[...]cribed as a horizon of likes. to have our likes means ='strcls'>*certain things are gathered around us='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[what about “beyond”='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/= near-sphere Zolmat='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]orientation='lgc'>: registers the proximity of objects as well as shape what is proximate to the body

(="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robin='lgc'>:) happiness does not have an object
(="ppl">Freud='lgc'>:) ="trms">anxiety does not have an object
='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Ahmed='lgc'>:) cor="trms">respondence between objects and feelings is not any simple ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proximity, “unattributed happiness”

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='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ( us )"subject” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ( ='heart'>♥ )"object”

things ='lgc'>--move='lgc'>='lgc'>--> us ='lgc'>--make='lgc'>='lgc'>--> things ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> ...

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Arjang, how happiness is displaced by the how of its arrival
(happiness can often recede or become ="trms">anxious, when the feeling becomes an object of thought)

what it means for happiness to be thought in these terms (as an end for its own sake)
what it means for ="trms">apparatus to be thought in these terms (of ="ppl">Agamben)
what it means for ocean to be thought in these terms (of ="frds scrmbld">Marialena)


in Islam, how does the good life get ="trms">imagined through the proximity of objects='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]taste='lgc'>: “manifest preferences”='lgc'>: “practical affirmation of an inevitable ="trms">difference” (="ppl">Bourdieu)

="trms">history becomes second-="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">affects become ="trms">literal ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (we assume we experience delight because) “it” is delightful

(often with ="trms">animals) the ="trms">affective ="trms">differentiation ='lgc'>==(basis of)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (an essentially) moral economy


cheerfulness is the most ="trms">communicative of emotions (='heart'>♥ ="ppl">Ahmed)

(="ppl">Ahmed's take on) ="trms">loving (happily)='lgc'>: knowing the peculiarity of a ="trms">loved other's likes and dislikes, an intimacy with what the other likes and is given ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> on conditions that such likes do not take us outside a ='strcls'>*shared horizon='strcls'>*


='strcls'>***who/what introduces what feelings to whom='qstn'>?='strcls'>***

‘="trms">question of power'='lgc'> = do you go along with it='qstn'>?

sometimes the ="nms">Iranian orientation is toward maximal comfort of the others
(maintaining) ‘comfort'='lgc'> = (your or some) bodies “go along with it”


bond='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ ="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> we search for an object ='lgc'>}


...certain objects al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready circulate as ="trms">socila goods before we “happen” upon them ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we do not just find happy objects anywhere (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how happy objects are found in Tasavof='qstn'>? located, lost, transported, sold, advertised, criticized, etc.) ='strcls'>*happy objects point us somewhere, a “where” from which we expect so much (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> happy objects of Tasavof ='lgc'>[or HOT='lgc'>] ='lgc'>{Qur'an, khezr, woman, ="trms">poetry, .../ قرآن / خضر / زن / شعر='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->their sense of values, practice, styles, and aspirations; where do they point ="nms">Iranians='qstn'>? beyond, Zolmat, ="trms">animal, shadow, everyday objects, etc. what are the feelings involving the “points” of alignment wuth these objects='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> relocation of expectations='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•from beyond to earth
="lsts lst1">•from global to local
="lsts lst1">•from future to now
="lsts lst1">•

in ="trms">situations where feelings are shared or are in common (which is usually the case in the environments that I am involved with,) how do I usually play a role='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (re)location of ="trms">responsibility

self-ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion

to make ="nms">Iran or India or Germany happy “in bed”

(='at'>@="frds">Sina) ='strcls'>*what ever there is in the hear and now, it does not mean you do not have to rebel or not get into trouble.

idio="trms">syncratic likes (or dislikes) ='lgc'>=/= jouissance

="ppl">Ahmed ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading many ="trms">narratives of freedom, in which an in="trms">difference is “directed” as the apparent gift of freedom (, father becomes in="trms">different to what her daughter does as long as it makes her happy) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the unhappy objects of ="trms">difference

fantasies of proximity (in sense8 TV series) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if only we could be closer, we would be as one
the happiness of the characters of sense8 is the promise of “the one”

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="large lg30" stl="font-size:119%"> how to learn to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the discursive practices of being of ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>? the ways each being proposes its own (or another's) changing ="trms">geometry and topology, their boundary-drawing practices, their ="trms">differential productions, and how each being makes sense of its ="trms">world
="prgrph">-(the ="trms">authors and beings of ="nms">ajayeb,) what are their capacity to discern the reality of their (="trms">relational) ="trms">nature='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how their determinate ="trms">position (in their ="trms">relational ="trms">nature) is or may be (usefully) (con)figured as ='strcls'>*="trms">specific connectivity='strcls'>*='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[the ="trms">question of ="trms">specific connectivites of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this requires from me ="trms">poetics='lgc'>: diffractive descriptive acts
="prgrph">-what are the ="nms">ajayeb's beings and mine ="trms">intertwined practices of knowing and being='qstn'>?

the ="trms">agential cut of the brittlestar is a survival kit='lgc'>: the arm is “cut” and becomes part of the other (predator)

="ppl">="ppl">Barad is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading the brittlestar to rework (challenge conventional conceptions of) her discipline's ="trms">ontologies and boundaries ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">scientist's usual frame of application and amusement of “discovery” that feeds ="trms">technological advancement, “the ex="trms">citement and romantic overtones that inevitably accompany the ="trms">story of the ="trms">scientist as explorer breaking into new frontiers” (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)


(="trms">embodiment='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*bodies are not ="trms">situated in the ="trms">world. They are ‘of’ the ="trms">world (in its dynamic ="trms">specificity)='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Barad) (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Femke)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]objectivity
='lgc'>=/= occupying a determinate ="trms">position in a given environment
='lgc'>=/= occupying a particular coordinates in space and time, in culture, and in ="trms">history
='lgc'>=/= seeing from somewhere ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= “objectivism” (view from nowhere) or “everywhere” (relativism)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/=


(like ="ppl">="ppl">Barad's brittlestars) which ="nms">ajayeb's being's bodily dynamism resists (or constructs) the familiar notion that space is preexisting container='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•space='lgc'>: a ="trms">stage on which actors take their place
="lsts lst1">•time='lgc'>: the mere uniform ticking of clock
(how ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">worlding is similar or ="trms">different than the familiar notion of ="ppl">Shakespeare's “="trms">world is a ="trms">stage...”='qstn'>?)

='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Barad, ="trms">poet of ="trms">matter, time and space:='lgc'>] “="trms">Matter does not move in space and time. ="trms">Matter ="trms">materializes and dynamically en="trms">folds ="trms">different spatialities and temporalities.”='strcls'>*

='strcls'>*there is only exteriority within='strcls'>*
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> models that ="trms">position re="trms">presentation as the lens that mediates between the object ="trms">world and the mind of the knowing subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (an optics that reflects) a ="trms">geometry of absolute exteriority between ="trms">ontologically and ="trms">epistemologically distinct kinds ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb's diffractive ="trms">differential ="trms">materializations

perhaps that arm that got detached from you, could have a chance of not becoming a jettison ="nms">phantom limb forever haunting the missing amputated ‘you,’ rather, a part of “companion ="trms">species being helping out”='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*connectivity does not require physical contiguity='strcls'>* (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa's string “theory”)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*="nms">phantom limb='strcls'>* (a concept every theorist/artist should take ="trms">seriously), in ="ppl">Descartes='lgc'>: used as an illustration of the deception to which the inner senses are prone.
“fossil images,” persistence of pathological ex="trms">citation to the peripheral nerves. (the condition of ‘amputees’ for the one who re-="trms">members and builds archives for his phantasmatically lost limb) ='strcls'>*="trms">imaginary loss of a penis='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a “tool” for a recovery of what was “always al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready” missing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Freud='lgc'>: libidinal ="trms">memorial to the lost limb (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Elen's kind of mourning for preoedipal (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= precastrated) body, and her (erroneous) localization of it on the motorbike)
="ppl">Grosz='lgc'>: “It is only through controlled use of the phantom that the artificial limb can (gradually) take the place of the lost limb”
='at'>#="nms">body image='lgc'>]


="trms">ecologies of reflection and diffraction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resolution of ="trms">nature

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]diffraction='lgc'>: an effect that limits the ability of a lens (or a ="trms">system of lenses) ='strcls'>*to resolve an image='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•(to evolve a creative tension,) a trade-off, between the resolution of detail and diffraction effects, between ="trms">geometrical and physical optics

="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">ecologies mixed (less of) reflection and (much more of) diffraction, are taken from a yet not detachments of the experience of ="trms">phenomena and the ="trms">apparatuses of its description, of percepts and ="trms">affects
='at'>#my findings of com="trms">posites of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animals varying number of legs ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal ='lgc'>+ movement
="lsts lst1">•fantastic creatures ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal ='lgc'>+ environment ='lgc'>+ ="trms">affect
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fable ="trms">poetics ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal ='lgc'>+ ="trms">apparatus of description
="lsts lst1">•tentative ="trms">citationality ='lgc'>[other name of “="trms">rumor”='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonhuman ='lgc'>+ human ="trms">relational ="trms">histories
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">membering is an extremely creative (& ="trms">imaginative) practice
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ongoing, open-ended ="trms">articulation of the ="trms">world (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are the diffraction patterns in ="nms">ajayeb that are (artistically, politically, ethnically) significant for me (='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are instances of resistance against bio="trms">mimesis in ="nms">ajayeb (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>[bio="trms">mimesis is involved with mirroring, imitation, or reflection, and other ="trms">tropes of “sameness"='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= trans-="trms">materialities of the creatures of the ="trms">world, they transgress the sacrosanct divides between ="trms">techne and ="trms">episteme

(many creatures of our shared ="trms">world have) evolved in ="trms">intra-action with their environment, and old ="trms">bestiaries, such as ="nms">ajayeb, critically inhabit a mode of description and ="trms">affect ="trms">situated within the ="trms">intra-activity of ="trms">technologies of ="trms">writing and perception
="lsts lst1">•the creatures of the mud know better not to get caught up in a “="trms">geometrical optics of knowing”
we are seeking a ="trms">different genus of knowing ='lgc'>=/= mediating machine, inscription devices, lenses, panopticons, and various other ="trms">epistemological tools that many ="trms">science studies and cultural studies scholars fancy. (is that also what ="frds scrmbld">Marialena fancies='qstn'>? her ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of tools)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]intelligibility='lgc'>: an ="trms">ontological performance of the ="trms">world in its ongoing ="trms">articulation
not a ="trms">specifically human capacity, intelligibility does not require an (usually human) inttelective ="trms">agent

the problem with design is that designers (as well as ="trms">scientists and engineers) are busy with building ‘enhanced ="trms">communication ="trms">networks’ and principles of ‘usefulness’, in the way they relate to the “forms” of ="trms">nature

