[...]r “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 is in flux against what is stable or attempting to stabilize. (I am in alignment with ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King sharpening for me that) we constantly share our ="trms">stage, settings, performances, sensoria, reenactments among ="trms">agencies and ="trms">species, creating varying stabilities, some fragile, some robust='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*account='lgc'>--synonymous with='lgc'>: description, information, ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, reason, record, statement, ="trms">story, sum, tale
="prgrph">-a contractual ="trms">relationship
="prgrph">-giving an itemized account of recent transactions and resulting balance (of your ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors='lgc'> = ="trms">material-discursive ="trms">apparatuses that are ="trms">materializing your found ="trms">="trms">empirical objects)
="prgrph">-accountability is always also about remaking those ="trms">relations that produced your objects
="prgrph">-detailed explanation of money held in trust, to count, enumerate='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{telling ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? enumerating='lgc'>}
counting your senses
='strcls'>*accountability is about your ‘import’ functions (like in a programming ="trms">language when you import a library of functions)
 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> count='lgc'>: an ="trms">agent of ="trms">sorting that separates units or groups of a collection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to have importance and worth ='lgc'>~-> country ='lgc'>='lgc'>---='lgc'>{='qstn'>? unexpected countries='lgc'>}
 ='lgc'>--0='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘count’ is also a word ="trms">technologically tethered, o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of computing


(="ppl">Kirksey > ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star) to begin with the ="trms">question, ‘cui bono='qstn'>?’ (for whose benefit='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>=/= to begin with a celebration of the fact of human/nonhuman mingling

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my ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs diagrams are ‘swarms’='qstn'>? -a multitude of ="trms">different creative ="trms">agents
="nms">ajayeb.net (how can it be='lgc'>:) not a website but a “para-site”
="lsts lst1">•am i creating an ego (for ="nms">ajayeb) in my ="nms">ajayeb.net='qstn'>? if yes, that would be ="trms">interesting how='qstn'>?

topos/topic of hypertext, spatial character of electronic ="trms">writing
topic ='lgc'>[from ="trms">Greek ‘topos’='lgc'>: a place, in ancient ="trms">rhetoric used to refer to commonplaces, conventional units, or ="trms">methods of thought='lgc'>] exist in a ="trms">writing space that is not only a visual surface but also a ="trms">data structure in the computer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hypertext='lgc'>: “is not the ="trms">writing of a place, but rather a ="trms">writing with places, spatially realized topics.” (="ppl">Bolter < ="ppl">Hubert)
="prgrph">-in my hypertext, which ="trms">writing ="trms">materials, cognitive mappings, itineraries of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, textual stability, loops and reductions are addressed='qstn'>?

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ="lsts lst1">•in ="nms">ajayeb.net the so-called url address or location bar, is itself a control panel, a graphical user ="trms">interface widget; how did i come to use “='qstn'>?q=” ='lgc'>: ="trms">rhetorics of ="trms">technologized inquiry in place before i even could think about how do I allow my objects constituted by “='qstn'>?”, “q” and “=” of the ="trms">language and grammar of ="trms">internet
="lsts lst1">•(when i uploaded my hypertext i faced immediately the big ="trms">data='lgc'>:) google webmasters tools is my first ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readership, it ="trms">communicates its ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading with me; (did i have a desire to make the hypertext for a machine='qstn'>?) who/what is doing the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (in the ="trms">world of big ="trms">data)='qstn'>? the ="trms">interpretive work that is going on, in a ="trms">writing and ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading done by computers ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ethical and ="trms">social values
="lsts lst1">•url pased in face="trms">book post, results into a link to فلزیاب، مطالب علمی و آموزشی / مدار فلزیاب و دستگاه فلزیاب تضمینی, a series of websites for selling treasure finders, finding ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal under the ground, ganj, and so on...

the English (since second ="trms">world war) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (1) ="trms">international ="trms">lingua franca of high ="trms">technology, (2) the ="trms">language of computers
="prgrph">-in ="nms">ajayeb.net the enforcement of standard spelling and even grammar is week or nonexistent
="prgrph">-the amount of ="trms">linguistic replicators that circulate through my ="nms">ajayeb hypertext are bound to a colloquial English, they are nevertheless “English”. but this English is being changed and adapted by my foreign use in ="trms">different ways
="prgrph">-a flourishing of a neo-English and ="trms">Farsi miniaturization of Eng


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sometimes the answer to the ="trms">question is to investigate the ="trms">question itself
="ppl">="ppl">Despret asking with Rowell='lgc'>: how can we be sure that primates have a more complex ="trms">social life='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how did we build the comparison='qstn'>?='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Latour='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if they are so intelligent, how did they get the ‘chance’ to become so ‘well ="trms">="trms">equipped’='qstn'>?
(in this ="trms">question can be raised an unexpected ="trms">animal)
='lgc'>[(how) the makhlughat/مخلوقات/creatures/beings of ="nms">ajayeb were well ="trms">="trms">equipped (with ="trms">agency, will, intention,)='lgc'>]


sheep, ‘the epitome of the silly ="trms">animal’

