[...]sis in lss="trms">language

l clss="ppl">Tsingl>'s non-threatening descriptive biology

multiple rendering of salmon

<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> U.S. and Japanese frontier lss="trms">technologies

(human and nonhuman) enactments of the mixed-up
lrg>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>landscapels clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a lens that refuses the abstraction of human-nonhuman lss="trms">relations in a vacuum

talking fish
acting landscapes

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

lss="trms">world produces its own catachresis

l clss="ppl">Tsingl> asks “so why is anything still alivelss='qstn'>?” (in the time of massive human distlss="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance)

your willingness <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> my dreaming


<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">social lss="trms">scientists tried to be more “lss="trms">scientific”<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> by counting and putting things into boxes (missing the lss="trms">interesting stuff in the lss="trms">sciences, inlss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding our lss="trms">relations with other lss="trms">species)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">scientists tried to be more like humanities<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> decoration (missing the important insights of these fields, such as the fact that ethics is useless as long as the lss="trms">categories it assesses are allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready set in place)
lsts>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>curiosity<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> alighting on common exlss="trms">citement to learn about the lss="trms">world and its goings on
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">imagination<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> staying with (our) observations until we find frames for thinking about pattern and lss="trms">trajectory

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

(the problem of) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>unintentional designls clss='strcls'>*ls>

(what i am learning with lss="nms">ajayeb is the art of) paying ls clss='strcls'>**ls>close descriptive attentionls clss='strcls'>**ls> (to human lss="trms">interactions with other lss="trms">species)
lss="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 lss="trms">posited without attention to lss="trms">social lss="trms">relations and lss="trms">histories” (l clss="ppl">Tsingl>)

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


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

using<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">anthropology <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> its expertise in ethnographic lss="trms">methods
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">history <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> its turn to environmental lss="trms">narration
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•biology <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (lss="trms">ecological evolutionary-developmental trends) that have shown how lss="trms">species come into being with each other
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">science studies <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> its lively juxtalss="trms">position of lss="trms">technological and philosophical lss="trms">methods
lsts>
lrg>
l clss="ppl">Tsingl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> there is no reason that lss="trms">anthropologists cannot study nonhumans using some of the very same lss="trms">methods we use to study humans<lgc clss='lgc'>--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
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>they are not the product of your laborls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> we should be able to work and depend on those things

l clss="ppl">Tsingl> saying ‘bismillah’ in her lss="trms">writing

delight <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>make<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> impression

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>noticingls clss='strcls'>*ls> and ls clss='strcls'>*ls>coming backls clss='strcls'>*ls> to familiar places is the beginning of appreciation for multilss="trms">species lss="trms">interactions

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

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

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

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

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

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

a dichotomy of analysis<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">species found inside human body <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> discourse of cohabitation and lss="trms">interdependency
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">species found outside human body <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> discourse of human impact, management, and control
lsts>
Engels's just-so lss="trms">story of private property<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of property was in herds <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> male control of reproduction in human families
lrg>
cereal domesticated human
in the near east a shift towards gathering multiple small-grain grasses is aslss="trms">sociated with the 10000 years before domestication
focus on landscape <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> focus on crops


across Eurasia the rise of state (and their specialised civilization) is aslss="trms">sociated with the splss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of intensive cereal agriculture
(l clss="ppl">Tsingl> > Connor)

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

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


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>plantation<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ordered cropping lss="trms">systems worked by non-owners and arranged for expansion
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•deepen domestication
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•reintensifying plant dependencies
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•forcing fertility
lsts>
superaboundance of a single crop (without the ‘lss="trms">love’ <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>connector romance of people, plant, place<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> that was key in state-endorsed cereal agriculture)
(in plantation) the plants were exotic and labor was coerced slavery

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

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

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

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

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

lss="prgrph">-poor families needed more labor, particularly where lss="trms">child labor kept many adults alive
lss="prgrph">-privileged families were charged with the advancements of the race, women must bear its heirs <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> late 19th century discourse of lss="trms">scientific hygiene and eugenics اصلاح نژاد informed white women's lss="trms">species segregation