='strcls'>*connections and commitments (come together)='strcls'>*

the copy="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ="trms">symbol © should be a sign not of the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to copy but, if anything, of the ="trms">responsibilities entailed in producing ="trms">differential ="trms">materialization (for whom and at what costs='qstn'>?)='strcls'>*
="ppl">="ppl">Barad ='heart'>♥


(brittlestar, the plant in my room, ="nms">ajayeb's creatures,) ...their being is a flexible distributed growing and regenerating multi-oriented shape-shifting topologically variant dynamical ="trms">system of diffraction gratings

(="trms">rhetoric of) re-="trms">veiling, which provokes the seeming need for a revealing of ="trms">nature


entanglement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inseparability ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> spatially separated particles in an entangled state do not have separate identities

there is no epmirical evidence of such a disjunction ="trms">ontologies at a particular scale, “micro-="trms">world” and “macro-="trms">world”

who insists on “quarantining quantum queerness”='qstn'>?
quarantining scale and time
quarantining ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra to “his” time, or ="nms">ajayeb to an older another temporality, and therefore irrelevant for us “today”

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]scale='lgc'>: ="trms">intra-actively (re)configured in the ongoing ="trms">intra-active becoming on space-time-="trms">mattering

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Khezr and San'an, the most repeated points of reference in ="nms">tasavof
like you, ="ppl">Hafez, full of struggle, sensation, ="trms">love,

our resistance and breakdance

(="ppl">Mehran Rad='lgc'>:) ="ppl">Hafez preferences on ="trms">Farsi over ="ppl">Arabic='lgc'>:
Deir دیر / Some'e صومعه
="nms">Pir پیر / Sheikh شیخ
Parsa پارسا / Zahed زاهد
Parishan پریشان / Tafraghe تفرقه


moshtaghe bandegi مشتاق بندگی
(='lgc'>~='qstn'>? the advanced level of) ‘wannabe slave’

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the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous suffixial ="trms">worlders, prehensile adjective-builder, ="trms">natural-inhabitant-makers of “-ian” or “-i” or “-isch” to the name of a nation/country ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="nms">Iranian, Afgani, etc. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> makes subjects
in the case of the podcast https://soundcloud.com/norient/afghanistan-sucht-seine-musikalische-identitat-podcast ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to the way the ="trms">story of the Afgani music is told by norient (“music in the globe”, “multi-modally”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">articulation of western human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights ='and'>& dis="trms">articulation of other ="trms">ecology of ="trms">stories
='lgc'>=/= Charles Amirkhanian radio programm Ode to Gravity

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the protector of spiders who dies by the bite of a spider
="prgrph">-susceptible bodies entagled in ="trms">networks of care, life and death, that are not always harmonious to popular ="trms">narratives of nonviolence


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="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: mythoepic ="trms">literature in ="trms">translation from a Middle Persian corpus
="prgrph">-when i say ‘Middle Persian corpus’ what i actually mean is a shared ="trms">world of ritual, ="trms">religion, and mythology between ="nms">Iranian, Urdu, Turkish, Zoroastrianism in ="nms">Iran and Vedic Hinduism in India, Indo-European in="trms">heritance in ancient ="nms">Iranian culture, South-Southeast Asian ="trms">literatures, ="trms">translations and transcreations (and trans="trms">literation) of ="trms">stories (prose, ="trms">poetry, drama, epic, ="trms">jokes, parables, figures ='lgc'>[that are not always part of the canon='lgc'>], the irreverent بى ادب, ) in Indian and Southeast Asian contexts,

my project is about learning the ‘how’ of cultivating the ability to fruitfully approach texts from ="trms">different cultures and ="trms">pasts
="prgrph">-(to study) the radical ="trms">poetic force of the Persian texts='lgc'>--in ="nms">ajayeb
="prgrph">-to become enhanced and enchanted in ="trms">skills of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading wider ranges of ="trms">linguistic registers
="prgrph">-to open up an approach to a dauntingly complex region of islamicated thought (not the ideological enterprise of “Islam”, which is usually badly politicized in the ="trms">historical ="trms">memory of the West. we could get ="trms">interested in the economics of corruption and ="trms">technologies of rule, the evolution of government bureaucracies and classificatory schemes, anti-colonial critique,)

="nms">ajayeb is on the side of counter-classical traditions of standard Muslem-ness, and its less elite ="trms">histories and cultural forms,

(intellectual identity='lgc'>:)
cross-dresser of the order
autodidact odds
sufis, merchants, nomads, ="trms">poets, pilgrims, smugglers, laborers,
="trms">religious identity, ="trms">religious knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="trms">religious violence,

medieval persian mysticism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•oral, temporal ="trms">nature of speech
="lsts lst1">•speaking I to the unknown and unknowable Other
="lsts lst1">•the discourse of ="trms">love
="lsts lst1">•apophatic discourse ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? politically subversive
="lsts lst1">•="trms">linguistic fragmentation, ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of meaning
="lsts lst1">•


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="trms">dense and textured ="trms">stories

(generativity is fueled by) ="trms">densely felt textures

="trms">worlding of the place='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">material, sensory labor of attending to an emergent and enduring hum
="lsts lst1">•the force of things amassed of ="nms">phantom limbs
="lsts lst1">•actual residue of people “making something of things”

direct ="trms">materiality of people's shared sense='lgc'> = attending to what is happening

a racist violence in the dark
a space of con="trms">densed displacement

watching things arrive in the company of others

='strcls'>*nameable clarities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•family
="lsts lst1">•friendship
="lsts lst1">•="trms">love
="lsts lst1">•collapse
="lsts lst1">•="trms">laughing
="lsts lst1">•telling ="trms">stories
="lsts lst1">•violence
="lsts lst1">•place
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all atmospherics='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>: forms of attending to what's happening, sensing out, accreting attachments and detachments, ="trms">differences and in="trms">differences, losses and proliferating possibilities. ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>]

(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) curious pause to ="trms">wonder ='strcls'>*what analytic objects ="trms">matter='strcls'>* in the singularity of a ="trms">situation and what forms of ="trms">writing and thinking might approach them='strcls'>****
="prgrph">-experimenting with forms of theory and ="trms">writing that are ="trms">responsive to the moving objects they are trying to trace or highlight or escape, or whatever ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#number of legs in ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•trying to describe what is happening in little ="trms">animal moments, s="trms">cenes
="lsts lst1">•(the ="trms">writers of ="nms">ajayeb trying to) explore the intensity and plasticity of lived com="trms">positions='lgc'>--proliferating in their ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•the senses sharpen on the surfaces of things taking form
="lsts lst1">•a lived ="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> pushing a ="trms">present into a com="trms">position, an expressivity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb's body)
="lsts lst1">•(a non-horizontal plane of) incommensurate elements hanging together in a com="trms">positional atmosphere ='lgc'>=/= holding objects in abeyance تعليق in order to evaluate them as good or bad, or, asserting op="trms">positions between ="trms">material and re="trms">presentational things
='lgc'>}


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]attunement='lgc'>: a generative, com="trms">positional ="trms">worlding
="prgrph">-particular attunements can become habitual

="prgrph">-(in the atmospheric of my ="nms">ajayeb) what is recognized as worthy and knowable object
="prgrph">-what are the links ='lgc'>[sensory ='and'>& ="trms">affective='lgc'>] between (my) ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">worlding and other ="trms">worlding

='lgc'>{ migraine ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> house ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (an acute) sensory attunement (to the atmospherics of the house)
migraine='lgc'>: “black-furred creature beginning to stir”


="frds scrmbld">Foad's atmospheric attunements, ="trms">responses to the environment
(fully sensory, at once abstract and concrete)='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•a labor
="lsts lst1">•a sentience to a ="trms">world's work
="lsts lst1">•ways of being in noise and light and space

intimacy with a ="trms">world ='lgc'><-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world's imperative

='strcls'>*an imperative can='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•catch you up
="lsts lst1">•then deflate
="lsts lst1">•pop
="lsts lst1">•leave you standing, a fish out of water


“the sentience of a ="trms">situation is filled with tracks of labor and attunement='lgc'>--a dwelling in the expressivity of something coming into existence” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)

we take the ="trms">world for what it's up to

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]atmospheric attunement='lgc'>: actual ="trms">affects of modes of living being brought into being; labor-intensive process that stretches across ="trms">imaginaries
="prgrph">-the lived spaces and temporalities of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•home
="lsts lst1">•work
="lsts lst1">•school
="lsts lst1">•blame
="lsts lst1">•adventure
="lsts lst1">•illness
="lsts lst1">•rumination
="lsts lst1">•pleasure
="lsts lst1">•down time
="lsts lst1">•release
="lsts lst1">•phantasmatic or unthinkable ="trms">situations
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rhythms of the ="trms">present /='strcls'>*/='strcls'>*/='strcls'>*/='strcls'>*\


="nms">ajayeb reports of ="trms">world='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="trms">dense entanglement of ="trms">affect, attention, the senses, and ="trms">matter
(everything depends on these entanglements)

a condition
a pacing
a s="trms">cene of absorption
a dream
a being abandoned by the ="trms">world
a serial immersion in some little ="trms">world you never knew was there until you got cancer
a dog
a ="trms">child
a hankering
the next thing

(='qstn'>?how much ="nms">ajayeb tells the ="trms">stories of) unraveling of states of attending to what might be happening

not being able to sit still
being exhausted
being left behind
being ahead of the curve
being in ="trms">history
being in a predicament مخمصه
being ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready for something='lgc'>--anything


a life's ="trms">trajectories ="trms">traverse the ="trms">materializations of s="trms">cenes or pulsations
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad

atmospheres have='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•gradients
="lsts lst1">•valences
="lsts lst1">•moods
="lsts lst1">•sensations
="lsts lst1">•tempos
="lsts lst1">•lifespans
="lsts lst1">•

an atmospheric fill resonates the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge between the ="trms">material and the potential

='lgc'>[my recording ="trms">symptom in 2009 was an atmospheric (not ="trms">symptomatic) attunement; constant recording; take on the texture and ="trms">density of a background hum; to produce a felt; barely felt sense of something happening in the house;='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-my father disappearing into violent, abandoning drinking


every person is a nexus of com="trms">positional moments
a ="trms">worlding taking place in ="trms">difference


