[...]bject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Proust's novel is a huge inquiry into the ="trms">nature of consciousness ='lgc'>: a magnificently nuanced evocation of what it is to see and sense ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which is usually ='strcls'>*too much='strcls'>*
here is one of those ="trms">stories everyone swears is true,...
(an appetizer called) “smoked ="trms">language”
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the absolute centrality of ="trms">figurative speech
(Susan Morrow='lgc'>:) how the scuttle of crab claws on sand influenced the hieroglyph for “="trms">writing”
we breathe ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, swim in ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, traffic in ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor
(becoming ="trms">poet='lgc'> = becoming the) handler of the ="trms">figurative speech ='lgc'>: employing ="trms">language's tendency to connect like and disparate things to the richest possible effects
(in talk='lgc'>:) ="trms">figurative is at its most sophisticated='lgc'>: con="trms">densed, alive with meaning, pointing in multiple directions at once
(Hollywood's ways) to make meaning seem more attractive ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">figurative speech itself means, and ='strcls'>*means intensely='strcls'>*
baznegari-e sanaye adabi (بازنگری صنایع ادبی)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. to say ='strcls'>*what we see='strcls'>*='lgc'> = to speak ="trms">figuratively (first project of simile tashbih تشبیه and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor esteare استعاره is to describe, to say what something's like ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">measurement, we can't do so without comparison='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
="lstsrd">2. figures work together ='lgc'>==(to form)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">networks of sense='strcls'>* (enjoying a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphoric game, modes of appreciation)
="lstsrd">3. ="trms">figuration='lgc'> = a form of ='strcls'>*self-portraiture='strcls'>* (intense involvement in rich, descriptive speech ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perceptual sig="trms">nature ='lgc'>: a destillation/con="trms">densation of the way one person knows herself/himself in time and in place)
="lstsrd">4. ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='lgc'>==introduces='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*tension='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*polarity='strcls'>* to ="trms">language (="trms">figurative ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> enexpected ="trms">language into text, shifting the elements of ="trms">vocabulary)
="lstsrd">5. ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor's distancing aspect ='lgc'>==(allows)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (us) to speak more freely (to explore a heated, charged experience, “I need more ="trms">veil” ='heart'>♥, a delight in a thin disuise; the way a good ="trms">veil works ='lgc'>[="trms">according to ="ppl">Doty='lgc'>]='lgc'>: you can see the ="trms">veil itself, if you choose to. but if you want to, or you know how, you can ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read what lies beneath)
="lstsrd">6. ='strcls'>***="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='lgc'> = an act of inquiry='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>=/= an expression of what we al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready know (“i can't prove this ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] but i can feel the power of the result.” unmistakable quality of discovery ='lgc'>[of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphoric figures='lgc'>]='lgc'>: the ="trms">sort of energy generated when an idea ='lgc'>[and a concomitant set of emotions='lgc'>] un="trms">folds before the ="trms">write ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Sven is missing this='qstn'>?='lgc'>]. in this way='lgc'>: ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='lgc'> = (a kind of) ='strcls'>*argument='strcls'>*= a “thinking through” of what is implied, ='lgc'>[oh i have made something='lgc'>] complicated='lgc'> = full of feeling and tension, ='at'>#="trms">excess; investigation of ="trms">erotic energy, thrilling sonic structures you build,,,)
to become a ="trms">rhetorical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader of our ='strcls'>*="trms">gesture drawing='strcls'>*
moments of rebelion, when you have just enough of the strictures of the ="trms">composed still life the teacher had assigned, you whip out...
