[...]d 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'>?
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...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'>~=='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
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="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
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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'>~= claws ='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'>~=> 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'>~= artefacts ='lgc'>: sites of subjectivity ='strcls'>*
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='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 on[...]