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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'>==> (re)location of ="trms">responsibility

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

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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> (='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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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'>~= 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'>]


="large lg1" stl="font-size:131%"> ="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'>♥

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(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


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> 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[...]