!='heart'>♥ ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart talking about her stepson becoming a homeless
“People like to simplify the ="trms">situation of homelessness as if it is a self-evident process of abject poverty without a safety net or as if it's just a ="trms">matter of personal blame or fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure. But it is also an attunement to a singular ="trms">world's texture and shine. The body has to learn to play itself like a musical ="trms">instrument in this ="trms">world's com="trms">positions.” ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa, ="frds scrmbld">Sven, ="frds scrmbld">Foad='lgc'>]

(i lack certain learnings in sensory labor of attuning as a zerang زرنگ person)


(do i also have) the habit of a ="trms">worlding

trying to find the rhythm of a new bodily life

find lines of attachment

='strcls'>***to become describable as a body (by learning how to ="trms">affect and to be ="trms">affected in this ="trms">world such as it is)='strcls'>***

(in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb i am becoming more and more committed to learn ways of) having ="trms">stories meant to pull me into the sentience of the ="trms">world i am in ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> give it ="trms">density, texture='strcls'>*


="ppl">="ppl">Stewart (2010) is ="trms">writing an ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh of her mother in cancer, stepson becoming a homeless, and her hometown

______________


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]regionality دهاتی ,داهاتی
="prgrph">-an event that jumps from landscape to bodies and back (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
='lgc'>--"here"='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{the blue law, the seasons, the color red, place names اسم خیابان ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*the ="trms">past snaps into the ="trms">present with the recognition of the street names='lgc'>], bodily resonances, ="trms">materialities bundled together like a sac of leaves, sharp-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged collectivities like race, ethnicity, class, gender, generation and ="trms">religion, ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “one ventures from home”
="prgrph">-a thing hollowed out by its labyrinth of ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges; incessant ="trms">interlinking
="prgrph">-a contact ="trms">aesthetics
="prgrph">-a virtual mapping of things in a state of potential (Thrift)
="prgrph">-a sheer recognition of a sheer recognition='lgc'>: “we are from around here"='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{as ='strcls'>*active survivors of the unexpected encounter and knowing ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers of emergent ="trms">situations='strcls'>*='lgc'>} (Roazan)
="prgrph">-turns spaces into animate envelopes that produce ="trms">worlds (Sloterdijk)
="prgrph">-a form of ="trms">worlding='lgc'>--an intimate, com="trms">positional process of dwelling that bears, ="trms">gestures, ="trms">gestates آبستن, ="trms">worlds (="ppl">Heidegger)
="prgrph">-the labored ="trms">viscerality احشايى of being ‘in’ whatever's happening renders choices, ="trms">aesthetics, surfaces and ="trms">materialities ='strcls'>*a part of something='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~="nms">apass='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the sentience, of a ="trms">worlding (lightened by soft s="trms">cenes of the human condition ='lgc'>[played out in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•forms of pleasure ='at'>@="frds">Sina
="lsts lst1">•weakness ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Maarten
="lsts lst1">•fun ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Elen
="lsts lst1">•humor ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter
="lsts lst1">•acquiescence رضايت ,تن در دادن ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
="lsts lst1">•self-deprecation اظهاربيميلى ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili
="lsts lst1">•the intimacy of قبيح دانستن deprecating others ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Xiri
="lsts lst1">•a bad but human habit ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela
="lsts lst1">•some wicked little sorcery ='at'>@קݙ
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>])
="prgrph">-
="prgrph">-an attunement that takes form
="prgrph">-a milieu in which the mouth relaxes into a town accent (نواحی='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-a disorientation in the face of what lies beyond (="frds scrmbld">Janina)
="prgrph">-a ="trms">love affair with light and color (="frds scrmbld">Foad)
="prgrph">-uncurtained windows (my mother)
="prgrph">-
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•one recognizable entity with qualities
="lsts lst1">•lived modalities
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">history of its ="trms">social production and uses
 ='lgc'>{elements, s="trms">cenes, encounters, ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--they='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{sediment, accrue, circulate, un="trms">fold, go flat, ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{saturate a ="trms">situation, fly under radar, pull into alignment, fall out of ="trms">sync, ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “a regional ="trms">aesthetic har="trms">dens into iconic s="trms">cenes of living”


calling to eachother in an intimacy of ="trms">jokes about the things that can happen in their ="trms">world

voice='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the tone
="lsts lst1">•the timing
="lsts lst1">•the accent
="lsts lst1">•the phrasing
="lsts lst1">•the level of force
="lsts lst1">•the purposefulness of the way that voice lives in light, with trees, in the potentiality of a ="trms">laugh
="lsts lst1">•

consistency of a ="trms">laugh or an ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

='strcls'>***when the muteness of things ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses into an ="trms">aesthetic ="trms">phenomenon='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> singularities in="trms">cite it

="large lg54" stl="font-size:125%"> (an actual physical shadow of a state of being)
sing of something amiss='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•depression
="lsts lst1">•withdrawal
="lsts lst1">•in="trms">difference
="lsts lst1">•dysfunction


(my mother in ="nms">Tehran='lgc'>:) a curtained house reduce the ="trms">gestural economy of seeing and being seen to an oc="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded vision in which objects are dark, shadowy outlines with black cores, like a ="trms">world seen through a ripe cataract آب مروارید ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->(the house video project i did ‘city of domes’ 2008 http://www.sinaseifee.com/Cathedral.html was actually about that kind of attunement in my mother's house. i was committed to the description of ="trms">interiority; my allegiance was inward. watchful consciousness in which one witnesses the procession of inner events of light perception ='lgc'><='lgc'>== a sense of lack. sensous grounding of the inner life)
window='lgc'>: a ="trms">method of ="trms">worlding in itself, a node of lines of ="trms">sociality and mood
curtained house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sign of something amiss (depression, withdrawal, in="trms">difference, dysfunction) but “the actual physical shadow of a state of being that broke the circuit of a ='strcls'>*="trms">gestural economy of seeing and being seen='strcls'>*”
in the maner of my mother='lgc'>: you don't warm up to str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, you know who you are talking to, you watch what is going on, you help those in the circle
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart describing how in her town) lamps were strongly favored over overhead lighting, lending texture and ="trms">specifity to the s="trms">cenes
a pause at a window ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to check in with the un="trms">folding and pleating of a ="trms">world pulled in and out through the glass ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is not just a practice of looking but a mood='strcls'>*, ruminative or touched, for good or bad
="lsts lst1">•impulse to venture into a place that pulls watchful bodies out of windows


d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger
hassle
inordinate distance


='at'>#on getting lost with ="frds scrmbld">Janina='lgc'>: “this is an adventure and I am not alone.” (="trms">anxious ='lgc'>+ hervorheben رهسپار شدن)
(with ="frds scrmbld">Janina ='heart'>♥ we experienced) disorientation, displacement, and the experience of getting lost (are foundational sensory modes of living out regionality)
='strcls'>*="trms">wondering out='lgc'>: palpably unpre="trms">dictable and seductive; a ="trms">specific disorientation
="lsts lst1">•half-deliberate exercise of getting yourself lost
="lsts lst1">•direct link between intention and effect
='strcls'>* dragging ="trms">agency into a منشور prismatic ="trms">affective structure ='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[prismatic='lgc'>: flickering, gathered into lines, angles of light or motion to attune to, ='lgc'>=/= simply ="trms">present and knowable='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•lost in a loop
='strcls'>*run='lgc'>: fueld by (performed) ="trms">anxiety, our trip was peppered with moments of disorientation
="prgrph">-the enactment of disorientation poised on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the accidental
="prgrph">-with ="frds scrmbld">Janina somehow we found ourselves in an exercise of orientation/disorientation as it is attaching me to place, ="trms">childhood, some buttom line humanity (called Ungeschicktheit) that depends on giving up competence='strcls'>*** (and often finding oursevels orienting with that rainbow caterpillar disoriented on your forehand)
='lgc'>='lgc'>---our shared ‘should-have-been-obvious'es with ="frds scrmbld">Janina
='lgc'>='lgc'>---="frds scrmbld">Janina's misshapen forces='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>--somehow='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reach a plane of expressivity (for me='lgc'>--because i ="trms">love her='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>---the event, its ="trms">affective structure, is familiar from ="trms">childhood and strangely satisfying, like a loop i had to make, ='strcls'>*an emotive-="trms">agentive place i had to check in with='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Janina ='lgc'>+ ="frds">Sina forms of belonging
(sometimes that place is a fully-invested connection and weighted, like home)
='strcls'>***forms of belonging='lgc'>: tactile ='lgc'>+ full of force ='lgc'>+ tentative ='lgc'>+ risky /='lgc'>--='lgc'>{"='lgc'>+” ='lgc'>: are, and, yet='lgc'>}
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ="trms">ecology of paths that ="trms">matter by means of the things that happen in a ="trms">present in which we are ='strcls'>*lost yet attuned='strcls'>*

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all the ways that people and things venture out into reals ='lgc'>[my mother, ="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Janina, ...='lgc'>]


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]town='lgc'>: currents of ="trms">difference, affiliation, ="trms">history, ordinary dullness and comforts, characters and their ="trms">stories


="large lg10" stl="font-size:118%"> psyching out ethnicity


(my old attunement='lgc'>:) the fear of cockroaches

the miracle mile of computer ="trms">technology

the elitism of the ="trms">historical ="trms">societies

localness nests in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•tastes
="lsts lst1">•bodies
="lsts lst1">•neigborhoods
="lsts lst1">•a valley
="lsts lst1">•a state
="lsts lst1">•a geographical region


“in each s="trms">cene of the production of ="trms">history there are events that are storied or otherwise pulled into play” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)

="ppl">="ppl">Stewart on salem witch trials
the accusations spiraled through families, catching people up like magnetic strips
“wicked little sorceries” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{jumpy moments that suddenly lay the charge of a half-known intensity ="trms">onto ordinary people and roads, regionality becomes a wicked little sorcery. a vortex that pulls possible forms into life into a moment's alignment='lgc'>}, ='lgc'>{the adjective ‘wicked’ marking ='strcls'>*="trms">excess='strcls'>* of all kinds='lgc'>}
astrology
fortune-telling
='strcls'>*an attunement to specters='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-a farmer admitted getting into ‘the snare of the devil’ because he had a large family and ‘the ="trms">world went hard with him.’


robustness in cold weather


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
making of ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges and s="trms">cenes in ="nms">ajayeb

character or texture of an ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

(="nms">ajayeb is made of elements that were) a thing sensed with certainty (yet made up of a shifting, edgy com="trms">posite)
='lgc'>[a sentient shadow called jinn, God, darkness of a pit, a cycle, etc.='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--or='lgc'>='lgc'>--> made scenic ='strcls'>*as a site of a ="trms">world's potential='strcls'>* (= ="nms">ajayeb)
='lgc'>--the s="trms">cene of a thing's demise

an edgy irruptive event

rules and ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges are OK when separate, but together, a bad combination

(="frds scrmbld">Karin ='lgc'>+ ="frds">Sina ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Hanno) we were humans together

='lgc'>--we adjust ourselves to the done deal that things happen='lgc'>--

(we find ourselve being) “from here” in a ="trms">world made intimate through forgiveness, denial, detachment flowing in after a surge of something bad='lgc'>--a close call ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>]


='strcls'>*what are ="nms">ajayeb's turns (and turn backs) to the in="trms">articulate real='qstn'>?


