[...]ind of) transformation of ="trms">pasts and futures='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==> meeting companion ="trms">species ='lgc'>{if ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb doesn't teach me how to meet the dog in my street, the pigeon on my window, the juju on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of my paper, what is it good for then='qstn'>?!='lgc'>}

(='strcls'>*)companion ="trms">species='lgc'>: assemblages of living and non-living ‘="trms">species’='strcls'>***
(="frds scrmbld">Janina is all along engaged with companion ="trms">species)


(an strategy='lgc'>:) allocation of ="trms">responsibility for grasping information

assemblage at various levels and sublevels characterizes ='strcls'>*explanations='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*practices='strcls'>*

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ="trms">techno="trms">scientific tsunami that will ob="trms">literate ="trms">prior practices and cultures...

(learning to) see old and new forms of confusions, docility, subjectivity, morality, ="trms">agency, empowerment (when we are together)
(to recognize and make) new sites of negotiation


="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>: bodies of Minoan figurines “wear” the appropriate gender for a ="trms">specific ritual practice, they don't “bear” gender (as their essential feature) ='lgc'>==> gender salience is always in ="trms">question, not a propor pre="trms">supposition
“sex has emerged as a salient attribute of the pot's character as a pot”

when ="trms">zoo="trms">morphic figures are ="trms">present...

="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">zoo="trms">morphic figures with their salient attributes are not “purposed” necessarily being to en="trms">code their belief-="trms">system ="trms">onto objects that we may ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read today='lgc'>--like ="trms">story-board='lgc'>--but rather to make ="trms">interventions into the ="trms">world of human-nonhuman ="trms">relations. to either assist or resist such transformations
='lgc'>[terms sharpened with ="ppl">Alberti ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King='lgc'>]


museum studies


(="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>:) freedom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> initiative in shaping a ="trms">narrative, a visible body, where one is able to engage and resist ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Xiri='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contradicts itself because one is really not free from the policing of the physical body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coming into a ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] body (='lgc'>==> reality and disillusion in public spaces) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ ="trms">narrative, flesh, is filled with ="trms">memory, emotions, and complexity ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="trms">crafting a space for existence may involve='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•un="trms">folding ="trms">history
="lsts lst1">•mapping normative processes
="lsts lst1">•immersing a “body” in vulnerability (='strcls'>*)


deploy ='lgc'>=/= un="trms">veiling
="trms">sort out ='lgc'>=/= debunking هدايت


glocalizing


="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="ppl">="ppl">Hayward='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] assembling ="trms">apparatuses for en="trms">folding visions of ="trms">instrumental, subjective and cognitive ="trms">technologies among ciliated (مودار, ریشه‌دار) bodies

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="large lg1" stl="font-size:137%"> ="trms">technologies of the ="trms">literal

grain of analysis, timescale, noting/creating hybrid objects of study
='lgc'>[comparing the incomparable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lumping ='lgc'>--then='lgc'>='lgc'>--> splitting='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***starting off a research project which eventually hopes to have something to say about that hybrid “thing”='strcls'>*** ...with some despised ="trms">members of a particular time period (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> switching those who count as major or minor characters), promises to make it possible to build in ='strcls'>*a range of genders (not just two), a range of ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies, a range of self-effacing acts, and a range of publics='strcls'>*, while working from a particular place and time

='strcls'>***there are many ="trms">different ="trms">interests creating the ="trms">pasts='strcls'>***, the possible ="trms">worlds...


(="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star > ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King > ="frds">Sina) “comparing the incomparable”

here i am trying an outline of my ="trms">interrelated research practices in a preliminary character, the ="trms">intersection of which I am just at the beginning to understand


="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies of the 12th century ="nms">Iran

plain style

soing naked as a sign

dress and address

="trms">ecology of ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies


(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King='lgc'>:) ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies='lgc'>: ideologies layered in time and space ='strcls'>* under which ="trms">writing has been divided ='lgc'>[also cannot be divided='lgc'>] from other generations of cultural meaning

myriad hybrid forms, commingling in ="trms">material and ideological proliferations
(with ="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King's ="trms">interest in women's ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies)

“="trms">presentist”='lgc'>: a practice of classification and ="trms">categorization to access ="trms">pasts

continuities and local discontinuities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is ‘continuity’ (always) a universal abstraction='qstn'>?='strcls'>**


relative universalization

prescrptions for speech and silence


what is gained and what is lost when “tidying up the archive”='qstn'>? (a german problem)

prescriptions for speech and silence

“politeness ="trms">phenomena”

