[...]s of knowing, those that i care and haunt for (and i am claimed by them) in ="trms">specific mystic muslim theology and eastern ="trms">bestiary (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Marks)
Amerindian “people” ='lgc'>: spiritual unity and a corporeal diversity
possessing a soul ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> having a point of view ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> being a subject
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='lgc'>='lgc'>==> event='lgc'> = action
(action ='lgc'>=/= expression of intentional states)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]object='lgc'>: incompletely ="trms">interpreted subject
“a muddy waterhole is seen by tapirs as a great ceremonial house”
(objectivist ="trms">epistemology's) ‘to know'='lgc'> = to desubjectify, to make explicit the subject's partial ="trms">presence in the object ='lgc'>=/= (Amerindian shamanism ="trms">epistemology's) ‘to know'='lgc'> = to personify, something that is always a someone
="prgrph">-the problem is that only the shaman and some rogue artists know how to personify. i want to personify ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro!)
="prgrph">-his rendition of objectification is insufficient and not ="trms">specified (in which discipline by who and when how ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[in contemporary performance art='lgc'>: “becoming ="trms">animal” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a modality of ="trms">narcissistic ego-formation='lgc'>]
“perspectives should be kept separate. Only shamans, who are so to speak ="trms">species-androgynous, can make perspectives ="trms">communicate, and then only under special, controlled conditions.”
perspectivism='lgc'>: something is a fish only by virtue of someone else whose fish it is
(any) exchange='lgc'>: exchange of perspectives ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> 100 percent ="trms">relational universe ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> everything is primary fact (-then how would ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro explain deceive and lie='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Kohn)
multiculturalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> relativism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> diversity of subjective and partial re="trms">presentations, each striving to grasp an external and unified ="trms">nature
(="trms">different ="trms">specificity of) bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perspectives
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'>: dis="trms">positions or capacities that render the body of each ="trms">species unique ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]body='lgc'>: assemblage of ="trms">affects (ways of being) that constitute a habitus, bundle of ="trms">affects and capacities
='strcls'>**humanity='lgc'>: a moral condition that ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes ="trms">animals='strcls'>**
human-="trms">animal has a physical continuity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">natural ="trms">sciences='lgc'>] and a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical discontinuity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humanities='lgc'>]
(what would be a ='strcls'>*nonanimistic ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical continuity='strcls'>* between human-="trms">animal and other things='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need ="trms">categorical mistakes and catachresis)
spirit/mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distinguisher (of cultures, ="trms">species, etc.)
body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> connector (of ="trms">material beings)
(Amerindian) spirit/mind ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? reflexive form ='lgc'>=/= im="trms">material inner substance
the neo="trms">phenomenological appeal to the body as the site of subjective singularity
projects of “="trms">embodying” (the spirit) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> eliminative ="trms">materialism
(culture='lgc'>: ="trms">modern name for Spirit)
="trms">integration ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*="trms">inter="trms">specific ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis fact of ="trms">nature='strcls'>* that understands bodies as inherent transformabilities, bodies as the great ="trms">differentiators
="trms">integration ="trms">cosmology ='lgc'>--presume='lgc'>='lgc'>--> singular distinctiveness of minds ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> solipsism='lgc'>[= potentially absolute singularity of minds ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fear that we will not recognize ourselves in our “own kind”; solipsism='lgc'>: ‘="trms">natural similarity of bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=> a real ="trms">community of spirit'='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--multiculturalism='lgc'>='lgc'>--> spiritual='lgc'>: the locus of ="trms">difference ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> theme of spiritual conversion
='lgc'>=/= bodily ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis
(a traditional problem in the West='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*how to connect and universalize='strcls'>*
individual substances are given, while ="trms">relations have to be made
='lgc'>=/=
(Amerindian problem, and problem of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*how to separate and particularize='strcls'>*
="trms">relations are given, while substances must be defined
transformation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">nature <='lgc'>=/= creation
="trms">transference ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> culture <='lgc'>=/= invention
='strcls'>*culture='lgc'> = acculturation='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*exchange='lgc'> = transformation of a ="trms">prior exchange event='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*to act='lgc'> = to ="trms">response='strcls'>*
="trms">poiesis (creation/production/invention model of action ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objectification='lgc'>: ="trms">question of ‘documentation’ in art) ='lgc'>=/= praxis (transformation/exchange/transfer model of action ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subjectification='lgc'>: ="trms">question of ‘what is/has changed='qstn'>?’)
