[...]tologies’
(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
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(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
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
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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)
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
(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
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='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 ="trms">relations they entered into
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archaeological ="trms">material ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= myrtle (='lgc'>=/= marble)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">ontology='lgc'>: a theory and experience of what exists
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='strcls'>*hylo="trms">morphic model of production (underlined by the substance ="trms">ontology) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= marble
='lgc'>=/= myrtle
='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb's inscribings
a making which assumes that form is inscribed ="trms">onto passive ="trms">matter
that pots accrue (انباشتن منتج) meaning through their processes of manufacture and role in ="trms">social ="trms">relations
='lgc'>~ form is brought to ="trms">matter by an ="trms">agent with a design in mind (Ingold) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a concept of ="trms">material culture in which “brute ="trms">matter” is shaped by cultural ="trms">agency
traces of action ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">skilled means of re="trms">presenting a mental image
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ‘design’ (as conventionally conceived) ='lgc'>: to ‘project’ future states
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perspectivist theory='lgc'>: the conception ="trms">according to which the universe is inhabited by ="trms">different ="trms">sorts of persons, human and nonhuman, which apprehend reality from distinct points of view (="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)
="prgrph">-it sug="trms">gests that there is no ="trms">interior space to the body, only super="trms">position of body and soul='lgc'>: the human form is, as it were, the body within the body, the naked primordial body ='lgc'>[="nms">hayula='lgc'>]='lgc'>--the soul of the body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in="trms">finite super="trms">position of states ='at'>#tey-ol-arz
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the body, not the mind (or ‘soul’), is the seat of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="trms">different parts of the body know in quite distinct ways='lgc'>: (loci/organ of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•hand knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (meken una)
="lsts lst1">•eye knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (bedu una) (particularly prominent sometimes...)
="lsts lst1">•ear knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (pabinki una)
="lsts lst1">•liver knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (taka una)
="lsts lst1">•skin knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (bitxi una) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of sun, rain and wind is acquired through the skin
(painting, ear piercing can also facilitate the absorption of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge into the body)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= artefacts ='lgc'>: sites of subjectivity
="lsts lst1">•the body is fabricated, just like the pot ='lgc'>[="ppl">Alberti='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•as ‘lived experience’ performs, ="trms">communicates and extends personhood through inscriptive and re="trms">presentational practices that fully incorporate ="trms">material culture and the surrounding ="trms">world. (Joyce)
="lsts lst1">•people are made='lgc'>: bodies are com="trms">posite transformations of artefacts from the time of myth='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[for example='lgc'>] Wari pay much attention to human bodies to ensure proper growth, which is regarded as a collective ="trms">responsibility='lgc'>: they are moulded and shaped by kin from foetus through to adult. actions carried out on the body, such as massage, painting and piercing ='lgc'>[and negarani of ="nms">iranian mother='lgc'>] are seen to have profound and lasting effects
="lsts lst1">•each being is stabilized through acts of care ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what are babies for ="nms">iranians (and ="nms">iranian mothers)='qstn'>? ='lgc'>{='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'>: dis="trms">positions or capacities which render the body of every ="trms">species unique='lgc'>: what it eats, how it moves, how it ="trms">communicates, where it lives, whether it is gregarious دسته اى or solitary ='lgc'>==(s[...]