[...] of a powerful sub="trms">mission and the ability to carry off the disappearance of ="trms">agency or ego kick, subjecting oneself (to the other) before becoming subject.
='lgc'>[(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward) woman='lgc'>: vibratory being='lgc'>: sensation ='lgc'><~~(creative-="trms">response)='lgc'>~~> environment='lgc'>]

زن شو

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wunderkammer, cabinet of curiosities, is about the ="trms">world unfinished

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the prefixial ="trms">nature of ‘trans-’ ='lgc'>: across, into, through ='lgc'>: a pre="trms">positional force
Trans='strcls'>* foregrounds and intensifies the prehensile (گیرکننده), prefixial (pishvandi پیشوندی) ="trms">nature of ‘trans-’ and implies a suffixial (pasvandi پسوندی) space of attachment that is ="trms">simultaneously ="trms">generalizable and abstract yet its function can be enacted only when taken up by particular objects (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward ='and'>& ="ppl">Weinstein)
trans='strcls'>* (pre="trms">positionally oriented) “is the process through which thingness and beingness are constituted” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] “marking the ‘with,’ ‘through,’ ‘of,’ ‘in,’ and ‘across’ that make life possible”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">materializes pre="trms">positional movements

the ‘human on board’ no longer possesses critical purchase, it no longer “delineates a normative standard of legibility,” “the elite status of being considered fully human” (how is it in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?)
(biopolitics of) de-, in-, non-, trans-

a ‘turn’ (= a cause to move, a ="trms">difference in ="trms">position ='lgc'>==> a change in ="trms">nature) enables creatures to migrate from the margins to the center of theoretical ="trms">interrogatives

="ppl">="ppl">Haraway prefering (the energetic expressive capacity of) ‘with’ over ‘and’
="prgrph">-syntactical problem of ‘and’ raised to the power of n
="prgrph">-she puts the emphasis on with-ness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to reinvigorate (tajdide niru تجدید نیرو) attention to ="trms">materiality but also ="trms">matter's ="trms">contingent force ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">intersectional ="trms">demands of assemblage
“and...and...and”
trans, speciating ="trms">technology, the drive for suffixial endpoints


(pre="trms">positional operations on suffixiated) assemblages of spacetime="trms">matterings


="large lg1" stl="font-size:128%"> ='strcls'>**** terrible violence is directed to the non-existing, the never having existed


‘='strcls'>*’ (the asterisk) is paratactic (faghede ravabet فاقد روابط) (='lgc'>=/= conjunction,) it designates multiplication, it repurposes, displaces, renames, replicates, and intensifies terms, adding yet more texture, increased vitalization
="prgrph">-it is a ="trms">sensuous node
="prgrph">-making (my points) a com="trms">posite of ="trms">affects and percepts ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speciation is always a cultivated ="trms">response ='strcls'>***

='strcls'>*="trms">trap='lgc'>: “means also mouth, or mode of utterance; it is the “O” curve of lips and throat that makes sounds phonic and names the apprehension of becoming bodily. A ="trms">trap, in weaving, is also a break in the th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads, an unraveling, loosening, unwinding that opens up space. When we think of spider webs, ="trms">trap is a silk net, a sticky mesh that registers sensation. For the spider, its ="trms">trap is its nearby-ness, its where-ness, its with-ness. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure;='lgc'>] (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward ='and'>& ="ppl">Weinstein)
="prgrph">-how, then, might we hear the phrase “="trms">trapped in the wrong body” as less about authenticity (fixity and normativity) than about ='strcls'>*textures of spacetime='strcls'>* (prefixial movements)='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[harkate johari حرکت جوهری ='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? harkate pishvandi حرکت پیشوندی='lgc'>]._/'='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra


(="ppl">Susan ="ppl">Stryker warns) that transsexuals, in their capacity to be ="trms">monstrous, arise, like Frankenstein's creature, from the operating tables of their (re)birth as “something more, and something other” than their medical service providers may have intended or ="trms">imagined
more ='and'>& other ='lgc'>=/= with ='and'>& of


='strcls'>*gender='lgc'>: ="trms">sociopoliical taxomomizing ="trms">ontologically distinct form (entwined) with enfleshed ="trms">mattering


='strcls'>*="trms">animality='lgc'>: ="trms">sensuous ="trms">materialities, com="trms">posites of ="trms">affects and percepts, ="trms">specificities but remain thresholds of emergence, individuation that prompt ="trms">sensuous ="trms">intra- and ="trms">interchange ='lgc'>==> provocations

(Weaver, Kelley, ="ppl">Weinstein, ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward, Kier, Franklin='lgc'>:) ="trms">animal ="trms">difference announces a radically singular Other marked by sexual ="trms">differences

“trans-infused apprehensions and engagements with the expansive ="trms">world of possibility opened up by non-="trms">anthropocentric perspectives.”