="trms">story of “we had to steal fire from a divine father”
(god forbid the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of our abilities be ="trms">animal or queer)
mythology='lgc'>: a discourse on the given, the innate
myth='lgc'>: that which must be taken for granted
af="trms">finity and alliance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exchange (amerindian)
parenthood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creation/production (="trms">modern western)
="prgrph">-the “exchange” (='lgc'>=/= “parenthood”) that ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro talks about fits seamlessly with capitalism's free exchange of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
warrior/shaman/artist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conductors of perspectives
relative
="trms">relational
enmity='lgc'>: full-blown ="trms">social ="trms">relationship, extreme exchange
schema of ="trms">difference
(Amazonian ="trms">cosmology='lgc'>:) generic attributive pro="trms">position='lgc'> = cannibal pro="trms">position
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> self='lgc'>: gift of the other (='lgc'>=/= hylo="trms">morphism='lgc'>: an active usually ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively human subject confronts an inert and ="trms">naturalized object)
='strcls'>**="trms">cosmology (='lgc'>~ the hyphen between ="trms">nature and ="trms">society is ="trms">social) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">naturalism (='lgc'>~ ="trms">relations between ="trms">society and ="trms">nature are ="trms">natural)='strcls'>**
we are body-objects in ="trms">ecological ="trms">interaction with other body-forces
="prgrph">-="trms">question for ="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro='lgc'>: what would be then the “exchange” between Amerindian perspectivism and Western ="trms">naturalism='qstn'>? (not only that “we” should learn from Amerindian perspectivism but) what they can learn from us='qstn'>?
European ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: unextended thought and extended ="trms">matter (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Iron Man)
going from ="trms">questions of re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">questions of ="trms">ontology
simplification of ="trms">ontology (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objects pacified and silenced) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> complication of ="trms">epistemology (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjects proliferate and chatter) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “discursive practices” and “politics of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” are results of that pacification='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***someone must be wrong, something has to be explained='strcls'>*** (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>-- we have never been ="trms">modern, they has ever been primitive)
(="ppl">Viveiros ="ppl">de Castro)
formerly, savages mistook (their) re="trms">presentations for (our) reality; now, we mistake (our) re="trms">presentations for (other people's) reality. ="trms">rumor has it we have even be mistaking (our) re="trms">presentations for (our) reality when we “occidentalize”
='strcls'>*culturalism, relativism, textualism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reduces reality to re="trms">presentation
='strcls'>*cognitivism, ="trms">sociobiology, evolutionary psychology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reduces re="trms">presentation to reality
it has been obvious (for more than seventy-five years) that at the heart of the ="trms">matter, there is no stuff; only form, only ="trms">relation
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“="nms">ajayeb” a term i use in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively to examine a living and nonliving ‘="trms">historical site’ / ‘="trms">heritage web’ in order to learn/talk/speculate about what counts as ="trms">writing ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> production of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges
(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King's) bits of ="trms">past="trms">present, a tool for scale making
='lgc'>~(Weston's) time claims
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*="trms">past="trms">present='lgc'>: decline ="trms">epistemologically charged purifications that devout ="trms">complaints of “="trms">presentism” mandate='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-in ='mywrk'>my research (willing and required to become a beginner) i am asking='lgc'>: why ="trms">past and ="trms">present are so easy to separate='qstn'>?
