[...]nd give form to='lgc'>}='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='strcls'>*desires='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer's desire is one the modes of their efficacity
="prgrph">-“our” problems are not a ="trms">priori
a “we”='lgc'>:
='lgc'>+ “know full well”
='lgc'>+ “are ="trms">different”
='lgc'>+ “who work”
="trms">rhetorics of pronouns, acts of crude ="trms">generalizations='lgc'>: something is being ="trms">specified and something ="trms">generalized. ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Xiri's “I am the one who... your...” the ="trms">specificity and generality of “I” and of “you” in her text. how the ="trms">difference of “you” and “I” was envisaged in her ="trms">poem='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{I, the effected by ='lgc'>=/= you, the haver='lgc'>} how can this I/you impose itself not as the effect of a strong-arm tactic='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? I want to find out how to live together; refuse to deepen the contrast between “us” and “them"='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[in ="frds scrmbld">Xiri's ="trms">poem='lgc'>: who/what makes her pronouns='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[to address people ‘as’ refugees, subjugated, poor, or victim, to recognize them by these identities, only repeats the process of ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion(='qstn'>?) could be experienced as disabling.='lgc'>]
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='strcls'>*/ ="trms">generalization is constructed bit by bit
(that which constitutes) an expression of the parrot's opinion in relevance to what it is asked, the fact that it engages with, accepts and activly transforms what becomes a part of its ="trms">world, ="trms">translates an extension of this ="trms">world and therefore an extension of its subjectivity as “parrot-with-human”
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="prgrph">-when an ="trms">animal escapes me, in fact it is making a form of the “judgement of ="trms">relation” that ="trms">animals make about humans
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]anonymity='lgc'>: (a certain manners of ="trms">presenting oneself,) that un="trms">questioned condition of research that ="trms">translates a certain type of ="trms">relationship and a certain manner of defining those whom one addresses
I am against “feel free to say what you want” because it means actually what you say will have no consequences ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (radical) a="trms">symmetry of expertises='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer-="trms">author ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knows better
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social actor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interchangeable holders of opinions
“="trms">scientist”='lgc'>: that who “knows better”
(if the fish cannot become a ="trms">scientist, then I also don't want to ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> let's change how one becomes a “fish” or a “="trms">scientist”)
(="frds scrmbld">Laleh) could ask her subjects='lgc'>: “so, in your opinion, ‘as a ="trms">child,’ how do you think I should construct my ="trms">question so that it has a chance of being understood and of being ="trms">interesting='qstn'>?”
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question, that was my ="trms">responsibility, that of ="trms">difference, ="trms">formulated in ="trms">different ways
="lsts lst1">•“they” ='lgc'>[your “subjects"='lgc'>] might unproot your ="trms">question, displace it, modify its ambit (hoze حوزه), and when they find the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right way of ="trms">formulating it, they answer='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]asking ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= constructing ="trms">interest ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> (a chance of) ="trms">interesting answers
="lsts lst1">•ask your subjects to construct ="trms">interest
="lsts lst1">•the appropriateness of ="trms">question
="lsts lst1">•problems are only ="trms">interesting if they ="trms">interest (='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•(all) ="trms">apparatuses create subjectivities
to attend to ="trms">animal “paying attention” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> good ="trms">translators of intentions
(how did I become ="trms">interested in this='qstn'>?)
in farms, “talk is incessant. And because there is talk, there is talking back.”
talking back and forth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exchange judgments about intentions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adjusting the intentionalities (between human and ="trms">animal; relevant also for ="frds scrmbld">Varinia's dog ="trms">relation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘I know that you know what I intend to do'='lgc'>]='lgc'>--)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">language as a mean for creating an overlapping awareness between two speakers (="ppl">="ppl">Despret, ="ppl">Hearne, ="ppl">Sennett) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">language “populates” each of the beings ="trms">present with perspectival pro="trms">positions, which are so many pro="trms">positions of intentionality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•one makes say (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sven)
="lsts lst1">•one makes ask
="lsts lst1">•one puts oneself ‘in’ the place of
="lsts lst1">•one doesn't ="trms">interpret
="lsts lst1">•one experiments
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are perhaps non-immediate form of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these practices inscribe the ="trms">animal and human in the ="trms">world of “speaking” ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are “perspectives” that “populate” our ="trms">world
(each) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perspective is made up of ="trms">translation of intentions='strcls'>*
(="trms">animal breeders are perspectivists)
="trms">situations of the exchange ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">situations of subjectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adopting perspectives (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'><='lgc'>--) judge intentions ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘="trms">response’
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">intersubjectivity='lgc'>: accepting the proposal of subjectivity; becoming what the other sug="trms">gests; acting in the manner in which the other addresses you ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="nms">apass bow and arrow, was about this sug="trms">gestivity='lgc'>]
the ="trms">apparatus of ="trms">question (that you sug="trms">gest,) activates some modes of existence rather than others
...shared perspectives, shared intelligences and intentions, resemblances, inversions and exchanges of properties (between humans and ="trms">animals)
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my practice and work on ="nms">ajayeb is grounded in the ="trms">history and ="trms">materiality of ="trms">scientific practices
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(="nms">ajayeb's) particular and exceptional ="trms">nature
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(="ppl">="ppl">Despret)
“="trms">anthropo-="trms">zoo-genetic” ='lgc'>: a practice that constructs ="trms">animals and human
(how can i design an ="trms">apparatus for ="nms">ajayeb) to perform availability='qstn'>?
