[...]us, 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 lss="trms">imagined
more lss='and'>& other <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> with lss='and'>& of


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


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

<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (Weaver, Kelley, l clss="ppl">Weinsteinl>, l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Haywardl>l>, Kier, Franklin<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) lss="trms">animal lss="trms">difference announces a radically singular Other marked by sexual lss="trms">differences

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

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

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


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

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

Critical lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Life Studies
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">species panicls clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> the concept of the homosexual panic defense) <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>androids<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">species <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> trans lss="trms">embodiment<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>**ls>genuine lss="trms">animalsls clss='strcls'>**ls> lss="trms">transitivity<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “shifting lss="trms">positions on a series of spectrums, where human, lss="trms">animal, and machine bleed into one another” <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Huebertl><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>"it”<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> exlss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right of gendered pronouns<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>"it” ascribed to artificial lss="trms">animals and androids <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the distinction between “genuine” and “inauthentic”; “it” leaves us in a perpetual lss="trms">species panic<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">animal lss="trms">symbolicls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the construction of the human located in sexual lss="trms">difference <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Nurkal><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> it seems with ‘human’ one always spring inexorably back to sex <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> sexual lss="trms">difference and its olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins in the problematic of lss="trms">difference
lss="prgrph">-individuating lss="trms">difference <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc>lss='qstn'>? prelss="trms">positional singularities<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>the potentialities to differ that are not yet stabilized into the lss="trms">categories of an individual
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Nurkal> > l clss="ppl">Colebrookl><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> concept of “lss="trms">transitive inlss="trms">difference” transforms the self/other pairing beyond the lss="trms">demands of recognition and lss="trms">relation <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (all-too-often) lss="trms">animal lss="trms">difference serves to secure human sameness <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> ouroboros lss="trms">abyssal lss="trms">beastliness<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">ontological lss="trms">difference serves only to erect man as the being for whom “the lss="trms">world is nothing more than the arena whereby he recognizes his proper lss="trms">difference,”
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">animal lss="trms">technels clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> Jackass lss='and'>& lss="trms">Wildboyz <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">animality is lss="trms">viscerally, painfully, and transformatively encountered or enacted by the human body <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Seymourl><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, sliding down the lss="trms">animacy hierarchy <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">Chenl><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, lss="trms">gesturing toward various lss="trms">interconnected trans-(lss="trms">species) corporalities performed in (Critical lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Life Studies texts and) lss="trms">Wildboyz (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> elite status of human) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Baradl>l>'s) ethics of lss="trms">mattering <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> connections of human and nonhuman life always allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready taking place on bodiesls clss='strcls'>*****ls>
lsts>

transdisciplinarity<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a self-adaptive complexity <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> foreground<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ing<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> the transduction of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as it passes across and between the lss="trms">interpretive and lss="trms">methodological planes of lss="trms">composing knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge. (l clss="ppl">Katiel> l clss="ppl">Kingl>)

“distributed being and cognition”

...attendant mammalian attachment

individuating inlss="trms">difference

<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:112%"> (lss="trms">anthropolss="trms">cene's iteration of the) expansionist logic of manifest destiny
lrg>


lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">situated knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Harawayl>l>)
lss="prgrph">-trans-knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Haywardl>l>)

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

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

environmental injustices always play themselves on bodies of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges and lss="trms">histories as well

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


neritic
oceanic
benthic

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

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

dispossessions. dislocations. disease. greed. racism.
the always-limited, limiting promise of prosperity

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>racism<lgc clss='lgc'>: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
lss="prgrph">-humanness not yet available to all humans

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>posthumanism (and its tools of “becoming lss="trms">animal” as effects of power lss="trms">writing about itself)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> privilege of having been human <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a racing, sexing, and classing ethos that cannot see itself as such
= a pretense of not allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready understanding humanness as a trans-, re-, and delss="trms">composing
(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Haywardl>l> asking<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) how can we talk about posthumanism (in 2014) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>it is not that we have made humanness a more available lss="trms">category in sixty years, but that those whose humanness was allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready certain (say, white, able-bodied, men) are in the luxurious lss="trms">position of sloughing off their humanityls clss='strcls'>*ls> (-fuck!)
<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> trans-lss="trms">differentiations, de-lss="trms">composings<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> marks the loss of lss="trms">composure, of control <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> exposes the comlss="trms">posite shape of life. to de-lss="trms">compose is the promise we must keep -l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Haywardl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>


racialization of lss="trms">ecological crises (lss='qstn'>?)
(pollutions felt by wholss='qstn'>? -the poor, the lss="trms">birds,)


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

planetary accountability

(lss='at'>@artists, when and how you are) moved to a closer lookls clss='strcls'>**ls>
horrified, disgusted, and drawn in

l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Haywardl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> what would an ardently lss="trms">materialss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list eco-critical race politics look likelss='qstn'>?
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> toward lss="trms">materiality<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> bumptious liveliness of lss="trms">matter <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> to deracinate life, to depoliticize lss="trms">worldliness<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

to host a guest<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> an ethics of care, a willingness to remain open to a guest without anticipation or expectation
(hospital =) alter the equation of hostile to hostel. Is this what is meant by hospitalitylss='qstn'>?


lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leonardo">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leo's angry and productive underbelly
lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leonardo">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leo's take on honesty<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> real and raw

(garlss="trms">dens are full of) grotesqueness and splendor, death and life, delicacy and treachery, softness and sting

transgenerational
regenerations

liminal<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a threshold without a value, a doorway without assurance

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> that false divide between life and death (somebody animating it)
lrg>

(lss="frds scrmbld">Eszter's lace-like lss="trms">interiors)


<lrg clss="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> loss <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>shapes<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> our lss="trms">relationship to the living (lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem)
lrg>
(ls clss='strcls'>*ls>ambivalence of loss and relss="trms">memberingls clss='strcls'>*ls> in the) melancholic calculus of the archive<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “what is lost can become what is preserved as part of the self”
lss="prgrph">-as an environment sickens and dies we harbor the loss

(hope <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> salvation)

...learning a new grammar of lss="trms">animacy (with l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Haywardl>l>)

“<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">memories of lss="trms">excess and delight, freaks, flss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, and exploitations. Too much sugar. Surprise. And disappointment. lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Larger than life. Grotesque. Allss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring. Captivating. Calling. Their juxtalss="trms">position in this contradictory scape of sea, desert, and mountains<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>surreal”

<lrg clss="large lg5" stl="font-size:136%"> (the mer-creature) a living conlss="trms">densation and displacement of what people lss="trms">imagined as real
lrg>
...how little is needed to prompt the lss="trms">imagination<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> paint, wheels, and wood.

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