[...], 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...


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

(='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'>==> ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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


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

='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

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testing and smelling
insight and sound ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Lili


="large lg30" stl="font-size:125%"> 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'>*


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 ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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)

='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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.”

="large lg18" stl="font-size:135%"> 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

="large lg18" stl="font-size:105%"> 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)


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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 ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals
='thdf'>the idea of having ‘varying ="trms">technique’ (closer to human) in regard to biological stasis
how ='thdf'>the idea of ‘intelligence’ in ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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 ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal
the living being and its environment, ="ppl">Canguilhem

='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'>?)

='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ethology, habits of ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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'>-->
چو پرگار می‌شدم...
چو نقطه...
گرد...
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

='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 ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals)='lgc'>:
every movement of the organism in the environment='lgc'> = a movement into which the environment forces the organism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>**='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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 ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal movement


(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'>==> ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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 ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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


='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”


(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 undertaking for life

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">science (using ="ppl">Canguilhem's words)='lgc'>: the work of a humanity rooted in life before being enlighted by knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, (if) it is a fact in the ="trms">world at the same time as ='strcls'>*a vision of the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> it sustains a permanent and necessary ="trms">relation with perception ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Barad='lgc'>] ='and'>& “a living being is not reducible to a meeting point of influences” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>]

(a meaning from the biological and physiological point of view='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*need='strcls'>*='lgc'>: an irreducible and thereby absolute ="trms">system of reference (for the living being who experiences it)

how to do ='strcls'>*reconsideration of meaning='strcls'>* in biological ="trms">sciences='qstn'>?

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i am torn apart between describing the challenges of life within the ruins created by ="trms">modernization's vast “improvements” and my own country's revolutionary consciousness to emerge fanatically from those ruins

catachresis استعمال غلط کلمه
a figure of speech in which words are misused from their conventional usages
='strcls'>***to use ="trms">language out of place='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> oxymoron='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Marianne Lien's “homeless salmon”
="lsts lst1">•Hokkaido's “frontier spirit”
="lsts lst1">•
(i constantly use catachresis in my own ="trms">language, the abuse of ="trms">language in describing things. did the mice “speak,” “wrote”='qstn'>? “The choices we make ='lgc'>[of words='lgc'>] ="trms">matter. Words make ="trms">worlds.” ='lgc'>[creatures='lgc'>] are enacted in the ="trms">semiotic and ="trms">material practices we weave through them ='lgc'>==opening='lgc'>='lgc'>==> new grounds for conversation)

="trms">world's misplacements

="large lg10" stl="font-size:100%"> catachresis helps ="ppl">Tsing as she grope for ="trms">language to describe an impossible program='lgc'>: a program dedicated to confusing disciplinary boundaries and to describing the challenges of life within the ruins created by ="trms">modernization’ vast “improvements” ='lgc'>--requires='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a crisis in ="trms">language

="ppl">Tsing's non-threatening descriptive biology

multiple rendering of salmon

U.S. and Japanese frontier ="trms">technologies

(human and nonhuman) enactments of the mixed-up

='strcls'>*landscape='strcls'>*='lgc'>: a lens that refuses the abstraction of human-nonhuman ="trms">relations in a vacuum

talking fish
acting landscapes

the still-living (='lgc'>~ still-kicking) as a series of misplacements

="trms">world produces its own catachresis

="ppl">Tsing asks “so why is anything still alive='qstn'>?” (in the time of massive human dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance)

your willingness ='lgc'>+ my dreaming


="lsts lst1">•="trms">social ="trms">scientists tried to be more “="trms">scientific”='lgc'>: by counting and putting things into boxes (missing the ="trms">interesting stuff in the ="trms">sciences, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding our ="trms">relations with other ="trms">species)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">scientists tried to be more like humanities='lgc'>: decoration (missing the important insights of these fields, such as the fact that ethics is useless as long as the ="trms">categories it assesses are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready set in place)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]curiosity='lgc'>: alighting on common ex="trms">citement to learn about the ="trms">world and its goings on
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">imagination='lgc'>: staying with (our) observations until we find frames for thinking about pattern and ="trms">trajectory

to create new genres of ="trms">translation (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> play)

(the problem of) ='strcls'>*unintentional design='strcls'>*

(what i am learning with ="nms">ajayeb is the art of) paying ='strcls'>**close descriptive attention='strcls'>** (to human ="trms">interactions with other ="trms">species)
="prgrph">-to re-learn the arts of description, that the art of 20th century is so deprived of

“population genetics and neoclassical economics each made description unnecessary through a calculus in which self-contained individuals could be ="trms">posited without attention to ="trms">social ="trms">relations and ="trms">histories” (="ppl">Tsing)

="trms">sciences that are designed ="trms">specifically not to tackle problems of living together


='at'>#project on ="nms">Tehran trees, on ="trms">anthropogenic landscapes of ="nms">Tehran
="prgrph">-descriptive ="trms">methods for the study of ="trms">social ="trms">relation and ="trms">histories
="prgrph">-learning (directly) about ="trms">worldly objects of ="nms">Tehran ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> take part in the kinds of creative play that are the hallmark of the research ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> draws ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers outside common-sense assumptions

using='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> its expertise in ethnographic ="trms">methods
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> its turn to environmental ="trms">narration
="lsts lst1">•biology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">ecological evolutionary-developmental trends) that have shown how ="trms">species come into being with each other
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science studies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> its lively juxta="trms">position of ="trms">technological and philosophical ="trms">methods


