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[...]r what you think you are) in becoming woman, which is to say the experience of a powerful subs cls s="trms">mis sions> and the ability to carry off the disappearance of s cls s="trms">agens>cy or ego kick, subjecting oneself (to the other) before becoming subject.
ss='lgc'>[(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Hayward) womanss='lgc'>: vibratory beingss='lgc'>: sensation ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~(creative-s cls s="trms">respons>se)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~> environmentss='lgc'>]

s>زن شوs>

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wunderkammer, cabinet of curiosities, is about the s cls s="trms">worlds> unfinished

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the prefixial s cls s="trms">naturs>e of ‘trans-’ ss='lgc'>: acros s, into, through ss='lgc'>: a pres cls s="trms">posits>ional force
Trans<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> foregrounds and intensifies the prehensile (s>گیرکنندهs>), prefixial (pishvandi s>پیشوندیs>) s cls s="trms">naturs>e of ‘trans-’ and implies a suffixial (pasvandi s>پسوندیs>) space of attachment that is s cls s="trms">simultans>eously s cls s="trms">generalizs>able and abstract yet its function can be enacted only when taken up by particular objects (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Hayward &span> ss="ppl">Weinstein)
trans<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (pres cls s="trms">posits>ionally oriented) “is the proces s through which thingnes s and beingnes s are constituted” ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] “marking the ‘with,’ ‘through,’ ‘of,’ ‘in,’ and ‘acros s’ that make life pos sible”
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">materis>alizes pres cls s="trms">posits>ional movements
sts>
the ‘human on board’ no longer pos ses ses critical purchase, it no longer “delineates a normative standard of legibility,” “the elite status of being considered fully human” (how is it in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>?span>)
(biopolitics of) de-, in-, non-, trans-

a ‘turn’ (= a cause to move, a s cls s="trms">differens>ce in s cls s="trms">posits>ion ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> a change in s cls s="trms">naturs>e) enables creatures to migrate from the margins to the center of theoretical s cls s="trms">inters>rogatives

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway prefering (the energetic expres sive capacity of) ‘with’ over ‘and’
-syntactical problem of ‘and’ raised to the power of n
span> -she puts the emphasis on with-nes s ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to reinvigorate (tajdide niru s>تجدید نیروs>) attention to s cls s="trms">materis>ality but also s cls s="trms">matters>'s s cls s="trms">contingens>t force ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">inters>sectional s cls s="trms">demands>s of as semblage
span> “and...and...and”
trans, speciating s cls s="trms">techns>ology, the drive for suffixial endpoints

(pres cls s="trms">posits>ional operations on suffixiated) as semblages of spacetimes cls s="trms">matters>ings

<strcls cls s='strcls'>****strcls> terrible violence is directed to the non-existing, the never having existed

‘<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>’ (the asterisk) is paratactic (faghede ravabet s>فاقد روابطs>) (ss='lgc'>=/= conjunction,) it designates multiplication, it repurposes, displaces, renames, replicates, and intensifies terms, adding yet more texture, increased vitalization
-it is a s cls s="trms">sensus>ous node
span> -making (my points) a coms cls s="trms">posits>e of s cls s="trms">affects>s and percepts ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> speciation is always a cultivated s cls s="trms">respons>se <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
span>
ss="large lg58" stl="font-size:119%"> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">traps>ss='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 s cls s="trms">traps>, in weaving, is also a break in the ths cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>s, an unraveling, loosening, unwinding that opens up space. When we think of spider webs, s cls s="trms">traps> is a silk net, a sticky mesh that registers sensation. For the spider, its s cls s="trms">traps> is its nearby-nes s, its where-nes s, its with-nes s. ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurs>e;ss='lgc'>] (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Hayward &span> ss="ppl">Weinstein)
-how, then, might we hear the phrase “s cls s="trms">traps>ped in the wrong body” as les s about authenticity (fixity and normativity) than about <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>textures of spacetime<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (prefixial movements)?span>
span>
ss='lgc'>[harkate johari s>حرکت جوهریs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~/=?span> harkate pishvandi s>حرکت پیشوندیs>ss='lgc'>]._/'ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sadra

(ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Susan ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stryker warns) that trans sexuals, in their capacity to be s cls s="trms">monsts>rous, 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 s cls s="trms">imagis>ned
more &span> other ss='lgc'>=/= with &span> of

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>genderss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">socis>opoliical taxomomizing s cls s="trms">ontos>logically distinct form (entwined) with enfleshed s cls s="trms">matters>ing

ss="large lg54" stl="font-size:124%"> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">animals>ityss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">sensus>ous s cls s="trms">materis>alities, coms cls s="trms">posits>es of s cls s="trms">affects>s and percepts, s cls s="trms">specifis>cities but remain thresholds of emergence, individuation that prompt s cls s="trms">sensus>ous s cls s="trms">intras>- and s cls s="trms">inters>change ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> provocations

(Weaver, Kelley, ss="ppl">Weinstein, ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Hayward, Kier, Franklinss='lgc'>:) s cls s="trms">animals> s cls s="trms">differens>ce announces a radically singular Other marked by sexual s cls s="trms">differens>ces

“trans-infused apprehensions and engagements with the expansive s cls s="trms">worlds> of pos sibility opened up by non-s cls s="trms">anthrops>ocentric perspectives.”

trans<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="trms">animals> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (alternative ways of envisioning) futures ofss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">embods>iment
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">aesthets>ics
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•biopolitics
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•climates
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ethics
sts>

we have to negotiate the ss='lgc'>[contaminated concept ofss='lgc'>] human ss='lgc'>--(to deal with)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the persistence of humanism in structures of thought

critical s cls s="trms">animals> studies has(?span>) the transformative power to s cls s="trms">inters>rupt humanism and its sexually s cls s="trms">differens>tiated legacy by challenging the boundaries between, and existence of, s cls s="trms">differens>tiated, es sential kinds.

robust, nonduas cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ic theories of human/s cls s="trms">animals>

Critical Life s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Studies
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">species>s panic<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- the concept of the homosexual panic defense) ss='lgc'>{androidsss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">species>s ss='lgc'>+ trans s cls s="trms">embods>imentss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls>genuine s cls s="trms">animals>s<strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls> s cls s="trms">transits>ivityss='lgc'>: “shifting s cls s="trms">posits>ions on a series of spectrums, where human, s cls s="trms">animals>, and machine bleed into one another” ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Huebertss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>--ss='lgc'>{"it”ss='lgc'>: exs cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>ve s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht of gendered pronounsss='lgc'>--"it” ascribed to artificial s cls s="trms">animals>s and androids ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the distinction between “genuine” and “inauthentic”; “it” leaves us in a perpetual s cls s="trms">species>s panicss='lgc'>}
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">animals> s cls s="trms">syms>bolic<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> os cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>in of the construction of the human located in sexual s cls s="trms">differens>ce ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Nurkass='lgc'>]
sts> it seems with ‘human’ one always spring inexorably back to sex ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> sexual s cls s="trms">differens>ce and its os cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ins in the problematic of s cls s="trms">differens>ce
-individuating s cls s="trms">differens>ce ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==>?span> pres cls s="trms">posits>ional singularitiesss='lgc'>--the potentialities to differ that are not yet stabilized into the s cls s="trms">categs>ories of an individual
span> ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Nurka > ss="ppl">Colebrookss='lgc'>] concept of “s cls s="trms">transits>ive ins cls s="trms">differens>ce” transforms the self/other pairing beyond the s cls s="trms">demands>s of recognition and s cls s="trms">relations> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (all-too-often) s cls s="trms">animals> s cls s="trms">differens>ce serves to secure human samenes s ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>=/= ouroboros s cls s="trms">abyss>sal s cls s="trms">beasts>lines sss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">ontos>logical s cls s="trms">differens>ce serves only to erect man as the being for whom “the s cls s="trms">worlds> is nothing more than the arena whereby he recognizes his proper s cls s="trms">differens>ce,”
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">animals> s cls s="trms">techns>e<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Jackas s &span> s cls s="trms">Wilds>boyz ss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">animals>ity is s cls s="trms">viscs>erally, painfully, and transformatively encountered or enacted by the human body ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Seymourss='lgc'>], sliding down the s cls s="trms">animacs>y hierarchy ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Chenss='lgc'>], s cls s="trms">gests>uring toward various s cls s="trms">inters>connected trans-(s cls s="trms">species>s) corporalities performed in (Critical Life s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Studies texts and) s cls s="trms">Wilds>boyz (ss='lgc'>=/= elite status of human) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad's) ethics of s cls s="trms">matters>ing ss='lgc'>: connections of human and nonhuman life always als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y taking place on bodies<strcls cls s='strcls'>*****strcls>
sts>

transdisciplinarityss='lgc'>: a self-adaptive complexity ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] foregroundss='lgc'>[ingss='lgc'>] the transduction of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> as it pas ses acros s and between the s cls s="trms">inters>pretive and s cls s="trms">methods>ological planes of s cls s="trms">composs>ing knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>. (ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King)

“distributed being and cognition”

...attendant mammalian attachment

individuating ins cls s="trms">differens>ce

(s cls s="trms">anthrops>os cls s="trms">cenes>'s iteration of the) expansionist logic of manifest destiny

-s cls s="trms">situs>ated knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway)
span> -trans-knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Hayward)
span>
ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]trans- ss='lgc'>: <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>promise of moving acros s without holding tightly to the locations that it is moving from<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>, cros sing of spacetime, a movement within s cls s="trms">relations>ship ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~/=?span> ins cls s="trms">herits>ance, the experience of being tied to a long string that is stretching and is connected to somewheress='lgc'>]
coalitional thinkingss='lgc'> = trans-knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> ss='lgc'>--ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haywardss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= my workspan>ss='lgc'>: heuristic ss='lgc'>+ trans-) a thought here, then a reflection, perhaps a s cls s="trms">questions> that prompts another s cls s="trms">storys>, and probably a walk full of pointing and talking, walking on scales ss='lgc'>[on burs cls s="trms">denss> and atrocities of abundancess='lgc'>] (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> I usess='lgc'>:) s cls s="trms">translats>ion, transs cls s="trms">figurats>ion, transformation, trans-s cls s="trms">differens>tiation, transcription
-what happens to knowing when it is cros sing, trans- s cls s="trms">materis>alizes that proces s of movements, <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>marks the where-nes s of with-nes s<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
span>
my s cls s="trms">storiess> of getting to know one another and recognizing afs cls s="trms">finits>ies in s cls s="nms">apas ss>

environmental injustices always play themselves on bodies of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s and s cls s="trms">histos>ries as well

-how does my s cls s="trms">lecturs>es, a heuristic way of knowing through trans-, could or should “provide insights” into injustices and inequalities?span>
span> -how i have, as an s cls s="nms">irans>ian or foreigner, s cls s="trms">differens>tly marked body and s cls s="trms">histos>ry entry points into understanding and acting on problems?span>
span>

neritic
oceanic
benthic

minute biota
micro-viruses, bacteria, and endles s cycles of decay and regeneration
...the water formed nearly three billion years ago
pulsing temporalities...

(you and things are) surprise ss='lgc'>=/= accident

dispos ses sions. dislocations. disease. greed. racism.
the always-limited, limiting promise of prosperity

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]racismss='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
-humannes s not yet available to all humans
span>
ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]posthumanism (and its tools of “becoming s cls s="trms">animals>” as effects of power s cls s="trms">writs>ing about itself)ss='lgc'>: privilege of having been human ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a racing, sexing, and clas sing ethos that cannot see itself as such
= a pretense of not als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y understanding humannes s as a trans-, re-, and des cls s="trms">composs>ing
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Hayward askingss='lgc'>:) how can we talk about posthumanism (in 2014) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>it is not that we have made humannes s a more available s cls s="trms">categs>ory in sixty years, but that those whose humannes s was als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y certain (say, white, able-bodied, men) are in the luxurious s cls s="trms">posits>ion of sloughing off their humanity<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (-fuck!)
ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>=/= trans-s cls s="trms">differens>tiations, de-s cls s="trms">composs>ingsss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>~ marks the los s of s cls s="trms">composs>ure, of control ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> exposes the coms cls s="trms">posits>e shape of life. to de-s cls s="trms">composs>e is the promise we must keep -ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haywardss='lgc'>]

racialization of s cls s="trms">ecologs>ical crises (?span>)
(pollutions felt by who?span> -the poor, the s cls s="trms">birds>s,)

the old tradition of seeing yourself that unwelcomed alienated guest on the earth (s>آمدنم بهر چه بودs>)

planetary accountability

(ss='at'>@artists, when and how you are) moved to a closer look<strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls>
horrified, disgusted, and drawn in

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haywardss='lgc'>: what would an ardently s cls s="trms">materis>as cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> eco-critical race politics look like?span>
ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>=/= toward s cls s="trms">materis>alityss='lgc'>: bumptious livelines s of s cls s="trms">matters> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> to deracinate life, to depoliticize s cls s="trms">worlds>lines sss='lgc'>]

to host a guestss='lgc'>: an ethics of care, a willingnes s 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?span>

s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leos>'s angry and productive underbelly
s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leos>'s take on honestyss='lgc'>: real and raw

(gars cls s="trms">denss> are full of) grotesquenes s and splendor, death and life, delicacy and treachery, softnes s and sting

transgenerational
regenerations

liminalss='lgc'>: a threshold without a value, a doorway without as surance

that false divide between life and death (somebody animating it)

(s cls s="frds scrmbld">Eszters>'s lace-like s cls s="trms">inters>iors)

los s ss='lgc'>==shapesss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> our s cls s="trms">relations>ship to the living (ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Jas sems>)

(<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ambivalence of los s and res cls s="trms">mems>bering<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> in the) melancholic calculus of the archivess='lgc'>: “what is lost can become what is preserved as part of the self”
-as an environment sickens and dies we harbor the los s
span>
(hope ss='lgc'>=/= salvation)

...learning a new grammar of s cls s="trms">animacs>y (with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Hayward)

“ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>]s cls s="trms">mems>ories of s cls s="trms">exces ss> and delight, freaks, fs cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht, and exploitations. Too much sugar. s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Surprise. And disappointment. Larger than life. Grotesque. Als cls s="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurs>ing. Captivating. Calling. Their juxtas cls s="trms">posits>ion in this contradictory scape of sea, desert, and mountainsss='lgc'>--surreal”

(the mer-creature) a living cons cls s="trms">denss>ation and displacement of what people s cls s="trms">imagis>ned as real

...how little is needed to prompt the s cls s="trms">imagis>nationss='lgc'>: paint, wheels, and wood.

(Us s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S/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 s cls s="trms">inters>- and trans-action of) learning, playing and thought

in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> what are thess='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">animacs>y hierarchies (ss='lgc'>--ss="ppl">Chen)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•exposed and transparent conditions of pos sibility (ss='lgc'>--ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Hayward) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> becomings and as semblages
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">ontos>logical fixities
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•enactment of large-scale fantasies (ss='lgc'>--ss="ppl">Chen)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>

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(ss="ppl">Mehran Rad) on description of spring
kofr s>کفرs> ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “s cls s="trms">naturs>e” (tabi'at s>طبيعتs>) ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> bahar s>بهارs> ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> bot-khane s>بت خانهs>
Manuchehriss='lgc'>: s>نوبهار آمد و آورد گل و یاسمنا باغ همچون تبت و راغ بسان عدناs> http://ganjoor.net/manoochehri/divanm/ghaside-ghete/sh1/
ss="ppl">Hafezss='lgc'>: s>کنون که در چمن آمد گل از عدم به وجود بنفشه در قدم او نهاد سر به سجودs> http://ganjoor.net/hafez/ghazal/sh219/
ss='lgc'>=/= durdastha s>دوردستهاs>, beyonds

donya s>دنیاs> ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> gozar s>گذرs>
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->?span> s cls s="trms">materis>as cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>

ss="ppl">Nezamiss='lgc'>:
s>بهاری داری ازوی بر خور امروز که هر فصلی نخواهد بود نوروزs>
s>گلی کو را نبوید آدمی زاد چو هنگام خزان آید برد بادs>

(ruse, san'at s>صنعتs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->) hile s>حیلهs> ss='lgc'>=/= sho'bade s>شعبدهs> (shab-bazi s>شب بازیs>, neyrang s>نیرنگs>,)

lahn-haye jahan
s>لحنهای جهانs>

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(feral?span>) table of contents
how we know that contents are tabled at all?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ins cls s="trms">herits>ances of taxonomy, s cls s="trms">naturs>al philosophies s cls s="trms">aesthets>icsss='lgc'>: tamed facts
ss='at'>#s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs>s, my s cls s="nms">ajayebs> diagrams

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s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">histos>ries (ss='lgc'>~ s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">histos>rically s cls s="trms">situs>ated s cls s="trms">relations>al s cls s="trms">worlds>ings) ss='lgc'>=/= s cls s="trms">socis>eties of individuals in human-only s cls s="trms">histos>ries (ss='lgc'>~ ss="ppl">Euclidean figures and s cls s="trms">storiess> of Man)

(which s cls s="trms">networks> is?span>) a netbag for collecting up what is crucial for ongoing

s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">techns>otheocratic geoengineering ss='lgc'>[, it “fixes” some common s cls s="trms">imagis>nations the “affairs of life,” and not s cls s="trms">specifis>cally the “afterlife,” (within the ss='lgc'>{terminology ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>} figural-conceptual powers of s cls s="trms">syms>s and s cls s="trms">materis>al-s cls s="trms">semios>tic time-space of the Indo-Greco-Arab-Turko-Persian terra taxa)ss='lgc'>]
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•periods of time
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•“known” life
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•abode (budgah s>بودگاهs>, Wohnplatz)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•donya s>دنياs>
sts>

-s cls s="trms">storiess> that focus on coms cls s="trms">posits>ion rather than intrusion
span> -s cls s="trms">storiess> that focus on s cls s="trms">ongoingnes ss> rather than game-over
span>
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway > ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stengers > ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour > ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Margulis) Gaia, to name complex nonlinear couplings between proces ses that s cls s="trms">composs>e and sustain entwined but nonadditive subs cls s="trms">syss>tems as a partially cohering s cls s="trms">syss>temic whole

planet-transforming, s cls s="trms">histos>rically s cls s="trms">situs>ated, new-enough, s cls s="trms">worlds>ing s cls s="trms">relations>s

(s cls s="trms">syss>tematic s cls s="trms">storiess> are linked) s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>bolisms, s cls s="trms">articulats>ions, coproductions
(they must also be) s cls s="trms">relations>al, s cls s="trms">syms>poietic, consequential

myth-s cls s="trms">syss>tems (are set-ups)
(a deadly oness='lgc'>: “Man ss='lgc'>+ Tool ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">histos>ry”)

names ss='lgc'>=/= faces (ss='lgc'>~ s cls s="trms">morphs>s of the same)

a thousand names of something else

(what ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway is naming with) compound-eyed insectile and many-armed optics

winged domains
s cls s="trms">birds>-bodies

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway's spider and) my s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s snakess='lgc'>: tasks of thinking, figuring, and s cls s="trms">storys>telling
ss='lgc'>--✕span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> heady facial res cls s="trms">presens>tation; ss='lgc'>[s cls s="frds scrmbld">Luisas> also dislikes thisss='lgc'>]
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•figure of snake (circular serpent) is s cls s="nms">ajayebs> Persian sf s cls s="trms">worlds>ing, has ties with the s cls s="trms">Greeks> Chthonis (“of the earth,”) is at the same time the image of the continuity of life and the s cls s="trms">abyss>sal moral (eating your end, no gag reflex)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{Gildas Hamelss='lgc'>: “the s cls s="trms">abyss>sal and elemental forces before they were astralized by chief gods and their tame committees"ss='lgc'>}
sts>
“many critters acos s taxa” (juju s>جوجوs> ss='lgc'>+ rade s>ردهs>)

(I dispute ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway's notion of “sacred.” popular s cls s="trms">religs>ion is at many times populated by earthly figures alongside many astralized destructive s cls s="trms">finits>udes.)