(build) ="trms">questions that construe and construct signs that ‘make a ="trms">world’ for the ="trms">animal (entity of the ="nms">ajayeb)
="prgrph">-how can i offer possible ="trms">interesting becoming to the ="trms">animals of ="nms">ajayeb, in offering a way for them to ="trms">articulate the ="trms">system, (not to make a ="trms">system that ="trms">articulates them)
(in experimenting with ="nms">ajayeb) how can i involve my body, involve my knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, involve my ="trms">responsibility, involve my future='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how to let them adopt me='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-to produce an ="nms">ajayeb body to allow a ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">world to ="trms">affect me
the ="trms">world of ="nms">ajayeb is a richly ="trms">articulated ="trms">world ='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">world of enthusiastic automata (one who is only moved by itself) observing strange and mute creatures
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='lgc'>[Mersad al-ebad='lgc'>] tabaye-i طبایعی (="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list)
="trms">historical ="trms">specificity(s) of ="trms">animal-human ="trms">relationship
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(worst-)="trms">translated ="trms">science
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='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, Queering the non/human='lgc'>]
‘companion’ ='lgc'>[she starts by showing the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger of the term like any other term='lgc'>]
reducing type is among other things at the heart of racism
types='lgc'>: colonised, enslaved, non-citizen, ="trms">animal, refugee, ='lgc'>[etc.='lgc'>], typological female reduced to her reproductive function,
secular ="trms">semiotics (never nourished us='qstn'>?)
queering='lgc'>: the job of undoing ‘normal’ ="trms">categories, ='lgc'>[="trms">sorting operations='lgc'>]
...patterning, consequences, and the possibility of ="trms">response.
queer, off-="trms">category, sf ="trms">worlding
(what are the SF ="trms">worldings of ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?='lgc'>--SF as building alternative ="trms">ontologies. finding absent but possible ="trms">presents='lgc'>--whether ="trms">presented as elsewheres or other times. “='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]an elsewhere from which ="trms">different ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ="trms">articulations of ="trms">naturecultures and alterity could be explored.”)
“The one who would be normal, in a ="trms">category of his own” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ends badly
(human ="trms">scientist's) deadly one-way test='lgc'>: unable to recognize the ="trms">presence of the ="trms">trapped one ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (for him) no one is at home in the ="trms">categorically Other
='lgc'>[Seed Bag='lgc'>]
...the problem of destruction and wounded flourishing='lgc'>--not simply survival='lgc'>--in exile, diaspora, abduction, and transportation='lgc'>--the earthly gift-burden of the descendents of slaves, refugees, immigrants, ="trms">travelers, and of the indigenous too.
(In the feminist SF mode,) ="trms">matter is never “mere” medium to the “informing” seed;
Homebody / ="trms">traveler
...disruptive details of good ="trms">stories that don't know how to finish
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='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Barad='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] re="trms">membering is not a replay of a string of moments, but an enlivening and reconfiguring of ="trms">past and future that is larger than any individual. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] The ="trms">past is never finished. It cannot be wrapped up like a package, or a scrap="trms">book, or an acknowledgment; we never leave it and it never leaves us behind.
="ppl">="ppl">Barad's mother's ="trms">question='lgc'>: “what good is there in offering recognition that can't be recognized='qstn'>?”
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] there is only the ongoing practice of being open and ='strcls'>*alive to each(other)='strcls'>* meeting
“How to disrupt patterns of thinking that see the ="trms">past as finished and the future as not ours or only ours='qstn'>?”
='strcls'>*="trms">measurement
='strcls'>** the ="trms">nature of ="trms">nature depends on the ="trms">apparatus that ="trms">measure it
='strcls'>***='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which ="trms">measurements are at use in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
(what constitutes a ="trms">measurement for what='qstn'>?)
the stran="trms">gest idea='lgc'>: that we have access to cultural re="trms">presentations and their content (that we lack toward the things re="trms">presented) (='lgc'>=/= “="trms">agential rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">ontology” barad-posthumanist.pdf) ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's “words and things” is the name of the game='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela, perhaps we can begin with a ="trms">different starting point, other than the old idea of “humanity's own captivity within ="trms">language='lgc'>--the starting place of the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of re="trms">presentation,” perhaps it would be better to begin with a ="trms">different ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics... ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{the term ‘="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics’ (far from being the deep o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of high philosophy) actually comes o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginally from (the ="trms">writings of) ="ppl">Aristotle on physics, rearranged three centuries after his death by ="ppl">Andronicus of Rhodes='lgc'>}='lgc'>]
="trms">materiality itself is always al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready figured within a ="trms">linguistic domain as its condition of possibility(='qstn'>?(!))
='lgc'>[ (='qstn'>?(!)) ='lgc'>: a ="trms">contingent ="trms">question pregnant with ="trms">wonder='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[my starting point in my ="trms">lecture/performance is with the concern (warned by ="ppl">Nietzsche) that ="trms">language is being granted too much power, tendency to take grammar too ="trms">seriously ='lgc'>: allowing ="trms">linguistic structure to shape or determine our understanding ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs='lgc'>}
believing that ‘subject’ ='lgc'>+ ‘predicate structure of ="trms">language’ (='lgc'>~ grammatical ="trms">categories) ='lgc'>--reflects='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a ="trms">prior ="trms">ontological reality of) substance and attribute (='lgc'>~ underlying structure of the ="trms">world) (='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*="trms">contingency ='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric);, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> still in the 16th century europe (pointed by ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault) ="trms">language was simply “one of the ="trms">figurations of the ="trms">world” ='lgc'>=/= “="trms">language as medium"='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*performativity (the way i am understanding it using ="ppl">="ppl">Barad's words) ='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">excessive power granted to ="trms">language to determine what is real
="prgrph">-a contestation of the unexamined habits of mind that grant ="trms">language and other forms of re="trms">presentation more power in determining our ="trms">ontologies
="prgrph">-="trms">questions of cor="trms">respondence between description and reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">questions of ="trms">ontology, ="trms">materiality, and ="trms">agency. (the things i am busy with in ="nms">apass)
="prgrph">-(discursive dimensions in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude) ="trms">questions of meaning, intelligibility, significance, identity formation, and power
='prcnt'>% ="ppl">Austin's speech acts, ="trms">relationships between saying and doing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Derrida's poststructura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list amendments ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Butler (with ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's understanding of the productive effects of regulatory power) in theorizing ='thdf'>the notion of identity performativity ='lgc'>{='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Xiri, we understand gender not as a thing or a set of free-floating attributes, not as an essence='lgc'>--but rather as a “doing”='lgc'>: “gender is itself a kind of becoming or activity ... gender ought not to be conceived as a noun or a substantial thing or a static cultural marker, but rather as an incessant and repeated action of some ="trms">sort” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> with this regard what ="trms">questions should ="frds scrmbld">Xiri ask her subjects='qstn'>?='lgc'>}