description is fueled by ='strcls'>***hunger for the ="trms">world='strcls'>***, the need to taste, to name, to claim what is seen, to bring it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the resurrection of the ="trms">world within the perceiver
='strcls'>*it is very often true that what we are compelled to describe is terrible, or oppressive, or heartbreaking. ="trms">language is hungry for that, too ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] to eat everything. even the falling and fading ="trms">world, even misery='strcls'>* (="ppl">Doty)
="prgrph">-they speak to our hunger for a ="trms">vocabulary for the whole range of feeling, even the awful parts (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> destruction of speech is d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous, having no ="trms">language for what we do good or bad)
desctiption is made both more moving and more exact when it is acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged that is is inevitably incomplete
(in the strictest sense) one could say that nothing unintelligible is a meaning ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*there is always meaning='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-the perception of meaning ='lgc'>[such as goose sound='lgc'>] that cannot be ="trms">translated into any other form of speech ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chasm barzakh between the incomprehensible and the making of meaning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (how='qstn'>?) to build a construct of ="trms">language that acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges the “meanings” that live outside of words (a ‘description’ that builds an argument about the ="trms">nature of real) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb's concern; part of a function of the humility of the speaker='lgc'>]
(='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb is full of='qstn'>?='lgc'>] similes that produce) juxta="trms">position of the ="trms">natural and the artificial, ='lgc'>[the vegetal and the made, the tiny and the immense='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: (unexpected) collision of elements (in the framing field of thinking) ='lgc'>==means='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to bring energy into ="trms">language ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#adjacencies='lgc'>: bringing things, objects, ="trms">stories, arguments next to each other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interrupting ="trms">stories with ="trms">stories='lgc'>]
ritual of flirtation
sky's deep machinery
“poor girls make themselves ="trms">fabulous”
“white girl make herself black, at least while she is pretending to be a supreme”
reprofessor
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(='mywrk'>my work and ="trms">interest since 2012='lgc'>:) attention and allegiance to a ='strcls'>*process of knowing='strcls'>*
(="nms">ajayeb.net has ="trms">interest in reworking the conventions of syntax and of the sentence)
="lsts lst1">•the experience of ="nms">ajayeb.net is like watching something leap; scrambled elements, something clicks into place; a stubborn suspension, not quite parsable
="lsts lst1">•the experience of ="nms">ajayeb (mode of description) is like ='strcls'>*a sudden event happening so quickly we don't have a name for what we see, cannot identify the motion='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">animals in ="nms">ajayeb have many legs and arms)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]motion='lgc'>: the patterning life of energy ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world of forms
(="ppl">Doty > Cummings='lgc'>:) “rearrangingly” ='lgc'>+ “become"='lgc'> = rea(be)rran(com)gi(e)ngly
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'> = "how everything happens” (based on the ebb and flow of percept ='lgc'>+ ="trms">episteme)
(an index finger that) points to the ="trms">world's ways of happening (in energetic and enigmatic waves of ="trms">world's coming into ='lgc'>[& going out of='lgc'>] being)
='strcls'>*="nms">ajayeb moves concepts in like of='lgc'>: the ="trms">world doesn't necessarily want to be ordered into the linearity and forwardness of text
طلسمهای ایرانی
nefrin نفرین ='lgc'>: re="trms">presentative of the (intricacy of) ='strcls'>*larger actions of the ="trms">world='strcls'>*
nefrin-nevisi نفرین نویسی ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (made by the) ="trms">technologies of their moment
post="trms">modernism's familiar hesitation on the inadequacy of ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> giving up referentiality ='lgc'>=/= my ="nms">ajayeb
(taking up on moon, for me is about) not going in fear of that which has been looked at again and again. ='at'>#moon is “deeply compelling and we probably won't ever get done with it”
...somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred years later
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morality of description(='qstn'>?)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodying the dilemma and work of the witness
...wheels of thinking turn slowly for some of us
adabiat tosifi ادبیات توصیفی
divisive consciousness (with a certain) degree of removal from the ="trms">world ='lgc'>=/= (we want) ='strcls'>*more='strcls'>* ="trms">language (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- more we name what we see and do)='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a larger and more valuable ="trms">world
(Roethke='lgc'>:) “when is description mere='qstn'>? never!”
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]صنعت تضاد san'at-e tazad, polarity='lgc'>: the pull of forces in op="trms">position ='lgc'>==makes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">writing feel alive
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]projection='lgc'>: that psychological mechanism by which we turn the ="trms">world, or other people, or deer (into versions of ourselves) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is not a sin; it is our ="trms">method of operating, our modus operandi (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “pathetic fallacy”='lgc'>: inevitable perceptual work of the human; “if you are miserable, then the trees look miserable to you”)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]qualifiers sefat صفت gheyd (adjectives and ad="trms">verbs) intended to lend a host of sensory qualities to the sentence; (sometimes too much) adjectival or ad="trms">verbial flavoring. ='lgc'>[='at'>#training='lgc'>: remove every adjective and ad="trms">verb, and see what you have got left ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**there is always a more exact term waiting to be employed='strcls'>**='lgc'>] (="frds scrmbld">Foad's severe economy of means; ="frds scrmbld">Janina's allusive, shimmery surfaces delight) (='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]style='lgc'>: a simple way of saying complex things. -Cocteau)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]نظم nazm='lgc'>: musicality of ="trms">poetry, ="trms">poem's body of sound is its ="trms">specific particular flesh, sonic texture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**making the ="trms">language more markedly like the ="trms">world='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[a trail, pathway through a wood of sounds, an unmistakably ="trms">specific landscape, loyal to the local='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]synesthesia='lgc'>: occasion of ex="trms">citement, a skein of complicated perception, (="trms">sort of a ="trms">literary ="trms">technique,) something like a snapshot of the image-making mind at work ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> superim="trms">position of both events and of senses (and of s="trms">cenes='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a consciousness