="trms">hallucinogenically down-to-earth (="frds scrmbld">Aela)


what are ="nms">ajayeb's state of emergent expressivity ='lgc'>[today='lgc'>]='qstn'>? (that tries to guess and describe ‘what is happening’) ='strcls'>**** things that happen are in="trms">citements to form ='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intensities become expressive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an خونسرد impassive corporeality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intensities pass from body to body ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•human bodies
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animal bodies
="lsts lst1">•machine bodies
="lsts lst1">•bodies of thought
="lsts lst1">•eco="trms">systems
="lsts lst1">•="trms">visceralities and noumena ='lgc'>[a thing in itself, as distinguished from a ="trms">phenomenon='lgc'>] sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read out across a vast atmospheric field

sediments of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•obvious
="lsts lst1">•much remarked
="lsts lst1">•cryptic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> favored
="lsts lst1">•="trms">situationally precise

how ="nms">ajayeb is an improvisatory conceptuality='qstn'>?
does ="nms">ajayeb-="trms">writing takes place in singularity='qstn'>? (because every ="trms">worlding is singular and precise ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the pleasure of its recognition)

='at'>#my project in ="nms">apass has been a practice of ="trms">writing that is an experiment in attuning to ="nms">ajayeb's tune

="nms">ajayeb reports of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affect that has become native='strcls'>***, attaching to bodies and ="trms">socialities, to an ethos='strcls'>***

with ="nms">ajayeb (with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) i am learning='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to approach the tactile com="trms">positionality of things
="lsts lst1">•de-dramatization of academic thought
="lsts lst1">•to approach the thing that throws itself together ='strcls'>*slowly and enigmatically='strcls'>*='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#andakhtan, andaze
="lsts lst1">•a descriptive detour (with ="ppl">="ppl">Latour)
="lsts lst1">•a lyrical evocation (with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">method of awkwardly approaching an object by attuning to it as a thing of ='strcls'>*promise and contact='strcls'>* (with ="ppl">Berlant)
="lsts lst1">•

concept='lgc'>: that which attunes itself to things coming into form; is both abstract ='and'>& concrete; actual ='and'>& un="trms">folding

highly fractured stone of a collective intensity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Iran, and most other places)

______________


="nms">ajayeb was/is very much committed to the concrete='lgc'>: that means committed to speculation and curiosity (and not the demystification and uncovering truths that support a well-known picture of the ="trms">world) (it was only to a certain degree in support of the middle age islamic picture)

='strcls'>*a something both animated and inhabitable

how to approach a weighted and reeling ='lgc'>[walk as if unable to control one's movements='lgc'>] ="trms">present='qstn'>?
(to name)

(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > ="ppl">Berlant='lgc'>:) objects and s="trms">cenes of desire hold promise, keeping whole ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters of ="trms">affects magnetized to them
="prgrph">-an individual's abstract yet ="trms">contingent desire to feel like he or she is “in” something or can recognize something ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili, ="frds scrmbld">Aela='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***promise is always promise to be ="trms">present to the s="trms">cene


i am ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading in ="nms">ajayeb the actual lines of potential that a something coming together calls to mind an sets in motion

exert palpable pressures

(working with ajayen ="trms">="trms">equip me with recognizing the) immanent نافذ, obtuse پخ, erratic ويلان (='lgc'>=/= “obvious meaning” of semantic message and ="trms">symbolic signification;) to pick up ="trms">density and texture
(in ="nms">tasavof, in ="nms">iranian ="trms">poetry, in ="nms">ajayeb, in my peer's works, )
="prgrph">-asking='lgc'>: what potential modes of knowing, relating, and attending to things are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready somehow persent in them ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potentiality ='and'>& resonance


(="trms">according to ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) ordinary ="trms">affects are more directly compelling than ideologies, as well as more fractious, multiplicitous, and unpre="trms">dictable than ="trms">symbolic meaning='strcls'>*** (in short='lgc'>: canon of “Thinking”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “bigger” structures and underlying causes obscure the ways in which a reeling ="trms">present is ="trms">composed out of heterogeneous and noncoherent singularities
="prgrph">-="frds scrmbld">Sven's ordinary ="trms">affects and DJings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> his noncoherent singularity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a nonre="trms">presentational theory is needed to address them
asking ="frds scrmbld">Sven='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what needs attending to (for you)='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what/who are you in conversation with='qstn'>?



='lgc'>[s="trms">cenes and selves='lgc'>]='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•layered textures of a s="trms">cene



(paying attention to pressure points of ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>)
in ="nms">ajayeb, what is
="lsts lst1">•maintained as a prized possession
="lsts lst1">•left to rot
="lsts lst1">•hardened into little mythic kernal
="lsts lst1">•="trms">morphed into a cold dark ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•hopeful
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> things take place as ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]precisions='lgc'>: the pressure points that open ="trms">onto potentialities are taken up as apparitional things (surat صورت) and then sharpened and repeated in com="trms">positions that labor to describe but also flourish on their own terms


my efforts have not been to finally “know” ="nms">ajayeb, ="frds scrmbld">Sven, or ="frds scrmbld">Sana, ='lgc'>[i have been reluctant to collect them into a good enough ="trms">story of what's going on with them,='lgc'>] rather to ="trms">fashion some ="trms">sort of address that is adequate (and ="trms">fabulous) to their form
="prgrph">-does the intensity and texture of my ="trms">routines (talks, ="trms">writings, etc.) make ="nms">ajayeb habitable and animate='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-in the last year in ="nms">apass i have been training myself to become attuned to what a particular s="trms">cene might offer

='at'>#my ="nms">apass ="nms">ajayeb project='lgc'>:
(learning) building an idio="trms">syncratic map of connections between a series of singularities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to create a contact zone for analysis ='strcls'>****
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='qstn'>?-> ="nms">ajayeb.net, pop-up ="trms">book='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[that's why i have been against the popular idea of ="trms">authorlessness in ="nms">apass, i am invested in (our) singularities; identity is a zone of attunement='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart calls herself “she” to mark the ="trms">difference between her ="trms">writerly identity and the kind of subject that arises as a daydream of simple ="trms">presence
="prgrph">-to touch details that establishes a direct contact

='qstn'>?in our group who
="lsts lst1">•gazes
="lsts lst1">•="trms">imagines
="lsts lst1">•senses
="lsts lst1">•takes on
="lsts lst1">•performs
="lsts lst1">•asserts (not a flat and finished truth)
="lsts lst1">•is in a hot persuit of something de="trms">finitive ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili
="lsts lst1">•a point of contract ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Esta
="lsts lst1">•

watching and waiting for an event to un="trms">fold
the still life that gives a pause ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">story of many of us

______________


“every achieved ="trms">poem inscribes a perceptual sig="trms">nature in the ="trms">world” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > ="ppl">Doty)

="trms">poems have to be achieved (in the ="trms">social-="trms">material ="trms">world)
(achieved ='lgc'>=/= archived)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">poem='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•etching ='strcls'>*lines of action='strcls'>* and mood across the sensations
="lsts lst1">•com="trms">positions at work


my ="nms">ajayeb's
="lsts lst1">•objects of analysis='lgc'>: “com="trms">positional elements of thrown together ="trms">worlds”
="lsts lst1">•objects of critique='lgc'>: “as="trms">sociative account of the modification and reciprocity of bodies and actions, environs, senses, rhythms, tones, and proprioceptions"='lgc'>[='lgc'>: sense of the ="trms">position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•objects of ="trms">database='lgc'>: “are soicialy, ="trms">poetically, ="trms">materially com="trms">positional”


the ="trms">social, the subject, ="trms">matter and event are comprised of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affects
="lsts lst1">•potentialities
="lsts lst1">•energetics
="lsts lst1">•attunements
="lsts lst1">•orientations
="lsts lst1">•disorientations
="lsts lst1">•atmospheres
='lgc'>=/= finished actualities='strcls'>*


="nms">ajayeb is com="trms">positional, that means something reaches a point of expressivity, something throws itself together as ="trms">matter al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready configured yet enigmatic and provocative
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart helping me talk ="nms">ajayeb)

(am i working to) bridge between more com="trms">positions (='qstn'>?)


“watching a spider negotiate its unlikely territory”


(useless concentration)


="frds scrmbld">Foad, ="frds">Sina, we were a slipstream of sensations made of all the ways that ="trms">world impressed itself upon us


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">world='lgc'>: a partial stabilization of practices, capacities, tendencies and affordances in the form of a recursive patterning (Anderson ='lgc'>+ Harrison > ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
="lsts lst1">•mixed-media com="trms">positions of ="trms">matter and thought-feeling
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">world of ="nms">ajayeb magnetizes ="trms">materialities and forms of alertness for me to what's singular and prolific. i am circling through a ="trms">heritage of (="nms">iranian) romanticism and ="trms">pragmatism to arrive (with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) at “the precision of a ="trms">worldly com="trms">position's ="trms">mattering forms”
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*="trms">worlding='lgc'>: happens as ="trms">matter ="trms">poems ="trms">composed of sensations, motion, bodies, and objects (='lgc'>--='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa)
="lsts lst1">•an attachment to the forms and forces of emergence and concrescence itself ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] in the actuality of this and that

learning from my mother by moving in the manner of her

we become ='strcls'>*sentient='strcls'>* in making massages that courses in-between self and ="trms">world

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">pragmatist (thought)='lgc'>: a moment like the front ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of an advancing wave crest always becoming more than itself

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">writing='lgc'>: an experiment that can register years of living out the thing that is just then froming up the ="trms">world as “...”


="trms">love folters and blows


="frds scrmbld">Janina, teaching me, being in ="trms">love with the surface of the ="trms">world

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Elen, she shouts='lgc'>: drive! and see what happens to your senses.


Taussig's “I Swear I saw This” is the stuff of ="nms">ajayeb. he wrote a ="trms">book about a drawing he made in his note="trms">book when he saw what might have been a woman leaning over what looked like a man lying down at the enterence to a freeway tunnel in Medellin in 2006 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb is also about ="trms">writing about what ‘might’ be or have been.

