[...] 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)

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(='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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:123%"> “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'>--> physicists
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical research ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">cosmological research
transcendental ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms">empirical

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

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


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