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

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

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

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

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

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

futures of all lss="trms">sorts are forged in the lss="trms">contingencies of strange connections
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•foreclosed in the narrow channels of corporate expansion
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•clashing state and popular terrorisms
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•our best hopes (as well as our inchoate terrors)
lsts>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>l clss="ppl">Tsingl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “lss="trms">Contingency surrounds us, but we ignore its power to shape the future.”


ls clss='strcls'>**ls>europe's secular prophecy's lss="trms">formulaic lss="trms">tropes for encapsulating timels clss='strcls'>**ls>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•most powerful future-making lss="trms">stories have told of the fulfillment of principles of progress and rationality
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•driving force of lss="trms">technology will transform lss="trms">society
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ideal of democracy will be progressively enlss="trms">coded in law
lsts> <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>
ls clss='strcls'>**ls>anti-progress prophecy's lss="trms">formulaic lss="trms">tropes for encapsulating timels clss='strcls'>**ls>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•national genius of a chosen people will blossom
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•human lss="trms">nature will reestablish lss="trms">historic gender roles and racial hierarchies
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the essence of ancient civilizations will rise again to vie and clash
lsts>
<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> There is no room for lss="trms">contingent connections in any of these prelss="trms">dictions


(most important lss="trms">story of our time<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the lss="trms">story of globalizationls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the lss="trms">world is entering a global era without political or economic rifts
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•nation-states and cultures are increasingly irrelevant
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a global menu of lss="trms">consumerdesires and entrepreneurial standards frames identity and sets individual and collective goals
lsts>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> since the end of the Cold War<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•global expansion of a few giant corporations
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the great flows of people from one continent to another
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•forging of transnational standards for economics and politics
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•development of widely splss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read audiences for once parochial forms of popular culture
lsts>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> Global capitalism is not seamless<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•leapfrogging financial crises
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•“antiglobalization” politics springing up
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•deflating policymakers’ hopes for a smooth lss="trms">transition to corporate empire
lsts>

ultimate fantasy of an ls clss='strcls'>*ls>era without politicsls clss='strcls'>*ls>
ultimate fantasy of a ls clss='strcls'>*ls>more complex evolutionary planls clss='strcls'>*ls>
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">contingency lss='and'>& lss="trms">interconnection



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

you (tell lss="trms">stories in which you) are free to<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•make the lss="trms">world a better place
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•hatch a nefarious scheme
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">narrate a true lss="trms">story
lsts>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>coalescence<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the lss="trms">historical force that arises from a transformative coming together of disparate groups, institutions, or things<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
an unexpected connection <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> a “lss="trms">historical force"<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>= something that might change the lss="trms">world<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
(parties might be<lgc clss='lgc'>: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 clss='lgc'>[lgc>contemplative mode of togetherness<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (in Europe) coalescence انعقاد <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> (in Middle East) confluence تلاقى <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> transnationalism <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">internationalism <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>->lgc> forms of alliance that are possible and needed that can be created lss="trms">differentially with “trans-” <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> “lss="trms">inter-“<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>coalescence is not meaningful nor possible in Middle Eastlss='qstn'>?ls clss='strcls'>*ls>

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

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

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

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

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">world power <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">world timels clss='strcls'>*ls>

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“our own experience provides the basic lss="trms">material for our lss="trms">imagination, whose range is therefore limited” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> l clss="ppl">Nagell>'s view remains secular and in the bounds of his disciplinary field. (lss="trms">religious studies, theology, lss="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)
lss="prgrph">-l clss="ppl">Nagell> is trying with the wrong lss="trms">language at bats<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “does it make sense to ask what my experiences are ‘really’ like as opposed to how they appear to melss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> objective processes can have a subjective lss="trms">nature.”