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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:126%"> Zahavi calling his ="trms">birds, ‘refugees,’ non-territorial individuals

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

in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive fitness

porousness of the (="trms">semiotic) demarcation ='lgc'>[="trms">wild/domesticated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quasi-="trms">wild/quasi-domesticated='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (successively and recursively) unstable and living ="trms">tropes='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we should probably redefine our (creaturely) subjects in cor="trms">respondence to (="ppl">Leibnizian) ‘quasi-causes’
quasi-feral

the ‘unexpected’ often un="trms">folds in an unexpected way. (Despert > ="ppl">Leibniz)

="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism is always someone's ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism
="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism is always someone's common sense


='lgc'>{(becoming ="trms">interested in) individual (detailed nuances of) ="trms">difference ='lgc'>=/= when “model” becomes the goal='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> standard model (of ="trms">natural ="trms">science) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a pre="trms">supposed ="trms">specific idea of “="trms">science” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> use a ="trms">technical, highly theoretical ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">epistemological objectification of ="trms">animals (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presentation of ="trms">animals as ="trms">natural objects) ='lgc'>~= desubjectified ="trms">animals


(safeguards of) ="trms">authorship and meaning (won't allow ="ppl">Attar) ='lgc'>==ask='lgc'>='lgc'>==> |X| what is your “subject” ="trms">interested in='qstn'>? what ="trms">matters to them='qstn'>?
(="ppl">Attar never looked for varieties='lgc'>--in anecdotes, in little ="trms">stories, in individual ="trms">bird biographies ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{these are the ="trms">materials that I am collecting from my family telegram group posted ="trms">animal videos='lgc'>})

thinking with the ="trms">bird
looking with it (='lgc'>=/= looking at it) ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and knowing its intentions

both humans and nonhumans create ="trms">narratives, rather than just telling them. (there are ="trms">socialities in which) they both create/disclose new scripts ='lgc'>~~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inhabiting an existential ="trms">world ='lgc'>~-> full of actors and living adventures, that give them='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">history
="lsts lst1">•a bibliography
="lsts lst1">•a personality
="lsts lst1">•
(and) a full repertoire of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•will
="lsts lst1">•intention
="lsts lst1">•="trms">agency
="lsts lst1">•


to recreate similarities between ="trms">scientific and mundane practices (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- neccesory for making companionship)

='strcls'>*="trms">agency is an ="trms">="trms">equipment

='strcls'>*(="trms">greeting) rituals ='lgc'>~=perform='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">social links='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assess reliability
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> I am ="trms">interested in ritual in its mundane sense ='lgc'>=/= performance-art ritual ='lgc'>{='strcls'>*='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> who are they in the (becoming in) ritual='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> who is “="frds scrmbld">Evamaria” in her performance-art ritual='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which meaning you ="trms">embody='qstn'>?

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the ="trms">difference between ="trms">response and reaction (not so clear ='lgc'>[as I thought='lgc'>]) ='at'>#passive reacting beings...
(this ="trms">difference) structures the way we see “passivity”

(tracing) “objectivity(s)” (in one's own culture's dominant ="trms">epistemologies) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “audience” poker-face in art ='and'>& ="trms">science (-adviced to be as neutral as possible, to be unavailable, to be no one) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="nms">harem ='lgc'>--(is about)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> domesticating practices='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (in order to query the ways) audience habituating the performer / ="trms">scientists habituating their ="trms">animals='strcls'>*='lgc'>], ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientists are getting it, why the artists and their audience don't get it!='qstn'>? ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--(="trms">ontological risk)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***the performer is a ="trms">social subject='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>: (="trms">category changes in everyday life)
="lsts lst1">•when I am by myself='lgc'>: I am an orangutan, sometimes snake, I am ‘something’
="lsts lst1">•when I am with others='lgc'>: I turn to human
="lsts lst1">•when I am “objective”='lgc'>: I am off-="trms">category, I am not ‘something’ (-super strange!)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ‘Other’ ='lgc'>[not only the police officer,='lgc'>] always estizah (="trms">interpellation استيضاح) you(='qstn'>?)

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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">scientist's will to be ‘no-one’ that would prevent any ="trms">interaction

(="ppl">="ppl">Despret's constructivist and non-relativist ="trms">translation of ‘the ways ="trms">animals act are the consequences of the observer's gaze’='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*="trms">animal actions are ="trms">responsible consequences='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[(='strcls'>*)performance='lgc'>: the ="trms">responsible consequence of a (no less) ="trms">responsible gaze='lgc'>]

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="ppl">Verran, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge economy
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edger always ="trms">authored
cross-cultural knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices

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