[...] 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”
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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'>='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)
='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'>~='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 )
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(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'>?
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.)
It should come as no surprise that my own efforts at centering ="trms">materiality comes through studying how these predominantly Muslim farmers ="trms">interact with and come to acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge nonhuman forms of life (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the figure of Khidr خضر, dogs, river waters, silt, and lightning, to name a few). Finally, I remain concerned to explore how the singularities of these lives, both human and nonhuman, come to be hitched to the global. This research will culminate in a ="trms">book tentatively titled Ensouling the ="trms">Anthropo="trms">cene='lgc'>: Riverine Life and Climate Change in Bangladesh, in which “ensouling” treats the problem of scaling up singularity to the global, intensifying efforts that began with “Of ="trms">Children and Jinn.” ='lgc'>[source='lgc'>: https://culanth.org/curated_collections/19-everyday-islam/discussions/20-="trms">interview-with-naveeda-khan-about-of-="trms">children-and-jinn='lgc'>]
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(what i am ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading in ="nms">ajayeb)_with ="ppl">Naveeda='lgc'>: “Muslim ="trms">cosmology and eschatology hold promoise of ="trms">ecological thought, providing an unexpectedly ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list perspective on our creaturely ="trms">interconnectedness.”
='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb (and telegram) is full of='lgc'>] ="trms">gestures of incorporating repugnant ='lgc'>[offensive to the mind='lgc'>] others='lgc'>='lgc'>---that one sees reflections on divine creation qua ='lgc'>[als='lgc'>] creaturliness
thoroughly disabused
aufklären آگاهیدن آگاییدن
expound تفسیر
incentive مشوق, فتنه انگيز
litany مناجات وعبادت تهليل دار
showmanship (نمايشگرى='qstn'>?)
effektvolle Darstellung, Schauspielproduktion
queasy به طور تهوع آوری لطیف مزاج
(a gedture of) ludic ='lgc'>[playfull, spielerisch='lgc'>] transcendence of ='lgc'>[the='lgc'>] ="trms">present
obdurate سرسخت
="prgrph">-showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings-
(picture of the ="trms">world as) pristine ="trms">nature طبیعت بکر being destroyed by humans (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narcissistic='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>=/= view of theology/="trms">religion on ="trms">ecology
='lgc'>=/= (="trms">stories of humans and dogs='lgc'>:) shared creatureliness and companionship entailing a turn to cofeasting on the flesh of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">mutual fate
does islamic theology (in both elite and popular belief) offers us a way toward ='strcls'>*sensing our embeddedness in this ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-might ="nms">ajayeb (creationist='qstn'>?) ="trms">narratives be generative of ="trms">interconnections between humans and other ="trms">animals within the predominant muslim context='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-why climate ="trms">science doesn't/hasn't effect a meaningful engagement with the ="trms">world='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an image of thought that is not ="trms">interiorized='strcls'>***
(="ppl">Strauss='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*thought is always in the ="trms">world.='strcls'>* being in the ="trms">world subsumes realms of both abstractness and concreteness) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[a tradition of thought that produces (& works with)='lgc'>: “Abstraktheit ='lgc'>=/= Greifbarkeit"='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***how ="nms">ajayeb naratives provided the filaments of (muslim) ="trms">ecological thought as a perspective on our ="trms">interconnectedness and ="trms">mutual entanglements='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[="ppl">Naveeda, ="ppl">Anand, ='lgc'>]
(wanting a) most perfect creation (to leave the best part to the end='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>==> God created humans last of all ='lgc'>==> consigned humans to a state of ='strcls'>*belatedness to the ="trms">world='strcls'>*
(unapologetically) ="trms">anthropocentric='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*making the human drama the most important one to watch='strcls'>*
acts of worship (that bears witness to)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•regularity in ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•one's own ="trms">nature
(agian) Khidr, the prophet in green, who is as="trms">sociated with hermeticism and also has a ="trms">presence ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] as a way to sug="trms">gest a subterranean connection between ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] textual tradition and the everyday lives of riparian (رود کنارى) Muslims ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
riparian context ساحل کنار ,رود کنار ,حریم رودخانه
='lgc'>[context ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? کنار='lgc'>]
“BE!” بععععع بع ع ع ع ع ع ع ع ع
Ikhwan='lgc'>: every creature knows and speaks of creation
that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is not privilege of humans
that it is the fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of humans to ="trms">imagine that they live in the ="trms">presence of mute ="trms">nature
نکیر و منکر ="trms">interrogations by Nakir and Munkar, faith-testers of deads in their graves
دجال Dajjal as a dead body returned to life, many will follow him, but as dogs!
