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


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

“distributed being and cognition”

...attendant mammalian attachment

individuating in="trms">difference

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (="trms">anthropo="trms">cene's iteration of the) expansionist logic of manifest destiny



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

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

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

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

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


neritic
oceanic
benthic

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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:147%"> (you and things are) surprise ='lgc'>=/= accident

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

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]racism='lgc'>: an environmental catastrophe, toxic by-product of the industry called racial thinking and un-thinking (the fantasy attached to what race is thought to be), a deadly ambivalence or refusal to see how race is at work in our lives
="prgrph">-humanness not yet available to all humans

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


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


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

planetary accountability

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

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

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


="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's angry and productive underbelly
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's take on honesty='lgc'>: real and raw

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

transgenerational
regenerations

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

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


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


loss ='lgc'>==shapes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> our ="trms">relationship to the living (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem)

(='strcls'>*ambivalence of loss and re="trms">membering='strcls'>* in the) melancholic calculus of the archive='lgc'>: “what is lost can become what is preserved as part of the self”
="prgrph">-as an environment sickens and dies we harbor the loss

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

...learning a new grammar of ="trms">animacy (with ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward)

“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]="trms">memories of ="trms">excess and delight, freaks, f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, and exploitations. Too much sugar. Surprise. And disappointment. Larger than life. Grotesque. Al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring. Captivating. Calling. Their juxta="trms">position in this contradictory scape of sea, desert, and mountains='lgc'>--surreal”

(the mer-creature) a living con="trms">densation and displacement of what people ="trms">imagined as real

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

(US/Mexico or land/ocean borders...) a space about who and what cannot move, of who and what falls apart, or of who and what is lost

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(the ="trms">inter- and trans-action of) learning, playing and thought



in ="nms">ajayeb what are the='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animacy hierarchies (='lgc'>--="ppl">Chen)
="lsts lst1">•exposed and transparent conditions of possibility (='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Hayward) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> becomings and assemblages
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ontological fixities
="lsts lst1">•enactment of large-scale fantasies (='lgc'>--="ppl">Chen)
="lsts lst1">•


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(="ppl">Mehran Rad) on description of spring
kofr کفر ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">nature” (tabi'at طبيعت) ='lgc'><-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bahar بهار ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bot-khane بت خانه
Manuchehri='lgc'>: نوبهار آمد و آورد گل و یاسمنا باغ همچون تبت و راغ بسان عدنا http://ganjoor.net/manoochehri/divanm/ghaside-ghete/sh1/
="ppl">Hafez='lgc'>: کنون که در چمن آمد گل از عدم به وجود بنفشه در قدم او نهاد سر به سجود http://ganjoor.net/hafez/ghazal/sh219/
='lgc'>=/= durdastha دوردستها, beyonds

donya دنیا ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gozar گذر
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list

="ppl">Nezami='lgc'>:
بهاری داری ازوی بر خور امروز که هر فصلی نخواهد بود نوروز
گلی کو را نبوید آدمی زاد چو هنگام خزان آید برد باد

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(ruse, san'at صنعت ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) hile حیله ='lgc'>=/= sho'bade شعبده (shab-bazi شب بازی, neyrang نیرنگ,)


lahn-haye jahan
لحنهای جهان

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