='lgc'>{ practice of re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presented entity ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this “='lgc'>=/=” is ="trms">ontological ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">question of accuracy (of re="trms">presentation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge objectivity
focus on the ="trms">nature ='and'>& production of ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mediates our access to the ="trms">material ="trms">world) ='lgc'>--(="trms">science-studies)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dynamics of the actual practice of ="trms">science ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ongoing patterns of ="trms">situated activity
="prgrph">-='strcls'>*o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of “appearance”='strcls'>*-
...with ="ppl">Democritus's atomic theory emerges the possibility of a gap between re="trms">presentation and ="trms">presented. (='thdf'>the idea that something “appears”)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Democritus='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•atomism (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? cornerstone of ="trms">modern ="trms">science)
="lsts lst1">•democracy (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? cornerstone of ="trms">modern politics)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>the idea that the ="trms">world is ="trms">composed of individuals with separately attributable properties='strcls'>**** (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="ppl">Newtonian physics of independent objects, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Heike)
='strcls'>*="ppl">Newtonian framework ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> meaphysics of individualism
="lstsrd">1- that the ="trms">world is ="trms">composed of individual objects with individually determinate boundaries and properties whose well-defined values can be re="trms">presented by abstract universal concepts that have determinate meanings independent of the ="trms">specifices of practice (='lgc'>--this is exactly what ="frds scrmbld">Marialena should be carefull about='lgc'>: abstract univerality of ‘="trms">language,’ and the independency of her ‘recorder’)
="lstsrd">2- that ="trms">measurement involves continuous determinable ="trms">interactions such as the values of the properties obtained can properly be assigned to the pre="trms">measurement properties of objects separate from the ="trms">agencies of observation
(='strcls'>*)concept='lgc'>: ="trms">specific ="trms">material arrangements, concepts are defined by the circumstances required for their ="trms">measurement
(is ="frds scrmbld">Luisa's “wholesomeness” also about a feeling for inseparability='qstn'>?)
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deployments of power ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body='lgc'>--='lgc'>{bodies, functions, physiological processes, sensations, pleasures,='lgc'>}
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="trms">matter is not an end product, rather an active factor in further ="trms">materializations
(='strcls'>*** ="trms">matter ="trms">materializes ='strcls'>***)
="trms">matter's ongoing ="trms">historicity
precise ="trms">causal ="trms">nature of productive practices ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">differential constitutions are marked
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: a host of ="trms">material-discursive forces
='strcls'>*for ="nms">ajayeb i need to rework notions of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•discursive practices
="lsts lst1">•="trms">materialization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">agency
="lsts lst1">•="trms">causality
='strcls'>*without='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">sorting to the optics of transparency
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">geometric of absolute exteriority or ="trms">interiority
="lsts lst1">•theorization of human as either pure cause or pure effect
='strcls'>*any entity's ="trms">ontology (its cast identity) is always open for future's reworkings='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
adding a ="trms">Greek fused syntactical molding to the individual, ‘trans-’ is not enough, we have to make the postulation of individuality unthinkable, and that needs work
='lgc'>{how to make things unthinkable='qstn'>? not available to think with. what should be an “unthinkable” theory of ="trms">relations='qstn'>?='lgc'>}
(="ppl">Descartes's ="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presentationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list structure of words, knowers, and things)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transparency of ="trms">measurement (transparency of ="trms">language) ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Bohr's ="trms">epistemological framework (after his ="trms">="trms">empirical findings of an inherent discontinuity in ="trms">measurement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--='prcnt'>%> wave-particle duality paradox) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="ppl">="ppl">Barad's “="trms">causal ="trms">relationship between ="trms">specific ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary practices ="trms">embodied as ="trms">specific ="trms">material con="trms">figurations of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= discursive practices, (con)="trms">figurations rather than “words"='lgc'>] and ="trms">specific ="trms">material ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">relations rather than “things"='lgc'>]”
(='strcls'>*)="trms">position (='lgc'>~ ="trms">specific physical arguments, ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= well-defined abstract concepts, in="trms">herit attribute of independently existing objects='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to critique of ‘="trms">positionality’)
“="trms">position” only has meaning when a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid ="trms">apparatus with fixed parts is used (='thdf'>for example a ruler is nailed to a fixed table in the laboratory ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> establishing a fixed frame of reference for specifying “="trms">position.”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> any ="trms">measurement of “="trms">position” using this ="trms">apparatus cannot be attributed to some abstract independently existing “object” but rather is a property of the ‘="trms">phenomenon’ ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***the inseparability of “observed object” and “="trms">agencies of observation”='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">simultaneous indeterminacy of “="trms">position” and “momentum” ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*momentum='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ="trms">material arrangement involving movable parts='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deconstructing the ="trms">material ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of “="trms">position” and “momentum"='lgc'>]
(='strcls'>*)="trms">phenomena='lgc'>: primary ="trms">epistemological unit, the ="trms">ontological inseparability of ="trms">agentially ="trms">intra-acting “components” (="ppl">="ppl">Barad); ="trms">ontologically primitive ="trms">relations; ="trms">relations without preexisting ‘="trms">relata’(='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">mutual ="trms">ontological dependencies ='lgc'>=/= independent entities)
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">specific) ="trms">intra-action ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">relata-within-="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">specific) ="trms">agential ="trms">intra-action ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> boundaries and properties of components of ="trms">phenomena become determinate ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">phenomena
(='strcls'>*)="trms">apparatus='lgc'> = ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= inscription devices, ="trms">scientific ="trms">instruments set in place before the action, machines that mediate the dialectic of resistance and accommodation, neutral probes of ="trms">natural ="trms">world, structures that deterministically impose some particular outcome,='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="trms">apparatus='lgc'>: “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”