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


schematic conceptions of lss="frds scrmbld">Eszter


(old model of understanding<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>)
ls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> stimulus (things sparkling) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> perception (hiting the senses) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> apprehension (mind aware without judgement) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> comprehension (psychological judgement about the manner of lss="trms">situation) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> knowing <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">world of doing, in which “action” is<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> expected (mother attending the lss="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 lss="trms">phenomenology) are not connected to that point


Neobeobachtungen
moshahedat مشاهدت
نگاه جدید


ls clss='strcls'>*ls>essence of the lss="trms">internal lss="trms">worldls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> who is busy with thislss='qstn'>? (this will define the fate of lss="trms">animal subjectivity)


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


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


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


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


(my feedbacks in lss="nms">apass does not only apply to intentional mental events of each other)

(l clss="ppl">Nagell> asking for<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) to devise a lss="trms">method of expressing in objective terms much more than we can at lss="trms">present <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>but he is stuck in lss='thdf'>the idea of<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> “a lss="trms">phenomenology that is objectivels clss='strcls'>*ls>

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with lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia

Norway <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> (a breakable) illusion <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> that somebody is living it
green competition and lss="trms">technolss="trms">positivist hubris

lss="trms">question of topology (in dream)
(topology<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> those qualities that remain invariant after transformation <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> persistent forms)

<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:106%"> fantastic peasant

a piece of hanging cloth that suglss="trms">gests lss="trms">horrors to receptacle receiving eyes

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:111%">
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•landscape <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> sounds
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">poems
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•divisions in Norway (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> second lss="trms">world war)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•sami cultural disappearance
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦domestic violence
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦racism
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦refugee geopolitics
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•seagull, fish, salmon farming
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">interviews
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•doom <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> delirium, murder, lss="trms">hallucination, whispering,
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ruin (of signs)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•entropy (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? emergence)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:124%"> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>affliction landscapesls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leid<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> existence thriving in the wound <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> anticipation of oblivion

doom, ruin, entropy <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> udyr (in norwegian u-<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> non- or bad, dyr<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">animal) bad or corrupted lss="trms">animal, nonlss="trms">animal, lss="trms">monster, (rootless existence)

udyr (gate keepers creepers) <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> div (defeated)
lrg>


<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>performance<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>
rotating styles of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> folkloric ballads, existential meditation, doomsday rant, elegiac oration, lss="trms">children lullabies <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>into<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a singular blast of an account of a devastated space <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>mobilizing<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> legend, omen, song, myth, fairy tale, mutated war cry
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>these potent signs are sneaking in the work “strlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger within,” it is not just a lss="trms">historical dreamscape<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="prgrph">-the masked actors on lss="trms">stage have taken a venom (becoming faceless engravers) to cross into the next level of temporal experience <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss='qstn'>?lss='qstn'>?lss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-muted rage and ecstasy indeterminacy lss="trms">positioned as creeping towards the midnight of moving lss='and'>& no longer moving... (as humanlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> conflicting ways of being human; to acknowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge human lss='and'>& violence;)


<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss="trms">travel<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>
visiting an alchemy of domestic proclamations (homes) with its own lethal conlss="trms">sortiums of drives (conversations); visiting sites of pure participation, the most savage, the most lss="trms">modern, creating a lss="trms">respond characterized as both ultra-alertness and inlss="trms">somnia of anticipation (acts by which the future can be nailed down) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> becoming a ls clss='strcls'>*ls>faceless engraverls clss='strcls'>*ls> (to remain fugitive and errant <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a course of action lss="trms">supposing a discontinuity that must be overcome in order to define a lss="trms">trajectory)
(lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia are capable of being) bodies fully engaged in perspectival lss="trms">communication and battles of will, provided with lss="trms">affect and capacities, capable of knowing lss="trms">different things, types of lss="trms">relations they entered into <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? poltergeist



<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>research<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>

lss="trms">trap <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> omen
lava <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> ice

