[...] 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'>*


="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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

="large lg22" stl="font-size:133%"> 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

="large lg26" stl="font-size:103%"> ='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'>-->
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

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="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 ="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

="large lg18" stl="font-size:120%"> (prepared by ="ppl">Kantor, Tolmann's) teleological behaviorism='lgc'>: recognizing the sense and intention of ="trms">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'>==> ="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


='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)


="large lg10" stl="font-size:123%"> ='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

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 ="trms">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”

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='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 eugenics اصلاح نژاد informed white women's ="trms">species segregation

='lgc'>{ boundaries of home='lgc'> = boundaries of ="trms">love ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fetishization of the home as the space of purity and ="trms">interdependence ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> extra-domestic intimacies (within/between ="trms">species) =
="lsts lst1">•archaic fantasies (the ="trms">community, small farmer, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•passing affairs (feminism, ="trms">animal ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights, etc. )
='lgc'>+
outside the home='lgc'> = domain of economic rationality and conflicting individual ="trms">interests

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mid 20th century allowed other ="trms">species accepted='lgc'>: pets are models for family devotion. but the model of the ="trms">loving and the be="trms">loved pet does not sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ="trms">love; it holds tight inside the family (-="ppl">Tsing)

='lgc'>[bio="trms">social plan:='lgc'>] other people ='and'>& other ="trms">species are judged by their ability to live up to one standard of domestic intimacy (USA or ="nms">iran)='lgc'>:
they ="trms">love their ="trms">children and pets ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">imagine themselves as compassionate and moral ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> makes them ‘good people’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">="trms">equip them to make decisions for the whole ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> moral hierarchy (='lgc'>~ your goodness is qualification for global goodness) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> other people ='and'>& other ="trms">species are judged ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> project to improve the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*collateral damage is unfortunate but not inhumane='strcls'>*

="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban jungle
jumble of diversity ='lgc'>+ imperial planners
="trms">excessive teams

="trms">technique of unmapping, for separating paired projects and effects and places and things. (='thdf'>for example unmap state and capital from diversity places)
="lsts lst1">•sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read obscurity
="lsts lst1">•to know something from disordered ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges (='lgc'>=/= ptoductive ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)
="lsts lst1">•what grows in the seam (to begin with)
="lsts lst1">•pleasure of variety beyond the domestic
="lsts lst1">•how places are ="trms">differentiated and ="trms">specific


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Global Futures
(a game of) possibilities of ="trms">contingent connections
a game that develops our ideas of the productivity='lgc'>--for better or worse='lgc'>--of ="trms">contingency
a game to appreciate ="trms">contingent connections ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= stale and d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous pre="trms">dictions (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mithridatism)='lgc'>]

futures of all ="trms">sorts are forged in the ="trms">contingencies of strange connections
="lsts lst1">•foreclosed in the narrow channels of corporate expansion
="lsts lst1">•clashing state and popular terrorisms
="lsts lst1">•our best hopes (as well as our inchoate terrors)

='strcls'>*="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>: “="trms">Contingency surrounds us, but we ignore its power to shape the future.”


='strcls'>**europe's secular prophecy's ="trms">formulaic ="trms">tropes for encapsulating time='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•most powerful future-making ="trms">stories have told of the fulfillment of principles of progress and rationality
="lsts lst1">•driving force of ="trms">technology will transform ="trms">society
="lsts lst1">•ideal of democracy will be progressively en="trms">coded in law
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>**anti-progress prophecy's ="trms">formulaic ="trms">tropes for encapsulating time='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•national genius of a chosen people will blossom
="lsts lst1">•human ="trms">nature will reestablish ="trms">historic gender roles and racial hierarchies
="lsts lst1">•the essence of ancient civilizations will rise again to vie and clash

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> There is no room for ="trms">contingent connections in any of these pre="trms">dictions


(most important ="trms">story of our time='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*the ="trms">story of globalization='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">world is entering a global era without political or economic rifts
="lsts lst1">•nation-states and cultures are increasingly irrelevant
="lsts lst1">•a global menu of ="trms">consumerdesires and entrepreneurial standards frames identity and sets individual and collective goals

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> since the end of the Cold War='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•global expansion of a few giant corporations
="lsts lst1">•the great flows of people from one continent to another
="lsts lst1">•forging of transnational standards for economics and politics
="lsts lst1">•development of widely sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read audiences for once parochial forms of popular culture

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Global capitalism is not seamless='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•leapfrogging financial crises
="lsts lst1">•“antiglobalization” politics springing up
="lsts lst1">•deflating policymakers’ hopes for a smooth ="trms">transition to corporate empire


ultimate fantasy of an ='strcls'>*era without politics='strcls'>*
ultimate fantasy of a ='strcls'>*more complex evolutionary plan='strcls'>*
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">contingency ='and'>& ="trms">interconnection



principles of (="ppl">Tsing and Pollman's) Global Futures game='lgc'>:
you tell the ="trms">story of this coalescence, and if your fellow players accept the ="trms">story, it makes ="trms">history='lgc'>: it becomes a part of the ="trms">world of the game.
the goal is to develop a set of ='strcls'>*coalescences='strcls'>* that fulfills a preassigned ="trms">mission.
whoever tells the best ="trms">story while completing the ="trms">mission wins.

you (tell ="trms">stories in which you) are free to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•make the ="trms">world a better place
="lsts lst1">•hatch a nefarious scheme
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narrate a true ="trms">story

