[...]ite 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'>]
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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)
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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'>?
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
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thoroughly disabused
aufklären آگاهیدن آگاییدن
expound تفسیر
incentive مشوق, فتنه انگيز
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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
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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 h[...]