(='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how our vision of ="trms">past and future creates our ="trms">present='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> directions, spinning dynamics,
in a sense ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is a critique of “="trms">presentism"='lgc'>[= overvaluing ="trms">historically and culturally local constructions of the meaning and importance of a particular set of ="trms">stories and their conditions of production (of “ours”). (='thdf'>for example the “future” ="trms">story)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? speculative ="trms">presentisms (Dinshaw's queer ="trms">historiography)
='strcls'>*globalization='lgc'>: “that ="trms">travelogue of distributed, heterogeneous, linked, ="trms">socio="trms">technical circulations that ="trms">craft the ="trms">world as a net called the global” (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= processes ="trms">responsible for the power and mobility of media, money, politics, sexualities, and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge practices='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these meanings and powers can be “glocalized”='lgc'>: altered, filled in, indigenized, and reunderstood ='strcls'>*within local ="trms">agencies='strcls'>*(='lgc'>: people, art forms, practices of everyday life)
(globalization processes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> academically uncomfortable and sometimes politically reprehensible سزاوار سرزنش forms of hybrid ="trms">histories
(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King's flexible knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges='lgc'>:) layers of locals and globals
my aim in ='mywrk'>my research is creating ='strcls'>*struggle for understanding='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[= many ="trms">communities involved in ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, ="trms">writing, ="trms">interpreting,='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***we are all ="trms">members in these ="trms">communities struggling for understanding='strcls'>***
Urton paying attention to decompiling ="trms">intermediaty ="trms">positions between so-calles ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">writing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> string records ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> numerical accounts or maps or... ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">histories and ="trms">narratives
='mywrk'>my research on ="nms">ajayeb in ="nms">apass as a practice is about ='strcls'>*disassembling and reordering classifications we use to access ="trms">pasts='strcls'>*
the excursion i did in Vladmir's block was somehow about examining sites of implicitly or explicitly knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production in commercialized forms
museum, TV documentry as a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='lgc'>{a richly contaminated set of ="trms">crafty ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors and realities='lgc'>} and ="trms">narrative frame, a momentary melding of ="trms">past="trms">presents in ="trms">imaginative reenactment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> economic globalization figuring in artistic/academic capitalism
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb is also of this kind,) ='strcls'>*site of ="trms">heritage='strcls'>* culture as promoting particular versions of ="trms">history, nation, ="trms">science, art, and ="trms">religion='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the excursion made me) with ="nms">ajayeb to be careful with ‘the commerce with global knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production’ ='lgc'>--(what is at stake)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structure of ="trms">pasts, peoples, and sensation
='strcls'>*="trms">heritage culture ='lgc'>==(impress)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> public ="trms">histories='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> appropriation of national and personal identities; today (specially in university) no one is “immune from governing pressures of ="trms">heritage culture or the impression of corporate management assumptions, styles, funding requirements, and money-making imperatives in enterprise culture” (="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King > Morley ='and'>& ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Robins) ='lgc'>[i can ="trms">imagine ="nms">apass is struggling with this specially in Brussels='lgc'>]
(='at'>@Vera's ="trms">position as a museum tour guide, exploitations of the ="trms">interpreter/reenactors, who are promised semiprofessional recognition within ="trms">social ="trms">historical practice but instead end up as engineers of a “feel good” atmosphere for tourism)
(="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King > S="trms">laughter ='and'>& Leslie) ='strcls'>*global ="trms">market='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fields “close to the ="trms">market” ='lgc'>--(reguire)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proucts
="lsts lst1">•fields “peripheral to the ="trms">market” ='lgc'>--(are pushed to)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pedagogy and public service
(sometimes virtually indistinguishable='lgc'>:) impulse to democratize ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? commodify knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="prgrph">-they model for museum goers as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦reenactors
="lsts lst2">◦shadows
="lsts lst2">◦witnesses
="lsts lst2">◦a play at being “there”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst3">◾on set
="lsts lst3">◾on site
="lsts lst3">◾in that ="trms">past
="lsts lst3">◾in a ="trms">past='lgc'>:
="lsts lst4">◽mentally enacting
="lsts lst4">◽reenacting
="lsts lst4">◽experimenting
="lsts lst4">◽speculating
="lsts lst4">◽trying to find evidence for various ="trms">past="trms">presents
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TV camera='lgc'>: like a ="trms">historical source, arbitrarily selects what it chooses to show, never lies and never understands (Kopkins)
TV documentry's “distributed ="trms">agencies”='lgc'>: neither ='lgc'>[director and screen="trms">writer='lgc'>] can claim ="trms">priority without wraping a description of these productive processes, and neither can make the TV product without the essential ="trms">interaction of many people's hands, minds, tools, ="trms">skills, tasks, objects, and infrastructures ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these distributed ="trms">agencies (with problems and possibilities) are also necessary in art research (='lgc'>[="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King:='lgc'>] and in scholarly knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production), (building, creating, constructing, laboring means to learn how to become sensative to the contrary requirements, to the exigencies اقتضا, to the pressures of conflicting ="trms">agencies where none of them is really in command; ="ppl">="ppl">Latour)