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]coalescence='lgc'>: the ="trms">historical force that arises from a transformative coming together of disparate groups, institutions, or things='lgc'>:
an unexpected connection ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a “="trms">historical force"='lgc'>[= something that might change the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
(parties might be='lgc'>: groups, institutions, ideas, identities, things, or beings. chili peppers and Thai cuisine; African rice producers and the Carolina coast; astrolabes, compasses, and plane tables)

='lgc'>[contemplative mode of togetherness='lgc'>: (in Europe) coalescence انعقاد ='lgc'>=/= (in Middle East) confluence تلاقى ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transnationalism ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">internationalism ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> forms of alliance that are possible and needed that can be created ="trms">differentially with “trans-” ='lgc'>=/= “="trms">inter-“='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*coalescence is not meaningful nor possible in Middle East='qstn'>?='strcls'>*

example='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•not coalescence ="trms">story='lgc'>: to say that a cat and a goldfinch are both ="trms">animals. or to ="trms">imagine a pet store that sells both
="lsts lst1">•coalescence ="trms">story='lgc'>: a cat-feeding fad that requires that cats eat nothing but goldfinches to give the cats a sleeker coat, while goldfinches become ="trms">seriously end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered because of the program ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*both cats and goldfinches are changed in the encounter='strcls'>*

coalescence can be unintentional, ="trms">seriously damage collaborator and the ="trms">world

="trms">missions could be='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•create a revolution
="lsts lst1">•corrupt a nation's government
="lsts lst1">•use a ="trms">natural resource to create havoc
="lsts lst1">•revitalize an ancient philosophy
="lsts lst1">•


future-making cards='lgc'>:
icons of ="trms">historical ="trms">agency
they re="trms">present the ="trms">world through stereotypes and ="trms">symbols
used as an ideology about X (='lgc'>=/= as the real thing)

eternal essences as ="trms">natural objects or cultural ="trms">codes prevent theories to require things to change ='lgc'>=/= Global Futures conceptualization of time and change ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***forms of human and nonhuman possibility ="trms">imagined within current discussions of politics and culture='strcls'>***

='strcls'>*="trms">world power ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world time='strcls'>*

time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evolutionary ladder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> progressive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> supportive trellises of flowering liberalism ='lgc'>+ critical charts of intensifying capitalism

coercive ="trms">international development
civilizational paternalism
free-="trms">market bullying

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='at'>#my theory (='lgc'>=/= reductionist, or psychological identification) on ="trms">specification of='lgc'>:
spider ='lgc'>=/= linear temporality
whale ='lgc'>=/= distinction of organism and environment
(='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>=/= “single point of view ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subjective ="trms">phenomena”

="ppl">Nagel='lgc'>: the fact that an organism has conscious experience='lgc'> = there is something it is like to be that organism ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjective character of experience='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> analyzable in terms of any explanatory ="trms">system of functional states, or intentional states

Blade Runner's notion of “soul”='lgc'>: ascribed to robots or automata that behave like people though they experience nothing

physicalism='lgc'>: ="trms">phenomenological features must themselves be given a physical account

...if one ="trms">travels too far down the phylogenetic tree, people gradually shed their faith that there is experience at all

anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited bat
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited whale
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited snake
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited jinn
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knows what it is to encounter a fundamentally alien form of life

="ppl">Nagel asking='lgc'>: we must consider whether any ="trms">method will permit us to ex="trms">trapolate استقراء to the inner life of the bat from our own case, and if not, what alternative ="trms">methods there may be for understanding the notion

“our own experience provides the basic ="trms">material for our ="trms">imagination, whose range is therefore limited” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nagel's view remains secular and in the bounds of his disciplinary field. (="trms">religious studies, theology, ="trms">animal subjectivity studies, art of description, they can be helpful to describe things not in terms of the impressions they make on our senses)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Nagel is trying with the wrong ="trms">language at bats='lgc'>: “does it make sense to ask what my experiences are ‘really’ like as opposed to how they appear to me='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] objective processes can have a subjective ="trms">nature.”

what it would be like for me to behave as a bat behaves ='lgc'>=/= what it is like for a bat to be a bat


schematic conceptions of ="frds scrmbld">Eszter


(old model of understanding='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stimulus (things sparkling) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perception (hiting the senses) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apprehension (mind aware without judgement) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> comprehension (psychological judgement about the manner of ="trms">situation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowing ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world of doing, in which “action” is='lgc'>: expected (mother attending the ="trms">child, free liberating the prisoners), commanded (soldier's hierarchy, job's duty), solved (engineer puzzling out a problem)


the things apprehended from a particular point of view (particular visual ="trms">phenomenology) are not connected to that point


Neobeobachtungen
moshahedat مشاهدت
نگاه جدید


='strcls'>*essence of the ="trms">internal ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> who is busy with this='qstn'>? (this will define the fate of ="trms">animal subjectivity)


='strcls'>*view from nowhere='strcls'>*='lgc'>: that their particular viewpoint is not part of the common reality (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sociology of ="trms">science)


X is Y
“is”='lgc'>: converge, a ="trms">technique of modeling (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> ="trms">sync)
X, Y='lgc'>: two referential paths
we know how X is ="trms">supposed to be true


people are no told at an early age that ='strcls'>*all ="trms">matter is really energy='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list physicalism. then what you say abnout ‘energy’ is saying something about the ="trms">nature of reality)
physicalism='lgc'>: the hypothesis that a mental event is a physical event


someone with instinct ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis


(my feedbacks in ="nms">apass does not only apply to intentional mental events of each[...]