(perpetually) open to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rearrangements
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">articulations
="lsts lst1">•(and other) reworkings (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[in my amazon project:='lgc'>] getting the ="trms">instrumentation to work in a particular way for a particular purpose)
(boundaries are always ‘enacted,’ not ‘made’)
(='strcls'>*)reality='lgc'>: “things"-in-="trms">phenomena, ongoing ebb and flow of ="trms">agency ='strcls'>*****
="prgrph">-shifting boundaries and properties that stabilize and destabilize
(='strcls'>*)="trms">world='lgc'>: a dynamic process of ="trms">intra-activity in the “ongoing reconfiguring of locally determinate ="trms">causal structures” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">contingency='lgc'>] with determinate boundaries, properties, meanings, and patterns of marks on bodies ='strcls'>*****
(='strcls'>*)universe='lgc'>: ="trms">agential ="trms">intra-activity in its becoming
(='strcls'>*)word='lgc'>: ="trms">material-discursive practices ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> boundaries are constituted (='thdf'>for example the ="trms">differential constitution of “humans” and “nonhumans”; ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Varinia)
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> meaning (='lgc'>=/= ideational, andisheyi اندیشهای) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">specific ="trms">material (re)configuring of the ="trms">world
(='strcls'>*)discourse='lgc'>: that which constrains and enables what can be said, practices that define what counts as meaningful (statement)='strcls'>***
(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, discursive practices are the local ="trms">socio="trms">historical ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= transcendental, ="trms">phenomenological, ideational='lgc'>] ="trms">material conditions that enable and constrain disciplinary knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices) ='strcls'>*actual ="trms">historically ="trms">situated ="trms">social conditions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•speaking
="lsts lst1">•="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•thinking
="lsts lst1">•calculating
="lsts lst1">•="trms">measuring
="lsts lst1">•filtering
="lsts lst1">•concentrating
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> statements ='lgc'>+ subjects emerge from a field of possibilities ='lgc'>=/= statement as utterance of (o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginating) consciousness of a unified subject
(='strcls'>*)discursive practices='lgc'>: ="trms">specific ="trms">material (re)configurings of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> local determinations of boundaries, properties, and meanings are ="trms">differentially enacted
(='strcls'>*)meaning='lgc'>: ongoing performance of the ="trms">world in its ="trms">differential intelligibility (='lgc'>=/= a property of individual/groups of words)
='strcls'>**local ="trms">causal structures ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one component ='lgc'>{effect='lgc'>} is marked by another component ='lgc'>{cause='lgc'>} (in their ‘="trms">differential ="trms">articulation’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= intelligibility='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in ="trms">science this is called “="trms">measurement”
(="trms">question at ="frds scrmbld">Juan's work on clay='lgc'>:) (what could challenge='qstn'>?) the re="trms">presentationalism's construal of ="trms">matter as a passive blank site awaiting the active inscription of culture (<='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> the ="trms">relationship between ="trms">materiality and discourse ="trms">positioned as one absolute exteriority) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Butler's incomplete reworking of “="trms">causality” ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> her (="trms">anthropocentric, ensan ashrafe makhlughat انسان اشرف مخلوقات) theory of ="trms">materiality is limited to an account of the ="trms">materialization of human body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the construction of the c="trms">ontours of the human body
(="ppl">Butler='lgc'>: performativity understood as iterative ="trms">citationality)
(intelligibility is not always a human-based affair)
(="trms">question of ‘="trms">agency’ and ‘="trms">causality’ at ="frds scrmbld">Sana and ="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>:) what possibilities exist (for ="trms">agency) for ="trms">intervening in the ="trms">world of becoming='qstn'>?
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>: there is no ="trms">geometrical ="trms">relation of absolute exteriority between (nor an idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic collapse of) a “="trms">causal ="trms">apparatus” and a “body effected” ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>****an ongoing topological dynamics that en="trms">folds the spacetime mani="trms">fold upon itself='strcls'>**** ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">apparatuses of bodily production are also part of the ="trms">phenomena they produce
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**future is radically open at every turn='strcls'>** (="ppl">="ppl">Barad) ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> her notion of overdetermination (جبر jabr='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what if she use “constraint” instead of “determinist”='qstn'>? esrar/ezterar ='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enactment of a ="trms">causal structure ='lgc'>: particular possibilities for acting exist at every moment
="prgrph">-a term for ="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>: “="trms">causally deterministic power structures”
(='strcls'>*)="trms">agency='lgc'>: changes in the ="trms">apparatuses of bodily production='strcls'>***
enactment of iterative changes to particular practices through the dynamics of ="trms">intra-activity
(='strcls'>*)objectivity='lgc'>: being accountable to marks on bodies (='lgc'>=/= exteriority)
="trms">agential separability ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> objectivity
(="ppl">="ppl">Barad, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, ="ppl">Kirby, Rouse, ="ppl">Bohr='lgc'>:) there is no such (“knower”) exterior observational point
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Laleh='lgc'>: we are not observers outside the ="trms">world, not simply located at particular places ‘in’ the ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">positionality)
(="trms">question at ="frds scrmbld">Aela='lgc'>:) the ="trms">geometry of absolute ="trms">interiority ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reduction of effect to its cause, ="trms">nature ="trms">ontologically distinct from culture
(that there is no preexistent ="trms">nature)
(="frds scrmbld">Aela's ="trms">interest in='qstn'>?) spatiality='lgc'>: (characteristics of enclosures ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- concerned with shapes and sizes) ‘="trms">geometry’ ='lgc'>=/= ‘topology’ (investigates ="trms">questions of ='strcls'>*connectivity='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*boundaries='strcls'>*)
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='strcls'>***it is the very existence of ‘="trms">finitude’ that gets defined as ‘="trms">matter’
="trms">narcissistic bedtime ="trms">stories... (="trms">positioning of ="trms">materiality as either a given or a mere effect of human ="trms">agency)
(='strcls'>*)="trms">matter='lgc'>: substance in its ="trms">intra-active becoming
(='strcls'>*)performativity='lgc'>: iterative ="trms">intra-activity
“I'm trying to complicate the locatability of human identity as a here and now, as an enclosed and finished product='lgc'>[/project='lgc'>]” ='lgc'>~ “perspective essentialism”
...="trms">nature performs itself ="trms">differently
(="ppl">Kirby)
='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Barad:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>**="trms">onto-="trms">epistem-ology='strcls'>**='lgc'>: the study of practices of knowing in being
“="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontology” is a re="trms">verberation of a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics that assumes (inherent ="trms">differences='lgc'>:) “human ='lgc'>=/= nonhuman,” “subject ='lgc'>=/= object,” “mind ='lgc'>=/= body,” “="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/= discourse”...