<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•unstable space
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•process <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> performance <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> meeting <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦dinner <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>transactionls clss='strcls'>*ls> (what did you learn from the dinner that you bringlss='qstn'>?)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦invite (exchangelss='qstn'>?lss='qstn'>?lss='qstn'>?)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦respect lss='and'>& resist
lsts>
lrg>
now<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•something need to be named
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•something need to be lss="trms">staged
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(something need to be styled)
lsts>

lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem's model<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
you go through 5 minutes of hell then you arrive and unleash all your powers (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> talk about lss="trms">questions, art, lss="trms">history, self, etc.) then go there and perform together

<lrg clss="large lg26" stl="font-size:101%">
contract of misunderstanding the “dance” (proposed by lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia)
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='qstn'>?!<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">categorically dance is misunderstood, dinner is understood


the rawness and minimalism of the performance <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc>lss='qstn'>?!<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> richness and lss="trms">density of the research
(“<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc>lss='qstn'>?!<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>” <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">question of referencelss='qstn'>?)

(not to make the performance lss="trms">mimetic)lss='qstn'>?
(but make it mnemonic <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> designed to aid the lss="trms">memory)lss='qstn'>?
(but not anticipatory <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> omen)



for lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of dlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerlss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of deathlss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of transformation of perspective (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> change of perspective)lss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>

<lrg clss="large lg14" stl="font-size:109%"> chronically unstable bodies (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> mesopotamian)
lss="trms">anthropolss="trms">morphism manifest in distorted corporeal forms and appendages ضميمه

a lss="trms">world conceived of inherently volatile (bodieslss='qstn'>?) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> site of subjectivity

intentional activation (lss='qstn'>?) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">affective capacities (in...lss='qstn'>?)

lss="trms">trap <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> operate along scale

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entropy <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> atrophy
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•entropy<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> energy no longer available for doing mechanical work (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> random <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? violence)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•atrophy<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the lss="trms">material, sensory labor of attending to loss, ls clss='strcls'>***ls>labor of looking at damagels clss='strcls'>***ls>
lsts> wasting away; withering; decrease in size caused by disuse
the feeling of being in the middle of something dirty, inevitable, watching it unlss="trms">fold
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>deculturation<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> making a culture ‘previous'<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
(<lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> the imapct of capitalism/colonialism on indigenous)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>nightmare image of lss="trms">social entropy<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> destablizing effects of non-meaning (<lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> nonlss="trms">animal Udyr lss="trms">monster) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (relss="trms">presenting as) existential-cultural atrophy
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="nms">Cinderella doesn't experience atrophy after insult upon insult <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="nms">Bambi's lss="trms">memory<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

transculturalism <lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> “seeing oneself in the other”
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">language and lss="trms">materiality lss="trms">interact within an unstable locus of lss="trms">historicityls clss='strcls'>*ls> (lss="trms">specific lss="trms">historical conditions) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a european model of conviviality<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> lss="trms">modern globalism <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> reinventing of the new common culture /humanism <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc>lgc> coalescence<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> meeting, lss="trms">intermingling of lss="trms">different people and lss="trms">species and cultures and goods <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> could be damaging and unintentional, hurting the lss="trms">world<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> decay, emergent, atrophy, new identities, crisis in lss="trms">language, confusing boundaries, challenges of life,,,<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

(olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of bad feeling <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>) looking at<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•damaged bodies
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•damaged subjectivities
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•damaged lss="trms">communities
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•damaged lss="trms">relations <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> Udyr lss="trms">monster
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•damaged lss="trms">ecologies
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•damaged lss="trms">histories <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> inlss="trms">somnia
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
(lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia) is there (only) death at the end of entropylss='qstn'>?
sequence of events from the point of view of plague lss="trms">narrative
extermination <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> determination, laws of identity, repetition

the lss="trms">material despair of a colonial capital lss="trms">modern condition leading in high speed to the entropy of cultural-individual ethics, under the overwhelming weight of tangible misery <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> cognize the immediate lss="trms">material urgency of the endlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered subjectivity



