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“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'>*
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...to grasp the ="trms">presence in man of his own o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Maarten, Mobed
as an irreducible center of resistance
“man, even when subordinated to the machine, never manages to grasp himself as a machine. his efficiency is greater the more he is aware of his central ="trms">situation with regard to the mechanisms intended to serve him” ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*a bad ="trms">story (of The Terminator, The 100, The Magicians, etc.)='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Darwin, Laeb's) ="trms">pragmatism='lgc'>: ="trms">generalization of ='thdf'>the notion of adaptation to the theory of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
reference of organis movement to the organims itself as essential
(prepared by ="ppl">Kantor, Tolmann's) teleological behaviorism='lgc'>: recognizing the sense and intention of ="trms">animal movement
(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)
='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”
='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'>~-> 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
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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
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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 other)
(="ppl">Nagel asking for='lgc'>:) to devise a ="trms">method of expressing in objective terms much more than we can at ="trms">present ='lgc'>[but he is stuck in ='thdf'>the idea of='lgc'>] “a ="trms">phenomenology that is objective='strcls'>*
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with ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia
Norway ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (a breakable) illusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that somebody is living it
green competition and ="trms">techno="trms">positivist hubris
="trms">question of topology (in dream)
(topology='lgc'>: those qualities that remain invariant after transformation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persistent forms)
fantastic peasant
a piece of hanging cloth that sug="trms">gests ="trms">horrors to receptacle receiving eyes
="lsts lst1">•landscape ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sounds
="lsts lst1">•="trms">poems
="lsts lst1">•divisions in Norway (='lgc'><='lgc'>== second ="trms">world war)
="lsts lst1">•sami cultural disappearance
="lsts lst2">◦domestic violence
="lsts lst2">◦racism
="lsts lst2">◦refugee geopolitics
="lsts lst1">•seagull, fish, salmon farming
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interviews
="lsts lst1">•doom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delirium, murder, ="trms">hallucination, whispering,
="lsts lst1">•ruin (of signs)
="lsts lst1">•entropy (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? emergence)
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>*affliction landscapes='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Leid='lgc'>: existence thriving in the wound ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anticipation of oblivion
doom, ruin, entropy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> udyr (in norwegian u-='lgc'>: non- or bad, dyr='lgc'>: ="trms">animal) bad or corrupted ="trms">animal, non="trms">animal, ="trms">monster, (rootless existence)
udyr (gate keepers creepers) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> div (defeated)
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='lgc'>--performance='lgc'>--
rotating styles of='lgc'>: folkloric ballads, existential meditation, doomsday rant, elegiac oration, ="trms">children lullabies ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a singular blast of an account of a devastated space ='lgc'>--mobilizing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> legend, omen, song, myth, fairy tale, mutated war cry
='lgc'>[these potent signs are sneaking in the work “str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger within,” it is not just a ="trms">historical dreamscape='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the masked actors on ="trms">stage have taken a venom (becoming faceless engravers) to cross into the next level of temporal experience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-muted rage and ecstasy indeterminacy ="trms">positioned as creeping towards the midnight of moving ='and'>& no longer moving... (as human='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conflicting ways of being human; to acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge human ='and'>& violence;)
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='lgc'>--="trms">travel='lgc'>--
visiting an alchemy of domestic proclamations (homes) with its own lethal con="trms">sortiums of drives (conversations); visiting sites of pure participation, the most savage, the most ="trms">modern, creating a ="trms">respond characterized as both ultra-alertness and in="trms">somnia of anticipation (acts by which the future can be nailed down) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> becoming a ='strcls'>*faceless engraver='strcls'>* (to remain fugitive and errant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a course of action ="trms">supposing a discontinuity that must be overcome in order to define a ="trms">trajectory)
(="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia are capable of being) bodies fully engaged in perspectival ="trms">communication and battles of will, provided with ="trms">affect and capacities, capable of knowing ="trms">different things, types of ="trms">relations they entered into ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? poltergeist
='lgc'>--research='lgc'>--
="trms">trap ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> omen
lava ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ice
="lsts lst1">•unstable space
="lsts lst1">•process ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= performance ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= meeting ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
="lsts lst2">◦dinner ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*transaction='strcls'>* (what did you learn from the dinner that you bring='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst2">◦invite (exchange='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst2">◦respect ='and'>& resist
now='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•something need to be named
="lsts lst1">•something need to be ="trms">staged
="lsts lst1">•(something need to be styled)
="frds scrmbld">Jassem's model='lgc'>:
you go through 5 minutes of hell then you arrive and unleash all your powers (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> talk about ="trms">questions, art, ="trms">history, self, etc.) then go there and perform together
contract of misunderstanding the “dance” (proposed by ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia)
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">categorically dance is misunderstood, dinner is understood
the rawness and minimalism of the performance ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> richness and ="trms">density of the research
(“='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>-->” ='lgc'>: ="trms">question of reference='qstn'>?)