(aim of many artists='lgc'>:) “to form the sensorium, the sphere of perception in which we dwell” ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Doty sug="trms">gests='lgc'>:) it is work to ="trms">sort them out (what ="trms">sorts out senses='qstn'>? ="trms">question ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda, she must learn='lgc'>: an accurate rendering of an idio="trms">syncratic process of sensory overlap and as="trms">sociation)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]لحن tone='lgc'>: special effects, evoking a ‘moment of’ ... intense statement of feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a concretely descriptive feeling
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">questions are always a little more trustworty than answers (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>-- sometimes things said do not take the ='strcls'>*="trms">rhetorical form of a ="trms">question='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in ="nms">apass i was training to be able to capture those kind of ummarkedly ="trms">questions='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> something said (described) with room for indeterminacy ///='strcls'>*convex mirror='strcls'>* (="ppl">Doty's refractive thinking)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]فعل ="trms">verb, the descriptive force of the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right (hardworking) ="trms">verb, a kind of muscular concreteness. sometimes ="trms">verbs gain descriptive force when other parts of speech are newly cast in active roles
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='strcls'>*invocation='lgc'> = directly addressing the thing creates a sense of immediacy and of connection
='strcls'>*thou, with its sug="trms">gestion of divinity or be="trms">loved ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prayer
='strcls'>*hectic='lgc'>: uncomfortable alliance, inharmonious, something that might set the teeth on ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
='strcls'>*destroy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a death-steeped perception that ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads the wind as a “destroyer”
='strcls'>*="trms">world of fused duality
‘and’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the sig="trms">nature element of a place, of a landscape, the conjoined body ='lgc'>: the animate and the inorganic as one thing
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='strcls'>*the project of being alive='strcls'>* (is little understood)
(='lgc'>[my project is perhaps='lgc'>] to become) a person whom the ancient ="trms">world is remarkably vivid='strcls'>*** ='heart'>♥
to have gossiped about figures of ancient Persia
to believe that the ='strcls'>*="trms">world is queer='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= Mobed, ="frds scrmbld">Foad, Reza)
(we need ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) a window of doupt through which all creative possbility comes into being
(Forster='lgc'>:) “='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] standing absolutly motionless at a sight angle to the universe”
(queer ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?) an oblique مورب ="trms">position in ="trms">relation to the real (='lgc'>=/= buisiness as usual)
queer to be ="trms">interested in what can't be packaged or sold in the ="trms">marketplace
queer to enjoy the fundamentally useless, contemplative pleasure of (="trms">poetry, ="nms">ajayeb, etc.)
description ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*providing the particular evidence of ="trms">specificity='strcls'>*
not everything can/need to be described ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**the choice of what to evoke='strcls'>**, to make any s="trms">cene seem ‘real’ vagheyi. look at USA film industry and all the efforts put in scenic description of the WWII, vampire ="trms">stories, teenage life, nation; or in ="nms">iran in ="nms">Iran-Iraq war (="acrnms">="nms">Iranq)
lush, ="trms">sensuous, flowering
parallel text to the creature
“you are gorgeous and i am coming” ='heart'>♥
an approximation, unstoppable as an approachoig sound of approaching organism
testing and smelling
insight and sound ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Lili
an aphrodisiac and a chastening reminder='lgc'>: getting sidetracked by grief
“my portion this time”
='strcls'>*art is a house that tries to be haunted='strcls'>* ='heart'>♥ (="ppl">Doty > Dickinson)
قافیه به تنگ آمد ghafie tang, (when a choice is) driven more by sonic than by logic
what kind of game is the sea='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena
lap and drag. crag and gleam
(monosyllables ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are we ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading nouns or ="trms">verbs='qstn'>? tough, playful ocean)
syntactical ambiguity disorients
(Khayam's) desire to die into the ="trms">world (='lgc'>~ to surrender into the life of things)
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*describer's art='strcls'>*
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autumn
a kind of logarithn of decay and rekindling
to describe description
a work of advocacy
to go description-hunting in ="nms">ajayeb
evocation of sense perception (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">technique that Adventure Times TV series uses)
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="ppl">="ppl">Foucault ='lgc'>[_="trms">bestiary of the ="trms">imagination='lgc'>]
...precisely because it puts them into ="trms">categories of their own, the Chinese encyclopedia localizes their ='lgc'>[fantastic entities, ="trms">fabulous ="trms">animals, poly="trms">morphous and demoniacal faces, creatures breathing fire,,='lgc'>] powers of contagion
encyclopedia ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> quality of ="trms">monstrosity does not ="trms">affect any real body (='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurk)
="trms">animals in the non-place of ="trms">language, meeting in the im="trms">material sound of the voice pronouncing their enumeration
“Absurdity destroys the ‘and’ of the enumeration by making impossible the ‘in’ where the things enumerated would be divided up.”