<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>faceless<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>
nonlss="trms">animal <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> nonhuman <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> nonlss="trms">animal <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> destabilizing effects
with their flexible plasticity, has an issue with appearance <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> subjectivity's disaslss="trms">sociation from the lss="trms">world
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>in no (or which) calculus of assurance are they movinglss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>


ruined main body (of the performance)
ruin is (a lss="trms">fictional being) adding additional variety to lss="trms">technical being (frontier lss="trms">technologies) of Norway
lss="prgrph">-obsolescence (and why not adjustmentlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> extremist lss="trms">position <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> to emerge fanatically from the ruins)<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(can we use our lss="trms">imagination not for lss="trms">world scale future speculation, and rather for small adjustment of this spacelss='qstn'>?)
lss="prgrph">-give expression and meaning to the lss="trms">material culture


<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>landscape<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>
using it in the performance<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a lens that refuses the abstraction of elements lss="trms">relation in a vacuum (as its optics, not a Blickmaschin)
show us<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> big lss="trms">stories take their form from seemingly minor lss="trms">contingencies, alss="trms">symmetrical encounters, and moments of indeterminacy

(with “strlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger within” <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? ‘desire within'<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>) are we at the space of lss="trms">complainlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> dislss="trms">positions of Beschwerde
a form of protest <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (disenfranchized lss="trms">language of) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>mutated ragels clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> always innocent <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">agent of delivery
(protest part of) the proud and brutal lss="trms">history of break-out syntax of civic lss="trms">responsibility (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> adjustment)

rage lss='and'>& ecstasy

<lrg clss="large lg18" stl="font-size:118%"> ruin <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> doom <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> rage <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> innocence <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> delivery<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> performance


<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>ruin<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>
we can and should ls clss='strcls'>***ls>navigate the ruinls clss='strcls'>***ls>
(navigate <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> asset-production)
lss="prgrph">-capitalss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (owning the lss="trms">rhetoric of progress) telling us / teach us to ignore ruins (in the making)
lss="prgrph">-is there life in ruinlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>l clss="ppl">Tsingl><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> place of unsettled identities, ls clss='strcls'>*ls>in it each of us become ourselves with the help of a less-than ideal collaborationls clss='strcls'>*ls>

bring your curiosity


contaminated diversity <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> doom<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a form of missing that which is contaminated, (an lss="trms">affect typical of lss="nms">Tehran,) one has lost the pulse of the lss="trms">world<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
(hard to clasify)
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>cultures and lss="trms">species that don't adjust well to distlss="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbancels clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> we shouldn't lose hope on them)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>**ls>precarious survivalls clss='strcls'>**ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> in order to live you need help, always subject to the indeterminacy of self and other's transformations (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> MacGyver selfish gene lss="trms">story) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="frds">Sina and lss="frds scrmbld">Agnes hiking in the need for sticks to walk<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc>lss='qstn'>? “kinds” and “types” emerge; and you need multiple forms of curiosity


ls clss='strcls'>*ls>neoclassical economics (which is today's economic model) (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> lss="trms">modern economy)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•theory of supply and lss="trms">demand
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•theory of rational individual choice <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> maximize utility and profit (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> lss="trms">methodological individuation<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “motivation/action of individual lss="trms">agents <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">causal accounts of lss="trms">social”)
lsts> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>population genetics (study of evolution from the genetics point of view) (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> evolutionary synthesis <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="trms">modern biology)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•adaptation
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•speciation
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•population
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•structure
lsts> <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>formed in late 19th century and came to power in early 20th century to redefine lss="trms">modern knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> “survival<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>fighting for oneself against others” (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> The 100 TV series popular fantasies of survival <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> what does it take to stay alive<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> ls clss='strcls'>**ls>conquest and expansionls clss='strcls'>**ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> selfish gene (theory of individuals not effected by encounters, they use encounters, but not changed by them)
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> ‘what does it take to stay alive’ could be a ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">matter of finding livable collaborationsls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls>working across lss="trms">differencels clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>->lgc> we don't know who we are, until we lss="trms">interact across lss="trms">difference at multiple levels <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>l clss="ppl">Tsingl><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>**ls>identities are formed in lss="trms">histories of encountersls clss='strcls'>**ls>

