[...]br /> ="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’

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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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="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> 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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> ="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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:112%"> 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 dreamin[...]