the ‘operating table’
a table ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a tabula, “that enables thought to operate upon the entities of our ="trms">world, to put them in order, to divide them into classes, to group them ="trms">according to names that designate their similarities and their ="trms">differences='lgc'>--the table upon which, since the beginning of time, ="trms">language has ="trms">intersected space.” (="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, The Order of Things)
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='strcls'>*="trms">questionable ="trms">interpretations
='at'>#attention
(='lgc'>[art/='lgc'>]="trms">aesthetics of noticing)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> appreciation of multi="trms">species landscape, making living ="trms">ecologies
which sectors/fields of art require artist to go out and notice things='qstn'>?
(engage with which) details of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> breaking common sense
our mamalian bias='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•predetermined body shape and size
="lsts lst1">•run toward death (pre-programmed death ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">history) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> makes us think in terms of set-life courses
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> allow us to ="trms">imagine a standard individual outside of ="trms">history
(="ppl">Tsing's) ="trms">history='lgc'>: overlapping tracks and traces and many ="trms">trajectories of ="trms">world-making, human and not human
irreversible time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> indeterminacy (of ="trms">history) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new alliances ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ability of assemblages to produce ="trms">historical changes in our common ="trms">world
what needs to be stated
what needs to be produced
context-dependent ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the way things are
architecture of podium ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> labor-process of the actual speaker
how talks are ='strcls'>*actually='strcls'>* produced
in your ="trms">material practices
hybrid in digital manual tactile operations of speaking
noticing ants, spiders, little ="trms">traps, ="trms">species cohabiting, ="trms">mutual coproduction of economics, ="trms">ecology, labor-studies, house-hold studies, ="nms">ajayeb-studies, and understanding of the orders of the ="trms">natural and human ="trms">world
(Gordon allowing) ='strcls'>*algorithms to become ="trms">stories='strcls'>*
(the ="trms">technological enablement of some) ='strcls'>*disciplines of attention='strcls'>*
“we are al lichen”='lgc'>: we are all eco="trms">system com="trms">posite critters
ants, combining two kinds of noise, half-hazard patterns of ="trms">interaction
half-hazard contact
half-hazard context
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> it works (='lgc'>=/= perfection, precision/efficiency of clockwork)
='at'>#some ="ppl">="ppl">Baradian models of ="trms">intra-action in popular cinema='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">intra-action received and wielded through discipleship and pre-programmed talent='lgc'>:) The Force in ="ppl">="ppl">Starwars. ='lgc'>[the ="trms">story don't allow any other ="trms">story of The Force and its ="trms">contingencies other that good and evil tool-use of it='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">intra-action resisted by individual subjectification='lgc'>:) the shadowy ="trms">monster from the Upside Down in The Str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger Things, possessing the character. ='lgc'>[the ="trms">story is based on non-="trms">intra-active models and mode of being in the ="trms">world of multi="trms">species in multi-dimensions, it wants clear boundried subjects encapsulated by psychological ego and self-possession persons, ideas of identity and power ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life insurance ="trms">system='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">intra-action resisted by the political ="trms">modern concrete individualism='lgc'>:) ="trms">relationship with the phantom of state in The Handmaid's Tale. ='lgc'>[overlapping a flat image of totalitarian ="trms">society into ="trms">religion='lgc'>]
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="trms">technosphere='lgc'>: (conceptualized as) an unintended muddle of multi="trms">species ="trms">relationships emerging from contaminated landscapes, dumps
='lgc'>--reconsider-with='lgc'>-> feral ="trms">technologies='lgc'>: novel and weedy capacities for ="trms">materially significant change
invasive artificial intelligence
="trms">anthropo="trms">cene='lgc'>: a multidimensional puzzle structured around complexities and ruptures ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when ways of being ='and'>& ways of belonging can no longer be studied ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively
(human-nonhuman-machine)
="lsts lst1">•who orders the ="trms">technosphere='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•who inhabits the ="trms">technosphere='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•
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“unmediated experience” ='lgc'>--(signals a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> naive realism (='lgc'>+ its polar op="trms">posite='lgc'>: naive subjectivism)
soup operatic
operatic (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> opera)
aporetic (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> aporia)
operative (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> secret ="trms">agent)
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‘learning’ in biology='lgc'>: (how to overcome X that) its ="trms">ancestors would have not met
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">stories of ‘trial-and-error’ in ="trms">animals
='thdf'>the idea of having ‘varying ="trms">technique’ (closer to human) in regard to biological stasis
how ='thdf'>the idea of ‘intelligence’ in ="trms">animals is construted ="trms">according to venture capitalism predatory preferences
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mileu ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> part of the ="trms">history of ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">animal