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what kind of alphabetico-numerical forefinger can i build that can press a ="trms">schizophrenic partial ="trms">systematizing of ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
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so much (in ="nms">Iran's ="trms">literature) still awaits reflection and comprehension (-without comprehensiveness please!)
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...="trms"nttrm="search">archeology of dying in our civilization
(="trms"nttrm="search">archeology of our dying civilization)
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="ppl">Aristotle's ="trms">narrative='lgc'>: catharsis of emotions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> first arousing pity and fear and then clearing them away
theories of ="trms">narrative='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•forma="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list theories (Russian)
="lsts lst1">•dialogical theories (="ppl">Bakhtinian)
="lsts lst1">•New Critical theories
="lsts lst1">•Chicago school, or neo-="ppl">Aristotlian theories
="lsts lst1">•psychoanalytic theories (="ppl">Freud, Kenneth Burke, ="ppl">Lacan, N. Abraham)
="lsts lst1">•hermeneutic and ="trms">phenomenological theories
="lsts lst1">•structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, ="trms">semiotic, and tropological theories
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Marxist and ="trms">sociological theories
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader-="trms">response theories
="lsts lst1">•poststructura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and deconstructionist theories (Jacques ="ppl">Derrida, ="ppl">Paul ="ppl">de Man)
="lsts lst1">•feminist theories (="ppl">Martha ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers, ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward)
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list='lgc'>: that there are typical formal elements or “deep structures” to ="trms">narratives ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> complex performative dimension between the telling of ="trms">stories and what is told in them
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(="ppl">Paul ="ppl">de Man='lgc'>:) “The paradigm for all texts consists of a figure (or a ="trms">system of figures) and its deconstruction. But since this model cannot be closed off by a final ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, it engenders, in its turn, a supplementary figural super="trms">position which ="trms">narrates the un="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readability of the ="trms">prior ="trms">narration.”
the analytic experience has a ="trms">narrative character='qstn'>? psychoanalytic dialogue ‘uncovers’ a certain kind of ="trms">narrative discontinuity maintained in the analysand's efforts
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> meaningful ="trms">narrative sequences,
and, recaptured ="trms">memory ='lgc'>: a ="trms">rhetorical product
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="prgrph">-the dominance of the ="trms">narrative ‘The O="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin’ ='lgc'>[Ursprung='lgc'>] when we tell ="trms">nature ="trms">story, when we call in ="trms">nature
="prgrph">-the dominance of the ="trms">narrative ‘The ="trms">Zoom’ when we tell ="trms">nature ="trms">story, (‘The Reveal’ ="trms">story)
="prgrph">-
ok, it is 06.03.2017, i need to set up a track of commentary, a monogamous ="trms">relation with ="nms">ajayeb
and unload the myth that i am going to do something new='lgc'>:
1st='lgc'>: send super-ego away and cleared out ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> no judgment
2nd='lgc'>: call the unengaged secretary to just ="trms">write
3rd='lgc'>: throw some ="trms">sort of sequencing on the page
4th='lgc'>: call the clean-up ="trms">agent
5th='lgc'>: at some point super-ego comes and checks it out
6th='lgc'>: negotiation with the super-ego
(="ppl">Avital,) start modest and small, ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening to my passion, collects some texts or passages that hold this or that motif that i like or am concerned with, go in there and do a ="trms">rhetorical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, see what is going on in the ="trms">language, allow myself be ="trms">instructed and taught.
7th='lgc'>: wrap around the work, something of an ='strcls'>*infomercial,='strcls'>* there i can get a little ego in there, bring myself to the table and ="trms">situate myself in the ="trms">world of art/scholarship/thinking/creativity/etc. and say where i am, what ="trms">question do i bring to the table, what would be my ="trms">question mark, i am at the table taking my place and this is my ="trms">question mark, ="trms">situate myself (='lgc'>=/= autistic, dar-khod-mandegi در خود ماندگی; i can't spin out as kind of rouge and solitary satellite that no one can connect with. i have to make the connections, in a ="trms">world that is having debates and discursive encounters around my themes. i am ='strcls'>*in conversation='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">responding, quoting, tuning,) standing up for myself and my text, “fake it till you make it,” yes i need to re="trms">narcissize and build up, at this phase towards the end i need to perform being assertive and show what i have brought to the table, and if i don't know that then i ask someone to tell me what have i done='qstn'>? where does it belong='qstn'>? how can i ="trms">situate myself='qstn'>?
8th='lgc'>: sleep-walk, don't look down, don't wake myself up, don't ask why i am doing this
9th='lgc'>: (problematically ="ppl">Deleuzian='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*becoming woman='strcls'>*! (for ="ppl">Deleuze) all ="trms">writing involves you (no ="trms">matter how you are gendered or constructed or what you think you are) in becoming woman, which is to say the experience of a powerful sub="trms">mission and the ability to carry off the disappearance of ="trms">agency or ego kick, subjecting oneself (to the other) before becoming subject.