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway's urgently needed Chthulus cls s="trms">cenes> s cls s="trms">storys>

ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Miyazaki'sss='lgc'>] biodiverse terra ss='lgc'>[God flips outss='lgc'>] into something very slimy, like any overstres sed complex adaptive s cls s="trms">syss>tem at the end of its abilities to absorb insult after insult. (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway's wording)

(yes yes we are all ultimately connected to one another,) but the s cls s="trms">specifis>city and proximity of connections s cls s="trms">matters>s

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway ss='lgc'>+ ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour's) ‘things’ aress='lgc'>:
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1- collection of entities
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2- hard to clas sify, uns cls s="trms">sorts>able, (and probably with bad smell)
stsrd>

s cls s="trms">Anthrops>os ss='lgc'>=/= rich generative home of a multis cls s="trms">species>s 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 (s>عجائب المخلوقاتs> ,s>عجایب المخلوقاتs>) in shortss='lgc'>: Ajayeb, is a sugs cls s="trms">gests>ive cognitive work, full of strange s cls s="trms">lingus>istic pollutants, s cls s="trms">inters>esting s cls s="trms">agens>cies and animations, and like most of the medieval s cls s="trms">scies>nces and knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> s cls s="trms">syss>tems that were busy with the transformation of s cls s="trms">agens>cies it collapses “s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>s” and “s cls s="trms">narrats>ives.” In Ajayeb each s cls s="trms">animals> is a cons cls s="trms">sensus>al s cls s="trms">hallucins>ation device (ss='lgc'>~ each s cls s="trms">animals> is a way of knowing the s cls s="trms">worlds>); some pre-organic, s cls s="trms">inters>-corporal s cls s="trms">species>s, with trans-s cls s="trms">ontos>logical intentionalities.

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infrastructuress='lgc'>: piled-upon as semblages within which there are many discontinuities but also connections, some deliberative, some inadvertent. (ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “flexible knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s”

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s>آب حیوانs> ss='lgc'>{how could I know that s cls s="frds scrmbld">Vladimirs> (in his performance for s cls s="frds scrmbld">s cls s="frds scrmbld">Lilis>as>'s s cls s="nms">apas ss> score) was not (in)sourcing the Holy Waters, abe heyvan or vozu?span> his sweat was the ooze of a s cls s="trms">moderns> and secular labor. he was using a profane water?span>ss='lgc'>}
s>حیوان خوران جهانs> heyvan khorane jahan
s>زیرکان کهنs> kohan zirak

s>حجابی که ظلمات شد نام او روان آب حیوان از آرام اوs> (Zolmat &span> abe heyvan)

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ss="large lg10" stl="font-size:123%"> ss='at'>#my workspan> in s cls s="nms">apas ss> is aboutss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">bestiars>yss='lgc'>: archaeological s cls s="trms">anthrops>ology of human-s cls s="trms">animals> practices
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">rhetors>icss='lgc'>: scaling, modeling, figuring out fields of practices
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">ontos>logyss='lgc'>: circumscribe, addres s, or deal with the proces ses of s cls s="trms">ontos>logical transformations
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">storys>tellingss='lgc'>: mobilizing s cls s="trms">differens>t kinds of mental resources and s cls s="trms">literas>cies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•performancess='lgc'>: what it would be to know together
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">socis>alityss='lgc'>: that which joins s cls s="trms">categs>orically separate mode of s cls s="trms">agens>cies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
ss='at'>#my findings/s cls s="trms">questions>s, so farss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">animals> subjectivity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=?span> human s cls s="trms">imagis>nation
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">bestiars>y ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=?span> s cls s="trms">affects> ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="trms">epistems>e
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•medieval s cls s="trms">bestiars>iesss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">worlds> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= s cls s="trms">phenomens>a
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•des cls s="trms">finits>ion ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=?span> s cls s="trms">ontos>logical choreography ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">worlds>s are created
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>es of self ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~-> s cls s="nms">body images> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=?span> image of s cls s="trms">worlds>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=?span> reason
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
I found myself oriented towards a kind of ‘multis cls s="trms">species>s ethnography’ss='lgc'>: a new way of s cls s="trms">writs>ing and mode of research in which creatures previously appearing on the margins of s cls s="trms">inters>estss='lgc'>--as part of the landscape, as food for humans, as s cls s="trms">syms>bols (for mystic projects)ss='lgc'>--have been pres sed into the foreground of s cls s="trms">inters>est.
(what are my) s cls s="trms">syms>bolic ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="trms">syms>biotic attachments
what/who is coughing, counting, working, s cls s="trms">communs>icating sited between divine and bestial in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>?span>
-is my s cls s="nms">ajayebs> a (dead/alive) multis cls s="trms">species>s art project?span> studying Indo-Arab-s cls s="nms">Irans>ian illuminated manuscripts as to be s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing a paper in s cls s="trms">ecologs>y or molecular biology or art.
span>
unlike s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Ales si">Ales>x Arteaga's s cls s="trms">questions> of “inevitable altruism” ss='lgc'>{started from “conscious human subjects” and ended theress='lgc'>} (in his talk 30.05.2017 s cls s="nms">apas ss>,) I would insist on giving an account of the s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>s of ‘self’ in the s cls s="trms">histos>ry of body and mind (that s cls s="trms">matters>s to ‘you’) ss='lgc'>[my findings of selfss='lgc'>: maginc lantern, iceberg's tip (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> unconsciousnes s), wasteland/s cls s="trms">wilds>ernes s, greedy s cls s="trms">beasts> within, ... ss='lgc'>{ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> these are all (clas sical) basis for “higher” cognitive capacitiesss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>[also I am against s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Ales si">Ales>x's notion of “destablizing stabilities as the task of artistic research.” I choose to refuse to put what is in flux against what is stable or attempting to stabilize. (I am in alignment with ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King sharpening for me that) we constantly share our s cls s="trms">stags>e, settings, performances, sensoria, reenactments among s cls s="trms">agens>cies and s cls s="trms">species>s, creating varying stabilities, some fragile, some robustss='lgc'>]
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>accountss='lgc'>--synonymous withss='lgc'>: description, information, s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>, reason, record, statement, s cls s="trms">storys>, sum, tale
-a contractual s cls s="trms">relations>ship
span> -giving an itemized account of recent transactions and resulting balance (of your s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>sss='lgc'> = s cls s="trms">materis>al-discursive s cls s="trms">apparatuss>es that are s cls s="trms">materis>alizing your found s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms">empiris>cs>al objects)
span> -accountability is always also about remaking those s cls s="trms">relations>s that produced your objects
span> -detailed explanation of money held in trust, to count, enumerate<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{telling ss='lgc'>=?span> enumeratingss='lgc'>}
span> counting your senses
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>accountability is about your ‘import’ functions (like in a programming s cls s="trms">languages> when you import a library of functions)
 ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> countss='lgc'>: an s cls s="trms">agens>t of s cls s="trms">sorts>ing that separates units or groups of a collection ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>, s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>ed ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to have importance and worth ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~-> country ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---ss='lgc'>{?span> unexpected countriesss='lgc'>}
 ss='lgc'>--0ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ‘count’ is also a word s cls s="trms">techns>ologically tethered, os cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>in of computing

(ss="ppl">Kirksey > ss="ppl">Leigh ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Star) to begin with the s cls s="trms">questions>, ‘cui bono?span>’ (for whose benefit?span>) ss='lgc'>=/= to begin with a celebration of the fact of human/nonhuman mingling

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my s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs>s diagrams are ‘swarms’?span> -a multitude of s cls s="trms">differens>t creative s cls s="trms">agens>ts
s cls s="nms">ajayebs>.net (how can it bess='lgc'>:) not a website but a “para-site”
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•am i creating an ego (for s cls s="nms">ajayebs>) in my s cls s="nms">ajayebs>.net?span> if yes, that would be s cls s="trms">inters>esting how?span>
sts>
topos/topic of hypertext, spatial character of electronic s cls s="trms">writs>ing
topic ss='lgc'>[from s cls s="trms">Greeks> ‘topos’ss='lgc'>: a place, in ancient s cls s="trms">rhetors>ic used to refer to commonplaces, conventional units, or s cls s="trms">methods>s of thoughtss='lgc'>] exist in a s cls s="trms">writs>ing space that is not only a visual surface but also a s cls s="trms">datas> structure in the computer ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Hypertextss='lgc'>: “is not the s cls s="trms">writs>ing of a place, but rather a s cls s="trms">writs>ing with places, spatially realized topics.” (ss="ppl">Bolter < ss="ppl">Hubert)
-in my hypertext, which s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">materis>als, cognitive mappings, itineraries of s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing, textual stability, loops and reductions are addres sed?span>
span>
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>.net the so-called url addres s or location bar, is itself a control panel, a graphical user s cls s="trms">inters>face widget; how did i come to use “?span>q=” ss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">rhetors>ics of s cls s="trms">techns>ologized inquiry in place before i even could think about how do I allow my objects constituted by “?span>”, “q” and “=” of the s cls s="trms">languages> and grammar of s cls s="trms">inters>net
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(when i uploaded my hypertext i faced immediately the big s cls s="trms">datas>ss='lgc'>:) google webmasters tools is my first s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ership, it s cls s="trms">communs>icates its s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing with me; (did i have a desire to make the hypertext for a machine?span>) who/what is doing the s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing (in the s cls s="trms">worlds> of big s cls s="trms">datas>)?span> the s cls s="trms">inters>pretive work that is going on, in a s cls s="trms">writs>ing and s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing done by computers ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> ethical and s cls s="trms">socis>al values
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•url pased in faces cls s="trms">books> post, results into a link to s>فلزیاب، مطالب علمی و آموزشیs> / s>مدار فلزیاب و دستگاه فلزیاب تضمینیs>, a series of websites for selling treasure finders, finding s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>l under the ground, ganj, and so on...
sts>
the English (since second s cls s="trms">worlds> war) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (1) s cls s="trms">inters>national s cls s="trms">lingus>a franca of high s cls s="trms">techns>ology, (2) the s cls s="trms">languages> of computers
-in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>.net the enforcement of standard spelling and even grammar is week or nonexistent
span> -the amount of s cls s="trms">lingus>istic replicators that circulate through my s cls s="nms">ajayebs> hypertext are bound to a colloquial English, they are nevertheles s “English”. but this English is being changed and adapted by my foreign use in s cls s="trms">differens>t ways
span> -a flourishing of a neo-English and s cls s="trms">Farsis> miniaturization of Eng
span>

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sometimes the answer to the s cls s="trms">questions> is to investigate the s cls s="trms">questions> itself
ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Despret asking with Rowellss='lgc'>: how can we be sure that primates have a more complex s cls s="trms">socis>al life?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> how did we build the comparison?span><strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>--ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latourss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> if they are so intelligent, how did they get the ‘chance’ to become so ‘well s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms">equips>s>ped’?span>
(in this s cls s="trms">questions> can be raised an unexpected s cls s="trms">animals>)
ss='lgc'>[(how) the makhlughat/s>مخلوقاتs>/creatures/beings of s cls s="nms">ajayebs> were well s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms">equips>s>ped (with s cls s="trms">agens>cy, will, intention,)ss='lgc'>]

sheep, ‘the epitome of the silly s cls s="trms">animals>’

(s>همگون دوستیs> hamgune-dusti, khod-no dusti s>خود نوع دوستیs>) altruism, in s cls s="trms">birds>s (and humans)

Zahavi calling his s cls s="trms">birds>s, ‘refugees,’ non-territorial individuals

quest for s cls s="trms">socis>al ‘status’ and prestige in Babblers
(s cls s="trms">birds>s know that) signals for prestige are costly

ins cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>ve fitnes s

porousnes s of the (s cls s="trms">semios>tic) demarcation ss='lgc'>[s cls s="trms">wilds>/domesticated ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> quasi-s cls s="trms">wilds>/quasi-domesticatedss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (succes sively and recursively) unstable and living s cls s="trms">tropes>s<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> we should probably redefine our (creaturely) subjects in cors cls s="trms">respons>dence to (ss="ppl">Leibnizian) ‘quasi-causes’
quasi-feral

the ‘unexpected’ often uns cls s="trms">folds>s in an unexpected way. (Despert > ss="ppl">Leibniz)

s cls s="trms">anthrops>os cls s="trms">morphs>ism is always someone's s cls s="trms">anthrops>os cls s="trms">morphs>ism
s cls s="trms">anthrops>os cls s="trms">morphs>ism is always someone's common sense

ss='lgc'>{(becoming s cls s="trms">inters>ested in) individual (detailed nuances of) s cls s="trms">differens>ce ss='lgc'>=/= when “model” becomes the goalss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> standard model (of s cls s="trms">naturs>al s cls s="trms">scies>nce) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a pres cls s="trms">supposs>ed s cls s="trms">specifis>c idea of “s cls s="trms">scies>nce” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> use a s cls s="trms">techns>ical, highly theoretical s cls s="trms">languages> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">epistems>ological objectification of s cls s="trms">animals>s (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> res cls s="trms">presens>tation of s cls s="trms">animals>s as s cls s="trms">naturs>al objects) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= desubjectified s cls s="trms">animals>s

(safeguards of) s cls s="trms">authors>ship and meaning (won't allow ss="ppl">Attar) ss='lgc'>==askss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> |X| what is your “subject” s cls s="trms">inters>ested in?span> what s cls s="trms">matters>s to them?span>
(ss="ppl">Attar never looked for varietiesss='lgc'>--in anecdotes, in little s cls s="trms">storiess>, in individual s cls s="trms">birds> biographies ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{these are the s cls s="trms">materis>als that I am collecting from my family telegram group posted s cls s="trms">animals> videosss='lgc'>})

thinking with the s cls s="trms">birds>
looking with it (ss='lgc'>=/= looking at it) ss='lgc'>--andss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> and knowing its intentions

both humans and nonhumans create s cls s="trms">narrats>ives, rather than just telling them. (there are s cls s="trms">socis>alities in which) they both create/disclose new scripts ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> inhabiting an existential s cls s="trms">worlds> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~-> full of actors and living adventures, that give themss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a s cls s="trms">histos>ry
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a bibliography
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a personality
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> (and) a full repertoire ofss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•will
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•intention
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">agens>cy
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
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to recreate similarities between s cls s="trms">scies>ntific and mundane practices (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- neccesory for making companionship)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">agens>cy is an s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms">equips>s>ment

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>(s cls s="trms">greets>ing) rituals ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=performss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">socis>al links<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> as ses s reliability
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> I am s cls s="trms">inters>ested in ritual in its mundane sense ss='lgc'>=/= performance-art ritual ss='lgc'>{<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> who are they in the (becoming in) ritual?span> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> who is “s cls s="frds scrmbld">Evamarias>” in her performance-art ritual?span>) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> which meaning you s cls s="trms">embods>y?span>

the s cls s="trms">differens>ce between s cls s="trms">respons>se and reaction (not so clear ss='lgc'>[as I thoughtss='lgc'>]) ss='at'>#pas sive reacting beings...
(this s cls s="trms">differens>ce) structures the way we see “pas sivity”

