[...] 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
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(="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
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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
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textures give way to qualities of form
='strcls'>*before the blizzard='lgc'>: the sea ="trms">monster
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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
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(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
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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)
...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
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='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'>--> harkat johari ='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)
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(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
='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[...]