='lgc'>[(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward) woman='lgc'>: vibratory being='lgc'>: sensation ='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~(creative-="trms">response)='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> environment='lgc'>]
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زن شو
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wunderkammer, cabinet of curiosities, is about the ="trms">world unfinished
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the prefixial ="trms">nature of ‘trans-’ ='lgc'>: across, into, through ='lgc'>: a pre="trms">positional force
Trans='strcls'>* foregrounds and intensifies the prehensile (گیرکننده), prefixial (pishvandi پیشوندی) ="trms">nature of ‘trans-’ and implies a suffixial (pasvandi پسوندی) space of attachment that is ="trms">simultaneously ="trms">generalizable and abstract yet its function can be enacted only when taken up by particular objects (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward ='and'>& ="ppl">Weinstein)
trans='strcls'>* (pre="trms">positionally oriented) “is the process through which thingness and beingness are constituted” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] “marking the ‘with,’ ‘through,’ ‘of,’ ‘in,’ and ‘across’ that make life possible”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">materializes pre="trms">positional movements
the ‘human on board’ no longer possesses critical purchase, it no longer “delineates a normative standard of legibility,” “the elite status of being considered fully human” (how is it in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?)
(biopolitics of) de-, in-, non-, trans-
a ‘turn’ (= a cause to move, a ="trms">difference in ="trms">position ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> a change in ="trms">nature) enables creatures to migrate from the margins to the center of theoretical ="trms">interrogatives
="ppl">="ppl">Haraway prefering (the energetic expressive capacity of) ‘with’ over ‘and’
="prgrph">-syntactical problem of ‘and’ raised to the power of n
="prgrph">-she puts the emphasis on with-ness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to reinvigorate (tajdide niru تجدید نیرو) attention to ="trms">materiality but also ="trms">matter's ="trms">contingent force ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">intersectional ="trms">demands of assemblage
“and...and...and”
trans, speciating ="trms">technology, the drive for suffixial endpoints
(pre="trms">positional operations on suffixiated) assemblages of spacetime="trms">matterings
='strcls'>**** terrible violence is directed to the non-existing, the never having existed
‘='strcls'>*’ (the asterisk) is paratactic (faghede ravabet فاقد روابط) (='lgc'>=/= conjunction,) it designates multiplication, it repurposes, displaces, renames, replicates, and intensifies terms, adding yet more texture, increased vitalization
="prgrph">-it is a ="trms">sensuous node
="prgrph">-making (my points) a com="trms">posite of ="trms">affects and percepts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speciation is always a cultivated ="trms">response ='strcls'>***
='strcls'>*="trms">trap='lgc'>: “means also mouth, or mode of utterance; it is the “O” curve of lips and throat that makes sounds phonic and names the apprehension of becoming bodily. A ="trms">trap, in weaving, is also a break in the th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads, an unraveling, loosening, unwinding that opens up space. When we think of spider webs, ="trms">trap is a silk net, a sticky mesh that registers sensation. For the spider, its ="trms">trap is its nearby-ness, its where-ness, its with-ness. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure;='lgc'>] (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward ='and'>& ="ppl">Weinstein)
="prgrph">-how, then, might we hear the phrase “="trms">trapped in the wrong body” as less about authenticity (fixity and normativity) than about ='strcls'>*textures of spacetime='strcls'>* (prefixial movements)='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[harkate johari حرکت جوهری ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? harkate pishvandi حرکت پیشوندی='lgc'>]._/'='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra
(="ppl">Susan ="ppl">Stryker warns) that transsexuals, in their capacity to be ="trms">monstrous, arise, like Frankenstein's creature, from the operating tables of their (re)birth as “something more, and something other” than their medical service providers may have intended or ="trms">imagined
more ='and'>& other ='lgc'>=/= with ='and'>& of
='strcls'>*gender='lgc'>: ="trms">sociopoliical taxomomizing ="trms">ontologically distinct form (entwined) with enfleshed ="trms">mattering
='strcls'>*="trms">animality='lgc'>: ="trms">sensuous ="trms">materialities, com="trms">posites of ="trms">affects and percepts, ="trms">specificities but remain thresholds of emergence, individuation that prompt ="trms">sensuous ="trms">intra- and ="trms">interchange ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> provocations
(Weaver, Kelley, ="ppl">Weinstein, ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward, Kier, Franklin='lgc'>:) ="trms">animal ="trms">difference announces a radically singular Other marked by sexual ="trms">differences
“trans-infused apprehensions and engagements with the expansive ="trms">world of possibility opened up by non-="trms">anthropocentric perspectives.”
trans='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ ="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (alternative ways of envisioning) futures of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">embodiment
="lsts lst1">•="trms">aesthetics
="lsts lst1">•biopolitics
="lsts lst1">•climates
="lsts lst1">•ethics
we have to negotiate the ='lgc'>[contaminated concept of='lgc'>] human ='lgc'>--(to deal with)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the persistence of humanism in structures of thought
critical ="trms">animal studies has(='qstn'>?) the transformative power to ="trms">interrupt humanism and its sexually ="trms">differentiated legacy by challenging the boundaries between, and existence of, ="trms">differentiated, essential kinds.
