[...]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'>]


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

topological properties like connectivity (='lgc'>=/= metric space)

“='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'>?”

="large lg1" stl="font-size:111%"> “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)

it is insane how the cold-blooded fact of the ="trms">modern ="trms">science has singled out individuals and ="trms">species in a manner of objective study. ='thdf'>the idea that one must individualize the subject of research is unacceptable. how we have allowed ourselves to separate the whale from the spontaneous whirlpools that surround it, from its larger group of ="trms">species. the ="trms">difference between environment and ="trms">species is a constructed ="trms">fabulated “fact” by frontiers of ="trms">science since the 19th century. the ="trms">book of ="nms">ajayeb cultivates its objects with their ="trms">stories, it fosters compounds and assemblages. not ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the refractions, fantasying the illusion of so-called objective clarity that tends to ="trms">categorize life into its own brand of ="trms">differences (individual and environment, object and subject, live and dead, etc.), but in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the ways ="trms">agents of ="trms">interpretation are playing part in a compound.
the ="trms">story captures the rays in their refracted re="trms">presentations, the ="trms">stories are ="trms">interpretive objects, objects of engagement

='lgc'>[Eva ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***things do not have fully determinate boundaries or properties. Things happen ‘in’ and ‘by’ encounter='lgc'>--refraction is one critical mode of encounter='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-the object is always troubled by obscuration
="prgrph">-through refraction, the object is altered by ='strcls'>*scale='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*encounter='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the altered scale allows the object to reveal its ="trms">specificity, its particularity; boundaries are rendered indeterminate and exist only to the extent that they are continually enacted.
="prgrph">-in ="nms">ajayeb we can see these forms of refraction in descriptive acts

="trms">agential ="trms">intra-acting='lgc'>: “="trms">phenomena do not merely mark the ="trms">epistemological inseparability of ‘observer’ and ‘observed’; rather, ='strcls'>***="trms">phenomena are the ="trms">ontological inseparability of ="trms">agentially ="trms">intra-acting ‘components’” that is, ="trms">phenomena are ="trms">ontologically primitive ="trms">relations='lgc'>--="trms">relations without preexisting ="trms">relata. (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
='strcls'>*="trms">mutual constitution of entangled ="trms">agencies='strcls'>*

never complete, never whole, but deep in com="trms">position='lgc'>--="trms">materially and ="trms">semiotically='lgc'>--of conjoined forces that ="trms">matter.

“dynamic (re)configurings of the ="trms">world, ="trms">specific ="trms">agential practices/="trms">intra-actions/performances through which ="trms">specific ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary boundaries are enacted” (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)

(now ="trms">ontologically) ="trms">spectatorship ='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>=/= referent
(still='qstn'>? in ="nms">ajayeb) ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader ='lgc'>~= re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>~= ="trms">citational non-evidence

(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) if we recognize that clear vision is always predicated on distorted, bent, and otherwise refracted (and diffracted) light, how might we reconsider theoretical investigations (filmic, philosophical, etc.) that ='strcls'>*rely ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively on untroubled reflectivity='strcls'>*. yes, “clear” vision is secured by corrective ="trms">measures in the eye (and elsewhere) but conversely sight is always multiply altered and realtered by transmedium movement of light.

there is an embedded conceptual tension in refraction between ='strcls'>*lucidity='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*degradation='strcls'>*

“as it is” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the object is always troubled by obscuration

='strcls'>***things do not have fully determinate boundaries or properties. things happen ‘in’ and ‘by’ encounter='lgc'>--refraction is one critical mode of encounter

object is altered by ='strcls'>*scale='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*encounter='strcls'>* (through refraction)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">="trms">empirical perspective” ='lgc'>: the ='strcls'>*altered scale='strcls'>* also allows the object to reveal its ="trms">specificity, its particularity; boundaries are rendered indeterminate and exist only to the extent that they are continually enacted.

(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward > ="ppl">="ppl">Barad='lgc'>:)
="trms">Phenomena do not merely mark the ="trms">epistemological inseparability of “observer” and “observed”; rather, ="trms">phenomena are the ="trms">ontological inseparability of ="trms">agentially ="trms">intra-acting ‘components.’ That is, ="trms">phenomena are ="trms">ontologically primitive ="trms">relations='lgc'>--="trms">relations without preexisting ="trms">relata. ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*relatum='lgc'>: one of the objects between which a ="trms">relation is said to hold. ='strcls'>*="trms">relata='lgc'>: would-be antecedent (tabar تبار) components of ="trms">relations.='lgc'>]


reverie of reflectivity ='lgc'>=/= refraction (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> makes explicit transforms the tendency of the image to orient re="trms">presentation, foregrounding the th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readed visual space between the image and the ="trms">spectator.)

='strcls'>***dynamic (re)configurings of the ="trms">world, ="trms">specific ="trms">agential practices/="trms">intra-actions/performances through which ="trms">specific ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary boundaries are enacted='strcls'>***
(Kaja Silverman, the subject of ="trms">semiotics)

="trms">spectatorships ='lgc'>=/=! re="trms">presentations ='lgc'>=/=! referents
(="trms">ontological distinction='lgc'>: “='lgc'>=/=!”)

the surreal ="trms">techno="trms">scientific look ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> allowing wondrous but ="trms">material extensions into the ="nms">ajayeb domain

in creating a “look” for ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: whether or not a used/user ="trms">interaction can have ethical dimensions='qstn'>?


refraction is not framework, but a pathway. it engages patterns of ="trms">interference and exchange

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the xeno-="trms">sensual in the ="nms">ajayeb
="trms">different ="trms">differences that are sensed and mediated

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="trms">poetic ="trms">historiography
(="trms">historiography='lgc'>: the study of the ="trms">writing of ="trms">history and of ="trms">written ="trms">histories)

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to begin ="trms">writing about ="nms">ajayeb with the ="trms">citational, ‘avardeand ke...’ (...آورده‌اند که)
="trms">citation, an important characteristic of ="trms">fables, is about ="trms">relational ="trms">histories.
absence of de="trms">finitive source (in my old ="trms">childhood favorite radio show, by bring an endless ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of fantastic source and bodies of ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures) allows ="trms">monsters to flourish and me the full range of my passionate ="trms">crafts. ="nms">ajayeb's compelling mystery ="trms">demands (from me) an unorthodox and omnivorous approach (hame-chiz-khar همه چیز خوار).

="large lg5" stl="font-size:150%"> اما راویان اخبار و ناقلان آثار و طوطیان شکرشکن شیرین گفتار و خوشه چینان خرمن سخن دانی و صرافان سر بازار معانی و چابک سواران میدان دانش توسن خوش خرام سخن را بدینگونه به جولان در آورده اند که ...

="lsts lst1">•Mirabile dictu... (miraculous to say...)

towards ="ppl">="ppl">Despret's talking parrots
parrots (shekar-shekan) (and philosophers) really like to control the exchange, to keep control of a conversation ='lgc'>: their refusal to let another individual choose the topic of conversation
='strcls'>***(parrots have) a ="trms">pragmatic rathe[...]