(not to make the performance ="trms">mimetic)='qstn'>?
(but make it mnemonic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> designed to aid the ="trms">memory)='qstn'>?
(but not anticipatory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> omen)
for ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of death='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of transformation of perspective (='lgc'>=/= change of perspective)='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•
chronically unstable bodies (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mesopotamian)
="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism manifest in distorted corporeal forms and appendages ضميمه
a ="trms">world conceived of inherently volatile (bodies='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> site of subjectivity
intentional activation (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affective capacities (in...='qstn'>?)
="trms">trap ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operate along scale
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entropy ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> atrophy
="lsts lst1">•entropy='lgc'>: energy no longer available for doing mechanical work (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> random ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? violence)
="lsts lst1">•atrophy='lgc'>: the ="trms">material, sensory labor of attending to loss, ='strcls'>***labor of looking at damage='strcls'>***
wasting away; withering; decrease in size caused by disuse
the feeling of being in the middle of something dirty, inevitable, watching it un="trms">fold
='lgc'>[deculturation='lgc'>: making a culture ‘previous'='lgc'>]
(='lgc'>~ the imapct of capitalism/colonialism on indigenous)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[nightmare image of ="trms">social entropy='lgc'>] destablizing effects of non-meaning (='lgc'>~ non="trms">animal Udyr ="trms">monster) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (re="trms">presenting as) existential-cultural atrophy
='lgc'>[="nms">Cinderella doesn't experience atrophy after insult upon insult ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Bambi's ="trms">memory='lgc'>]
transculturalism ='lgc'>~ “seeing oneself in the other”
='strcls'>*="trms">language and ="trms">materiality ="trms">interact within an unstable locus of ="trms">historicity='strcls'>* (="trms">specific ="trms">historical conditions) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a european model of conviviality='lgc'>]
='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">modern globalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reinventing of the new common culture /humanism ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> coalescence='lgc'>: meeting, ="trms">intermingling of ="trms">different people and ="trms">species and cultures and goods ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> could be damaging and unintentional, hurting the ="trms">world='lgc'>: decay, emergent, atrophy, new identities, crisis in ="trms">language, confusing boundaries, challenges of life,,,='lgc'>]
(o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of bad feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) looking at='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•damaged bodies
="lsts lst1">•damaged subjectivities
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">communities
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Udyr ="trms">monster
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">ecologies
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">histories ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> in="trms">somnia
="lsts lst1">•
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia) is there (only) death at the end of entropy='qstn'>?
sequence of events from the point of view of plague ="trms">narrative
extermination ='lgc'>+ determination, laws of identity, repetition
the ="trms">material despair of a colonial capital ="trms">modern condition leading in high speed to the entropy of cultural-individual ethics, under the overwhelming weight of tangible misery ='lgc'>--(="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognize the immediate ="trms">material urgency of the end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered subjectivity
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='lgc'>--faceless='lgc'>--
non="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonhuman ='lgc'>+ non="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destabilizing effects
with their flexible plasticity, has an issue with appearance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjectivity's disas="trms">sociation from the ="trms">world
='lgc'>[in no (or which) calculus of assurance are they moving='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
ruined main body (of the performance)
ruin is (a ="trms">fictional being) adding additional variety to ="trms">technical being (frontier ="trms">technologies) of Norway
="prgrph">-obsolescence (and why not adjustment='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/= extremist ="trms">position ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to emerge fanatically from the ruins)='lgc'>--(can we use our ="trms">imagination not for ="trms">world scale future speculation, and rather for small adjustment of this space='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-give expression and meaning to the ="trms">material culture
='lgc'>--landscape='lgc'>--
using it in the performance='lgc'>: a lens that refuses the abstraction of elements ="trms">relation in a vacuum (as its optics, not a Blickmaschin)
