='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 lg1" stl="font-size:145%"> ='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'>='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'>]

="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)

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 ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading) ...evokes the power of occult knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, the power of that which is hidden. (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)='lgc'>}

occult knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mystery ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enchantment ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ornamentation ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> illumination (='lgc'>=/= elucidate, tozihe shafaf توضیح شفاف) ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder


='strcls'>***bibliographic ="trms">aesthetics are arts of enchantment, vectors for the trans="trms">mission of value and meaning='strcls'>***

why think and ="trms">write with the ="trms">aesthetic='qstn'>?

="trms">book as an object='qstn'>? ="trms">writing as a practice='qstn'>? ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading as ="trms">world-making='qstn'>?='strcls'>***

(to feel) the effect of (our own) ="trms">language

art='lgc'>:="trms">ontological theater” (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>?="trms">linguistic turn’ ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Marialena's remark on The Pillow ="trms">Book, that the film don't care about what is being ="trms">written. she is a ="trms">child of the ="trms">linguistic turn='qstn'>?='lgc'>})
(='lgc'>=/= “return to reality” ='lgc'>: “the ="trms">ontological turn”)
(='lgc'>=/= ="trms">language as “a necessary evil,” ="trms">aesthetics characterized as the main ="trms">instrument of ideological mystification)
='lgc'>~ learn to trust objects figured in unfamiliar ways='strcls'>* (, my bow and arrow='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>[both ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway (“="trms">material-="trms">semiotic”) and ="ppl">="ppl">Barad (“="trms">material-discursive”) are working against this kind of split between ="trms">language and reality, both in the level of analysis (of one's object) and com="trms">position (of one's ="trms">book)='lgc'>]


='strcls'>**where do our power come from if not from evidence='qstn'>?='strcls'>** (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Seba)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ='strcls'>*specter of deception='strcls'>* (it happened when i used ="trms">aesthetics in my ="trms">questions in my excursion at ="frds scrmbld">Vladimir's block, my peers thinking “what if we are beguiled='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the suspicious refrains of “trust no one”) ='lgc'>=/= “attentive ="trms">wondering care” (="ppl">Bynum)

='strcls'>*** to tell enchanted ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'><== we must struggle against the fear of being tricked ='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-this fear of being tricked ='lgc'>==> ="ppl">Descartes="trms">beast-machine hypothesis (against nonhuman ="trms">agency) ='lgc'>: the clockwork ="trms">animal and gods; a site where ="trms">animality and ="trms">technicity were collapsed and both were rendered as deceptive.
="prgrph">-="ppl">Descartes="trms">beast-machine ="trms">anxieties are still with us. (being duped by the) trickster ="trms">agencies of ="trms">animal-like automata='lgc'>--="trms">animals, spirits, and ="trms">technologies have dubious ="trms">agencies.


(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb hopefully,) is about cultivating ="trms">wild facts, to be at risk with our ="trms">craft, creating beautiful objects that give charismatic form to their ="trms">matters of care


i don't know in advance, how ="trms">stories and words will flow through us ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i have to learn ="trms">pragmatic experimentation with magic, words and ideas='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='at'>#="nms">ppp='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">="trms">poetry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to do with the art of ="trms">language
="lsts lst1">="trms">poiesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> process of creation
="lsts lst1">="trms">poetics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">questions of com="trms">position and form
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--(attention to)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> form ='lgc'>+ com="trms">position ='lgc'>+ influence

“i am rubied by your attention”
(ruby='lgc'>: yaghute sorkh یاقوت سرخ) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> to describe the effect of an encounter between two

...shifting ="trms">verbs to nouns and nouns to ="trms">verb ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practical

='strcls'>*="trms">relational properties of ="trms">language='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">="trms">viscosity (chasbandegi چسبند‌گی)
="lsts lst1">conductivity
="lsts lst1">velocity
(='lgc'>=/= daunting)
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-collective
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-exploratory
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-supportive


(what to do with) the unavoidable ="trms">childishness (and girlish) of ="trms">wonder and of ="trms">fables
="prgrph">-does ="trms">wonder need to grow up='qstn'>?

there is a risk that that which awakens our ="trms">epistemological appetite will ultimately be unfriendly, unseemly, unsophisticated, unsuitable
="lsts lst1">="trms">wonder goes beyond what is suitable (="ppl">I="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigaray,) even threatens our status as “="trms">serious, adult thinkers” (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers)
hoax ='lgc'>==> compels us to do work that is sober and bound closer to reality

the bifurcation of ="trms">childhood and adulthood gets in the way of thinking
="prgrph">-the ="trms">child/adult divide as an “achievement” of the Vicorian Era

the context of my ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
“The ="trms">Science War”
="trms">epistemological ="trms">differences between ="trms">sciences

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='lgc'>[Lorraine J. ="ppl">Daston='lgc'>]

the evolving collective sensibility of ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists

objective order and subjective sensibility

...celestial apparitions, ="trms">monsters,

how ="trms">wonder and ="trms">wonders fortified princely power, rewove the texture of ="trms">scientific experience, and shaped the sensibility of intellectuals