='strcls'>**a mediation on ="trms">writing and drawing in a horrible ="trms">world='strcls'>**

='at'>#my drawings in my note="trms">book/papers in our ="nms">apass meetings
="prgrph">-a hand that draws a scence also draws itself into its corporality, conjuring it in the manner of
="prgrph">-a line records as for what it leads the doodler to see
="prgrph">-“a autobiographical record of a discovery of an event” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a trace and suspension of a wobbly emergence of alertness (to what my friend might have said) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are lived abstractions


possible paradigms for the convergence of emergence='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•af="trms">finity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
="lsts lst1">•complexity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Eszter
="lsts lst1">•(auto)="trms">poiesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Hoda
="lsts lst1">•perception as action ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Elen
="lsts lst1">•speculative realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Zoumana
="lsts lst1">•radical virtualization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Aela
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are all somehow busy (in ="nms">apass) with reorienting to the creativity of thought-action crossings


life is germinaly جرثومه‌ای ="trms">aesthetic, and the ="trms">aesthetic anywhere is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready political='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">stories of ="trms">natural and dreamed up things
the im="trms">material ="trms">matterings of supra-personal ="trms">imaginal real of ="nms">ajayeb forms


(="trms">different names for the same thing='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•forms of emergent in the conduct of life (="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault attending to the intimate ="trms">relations between knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and power)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">worlding, the mirror play of ="trms">materiality and its ="trms">poetic com="trms">position (="ppl">Heidegger)
="lsts lst1">•planes of expressivity reaching a point of recognition or force (="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari)
="lsts lst1">•the shimmer (="ppl">Barthes)
="lsts lst1">•rhythm in itself (Lefebvre)
="lsts lst1">•structures of feeling into political theory (Raymond Williams)
="lsts lst1">•forms emergent in the conduct of life are im="trms">material ="trms">matterings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the contact ="trms">aesthetics='strcls'>* of ="trms">natural and dreamed up things throwing themselves together (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)


="nms">ajayeb is a ="trms">literally unblievable image, a ="trms">sociality, a muscle, a ="trms">world thrown together in a sensory refrain witnessed by a ="trms">present subject; collective dreamed up ="trms">nature and ="trms">historical ="trms">presents ripe with rhythms and speeds, with streams of ="trms">matter and thought; ="nms">ajayeb is a capacious assemblage

="nms">ajayeb ="trms">stories are='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">material-sensory arc of ="trms">history
="lsts lst1">•series of absent/="trms">present (moments) sensed through forms and events


lostness or reslessness of drifters

fantasies of potential “home”

(a plce of) abjection of state neglect ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> production of future


(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) the middle-class mobile citizenship and the proper ="trms">traveling subject


="frds scrmbld">Janina's “i don't know” s
a ="trms">material ="trms">semiosis of choices


what are ="nms">ajayeb promises='qstn'>?
wtinessings, encounters, timeouts, fantasy, distraction,


a 19th century elite tradition of secular pilgrimage to the sacred

pursuit of see-it-yourselfness

a ="trms">spectacular form of amnesia ='strcls'>*


(the joints of my pop-up ="trms">book) spin around fantastic axes


="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>: “the state of public transportation in the U.S. is an event in the ="trms">worlding of bodies in motion”
="prgrph">-a landscape abuzz with connectivity


shape-shifter jumping between com="trms">position and concrete


my ="nms">apass project='lgc'>:
(sharing with you) the pleasure of recognizing a described ="trms">world (in ="nms">ajayeb)='strcls'>***
(i can sense the ="nms">ajayeb's) pleasure in describing the ="trms">animacy of forms
="prgrph">-describing a ="trms">world is the pleasure of sensing the incipiency of ='strcls'>*form in ="trms">matter='strcls'>* and fantasy and the effort to draw the lines of form's traces. still palpable even it only ="trms">imagined (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart ='strcls'>***)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:109%"> (="nms">ajayeb's) heady business of making sense out of what happens
="prgrph">-to venture out in the manner of
="prgrph">-="nms">ajayeb sings an auto="trms">poetic refrain scoring and un="trms">folding
="prgrph">-="trms">gesturing into form, a magnet burdened with impressions

textures give way to qualities of form


='strcls'>*before the blizzard='lgc'>: the sea ="trms">monster

______________


Xh1IgPomwW8 ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's experiments coming at the ="trms">phenomena of ="trms">worlding through a series of angles organized prismatically='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•precision
="lsts lst1">•atmosphere
="lsts lst1">•attunement
="lsts lst1">•refrain ترجیع‌بند (="trms">poetic fixed form)

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the tune on which people and things venture out
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a kind of mapping infrastructure
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lines and distributed biography


='lgc'>[pop-up ="trms">book='lgc'>]
='at'>#description='lgc'>: (="trms">world is like a) pop-up map of possibilities ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= map hylo="trms">morphically ="trms">onto meaning='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(con="trms">densed) points of precision
="lsts lst1">•fundamentally divergent ="trms">nature of things that happen ='lgc'>--prompting='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•the mode of ="trms">social ="trms">poiesis
="lsts lst1">•a path into continuous variation of ="trms">matter and form, word and ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•(pop-up ="trms">book made of) mobile and immobile flickering
="lsts lst1">•a thing that can be physical if the eye is quick enough
="lsts lst1">•a crystalline image of the deforming of a form
="lsts lst1">•bending itself (myself='qstn'>?) in refraction (='lgc'>=/= intimate register of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and power)
="lsts lst1">•a conceptual machinery of cutting ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges
="lsts lst1">•a com="trms">positional jumping off point; a ‘lifted out of’; a ‘being-moved in’
="lsts lst1">•...the ="nms">ajayeb pop-up ="trms">book two parallel sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading qualities and s="trms">cenes across a cartography, registers ="trms">differences in motion
="lsts lst1">•a com="trms">positional ="trms">writing (='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presentational ="trms">method) in the effort to keep up with the distributed ="trms">agencies of ='strcls'>*what is throwing together and what is falling apart='strcls'>* (='lgc'>~ ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is a practice of trying, in line with my ="trms">lectures, to follow where things (might) go that habits of attunement become as as="trms">sociational logic='strcls'>***='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•particulars to become a hinge لولاى در (opening ="trms">onto a ="trms">world throwing together and falling apart)
="lsts lst1">•mixing of shiny elements='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*flickering ="trms">ontologies='strcls'>* the expansive mapping of elements in paly
="lsts lst1">•a cartography of com="trms">positional elements, formal com="trms">positions and unmarked ways of being loop around each other

(27.08.2017 ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is an inquiry into description='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>***it is about many ="trms">different forms that something can take and does take='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>+ the things that can be perceived and thought with those things

(attuning to) details in ="nms">ajayeb loaded with intensities both strange and recognizable (='lgc'>=/= stable real)
a mode of perception that walks around an enigmatic object
an hour
a river
a walk
a deflating frog

far from being “after the fact,” my pop-up ="trms">book involves multiplicity of bodies, characters and ="trms">materialities to approach ‘description’ as “speculative theory in practice of how a ="trms">world works” like ="nms">ajayeb's work of “engendering a plane of prolific expressivity”

(عجایب المخلوقات / عجایب نامه) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: a once percepted thing on the threshold of sense in the prisma of ="trms">social ="trms">poiesis producing a cartography of what might be happening in a ="trms">world as an object of com="trms">position

firefly='lgc'>: a con="trms">densed point of precision one after another

="nms">ajayeb is made in citing repetitions and ="trms">differences

(with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>:) ="nms">ajayeb was once “the cutting ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of a harsh ="trms">world in a state of uneven emergence, an ambient mapping of the not-yet or as-if of things becoming ="trms">phenomenon” which itself became a repetitive impulse to ="trms">story

i can't find a better kind of description of what ="nms">ajayeb does than ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart describing ‘description’ that ="trms">literally puts a point things='lgc'>: “the expressivity of what happens to things throwing together in words is a kind of description attuned to what does not completely un="trms">fold but instead melds together with other unnamed but palpable things collected like a field of mineable resources and shiny afterthoughts.”

things throwing together in words ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> expressivity
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: collected (unnamed but palpable) things like mineable resources and shiny afterthoughts

پس انديشه

______________


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perspective='lgc'>: (an attending, enduring ="trms">presence, a com="trms">positional node,) perspectival ="trms">agency in which things jump into ="trms">relation but remain unglued='strcls'>*** (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)

...across a field of subjects-objects-bodies-="trms">trajectories-="trms">affects


realm of killed off things


new figures i am learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's
="lsts lst1">•“throwing together”
="lsts lst1">•“manner of”
="lsts lst1">•


(in ="nms">ajayeb) the whale='lgc'>: throwing together of the ="trms">phenomena of fish and water, sailing, mood, atmosphere, and sensory charge

='strcls'>*="nms">ajayeb's descriptive apparauses='lgc'>: a mutating realism of a certain vision of light meeting movement

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: things that were once named, perhaps ="trms">written down, (="trms">differently than now,) through some kind of trickery (called ="trms">citation,) and then ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metastasized (sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read throughout a body) into circulation (="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings, ="trms">translations, etc.) are raised, incised, made singular and charged
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">stories/reports ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= forms of co-recognition, something witnessed that gets cooked down into something saucy='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">writing='lgc'>: a more-than-re="trms">presentational ="trms">method of ="trms">writing attuned to the qualities of ="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">fabulations (appear as='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst2">◦(atmospheric) traces
="lsts lst2">◦(momentary) might-have-beens

="nms">ajayeb='lgc'> = people ='lgc'>+ ="trms">matter ='lgc'>+ real ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*point of figuring com="trms">positional reals='strcls'>*


fast-forwarded throught great arcs of ='strcls'>*="trms">history-in-itelf='strcls'>* or ='strcls'>*place-in-itself='strcls'>* in The Time Machine (2002 film)


what are the river and field doing now='qstn'>?


