[...]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
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“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)
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='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">-
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'>~(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
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(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
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='strcls'>*gender='lgc'>: ="trms">sociopoliical taxomomizing ="trms">ontologically distinct form (entwined) with enfleshed ="trms">mattering
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='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”
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...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'>--> 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'>]
="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
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(="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” and “="trms">narratives.” In Ajayeb each ="trms">animal is a con="trms">sensual ="trms">hallucination device (='lgc'>~ each ="trms">animal is a way of knowing the ="trms">world); some pre-organic, ="trms">inter-corporal ="trms">species, with trans-="trms">ontological intentionalities.
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infrastructure='lgc'>: piled-upon assemblages within which there are many discontinuities but also connections, some deliberative, some inadvertent. (="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “flexible knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges”
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آب حیوان ='lgc'>{how could I know that ="frds scrmbld">Vladimir (in his performance for ="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia's ="nms">apass score) was not (in)sourcing the Holy Waters, abe heyvan or vozu='qstn'>? his sweat was the ooze of a ="trms">modern and secular labor. he was using a profane water='qstn'>?='lgc'>}
حیوان خوران جهان heyvan khorane jahan
زیرکان کهن kohan zirak
حجابی که ظلمات شد نام او روان آب حیوان از آرام او (Zolmat ='and'>& abe heyvan)
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='at'>#='mywrk'>my work in ="nms">apass is about='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">bestiary='lgc'>: archaeological ="trms">anthropology of human-="trms">animal practices
="lsts lst1">•="trms">rhetoric='lgc'>: scaling, modeling, figuring out fields of practices
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ontology='lgc'>: circumscribe, address, or deal with the processes of ="trms">ontological transformations
="lsts lst1">•="trms">storytelling='lgc'>: mobilizing ="trms">different kinds of mental resources and ="trms">literacies
="lsts lst1">•performance='lgc'>: what it would be to know together
="lsts lst1">•="trms">sociality='lgc'>: that which joins ="trms">categorically separate mode of ="trms">agencies
="lsts lst1">•
='at'>#my findings/="trms">questions, so far='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animal subjectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? human ="trms">imagination
="lsts lst1">•="trms">bestiary ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">affect ='lgc'>+ ="trms">episteme
="lsts lst1">•medieval ="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>: ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•de="trms">finition ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">ontological choreography ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">worlds are created
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphores of self ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="nms">body image ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? image of ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? reason
="lsts lst1">•
I found myself oriented towards a kind of ‘multi="trms">species ethnography’='lgc'>: a new way of ="trms">writing and mode of research in which creatures previously appearing on the margins of ="trms">interest='lgc'>--as part of the landscape, as food for humans, as ="trms">symbols (for mystic projects)='lgc'>--have been pressed into the foreground of ="trms">interest.
(what are my) ="trms">symbolic ='lgc'>+ ="trms">symbiotic attachments
what/who is coughing, counting, working, ="trms">communicating sited between divine and bestial in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-is my ="nms">ajayeb a (dead/alive) multi="trms">species art project='qstn'>? studying Indo-Arab-="nms">Iranian illuminated manuscripts as to be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading a paper in ="trms">ecology or molecular biology or art.
unlike ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex Arteaga's ="trms">question of “inevitable altruism” ='lgc'>{started from “conscious human subjects” and ended there='lgc'>} (in his talk 30.05.2017 ="nms">apass,) I would insist on giving an account of the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of ‘self’ in the ="trms">history of body and mind (that ="trms">matters to ‘you’) ='lgc'>[my findings of self='lgc'>: maginc lantern, iceberg's tip (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unconsciousness), wasteland/="trms">wilderness, greedy ="trms">beast within, ... ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are all (classical) basis for “higher” cognitive capacities='lgc'>}='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[also I am against ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex'[...]