neoclassical economics theories<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•supply and lss="trms">demand
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•rational individual choice <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> maximize utility and profit (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> lss="trms">methodological individuation<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “motivation/action of individual lss="trms">agents <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">causal accounts of lss="trms">social”)
lsts> lss="prgrph">-

dreams of lss="trms">modernity<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> mobilization of a agricultural cooperative movement <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> industrial disengagement <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> intimacy of family's farm


slow distlss="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance

mode of inquiry<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> take small details and ask big lss="trms">questions with them

living in ruins
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> maybe is a nightmare lss="trms">story
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>l clss="ppl">Tsingl><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> maybe is a mushroom lss="trms">story
(capital/genocide/...)
(destroyed by...)

rats, rabbits, and algae seaweed

your abilites to nurture and tell lss="trms">stories <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>tales<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>life emerging from damaged human comunitiesls clss='strcls'>*ls> (and blasted landscapes) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> not exactly a lss="trms">story of hope (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> towards a better sleep, the “less you know better you sleep” kind of lss="trms">story), lss="trms">stories of displacement and losses (due to war and concentration of wealth in our time)
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>big lss="trms">narrative of progressls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a single lss="trms">world lss="trms">trajectory and time <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>time of surprisels clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> of which “everybody takes part” (ls clss='strcls'>*ls>moving forward togetherls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss='at'>#sci-fi series of transnational crew on a spaceship) ...powerful ways of knowing the lss="trms">world <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc> renaissance<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> (<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>my lss="nms">ajayeb project is about those ways of knowing, lss="trms">stories of what sets the lss="trms">world on motion, such as universalism lss='and'>& cultural relativism)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>building lss="trms">communal lss="trms">agendals clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> (dream of) transculturalism <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> blend lss="trms">communal identities<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia's Norway<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> humans get richer, more efficient, and more make the lss="trms">natural lss="trms">world work for them), is given to us by “men” (that we don't have to follow)

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>progress<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">anthropogentic landscapes haunted by lss="trms">imagined futures

<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>or<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (you might) leave your home and run into a vast new problem

stability is a privilege

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>what islss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> the future of your dreams
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>what arelss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> the nunhumans worth noticing

lss="trms">species that signal “i am available”


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>capitalss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list accumulations <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> insult upon insult upon insult <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> diversity

diversity<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (in Germany, considered archaic and chaotic) collateral damage of improvement, necessory victim of progress


fire, herding, farming,
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> creating niches for hunting and forging
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> messing with (lss="trms">nature)


lss="prgrph">-the lss="trms">question of how much (of human, neighbor, etc.) distlss="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance we can live with
lss="prgrph">-what is to consider other's (lss="trms">species, peasant, etc.) ways of life-making lss="trms">trajectories along ourslss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">world-making (requires this)<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>


the lss="trms">question of niche-making
lss="prgrph">-niches lss="trms">interact with one another

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>alienation<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the ability to stand alone (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> l clss="ppl">Nietzschel>an ethics <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> niche-making entanglement ls clss='strcls'>*ls>always imperfect and continentls clss='strcls'>*ls>)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> (people, things, and lss="trms">species become) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>assets<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> mobiles that can be moved from their lifelss="trms">worlds to be exchanged elsewhere<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>everything else is waste (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> eating others)
<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> progress<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> search for assets <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> art<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> unalienated critical work, ls clss='strcls'>***ls>reciprocal capturels clss='strcls'>***ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>>lgc> tumble <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> transcend one another, or bow down, lss="trms">question of lss="trms">integration<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>niche<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> adjusted timing lss='and'>& quality, small lss="trms">stories, convexe,
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> house <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> has foundation
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> your monument
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> building

lrg>lbrkr stl="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................lbrkr>