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]theory='lgc'>: drawn through ="trms">writing into the ways that people and things venture out into ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]reals='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a recursive haeccity (="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari)
="lsts lst1">•transversal arrays of qualities or activities which, like musical refrains, give order to ="trms">materials and ="trms">situations, human bodies and brains in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, as actions undertaken act-back to shape muscles and bone senses (Anderson ='lgc'>+ Harrison)
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">mattering that is about the (="trms">contingent and temporary) becoming-determinate (and becoming-indeterminate) of ="trms">matter and meaning (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
="lsts lst1">•built out of ="trms">difference and repetition (="ppl">Deleuze)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">composed of potentiality and loss (="ppl">Berlant)
="lsts lst1">•lean toward that which exists singularly as event, or as a gap, without ground or against the background of nothing (Dewsbury)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]reality='lgc'>: a rhythmic alteration between objects, events, and words='lgc'>='lgc'>---an uncreated ="trms">world='lgc'>='lgc'>---='lgc'>{re="trms">verb between word and ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]worling='lgc'>: a trans="trms">position of the existing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready possible in a ="trms">joke or a ="trms">gesture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> singularities gathering and dissolving, ='at'>#tools='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•snapshots (shoot of an ="trms">affect)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fictocriticism (="trms">fiction ='lgc'>+ theory ='lgc'>+ criticism; a name for those “critical” inventions which belong to ="trms">literature while deforming its limits)
="lsts lst1">•sensory ethnography (ethnographic engagement based on curiosity and attachment) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> drawing
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paths lit up in a rhythm ="trms">interrupted
(as an aritist) you can make anything of anything, the ="trms">questions is, what is it, what is it doing, what is in this consistency of rhythm='qstn'>?='lgc'>}

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">social='lgc'>: comprised of entities that are both ="trms">present and absent (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="nms">ajayeb), atmospheres, ="trms">affects, virtual ="trms">memories, hauntings, and that these are themselves moments of endurance (or not='qstn'>?), instants of the holding together of the disparate itself
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > Doel)


='lgc'>[!='strcls'>* ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart describing the color='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*red='lgc'>: “it moves through streams and tendrils into an as="trms">sociational register of connections and ="trms">differences, ="trms">materials and noumena وجود مجرد, the coagulation دلمه شدن and diffusions of lines of influence and bits of ="trms">matter.”
(in my visual art studies we were given redness as a ="trms">symbolic element in a re="trms">presentational order and a ="trms">matter-of-fact) ='lgc'>=/= state-of-sensory-alert, redness as an actual com="trms">position spun into re="trms">presentations, objects, and states of sensory alert
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] a germinal ="trms">aesthetic. a tendril of practices and sensibilities gathered into an energetics of form
="lsts lst1">•black sky and ocean ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> limit, outline, elemental flux, ="trms">matter waiting formlessly
="lsts lst1">•white ice and snow ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stasis, shape and form, a blankness that challenges com="trms">position, the ="trms">transitoriness
="lsts lst1">•red ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the feebly real, the long, low-frequency wave-lenght of the dying stars, the ="trms">past, the effort to fix dead reality in a cast ='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•green ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> plants that glare with a harsh reality, the violence at the heart of the ="trms">world we inhabite
="lsts lst1">•blue ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a limited, temporary success in fixing experience in a pattern
="lsts lst1">•


a landscape animated by the primariness of color ='lgc'>=/= Molenbeek

american indians became “red” through a complex ="trms">semiotics of encounters with colonists


...who knows what kinds of desires, fears and dead ends

(pay attention to ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list making ="trms">narrative='lgc'>:)
events, sites, actors, stakes, consequences, properties, competences, modalities, attunements, velocities


... a ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ephemeral sparks ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an atmosphere ='lgc'>==pulled='lgc'>='lgc'>==> qualities of ="trms">sociality, personality and ="trms">language out of people ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==created='lgc'>='lgc'>==> spaces of care, territoriality, order, ="trms">horror


the stark mantras of re="trms">presentational critique='lgc'>: that the play of abstract ="trms">categories (real/fabricated, ="trms">nature/human habitat, ="trms">wild/tame, red/white, high/low, etc.) bloodlessly determine ="trms">worlds or adequately describe them ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>{ everything is political='lgc'> = to always know what the political is ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘political’ ='lgc'>: something that exists in the big picture of broader significance, something strongly obvious (but not to most people!) that meanings can be automatically assigned to things and are the basis of those things’ value ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->!='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali

the effect of context

="trms">matters of com="trms">position, each with a “we”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•feeble نحيف
="lsts lst1">•experimental
="lsts lst1">•eccentric ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Elen
="lsts lst1">•habitual ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my mother
="lsts lst1">•generous
="lsts lst1">•="trms">gestural ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•half turned away
="lsts lst1">•reached the expressivity of a mood, a tone of voice
="lsts lst1">•do they lighten things or load them down='qstn'>?

...a com="trms">position made explicit in the figure of ='strcls'>*the active survivor='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*the knowing ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader of impacts='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a watchfulness-turned-impulse that ends not on meaning but in the haptic, multi-angled, sensorimotor qualities of a ="trms">world's un="trms">imaginable detail
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Varinia) qualities sensorimotor ="trms">interactions with environments that are not reducible either to thoughts and ="trms">imaginings='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*richness='lgc'>: a s="trms">cene spied provides in="trms">finite detail beyond what you can invent ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#="trms">excess
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*bodiliness='lgc'>: the motions of the body ="trms">affect sensory input
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*insubordinateness='lgc'>: the ="trms">world has a life of its own; things moved by themselves
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*grabbiness='lgc'>: sensory impacts ="trms">matter apart from their cognition
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> having a ="trms">phenomenal experience is having ="trms">skills with these qualities='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>]


an ="trms">ecology of potentialy marked by violence and care

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>]

we might='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•provide a better understanding
="lsts lst1">•provoke novel realities/="trms">ontologoes (to emerge from ="trms">material)
="lsts lst1">•provoke an understanding in the context of the everyday

='strcls'>*(="ppl">="ppl">Latour, ="ppl">Whitehead, Law='lgc'>:) ="trms"nttrm="search">archeological entity='lgc'> = ="trms">ontological entity (by ="trms">nature) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> productive of reality


to focus on practices in which all possible elements of the process must be understood as active and creative (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'># ="trms">="trms">equipment ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list)

='strcls'>*“to take ="trms">seriously"='lgc'> = to accept at a fundamental level the truth of a claim and to doggedly follow its consequences
(form an ="trms">ontological and conceptual perspective)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dogs follow consequences)
(indigenous thought is treated as a theoretical discourse on the ="trms">nature of reality ='lgc'>=/= an ="trms">interesting ="trms">interpretation of it)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to take ="trms">seriously the indigenous ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of multi="trms">naturalism ='lgc'>[or ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] as a philosophical ="trms">intervention ='lgc'>: to trace out its effects on ='lgc'>[our='lgc'>] concepts


multiculturalism='lgc'>: a single objective universe and many cultural ="trms">interpretations of it
multi="trms">naturalism='lgc'>: multiple universes and a single mode of ="trms">interpretation (="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perspective ='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">different “point of view” on (the same way of knowing or seeing) qualitatively ="trms">different ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='strcls'>* ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, ='at'>#elephant parable


no='lgc'>: no ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de-="trms">historicizing effects of imposing psycho-cognitive shamanic models of art
no ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> purely cognitive significance (of...)


='strcls'>*miniature='lgc'>: a ritual activity, a grave offering, a ="trms">sympathetic magic, a capture of the power of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> common ="trms">stories about how miniatures can be ="trms">interpreted in archaeology


(="trms">ontological research approach)_
scale is utterly important because “careful attention to alternative ="trms">ontologies of scale introduces new ="trms">interoretive possibilities for...” (="ppl">Alberti)

='strcls'>*="trms">ontology='lgc'>: the sense of a real, solid ="trms">world
='thdf'>for example the ="trms">question of “the substance of the ="trms">world”, everyone has answered that al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready (reiterating that which makes sense) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> concept of real ='lgc'>--(invent)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">cosmology (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is not a relativizing ="trms">gesture) ='lgc'>==(force)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> production of new concepts and ="trms">materialities
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter='lgc'>: importance of asking the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ="trms">questions='lgc'>: unless we do, the answers make no ="trms">difference (="ppl">Grosz)


scopes and scales ()='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “dimensionally mani="trms">fold weave of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">worlds” (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Katie) are at stake in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science display
="lsts lst1">•TV series
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb
="lsts lst1">•pet video
="lsts lst1">•emergent transdisciplinary scholarship
="lsts lst1">•transmedia commercial ="trms">apparatuses
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>*with ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading/enacting ="nms">ajayeb what is at stake is the “effectivities in realizing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">stories” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemological ="trms">affects


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]scale
="lsts lst1">•operates through intensity and not size
="lsts lst1">•emergent and performative (Jones), (juxta="trms">positions of) scales ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “="trms">interesting psychological and ="trms">phenomenological effects”
="lsts lst1">•a flat approach to scale does not separate the ="trms">social and ="trms">material, or the micro from the macro ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]size='lgc'>: (emerges as a possibility, as) one means of enacting the potential of another scale; accidental effect of intensity='lgc'>: ="trms">materialization of intensity and ="trms">excess ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humanity='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•is about intensity and ="trms">excess ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potential for visibility/invisibility and proximity to the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal condition of un="trms">differentiated, intensive ="trms">difference (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="nms">hayula; perfect formless form)='strcls'>***; intensive ="trms">different “h” of ="nms">hayula هیولا...
="lsts lst2">◦ه
="lsts lst2">◦‍ه‍
="lsts lst2">◦‍ه
="lsts lst2">◦ه‍


="ppl">Alberti argues for a form of ="trms">ontological ="trms">symmetry between the theory we bring to bear on our evidence and the way that ="trms">material acts as evidence (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Seba)


='strcls'>*='lgc'>[mesopotamia='lgc'>] chronically unstable bodies
a corpus of ="trms">zoo-="trms">anthropo-bio="trms">morphic artifacts and ="trms">traps
="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism manifest in distorted corporeal forms and appendages ضميمه

all ="trms">sorts of dualism are at work in the archaeological ="trms">imaginary of the region from Amazon to the Andes

marking a body ='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presentation of that act

="ppl">Alberti's arguments”
="lsts lst1">•the fantastic forms, bulges, protuberances برامدگى, and other modifications of bodies and pots express a general concern with “shoring up” or “fixing” a ="trms">world conceived of as inherently volatile فرار ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bodies (pots and people) were considered “chronically unstable”='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{pots ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intentional activation of ="trms">affective capacities in the clay; pots and bodies are “grown” in he same way='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•chaotically scale-changing, their scale is one of intensity and ="trms">excessiveness (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> figure-ground ="trms">relationship between visible/invisible, body/soul)