(tracing) “objectivity(s)” (in one's own culture's dominant s cls s="trms">epistems>ologies) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “audience” poker-face in art &span> s cls s="trms">scies>nce (-adviced to be as neutral as pos sible, to be unavailable, to be no one) ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>=/= s cls s="nms">harems> ss='lgc'>--(is about)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> domesticating practicesss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (in order to query the ways) audience habituating the performer / s cls s="trms">scies>ntists habituating their s cls s="trms">animals>s<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>], ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">scies>ntists are getting it, why the artists and their audience don't get it!?span> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>--(s cls s="trms">ontos>logical risk)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>the performer is a s cls s="trms">socis>al subject<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>: (s cls s="trms">categs>ory changes in everyday life)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•when I am by myselfss='lgc'>: I am an orangutan, sometimes snake, I am ‘something’
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•when I am with othersss='lgc'>: I turn to human
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•when I am “objective”ss='lgc'>: I am off-s cls s="trms">categs>ory, I am not ‘something’ (-super strange!)
sts> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> the ‘Other’ ss='lgc'>[not only the police officer,ss='lgc'>] always estizah (s cls s="trms">inters>pellation s>استيضاحs>) you(?span>)

it is very s cls s="trms">inters>esting the way ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Despret is working (on the field) with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway's (intuitive genius) analysis

s cls s="trms">scies>ntist's will to be ‘no-one’ that would prevent any s cls s="trms">inters>action

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Despret's constructivist and non-relativist s cls s="trms">translats>ion of ‘the ways s cls s="trms">animals>s act are the consequences of the observer's gaze’ss='lgc'>:) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">animals> actions are s cls s="trms">respons>sible consequences<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>[(<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>)performancess='lgc'>: the s cls s="trms">respons>sible consequence of a (no les s) s cls s="trms">respons>sible gazess='lgc'>]

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ss="ppl">Verran, knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> economy
knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>r always s cls s="trms">authors>ed
cros s-cultural knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> practices

-physis, “I bring forth”, “I produce”, “I make to grow” (ss='lgc'>=/= “s cls s="trms">techns>e” in ss="ppl">Aristotlian sense)
span> X-physisss='lgc'>: a proces s which sticks out in the direction X ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> how this s cls s="trms">morphs>eme has come to mean (since mid-15th century) “form” and “s cls s="trms">naturs>e”?span> (this is about thinking of making)
“physis” requires the s cls s="trms">differens>t perspectives of the four causes (aitia)ss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">materis>al ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> source of s cls s="trms">matters>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•efficient ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> power/motion
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•formal ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> containing its form
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•final ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> end
sts>

s cls s="trms">zoos>s cls s="trms">poiess>is ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">zoos>s cls s="trms">poes>tics, explorations of how s cls s="trms">animals>s (s cls s="trms">zoos>) shape the making of text, study of ‘the s cls s="trms">literas>ry s cls s="trms">animals>’

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ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King

“flexible knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s” on the s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> of validity ♥span> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> almost invalid<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>)

fantasy of education
culture wars
intellectual enterpreneurs
upheavals and connectivities of globalization

changing patterns of s cls s="trms">inters>action

(aren't we here to) change the patterns of s cls s="trms">inters>action
(aren't we here to) change the faith of letters and s cls s="trms">lovs>e s cls s="trms">storiess>

reenactments (are fantasy practices and realities) ss='lgc'>=/= simple, acces sible, and democratized (knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>)

“layers of locals and globals”

ss='lgc'>[somehow I couldn't feel in his long term project what is s cls s="frds scrmbld">Kobes>'s s cls s="trms">relations> toss='lgc'>] (proces ses and their product that require) developing and learning new s cls s="trms">skils>ls, pleasures, and s cls s="trms">communs>ities

-at the end many of us (are busy with or) want to (or inhabit the “will to”) modelling reality
span> this is also what s cls s="nms">ajayebs> was busy with

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>we are always doing both “purification” and “hybridization”
ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>]we direct our attention s cls s="trms">simultans>eously to the work of purification and the work of hybridization ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> we immediately stop being wholly s cls s="trms">moderns> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>our future begins to change<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> / <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>our s cls s="trms">pasts> begins to change<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>[my workspan> on s cls s="nms">ajayebs> (“hybrids down below” ss='lgc'>{ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latourss='lgc'>}) is precisely about (this kind of) transformation of s cls s="trms">pasts>s and futuresss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> meeting companion s cls s="trms">species>s ss='lgc'>{if my workspan> on s cls s="nms">ajayebs> doesn't teach me how to meet the dog in my street, the pigeon on my window, the juju on the s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> of my paper, what is it good for then?span>!ss='lgc'>}

(<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>)companion s cls s="trms">species>sss='lgc'>: as semblages of living and non-living ‘s cls s="trms">species>s’<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
(s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas> is all along engaged with companion s cls s="trms">species>s)

(an strategyss='lgc'>:) allocation of s cls s="trms">respons>sibility for grasping information

as semblage at various levels and sublevels characterizes <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>explanations<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> and <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>practices<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

s cls s="trms">techns>os cls s="trms">scies>ntific tsunami that will obs cls s="trms">literas>te s cls s="trms">priors> practices and cultures...

(learning to) see old and new forms of confusions, docility, subjectivity, morality, s cls s="trms">agens>cy, empowerment (when we are together)
(to recognize and make) new sites of negotiation

ss="ppl">Albertiss='lgc'>: bodies of Minoan figurines “wear” the appropriate gender for a s cls s="trms">specifis>c ritual practice, they don't “bear” gender (as their es sential feature) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> gender salience is always in s cls s="trms">questions>, not a propor pres cls s="trms">supposs>ition
“sex has emerged as a salient attribute of the pot's character as a pot”

when s cls s="trms">zoos>s cls s="trms">morphs>ic figures are s cls s="trms">presens>t...

s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">zoos>s cls s="trms">morphs>ic figures with their salient attributes are not “purposed” neces sarily being to ens cls s="trms">cods>e their belief-s cls s="trms">syss>tem s cls s="trms">ontos> objects that we may s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> todayss='lgc'>--like s cls s="trms">storys>-boardss='lgc'>--but rather to make s cls s="trms">inters>ventions into the s cls s="trms">worlds> of human-nonhuman s cls s="trms">relations>s. to either as sist or resist such transformations
ss='lgc'>[terms sharpened with ss="ppl">Alberti ss='lgc'>+ ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">Kingss='lgc'>]

museum studies

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haywardss='lgc'>:) freedom ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> initiative in shaping a s cls s="trms">narrats>ive, a visible body, where one is able to engage and resist ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Xiris>ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> contradicts itself because one is really not free from the policing of the physical body ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> coming into a ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] body (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> reality and disillusion in public spaces) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{ s cls s="trms">narrats>ive, flesh, is filled with s cls s="trms">mems>ory, emotions, and complexity ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Hodas>ss='lgc'>]
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">crafts>ing a space for existence may involvess='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•uns cls s="trms">folds>ing s cls s="trms">histos>ry
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mapping normative proces ses
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•immersing a “body” in vulnerability (<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>)
sts>

deploy ss='lgc'>=/= uns cls s="trms">veils>ing
s cls s="trms">sorts> out ss='lgc'>=/= debunking s>هدايتs>

glocalizing

ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haywardss='lgc'>: ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] as sembling s cls s="trms">apparatuss>es for ens cls s="trms">folds>ing visions of s cls s="trms">instrus>mental, subjective and cognitive s cls s="trms">techns>ologies among ciliated (s>مودارs>, s>ریشه‌دارs>) bodies

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s cls s="trms">techns>ologies of the s cls s="trms">literas>l

grain of analysis, timescale, noting/creating hybrid objects of study
ss='lgc'>[comparing the incomparable ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> lumping ss='lgc'>--thenss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> splittingss='lgc'>]

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>starting off a research project which eventually hopes to have something to say about that hybrid “thing”<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ...with some despised s cls s="trms">mems>bers of a particular time period (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> switching those who count as major or minor characters), promises to make it pos sible to build in <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>a range of genders (not just two), a range of s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ologies, a range of self-effacing acts, and a range of publics<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>, while working from a particular place and time

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>there are many s cls s="trms">differens>t s cls s="trms">inters>ests creating the s cls s="trms">pasts>s<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>, the pos sible s cls s="trms">worlds>s...

(ss="ppl">Leigh ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Star > ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King > s cls s="frds">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>) “comparing the incomparable”

here i am trying an outline of my s cls s="trms">inters>related research practices in a preliminary character, the s cls s="trms">inters>section of which I am just at the beginning to understand

s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ologies of the 12th century s cls s="nms">Irans>

plain style

soing naked as a sign

dres s and addres s

s cls s="trms">ecologs>y of s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ologies

(ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">Kingss='lgc'>:) s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ologiesss='lgc'>: ideologies layered in time and space <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> under which s cls s="trms">writs>ing has been divided ss='lgc'>[also cannot be dividedss='lgc'>] from other generations of cultural meaning

myriad hybrid forms, commingling in s cls s="trms">materis>al and ideological proliferations
(with ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King's s cls s="trms">inters>est in women's s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ologies)

“s cls s="trms">presens>tist”ss='lgc'>: a practice of clas sification and s cls s="trms">categs>orization to acces s s cls s="trms">pasts>s

continuities and local discontinuities ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> is ‘continuity’ (always) a universal abstraction?span><strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls>

relative universalization

prescrptions for speech and silence

what is gained and what is lost when “tidying up the archive”?span> (a german problem)

prescriptions for speech and silence

“politenes s s cls s="trms">phenomens>a”

‘plain speech’ for Quakersss='lgc'>: rejection of ‘idle’ speech. preaching was another version of sacrificing seld-will, and was appropriate speech.
public preaching in particular was also a challenge to s cls s="trms">socis>al s cls s="trms">relations>s and s cls s="trms">inters>action ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a challenge to gender, speaking public was a cultural humiliation for individual women ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the Quaker women practiced preaching as a personal humiliation s cls s="trms">instrus>mental to their own salvation ss='lgc'>[! in a weird way i also did this to my selfss='lgc'>] ss='at'>#becoming womanss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{a liquefying aspectss='lgc'>: “womanhood” was used s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>phors>ically to identify those who could not preach, the surrender of (male) s cls s="trms">authors>ity to God by men was “female”
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•inhibiting woman's prophetic s cls s="trms">agens>cies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•“lack of discipline” becomes discipline ss='lgc'>--!ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> forms of discipline that appear “undisciplined” or out of control
sts>
(ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King > Mackss='lgc'>:) “Quakers not only bathed in a sea of polys cls s="trms">morphs>ous sipritual s cls s="trms">naturs>e and s cls s="trms">erots>icism; they occasionally wrote as if they had succeeded in floating above gender altogether”

“going naked as a sign” (and Quaker's “plain style”) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Tasavof, s cls s="nms">ajayebs>, and s cls s="trms">communs>ication strategies of the so-called new s cls s="trms">scies>nce of the same time (of Quakers)
‘nakednes s’ was s cls s="trms">simultans>eously s cls s="trms">literas>lly his own, a figure of the s cls s="trms">worlds>, an ss='thdf'>example of many others, the abstract principle, and the es sential truth of the one addres sed
-simplicity, economy, and plainnes s; to reject all the amplifications, digres sions, and swellings of style
span>

preferring s cls s="trms">languages> of artisans, countrymen, merchants, of wits and scholars

How sin is strengthened 1657
Milk for babes 1661
A mes sage from the spirit of truth 1658

realized eschatology

s>انا الحقs>, an-al-hagh
(Damroschss='lgc'>:) the performance of the sign thus entailed a doubly negative aspectss='lgc'>: in the person exhibiting it, a conviction of fulfilling a divine mandate in ops cls s="trms">posits>ion to personal self-s cls s="trms">inters>est; and in those who witnes sed it, an offense to ordinary s cls s="trms">socis>al standards that actually served to authenticate it.
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>the function of the sign was to bear prophetic witnes s rather than to get practical results; it fulfilled its purpose simply by being performed<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='at'>#shath, shathiat ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> tazkirat, ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{ what the saints of Tasavof (reported by ss="ppl">Attar-ss='lgc'>{his “virtual witnes sing” of “awliya” s>اولیاs> as a “realized"ss='lgc'>}, Quakers ss='lgc'>[as illegal nonconformist sectss='lgc'>]) put together was their own s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ology infrastructure<strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> <strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls>s cls s="trms">routins>ization of charisma<strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls> ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- organizational structure ss='lgc'>["advices and queries” s>نفحات الانسs> nafahat ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~-> rationalized s cls s="trms">syss>tematic intellectualizationsss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>}

pattern of suffering that the believer s cls s="trms">literas>lly and personally relives
(is Tasavof developed s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christians> modality of sacrifice?span> is <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>pas sivity imported from elsewhere in Islam<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>?span>)
a protagonist, like s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>San'an, like an actor in a mystery play, enacting in a deliberately challenging form, s cls s="trms">inters>nalized and lived as a potent sign

(Bechwithss='lgc'>:) rendered performance of s cls s="trms">religs>ious s cls s="trms">materis>als both practically impos sible and conceptually unthinkable
ss='lgc'>+ exercises their discipline of the senses and the s cls s="trms">imagis>nation
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>undisciplined los s of control in enthusiasm and in this extravagant example<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

(s cls s="trms">storiess> of) a small group of powerful and vocal actors
<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>to attend to the local practices of ins cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>on and exs cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>on through which some speak and others are spoken for, some act and others are acted upon<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
(ss='at'>#s cls s="trms">ontos>logy)

gentlemanly practices ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (ask) what that legitimacy consisted in and how far it extended?span>
(wellborn connois seurs of the new s cls s="trms">scies>nce)

leave the work tacit, and it fades into the wallpaper

sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(ss="ppl">Leigh ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Star's) ethnography of infrastructure
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker's) infra-structural inversion
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King's) s cls s="trms">ecologs>y of s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ologiesss='lgc'>: mas sive, large-scale infrastructure in dynamic motion, bits changing at s cls s="trms">differens>tial rates acros s time, made up of layered sub-s cls s="trms">syss>tems complexity s cls s="trms">inters>connected and animated by distributed s cls s="trms">agens>cies, ins cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>ding people, s cls s="trms">skils>ls, devices and s cls s="trms">socis>al powers.
sts> the s cls s="trms">translats>ion between (ss='lgc'>[myss='lgc'>] deliberately) s cls s="trms">presens>tist (s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>-)s cls s="trms">languages> (of cybernetic s cls s="trms">syss>tems) and various local s cls s="trms">languages>s helps <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>to rescale particular objects of study<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
(my researchspan>ss='lgc'>: “s cls s="trms">socis>al studies of”) studying s cls s="trms">animals> subjectivity ss='lgc'>--(changes the way)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> studying infrastructures ss='lgc'>--requiresss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> one to think (explicitly) about scale and range ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> boundaries/connections between one s cls s="trms">syss>tem and another ss='lgc'>--(what counts as)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> working sub-s cls s="trms">syss>tems and various es sential forms of “black-boxing” (that describe and use these infrastructures)
-ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King's accounts of black-boxing (that might s cls s="trms">matters> in conversations about) 17th century s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ologiesss='lgc'>:
span> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦reificationss='lgc'>: strategic metonymic reduction, kenaye s>کنایهs>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦enthusiasmss='lgc'>: es sentializing identities or ideas
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦s cls s="trms">mems>bers (of Royal s cls s="trms">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Socis>ety)ss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">naturs>alizing ranges of ins cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>on and exs cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>on
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>witnes sing<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> rescales the infrastructure. the “work of witnes sing” as serts that rhetoic as an element of witnes sing is not a thing, not even a performance, but als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y itself a complex set of infrastructural s cls s="trms">syss>tems with animating practices and s cls s="trms">agens>cies
sts> ...s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ers might submit to the illusion of having effectively witnes sed an experiment themselves
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>virtual witnes sing realized an “enactment” in words<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

black-boxing is totally necces sary to use/study infrastructures, they produce the “artifactual richnes s” ss='lgc'>[= a kind of archaeological layering of artifacts acquired in bits and pieces over timess='lgc'>--(Lucy s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Suchman)ss='lgc'>] of s cls s="trms">syss>tems
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>black-boxing makes elegant some elements of the s cls s="trms">syss>tem/s s cls s="trms">differens>tially<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
each s cls s="trms">authors> does itss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shapin black-boxing his range of s cls s="trms">syss>tems to its complexity and elegance
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway appropriating ss='thdf'>the idea of modest witnes s for her own feminist purpose
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
three s cls s="trms">techns>ologies for fact-making (that s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shapin and s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Schaffer name)ss='lgc'>:
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1. s cls s="trms">materis>al
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2. s cls s="trms">literas>ry
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">3. s cls s="trms">socis>al
stsrd>
Adrian Johns in The s cls s="trms">Naturs>e of The s cls s="trms">Books>ss='lgc'>: particular s cls s="trms">books>sellers could indeed use their <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>stewardship<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> of such heterogeneous spaces to further political ideals and s cls s="trms">inters>ests. behind the ss cls s="trms">cenes>s and up the stairs, an s cls s="trms">inters>ested London s cls s="trms">books>seller became a significant actor in cultural events.

nominal s cls s="trms">agens>cy
actual person
principle architect

ss="large lg18" stl="font-size:112%"> s cls s="trms">syss>tems move in space, time, and proces s
some archaeological structures (that one uncover) are stable, some in motion, some evolving, some decaying ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>“there is no way of ever getting acces s to the s cls s="trms">pasts> except through clas sification s cls s="trms">syss>tems of one s cls s="trms">sorts> or another”<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (at best) the s cls s="trms">pasts> could be reordered to better reflect multiple constituencies now and then. (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker ss='lgc'>+ ss="ppl">Leigh ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Star)

(my s cls s="nms">ajayebs> researchss='lgc'>: “s cls s="trms">epistems>ic virtues” ss='lgc'>[or powersss='lgc'>] of the 12th century encyclopedic s cls s="trms">wonders>-s cls s="trms">books>s,) “s cls s="trms">epistems>ological decorum” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (to capture) “truth-making practices in action” (s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shapin)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> (my commitment to s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>:) engendering reflection on the s cls s="trms">naturs>e of and function of s cls s="trms">categs>orization itself

a s cls s="trms">wonders>ful bit of s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>-s cls s="trms">languages>

