[...]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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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



(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'>]

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ='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'>==> ="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'>==> ="ppl">Newtonian physics of independent objects, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Heike)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> ='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'>?)


deployments of power ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body='lgc'>--='lgc'>{bodies, functions, physiological processes, sensations, pleasures,='lgc'>}

="large lg5" stl="font-size:115%"> ="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'>==> ="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[...]