show us='lgc'>: big ="trms">stories take their form from seemingly minor ="trms">contingencies, a="trms">symmetrical encounters, and moments of indeterminacy
(with “str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger within” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ‘desire within'='lgc'>]) are we at the space of ="trms">complain='qstn'>? ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- dis="trms">positions of Beschwerde
a form of protest ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (disenfranchized ="trms">language of) ='strcls'>*mutated rage='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always innocent ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">agent of delivery
(protest part of) the proud and brutal ="trms">history of break-out syntax of civic ="trms">responsibility (='lgc'>=/= adjustment)
rage ='and'>& ecstasy
ruin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> innocence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delivery='lgc'>: performance
='lgc'>--ruin='lgc'>--
we can and should ='strcls'>***navigate the ruin='strcls'>***
(navigate ='lgc'>=/= asset-production)
="prgrph">-capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (owning the ="trms">rhetoric of progress) telling us / teach us to ignore ruins (in the making)
="prgrph">-is there life in ruin='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> place of unsettled identities, ='strcls'>*in it each of us become ourselves with the help of a less-than ideal collaboration='strcls'>*
bring your curiosity
contaminated diversity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= doom='lgc'>: a form of missing that which is contaminated, (an ="trms">affect typical of ="nms">Tehran,) one has lost the pulse of the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
(hard to clasify)
='strcls'>*cultures and ="trms">species that don't adjust well to dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we shouldn't lose hope on them)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**precarious survival='strcls'>** ='lgc'>: in order to live you need help, always subject to the indeterminacy of self and other's transformations (='lgc'>=/= MacGyver selfish gene ="trms">story) ='lgc'>[="frds">Sina and ="frds scrmbld">Agnes hiking in the need for sticks to walk='lgc'>], ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? “kinds” and “types” emerge; and you need multiple forms of curiosity
='strcls'>*neoclassical economics (which is today's economic model) (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">modern economy)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•theory of supply and ="trms">demand
="lsts lst1">•theory of rational individual choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maximize utility and profit (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">methodological individuation='lgc'>: “motivation/action of individual ="trms">agents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">causal accounts of ="trms">social”)
='strcls'>*population genetics (study of evolution from the genetics point of view) (='lgc'><='lgc'>== evolutionary synthesis ='lgc'>+ ="trms">modern biology)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•adaptation
="lsts lst1">•speciation
="lsts lst1">•population
="lsts lst1">•structure
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==='lgc'>{formed in late 19th century and came to power in early 20th century to redefine ="trms">modern knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “survival='lgc'> = fighting for oneself against others” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> The 100 TV series popular fantasies of survival ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ what does it take to stay alive='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>**conquest and expansion='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> selfish gene (theory of individuals not effected by encounters, they use encounters, but not changed by them)
='lgc'>=/= ‘what does it take to stay alive’ could be a ='strcls'>*="trms">matter of finding livable collaborations='strcls'>*='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*working across ="trms">difference='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> we don't know who we are, until we ="trms">interact across ="trms">difference at multiple levels ='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**identities are formed in ="trms">histories of encounters='strcls'>**
neoclassical economics theories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•supply and ="trms">demand
="lsts lst1">•rational individual choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maximize utility and profit (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">methodological individuation='lgc'>: “motivation/action of individual ="trms">agents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">causal accounts of ="trms">social”)
="prgrph">-
dreams of ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: mobilization of a agricultural cooperative movement ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> industrial disengagement ='lgc'>+ intimacy of family's farm
slow dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance
mode of inquiry='lgc'>: take small details and ask big ="trms">questions with them
living in ruins
='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Jassem='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maybe is a nightmare ="trms">story
='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maybe is a mushroom ="trms">story
(capital/genocide/...)
(destroyed by...)