‘industrial model of distributed production’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘a version of the ="trms">responsibilities and pleasures of professional and intellectual autonomy’
="prgrph">-TV shows are animated with folks from our time who invite audience identification as “us”='lgc'>: we are the viewers mentally enacting ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ playing at, reenacting, experimenting, speculating, trying to provide evidence for='lgc'>] various understandings of the so-called ="trms">past='strcls'>***
melodramas of reenactment and experimentation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> professional knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges are elevated, while their bondaries threatend
in the production of an ‘object’ things (and meanings) get lost, they might be registered in “="trms">interference”
='strcls'>*anachronism, anachronistic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#sleep-walking
“slippages in time” within the ="trms">past as well as between “us” and the ="trms">past
desire for tales of progress, with some particular “us” on top ='lgc'>~ chronology as essential o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ='lgc'>{what we see often in ="trms">technology tales such as Lucy (2014) or X-Men opening s="trms">cenes='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= to mix up who counts as “us” ='lgc'>{what i have been trying to do, mixing up with ="nms">Iran, Germany, etc.='lgc'>} to offer ="trms">different timescales
="lsts lst1">•local details that animate ="trms">generalizations
="lsts lst1">•archival labors dramatized and experienced as immediacy
="lsts lst1">•transparency of the ="trms">material limitations of selection
="trms">spectacle of production
critique of the living-="trms">history ethos
giving ="trms">science war pep talks... ='lgc'>[TED='lgc'>]
(don't!)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]witnessing='lgc'>: “root of the experimental life”
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">science='lgc'>: important and witnessable
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freestanding photo-figures of ="trms">scientists that work to ="trms">situate and create scales of importance
commenting and making alliances across space-time with other figures
_='lgc'>[audience and ="trms">markets='lgc'>]_
audience polyphony
audience and ="trms">markets shift and converge in ='lgc'>[flexible knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges='lgc'>] complex address of multiple audiences, in that contradictory nest of niche political and ="trms">epistemological “="trms">markets”
(='strcls'>**the ="trms">story of the ‘="trms">interactive’='lgc'>:) “rich contradictory nestings permit an require visitors to select among possible salient ="trms">narratives by animating ="trms">differently layers of locals and globals”
to call oneself in and out of allience and its classifications, that ='strcls'>*momentary universalism='strcls'>* shades into other ranges of affiliation and disaffiliation (='strcls'>*)
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[ ='qstn'>? ='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> salience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tangible ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">literal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experimental
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conceptualize the intensities of form and force
="trms">affect studies has made me feel less alone because before it
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There are ='lgc'>[always='lgc'>] other epic and epochal forces in our midst.
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evil eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> دیو چشم زخم ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> غش ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> اغشی
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باغ plethora of old and new humanities, selves - with ="ppl">Sardar='lgc'>: There are plants that provide various colors of foliage, or h="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges and borders, or climb up fences, or play architectural roles (='lgc'>=/= presumption that we must have a identity ='and'>& ="trms">supposition that we discover our identity ='and'>& the Socratic “know thyself” as a fundamental human urge) we exist with multiple identities invoked ="trms">differently in ="trms">different context. subscribed to an ="trms">imagined “="trms">heritage” ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to kill and be killed to save some “essence” (='lgc'>=/= San'an)
sake of the ="trms">difference, scum and finest of men
(='thdf'>for example “black”='lgc'>: to be confused='lgc'>: once ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, now ="trms">technically empowered, a dominant group in the rainbow, but still practically marginalised by the ="trms">history that created and continues to operate practical ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion.)
='at'>@="nms">Iranians='lgc'>: how much of the Other is actually located within me='qstn'>?
“a perfectly permissible aspiration” ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “an ="trms">instrument of war” (Maalouf)
British identity is based on an ='thdf'>assumption of ="trms">authority that makes the ="trms">world a familiar place, a proper theatre in which to continue being British. ='at'>#="ppl">Olearius
ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the (unsavoury) foreigners ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> romanticised ="trms">history and frozen tradition
='strcls'>*="trms">history as a deliberate human creation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgement of a common ="trms">past ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (a ="trms">difference called) identity ='lgc'>[= “our” similarity against “their” ="trms">difference,='lgc'>] (submerging, barbarising and ="trms">differentiating itself from another identity) ='lgc'>[='thdf'>for example ancient Greece ='lgc'>+ Rome ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christianity='lgc'> = Europe='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> monolith ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> conflict and death
="lsts lst1">•my (jub جوب) gutter photos ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Tehran's Americanization of the high street.