The Exhausted Receiver

Margaret Cavendish description of a new s cls s="trms">worlds>, called the Blazing s cls s="trms">Worlds>, her own brand of s cls s="trms">naturs>al philosophy under the guise of a romance... s cls s="trms">scies>nce for ladiesss='lgc'>{
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1- enthusiasm ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> new s cls s="trms">scies>nce
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2- study of s cls s="trms">naturs>al philosophy ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> cardinal virtues of ladies, modesty and s cls s="trms">religs>ious reverence
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">3- leisure activity, appropriate s cls s="trms">pasts>time
stsrd> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>she participated in discus sions central to her life and times<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (am i participating in discus sions central to my life and times?span>!)
Cavendish self-consciously produced herself as a fantastic and singular... (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> is that what i wish to produce?span>)
-Cavendish strangely shared with Quaker women an experimental life of proliferating genders, of dres s, of personhood, og s cls s="trms">agens>cy, of s cls s="trms">writs>ing, of personae, but not of this <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>enabling collectivity<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
span>
hermaphroditical view of thingsss='lgc'>: partly artificial, partly s cls s="trms">naturs>al

status of clothing as a signifier of identity ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- not alwaysss='lgc'>]
cros sdres sing (ss='at'>#my sticker period)

ss='lgc'>[modest witnes sss='lgc'>] (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway's s cls s="trms">literas>l and s cls s="trms">figurats>ive queering of s cls s="trms">categs>ories)
the s cls s="trms">rhetors>ic of the modest witnes s ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the naked way of s cls s="trms">writs>ing, undorned, factual, compellingss='lgc'>: “naked s cls s="trms">writs>ing” ss='lgc'>[s cls s="trms">crafts>ed in the context of being virtually s cls s="trms">presens>t at a des cls s="trms">monsts>ration, the ‘practice of credible witnes sing’ (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> “truth”) in s cls s="trms">techns>os cls s="trms">scies>ncess='lgc'>] was a proper reference point for feminist examination of objectivity and its s cls s="trms">relations>ship to a s cls s="trms">scies>nce founded in exs cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>on of women. the new man of s cls s="trms">scies>nce had to be chaste, modest, heterosexual man who desires yet eschews a sexually ds cls s="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>ous yet chaste and modest woman ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>female modesty was of the body; the new masculine virtue had to be of the mind<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[women's s cls s="trms">presens>ce turns out to disrupt the experiment (of the s cls s="trms">scies>ntist or sufi) altogetherss='lgc'>] (“ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>]best of women, pious, chaste, modest, and compas sionate, are rendered unfit for s cls s="trms">scies>nce by the very qualities that make them the best of women”)
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway, why credible witnes sing is still at stakess='lgc'>:) “this is the culture within which s cls s="trms">contingens>t facts ss='lgc'>[= the real case about the s cls s="trms">worlds>, the object s cls s="trms">worlds>ss='lgc'>] can be established with all the s cls s="trms">authors>ity, but none of the considerable problems, of transcendental truth. this self-invisibility is the s cls s="trms">specifis>cally s cls s="trms">moderns>, European, masculine, s cls s="trms">scies>ntific form of the virtue of modesty. this is the form of modesty that pays off its practitioners in the coin of s cls s="trms">epistems>ological and s cls s="trms">socis>al power. <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>this kind of modesty is one of the founding virtues of what we call s cls s="trms">moderns>ity.<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] and so he is endowed with the remarkable power to establish the facts.”
-“he ss='lgc'>[the civic man of reasonss='lgc'>] bears witnes s”ss='lgc'>: he is objective, he guarantees the clarity and purity of objects, as contestable res cls s="trms">presens>tations, or as construced documents in their potent capacity to define the facts ss='lgc'>=/= queering confidencess='lgc'>: enable a more corporal, inflected, and optically s cls s="trms">denss>e, if les s elegant, kind of witnes s (to the s cls s="trms">matters>s of fact to emerge in the s cls s="trms">worlds>s of s cls s="trms">techns>os cls s="trms">scies>nce) ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='thdf'>this is why i was trying to enable that kind of “optically s cls s="trms">denss>e” and “les s elegant” kind of corporeality in our work on ss="ppl">Oleariusss='at'>#ss='lgc'>]
span> (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway ss='lgc'>+ Potter ss='lgc'>+ s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shapin ss='lgc'>+ s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Schafferss='lgc'>:) elaboration on ss='thdf'>the idea of modest witnes s in which “modesty” might flip between either two sidesss='lgc'>:
stsrd cls s="lstsrd">1- s cls s="trms">histos>rically masking a masculine solipsism as a preciously unmarked s cls s="trms">categs>oryss='lgc'>: modest witnes s ss='lgc'>=/= haec vir ss='lgc'>: God forbid that the experimental way of life have queer foundations
stsrd> stsrd cls s="lstsrd">2- (working acros s partialities) to create “a more adequate, self-critical s cls s="trms">techns>os cls s="trms">scies>nce committed to s cls s="trms">situs>ated knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s”
stsrd>

a nameles s sin about which, without describing, he sought counsel

oratory

tension between dedication and prevarication (zaban bazi s>زبان بازیs>)

(ss='lgc'>[let's notss='lgc'>] being a s cls s="trms">mems>ber of) a “clas s” of those whose truth-telling was privileged
in certain s cls s="trms">sorts>s of people credibility was s cls s="trms">embods>ied

s cls s="nms">ajayebs>.net's style of s cls s="trms">writs>ing ss='lgc'>=/= a style of s cls s="trms">writs>ing driven by the needs of s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ers who are relatively uns cls s="trms">skils>led (in practical divinity, casuistry, or theology, and so on)

ss="large lg18" stl="font-size:111%">
<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> what kind of clas sification work, work of s cls s="trms">histos>rical res cls s="trms">presens>tation, is neces sary now to show over time with greater clarity, in cooperation with more and more s cls s="trms">communs>ities of practice, that in the best of all pos sible s cls s="trms">worlds>s, at any given moment, the s cls s="trms">pasts> could be reordered to better reflect multiple constituencies now and then?span> <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
(ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King ss='lgc'>+ ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Bowker ss='lgc'>+ ss="ppl">Leigh ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Star)

ss='lgc'>[my s cls s="nms">ajayebs>-making is aboutss='lgc'>] partial connections (acros s time) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">communs>ities

(ss='lgc'>[my point in work on s cls s="nms">ajayebs>:ss='lgc'>] we need) the pos sbility of competing and shifting claims on individuals (ss='lgc'>=/= self-making individual), rather persons with partial connections (acros s time) and queer s cls s="trms">relations>s with s cls s="trms">pasts>s cls s="trms">presens>t ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> negotiating forms of evidence ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> units of analysis ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">pasts> reordered

ss='lgc'>[with the help of ss="ppl">Katie ss="ppl">King's figure of s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ologies:ss='lgc'>] i am s cls s="trms">inters>ested in and s cls s="trms">inters>ested to help make s cls s="trms">histos>rical res cls s="trms">presens>tations of nonhuman s cls s="nms">irans>ians in s cls s="trms">writs>ing s cls s="trms">techns>ological s cls s="trms">ecologs>ies (which are inevitably products of new s cls s="trms">socis>al movements, new research s cls s="trms">agens>das, new publics of s cls s="trms">inters>est, and new contests for s cls s="trms">histos>rical meaning)

with s cls s="nms">ajayebs> this became immediately my concernss='lgc'>: <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>infrastructures of s cls s="trms">histos>rical res cls s="trms">presens>tation<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

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(what are the) stickines s of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s being (?span>) or, in which s cls s="trms">affects>ive economy they are ‘pas sed around’?span> ss='lgc'>[s cls s="trms">socis>al goods, accumulating s cls s="trms">affects>s, contagious s>مسرىs>?span> it tends to pick up whatever comes near, or gives us a certain kind of angle on what comes near<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">wonders>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•cause ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> ?span>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">socis>al bond is always rather sensational<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

(ss="ppl">Ahmed sugs cls s="trms">gests>s) thinking through s cls s="trms">affects> as “sticky”ss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">affects> is what sticks, or what sustains or preserves the connection between ideas, values, and objects
ss='lgc'>{ s cls s="trms">affects>s as contagious ss='lgc'>=/= (inside/outside) “outside in” model of emotions (for axample, when we sayss='lgc'>: atmosphere “getting into the individual”)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>[part of the intellectual s cls s="trms">histos>ry of (crowd) psychology and the s cls s="trms">socis>ology of emotionsss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">affects> becomes an object only given the s cls s="trms">contingens>cy of how we are s cls s="trms">affects>ed
“what we will receive as an impres sion will depend on our s cls s="trms">affects>ive s cls s="trms">situs>ation” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> Julia's post-ss="ppl">Lacanian feedbackss='lgc'>: bodies never arrive neutral
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>everything depends on the angle of our arrival<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- my point in s cls s="trms">lecturs>e-performances) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~-> <strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls>pedagogic encounter is full of angles<strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls> (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> is that why i am becoming increasingly pedagogic?span>)
(by distinguishing between “did/how it work for you” and “did/how it work for the artist” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">inters>nal s cls s="trms">communs>ication ss='lgc'>=/= external s cls s="trms">communs>ication<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[what goes on inside the text on the level of s cls s="trms">ficts>ional mediation is not to be confused with the non-s cls s="trms">ficts>ional realm inhabited by the s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>er nor by the s cls s="trms">authors>ss='lgc'>]

(we are facing the s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht way ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>aligned ss='lgc'>=/= alienated<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- we are out of line with an s cls s="trms">affects>ive economy)
<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>(then how to) share an orientation ss='lgc'>[, also refuse to share an orientation toward certain thingsss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>[an s cls s="trms">aesthets>ic s cls s="trms">questions> which is moral. how two of my teachers, Julia and Phil, did this?span>ss='lgc'>]

to get along ss='lgc'>=?span> to share direction

politics of good feelings

(slide between) s cls s="trms">affects>ive and moral economies

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>how feelings participate in making things (good) ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>--✕span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> germanicity
how bodies turn toward things

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s cls s="trms">affects>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mes sines s of the experiential
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•uns cls s="trms">folds>ing of bodies into the s cls s="trms">worlds>s
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•drama of s cls s="trms">contingens>cy
sts>
“hap” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•happening ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> chance
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•happines s ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> stickines s
sts> ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">contingens>cy of what happens as something good ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">worlds>y s cls s="trms">questions> of happenings<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>=/= (21st century) hard work, Aufgabe, happines s as an effect of what you do

happines s is
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•intentionalss='lgc'>: directed toward objects ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">phenomens>ological sense
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">affects>ivess='lgc'>: contanct with objects
sts>

happines s puts us into intimate contact with things, ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] even if that something does not s cls s="trms">presens>t itself as an object of consciousnes s (ss="ppl">Ahmed) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>coming and going of objects<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

“to be s cls s="trms">affects>ed by something is to evaluate that thing”

ss='at'>#my s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs>s?span> simulate a course of action of description
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•near the object?span>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•near sphere (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>== happines s)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•core sphere
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•orientation
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> practical action
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•course of action
sts>
we come to have our likes, which might even establish what we are like. the bodily horizon could be redescribed as a horizon of likes. to have our likes means <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>certain things are gathered around us<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>[what about “beyond”?span> ss='lgc'>=/= near-sphere Zolmatss='lgc'>]

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]orientationss='lgc'>: registers the proximity of objects as well as shape what is proximate to the body

(s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robs>inss='lgc'>:) happines s does not have an object
(ss="ppl">Freudss='lgc'>:) s cls s="trms">anxis>ety does not have an object
ss='lgc'>=/= (ss="ppl">Ahmedss='lgc'>:) cors cls s="trms">respons>dence between objects and feelings is not any simple ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> proximity, “unattributed happines s”

ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- ( us )"subject” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ( ♥span> )"object”

things ss='lgc'>--movess='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> us ss='lgc'>--makess='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> things ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~> ...

ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Arjangs>, how happines s is displaced by the how of its arrival
(happines s can often recede or become s cls s="trms">anxis>ous, when the feeling becomes an object of thought)

what it means for happines s to be thought in these terms (as an end for its own sake)
what it means for s cls s="trms">apparatuss> to be thought in these terms (of ss="ppl">Agamben)
what it means for ocean to be thought in these terms (of s cls s="frds scrmbld">Marialenas>)

in Islam, how does the good life get s cls s="trms">imagis>ned through the proximity of objects?span>

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]tastess='lgc'>: “manifest preferences”ss='lgc'>: “practical affirmation of an inevitable s cls s="trms">differens>ce” (ss="ppl">Bourdieu)

s cls s="trms">histos>ry becomes second-s cls s="trms">naturs>e ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="trms">affects>s become s cls s="trms">literas>l ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> (we as sume we experience delight because) “it” is delightful

(often with s cls s="trms">animals>s) the s cls s="trms">affects>ive s cls s="trms">differens>tiation ss='lgc'>==(basis of)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> (an es sentially) moral economy

cheerfulnes s is the most s cls s="trms">communs>icative of emotions (♥span> ss="ppl">Ahmed)

(ss="ppl">Ahmed's take on) s cls s="trms">lovs>ing (happily)ss='lgc'>: knowing the peculiarity of a s cls s="trms">lovs>ed other's likes and dislikes, an intimacy with what the other likes and is given ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> on conditions that such likes do not take us outside a <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>shared horizon<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>who/what introduces what feelings to whom?span><strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>

‘s cls s="trms">questions> of power'ss='lgc'> = do you go along with it?span>

sometimes the s cls s="nms">Irans>ian orientation is toward maximal comfort of the others
(maintaining) ‘comfort'ss='lgc'> = (your or some) bodies “go along with it”

bondss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{ s cls s="trms">affects> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> we search for an object ss='lgc'>}

...certain objects als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y circulate as s cls s="trms">socis>la goods before we “happen” upon them ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> we do not just find happy objects anywhere (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> how happy objects are found in Tasavof?span> located, lost, transported, sold, advertised, criticized, etc.) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>happy objects point us somewhere, a “where” from which we expect so much (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> happy objects of Tasavof ss='lgc'>[or HOTss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>{Qur'an, khezr, woman, s cls s="trms">poes>try, .../ s>قرآنs> / s>خضرs> / s>زنs> / s>شعرs>ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->their sense of values, practice, styles, and aspirations; where do they point s cls s="nms">Irans>ians?span> beyond, Zolmat, s cls s="trms">animals>, shadow, everyday objects, etc. what are the feelings involving the “points” of alignment wuth these objects?span>) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> relocation of expectationsss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•from beyond to earth
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•from global to local
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•from future to now
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
in s cls s="trms">situs>ations where feelings are shared or are in common (which is usually the case in the environments that I am involved with,) how do I usually play a role?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> (re)location of s cls s="trms">respons>sibility

ss="large lg30" stl="font-size:135%"> self-exs cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sis>on

to make s cls s="nms">Irans> or India or Germany happy “in bed”

(ss='at'>@s cls s="frds">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>what ever there is in the hear and now, it does not mean you do not have to rebel or not get into trouble.

idios cls s="trms">syncs>ratic likes (or dislikes) ss='lgc'>=/= jouis sance

ss="ppl">Ahmed s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing many s cls s="trms">narrats>ives of freedom, in which an ins cls s="trms">differens>ce is “directed” as the apparent gift of freedom (, father becomes ins cls s="trms">differens>t to what her daughter does as long as it makes her happy) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the unhappy objects of s cls s="trms">differens>ce

fantasies of proximity (in sense8 TV series) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> if only we could be closer, we would be as one
the happines s of the characters of sense8 is the promise of “the one”

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how to learn to s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> the discursive practices of being of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>?span> the ways each being proposes its own (or another's) changing s cls s="trms">geomes>try and topology, their boundary-drawing practices, their s cls s="trms">differens>tial productions, and how each being makes sense of its s cls s="trms">worlds>
-(the s cls s="trms">authors>s and beings of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>,) what are their capacity to discern the reality of their (s cls s="trms">relations>al) s cls s="trms">naturs>e?span>
span> -how their determinate s cls s="trms">posits>ion (in their s cls s="trms">relations>al s cls s="trms">naturs>e) is or may be (usefully) (con)figured as <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">specifis>c connectivity<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>?span> ss='lgc'>[the s cls s="trms">questions> of s cls s="trms">specifis>c connectivites of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> this requires from me s cls s="trms">poes>ticsss='lgc'>: diffractive descriptive acts
span> -what are the s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s beings and mine s cls s="trms">inters>twined practices of knowing and being?span>
span>
the s cls s="trms">agens>tial cut of the brittlestar is a survival kitss='lgc'>: the arm is “cut” and becomes part of the other (predator)

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad is s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing the brittlestar to rework (challenge conventional conceptions of) her discipline's s cls s="trms">ontos>logies and boundaries ss='lgc'>=/= s cls s="trms">scies>ntist's usual frame of application and amusement of “discovery” that feeds s cls s="trms">techns>ological advancement, “the exs cls s="trms">cites>ment and romantic overtones that inevitably accompany the s cls s="trms">storys> of the s cls s="trms">scies>ntist as explorer breaking into new frontiers” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad)

(s cls s="trms">embods>imentss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>bodies are not s cls s="trms">situs>ated in the s cls s="trms">worlds>. They are ‘of’ the s cls s="trms">worlds> (in its dynamic s cls s="trms">specifis>city)<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad) (ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Femkes>)

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]objectivity
ss='lgc'>=/= occupying a determinate s cls s="trms">posits>ion in a given environment
ss='lgc'>=/= occupying a particular coordinates in space and time, in culture, and in s cls s="trms">histos>ry
ss='lgc'>=/= seeing from somewhere ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>=/= “objectivism” (view from nowhere) or “everywhere” (relativism)ss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>=/=