robust, nondua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic theories of human/="trms">animal
Critical Life Studies
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">species panic='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the concept of the homosexual panic defense) ='lgc'>{androids='lgc'>: ="trms">species ='lgc'>+ trans ="trms">embodiment='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**genuine ="trms">animals='strcls'>** ="trms">transitivity='lgc'>: “shifting ="trms">positions on a series of spectrums, where human, ="trms">animal, and machine bleed into one another” ='lgc'>[="ppl">Huebert='lgc'>]='lgc'>--='lgc'>{"it”='lgc'>: ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right of gendered pronouns='lgc'>--"it” ascribed to artificial ="trms">animals and androids ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the distinction between “genuine” and “inauthentic”; “it” leaves us in a perpetual ="trms">species panic='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">animal ="trms">symbolic='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the construction of the human located in sexual ="trms">difference ='lgc'>[="ppl">Nurka='lgc'>]
it seems with ‘human’ one always spring inexorably back to sex ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sexual ="trms">difference and its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins in the problematic of ="trms">difference
="prgrph">-individuating ="trms">difference ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? pre="trms">positional singularities='lgc'>--the potentialities to differ that are not yet stabilized into the ="trms">categories of an individual
='lgc'>[="ppl">Nurka > ="ppl">Colebrook='lgc'>] concept of “="trms">transitive in="trms">difference” transforms the self/other pairing beyond the ="trms">demands of recognition and ="trms">relation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (all-too-often) ="trms">animal ="trms">difference serves to secure human sameness ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ouroboros ="trms">abyssal ="trms">beastliness='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontological ="trms">difference serves only to erect man as the being for whom “the ="trms">world is nothing more than the arena whereby he recognizes his proper ="trms">difference,”
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">animal ="trms">techne='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Jackass ='and'>& ="trms">Wildboyz ='lgc'>: ="trms">animality is ="trms">viscerally, painfully, and transformatively encountered or enacted by the human body ='lgc'>[="ppl">Seymour='lgc'>], sliding down the ="trms">animacy hierarchy ='lgc'>[="ppl">Chen='lgc'>], ="trms">gesturing toward various ="trms">interconnected trans-(="trms">species) corporalities performed in (Critical Life Studies texts and) ="trms">Wildboyz (='lgc'>=/= elite status of human) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Barad's) ethics of ="trms">mattering ='lgc'>: connections of human and nonhuman life always al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready taking place on bodies='strcls'>*****
transdisciplinarity='lgc'>: a self-adaptive complexity ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] foreground='lgc'>[ing='lgc'>] the transduction of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as it passes across and between the ="trms">interpretive and ="trms">methodological planes of ="trms">composing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge. (="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King)
“distributed being and cognition”
...attendant mammalian attachment
individuating in="trms">difference
(="trms">anthropo="trms">cene's iteration of the) expansionist logic of manifest destiny
="prgrph">-="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
="prgrph">-trans-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]trans- ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*promise of moving across without holding tightly to the locations that it is moving from='strcls'>*, crossing of spacetime, a movement within ="trms">relationship ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? in="trms">heritance, the experience of being tied to a long string that is stretching and is connected to somewhere='lgc'>]
coalitional thinking='lgc'> = trans-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='mywrk'>my work='lgc'>: heuristic ='lgc'>+ trans-) a thought here, then a reflection, perhaps a ="trms">question that prompts another ="trms">story, and probably a walk full of pointing and talking, walking on scales ='lgc'>[on bur="trms">dens and atrocities of abundance='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> I use='lgc'>:) ="trms">translation, trans="trms">figuration, transformation, trans-="trms">differentiation, transcription
="prgrph">-what happens to knowing when it is crossing, trans- ="trms">materializes that process of movements, ='strcls'>*marks the where-ness of with-ness='strcls'>*
my ="trms">stories of getting to know one another and recognizing af="trms">finities in ="nms">apass
environmental injustices always play themselves on bodies of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges and ="trms">histories as well
="prgrph">-how does my ="trms">lectures, a heuristic way of knowing through trans-, could or should “provide insights” into injustices and inequalities='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how i have, as an ="nms">iranian or foreigner, ="trms">differently marked body and ="trms">history entry points into understanding and acting on problems='qstn'>?
neritic
oceanic
benthic
minute biota
micro-viruses, bacteria, and endless cycles of decay and regeneration
...the water formed nearly three billion years ago
pulsing temporalities...
(you and things are) surprise ='lgc'>=/= accident
dispossessions. dislocations. disease. greed. racism.
the always-limited, limiting promise of prosperity
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]racism='lgc'>: an environmental catastrophe, toxic by-product of the industry called racial thinking and un-thinking (the fantasy attached to what race is thought to be), a deadly ambivalence or refusal to see how race is at work in our lives
="prgrph">-humanness not yet available to all humans
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]posthumanism (and its tools of “becoming ="trms">animal” as effects of power ="trms">writing about itself)='lgc'>: privilege of having been human ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a racing, sexing, and classing ethos that cannot see itself as such
= a pretense of not al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready understanding humanness as a trans-, re-, and de="trms">composing
(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward asking='lgc'>:) how can we talk about posthumanism (in 2014) ='strcls'>*it is not that we have made humanness a more available ="trms">category in sixty years, but that those whose humanness was al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready certain (say, white, able-bodied, men) are in the luxurious ="trms">position of sloughing off their humanity='strcls'>* (-fuck!)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= trans-="trms">differentiations, de-="trms">composings='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ marks the loss of ="trms">composure, of control ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> exposes the com="trms">posite shape of life. to de-="trms">compose is the promise we must keep -="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>]
racialization of ="trms">ecological crises (='qstn'>?)
(pollutions felt by who='qstn'>? -the poor, the ="trms">birds,)
the old tradition of seeing yourself that unwelcomed alienated guest on the earth (آمدنم بهر چه بود)
planetary accountability
(='at'>@artists, when and how you are) moved to a closer look='strcls'>**
horrified, disgusted, and drawn in
="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>: what would an ardently ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list eco-critical race politics look like='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= toward ="trms">materiality='lgc'>: bumptious liveliness of ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> to deracinate life, to depoliticize ="trms">worldliness='lgc'>]
to host a guest='lgc'>: an ethics of care, a willingness to remain open to a guest without anticipation or expectation
(hospital =) alter the equation of hostile to hostel. Is this what is meant by hospitality='qstn'>?
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's angry and productive underbelly
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's take on honesty='lgc'>: real and raw
(gar="trms">dens are full of) grotesqueness and splendor, death and life, delicacy and treachery, softness and sting
transgenerational
regenerations
liminal='lgc'>: a threshold without a value, a doorway without assurance
that false divide between life and death (somebody animating it)
(="frds scrmbld">Eszter's lace-like ="trms">interiors)
loss ='lgc'>==shapes='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> our ="trms">relationship to the living (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem)
(='strcls'>*ambivalence of loss and re="trms">membering='strcls'>* in the) melancholic calculus of the archive='lgc'>: “what is lost can become what is preserved as part of the self”
="prgrph">-as an environment sickens and dies we harbor the loss
(hope ='lgc'>=/= salvation)
...learning a new grammar of ="trms">animacy (with ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward)
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]="trms">memories of ="trms">excess and delight, freaks, f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, and exploitations. Too much sugar. Surprise. And disappointment. Larger than life. Grotesque. Al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring. Captivating. Calling. Their juxta="trms">position in this contradictory scape of sea, desert, and mountains='lgc'>--surreal”
(the mer-creature) a living con="trms">densation and displacement of what people ="trms">imagined as real
...how little is needed to prompt the ="trms">imagination='lgc'>: paint, wheels, and wood.
