[...]per-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

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‘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)


='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


='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


='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'>==(such practices ensure that)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>**individuals act and see in the same ways as their kin='strcls'>** ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this what mother does='qstn'>? (has to do with the ability or threat of transformation='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*='at'>#practices of care and نگرانی negarani are the production of a distinctly human body ='lgc'>~ ="trms">naturally human ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ="trms">different bodily constitutions of the subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">different ="trms">worlds

a process that crucially entailed inconstancy='lgc'>: a continuous creative ="trms">response to the exigencies of somatic uncertainty and ="trms">ontological risk ='lgc'>=/= intentional image into a realized product (a bad ="trms">story of ="trms">technology)

let's resist='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the vessel ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor
="lsts lst1">•the body's dual character as biological and cultural

archaeologists’ understanding of what bodies and artefacts are ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a model (based on analogy) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “pot ='lgc'>=/= body”


='strcls'>****sex and aging, defined as the real “physical characteristics” of the body that underpin human experiences ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> usually remains unaltered
(for instance check the TV series Six Feet Under, how David's gay-ness is an intrinsic absolute fact of his body that underpins all his experiences)


we “wear”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sex
="lsts lst1">•aging
="lsts lst1">•personal feelings
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Iranian, or German, (basically being anything)
="lsts lst1">•


(basically in all Hollywood ="trms">imaginings and standard archaeology) artefacts are only assigned secondary ="trms">agency ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animacy is not considered as inherent attribute of the artefactual ='strcls'>*** (Gell)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pots as living organisms subject to processes of growth


(Ingold's) ="trms">ecology of ="trms">materials is characteristic of work that focuses on the inherent vitality of things (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)

='strcls'>*production='lgc'>: an ongoing process that produces both maker and object


(="ppl">Alberti proposes) a change in focus='lgc'>: (from) ='strcls'>*stopped up objects='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--(to)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*leaky things='strcls'>*


in his ="trms">writing ="ppl">Alberti finishes 3 or 4 times his paragraphs with the same characterization of his field='lgc'>: “chronic instability of a ="trms">world constantly at risk of transformation”

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“if everything can be human, then nothing is human in a clear and distinct way.”
="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]subjectivity='lgc'>: a condition and outcome of all ="trms">affective ="trms">relations ='lgc'>=/= a capacity that can be awakened in a seemingly inert thing
='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>?! ="trms">transference, (is ="trms">transference an object-oriented account='qstn'>?)

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the active ="trms">nature of ="trms">materials refers to their recognized capacity to escape form ='lgc'>: their untrustworthiness


(a paradime for creative arts='lgc'>:) artifactual production ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal creativity

(in Amazonia, and) in ="nms">ajayeb, no distinction is made between thoughts, feelings, body and mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> thoughts and actions happen in the same ="trms">ontological space
(="ppl">Alberti > ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)

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