(like ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad's brittlestars) which s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s being's bodily dynamism resists (or constructs) the familiar notion that space is preexisting containerss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•spacess='lgc'>: a s cls s="trms">stags>e on which actors take their place
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•timess='lgc'>: the mere uniform ticking of clock
sts> (how s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">worlds>ing is similar or s cls s="trms">differens>t than the familiar notion of ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shakespeare's “s cls s="trms">worlds> is a s cls s="trms">stags>e...”?span>)

ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad, s cls s="trms">poes>t of s cls s="trms">matters>, time and space:ss='lgc'>] “s cls s="trms">Matters> does not move in space and time. s cls s="trms">Matters> s cls s="trms">materis>alizes and dynamically ens cls s="trms">folds>s s cls s="trms">differens>t spatialities and temporalities.”<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>there is only exteriority within<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss='lgc'>--?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> models that s cls s="trms">posits>ion res cls s="trms">presens>tation as the lens that mediates between the object s cls s="trms">worlds> and the mind of the knowing subject ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (an optics that reflects) a s cls s="trms">geomes>try of absolute exteriority between s cls s="trms">ontos>logically and s cls s="trms">epistems>ologically distinct kinds ss='lgc'>=/= s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s diffractive s cls s="trms">differens>tial s cls s="trms">materis>alizations

perhaps that arm that got detached from you, could have a chance of not becoming a jettison s cls s="nms">phantom limbs> forever haunting the mis sing amputated ‘you,’ rather, a part of “companion s cls s="trms">species>s being helping out”?span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>connectivity does not require physical contiguity<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Luisas>'s string “theory”)
ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="nms">phantom limbs><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (a concept every theorist/artist should take s cls s="trms">serios>usly), in ss="ppl">Descartesss='lgc'>: used as an illustration of the deception to which the inner senses are prone.
“fos sil images,” persistence of pathological exs cls s="trms">citas>tion to the peripheral nerves. (the condition of ‘amputees’ for the one who re-s cls s="trms">mems>bers and builds archives for his phantasmatically lost limb) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">imagis>nary los s of a penis<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a “tool” for a recovery of what was “always als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y” mis sing ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">Freudss='lgc'>: libidinal s cls s="trms">mems>orial to the lost limb (ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Elens>'s kind of mourning for preoedipal (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= precastrated) body, and her (erroneous) localization of it on the motorbike)
ss="ppl">Groszss='lgc'>: “It is only through controlled use of the phantom that the artificial limb can (gradually) take the place of the lost limb”
ss='at'>#s cls s="nms">body images>ss='lgc'>]

s cls s="trms">ecologs>ies of reflection and diffraction ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> resolution of s cls s="trms">naturs>e

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]diffractionss='lgc'>: an effect that limits the ability of a lens (or a s cls s="trms">syss>tem of lenses) <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>to resolve an image<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(to evolve a creative tension,) a trade-off, between the resolution of detail and diffraction effects, between s cls s="trms">geomes>trical and physical optics
sts>
s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">ecologs>ies mixed (les s of) reflection and (much more of) diffraction, are taken from a yet not detachments of the experience of s cls s="trms">phenomens>a and the s cls s="trms">apparatuss>es of its description, of percepts and s cls s="trms">affects>s
ss='at'>#my findings of coms cls s="trms">posits>es of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">animals>s varying number of legs ss='lgc'>--?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">animals> ss='lgc'>+ movement
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•fantastic creatures ss='lgc'>--?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">animals> ss='lgc'>+ environment ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="trms">affects>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">fables> s cls s="trms">poes>tics ss='lgc'>--?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">animals> ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="trms">apparatuss> of description
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•tentative s cls s="trms">citas>tionality ss='lgc'>[other name of “s cls s="trms">rumors>”?span>ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>--?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> nonhuman ss='lgc'>+ human s cls s="trms">relations>al s cls s="trms">histos>ries
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•res cls s="trms">mems>bering is an extremely creative (& s cls s="trms">imagis>native) practice
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ongoing, open-ended s cls s="trms">articulats>ion of the s cls s="trms">worlds> (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- my workspan> on s cls s="nms">ajayebs>)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> these are the diffraction patterns in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> that are (artistically, politically, ethnically) significant for me (?span>)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> these are instances of resistance against bios cls s="trms">mimes>sis in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> (?span>) ss='lgc'>[bios cls s="trms">mimes>sis is involved with mirroring, imitation, or reflection, and other s cls s="trms">tropes>s of “samenes s"ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>=/= trans-s cls s="trms">materis>alities of the creatures of the s cls s="trms">worlds>, they transgres s the sacrosanct divides between s cls s="trms">techns>e and s cls s="trms">epistems>e

(many creatures of our shared s cls s="trms">worlds> have) evolved in s cls s="trms">intras>-action with their environment, and old s cls s="trms">bestiars>ies, such as s cls s="nms">ajayebs>, critically inhabit a mode of description and s cls s="trms">affects> s cls s="trms">situs>ated within the s cls s="trms">intras>-activity of s cls s="trms">techns>ologies of s cls s="trms">writs>ing and perception
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the creatures of the mud know better not to get caught up in a “s cls s="trms">geomes>trical optics of knowing”
sts> we are seeking a s cls s="trms">differens>t genus of knowing ss='lgc'>=/= mediating machine, inscription devices, lenses, panopticons, and various other s cls s="trms">epistems>ological tools that many s cls s="trms">scies>nce studies and cultural studies scholars fancy. (is that also what s cls s="frds scrmbld">Marialenas> fancies?span> her s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> of tools)

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]intelligibilityss='lgc'>: an s cls s="trms">ontos>logical performance of the s cls s="trms">worlds> in its ongoing s cls s="trms">articulats>ion
not a s cls s="trms">specifis>cally human capacity, intelligibility does not require an (usually human) inttelective s cls s="trms">agens>t

the problem with design is that designers (as well as s cls s="trms">scies>ntists and engineers) are busy with building ‘enhanced s cls s="trms">communs>ication s cls s="trms">networks>s’ and principles of ‘usefulnes s’, in the way they relate to the “forms” of s cls s="trms">naturs>e

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>connections and commitments (come together)<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

the copys cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht s cls s="trms">syms>bol © should be a sign not of the s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht to copy but, if anything, of the s cls s="trms">respons>sibilities entailed in producing s cls s="trms">differens>tial s cls s="trms">materis>alization (for whom and at what costs?span>)<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad ♥span>

(brittlestar, the plant in my room, s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s creatures,) ...their being is a flexible distributed growing and regenerating multi-oriented shape-shifting topologically variant dynamical s cls s="trms">syss>tem of diffraction gratings

(s cls s="trms">rhetors>ic of) re-s cls s="trms">veils>ing, which provokes the seeming need for a revealing of s cls s="trms">naturs>e

entanglement ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> inseparability ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> spatially separated particles in an entangled state do not have separate identities

there is no epmirical evidence of such a disjunction s cls s="trms">ontos>logies at a particular scale, “micro-s cls s="trms">worlds>” and “macro-s cls s="trms">worlds>”

who insists on “quarantining quantum queernes s”?span>
quarantining scale and time
quarantining ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sadra to “his” time, or s cls s="nms">ajayebs> to an older another temporality, and therefore irrelevant for us “today”

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]scaless='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">intras>-actively (re)configured in the ongoing s cls s="trms">intras>-active becoming on space-time-s cls s="trms">matters>ing

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Khezr and s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>San'an, the most repeated points of reference in s cls s="nms">tasavofs>
like you, ss="ppl">Hafez, full of struggle, sensation, s cls s="trms">lovs>e,

our resistance and breakdance

(ss="ppl">Mehran Radss='lgc'>:) ss="ppl">Hafez preferences on s cls s="trms">Farsis> over ss="ppl">Arabicss='lgc'>:
Deir s>دیرs> / s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Some'e s>صومعهs>
s cls s="nms">Pirs> s>پیرs> / s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sheikh s>شیخs>
Parsa s>پارساs> / Zahed s>زاهدs>
Parishan s>پریشانs> / Tafraghe s>تفرقهs>

moshtaghe bandegi s>مشتاق بندگیs>
(ss='lgc'>~?span> the advanced level of) ‘wannabe slave’

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the ds cls s="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>ous suffixial s cls s="trms">worlds>ers, prehensile adjective-builder, s cls s="trms">naturs>al-inhabitant-makers of “-ian” or “-i” or “-isch” to the name of a nation/country ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="nms">Irans>ian, Afgani, etc. ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> makes subjects
in the case of the podcast https://soundcloud.com/norient/afghanistan-sucht-seine-musikalische-identitat-podcast s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>en to the way the s cls s="trms">storys> of the Afgani music is told by norient (“music in the globe”, “multi-modally”) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">articulats>ion of western human s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>hts &span> diss cls s="trms">articulats>ion of other s cls s="trms">ecologs>y of s cls s="trms">storiess>
ss='lgc'>=/= Charles Amirkhanian radio programm Ode to Gravity

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the protector of spiders who dies by the bite of a spider
-susceptible bodies entagled in s cls s="trms">networks>s of care, life and death, that are not always harmonious to popular s cls s="trms">narrats>ives of nonviolence
span>

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s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>: mythoepic s cls s="trms">literas>ture in s cls s="trms">translats>ion from a Middle Persian corpus
-when i say ‘Middle Persian corpus’ what i actually mean is a shared s cls s="trms">worlds> of ritual, s cls s="trms">religs>ion, and mythology between s cls s="nms">Irans>ian, Urdu, Turkish, Zoroastrianism in s cls s="nms">Irans> and Vedic Hinduism in India, Indo-European ins cls s="trms">herits>ance in ancient s cls s="nms">Irans>ian culture, s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>South-s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Southeast Asian s cls s="trms">literas>tures, s cls s="trms">translats>ions and transcreations (and transs cls s="trms">literas>tion) of s cls s="trms">storiess> (prose, s cls s="trms">poes>try, drama, epic, s cls s="trms">joks>es, parables, figures ss='lgc'>[that are not always part of the canonss='lgc'>], the irreverent s>بى ادبs>, ) in Indian and s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Southeast Asian contexts,
span>
my project is about learning the ‘how’ of cultivating the ability to fruitfully approach texts from s cls s="trms">differens>t cultures and s cls s="trms">pasts>s
-(to study) the radical s cls s="trms">poes>tic force of the Persian textsss='lgc'>--in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>
span> -to become enhanced and enchanted in s cls s="trms">skils>ls of s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing wider ranges of s cls s="trms">lingus>istic registers
span> -to open up an approach to a dauntingly complex region of islamicated thought (not the ideological enterprise of “Islam”, which is usually badly politicized in the s cls s="trms">histos>rical s cls s="trms">mems>ory of the West. we could get s cls s="trms">inters>ested in the economics of corruption and s cls s="trms">techns>ologies of rule, the evolution of government bureaucracies and clas sificatory schemes, anti-colonial critique,)
span>
s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is on the side of counter-clas sical traditions of standard Muslem-nes s, and its les s elite s cls s="trms">histos>ries and cultural forms,

(intellectual identityss='lgc'>:)
cros s-dres ser of the order
autodidact odds
sufis, merchants, nomads, s cls s="trms">poes>ts, pilgrims, smugglers, laborers,
s cls s="trms">religs>ious identity, s cls s="trms">religs>ious knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>, s cls s="trms">religs>ious violence,

medieval persian mysticismss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•oral, temporal s cls s="trms">naturs>e of speech
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•speaking I to the unknown and unknowable Other
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the discourse of s cls s="trms">lovs>e
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•apophatic discourse ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->?span> politically subversive
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">lingus>istic fragmentation, s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s of meaning
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>

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s cls s="trms">denss>e and textured s cls s="trms">storiess>

ss="large lg54" stl="font-size:115%"> (generativity is fueled by) s cls s="trms">denss>ely felt textures

s cls s="trms">worlds>ing of the placess='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the s cls s="trms">materis>al, sensory labor of attending to an emergent and enduring hum
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the force of things amas sed of s cls s="nms">phantom limbs>s
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•actual residue of people “making something of things”
sts>
direct s cls s="trms">materis>ality of people's shared sensess='lgc'> = attending to what is happening

ss="large lg26" stl="font-size:128%"> a racist violence in the dark
a space of cons cls s="trms">denss>ed displacement

watching things arrive in the company of others

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>nameable claritiesss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•family
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•friendship
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">lovs>e
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•collapse
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">laughs>ing
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•telling s cls s="trms">storiess>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•violence
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•place
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> all atmospherics<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>: forms of attending to what's happening, sensing out, accreting attachments and detachments, s cls s="trms">differens>ces and ins cls s="trms">differens>ces, los ses and proliferating pos sibilities. ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewartss='lgc'>]

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart's) curious pause to s cls s="trms">wonders> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>what analytic objects s cls s="trms">matters><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> in the singularity of a s cls s="trms">situs>ation and what forms of s cls s="trms">writs>ing and thinking might approach them<strcls cls s='strcls'>****strcls>
-experimenting with forms of theory and s cls s="trms">writs>ing that are s cls s="trms">respons>sive to the moving objects they are trying to trace or highlight or escape, or whatever ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'>#number of legs in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> ss='lgc'>{
span> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•trying to describe what is happening in little s cls s="trms">animals> moments, ss cls s="trms">cenes>s
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(the s cls s="trms">writs>ers of s cls s="nms">ajayebs> trying to) explore the intensity and plasticity of lived coms cls s="trms">posits>ionsss='lgc'>--proliferating in their s cls s="trms">worlds>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the senses sharpen on the surfaces of things taking form
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a lived s cls s="trms">affects> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> pushing a s cls s="trms">presens>t into a coms cls s="trms">posits>ion, an expres sivity (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s body)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(a non-horizontal plane of) incommensurate elements hanging together in a coms cls s="trms">posits>ional atmosphere ss='lgc'>=/= holding objects in abeyance s>تعليقs> in order to evaluate them as good or bad, or, as serting ops cls s="trms">posits>ions between s cls s="trms">materis>al and res cls s="trms">presens>tational things
sts> ss='lgc'>}

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]attunementss='lgc'>: a generative, coms cls s="trms">posits>ional s cls s="trms">worlds>ing
-particular attunements can become habitual
span>
-(in the atmospheric of my s cls s="nms">ajayebs>) what is recognized as worthy and knowable object
span> -what are the links ss='lgc'>[sensory &span> s cls s="trms">affects>ivess='lgc'>] between (my) s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">worlds>ing and other s cls s="trms">worlds>ing
span>
ss='lgc'>{ migraine ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> house ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (an acute) sensory attunement (to the atmospherics of the house)
migrainess='lgc'>: “black-furred creature beginning to stir”

s cls s="frds scrmbld">Foads>'s atmospheric attunements, s cls s="trms">respons>ses to the environment
(fully sensory, at once abstract and concrete)<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a labor
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a sentience to a s cls s="trms">worlds>'s work
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ways of being in noise and light and space
sts>
intimacy with a s cls s="trms">worlds> ss='lgc'><-ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">worlds>'s imperative

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>an imperative canss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•catch you up
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•then deflate
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•pop
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•leave you standing, a fish out of water
sts>

“the sentience of a s cls s="trms">situs>ation is filled with tracks of labor and attunementss='lgc'>--a dwelling in the expres sivity of something coming into existence” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart)

we take the s cls s="trms">worlds> for what it's up to

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]atmospheric attunementss='lgc'>: actual s cls s="trms">affects>s of modes of living being brought into being; labor-intensive proces s that stretches acros s s cls s="trms">imagis>naries
-the lived spaces and temporalities ofss='lgc'>:
span> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•home
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•work
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•school
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•blame
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•adventure
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•illnes s
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•rumination
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•pleasure
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•down time
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•release
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•phantasmatic or unthinkable s cls s="trms">situs>ations
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> rhythms of the s cls s="trms">presens>t /<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>/<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>/<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>/<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>\

s cls s="nms">ajayebs> reports of s cls s="trms">worlds>ss='lgc'>:
-s cls s="trms">denss>e entanglement of s cls s="trms">affects>, attention, the senses, and s cls s="trms">matters>
span> (everything depends on these entanglements)

a condition
a pacing
a ss cls s="trms">cenes> of absorption
a dream
a being abandoned by the s cls s="trms">worlds>
a serial immersion in some little s cls s="trms">worlds> you never knew was there until you got cancer
a dog
a s cls s="trms">childs>
a hankering
the next thing

(?span>how much s cls s="nms">ajayebs> tells the s cls s="trms">storiess> of) unraveling of states of attending to what might be happening

not being able to sit still
being exhausted
being left behind
being ahead of the curve
being in s cls s="trms">histos>ry
being in a predicament s>مخمصهs>
being s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y for somethingss='lgc'>--anything

a life's s cls s="trms">trajects>ories s cls s="trms">traves>rse the s cls s="trms">materis>alizations of ss cls s="trms">cenes>s or pulsations
ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Foads>

atmospheres havess='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•gradients
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•valences
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•moods
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•sensations
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•tempos
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•lifespans
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
ss="large lg74" stl="font-size:108%"> an atmospheric fill resonates the s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> between the s cls s="trms">materis>al and the potential

ss='lgc'>[my recording s cls s="trms">syms>ptom in 2009 was an atmospheric (not s cls s="trms">syms>ptomatic) attunement; constant recording; take on the texture and s cls s="trms">denss>ity of a background hum; to produce a felt; barely felt sense of something happening in the house;ss='lgc'>]
-my father disappearing into violent, abandoning drinking
span>

every person is a nexus of coms cls s="trms">posits>ional moments
a s cls s="trms">worlds>ing taking place in s cls s="trms">differens>ce