(US/Mexico or land/ocean borders...) a space about who and what cannot move, of who and what falls apart, or of who and what is lost
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(the ="trms">inter- and trans-action of) learning, playing and thought
in ="nms">ajayeb what are the='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animacy hierarchies (='lgc'>--="ppl">Chen)
="lsts lst1">•exposed and transparent conditions of possibility (='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> becomings and assemblages
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ontological fixities
="lsts lst1">•enactment of large-scale fantasies (='lgc'>--="ppl">Chen)
="lsts lst1">•
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(="ppl">Mehran Rad) on description of spring
kofr کفر ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">nature” (tabi'at طبيعت) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bahar بهار ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bot-khane بت خانه
Manuchehri='lgc'>: نوبهار آمد و آورد گل و یاسمنا باغ همچون تبت و راغ بسان عدنا http://ganjoor.net/manoochehri/divanm/ghaside-ghete/sh1/
="ppl">Hafez='lgc'>: کنون که در چمن آمد گل از عدم به وجود بنفشه در قدم او نهاد سر به سجود http://ganjoor.net/hafez/ghazal/sh219/
='lgc'>=/= durdastha دوردستها, beyonds
donya دنیا ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gozar گذر
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list
="ppl">Nezami='lgc'>:
بهاری داری ازوی بر خور امروز که هر فصلی نخواهد بود نوروز
گلی کو را نبوید آدمی زاد چو هنگام خزان آید برد باد
(ruse, san'at صنعت ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) hile حیله ='lgc'>=/= sho'bade شعبده (shab-bazi شب بازی, neyrang نیرنگ,)
lahn-haye jahan
لحنهای جهان
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(feral='qstn'>?) table of contents
how we know that contents are tabled at all='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">heritances of taxonomy, ="trms">natural philosophies ="trms">aesthetics='lgc'>: tamed facts
='at'>#="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs, my ="nms">ajayeb diagrams
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="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">histories (='lgc'>~ ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">historically ="trms">situated ="trms">relational ="trms">worldings) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">societies of individuals in human-only ="trms">histories (='lgc'>~ ="ppl">Euclidean figures and ="trms">stories of Man)
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(which ="trms">network is='qstn'>?) a netbag for collecting up what is crucial for ongoing
="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">technotheocratic geoengineering ='lgc'>[, it “fixes” some common ="trms">imaginations the “affairs of life,” and not ="trms">specifically the “afterlife,” (within the ='lgc'>{terminology ='lgc'>~='lgc'>} figural-conceptual powers of ="trms">syms and ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic time-space of the Indo-Greco-Arab-Turko-Persian terra taxa)='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•periods of time
="lsts lst1">•“known” life
="lsts lst1">•abode (budgah بودگاه, Wohnplatz)
="lsts lst1">•donya دنيا
="prgrph">-="trms">stories that focus on com="trms">position rather than intrusion
="prgrph">-="trms">stories that focus on ="trms">ongoingness rather than game-over
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway > ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers > ="ppl">="ppl">Latour > ="ppl">="ppl">Margulis) Gaia, to name complex nonlinear couplings between processes that ="trms">compose and sustain entwined but nonadditive sub="trms">systems as a partially cohering ="trms">systemic whole
planet-transforming, ="trms">historically ="trms">situated, new-enough, ="trms">worlding ="trms">relations
(="trms">systematic ="trms">stories are linked) ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolisms, ="trms">articulations, coproductions
(they must also be) ="trms">relational, ="trms">sympoietic, consequential
myth-="trms">systems (are set-ups)
(a deadly one='lgc'>: “Man ='lgc'>+ Tool ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">history”)
names ='lgc'>=/= faces (='lgc'>~ ="trms">morphs of the same)
a thousand names of something else
(what ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway is naming with) compound-eyed insectile and many-armed optics
winged domains
="trms">bird-bodies
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's spider and) my ="nms">ajayeb's snake='lgc'>: tasks of thinking, figuring, and ="trms">storytelling
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> heady facial re="trms">presentation; ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Luisa also dislikes this='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•figure of snake (circular serpent) is ="nms">ajayeb Persian sf ="trms">worlding, has ties with the ="trms">Greek Chthonis (“of the earth,”) is at the same time the image of the continuity of life and the ="trms">abyssal moral (eating your end, no gag reflex)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{Gildas Hamel='lgc'>: “the ="trms">abyssal and elemental forces before they were astralized by chief gods and their tame committees"='lgc'>}
“many critters acoss taxa” (juju جوجو ='lgc'>+ rade رده)
(I dispute ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's notion of “sacred.” popular ="trms">religion is at many times populated by earthly figures alongside many astralized destructive ="trms">finitudes.)
="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's urgently needed Chthulu="trms">cene ="trms">story
='lgc'>[="ppl">Miyazaki's='lgc'>] biodiverse terra ='lgc'>[God flips out='lgc'>] into something very slimy, like any overstressed complex adaptive ="trms">system at the end of its abilities to absorb insult after insult. (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's wording)
(yes yes we are all ultimately connected to one another,) but the ="trms">specificity and proximity of connections ="trms">matters
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Latour's) ‘things’ are='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- collection of entities
="lstsrd">2- hard to classify, un="trms">sortable, (and probably with bad smell)
="trms">Anthropos ='lgc'>=/= rich generative home of a multi="trms">species Earth
“looks up at what he sees.”
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ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt
Ajayeb al-makhlughat wa gharayeb al-mojudat (عجائب المخلوقات ,عجایب المخلوقات) in short='lgc'>: Ajayeb, is a sug="trms">gestive cognitive work, full of strange ="trms">linguistic pollutants, ="trms">interesting ="trms">agencies and animations, and like most of the medieval ="trms">sciences and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">systems that were busy with the transformation of ="trms">agencies it collapses “="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists[...]