[...]="prgrph">-='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'>*****
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(='strcls'>*)universe='lgc'>: ="trms">agential ="trms">intra-activity in its becoming
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(='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
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(='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'>~=> 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'>*)
='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
(="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">-
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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'>]
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
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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)
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...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
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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)
(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'>]
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