!♥span> ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart talking about her stepson becoming a homeles s
“People like to simplify the s cls s="trms">situs>ation of homeles snes s as if it is a self-evident proces s of abject poverty without a safety net or as if it's just a s cls s="trms">matters> of personal blame or fais cls s="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurs>e. But it is also an attunement to a singular s cls s="trms">worlds>'s texture and shine. The body has to learn to play itself like a musical s cls s="trms">instrus>ment in this s cls s="trms">worlds>'s coms cls s="trms">posits>ions.” ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Luisas>, s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Svens>, s cls s="frds scrmbld">Foads>ss='lgc'>]

(i lack certain learnings in sensory labor of attuning as a zerang s>زرنگs> person)

(do i also have) the habit of a s cls s="trms">worlds>ing

trying to find the rhythm of a new bodily life

find lines of attachment

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>to become describable as a body (by learning how to s cls s="trms">affects> and to be s cls s="trms">affects>ed in this s cls s="trms">worlds> such as it is)<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>

(in my workspan> on s cls s="nms">ajayebs> i am becoming more and more committed to learn ways of) having s cls s="trms">storiess> meant to pull me into the sentience of the s cls s="trms">worlds> i am in ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> give it s cls s="trms">denss>ity, texture<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart (2010) is s cls s="trms">writs>ing an s cls s="nms">s cls s="nms">ajayebs>namehs> of her mother in cancer, stepson becoming a homeles s, and her hometown

______________

ss="large lg82" stl="font-size:102%"> ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]regionality s>دهاتیs> ,s>داهاتیs>
-an event that jumps from landscape to bodies and back (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart)
span> ss='lgc'>--"here"ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{the blue law, the seasons, the color red, place names s>اسم خیابانs> ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>the s cls s="trms">pasts> snaps into the s cls s="trms">presens>t with the recognition of the street namesss='lgc'>], bodily resonances, s cls s="trms">materis>alities bundled together like a sac of leaves, sharp-s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>d collectivities like race, ethnicity, clas s, gender, generation and s cls s="trms">religs>ion, ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “one ventures from home”
-a thing hollowed out by its labyrinth of s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s; inces sant s cls s="trms">inters>linking
span> -a contact s cls s="trms">aesthets>ics
span> -a virtual mapping of things in a state of potential (Thrift)
span> -a sheer recognition of a sheer recognitionss='lgc'>: “we are from around here"ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{as <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>active survivors of the unexpected encounter and knowing s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ers of emergent s cls s="trms">situs>ations<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>} (Roazan)
span> -turns spaces into animate envelopes that produce s cls s="trms">worlds>s (s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sloterdijk)
span> -a form of s cls s="trms">worlds>ingss='lgc'>--an intimate, coms cls s="trms">posits>ional proces s of dwelling that bears, s cls s="trms">gests>ures, s cls s="trms">gests>ates s>آبستنs>, s cls s="trms">worlds>s (ss="ppl">Heidegger)
span> -the labored s cls s="trms">viscs>erality s>احشايىs> of being ‘in’ whatever's happening renders choices, s cls s="trms">aesthets>ics, surfaces and s cls s="trms">materis>alities <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>a part of something<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~ss='lgc'>~s cls s="nms">apas ss>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the sentience, of a s cls s="trms">worlds>ing (lightened by soft ss cls s="trms">cenes>s of the human condition ss='lgc'>[played out inss='lgc'>:
span> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•forms of pleasure ss='at'>@s cls s="frds">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•weaknes s ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Maartens>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•fun ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Elens>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•humor ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Eszters>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•acquiescence s>رضايتs> ,s>تن در دادنs> ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leos>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•self-deprecation s>اظهاربيميلىs> ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Lilis>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the intimacy of s>قبيح دانستنs> deprecating others ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Xiris>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a bad but human habit ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Aelas>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•some wicked little sorcery ss='at'>@קݙ
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ss='lgc'>])
sts> -
span> -an attunement that takes form
span> -a milieu in which the mouth relaxes into a town accent (s>نواحیs>?span>)
span> -a disorientation in the face of what lies beyond (s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas>)
span> -a s cls s="trms">lovs>e affair with light and color (s cls s="frds scrmbld">Foads>)
span> -uncurtained windows (my mother)
span> -
span> -
span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•one recognizable entity with qualities
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•lived modalities
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a s cls s="trms">histos>ry of its s cls s="trms">socis>al production and uses
sts>  ss='lgc'>{elements, ss cls s="trms">cenes>s, encounters, ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>--theyss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{sediment, accrue, circulate, uns cls s="trms">folds>, go flat, ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{saturate a s cls s="trms">situs>ation, fly under radar, pull into alignment, fall out of s cls s="trms">syncs>, ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “a regional s cls s="trms">aesthets>ic hars cls s="trms">denss> into iconic ss cls s="trms">cenes>s of living”

calling to eachother in an intimacy of s cls s="trms">joks>es about the things that can happen in their s cls s="trms">worlds>

voicess='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the tone
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the timing
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the accent
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the phrasing
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the level of force
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the purposefulnes s of the way that voice lives in light, with trees, in the potentiality of a s cls s="trms">laughs>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
consistency of a s cls s="trms">laughs> or an s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>

<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>when the mutenes s of things s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>s cls s="trms">morphs>oses into an s cls s="trms">aesthets>ic s cls s="trms">phenomens>on<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> singularities ins cls s="trms">cites> it

(an actual physical shadow of a state of being)
sing of something amis sss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•depres sion
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•withdrawal
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ins cls s="trms">differens>ce
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•dysfunction
sts>

(my mother in s cls s="nms">Tehrans>ss='lgc'>:) a curtained house reduce the s cls s="trms">gests>ural economy of seeing and being seen to an ocs cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>ded vision in which objects are dark, shadowy outlines with black cores, like a s cls s="trms">worlds> seen through a ripe cataract s>آب مرواریدs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->(the house video project i did ‘city of domes’ 2008 http://www.sinaseifee.com/Cathedral.html was actually about that kind of attunement in my mother's house. i was committed to the description of s cls s="trms">inters>iority; my allegiance was inward. watchful consciousnes s in which one witnes ses the proces sion of inner events of light perception ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>== a sense of lack. sensous grounding of the inner life)
windowss='lgc'>: a s cls s="trms">methods> of s cls s="trms">worlds>ing in itself, a node of lines of s cls s="trms">socis>ality and mood
curtained house ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> sign of something amis s (depres sion, withdrawal, ins cls s="trms">differens>ce, dysfunction) but “the actual physical shadow of a state of being that broke the circuit of a <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">gests>ural economy of seeing and being seen<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>”
in the maner of my motherss='lgc'>: you don't warm up to strs cls s="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>, you know who you are talking to, you watch what is going on, you help those in the circle
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart describing how in her town) lamps were strongly favored over overhead lighting, lending texture and s cls s="trms">specifis>ty to the ss cls s="trms">cenes>s
a pause at a window ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to check in with the uns cls s="trms">folds>ing and pleating of a s cls s="trms">worlds> pulled in and out through the glas s ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- this is not just a practice of looking but a mood<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>, ruminative or touched, for good or bad
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•impulse to venture into a place that pulls watchful bodies out of windows
sts>

ds cls s="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>
has sle
inordinate distance

ss='at'>#on getting lost with s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas>ss='lgc'>: “this is an adventure and I am not alone.” (s cls s="trms">anxis>ous ss='lgc'>+ hervorheben s>رهسپار شدنs>)
(with s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas> ♥span> we experienced) disorientation, displacement, and the experience of getting lost (are foundational sensory modes of living out regionality)
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">wonders>ing outss='lgc'>: palpably unpres cls s="trms">dictas>ble and seductive; a s cls s="trms">specifis>c disorientation
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•half-deliberate exercise of getting yourself lost
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•direct link between intention and effect
sts> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> dragging s cls s="trms">agens>cy into a s>منشورs> prismatic s cls s="trms">affects>ive structure <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>[prismaticss='lgc'>: flickering, gathered into lines, angles of light or motion to attune to, ss='lgc'>=/= simply s cls s="trms">presens>t and knowabless='lgc'>]
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•lost in a loop
sts> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>runss='lgc'>: fueld by (performed) s cls s="trms">anxis>ety, our trip was peppered with moments of disorientation
-the enactment of disorientation poised on the s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> of the accidental
span> -with s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas> somehow we found ourselves in an exercise of orientation/disorientation as it is attaching me to place, s cls s="trms">childs>hood, some buttom line humanity (called Ungeschicktheit) that depends on giving up competence<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> (and often finding oursevels orienting with that rainbow caterpillar disoriented on your forehand)
span> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---our shared ‘should-have-been-obvious'es with s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas>
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas>'s mis shapen forces<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>--somehowss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> reach a plane of expres sivity (for mess='lgc'>--because i s cls s="trms">lovs>e her?span>)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---the event, its s cls s="trms">affects>ive structure, is familiar from s cls s="trms">childs>hood and strangely satisfying, like a loop i had to make, <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>an emotive-s cls s="trms">agens>tive place i had to check in with<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>--?span>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas> ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="frds">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas> forms of belonging
(sometimes that place is a fully-invested connection and weighted, like home)
<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>forms of belongingss='lgc'>: tactile ss='lgc'>+ full of force ss='lgc'>+ tentative ss='lgc'>+ risky /ss='lgc'>--ss='lgc'>{"ss='lgc'>+” ss='lgc'>: are, and, yetss='lgc'>}
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> an s cls s="trms">ecologs>y of paths that s cls s="trms">matters> by means of the things that happen in a s cls s="trms">presens>t in which we are <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>lost yet attuned<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> all the ways that people and things venture out into reals ss='lgc'>[my mother, s cls s="frds">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>, s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas>, ...ss='lgc'>]

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]townss='lgc'>: currents of s cls s="trms">differens>ce, affiliation, s cls s="trms">histos>ry, ordinary dullnes s and comforts, characters and their s cls s="trms">storiess>

psyching out ethnicity

(my old attunementss='lgc'>:) the fear of cockroaches

the miracle mile of computer s cls s="trms">techns>ology

the elitism of the s cls s="trms">histos>rical s cls s="trms">socis>eties

localnes s nests inss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•tastes
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•bodies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•neigborhoods
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a valley
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a state
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a geographical region
sts>

“in each ss cls s="trms">cenes> of the production of s cls s="trms">histos>ry there are events that are storied or otherwise pulled into play” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart)

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart on salem witch trials
the accusations spiraled through families, catching people up like magnetic strips
“wicked little sorceries” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->ss='lgc'>{jumpy moments that suddenly lay the charge of a half-known intensity s cls s="trms">ontos> ordinary people and roads, regionality becomes a wicked little sorcery. a vortex that pulls pos sible forms into life into a moment's alignmentss='lgc'>}, ss='lgc'>{the adjective ‘wicked’ marking <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">exces ss><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> of all kindsss='lgc'>}
astrology
fortune-telling
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>an attunement to specters<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
-a farmer admitted getting into ‘the snare of the devil’ because he had a large family and ‘the s cls s="trms">worlds> went hard with him.’
span>

robustnes s in cold weather

ss='lgc'>[titless='lgc'>]
making of s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s and ss cls s="trms">cenes>s in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>

character or texture of an s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>

(s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is made of elements that were) a thing sensed with certainty (yet made up of a shifting, edgy coms cls s="trms">posits>e)
ss='lgc'>[a sentient shadow called jinn, God, darknes s of a pit, a cycle, etc.ss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>--orss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> made scenic <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>as a site of a s cls s="trms">worlds>'s potential<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (= s cls s="nms">ajayebs>)
ss='lgc'>--the ss cls s="trms">cenes> of a thing's demise

an edgy irruptive event

rules and s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s are OK when separate, but together, a bad combination

(s cls s="frds scrmbld">Karins> ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="frds">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas> ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="frds scrmbld">Hannos>) we were humans together

ss='lgc'>--we adjust ourselves to the done deal that things happenss='lgc'>--

(we find ourselve being) “from here” in a s cls s="trms">worlds> made intimate through forgivenes s, denial, detachment flowing in after a surge of something badss='lgc'>--a close call ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewartss='lgc'>]

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>what are s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s turns (and turn backs) to the ins cls s="trms">articulats>e real?span>

s cls s="trms">hallucins>ogenically down-to-earth (s cls s="frds scrmbld">Aelas>)

what are s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s state of emergent expres sivity ss='lgc'>[todayss='lgc'>]?span> (that tries to gues s and describe ‘what is happening’) <strcls cls s='strcls'>****strcls> things that happen are ins cls s="trms">cites>ments to form <strcls cls s='strcls'>****strcls>
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> intensities become expres sive ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> an s>خونسردs> impas sive corporeality ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> intensities pas s from body to body ss='lgc'>--ss='lgc'>{
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•human bodies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">animals> bodies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•machine bodies
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•bodies of thought
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•ecos cls s="trms">syss>tems
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">viscs>eralities and noumena ss='lgc'>[a thing in itself, as distinguished from a s cls s="trms">phenomens>onss='lgc'>] sps cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> out acros s a vast atmospheric field
sts>
sediments of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•obvious
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•much remarked
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•cryptic ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> favored
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">situs>ationally precise
sts>
how s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is an improvisatory conceptuality?span>
does s cls s="nms">ajayebs>-s cls s="trms">writs>ing takes place in singularity?span> (because every s cls s="trms">worlds>ing is singular and precise ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> the pleasure of its recognition)

ss='at'>#my project in s cls s="nms">apas ss> has been a practice of s cls s="trms">writs>ing that is an experiment in attuning to s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s tune

s cls s="nms">ajayebs> reports ofss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">affects> that has become native<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>, attaching to bodies and s cls s="trms">socis>alities, to an ethos<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
sts>
with s cls s="nms">ajayebs> (with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart) i am learningss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•to approach the tactile coms cls s="trms">posits>ionality of things
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•de-dramatization of academic thought
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•to approach the thing that throws itself together <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>slowly and enigmatically<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'>#andakhtan, andaze
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a descriptive detour (with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a lyrical evocation (with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a s cls s="trms">methods> of awkwardly approaching an object by attuning to it as a thing of <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>promise and contact<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (with ss="ppl">Berlant)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
conceptss='lgc'>: that which attunes itself to things coming into form; is both abstract &span> concrete; actual &span> uns cls s="trms">folds>ing

highly fractured stone of a collective intensity (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="nms">Irans>, and most other places)

______________

s cls s="nms">ajayebs> was/is very much committed to the concretess='lgc'>: that means committed to speculation and curiosity (and not the demystification and uncovering truths that support a well-known picture of the s cls s="trms">worlds>) (it was only to a certain degree in support of the middle age islamic picture)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>a something both animated and inhabitable

how to approach a weighted and reeling ss='lgc'>[walk as if unable to control one's movementsss='lgc'>] s cls s="trms">presens>t?span>
(to name)

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart > ss="ppl">Berlantss='lgc'>:) objects and ss cls s="trms">cenes>s of desire hold promise, keeping whole s cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>sters of s cls s="trms">affects>s magnetized to them
-an individual's abstract yet s cls s="trms">contingens>t desire to feel like he or she is “in” something or can recognize something ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Lilis>, s cls s="frds scrmbld">Aelas>ss='lgc'>]
span>
<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>promise is always promise to be s cls s="trms">presens>t to the ss cls s="trms">cenes>

i am s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> the actual lines of potential that a something coming together calls to mind an sets in motion

exert palpable pres sures

(working with ajayen s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms">equips>s> me with recognizing the) immanent s>نافذs>, obtuse s>پخs>, erratic s>ويلانs> (ss='lgc'>=/= “obvious meaning” of semantic mes sage and s cls s="trms">syms>bolic signification;) to pick up s cls s="trms">denss>ity and texture
(in s cls s="nms">tasavofs>, in s cls s="nms">irans>ian s cls s="trms">poes>try, in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>, in my peer's works, )
-askingss='lgc'>: what potential modes of knowing, relating, and attending to things are als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y somehow persent in them ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> potentiality &span> resonance
span>

(s cls s="trms">accords>ing to ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart) ordinary s cls s="trms">affects>s are more directly compelling than ideologies, as well as more fractious, multiplicitous, and unpres cls s="trms">dictas>ble than s cls s="trms">syms>bolic meaning<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> (in shortss='lgc'>: canon of “Thinking”) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “bigger” structures and underlying causes obscure the ways in which a reeling s cls s="trms">presens>t is s cls s="trms">composs>ed out of heterogeneous and noncoherent singularities
-s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Svens>'s ordinary s cls s="trms">affects>s and DJings ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> his noncoherent singularity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> a nonres cls s="trms">presens>tational theory is needed to addres s them
span> asking s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Svens>ss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•what needs attending to (for you)?span>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•what/who are you in conversation with?span>
sts>

ss='lgc'>[ss cls s="trms">cenes>s and selvesss='lgc'>]<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•layered textures of a ss cls s="trms">cenes>
sts>

ss="large lg18" stl="font-size:114%"> (paying attention to pres sure points of s cls s="nms">ajayebs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==>)
in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>, what is
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•maintained as a prized pos ses sion
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•left to rot
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•hardened into little mythic kernal
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">morphs>ed into a cold dark s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•hopeful
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> things take place as ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]precisionsss='lgc'>: the pres sure points that open s cls s="trms">ontos> potentialities are taken up as apparitional things (surat s>صورتs>) and then sharpened and repeated in coms cls s="trms">posits>ions that labor to describe but also flourish on their own terms

my efforts have not been to finally “know” s cls s="nms">ajayebs>, s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Svens>, or s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sanas>, ss='lgc'>[i have been reluctant to collect them into a good enough s cls s="trms">storys> of what's going on with them,ss='lgc'>] rather to s cls s="trms">fashions> some s cls s="trms">sorts> of addres s that is adequate (and s cls s="trms">fabus>lous) to their form
-does the intensity and texture of my s cls s="trms">routins>es (talks, s cls s="trms">writs>ings, etc.) make s cls s="nms">ajayebs> habitable and animate?span>
span> -in the last year in s cls s="nms">apas ss> i have been training myself to become attuned to what a particular ss cls s="trms">cenes> might offer
span>
ss='at'>#my s cls s="nms">apas ss> s cls s="nms">ajayebs> projectss='lgc'>:
(learning) building an idios cls s="trms">syncs>ratic map of connections between a series of singularities ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to create a contact zone for analysis <strcls cls s='strcls'>****strcls>
ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~?span>-> s cls s="nms">ajayebs>.net, pop-up s cls s="trms">books>ss='lgc'>]
ss='lgc'>[that's why i have been against the popular idea of s cls s="trms">authors>les snes s in s cls s="nms">apas ss>, i am invested in (our) singularities; identity is a zone of attunementss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart calls herself “she” to mark the s cls s="trms">differens>ce between her s cls s="trms">writs>erly identity and the kind of subject that arises as a daydream of simple s cls s="trms">presens>ce
-to touch details that establishes a direct contact
span>
?span>in our group who
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•gazes
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">imagis>nes
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•senses
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•takes on
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•performs
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•as serts (not a flat and finished truth)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•is in a hot persuit of something des cls s="trms">finits>ive ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Lilis>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a point of contract ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Estas>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>
watching and waiting for an event to uns cls s="trms">folds>
the still life that gives a pause ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the s cls s="trms">storys> of many of us