the living being and its environment, ="ppl">Canguilhem
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='lgc'>[mileu='lgc'>: in French “middle,” in the midst of, medium, between, ... set, circle='lgc'>]
(='thdf'>the notion of) ='strcls'>*environment='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[relentlessly universal and required='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--for='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capturing both the experience and existence of living beings
="ppl">Canguilhem going through the ="trms">historical ="trms">stages of the formation of the concept of milieu/environment
="prgrph">-imported into biology in the second half of 18th century from (mechanocal notion) ="ppl">Newton by Lamarck
="prgrph">-later they ='lgc'>[1870s Giard, Le Dantec, Houssay, Roule, etc.='lgc'>] take the idea from Lamarck, but they get the word, as an abstract universal term, from Taine
18th century French mechanics ‘milieu’ what ="ppl">Newton understood by ‘fluid’
problem of mechanics='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(="ppl">Newtonian='lgc'>:) problem of mechanics='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*action at a distance of distinct physical individuals ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*ether='strcls'>*='lgc'>: fluid medium of action at a distance ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moon, lunar='lgc'>], continous in air
physics of central forces ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “environment='lgc'>: a between two centers”
="lsts lst1">•(="ppl">Descartes='lgc'>:) collision='lgc'>: the only mode of physical action (‘environment’ has no place in ="ppl">Cartesian physics)
='strcls'>*individuals occupying distinct points in space='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they cannot act without joing their action ='lgc'>[”='qstn'>?!” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i am very conscious (and suspicious) about that which i feel that i don't understand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what kind of nununderstander is at work here='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="ppl">Newton imported “milieu” into biology
action of an environment
='lgc'>[="trms">material racism ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>?='lgc'>] (a fluid) strictly defined by its physical properties
="lsts lst1">•(Lamarck ='lgc'>[taking from ="ppl">Newton the ='strcls'>*physico-mathematical model of explanation='strcls'>*='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) environment/milieu='lgc'>: set of actions exerted on the living being from outside, “influencing circumstances”
physico-mathematical model of explanation (of living/dead beings) ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? psycho-="trms">material model of explanation
(what would Machiavelli think of mileu='qstn'>?)
="trms">animal ethology, habits of ="trms">animals describable as distinctive and ="trms">specific characteristics
="trms">epistemology='lgc'>: ='strcls'>**="trms">historical psychology of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>**
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">historicity='lgc'>: should the fact that two or several leading ideas are combined at a given moment in a single theory be ="trms">interpreted as the sign that (although they may seem to be quite ="trms">different when subject of analysis) they ultimately have a common o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin whose meaning and often even existence are forgotten when they are considered separately='qstn'>?
(="ppl">Canguilhem beautifully brings the ="trms">question of ="trms">epistemology into his terms)
the ='strcls'>*o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==commands='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ='strcls'>*meaning='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==commands='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ='strcls'>*use='strcls'>*
Comte's general biological theory of the environment
Comte employing a neologism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the fluid in which a body is immersed” (='lgc'>--confirming='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the mechanical o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the notion,) “the total set of external circumstances necessary for the existence of every organism” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Barad's ="trms">intra-active model of explanation='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">rhetoric of) ='strcls'>*dialectical conception of the ="trms">relations between the organism and the environment='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--instances such as “suited/adapted organism” and “favorable environment” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? affordance theory='lgc'>]
Comte seeking a guarantee of his dialectical connection in the ="ppl">Newtonian principal of action and reaction='lgc'>:
organism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> variable
environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> function
theory of the environment in Comte='lgc'>: (strictly mechanistic meaning of the word...) ="trms">world ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> man
Comte ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Lamarck='lgc'>: “milieu='lgc'> = circumstances='lgc'> = surrounding environment” ='lgc'>==sug="trms">gest='lgc'>='lgc'>==> intuition of a ='strcls'>*centered or focused formation='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> circle, sphere
='strcls'>***circumstances and surroundings still preserve a ="trms">symbolic value, but milieu forgoes reference to any other ="trms">relation other than that of a ="trms">position forever denied by exteriority ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
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now refers to befor, here to its beyond, and so on without cease='strcls'>***
(in ="nms">iranian ="trms">poetry) environment='lgc'>: a pure ="trms">system of ="trms">relations without supports
='strcls'>*='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> environment='lgc'>: a universal ="trms">instrument for dissolving ='strcls'>*individualized organic synthesis='strcls'>* in the anonymity of universal elements and movements