="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>: there is no reason that ="trms">anthropologists cannot study nonhumans using some of the very same ="trms">methods we use to study humans='lgc'>--or close parallels to them

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walking is the speed of bodily pleasure
the speed for looking for mushrooms

mushrooms jump into your hands with all three pleasures of the unasked for
='strcls'>*they are not the product of your labor='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we should be able to work and depend on those things

="ppl">Tsing saying ‘bismillah’ in her ="trms">writing

delight ='lgc'>==make='lgc'>='lgc'>==> impression

='strcls'>*noticing='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*coming back='strcls'>* to familiar places is the beginning of appreciation for multi="trms">species ="trms">interactions

="nms">Tehran expansive and overlapping geographies resist common models (which divide the ="trms">world into “them” and “us”)

lichen='lgc'>: an as="trms">sociation of a fungus and an alga or cyanobacteria, where the non-fungal partner fuels lichen ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism through photosynthesis

assumptions of human constancy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> autocratic military ideology ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">historically webbed ="trms">inter="trms">species dependence -='lgc'>=> a ="trms">different cultural research ="trms">trajectory

(to understand more about) domestication='lgc'>: web of entanglements
='lgc'>=/= neoliberal hard-line ='lgc'>[human ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">wild='lgc'>] understanding of “domestication='lgc'> = human control” (ignoring that such ="trms">relations might change humans too, ignoring the complex ="trms">relations of ="trms">interdependency) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ideological commitment to human mastery (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Sana's political commitment to liberalism) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (fantasies of) ='strcls'>*the ="trms">wild ="trms">species self-making='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= fantasies of control
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> life imprisonment and genetic standardization of domestic ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals, ="trms">wild ="trms">species are ‘preserved’ in gene banks while their multi="trms">species landscape are destroyed

i want ="frds scrmbld">Sana to become a rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer able to know something more about the cultural construction of gender, ="trms">species, and binds='lgc'>--rather than “freeing” women from their gender, dogs from humans, slaves from masters='lgc'>--which will lead only to the constitution of autocratic liberalism made in the image of human free will and guardianship, another master program...
!='qstn'>?how can i say “let's stay in the prison and study” ...well, maybe i can't
='at'>#="nms">harem, the ="trms">question of women confinement (usually at the center of a beautiful dream of order and plenty)

="prgrph">-how can i start and cultivate ="trms">affection and appreciation for ="trms">inter="trms">species ="trms">relations in ="nms">Tehran today='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ways and ="trms">methods)
="prgrph">-how with my chaotic and extremist ="nms">iranian freedom-fighter friends we could become allies='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">network)
="prgrph">-what is my evidences, examples, samples of the lived experience in ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">data, ="trms">stories that stick)

a dichotomy of analysis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">species found inside human body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> discourse of cohabitation and ="trms">interdependency
="lsts lst1">•="trms">species found outside human body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> discourse of human impact, management, and control

Engels's just-so ="trms">story of private property='lgc'>: o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of property was in herds ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> male control of reproduction in human families

cereal domesticated human
in the near east a shift towards gathering multiple small-grain grasses is as="trms">sociated with the 10000 years before domestication
focus on landscape ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> focus on crops


across Eurasia the rise of state (and their specialised civilization) is as="trms">sociated with the sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of intensive cereal agriculture
(="ppl">Tsing > Connor)

a political con="trms">figuration='lgc'>:
states encouraged sedentary, stable farms, family-based households, and guaranteed the forms of family property and in="trms">heritance (that drew lines within and between families) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> both women and grain confined and managed to maximise fertility
='lgc'>--Engels='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">inter="trms">species ="trms">love affair

it was in the 19th century that standardization became itself the “="trms">modern standard”


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]plantation='lgc'>: ordered cropping ="trms">systems worked by non-owners and arranged for expansion
='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•deepen domestication
="lsts lst1">•reintensifying plant dependencies
="lsts lst1">•forcing fertility

superaboundance of a single crop (without the ‘="trms">love’ ='lgc'>[connector romance of people, plant, place='lgc'>] that was key in state-endorsed cereal agriculture)
(in plantation) the plants were exotic and labor was coerced slavery

only with ='strcls'>**hierarchy and managed antagonism='strcls'>** in place enormous profits (='lgc'>+ complementary poverty) could be produced

plantation produced the wealth and the modus operandi that allowed Europeans to take over the ="trms">world

(not ="trms">technologies and resources, rather) ='strcls'>*plantation ="trms">system made the navies, ="trms">science, and industrialization possible='strcls'>*

taking the alienation of people (from their crops) for granted

='lgc'>='lgc'>==> human sub="trms">species were ="trms">formulated and enforced ='lgc'>: biology came to signify the ="trms">difference between free “owner” and coerced “labor” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> racial divisions were produced and reproduced in each dowered marriage and in="trms">heritance

="prgrph">-poor families needed more labor, particularly where ="trms">child labor kept many adults alive
="prgrph">-privileged families were charged with the advancements of the race, women must bear its heirs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> late 19th century discourse of ="trms">scientific hygiene and eugenic[...]