[...]ns. 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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="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> (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'>==> 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


="large lg1" stl="font-size:148%"> (ruse, san'at صنعت ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) hile حیله ='lgc'>=/= sho'bade شعبده (shab-bazi شب بازی, neyrang نیرنگ,)


lahn-haye jahan
لحنهای جهان

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(feral='qstn'>?) table of contents
how we know that contents are tabled at all='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">heritances of taxonomy, ="trms">natural philosophies ="trms">aesthetics='lgc'>: tamed facts
='at'>#="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs, my ="nms">ajayeb diagrams

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="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">histories (='lgc'>~ ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">historically ="trms">situated ="trms">relational ="trms">worldings) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">societies of individuals in human-only ="trms">histories (='lgc'>~ ="ppl">Euclidean figures and ="trms">stories of Man)

(which ="trms">network is='qstn'>?) a netbag for collecting up what is crucial for ongoing

="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">technotheocratic geoengineering ='lgc'>[, it “fixes” some common ="trms">imaginations the “affairs of life,” and not ="trms">specifically the “afterlife,” (within the ='lgc'>{terminology ='lgc'>~='lgc'>} figural-conceptual powers of ="trms">syms and ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic time-space of the Indo-Greco-Arab-Turko-Persian terra taxa)='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•periods of time
="lsts lst1">•“known” life
="lsts lst1">•abode (budgah بودگاه, Wohnplatz)
="lsts lst1">•donya دنيا


="prgrph">-="trms">stories that focus on com="trms">position rather than intrusion
="prgrph">-="trms">stories that focus on ="trms">ongoingness rather than game-over

(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway > ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers > ="ppl">="ppl">Latour > ="ppl">="ppl">Margulis) Gaia, to name complex nonlinear couplings between processes that ="trms">compose and sustain entwined but nonadditive sub="trms">systems as a partially cohering ="trms">systemic whole

planet-transforming, ="trms">historically ="trms">situated, new-enough, ="trms">worlding ="trms">relations

(="trms">systematic ="trms">stories are linked) ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolisms, ="trms">articulations, coproductions
(they must also be) ="trms">relational, ="trms">sympoietic, consequential


myth-="trms">systems (are set-ups)
(a deadly one='lgc'>: “Man ='lgc'>+ Tool ='lgc'>==> ="trms">history”)


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

a thousand names of something else

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

winged domains
="trms">bird-bodies

(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's spider and) my ="nms">ajayeb's snake='lgc'>: tasks of thinking, figuring, and ="trms">storytelling
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> heady facial re="trms">presentation; ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Luisa also dislikes this='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•figure of snake (circular serpent) is ="nms">ajayeb Persian sf ="trms">worlding, has ties with the ="trms">Greek Chthonis (“of the earth,”) is at the same time the image of the continuity of life and the ="trms">abyssal moral (eating your end, no gag reflex)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{Gildas Hamel='lgc'>: “the ="trms">abyssal and elemental forces before they were astralized by chief gods and their tame committees"='lgc'>}

“many critters acoss taxa” (juju جوجو ='lgc'>+ rade رده)

(I dispute ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's notion of “sacred.” popular ="trms">religion is at many times populated by earthly figures alongside many astralized destructive ="trms">finitudes.)

="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's urgently needed Chthulu="trms">cene ="trms">story


='lgc'>[="ppl">Miyazaki's='lgc'>] biodiverse terra ='lgc'>[God flips out='lgc'>] into something very slimy, like any overstressed complex adaptive ="trms">system at the end of its abilities to absorb insult after insult. (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's wording)

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

(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Latour's) ‘things’ are='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- collection of entities
="lstsrd">2- hard to classify, un="trms">sortable, (and probably with bad smell)


="trms">Anthropos ='lgc'>=/= rich generative home of a multi="trms">species Earth

“looks up at what he sees.”