="prgrph">-return of humans as dogs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idea of rebirth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> not homogeneously muslim space
“='lgc'>[who is='lgc'>] compelled to return as if it were a cosmic debt they owed the ="trms">world”
="prgrph">-pathos of the inability of humans to sustain cross-="trms">species companionship ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">visceral dislike of the dregs of the many existence of dogs
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dogs’ quality of aliveness; being more or less useless other than the occasional and fitful دمدمى protection of households that made them serve as the singular sign of life, a trace of God's surplus creativity. (="ppl">Naveeda's work in chauras)
one's future ="trms">animal self
(هشتاد ساله) octogenarian mindful of life's ="trms">finitude
="prgrph">-what do you say/do when your feet is one on the land breaking beneath and the other in the afterlife='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-polysemy of imagery and wordss
“earth breaks so much” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?>
sug="trms">gesting a چاره (chareh)
inflection of chareh and fetrat
چاره ی فطرت
='strcls'>***="nms">ajayeb's heterogeneously muslim spaces
="lsts lst1">•traces of Hindu, Chinese, ="trms">Greek ="trms">interest and thought
="lsts lst1">•occasion for cross-="trms">species sentience (="ppl">Naveeda's beautiful research in chars)
visiting of shobhe to the town
(shobhe gave the town a visit)
شبهه
شبح شبهه
bringing bits and pieces of songs from many places... over their cell phones... being well versed in the ="trms">different types of music to be able to tell the songs apart...
(="frds scrmbld">Sven, )
attention to the physical surround of the ="trms">religious consciousness rather than to the inner workings of their body
.
آخرت
آخرش
smells, rotting bodies, eroding bodies, soil com="trms">position, etc.
(to ="trms">imagine dogs and humans coexisting as) competting possibilities within unformed ="trms">matter='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? companion ="trms">species='lgc'>]
dwindling quality of life (and diminished humanity)
(="ppl">Anand, van ="ppl">="ppl">Dooren, ="ppl">Naveeda ="trms">wondering) how in certain geographies disappearance of ="trms">species seems not to give the people a moment's pause
='strcls'>* what_ gives a pause ='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*="trms">species self-perpetuation is sometimes with='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•biological reproduction
="lsts lst1">•becoming
="lsts lst1">•trans="trms">figuration
="lsts lst1">•rebirth
="lsts lst1">•="trms">symbolic dispersal
="lsts lst1">•resynthesis
="lsts lst1">•
sunnat to kill (فى نفسه intrinsically evil) snakes (='lgc'>=/= jinn snake in ="ppl">Anand research/="trms">stories of saint ="trms">animals)
straw, chaff, rice, wheat, lentils,
ماشوره، کاه، بوريا
سبوس
گندم
عدس
the gift of death for the ="trms">animals='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•عید Eid, God in sacrifice, release from hardship and burden; blithe disposal of ="trms">animal; euthanize
="lsts lst1">•چشمزخم evil eye or witch="trms">craft as the cause of ="trms">animal's death, if they are lost through illness, theft, or accident
bonanza
anthrax
euthanize
inoculate
cagey
="lsts lst1">•canny حيله گر کمرو
="lsts lst1">•showing self-="trms">interest and shrewdness in dealing with others
="lsts lst1">•characterized by great cautious and wariness
="lsts lst1">•reluctant to give information owing to caution or suspicion
بو
="prgrph">-treating smell as indicating an unsettled ="trms">situation
="prgrph">-inadvertent stench of dead bodies disrupts the ="trms">composed mental image of the ideal corpse within ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] funereal practices
='strcls'>*odors introduce terror or the terror of the uncontained within the ="trms">social='strcls'>* (Neveeda > Siegel 1983)
double-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgeed prospect
common curse
“in the riparian contextm land forms and breaks with regular irregularity” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#entropy='lgc'>]
shifting its course, the river inducts new ="trms">affectees into how to live (this way)
="prgrph">-there is a manner in which life proceeds='lgc'>--instead of feeling in step with it one begins to feel out of ="trms">sync='strcls'>***
='at'>#start a geographic learning, riparian thought; thinking by rivers (& not countries)
_='lgc'>->='lgc'>{.\_,;,_/;-=,/
rural ="trms">cosmology
="trms">cosmology of ="trms">modern ="trms">science
human conception='lgc'>: flirtation with the fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure to arrive
='at'>#two moveis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Exodus='lgc'>: Riddly Scott ='lgc'>+ Creation Bible ='lgc'>+ Big Bang ='lgc'>+ extinction theory ='lgc'>+ fluid animation research
="lsts lst1">•Noah='lgc'>: Nolan ='lgc'>+ Creation Bible ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Darwin ='lgc'>+ motion graphic research
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> solving a problem proposed by _='qstn'>?_ ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the dream catcher” !!!