="lsts lst1">•my photos of Rima ='lgc'>=/= her selfie's merchandised model of individualism
a deep desire for as="trms">sociation
various and diverse traditions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> identity='lgc'>: “the means to synthesise similarity through ="trms">difference and to see ="trms">difference as discrete means of expressing basic similarity” (="ppl">Sardar)
“balance of similarities and ="trms">differences as a way of locating what it is that makes life worth living and what connects us with the rest of the changing ="trms">world”
='strcls'>*...continuation of the Enlightenment project of progress through ="trms">instrumental ="trms">science. One source of Truth, and one Civilization, continues in its ="trms">trajectory
garden ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>{North America's arrogance in ="trms">cosmological proportion as ="trms">worlded in Hollywood, and ="trms">science seeing itself as the only manifestation of reality, The ="ppl">Platonic idea that truth is same for everyone='lgc'>}
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='lgc'>[body politics='lgc'>]
="trms">Greeks ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body politics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> elaborated images for human ="trms">society ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> citizen, city
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway on) the junction of ="trms">natural forces and economic progress in the formative years of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list industrialism
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's emphasize and telling ="trms">stories about the) union of the political and the physiological
ancient and ="trms">modern justifications ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">differences (seen as ="trms">natural, given, inescapable ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) as ='strcls'>*moral='strcls'>*
the ‘content’ as well as the soicla function of ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> renderd utopian='lgc'>: (that means) we leave this central, legitimating body of ="trms">skill and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to undermine our efforts
='lgc'>[we must fight with all our power against utopian(='lgc'>='lgc'>~= dystopian) ="trms">stories of ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> accepting that there are ="trms">natural objects (bodies) separate from ="trms">social ="trms">relations='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (we must refuse) the damaging distinction between pure and applied ="trms">science ='and'>& double ideology of firm ="trms">scientific objectivity and mere personal subjectivity
we have granted ="trms">science the role of a ='strcls'>*fetish='strcls'>*='lgc'>: an object human beings make only to forget their role in creating it
...agreeing that “="trms">nature” is our enemy and that we must control our “="trms">natural” bodies (by ="trms">techniques given us by biomedical ="trms">science) at all costs to enter the hallowed kingdom of the cultural body politic as defined by liberal (and radical) theories of political economy
='lgc'>[a traditional reduction of the body:='lgc'>] ="ppl">Freud ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a theory of body politics='lgc'>:) “culture in the cost of sex” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- no!='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: human ="trms">social developement='lgc'> = progressive domination of ="trms">nature (particularly of human sexual energies) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*sex as d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger and as ="trms">nature='strcls'>* are central to ="ppl">Freud's ="trms">system
='strcls'>*** ="ppl">Freud (, Brown, and Firestone) are useful tools in a dissection of the theories of the political and physiological organs of the body politic because they all begin their explanations with sexuality, add a dynamic of culturla repression, and then attempt to liberate again the personal and collective body
civilization='lgc'> = body politic
(in ="nms">iran='lgc'>:)
personal body ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social body ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both not ="trms">natural
(a fundamental human condition='lgc'>:) through labor, we make ourselves individually and collectively in a constant ="trms">interaction with all that has not yet been humanized ='heart'>♥
='lgc'>[="trms">animal body politic='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[the ="trms">science of ="trms">animal='lgc'>]
="trms">animal ="trms">sociology (in ="trms">fables since millennia ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Kelile Demne ="trms">stories of ="trms">natural basis of cultural cooperation and competition='lgc'>])='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•construction of oppressive theories of the body political
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science of ="trms">animal groups
="lsts lst1">•a tool in the reproduction of ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•enhancing ="trms">material power
='strcls'>*="trms">animals='strcls'>* (played an importan role in)
="lsts lst1">•the project of human engineering='lgc'>: the project of design and management of human ="trms">material for efficient, rational functioning in a ="trms">scientifically ordered ="trms">society (or in belief ="trms">communities)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animals were/are='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- plastic raw ="trms">material of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (subject to exact laboratory discipline)
="lstsrd">2- having special status as ="trms">natural objects that can show people their o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Attenborough's civilizer films='lgc'>], and therefore their prerational, premanagement, precultural essence
='strcls'>***="trms">animal ="trms">societies have been extensively employed in rationalization and ="trms">naturalization of the oppressive orders of domination in the human body politic='strcls'>***
="lstsrd">3- ="trms">naturalization of patriarchal division of ="trms">authority in the body politic and in reduction of the body politic to sexual physiology ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Tehran's mice canniba="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic libido='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal ="trms">science of the body ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- is important for everyone='lgc'>]
we might free ="trms">nature in freeing ourselves