='strcls'>*perspectivism='lgc'>: all ="trms">species potentially share a way of knowing with humans. their “essence” or “soul” is human ='lgc'>: they see themselves as human and others as ="trms">animals
='strcls'>*to occupy a body='lgc'> = to have a perspective on the ="trms">world='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•an intensive ="trms">difference that carries the human/nonhuman ="trms">difference to the inside of every existing thing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no a ="trms">priori reason for everything not being a subject ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> also ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]bodies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•bundles of ="trms">affect ='lgc'>: collection of ="trms">affects bundled into an unstable bodily form
="lsts lst1">•carrying out ="trms">specific tasks
="lsts lst1">•sensing the ="trms">world in particular way
="lsts lst1">•sharing capacities and habits with others in what keeps a body as it is and maintains its similarity to other bodies in a group
="lsts lst1">•coincident with subjectivity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you need a body to know
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (particular ="trms">differentiation of a body='lgc'>:) body ornaments, clothing, sex, and other so-called cultural markings are no ="trms">different in kind from the so-called ="trms">natural markers of bodily ="trms">difference and capacity='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***clothes ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= claws ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">affects='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “sign and substance of capacities and dis="trms">positions” (="ppl">Alberti > Hugh-Jones > ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)
='strcls'>*marking, molding, painting, adorning, clothing, piercing, and otherwise working on body ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> to fix a body ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to stabilize an otherwise ="trms">wildly unpre="trms">dictable perspective and ="trms">world='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*body surfaces of spirits and humans are often brilliant and intensely marked='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">excessive corporeality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potency of the ="trms">embodied subject='lgc'>: their “scale” ='lgc'>[in timespace tey-ol-arz='lgc'>] as efficacious beings, ="trms">dense with ="trms">affective capacities, (the body that is marked with tey-ol-arz in="trms">cites ="trms">embodied subjects)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">trap='strcls'>* (operates along scale) ='lgc'>[sufi's termporal “scale” (in tey-ol-arz طی‌الارض) as her/his efficacious being, ="trms">dense with ="trms">affective capacities for ="ppl">Attar in Tazkirat al-Awliya (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> also relevant for pit-="trms">story ='at'>#="trms">measurement) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the figure of the moving sufi across scales of spacetime on geo, works as a ="trms">trap precisely along this scale ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">materialization of intensity and ="trms">excess ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humanity='lgc'>]
='strcls'>* bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= artefacts ='lgc'>: sites of subjectivity ='strcls'>*

='strcls'>*soul='lgc'>: the capacity to transform='lgc'>: a ="trms">matter of chaning bodies

dead ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ancestor
(transformation is an ="trms">ontological event='lgc'>: “='lgc'>='lgc'>-->”), ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
for Wari to have a soul is a sign of d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, a sign that some transformation (of perspective) is imminent ='lgc'>[='lgc'>]

="nms">ajayeb is full of ="trms">stories of instability='lgc'>: one's soul is always vulnerable to ="trms">ontological predation by another spirit or person ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> one's perspective can always change


“cor="trms">respond” is keyword in working with ="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>: ‘="trms">interpretations cor="trms">respond with stable ="trms">ontologies’


(this we must take things as ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">ontological ='lgc'>=/= analogical (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- re="trms">presentation of a ="trms">world, an ego, etc.)

how to approach (="nms">iranian miniatur and) miniaturization='qstn'>?
miniaturization have powerful and often unsettling (because paradoxical) cognitive and perceptual effects='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these effects (in the case of figurines) enable people to enter “other ="trms">worlds” (to think, manipulate and influence)
(in figurines) all the senses are implicated ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “perceptually explosive objects” (Bailey)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">onto-transformative effect of miniaturization
='strcls'>*="trms">anthropocentrism of the scale of the human ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> default ="trms">ontological scale, self-evident human-sized body (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>?! the little bike i gave ="frds scrmbld">Elen, did i propose that kind of critique='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-which organs are emphasized in ="nms">iranian miniature='qstn'>?
(organs of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>: eyes, ears, mouths, skin)
="prgrph">-properties of ="trms">materials and their ="trms">relationship to form only ever emerge ="trms">relationally ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can i construct an approach for ="nms">iranian miniatur, or radif in these terms
="lsts lst2">◦countors ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de="trms">composes to the shape of horses
="lsts lst2">◦gold
="lsts lst2">◦fields
 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and these forms emerged for people ='strcls'>*who knew how to see it='strcls'>*
="nms">iranians experienced everything about the ="trms">world as ‘...’ ='qstn'>? (جای خالی را پر کنید) ='lgc'>--='strcls'>*='lgc'>-- the growth of ="trms">children in an unre="trms">liable ="trms">world نگرانی (='at'>#modalities of negarani)
inconstant and unre="trms">liable, continually threatening to transform ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ontology involving ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics

(the drama of) finding the correct scale


='strcls'>***(Bailey > ="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>:) (“paradox of multiple ="trms">worlds”='lgc'>:) when “other ="trms">worlds” are precisely what is expected by an audience for whom the ="trms">world is inherently unstable ='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is an ="nms">iranian mode='lgc'>: ="trms">loving outsiders, construct ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics, proliferating ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh, make belief in images, make thinking about kharej خارج, ="trms">loving America, etc.='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this was also why i couldn't think with ="frds scrmbld">Pierre's “other future” proposal; i am al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready living it


="ppl">Alberti asks='lgc'>: will an ="trms">ontological shift in scale reveal new ways of cenceptualizing the miniatures (the patterns)='qstn'>?

in ="ppl">Miyazaki the figure's size are part of an instantiation of scale rather than ="trms">respond to an imposed scale
a scale must grow indiginously


Amazonian soul <='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> harkat johari <='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tey-ol-arz طی‌الارض ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> teleportation and tazkie nafs ='qstn'>?!
="prgrph">-designating a condition of transformability='lgc'>: all bodies contain the potential to transform into other bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intrinsic capacity to be something else ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> harkat johari حرکت جوهری
='strcls'>*tey-ol-arz ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intrinsic capacity to be somewhere else; ='lgc'>[is tey-ol-arz in ="nms">tasavof also about scale, body='qstn'>? (intensive ="trms">difference) (condition of transformability is ="trms">articulated in tey-ol-arz in terms of geo-temporal scale shift...)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a moment of indiscernibility between “here” and “there” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a super-divided being (intensive multiplicity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*(a ="trms">specific form emerges='lgc'>:) a dynamic and intensive corporeality='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">excessive intensity of all spirits) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my argument is that ="nms">tasavof is not the negation of body in favor of soul ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the key is not size or time but intensity or ="trms">excess ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to think tey-ol-arz='lgc'>: to think in many kinds of times, flesh, vulnerability, etc.='lgc'>]
tey-ol-arz ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics is based on ='thdf'>the idea of a radical and in="trms">finite super="trms">position of states='lgc'>: insides and outsides ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= heres and theres ='lgc'>: are figures and ground to each other (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#beyond)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no ="trms">interior space to the body (='lgc'>~ there is no there/beyond to the body,) just an invisible body


='at'>#work on an exposure of work with tey-ol-arz with other ="trms">interested artists
in ="nms">Tehran, maybe in my parents house, informal space for opening a discussion in ="trms">Farsi-English
(involve ="frds scrmbld">Pierre='qstn'>? where to get money='qstn'>?)
='strcls'>*campus='lgc'>: (a place where) new kinds of conversations are being invented in stabilized and ="trms">social forms (sometimes departments, sometimes just research ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters)
i need to make that kind of mini-scale of quasi-organization between ="nms">Tehran and Brussels='lgc'>: workshops, episodic and ="trms">travel-mediated knots of practice


='strcls'>**(="ppl">Alberti 2013 argues that) anything in the immediate, intimate vicinity of people can be subjectivized or personified through exchange and shared ="trms">affects='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an argument for ="nms">ajayeb


‘to know a thing'='lgc'> = 'to subjectivize it’ ='lgc'>: to add the maximum amount of intentionality to them (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#="trms">="trms">equip them to talk well)


pots made to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to ="trms">communicate (to an audience)
="lsts lst1">•to establish (="trms">relationships)
="lsts lst1">•to persuade (others of their point of view)

de-subjectivization='lgc'>: sometimes (objects) left deliberately partially subjectivized, semi-potent in their potential to know and be known

the intensely subjectivized pots ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*impede activity and enable knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>*

="lsts lst1">•convince
="lsts lst1">•avtivate
="prgrph">-
="lsts lst1">•persuade
="lsts lst1">•="trms">communicate
="lsts lst1">•establish

eyes wide open='lgc'>: inability to see the invisible

='strcls'>*to see is to be seen='strcls'>*

buried pots, ="trms">relational bodies firmly in place, teaches the dead to see properly, to maintain a perspective (Albeti)

="large lg18" stl="font-size:103%">
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
(with ="ppl">Alberti) ="trms">trap-thinking for ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">storytelling ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to make capable of knowing ="trms">different things, invoking, quoting, reciting, citing, exicing, inciting ="trms">different kinds of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[cit- ='lgc'>: to call, start='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mobilizing ='at'>#="trms">citational ="trms">apparatuses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they enter into a ‘type’ of ="trms">relation particular to each


="large lg54" stl="font-size:100%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">traps(/pots)='lgc'>: bodies fully engage in perspectival ="trms">communication and battles of will, variously constructed and provided with ="trms">affects and capacities, capable of knowing ="trms">different things and of inciting ="trms">different kinds of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge through the types of ="trms">relations they entered into


______________


archaeological ="trms">material ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= myrtle (='lgc'>=/= marble)


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">ontology='lgc'>: a theory and experience of what exists


='strcls'>*hylo="trms">morphic model of production (underlined by the substance ="trms">ontology) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= marble
='lgc'>=/= myrtle
='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb's inscribings
a making which assumes that form is inscribed ="trms">onto passive ="trms">matter
that pots accrue (انباشتن منتج) meaning through their processes of manufacture and role in ="trms">social ="trms">relations
='lgc'>~ form is brought to ="trms">matter by an ="trms">agent with a design in mind (Ingold) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a concept of ="trms">material culture in which “brute ="trms">matter” is shaped by cultural ="trms">agency
traces of action ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">skilled means of re="trms">presenting a mental image
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ‘design’ (as conventionally conceived) ='lgc'>: to ‘project’ future states