‘plain speech’ for Quakers='lgc'>: rejection of ‘idle’ speech. preaching was another version of sacrificing seld-will, and was appropriate speech.
public preaching in particular was also a challenge to ="trms">social ="trms">relations and ="trms">interaction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a challenge to gender, speaking public was a cultural humiliation for individual women ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the Quaker women practiced preaching as a personal humiliation ="trms">instrumental to their own salvation ='lgc'>[! in a weird way i also did this to my self='lgc'>] ='at'>#becoming woman='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{a liquefying aspect='lgc'>: “womanhood” was used ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorically to identify those who could not preach, the surrender of (male) ="trms">authority to God by men was “female”
="lsts lst1">•inhibiting woman's prophetic ="trms">agencies
="lsts lst1">•“lack of discipline” becomes discipline ='lgc'>--!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forms of discipline that appear “undisciplined” or out of control

(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King > Mack='lgc'>:) “Quakers not only bathed in a sea of poly="trms">morphous sipritual ="trms">nature and ="trms">eroticism; they occasionally wrote as if they had succeeded in floating above gender altogether”

“going naked as a sign” (and Quaker's “plain style”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Tasavof, ="nms">ajayeb, and ="trms">communication strategies of the so-called new ="trms">science of the same time (of Quakers)
‘nakedness’ was ="trms">simultaneously ="trms">literally his own, a figure of the ="trms">world, an ='thdf'>example of many others, the abstract principle, and the essential truth of the one addressed
="prgrph">-simplicity, economy, and plainness; to reject all the amplifications, digressions, and swellings of style


preferring ="trms">language of artisans, countrymen, merchants, of wits and scholars


How sin is strengthened 1657
Milk for babes 1661
A message from the spirit of truth 1658

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%">
realized eschatology

انا الحق, an-al-hagh
(Damrosch='lgc'>:) the performance of the sign thus entailed a doubly negative aspect='lgc'>: in the person exhibiting it, a conviction of fulfilling a divine mandate in op="trms">position to personal self-="trms">interest; and in those who witnessed it, an offense to ordinary ="trms">social standards that actually served to authenticate it.
='strcls'>*the function of the sign was to bear prophetic witness rather than to get practical results; it fulfilled its purpose simply by being performed='strcls'>*
='at'>#shath, shathiat ='lgc'>==> tazkirat, ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ what the saints of Tasavof (reported by ="ppl">Attar-='lgc'>{his “virtual witnessing” of “awliya” اولیا as a “realized"='lgc'>}, Quakers ='lgc'>[as illegal nonconformist sect='lgc'>]) put together was their own ="trms">writing ="trms">technology infrastructure='strcls'>** ='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>**="trms">routinization of charisma='strcls'>** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- organizational structure ='lgc'>["advices and queries” نفحات الانس nafahat ='lgc'>~-> rationalized ="trms">systematic intellectualizations='lgc'>]='lgc'>}

pattern of suffering that the believer ="trms">literally and personally relives
(is Tasavof developed ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian modality of sacrifice='qstn'>? is ='strcls'>*passivity imported from elsewhere in Islam='strcls'>*='qstn'>?)
a protagonist, like San'an, like an actor in a mystery play, enacting in a deliberately challenging form, ="trms">internalized and lived as a potent sign

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> (Bechwith='lgc'>:) rendered performance of ="trms">religious ="trms">materials both practically impossible and conceptually unthinkable
='lgc'>+ exercises their discipline of the senses and the ="trms">imagination
='strcls'>*undisciplined loss of control in enthusiasm and in this extravagant example='strcls'>*


(="trms">stories of) a small group of powerful and vocal actors
='strcls'>***to attend to the local practices of in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion and ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion through which some speak and others are spoken for, some act and others are acted upon='strcls'>***
(='at'>#="trms">ontology)

gentlemanly practices ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (ask) what that legitimacy consisted in and how far it extended='qstn'>?
(wellborn connoisseurs of the new ="trms">science)


="large lg5" stl="font-size:114%"> leave the work tacit, and it fades into the wallpaper


="lsts lst1">•(="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star's) ethnography of infrastructure
="lsts lst1">•(="ppl">="ppl">Bowker's) infra-structural inversion
="lsts lst1">•(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King's) ="trms">ecology of ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies='lgc'>: massive, large-scale infrastructure in dynamic motion, bits changing at ="trms">differential rates across time, made up of layered sub-="trms">systems complexity ="trms">interconnected and animated by distributed ="trms">agencies, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding people, ="trms">skills, devices and ="trms">social powers.
the ="trms">translation between (='lgc'>[my='lgc'>] deliberately) ="trms">presentist (="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta[...]