[...]d 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'>==> ="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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:121%"> ="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)

='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'>?)


="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> deployments of power ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body='lgc'>--='lgc'>{bodies, functions, physiological processes, sensations, pleasures,='lgc'>}

="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


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


="large lg5" stl="font-size:148%"> 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'>==> 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'>==> ="trms">relata-within-="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">specific) ="trms">agential i[...]