______________

“every achieved s cls s="trms">poes>m inscribes a perceptual sigs cls s="trms">naturs>e in the s cls s="trms">worlds>” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart > ss="ppl">Doty)

s cls s="trms">poes>ms have to be achieved (in the s cls s="trms">socis>al-s cls s="trms">materis>al s cls s="trms">worlds>)
(achieved ss='lgc'>=/= archived)

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s cls s="trms">poes>mss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•etching <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>lines of action<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> and mood acros s the sensations
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•coms cls s="trms">posits>ions at work
sts>

my s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•objects of analysisss='lgc'>: “coms cls s="trms">posits>ional elements of thrown together s cls s="trms">worlds>s”
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•objects of critiquess='lgc'>: “ass cls s="trms">socis>ative account of the modification and reciprocity of bodies and actions, environs, senses, rhythms, tones, and proprioceptions"ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>: sense of the s cls s="trms">posits>ion of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the bodyss='lgc'>]
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•objects of s cls s="trms">datas>basess='lgc'>: “are soicialy, s cls s="trms">poes>tically, s cls s="trms">materis>ally coms cls s="trms">posits>ional”
sts>

the s cls s="trms">socis>al, the subject, s cls s="trms">matters> and event are comprised ofss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">affects>s
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•potentialities
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•energetics
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•attunements
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•orientations
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•disorientations
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•atmospheres
sts> ss='lgc'>=/= finished actualities<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is coms cls s="trms">posits>ional, that means something reaches a point of expres sivity, something throws itself together as s cls s="trms">matters> als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y configured yet enigmatic and provocative
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart helping me talk s cls s="nms">ajayebs>)

(am i working to) bridge between more coms cls s="trms">posits>ions (?span>)

“watching a spider negotiate its unlikely territory”

(useles s concentration)

ss="large lg22" stl="font-size:115%"> s cls s="frds scrmbld">Foads>, s cls s="frds">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sinas>, we were a slipstream of sensations made of all the ways that s cls s="trms">worlds> impres sed itself upon us

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s cls s="trms">worlds>ss='lgc'>: a partial stabilization of practices, capacities, tendencies and affordances in the form of a recursive patterning (Anderson ss='lgc'>+ Harrison > ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mixed-media coms cls s="trms">posits>ions of s cls s="trms">matters> and thought-feeling
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the s cls s="trms">worlds> of s cls s="nms">ajayebs> magnetizes s cls s="trms">materis>alities and forms of alertnes s for me to what's singular and prolific. i am circling through a s cls s="trms">herits>age of (s cls s="nms">irans>ian) romanticism and s cls s="trms">pragmas>tism to arrive (with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart) at “the precision of a s cls s="trms">worlds>ly coms cls s="trms">posits>ion's s cls s="trms">matters>ing forms”
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">worlds>ingss='lgc'>: happens as s cls s="trms">matters> s cls s="trms">poes>ms s cls s="trms">composs>ed of sensations, motion, bodies, and objects (ss='lgc'>--ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Luisas>)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•an attachment to the forms and forces of emergence and concrescence itself ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] in the actuality of this and that
sts>
learning from my mother by moving in the manner of her

we become <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>sentient<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> in making mas sages that courses in-between self and s cls s="trms">worlds>

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s cls s="trms">pragmas>tist (thought)ss='lgc'>: a moment like the front s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> of an advancing wave crest always becoming more than itself

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s cls s="trms">writs>ingss='lgc'>: an experiment that can register years of living out the thing that is just then froming up the s cls s="trms">worlds> as “...”

s cls s="trms">lovs>e folters and blows

s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas>, teaching me, being in s cls s="trms">lovs>e with the surface of the s cls s="trms">worlds>

ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Elens>, she shoutsss='lgc'>: drive! and see what happens to your senses.

Taus sig's “I s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Swear I saw This” is the stuff of s cls s="nms">ajayebs>. he wrote a s cls s="trms">books> about a drawing he made in his notes cls s="trms">books> when he saw what might have been a woman leaning over what looked like a man lying down at the enterence to a freeway tunnel in Medellin in 2006 ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is also about s cls s="trms">writs>ing about what ‘might’ be or have been.

<strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls>a mediation on s cls s="trms">writs>ing and drawing in a horrible s cls s="trms">worlds><strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls>

ss='at'>#my drawings in my notes cls s="trms">books>/papers in our s cls s="nms">apas ss> meetings
-a hand that draws a scence also draws itself into its corporality, conjuring it in the manner of
span> -a line records as for what it leads the doodler to see
span> -“a autobiographical record of a discovery of an event” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a trace and suspension of a wobbly emergence of alertnes s (to what my friend might have said) ss='lgc'>-ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> these are lived abstractions
span>

pos sible paradigms for the convergence of emergencess='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•afs cls s="trms">finits>y ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leos>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•complexity ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="frds scrmbld">Eszters>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(auto)s cls s="trms">poiess>is ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="frds scrmbld">Hodas>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•perception as action ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="frds scrmbld">Elens>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•speculative realism ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="frds scrmbld">Zoumanas>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•radical virtualization ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="frds scrmbld">Aelas>
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> we are all somehow busy (in s cls s="nms">apas ss>) with reorienting to the creativity of thought-action cros sings

life is germinaly s>جرثومه‌ایs> s cls s="trms">aesthets>ic, and the s cls s="trms">aesthets>ic anywhere is als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y political<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Kenney

ss='lgc'>[titless='lgc'>]
s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">storiess> of s cls s="trms">naturs>al and dreamed up things
the ims cls s="trms">materis>al s cls s="trms">matters>ings of supra-personal s cls s="trms">imagis>nal real of s cls s="nms">ajayebs> forms

(s cls s="trms">differens>t names for the same thingss='lgc'>:)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•forms of emergent in the conduct of life (ss="ppl">Nietzsche, ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Foucault attending to the intimate s cls s="trms">relations>s between knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> and power)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">worlds>ing, the mirror play of s cls s="trms">materis>ality and its s cls s="trms">poes>tic coms cls s="trms">posits>ion (ss="ppl">Heidegger)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•planes of expres sivity reaching a point of recognition or force (ss="ppl">Deleuze and ss="ppl">Guattari)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the shimmer (ss="ppl">Barthes)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•rhythm in itself (Lefebvre)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•structures of feeling into political theory (Raymond Williams)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•forms emergent in the conduct of life are ims cls s="trms">materis>al s cls s="trms">matters>ings ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>the contact s cls s="trms">aesthets>ics<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> of s cls s="trms">naturs>al and dreamed up things throwing themselves together (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart)
sts>

s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is a s cls s="trms">literas>lly unblievable image, a s cls s="trms">socis>ality, a muscle, a s cls s="trms">worlds> thrown together in a sensory refrain witnes sed by a s cls s="trms">presens>t subject; collective dreamed up s cls s="trms">naturs>e and s cls s="trms">histos>rical s cls s="trms">presens>ts ripe with rhythms and speeds, with streams of s cls s="trms">matters> and thought; s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is a capacious as semblage

s cls s="nms">ajayebs> s cls s="trms">storiess> aress='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">materis>al-sensory arc of s cls s="trms">histos>ry
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•series of absent/s cls s="trms">presens>t (moments) sensed through forms and events
sts>

lostnes s or resles snes s of drifters

fantasies of potential “home”

(a plce of) abjection of state neglect ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> production of future

(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart's) the middle-clas s mobile citizenship and the proper s cls s="trms">traves>ling subject

s cls s="frds scrmbld">Janinas>'s “i don't know” s
a s cls s="trms">materis>al s cls s="trms">semios>sis of choices

what are s cls s="nms">ajayebs> promises?span>
wtines sings, encounters, timeouts, fantasy, distraction,

a 19th century elite tradition of secular pilgrimage to the sacred

pursuit of see-it-yourselfnes s

a s cls s="trms">spectas>cular form of amnesia <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

(the joints of my pop-up s cls s="trms">books>) spin around fantastic axes

ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewartss='lgc'>: “the state of public transportation in the U.s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>S. is an event in the s cls s="trms">worlds>ing of bodies in motion”
-a landscape abuzz with connectivity
span>

shape-shifter jumping between coms cls s="trms">posits>ion and concrete

my s cls s="nms">apas ss> projectss='lgc'>:
(sharing with you) the pleasure of recognizing a described s cls s="trms">worlds> (in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>)<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
(i can sense the s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s) pleasure in describing the s cls s="trms">animacs>y of forms
-describing a s cls s="trms">worlds> is the pleasure of sensing the incipiency of <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>form in s cls s="trms">matters><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> and fantasy and the effort to draw the lines of form's traces. still palpable even it only s cls s="trms">imagis>ned (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>)
span>
(s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s) heady busines s of making sense out of what happens
-to venture out in the manner of
span> -s cls s="nms">ajayebs> sings an autos cls s="trms">poes>tic refrain scoring and uns cls s="trms">folds>ing
span> -s cls s="trms">gests>uring into form, a magnet burdened with impres sions
span>
textures give way to qualities of form

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>before the blizzardss='lgc'>: the sea s cls s="trms">monsts>er

______________

Xh1IgPomwW8 ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart's experiments coming at the s cls s="trms">phenomens>a of s cls s="trms">worlds>ing through a series of angles organized prismaticallyss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•precision
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•atmosphere
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•attunement
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•refrain s>ترجیع‌بندs> (s cls s="trms">poes>tic fixed form)
sts>
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the tune on which people and things venture out
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a kind of mapping infrastructure
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> lines and distributed biography

ss="large lg78" stl="font-size:117%">
ss='lgc'>[pop-up s cls s="trms">books>ss='lgc'>]
ss='at'>#descriptionss='lgc'>: (s cls s="trms">worlds> is like a) pop-up map of pos sibilities ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>=/= map hylos cls s="trms">morphs>ically s cls s="trms">ontos> meaningss='lgc'>]ss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(cons cls s="trms">denss>ed) points of precision
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•fundamentally divergent s cls s="trms">naturs>e of things that happen ss='lgc'>--promptingss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the mode of s cls s="trms">socis>al s cls s="trms">poiess>is
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a path into continuous variation of s cls s="trms">matters> and form, word and s cls s="trms">worlds>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•(pop-up s cls s="trms">books> made of) mobile and immobile flickering
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a thing that can be physical if the eye is quick enough
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a crystalline image of the deforming of a form
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•bending itself (myself?span>) in refraction (ss='lgc'>=/= intimate register of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> and power)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a conceptual machinery of cutting s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a coms cls s="trms">posits>ional jumping off point; a ‘lifted out of’; a ‘being-moved in’
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•...the s cls s="nms">ajayebs> pop-up s cls s="trms">books> two parallel sps cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing qualities and ss cls s="trms">cenes>s acros s a cartography, registers s cls s="trms">differens>ces in motion
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a coms cls s="trms">posits>ional s cls s="trms">writs>ing (ss='lgc'>=/= res cls s="trms">presens>tational s cls s="trms">methods>) in the effort to keep up with the distributed s cls s="trms">agens>cies of <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>what is throwing together and what is falling apart<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (ss='lgc'>~ s cls s="nms">ajayebs>) ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> it is a practice of trying, in line with my s cls s="trms">lecturs>es, to follow where things (might) go that habits of attunement become as ass cls s="trms">socis>ational logic<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>ss='lgc'>]
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•particulars to become a hinge s>لولاى درs> (opening s cls s="trms">ontos> a s cls s="trms">worlds> throwing together and falling apart)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•mixing of shiny elementsss='lgc'>: <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>flickering s cls s="trms">ontos>logies<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> the expansive mapping of elements in paly
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a cartography of coms cls s="trms">posits>ional elements, formal coms cls s="trms">posits>ions and unmarked ways of being loop around each other
sts>
(27.08.2017 my workspan> on s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is an inquiry into descriptionss='lgc'>:) <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>it is about many s cls s="trms">differens>t forms that something can take and does take<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>+ the things that can be perceived and thought with those things

(attuning to) details in s cls s="nms">ajayebs> loaded with intensities both strange and recognizable (ss='lgc'>=/= stable real)
a mode of perception that walks around an enigmatic object
an hour
a river
a walk
a deflating frog

far from being “after the fact,” my pop-up s cls s="trms">books> involves multiplicity of bodies, characters and s cls s="trms">materis>alities to approach ‘description’ as “speculative theory in practice of how a s cls s="trms">worlds> works” like s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s work of “engendering a plane of prolific expres sivity”

(s>عجایب المخلوقاتs> / s>عجایب نامهs>) ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>: a once percepted thing on the threshold of sense in the prisma of s cls s="trms">socis>al s cls s="trms">poiess>is producing a cartography of what might be happening in a s cls s="trms">worlds> as an object of coms cls s="trms">posits>ion

fireflyss='lgc'>: a cons cls s="trms">denss>ed point of precision one after another

s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is made in citing repetitions and s cls s="trms">differens>ces

(with ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewartss='lgc'>:) s cls s="nms">ajayebs> was once “the cutting s cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s of a harsh s cls s="trms">worlds> in a state of uneven emergence, an ambient mapping of the not-yet or as-if of things becoming s cls s="trms">phenomens>on” which itself became a repetitive impulse to s cls s="trms">storys>

i can't find a better kind of description of what s cls s="nms">ajayebs> does than ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart describing ‘description’ that s cls s="trms">literas>lly puts a point thingsss='lgc'>: “the expres sivity of what happens to things throwing together in words is a kind of description attuned to what does not completely uns cls s="trms">folds> but instead melds together with other unnamed but palpable things collected like a field of mineable resources and shiny afterthoughts.”

things throwing together in words ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> expres sivity
s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>: collected (unnamed but palpable) things like mineable resources and shiny afterthoughts

s>پس انديشهs>

______________

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]perspectivess='lgc'>: (an attending, enduring s cls s="trms">presens>ce, a coms cls s="trms">posits>ional node,) perspectival s cls s="trms">agens>cy in which things jump into s cls s="trms">relations> but remain unglued<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart)

...acros s a field of subjects-objects-bodies-s cls s="trms">trajects>ories-s cls s="trms">affects>s

realm of killed off things

new figures i am learning from ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart's
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•“throwing together”
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•“manner of”
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>

(in s cls s="nms">ajayebs>) the whaless='lgc'>: throwing together of the s cls s="trms">phenomens>a of fish and water, sailing, mood, atmosphere, and sensory charge

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s descriptive apparausesss='lgc'>: a mutating realism of a certain vision of light meeting movement

ss="large lg54" stl="font-size:114%"> ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>: things that were once named, perhaps s cls s="trms">writs>ten down, (s cls s="trms">differens>tly than now,) through some kind of trickery (called s cls s="trms">citas>tion,) and then s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>stasized (sps cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads> throughout a body) into circulation (s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ings, s cls s="trms">translats>ions, etc.) are raised, incised, made singular and charged
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">storiess>/reports ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= forms of co-recognition, something witnes sed that gets cooked down into something saucy<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">writs>ingss='lgc'>: a more-than-res cls s="trms">presens>tational s cls s="trms">methods> of s cls s="trms">writs>ing attuned to the qualities of s cls s="trms">phenomens>a
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="nms">ajayebs>'s s cls s="trms">fabus>lations (appear asss='lgc'>:)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦(atmospheric) traces
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦(momentary) might-have-beens
sts>
s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'> = people ss='lgc'>+ s cls s="trms">matters> ss='lgc'>+ real ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>point of figuring coms cls s="trms">posits>ional reals<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

fast-forwarded throught great arcs of <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">histos>ry-in-itelf<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> or <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>place-in-itself<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> in The Time Machine (2002 film)

ss="large lg82" stl="font-size:101%"> what are the river and field doing now?span>