trans='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ ="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (alternative ways of envisioning) futures of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">embodiment
="lsts lst1">•="trms">aesthetics
="lsts lst1">•biopolitics
="lsts lst1">•climates
="lsts lst1">•ethics


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


critical ="trms">animal studies has(='qstn'>?) the transformative power to ="trms">interrupt humanism and its sexually ="trms">differentiated legacy by challenging the boundaries between, and existence of, ="trms">differentiated, essential kinds.

robust, nondua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic theories of human/="trms">animal

Critical Life Studies
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">species panic='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the concept of the homosexual panic defense) ='lgc'>{androids='lgc'>: ="trms">species ='lgc'>+ trans ="trms">embodiment='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**genuine ="trms">animals='strcls'>** ="trms">transitivity='lgc'>: “shifting ="trms">positions on a series of spectrums, where human, ="trms">animal, and machine bleed into one another” ='lgc'>[="ppl">Huebert='lgc'>]='lgc'>--='lgc'>{"it”='lgc'>: ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right of gendered pronouns='lgc'>--"it” ascribed to artificial ="trms">animals and androids ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the distinction between “genuine” and “inauthentic”; “it” leaves us in a perpetual ="trms">species panic='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">animal ="trms">symbolic='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the construction of the human located in sexual ="trms">difference ='lgc'>[="ppl">Nurka='lgc'>]
it seems with ‘human’ one always spring inexorably back to sex ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sexual ="trms">difference and its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins in the problematic of ="trms">difference
="prgrph">-individuating ="trms">difference ='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? pre="trms">positional singularities='lgc'>--the potentialities to differ that are not yet stabilized into the ="trms">categories of an individual
='lgc'>[="ppl">Nurka > ="ppl">Colebrook='lgc'>] concept of “="trms">transitive in="trms">difference” transforms the self/other pairing beyond the ="trms">demands of recognition and ="trms">relation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (all-too-often) ="trms">animal ="trms">difference serves to secure human sameness ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ouroboros ="trms">abyssal ="trms">beastliness='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontological ="trms">difference serves only to erect man as the being for whom “the ="trms">world is nothing more than the arena whereby he recognizes his proper ="trms">difference,”
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">animal ="trms">techne='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Jackass ='and'>& ="trms">Wildboyz ='lgc'>: ="trms">animality is ="trms">viscerally, painfully, and transformatively encountered or enacted by the human body ='lgc'>[="ppl">Seymour='lgc'>], sliding down the ="trms">animacy hierarchy ='lgc'>[="ppl">Chen='lgc'>], ="trms">gesturing toward various ="trms">interconnected trans-(="trms">species) corporalities performed in (Critical Life Studies texts and) ="trms">Wildboyz (='lgc'>=/= elite status of human) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Barad's) ethics of ="trms">mattering ='lgc'>: connections of human and nonhuman life always al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready taking place on bodies='strcls'>*****


transdisciplinarity='lgc'>: a self-adaptive complexity ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] foreground='lgc'>[ing='lgc'>] the transduction of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as it passes across and between the ="trms">interpretive and ="trms">methodological planes of ="trms">composing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge. (="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King)

“distributed being and cognition”

...attendant mammalian attachment

individuating in="trms">difference

(="trms">anthropo="trms">cene's iteration of the) expansionist logic of manifest destiny


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="prgrph">-="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
="prgrph">-trans-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (="ppl">="ppl">Hayward)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]trans- ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*promise of moving across without holding tightly to the locations that it is moving from='strcls'>*, crossing of spacetime, a movement within ="trms">relationship ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? in="trms">heritance, the experience of being tied to a long string that is stretching and is connected to somewhere='lgc'>]
coalitional thinking='lgc'> = trans-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='lgc'>~= ='mywrk'>my work='lgc'>: heuristic ='lgc'>+ trans-) a thought here, then a reflection, perhaps a ="trms">question that prompts another ="trms">story, and probably a walk full of pointing and talking, walking on scales ='lgc'>[on bur="trms">dens and atrocities of abundance='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> I use='lgc'>:) ="trms">translation, trans="trms">figuration, transformation, trans-="trms">differentiation, transcription
="prgrph">-what happens to knowing when it is crossing, trans- ="trms">materializes that process of movements, ='strcls'>*marks the where-ness of with-ness='strcls'>*

my ="trms">stories of getting to know one another and recognizing af="trms">finities in ="nms">apass

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> environmental injustices always play themselves on bodies of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges and ="trms">histories as well

="prgrph">-how does my ="trms">lectures, a heuristic way of knowing through trans-, could or should “provide insights” into injustices and inequalities='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how i have, as an ="nms">iranian or foreigner, ="trms">differently marked body and ="trms">history entry points into understanding and acting on problems='qstn'>?


neritic
oceanic
benthic

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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:129%"> (you and things are) surprise ='lgc'>=/= accident

dispossessions. dislocations. disease. greed. racism[...]