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ʿAjā'ib al-makhlūqāt wa gharā'ib al-mawjūdāt
Ajayeb al-makhlughat wa gharayeb al-mojudat (عجائب المخلوقات ,عجایب المخلوقات) in short='lgc'>: Ajayeb, is a sug="trms">gestive cognitive work, full of strange ="trms">linguistic pollutants, ="trms">interesting ="trms">agencies and animations, and like most of the medieval ="trms">sciences and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">systems that were busy with the transformation of ="trms">agencies it collapses “="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists” and “="trms">narratives.” In Ajayeb each ="trms">animal is a con="trms">sensual ="trms">hallucination device (='lgc'>~ each ="trms">animal is a way of knowing the ="trms">world); some pre-organic, ="trms">inter-corporal ="trms">species, with trans-="trms">ontological intentionalities.

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="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> infrastructure='lgc'>: piled-upon assemblages within which there are many discontinuities but also connections, some deliberative, some inadvertent. (="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “flexible knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges”

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آب حیوان ='lgc'>{how could I know that ="frds scrmbld">Vladimir (in his performance for ="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia's ="nms">apass score) was not (in)sourcing the Holy Waters, abe heyvan or vozu='qstn'>? his sweat was the ooze of a ="trms">modern and secular labor. he was using a profane water='qstn'>?='lgc'>}
حیوان خوران جهان heyvan khorane jahan
زیرکان کهن kohan zirak

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> حجابی که ظلمات شد نام او روان آب حیوان از آرام او (Zolmat ='and'>& abe heyvan)

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='at'>#='mywrk'>my work in ="nms">apass is about='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">bestiary='lgc'>: archaeological ="trms">anthropology of human-="trms">animal practices
="lsts lst1">•="trms">rhetoric='lgc'>: scaling, modeling, figuring out fields of practices
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ontology='lgc'>: circumscribe, address, or deal with the processes of ="trms">ontological transformations
="lsts lst1">•="trms">storytelling='lgc'>: mobilizing ="trms">different kinds of mental resources and ="trms">literacies
="lsts lst1">•performance='lgc'>: what it would be to know together
="lsts lst1">•="trms">sociality='lgc'>: that which joins ="trms">categorically separate mode of ="trms">agencies
="lsts lst1">•

='at'>#my findings/="trms">questions, so far='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animal subjectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? human ="trms">imagination
="lsts lst1">•="trms">bestiary ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">affect ='lgc'>+ ="trms">episteme
="lsts lst1">•medieval ="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>: ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•de="trms">finition ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">ontological choreography ='lgc'>==> ="trms">worlds are created
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphores of self ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="nms">body image ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? image of ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? reason
="lsts lst1">•

="large lg5" stl="font-size:115%"> I found myself oriented towards a kind of ‘multi="trms">species ethnography’='lgc'>: a new way of ="trms">writing and mode of research in which creatures previously appearing on the margins of ="trms">interest='lgc'>--as part of the landscape, as food for humans, as ="trms">symbols (for mystic projects)='lgc'>--have been pressed into the foreground of ="trms">interest.
(what are my) ="trms">symbolic ='lgc'>+ ="trms">symbiotic attachments
what/who is coughing, counting, working, ="trms">communicating sited between divine and bestial in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-is my ="nms">ajayeb a (dead/alive) multi="trms">species art project='qstn'>? studying Indo-Arab-="nms">Iranian illuminated manuscripts as to be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading a paper in ="trms">ecology or molecular biology or art.

unlike ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex Arteaga's ="trms">question of “inevitable altruism” ='lgc'>{started from “conscious human subjects” and ended there='lgc'>} (in his talk 30.05.2017 ="nms">apass,) I would insist on giving an account of the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of ‘self’ in the ="trms">history of body and mind (that ="trms">matters to ‘you’) ='lgc'>[my findings of self='lgc'>: maginc lantern, iceberg's tip (='lgc'>==> unconsciousness), wasteland/="trms">wilderness, greedy ="trms">beast within, ... ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are all (classical) basis for “higher” cognitive capacities='lgc'>}='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[also I am against ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex's notion of “destablizing stabilities as the task of artistic research.” I choose to refuse to put what[...]