rats, rabbits, and algae seaweed
your abilites to nurture and tell ="trms">stories ='lgc'>--tales='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*life emerging from damaged human comunities='strcls'>* (and blasted landscapes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> not exactly a ="trms">story of hope (='lgc'>=/= towards a better sleep, the “less you know better you sleep” kind of ="trms">story), ="trms">stories of displacement and losses (due to war and concentration of wealth in our time)
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*big ="trms">narrative of progress='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a single ="trms">world ="trms">trajectory and time ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*time of surprise='strcls'>*='lgc'>] of which “everybody takes part” (='strcls'>*moving forward together='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#sci-fi series of transnational crew on a spaceship) ...powerful ways of knowing the ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>== renaissance='lgc'>] (='lgc'>--my ="nms">ajayeb project is about those ways of knowing, ="trms">stories of what sets the ="trms">world on motion, such as universalism ='and'>& cultural relativism)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*building ="trms">communal ="trms">agenda='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~ (dream of) transculturalism ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ blend ="trms">communal identities='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia's Norway='lgc'>: humans get richer, more efficient, and more make the ="trms">natural ="trms">world work for them), is given to us by “men” (that we don't have to follow)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]progress='lgc'>: ="trms">anthropogentic landscapes haunted by ="trms">imagined futures
='lgc'>--or='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (you might) leave your home and run into a vast new problem
stability is a privilege
='lgc'>[what is='qstn'>?='lgc'>] the future of your dreams
='lgc'>[what are='qstn'>?='lgc'>] the nunhumans worth noticing
="trms">species that signal “i am available”
='lgc'>[capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list accumulations ='lgc'>+ insult upon insult upon insult ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] diversity
diversity='lgc'>: (in Germany, considered archaic and chaotic) collateral damage of improvement, necessory victim of progress
fire, herding, farming,
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creating niches for hunting and forging
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> messing with (="trms">nature)
="prgrph">-the ="trms">question of how much (of human, neighbor, etc.) dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance we can live with
="prgrph">-what is to consider other's (="trms">species, peasant, etc.) ways of life-making ="trms">trajectories along ours='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world-making (requires this)='lgc'>]
the ="trms">question of niche-making
="prgrph">-niches ="trms">interact with one another
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]alienation='lgc'>: the ability to stand alone (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nietzschean ethics ='lgc'>=/= niche-making entanglement ='strcls'>*always imperfect and continent='strcls'>*)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (people, things, and ="trms">species become) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]assets='lgc'>: mobiles that can be moved from their life="trms">worlds to be exchanged elsewhere='lgc'>--everything else is waste (='lgc'>=/= eating others)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> progress='lgc'>: search for assets ='lgc'>=/= art='lgc'>: unalienated critical work, ='strcls'>***reciprocal capture='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> tumble ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= transcend one another, or bow down, ="trms">question of ="trms">integration='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*niche='lgc'>: adjusted timing ='and'>& quality, small ="trms">stories, convexe,
='lgc'>=/= house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> has foundation
='lgc'>=/= your monument
='lgc'>=/= building
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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="trms">ecologies of nothingness='strcls'>***
premise of my ="trms">lecture='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*all places are polluted and difficult='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•‘abuse of ="trms">language’ is every time you open your mouth
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">social always always in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes nonhuman
="lsts lst1">•there is no encounter without the contractual
..and i can't tell grave from garden
="prgrph">-perhaps i have been unconsciously working on the ="trms">question of “why are we here='qstn'>?” or “am i here='qstn'>?”
="prgrph">-cartographies of thinking='lgc'>--&='lgc'>--how i am inscribed in them
(itineraries i am stuck with)
going to a place ='lgc'>=/= embrace it as a site
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always i have a resistance to where i am='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ways we lose a sense of place ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> displacement
="lsts lst1">•the ways we experience livability through places
(has to do with my own broken/corrupt/fubar link with ="trms">ancestry ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- only “your people” can show you how to ="trms">imagine it, the center/home)
transportation ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{traumatic ='and'>& distruptive='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transformation
time of surprise ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> non="trms">animal (udyr)
="prgrph">-="trms">nature-culture patchworks
="prgrph">-perspectival and performative
="prgrph">-contaminative and ="trms">communicative
='strcls'>*fantastic and real vision='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-things that don't fit together, yet, there ='strcls'>*are='strcls'>* together ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sym (='lgc'>=/= bifurcation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> awkward ="trms">relations ='and'>& ="trms">interrupting ="trms">categories
="lsts lst1">•(necrophobia)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">schizophrenic ="trms">relations to...
="lsts lst1">•deconstruction of ="trms">presence...
(for you there is also) ='strcls'>***many fantastically large set of contexts within which to say “yes”='strcls'>***
(="ppl">Tsing's) ='strcls'>*contaminated diversity='strcls'>* (complicated, ugly, humbling) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ‘end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ="trms">species’ and cultures (innocent victims of human progress)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-implicates survivors in ="trms">histories of greed, damage, and destruction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cacophony of troubled ="trms">stories ='lgc'>--might='lgc'>='lgc'>--> help to learn something a[...]