become aware of “fallacies of the claim to objectivity” and not to “permit facile (باسانى قابل اجرا) rejection of ="trms">scientific discipline”
we cannot dismiss the layers of domination in the ="trms">science of ="trms">animal groups as a film of unfortunate bias or ideology that can be peeled off the healthobjective strata of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge below
if you are not freeing others, in freeing yourself, your freedom is total bullshit
(="frds">Sina)
for him intelligence is the perfect expression of evolutionary ="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> experimental comparative psychology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intelligence test ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">species, racila, and individual qualities were fundamentally tied to the central index of intelligence
='at'>#merchant
='strcls'>*entrepreneur in primate studies='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (merchant seeing himself) working to foster a rational ="trms">society based on ="trms">science and preserved from old ignorance
='lgc'>[transformation of human sex into a ="trms">scientific problem='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-trading sex for “privilege”='lgc'>:
primate intelligence ='lgc'>--allowed='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sexual states ='lgc'>--stimulate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the beginnings of human concepts of ="trms">social ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right and privilege
physiology ='lgc'><='lgc'>--economic='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politics ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientifically confirmed to life at the organic base of civilization
sex-linked ="trms">differences,
the primacy of sex in organic and ="trms">social processes,
="trms">scientific managers over women's lives
monkey and apes as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">natural objects
="lsts lst1">•unobscured by culture
="lsts lst1">•organic base in ="trms">relation to which culture emerged
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*human engineering='strcls'>*
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway naming those) ="trms">scientific ="trms">networks crucially determined who did ="trms">science and what ="trms">science was considered good
(='at'>#sohrevardi)
="ppl">Darwinian conception of ="trms">natural political economy of population
(in ="ppl">Attar, Kelile Demne, Ajayeb, i am hunting for) ='strcls'>*** early ="trms">systems theory ='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> providing the ="trms">technical base for (="trms">different claims such as='lgc'>:) the claim to ="trms">scientific maturity of the ="trms">social ="trms">sciences based on concepts of culture and ="trms">social group
“he removed the putative head from the collective ="trms">animal body.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal body politic
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">society was derived from complex ="trms">interactions of pairs of individuals, understood and ="trms">measured by psychological ="trms">techniques, which constituted the ="trms">social field space. one looked for axes of dominance as organizing principles on both the physiological and psychological levels
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the theory of the function of male dominance nicely joins the political economy aspect of the study of ="trms">animal behavior and evolution='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•competition
="lsts lst1">•division of labor
="lsts lst1">•resources allocation model
with the ="trms">social ="trms">integration aspect='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•cooperative coordination through leadership and ="trms">social ="trms">position
with the purely physiological understanding of reproductive and embryological ="trms">phenomena
='strcls'>*Garden of Industry='strcls'>*
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dominance as a ="trms">natural property (with a physical-chemical base)
a cross ideological exercise (is not possible)='lgc'>: ="trms">science cannot be reclaimed for liberating purposes by simply re="trms">interpreting observations or changing terminology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Princess Bubblegum) denying a dialectical ="trms">interaction with the ="trms">animals in the project of self-creation through ="trms">scientific labor
(let's switch to a deeper look at primates, not as models of human beings, rather='lgc'>:) how they live and relate to their environment in ways that may have little to do with us ='lgc'>[this is so helpful for everyone and is why i am ="trms">interested in ="trms">animal body politics='lgc'>] and that will surely reform our sense of ="trms">relation to ="trms">nature in our theories of the body politic ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#="nms">body image='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-bodies and ="trms">societies that do not depend on dominance hierarchies
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='mywrk'>my work with ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">bestiary early ="trms">animal ="trms">science is about learning='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***how to build ="trms">natural ="trms">sciences to underpin new ="trms">relations with the ="trms">world='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[and that ‘="trms">history’ is not like something you hand it to someone like a cake you baked='lgc'>]
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حیوان، حیوون، حیوانک، حیوونکی
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(delight in) our ='strcls'>*sensous involvement='strcls'>* with the ='strcls'>*="trms">materials of ="trms">language='strcls'>* (Lyn Hejinian)
="ppl">Doty
all we see is slippery, nuanced, elusive
='strcls'>***“the ="trms">world is wily, and doesn't want to be caught”='strcls'>*** (Susan ="ppl">Mitchell)
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perception is ="trms">simultaneous and layered
(elements of the) sensorium='lgc'>: continuous, comples ="trms">response to things perpetually delivered by the senses, the encompassing sphere that is such a large part of our subjectivity
we are englobed entirely (by the reports of our senses) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a seamless weft of ‘information’(='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">data the senses offer)
dark, sug="trms">gestive b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lur of shapes and colors
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what we can take in is a partial rendering of the ="trms">world
='lgc'>[dog's nose ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>] ...a uni[...]