(webs of cultural significance, ="trms">material practices, and theoretical derivations)

(cultivate a distinctive ="trms">scientific self wherein knowing and knower converge) ="ppl">="ppl">Galison

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='strcls'>*passion maintains a path between (='lgc'>--corporal impressions and movements toward an object)='lgc'>:
philosophers ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physicists
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical research ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">cosmological research
transcendental ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms">empirical

architecture of ideality ='lgc'>: (="trms">sociofamilial) stratification of desire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideal ego ='lgc'>==> ="trms">religiosity, slogans, publicity, terror, ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> roots ='lgc'>{vegetal, earthly, ideal, heavenly,)
='lgc'>[="ppl">I="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigaray='lgc'>]

(='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali , what is the source of movement='qstn'>? what is the motivating force behind mobility if not ="trms">wonder='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>---in all dimensions)
(both active ='and'>& passive) ="trms">wonder ='lgc'>==> move

the “man” (in ="ppl">Nietzsche and ="ppl">Heidegger) thinks he is at the end of his growth, has completed a cycle

“can we look at, contemplate, ="trms">wonder at the machine from a place where it does not see us='qstn'>?='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the issue is how to be able to ="trms">wonder at the face of something/somebody that is looking (back) at us. ,,,(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili)

surprise='lgc'>: not yet assimilated or disassimilated to known

energy tied to the dimension of the ="trms">story ='lgc'>=/= mobilization of new energies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (still) blind to their horizon, or qualities

='strcls'>*desire='lgc'>: vectorialization of space and time (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari notion of desire) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movement toward, (not yet qualified)


mother who is magnanimous (großmütig) toward the little one


(-subject-='lgc'>[-) ="trms">wonder ='lgc'>{-='lgc'>]-desire-(-='lgc'>} ="trms">world )


(for ="ppl">Descartes='lgc'>:) object ='lgc'><== alchemy of the subject's passion

places in brain that are (soft and) tender ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> not yet hardened by ="trms">past impressions

='strcls'>***='lgc'>[for me the='lgc'>] (appearance of something or someone) new modifies the movement (of spirits in an unexpected manner) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when we are faithful to the perpetual newness of the self, the other, the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> faithful to becoming ='strcls'>***

="ppl">I="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigaray='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">wonder='strcls'>*='lgc'> = passion of encounter (between the most ="trms">material and the most ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical)

="trms">wonder='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">passion (of al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready born) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reenveloped in ="trms">love
="lsts lst1">touched and moves toward and within the attraction ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nostalgia for the first dwelling
="lsts lst1">passion of first encounter ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> repetition




='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>: on killing,='lgc'>]

(="ppl">Derrida understood that this structure, this) logic of sacrifice and this ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive possession of the capacity for ="trms">response, is what produces the ="trms">Animal

the death-defying arrogance of ascribing such wondrous ="trms">positivities to the Human

(="ppl">Derrida)"The ="trms">question of the said ="trms">animal in its entirety comes down to knowing not whether the ="trms">animal speaks but whether one can know what ‘="trms">respond’ means. And how to distinguish a ="trms">response from a reaction.”

the mistake of forgetting the ="trms">ecologies of all mortal beings, who live in and through the use of one another's bodies
='lgc'>[this is against ='lgc'>] The ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic fallacy is the mirror-image misstep to transcendental humanism.

multi="trms">species ="trms">contingency

In the idiom of labor, ="trms">animals are working subjects, not just worked objects.

the capacity to ="trms">respond and to recognize ="trms">response

We can never do without ="trms">technique, without calculation, without reasons, but these practices will never take us into that kind of open where multi="trms">species ="trms">responsibility is at stake.

Engage them ='lgc'>[the dogs='lgc'>] as mindful bodies, in ="trms">relationships of ="trms">response='qstn'>?

the practical labor of non="trms">mimetic sharing(='qstn'>?)

='lgc'>[we make ‘knowing’. knowing is always a practice of making, and always ="trms">embodied. ='thdf'>the idea that thinking involves dis="trms">embodiment of the knowing organ is just insane.='lgc'>]

="trms">articulating bodies to other bodies” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dis="trms">articulating bodies to re="trms">articulate other bodies

entangled assemblages of relatings knotted at many scales and times with other assemblages, organic and not

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="nms">ajayeb is ="trms">system ="trms">imagination

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Naveeda ="ppl">Khan='lgc'>]

Perhaps the ="trms">question could be posed as, how do we come to grips with the universal, the supra-="trms">historical, or even the ="trms">cosmos within our global ="trms">present, ="trms">imagining a local that lays claims upon all three='qstn'>?

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> is there a Muslim environmental ="trms">imaginary='qstn'>?

‘Islamic ="trms">ecology and environmental ethics’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the need to center a vibrant ="trms">materiality or the liveliness of things in the ="trms">anthropology of Islam (that has been to date largely preoccupied with Muslim polities and subjectivities.)

="large lg10" stl="font-size:121%"> It should come as no surprise that my own efforts at centering ="trms">materiality comes through studying how these predominantly Muslim farmers inte[...]