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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

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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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'>]

="large lg1" stl="font-size:149%"> ='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'>==> 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'>==> 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'>==> 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'>==> “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'>==> ="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


="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>==> 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


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:154%"> de-subjectivization='lgc'>: sometimes (objects) left deliberately partially subjectivized, semi-potent in their potential to know and be known

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