(='thdf'>for example) ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metamerism of fish='lgc'>: “fish do not lead their lives themselves, the river has made them lead it, they are ='strcls'>*persons without personality='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>== strictly mechanistic use of ='thdf'>the notion of environment ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Descartes ="trms">beast machine='lgc'>])
Lamarck='lgc'>: the environment dominates and control the evolution of living beings through the ="trms">intermediary of ='strcls'>*need='strcls'>*(= a subjective notion entailing reference to a ="trms">positive pole of vital values)
(for Lamarck='lgc'>:) life and environment (which is unaware of it ='lgc'>~(Lamarckian ='strcls'>*vitalism='strcls'>*='lgc'>:) ‘there is an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginality of life of which the environment takes no account’) are two series of a="trms">synchronous events ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]adaptation='lgc'>: life's renewed effort to “stick” to an in="trms">different environment
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]being='lgc'>: the effect of an effort ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> striving='lgc'>]
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this a="trms">synchronicity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “us” and “place”)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> environment does nothing for life ='lgc'>--Bichat='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “life='lgc'>: set of functions that resist death” (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> tales of survival in America sci-fi TV series)
life resists solely by changing its shape in order to survive
="ppl">Darwin explaining the ‘appearance of new forms’ conjunction of two mechanisms='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- mechanism of the production of ="trms">differences ='lgc'>~ variation
="lstsrd">2- mechanism of the reduction and criticism of these produced ="trms">differences ='lgc'>~ vital competition and ="trms">natural selection
(for ="ppl">Darwin the fundamental biological ="trms">relationship='lgc'>:) the ="trms">relationship of the living being to other living beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> precedence over environment conceived as a set of physical forces
="prgrph">-competition of forces
="prgrph">-accidental ="trms">morphological variation
(for ="ppl">Darwin='lgc'>:) ‘to live'='lgc'> = to submit an individual ="trms">difference to the judgment of the set of living beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*die or be part of the jury='strcls'>*
="trms">monstrosity='lgc'>: the rule
o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginality='lgc'>: provisional ordinariness
finalism ='lgc'>--="ppl">Darwin='lgc'>='lgc'>--> selection
='strcls'>***both Lamarck and ="ppl">Darwin denounce finalism and celebrate mechanism
(both, ='lgc'>[complementary='lgc'>] biologists to whom) life appears as a datum which they seek to describe without being too concerned about accounting for it analytically ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> not accouting for the analyticallity of their objects='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
Lamarck ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (thinks of life in terms of) ='strcls'>*duration='strcls'>*
="ppl">Darwin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (thinks of life in terms of) ='strcls'>*="trms">interdependence='strcls'>*
="ppl">Darwin's biogeographical environment ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? Lamarck's environment
="ppl">Humboldt (and Ritter) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (19th century) geography='lgc'>: a ="trms">science conscious of its ="trms">method and its dignity
(="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">traveler ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*="ppl">Humboldt's “Kosmos” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ synthesis of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, not aiming to be encyclopedic, but strives ='strcls'>***to arrive at an intuition of the universe='strcls'>***='lgc'>] combining='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(“oikoumene” tradition of ="trms">Greek geography='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*the ="trms">science of the entire human ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(“mathematical geography” founded by Eratosthenes, Hipparchus, Ptolemy='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*the ="trms">science of coordination of human space in ="trms">relation with the celectial con="trms">figuration and movements='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Earth ='lgc'>[considered as a whole='lgc'>]='lgc'>: (stable support for the) ='strcls'>*فراز و نشيب vicis="trms">situde of ="trms">history='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘terrestrial space ='lgc'>+ its con="trms">figurations’ ='lgc'>: object of geographical, geological, ="trms">sociological, biological knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(="ppl">Humboldt) applied a whole ="trms">system of barometric, thermometric in his investigation. ='strcls'>*division of plants='strcls'>* ="trms">according to ="trms">different climates ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “botanical geography” ='and'>& “="trms">zoological geography”
="trms">history of the Weltanschauung
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='strcls'>*****how ="ppl">Humboldt (and Ritter, ='lgc'>[even ="ppl">Simondon does that too='lgc'>]) apply the ='strcls'>*="trms">category of totality='strcls'>* to their object ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">relations between ="trms">historical man and the environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*determination of ="trms">historical ="trms">relationships='strcls'>*
the ="trms">relations between the geographical environment and man ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a spirit
(='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*doing ="trms">history='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading a map, understanding by map the re="trms">presentation of a set of metrical, geodesic, geological, climatological, and descriptive biogeographical ="trms">data
Loeb ='lgc'>+ Watson (phototropism in ="trms">animals)='lgc'>:
every movement of the organism in the environment='lgc'> = a movement into which the environment forces the organism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>**="trms">animal='lgc'> = reflex='strcls'>** ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{="ppl">Darwinism ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Cartesianism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> behaviorist psychology='strcls'>*='lgc'>}
(Watson='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]psychology='lgc'>: program of the analytical investigation of the ‘stimulus-="trms">response couple'='lgc'>[= conditions of the living being's adaptation to the environment through the experimental production of ="trms">relations between stimulation and ="trms">response='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- one of physical determinism) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> consciousness nullified as illusory
(the living being's ="trms">situation='lgc'>:) “its being='lgc'> = a conditioning” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> as artists we still have to deal with this idea or image, it is about the reality the artist receives and what they make of it)
process of reduction='lgc'>:
(="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) biology ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> behavior ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">neurology ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> energetics (='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> electronics)
the perfect work of behaviorist psychology='lgc'>: construct man as a machine reacting to machines
Condillac's ="trms">fable of the statue='lgc'>: in the rose's perfume, the statue is the rose's perfume ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> living organism='lgc'> = ="trms">respond to sensory stimulation (the physical mileu, light and heat, carbon and oxygen, calcium and gravity)
(="ppl">Canguilhem asking) where is the living being='qstn'>? ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Kohn
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subjects “taking action” ='lgc'>=/= objects “in movement”
we see individuals ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are objects
we see centers ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are environments
we see machinists ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are machines
environment of behavior ='lgc'>--coincides-with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> geographical environment ='lgc'>--coincides-with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physical environment
“in a human environment, man is obviously subject to a form of determinism, but it is the determinism of artificial creations in which the spirit of invention which calls them into existence is alienated.”
='strcls'>*psycho-="trms">technique of engineers='strcls'>*
...to grasp the ="trms">presence in man of his own o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Maarten, Mobed
as an irreducible center of resistance
“man, even when subordinated to the machine, never manages to grasp himself as a machine. his efficiency is greater the more he is aware of his central ="trms">situation with regard to the mechanisms intended to serve him” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*a bad ="trms">story (of The Terminator, The 100, The Magicians, etc.)='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Darwin, Laeb's) ="trms">pragmatism='lgc'>: ="trms">generalization of ='thdf'>the notion of adaptation to the theory of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
reference of organis movement to the organims itself as essential
(prepared by ="ppl">Kantor, Tolmann's) teleological behaviorism='lgc'>: recognizing the sense and intention of ="trms">animal movement
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(where, for whom, the individuality of the living organism stops='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•at its ectodermic borders
="lsts lst1">•at the cell
="lsts lst1">•
cell='lgc'>: an environment of infra-cellular elements, it lives in an ="trms">internal environment which sometimes has the dimensions of an ='strcls'>*organ='strcls'>* and sometimes of the ='strcls'>*organism='strcls'>*
Uexküll ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Umwelt ='lgc'>=/= Umgebung ='lgc'>=/= Welt
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*Umwelt='strcls'>* distinguishes the environment of behavior ="trms">specific to an organism
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*Umgebung='strcls'>*='lgc'>: the ordinary geographical environment
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*Welt='strcls'>*='lgc'>: the universe of ="trms">science
Umwelt ='lgc'>~ the ="trms">specific environment of behavior (for the living being)='lgc'>: a set of ex="trms">citations
to be effective it must be anticipated by an attitude of the subject ='lgc'>~ ‘if the living being is not seeking, it won't receive anything’
Buffon ='and'>& Lamarck ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time and favorable circumstances gradually constitute the living
='lgc'>=/= Uexküll ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time and favorable circumstances are relative to such and such living beings
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Umwelt='lgc'>: an elective sample in the Umgebung ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> milieu
environment='lgc'>: “man's Umwelt” ='lgc'>~ the ordinary ="trms">world of his perspective and ="trms">pragmatic experience
='strcls'>*human suject='lgc'>: creator of ="trms">techniques and values
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">animal's Umwelt='lgc'>: a centered environment/milieu relative to this living being as essentially a subject of vital values
a subjectivity at the root of this organization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> شپش shepesh tick
Uexküll ="trms">story of the tick ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*mechanical theory of the reflex='strcls'>*
...the ="trms">animal may remain completely in="trms">different and insensitive for a considerable length of time to all the ex="trms">citations of an environment like a forest, and that the only ex="trms">citation that is capable of t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggering its movement, to the ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of any other, is the odor of rancid butter.
