[...] 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
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='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'>***)
(="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
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='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)
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...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
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="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)
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='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
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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...
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="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
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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[...]