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>title<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="trms">ecologies of nothingnessls clss='strcls'>***ls>

premise of my lss="trms">lecture<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ls clss='strcls'>*ls>all places are polluted and difficultls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•‘abuse of lss="trms">language’ is every time you open your mouth
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the lss="trms">social always always inlss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes nonhuman
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•there is no encounter without the contractual
lsts>
..and i can't tell grave from garden

lss="prgrph">-perhaps i have been unconsciously working on the lss="trms">question of “why are we herelss='qstn'>?” or “am i herelss='qstn'>?”
lss="prgrph">-cartographies of thinking<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>&<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>how i am inscribed in them
(itineraries i am stuck with)
going to a place <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> embrace it as a site
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> always i have a resistance to where i am<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the ways we lose a sense of place <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> displacement
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the ways we experience livability through places
lsts> (has to do with my own broken/corrupt/fubar link with lss="trms">ancestry <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> only “your people” can show you how to lss="trms">imagine it, the center/home)

transportation <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>traumatic lss='and'>& distruptive<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> transformation

time of surprise <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> nonlss="trms">animal (udyr)
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">nature-culture patchworks
lss="prgrph">-perspectival and performative
lss="prgrph">-contaminative and lss="trms">communicative
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>fantastic and real visionls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lss="prgrph">-things that don't fit together, yet, there ls clss='strcls'>*ls>arels clss='strcls'>*ls> together <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">sym (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> bifurcation) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> awkward lss="trms">relations lss='and'>& lss="trms">interrupting lss="trms">categories
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(necrophobia)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">schizophrenic lss="trms">relations to...
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•deconstruction of lss="trms">presence...
lsts>
(for you there is also) ls clss='strcls'>***ls>many fantastically large set of contexts within which to say “yes”ls clss='strcls'>***ls>

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:130%"> (l clss="ppl">Tsingl>'s) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>contaminated diversityls clss='strcls'>*ls> (complicated, ugly, humbling) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> ‘endlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered lss="trms">species’ and cultures (innocent victims of human progress)<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="prgrph">-implicates survivors in lss="trms">histories of greed, damage, and destruction <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> cacophony of troubled lss="trms">stories <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>might<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> help to learn something about the cultural and lss="trms">natural lss="trms">histories at stake
lss="prgrph">-difficult to lss="trms">love and relate

joint organs <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>part plant, part fungus<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> lss="trms">interlss="trms">species phisiology <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>mushroomls clss='strcls'>*ls>



ls clss='strcls'>*ls>tumble<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> falll down as if collapsing (from uplss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right lss="trms">position), thrown together (in mess, and very difficult to rewind)
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> transcend
<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> entropy

<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•bodies tumble into bodies <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">monsters
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">histories tumble into lss="trms">histories <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ghosts
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">stories tumble into lss="trms">stories <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures
lsts>
(lss="trms">material lifelss="trms">world tumble into) forests tumble into lss="trms">fables tumble into politics tumble into ...

ls clss='strcls'>***ls>dispersal lss='and'>& entanglementls clss='strcls'>***ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•dispersal <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> shattered, torn, broken, dispersed, made plss="trms">articulate, whisked away on the breeze (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> smoke, Urashima turning into particls, dud to cough with سرفه sorfe) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> time is crossed out ويرانه
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•entanglement <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> patchwork, care, weave, (together, reconnected, acknowledging care and entanglement) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Kirsten<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> time of the hut کاشانه
lsts> <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> “&” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss='qstn'>?lss='qstn'>?lss='qstn'>? lss="trms">storieslss='qstn'>? reciprocal capture <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> immanent new modes of existing (in damage and loss) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> lss="frds">Sina<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> time (and things) are diffractivelly/lss="trms">differentially constituted


as humans we also have these qualities<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•our plasticity
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•our ability to be lss="trms">affected
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•our ability to hybridize
lsts>