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]theoryss='lgc'>: drawn through s cls s="trms">writs>ing into the ways that people and things venture out into ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]realsss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a recursive haeccity (ss="ppl">Deleuze and ss="ppl">Guattari)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•transversal arrays of qualities or activities which, like musical refrains, give order to s cls s="trms">materis>als and s cls s="trms">situs>ations, human bodies and brains ins cls s="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clus>ded, as actions undertaken act-back to shape muscles and bone senses (Anderson ss='lgc'>+ Harrison)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a s cls s="trms">matters>ing that is about the (s cls s="trms">contingens>t and temporary) becoming-determinate (and becoming-indeterminate) of s cls s="trms">matters> and meaning (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Barad)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•built out of s cls s="trms">differens>ce and repetition (ss="ppl">Deleuze)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">composs>ed of potentiality and los s (ss="ppl">Berlant)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•lean toward that which exists singularly as event, or as a gap, without ground or against the background of nothing (Dewsbury)
sts>
ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]realityss='lgc'>: a rhythmic alteration between objects, events, and wordsss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---an uncreated s cls s="trms">worlds>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>---ss='lgc'>{res cls s="trms">verbs> between word and s cls s="trms">worlds> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]worlingss='lgc'>: a transs cls s="trms">posits>ion of the existing knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y pos sible in a s cls s="trms">joks>e or a s cls s="trms">gests>ure ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> singularities gathering and dis solving, ss='at'>#toolsss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•snapshots (shoot of an s cls s="trms">affects>)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">ficts>ocriticism (s cls s="trms">ficts>ion ss='lgc'>+ theory ss='lgc'>+ criticism; a name for those “critical” inventions which belong to s cls s="trms">literas>ture while deforming its limits)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•sensory ethnography (ethnographic engagement based on curiosity and attachment) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> drawing
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> paths lit up in a rhythm s cls s="trms">inters>rupted
(as an aritist) you can make anything of anything, the s cls s="trms">questions>s is, what is it, what is it doing, what is in this consistency of rhythm?span>ss='lgc'>}

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]s cls s="trms">socis>alss='lgc'>: comprised of entities that are both s cls s="trms">presens>t and absent (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> s cls s="nms">ajayebs>), atmospheres, s cls s="trms">affects>s, virtual s cls s="trms">mems>ories, hauntings, and that these are themselves moments of endurance (or not?span>), instants of the holding together of the disparate itself
(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart > Doel)

ss='lgc'>[!<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart describing the colorss='lgc'>] <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>redss='lgc'>: “it moves through streams and tendrils into an ass cls s="trms">socis>ational register of connections and s cls s="trms">differens>ces, s cls s="trms">materis>als and noumena s>وجود مجردs>, the coagulation s>دلمه شدنs> and diffusions of lines of influence and bits of s cls s="trms">matters>.”
(in my visual art studies we were given rednes s as a s cls s="trms">syms>bolic element in a res cls s="trms">presens>tational order and a s cls s="trms">matters>-of-fact) ss='lgc'>=/= state-of-sensory-alert, rednes s as an actual coms cls s="trms">posits>ion spun into res cls s="trms">presens>tations, objects, and states of sensory alert
“ss='lgc'>[...ss='lgc'>] a germinal s cls s="trms">aesthets>ic. a tendril of practices and sensibilities gathered into an energetics of form
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•black sky and ocean ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> limit, outline, elemental flux, s cls s="trms">matters> waiting formles sly
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•white ice and snow ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> stasis, shape and form, a blanknes s that challenges coms cls s="trms">posits>ion, the s cls s="trms">transits>orines s
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•red ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the feebly real, the long, low-frequency wave-lenght of the dying stars, the s cls s="trms">pasts>, the effort to fix dead reality in a cast <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•green ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> plants that glare with a harsh reality, the violence at the heart of the s cls s="trms">worlds> we inhabite
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•blue ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a limited, temporary succes s in fixing experience in a pattern
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts>

a landscape animated by the primarines s of color ss='lgc'>=/= Molenbeek

american indians became “red” through a complex s cls s="trms">semios>tics of encounters with colonists

...who knows what kinds of desires, fears and dead ends

(pay attention to ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Stewart s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists> making s cls s="trms">narrats>ivess='lgc'>:)
events, sites, actors, stakes, consequences, properties, competences, modalities, attunements, velocities

... a s cls s="trms">worlds> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> ephemeral sparks ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> an atmosphere ss='lgc'>==pulledss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> qualities of s cls s="trms">socis>ality, personality and s cls s="trms">languages> out of people ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>] ss='lgc'>==createdss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> spaces of care, territoriality, order, s cls s="trms">horrors>

the stark mantras of res cls s="trms">presens>tational critiquess='lgc'>: that the play of abstract s cls s="trms">categs>ories (real/fabricated, s cls s="trms">naturs>e/human habitat, s cls s="trms">wilds>/tame, red/white, high/low, etc.) bloodles sly determine s cls s="trms">worlds>s or adequately describe them ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> ss='lgc'>{ everything is politicalss='lgc'> = to always know what the political is ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ‘political’ ss='lgc'>: something that exists in the big picture of broader significance, something strongly obvious (but not to most people!) that meanings can be automatically as signed to things and are the basis of those things’ value ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->!ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Shariati">Alis>

the effect of context

s cls s="trms">matters>s of coms cls s="trms">posits>ion, each with a “we”ss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•feeble s>نحيفs>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•experimental
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•eccentric ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="frds scrmbld">Elens>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•habitual ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> my mother
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•generous
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">gests>ural ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•half turned away
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•reached the expres sivity of a mood, a tone of voice
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•do they lighten things or load them down?span>
sts>
...a coms cls s="trms">posits>ion made explicit in the figure of <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>the active survivor<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> and <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>the knowing s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>er of impacts<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> a watchfulnes s-turned-impulse that ends not on meaning but in the haptic, multi-angled, sensorimotor qualities of a s cls s="trms">worlds>'s uns cls s="trms">imagis>nable detail
(ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Varinias>) qualities sensorimotor s cls s="trms">inters>actions with environments that are not reducible either to thoughts and s cls s="trms">imagis>ningsss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>richnes sss='lgc'>: a ss cls s="trms">cenes> spied provides ins cls s="trms">finits>e detail beyond what you can invent ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'>#s cls s="trms">exces ss>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>bodilines sss='lgc'>: the motions of the body s cls s="trms">affects> sensory input
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>insubordinatenes sss='lgc'>: the s cls s="trms">worlds> has a life of its own; things moved by themselves
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>grabbines sss='lgc'>: sensory impacts s cls s="trms">matters> apart from their cognition
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> having a s cls s="trms">phenomens>al experience is having s cls s="trms">skils>ls with these qualities<strcls cls s='strcls'>**strcls> ss='lgc'>[ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Hodas>ss='lgc'>]

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an s cls s="trms">ecologs>y of potentialy marked by violence and care

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ss='lgc'>[ss="ppl">Albertiss='lgc'>]

we mightss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•provide a better understanding
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•provoke novel realities/s cls s="trms">ontos>logoes (to emerge from s cls s="trms">materis>al)
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•provoke an understanding in the context of the everyday
sts>
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>(ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Latour, ss="ppl">Whitehead, Lawss='lgc'>:) s cls s="trms"nttrm="search">arches>ological entityss='lgc'> = s cls s="trms">ontos>logical entity (by s cls s="trms">naturs>e) ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> productive of reality

to focus on practices in which all pos sible elements of the proces s must be understood as active and creative (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> ss='at'># s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms">equips>s>ment s cls s="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists>)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>“to take s cls s="trms">serios>usly"ss='lgc'> = to accept at a fundamental level the truth of a claim and to doggedly follow its consequences
(form an s cls s="trms">ontos>logical and conceptual perspective)
(ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> dogs follow consequences)
(indigenous thought is treated as a theoretical discourse on the s cls s="trms">naturs>e of reality ss='lgc'>=/= an s cls s="trms">inters>esting s cls s="trms">inters>pretation of it)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> to take s cls s="trms">serios>usly the indigenous s cls s="trms">s cls s="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metas>physs>ics of multis cls s="trms">naturs>alism ss='lgc'>[or s cls s="nms">ajayebs>ss='lgc'>] as a philosophical s cls s="trms">inters>vention ss='lgc'>: to trace out its effects on ss='lgc'>[ourss='lgc'>] concepts

ss="large lg50" stl="font-size:114%"> multiculturalismss='lgc'>: a single objective universe and many cultural s cls s="trms">inters>pretations of it
multis cls s="trms">naturs>alismss='lgc'>: multiple universes and a single mode of s cls s="trms">inters>pretation (ss="ppl">Viveiros ss="ppl">de Castro)
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> perspective ss='lgc'>=/= a s cls s="trms">differens>t “point of view” on (the same way of knowing or seeing) qualitatively s cls s="trms">differens>t s cls s="trms">worlds>s ss='lgc'>}ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> s cls s="trms">situs>ated knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges>s, ss='at'>#elephant parable

noss='lgc'>: no ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> de-s cls s="trms">histos>ricizing effects of imposing psycho-cognitive shamanic models of art
no ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> purely cognitive significance (of...)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>miniaturess='lgc'>: a ritual activity, a grave offering, a s cls s="trms">syms>pathetic magic, a capture of the power of the os cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>inal
ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> common s cls s="trms">storiess> about how miniatures can be s cls s="trms">inters>preted in archaeology

(s cls s="trms">ontos>logical research approach)_
scale is utterly important because “careful attention to alternative s cls s="trms">ontos>logies of scale introduces new s cls s="trms">inters>oretive pos sibilities for...” (ss="ppl">Alberti)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">ontos>logyss='lgc'>: the sense of a real, solid s cls s="trms">worlds>
ss='thdf'>for example the s cls s="trms">questions> of “the substance of the s cls s="trms">worlds>”, everyone has answered that als cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>y (reiterating that which makes sense) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> concept of real ss='lgc'>--(invent)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">cosmos>logy (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- this is not a relativizing s cls s="trms">gests>ure) ss='lgc'>==(force)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> production of new concepts and s cls s="trms">materis>alities
ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Eszters>ss='lgc'>: importance of asking the s cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>ht s cls s="trms">questions>sss='lgc'>: unles s we do, the answers make no s cls s="trms">differens>ce (ss="ppl">Grosz)

scopes and scales ()ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “dimensionally manis cls s="trms">folds> weave of knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> s cls s="trms">worlds>s” (ss="ppl">ss="ppl">Haraway ss='lgc'>+ ss="ppl">Katie) are at stake inss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">scies>nce display
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•TV series
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="nms">ajayebs>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•pet video
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•emergent transdisciplinary scholarship
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•transmedia commercial s cls s="trms">apparatuss>es
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•
sts> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>with s cls s="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads>ing/enacting s cls s="nms">ajayebs> what is at stake is the “effectivities in realizing knowls cls s="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges> s cls s="trms">storiess>” ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">epistems>ological s cls s="trms">affects>s

ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]scale
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•operates through intensity and not size
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•emergent and performative (Jones), (juxtas cls s="trms">posits>ions of) scales ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> “s cls s="trms">inters>esting psychological and s cls s="trms">phenomens>ological effects”
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•a flat approach to scale does not separate the s cls s="trms">socis>al and s cls s="trms">materis>al, or the micro from the macro ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]sizess='lgc'>: (emerges as a pos sibility, as) one means of enacting the potential of another scale; accidental effect of intensityss='lgc'>: s cls s="trms">materis>alization of intensity and s cls s="trms">exces ss> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> humanity<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•is about intensity and s cls s="trms">exces ss> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> potential for visibility/invisibility and proximity to the os cls s="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs>inal condition of uns cls s="trms">differens>tiated, intensive s cls s="trms">differens>ce (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=?span> s cls s="nms">hayulas>; perfect formles s form)<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>; intensive s cls s="trms">differens>t “h” of s cls s="nms">hayulas> s>هیولاs>...
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦s>هs>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦s>‍ه‍s>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦s>‍هs>
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst2">◦s>ه‍s>
sts>

ss="ppl">Alberti argues for a form of s cls s="trms">ontos>logical s cls s="trms">syms>metry between the theory we bring to bear on our evidence and the way that s cls s="trms">materis>al acts as evidence (ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sebas>)

<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>[mesopotamiass='lgc'>] chronically unstable bodies
a corpus of s cls s="trms">zoos>-s cls s="trms">anthrops>o-bios cls s="trms">morphs>ic artifacts and s cls s="trms">traps>s
s cls s="trms">anthrops>os cls s="trms">morphs>ism manifest in distorted corporeal forms and appendages s>ضميمهs>

all s cls s="trms">sorts>s of dualism are at work in the archaeological s cls s="trms">imagis>nary of the region from Amazon to the Andes

marking a body ss='lgc'>=/= res cls s="trms">presens>tation of that act

ss="ppl">Alberti's arguments”
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•the fantastic forms, bulges, protuberances s>برامدگىs>, and other modifications of bodies and pots expres s a general concern with “shoring up” or “fixing” a s cls s="trms">worlds> conceived of as inherently volatile s>فرارs> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> bodies (pots and people) were considered “chronically unstable”<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>{pots ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> intentional activation of s cls s="trms">affects>ive capacities in the clay; pots and bodies are “grown” in he same wayss='lgc'>}
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•chaotically scale-changing, their scale is one of intensity and s cls s="trms">exces ss>ivenes s (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> figure-ground s cls s="trms">relations>ship between visible/invisible, body/soul)
sts>
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>perspectivismss='lgc'>: all s cls s="trms">species>s potentially share a way of knowing with humans. their “es sence” or “soul” is human ss='lgc'>: they see themselves as human and others as s cls s="trms">animals>s
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>to occupy a bodyss='lgc'> = to have a perspective on the s cls s="trms">worlds><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•an intensive s cls s="trms">differens>ce that carries the human/nonhuman s cls s="trms">differens>ce to the inside of every existing thing ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> there is no a s cls s="trms">priors>i reason for everything not being a subject ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> also ss="ppl">ss="ppl">s s='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=S'>Sadrass='lgc'>]
sts>
ss='lgc'>[<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>ss='lgc'>]bodiesss='lgc'>:
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•bundles of s cls s="trms">affects> ss='lgc'>: collection of s cls s="trms">affects>s bundled into an unstable bodily form
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•carrying out s cls s="trms">specifis>c tasks
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•sensing the s cls s="trms">worlds> in particular way
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•sharing capacities and habits with others in what keeps a body as it is and maintains its similarity to other bodies in a group
sts> sts cls s="lsts lst1">•coincident with subjectivity<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> you need a body to know
sts> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> (particular s cls s="trms">differens>tiation of a bodyss='lgc'>:) body ornaments, clothing, sex, and other so-called cultural markings are no s cls s="trms">differens>t in kind from the so-called s cls s="trms">naturs>al markers of bodily s cls s="trms">differens>ce and capacityss='lgc'>: <strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls>clothes ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= claws ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= s cls s="trms">affects>s<strcls cls s='strcls'>***strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> “sign and substance of capacities and diss cls s="trms">posits>ions” (ss="ppl">Alberti > Hugh-Jones > ss="ppl">Viveiros ss="ppl">de Castro)
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>marking, molding, painting, adorning, clothing, piercing, and otherwise working on body ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~=> to fix a body ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> to stabilize an otherwise s cls s="trms">wilds>ly unpres cls s="trms">dictas>ble perspective and s cls s="trms">worlds><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>body surfaces of spirits and humans are often brilliant and intensely marked<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">exces ss>ive corporeality ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> potency of the s cls s="trms">embods>ied subjectss='lgc'>: their “scale” ss='lgc'>[in timespace tey-ol-arzss='lgc'>] as efficacious beings, s cls s="trms">denss>e with s cls s="trms">affects>ive capacities, (the body that is marked with tey-ol-arz ins cls s="trms">cites>s s cls s="trms">embods>ied subjects)ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">traps><strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> (operates along scale) ss='lgc'>[sufi's termporal “scale” (in tey-ol-arz s>طی‌الارضs>) as her/his efficacious being, s cls s="trms">denss>e with s cls s="trms">affects>ive capacities for ss="ppl">Attar in Tazkirat al-Awliya (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> also relevant for pit-s cls s="trms">storys> ss='at'>#s cls s="trms">meass>urement) ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> the figure of the moving sufi acros s scales of spacetime on geo, works as a s cls s="trms">traps> precisely along this scale ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">materis>alization of intensity and s cls s="trms">exces ss> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> humanityss='lgc'>]
<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> bodies ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>~= artefacts ss='lgc'>: sites of subjectivity <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>

stromatolite rock fire [source: http://www.orstentype.com/?page_id=11] <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>soulss='lgc'>: the capacity to transformss='lgc'>: a s cls s="trms">matters> of chaning bodies

dead ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> s cls s="trms">ancests>or
(transformation is an s cls s="trms">ontos>logical eventss='lgc'>: “ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->”), ss='at'>@s cls s="frds scrmbld">Hodas>
for Wari to have a soul is a sign of ds cls s="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers>, a sign that some transformation (of perspective) is imminent ss='lgc'>[ss='lgc'>]

s cls s="nms">ajayebs> is full of s cls s="trms">storiess> of instabilityss='lgc'>: one's soul is always vulnerable to s cls s="trms">ontos>logical predation by another spirit or person ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> one's perspective can always change

“cors cls s="trms">respons>d” is keyword in working with s cls s="trms">ontos>logies ss='lgc'>: ‘s cls s="trms">inters>pretations cors cls s="trms">respons>d with stable s cls s="trms">ontos>logies’

(this we must take things as ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->) s cls s="trms">ontos>logical ss='lgc'>=/= analogical (ss='lgc'><ss='lgc'>-- res cls s="trms">presens>tation of a s cls s="trms">worlds>, an ego, etc.)

how to approach (s cls s="nms">irans>ian miniatur and) miniaturization?span>
miniaturization have powerful and often unsettling (because paradoxical) cognitive and perceptual effects<strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls> ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> these effects (in the case of figurines) enable people to enter “other s cls s="trms">worlds>s” (to think, manipulate and influence)
(in figurines) all the senses are implicated ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>==> “perceptually explosive objects” (Bailey)
sts cls s="lsts lst1">•s cls s="trms">ontos>-transformative effect of miniaturization
sts> <strcls cls s='strcls'>*strcls>s cls s="trms">anthrops>ocentrism of the scale of the human ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>--> default s cls s="trms">ontos>logical scale, self-evident human-sized body (ss='lgc'>ss='lgc'>-->?span>! the little bike i gave s cls s="frds scrmbld">Elens>, did i propose that kind of critique?span>)
-which organs are emphasized in s cls s="nms">irans>ian miniatuspan>[...]