(in these cinematic examples we see the ="trms">society imposed to the same spatiotemporal re="trms">presentational framework that ="trms">science “discovers” in ="trms">nature)
the insistent entanglements of physicality with the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical
soil='lgc'>: earth rendered in the ="trms">scientific register
“The alluvial sediments that come in the waters of the Jamuna river either become de="trms">posited as silt across floodplains or fall in the river to become ‘chars’” (="ppl">Naveeda ="ppl">Khan 2014)
...the time of the arrival of clay is not assured
the inability to perpetuate human life='strcls'>*
the ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of Creation in non-elite belief
“you should not let a dog lick you.”
or “pigeon feather containing 40 ="trms">different microbial diseases.” ='at'>#clean
or “they are very dirty and will pass their germs to you.”
cross-="trms">species fraternity to the assertion of superiority over all ="trms">animals
="trms">pragmatic ='lgc'>+ theological spoke='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- divine privileging of humans
="lstsrd">2- human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to transcend the ordinary (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to aspire to God's ="trms">position)
...lush growth of eucalyptus trees at the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the ="trms">market
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yesssss things that grow on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my life-long attention (the cat who entered the house, the ants, the plants in ="nms">Tehran, ...) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><== because of my own marginalized being='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
being fated (together)
...although the earth breaks, it reconstitutes
people find themselves in diminished form, or occupying a lesser form of life, or having the status of the resurrected dead, but they will nonetheless always find themselves here at this place in this moment='strcls'>****
...End Times bringing a fearful apocalyptic future into the ="trms">present, evoking the eternal quest for union with a be="trms">loved without end, while not focused on a ="trms">specific horizon
='strcls'>*foreshprtended horizons='strcls'>*
intensification of existing s="trms">cenes of suffering
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='lgc'>[="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>]
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/o/ohp/11515701.0001.001/1:4.2/='lgc'>--new-="trms">materialism-="trms">interviews-cartographies='qstn'>?rgn=div2;view=fulltext
topology ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Aristotle's ="trms">geometry (his “genus” and his “="trms">species.” )
genus ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">species as a ="trms">contingent ="trms">historical individual
="trms">species ='lgc'>=/= topological ="trms">animal (a body-plan)
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topological properties like connectivity (='lgc'>=/= metric space)
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“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]I surely reject ='thdf'>the idea that ="trms">morphogenesis needs any “mind” to operate. I also reject the neo-="ppl">Kantian thesis of the ="trms">linguisticality of experience. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] Are we to assume that those ancient hunter gatherers lived in an a="trms">morphous ="trms">world waiting for ="trms">language to give it form='qstn'>?”
“rejecting the ="trms">linguisticality of experience (="trms">according to which every culture lives in its own ="trms">world) leads to a conception of a shared human experience in which the variation comes not from ="trms">differences in signification (which is a ="trms">linguistic notion), but of significance (which is a ="trms">pragmatic one).”
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='strcls'>*refraction='strcls'>* (vajje.com/search/کسر)
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