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perspectivist theory='lgc'>: the conception ="trms">according to which the universe is inhabited by ="trms">different ="trms">sorts of persons, human and nonhuman, which apprehend reality from distinct points of view (="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)
="prgrph">-it sug="trms">gests that there is no ="trms">interior space to the body, only super="trms">position of body and soul='lgc'>: the human form is, as it were, the body within the body, the naked primordial body ='lgc'>[="nms">hayula='lgc'>]='lgc'>--the soul of the body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">finite super="trms">position of states ='at'>#tey-ol-arz
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the body, not the mind (or ‘soul’), is the seat of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="trms">different parts of the body know in quite distinct ways='lgc'>: (loci/organ of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•hand knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (meken una)
="lsts lst1">•eye knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (bedu una) (particularly prominent sometimes...)
="lsts lst1">•ear knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (pabinki una)
="lsts lst1">•liver knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (taka una)
="lsts lst1">•skin knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (bitxi una) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of sun, rain and wind is acquired through the skin
(painting, ear piercing can also facilitate the absorption of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge into the body)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= artefacts ='lgc'>: sites of subjectivity
="lsts lst1">•the body is fabricated, just like the pot ='lgc'>[="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•as ‘lived experience’ performs, ="trms">communicates and extends personhood through inscriptive and re="trms">presentational practices that fully incorporate ="trms">material culture and the surrounding ="trms">world. (Joyce)
="lsts lst1">•people are made='lgc'>: bodies are com="trms">posite transformations of artefacts from the time of myth='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[for example='lgc'>] Wari pay much attention to human bodies to ensure proper growth, which is regarded as a collective ="trms">responsibility='lgc'>: they are moulded and shaped by kin from foetus through to adult. actions carried out on the body, such as massage, painting and piercing ='lgc'>[and negarani of ="nms">iranian mother='lgc'>] are seen to have profound and lasting effects
="lsts lst1">•each being is stabilized through acts of care ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what are babies for ="nms">iranians (and ="nms">iranian mothers)='qstn'>? ='lgc'>{='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'>: dis="trms">positions or capacities which render the body of every ="trms">species unique='lgc'>: what it eats, how it moves, how it ="trms">communicates, where it lives, whether it is gregarious دسته اى or solitary ='lgc'>==(such practices ensure that)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>**individuals act and see in the same ways as their kin='strcls'>** ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this what mother does='qstn'>? (has to do with the ability or threat of transformation='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*='at'>#practices of care and نگرانی negarani are the production of a distinctly human body ='lgc'>~ ="trms">naturally human ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ="trms">different bodily constitutions of the subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">different ="trms">worlds

a process that crucially entailed inconstancy='lgc'>: a continuous creative ="trms">response to the exigencies of somatic uncertainty and ="trms">ontological risk ='lgc'>=/= intentional image into a realized product (a bad ="trms">story of ="trms">technology)

let's resist='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the vessel ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor
="lsts lst1">•the body's dual character as biological and cultural

archaeologists’ understanding of what bodies and artefacts are ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a model (based on analogy) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “pot ='lgc'>=/= body”


="large lg50" stl="font-size:131%"> ='strcls'>****sex and aging, defined as the real “physical characteristics” of the body that underpin human experiences ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> usually remains unaltered
(for instance check the TV series Six Feet Under, how David's gay-ness is an intrinsic absolute fact of his body that underpins all his experiences)


we “wear”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sex
="lsts lst1">•aging
="lsts lst1">•personal feelings
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Iranian, or German, (basically being anything)
="lsts lst1">•


(basically in all Hollywood ="trms">imaginings and standard archaeology) artefacts are only assigned secondary ="trms">agency ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animacy is not considered as inherent attribute of the artefactual ='strcls'>*** (Gell)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pots as living organisms subject to processes of growth


(Ingold's) ="trms">ecology of ="trms">materials is characteristic of work that focuses on the inherent vitality of things (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)

='strcls'>*production='lgc'>: an ongoing process that produces both maker and object


(="ppl">Alberti proposes) a change in focus='lgc'>: (from) ='strcls'>*stopped up objects='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--(to)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*leaky things='strcls'>*


in his ="trms">writing ="ppl">Alberti finishes 3 or 4 times his paragraphs with the same characterization of his field='lgc'>: “chronic instability of a ="trms">world constantly at risk of transformation”


“if everything can be human, then nothing is human in a clear and distinct way.”
="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]subjectivity='lgc'>: a condition and outcome of all ="trms">affective ="trms">relations ='lgc'>=/= a capacity that can be awakened in a seemingly inert thing
='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>?! ="trms">transference, (is ="trms">transference an object-oriented account='qstn'>?)


the active ="trms">nature of ="trms">materials refers to their recognized capacity to escape form ='lgc'>: their untrustworthiness


(a paradime for creative arts='lgc'>:) artifactual production ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal creativity

(in Amazonia, and) in ="nms">ajayeb, no distinction is made between thoughts, feelings, body and mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> thoughts and actions happen in the same ="trms">ontological space
(="ppl">Alberti > ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)

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shift from an ="trms">epistemological to an ="trms">ontological register in theoretical archaeology

critically ="trms">ontological='lgc'>: turning insight back on the archaeological project

(in archaeology='lgc'>:) ="trms">ontology='lgc'> = reality (what there is) / peoples’ claims about reality (a fundamental set of understandings about how the ="trms">world is) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one can conceptualize ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: as a people's “beliefs about” reality / as people's actual ="trms">ontological commitments (='lgc'>~ people's reality)

="ppl">="ppl">Latour's modes of existence='lgc'>: ="trms">ontological tendencies that exist more or less precariously under the assault of ="trms">modernization

conversion of ="trms">ontological ="trms">questions into ="trms">epistemological ="trms">questions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> de="trms">ontologizing other peoples’ ='strcls'>*="trms">ontological commitments='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda mistook for ideology='lgc'>]

='strcls'>*problem with p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralizing “reality” is that it might appear to be a form of cultural relativism, (demotion of) “="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= culture (='lgc'>~ cultural beliefs about reality ='lgc'>=/= reality)” ='lgc'>==back='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cultural construction


anti-="ppl">Cartesian, ="trms">relational, and anti="trms">ontological exceptionalism


='lgc'>[a='lgc'>] ="ppl">Heideggerian idea='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*the ="trms">world we encounter is pre="trms">interpretive='strcls'>*

posthuman ='lgc'>~ nonre="trms">presentational ='lgc'>~ rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ='lgc'>~ new ="trms">materialism

(realism='lgc'>: an ="trms">ontological approach)

="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Latour's ="trms">network
="lsts lst1">•Ingold's meshwork (commonality of processes across the ‘life ='lgc'>=/= not life’) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> processes ='lgc'>~ becoming ='lgc'>~ growth ='lgc'>~ decay
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Barad's entanglement (="trms">relations are primary and ="trms">relata are a consequence of relating ='lgc'>==dynamics='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">intra-action ='lgc'>{="trms">phenomenon='lgc'> = experiment ='lgc'>+ ="trms">measuring device ='lgc'>+ techician ='lgc'>+ previous results ='lgc'>+ setting ='lgc'>+ ...='lgc'>})
="lsts lst1">•DeLanda's assemblage (how humans and nonhumans produced ="trms">communities that changed in com="trms">position and through time... ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">linguistic model of context)
="lsts lst1">•

='strcls'>**="trms">relational ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>: stronger your “allies” are, the more reality you can claim='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[= (="ppl">="ppl">Latour's notion of) truth='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[critique of human exceptionalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] open ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">contingent ="trms">categories='lgc'>: ="trms">phenomena and assemblages are temporary, ="trms">contingent, and unbounded

flat ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: one made ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively of unique, singular individuals, differing in spatio-temporal scale but not in ="trms">ontological status ='lgc'>--="trms">symmetry='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to get at ="trms">differences without determining what they are in advance='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- useful for ="nms">ajayeb studies)
="lsts lst1">•archaeological types/objects='lgc'>: reified sets of ="trms">relations
="lsts lst1">•job of the archaeologists='lgc'>: establish alternative taxonomies of being

ruin ="trms">memories

nonre="trms">presentational ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{"="trms">world of ideas ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world of things” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= the ideas must cor="trms">respond to a truth de="trms">monstrable in the ="trms">world of things='lgc'>}

(Lucas's) ="trms">materialization='lgc'>: we can still say things about the ="trms">past with great certainty

theories ='lgc'>+ ="trms">apparatuses ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material remains

="trms">ontological realism ='lgc'>--claim='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectivity and truth may be ="trms">contingent but are nonetheless de="trms">monstrable and robust

archaeologist ="trms">ontological approach='lgc'>: working on “="trms">material ="trms">pasts in the ="trms">present” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ‘how ="trms">past actually gathers in the ="trms">present’ ='lgc'>=/= “="trms">material record='lgc'> = fragmentary evidence of ="trms">history”
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">material's temporary sensitivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]residue='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">memory objects, ="trms">material entities in which the ="trms">memory of a moment in time is recorded

(it is precisely the) ="trms">past ='lgc'>--endures-in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblage


="trms">interpretive endeavors ='lgc'><='lgc'>--characterize='lgc'>-- extension of the meaning of the ="trms">social
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ontology as a new ="trms">interpretive tool
="lsts lst1">•additive (='lgc'>=/= reconstructive)

="ppl">Alberti's approach (in ="trms">ontological equivalence of bodies and pots in ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic ceramics from northwest Argentina...)='lgc'>:
="trms">social ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reconstruct the ="trms">ontologies of ="trms">past ="trms">societies ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~ ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]

="trms">ontological archaeology's background in feminism, queer, and ="trms">phenomenological
approaches ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">interest in the body


influence of the ="trms">animal turn in archaeology
non="trms">anthropocentric ="trms">zoological studies

(nomenological explorations of ="trms">animal re="trms">presentations in ="ppl">Attar and ="nms">tasavof)

what kinds of beings existed within the ="trms">social universe of pre-Columbian Andean peoples

(renovated concept of) animism='lgc'>: ethnographic ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-analogy for ="trms">past ="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> models of ="trms">relationality for archaeologists to ="trms">interpret ="trms">material patterning in the archaeological record

investigations of personhood

(building toward a) taxonomy of ="trms">past ="trms">ontologies ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontological critique

(="ppl">Alberti >) ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro's project='lgc'>: to ="trms">systemize amerindian thought into a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics such that it can have a reciprocal effect on ="trms">anthropological thought and “="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list” or Western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics


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="trms">ontological realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{

new ="trms">language attempt to ="trms">imagine the complex topology of ="trms">relational realities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Latour ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">network='lgc'>: things exists as a consequence of the strength of their ="trms">articulation
="lsts lst1">•Ingold ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> meshwork ='lgc'>=/= Aristotelian hylo="trms">morphism
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Barad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> entanglement='lgc'> = Quantum physics ='lgc'>+ queer theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> properties belong to the ="trms">phenomena in ="trms">question ='lgc'>=/= inherent to things
="lsts lst1">•DeLanda ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblage='lgc'>: how humans ='lgc'>+ nonhumans produced ="trms">communities that changed in com="trms">position and through time in neolithic and bronze age

assemblage ='lgc'>--replace='lgc'>='lgc'>--> context

assemblage='lgc'> = ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporary, ="trms">contingent, unbounded

="ppl">="ppl">Latourian critique of ="trms">categories ='lgc'>=/= beyond human cor="trms">relationalism

p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralizing ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> charges of relativism ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ‘object[...]