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*an organism is therefore never equal to the theoretical totality of its possibilities
organism ='lgc'>=/= preferential behavior
reversal of organism-environment ="trms">relationship='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•“the meaning of an organism is its being” (Goldstein)
="lsts lst1">•“the living being's acquisition of its form” (Mendel)
="lsts lst1">•“the environment is not an ="trms">agent of formation strictly speaking, but rather of realization” (Brachet)
="lsts lst1">•
(Soviet) ambition of complete domination of ="trms">nature and limit the possibilities of an intentional alteration of living ="trms">species
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='strcls'>*which ="trms">stories of life and why emphasize the separation of the organism from the environment (and make this separation intuitive and ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-to-hand)='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
(Lamarck focused on the point where) life coincides with its own meaning, where through sensibility the living being is ="trms">positively or negatively ='strcls'>*="trms">situated absolutly in existence='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***the indivisible totality of organism and environment='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Barad has to say a lot about that='lgc'>]
for Lamarck='lgc'>:
“circumstances” and “ambience” spherical, centered arrangement
astrological conceptions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “influence” and “influencing circumstances”
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(in 18th and start of 19th century='lgc'>:) geographical ='lgc'>+ astronomical ='lgc'>+ astrological ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]climate='lgc'>: the changing aspect of the sky ='lgc'>+ the influence exerted by the sky on the Earth
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb-e climate
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb-e moon
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Olearius's ="trms">anthropogeographical mechanics (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="ppl">Newton's celectial mechanics)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]geography='lgc'>: (for the ="trms">Greeks) the projection of the sky on the Earth ='lgc'>--establishing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a cor="trms">respondence of sky and Earth='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•topographical cor="trms">respondence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">geometry ='lgc'>+ ="trms">cosmography
="lsts lst1">•hierarchical cor="trms">respondence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physics ='lgc'>+ astrology
(philosophy of the) stoics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">Greek) geology ='strcls'>***
='lgc'>[رواقی stoic='lgc'>: deterministic understanding of a universe (overseen by a god and governed by reason), ="trms">integrity of character (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> walking erect), psychological independence from ="trms">society, self-control and detachment, in="trms">difference to pleasure or pain ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “clear thinker"='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***theory of universal ="trms">sympathy='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: vita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list intuition of universal determinism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> geographical theory of environments (= milieu)='lgc'>: biocentric conception of the ="trms">cosmos (crossed over the Middle Ages to bloom in the Renaissance)
='thdf'>the idea of the ="trms">cosmos='lgc'>:
(with Copernicus and Kepler='lgc'>:) Earth of living beings and man ='lgc'>: the privileged center of reference of the ancient ="trms">world
='strcls'>**(with Galielo and ="ppl">Descartes ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) two theories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a centered qualitative space in which the mi-lieu is a center
="lsts lst1">•a decentered homogeneous space in which the mi-lieu is an ="trms">intermediary field
need for expansionist security ='lgc'>+ requirements of ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
Pascal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we drift over a vast mileu ='lgc'>["we are floating in a medium of vast extent"='lgc'>]
he needs a place to contain him
he needs time to exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*durer='strcls'>*
(Pascal's) image of the ="trms">world as a ='strcls'>*="trms">finite totality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a permanent myth of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginally Neo-="ppl">Platonist mystical thought in which the intuition of the spherical ="trms">world centered on and by the living being is combined with the al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready heliocentric ="trms">cosmology of the Pythagoreans
(="ppl">Newtonian='lgc'>:)
space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> means of God's omni="trms">presence
ether ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> support and medium of forces
='strcls'>*="trms">="trms">empiricism hides the theological foundations='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==="ppl">Canguilhem='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">natural philosophy which is the source of the ="trms">positivist and mechanistic conception of the environment in fact turns out to be supported by the mystical intuition of a sphere of energy whose central action is identically ="trms">present and effective at every point
a ="trms">story='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the ideal of the objectivity of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge requires a ='strcls'>*decentring of the view of things='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- seams normal to any find formed in the mathematical and physical discipline
(="ppl">Canguilhem > Haldane='lgc'>:) man's ="trms">specific environment is the ="trms">world of his perception, that is to say, the field of his ="trms">pragmatic experience in which his actions, orientated and governed by values immanent to tendencies, separate out qualified objects and ="trms">situate them in ="trms">relation to each other and all of them in ="trms">relation to himself (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Barthes's discussion on ='thdf'>the notion of operative ="trms">language/tool)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why we need a ="trms">different ="trms">language to relate to environment
the inhuman environment ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="nms">ajayeb
kinds of “recognitions” that were established by disqualification of all ="trms">specific subjectively centered environment ='lgc'>[such as ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>], in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding that of man, as vital illusions or errors
='strcls'>*="nms">ajayeb='lgc'> = (one of many ="trms">past) ='strcls'>*centers of organization, adaptation, and invention='strcls'>* (now dissolved by ="trms">science='lgc'>: to dissolve living beings in the anonymity of the mechanical, physical, and chemical environment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> encompass the man)
(="nms">ajayeb's hesitate or) bold undertaki[...]