(lss="trms">modern human activity, burning man insults <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc>) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">monsters<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="nms">ajayeb-e lss="trms">wonders of lss="trms">symbiosis (threats of lss="trms">ecological disruption, multilss="trms">species entanglement)
(l clss="ppl">Tsingl>, a useful figure to think with <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc>)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•they help to pay attention to (ancient lss="trms">chimeric) entanglement
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•they point to lss="trms">monstrosity of man
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•they point toward life's lss="trms">symbiotic entanglement across bodies
lsts> lss="trms">monsters<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">nature suddenly unfamiliar (acting like udyr)

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>ghosts<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> phantoms inside <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>your<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> (lss="trms">natural) lss="trms">history, layered temporalities of living and dying (<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>shape<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> landscapes), creatures of ambivalent entanglement <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (help us lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>life's enmeshment in landscapesls clss='strcls'>*ls>

<lrg clss="large lg34" stl="font-size:131%">
suffering from the ill of another lss="trms">species (or people)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•bacteria inside (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> pollution, radiation)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•people next door (<lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> war, politics)
lsts> <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> this is the condition of lss="trms">anthropolss="trms">cene entanglement



<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>productive lss="trms">horror of our civil performance<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss="frds scrmbld">Kirsten, lss="frds">Sina, lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia:<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

temporalities of ruin, body, optics
                   |     |     |
       matrix of rage, lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, desire

rage (violently lss="trms">affective contact)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ghosts<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem and lss="frds scrmbld">Mia's performance <lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> “big lss="trms">story"<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ls clss='strcls'>**ls>lss="trms">histories tumbled into lss="trms">historiesls clss='strcls'>**ls> (“ghosts” <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> bad death <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> settler colonialism <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> expansive capitalism <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> they brought with them a peculiar kind of time<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> looking straight ahead to the future <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> optimization lss='and'>& salvation of a ls clss='strcls'>*ls>single lss="trms">pastls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ruthless ambition lss='and'>& <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms">modernity's time:<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> metronomic lss="trms">synchrony 🕓)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•animating feral and partial connections
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•remind us of an ls clss='strcls'>*ls>impossible lss="trms">presentls clss='strcls'>*ls> (that we live in)
lsts> ls clss='strcls'>*ls> (lss="trms">embodied) lss="trms">contingency, alss="trms">symmetry, indeterminacy ls clss='strcls'>*ls>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•hauntings (are not imlss="trms">material!) <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> presumptive absence (presumed in the absence)
lsts>
lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">monsters<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Kirsten's objects <lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> small lss="trms">stories, little niches with ghostly clss="trms">ontours (like a car's tire) <lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> things growing in abundant<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ls clss='strcls'>**ls>bodies tumbled into bodiesls clss='strcls'>**ls> (“lss="trms">monsters” <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> assets and wastes (lss="trms">animal entanglement with the burning man) <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> bad lss="trms">symbiosis)
lsts> ls clss='strcls'>*ls> unlss="trms">spectacular afterlife of discarded things ls clss='strcls'>*ls> (debris of capitalss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list waste)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•weaving magical figures, conjuring lss="trms">fictions
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•constant speculation, that are fed and touched, reparative and tender
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•textured, formful, colorful
lsts> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> things that evoke or capture feelings and lss="trms">responses <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> to lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure out lss="trms">relational lss="trms">responses

desire (superlss="trms">position)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> optics<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (a form of distance) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds">Sina's lss="trms">stories <lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> superlss="trms">position <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms">different scales<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> of dispersed times <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> unruly temporalities<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, multiple practice of knowing smallbig spacetime lss="trms">mattering<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ls clss='strcls'>**ls>lss="trms">positions tumbled into lss="trms">positionsls clss='strcls'>**ls> (tumbled into politics<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> some lss="trms">instruments of seeing producing perspectives are more guilty than others)
lsts> ls clss='strcls'>*ls> (dislss="trms">embodied) multiple practices of knowing <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> landscapes<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> arrangement of life and afterlife, space that grows from ‘endings’ <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>lgc> ‘death of’(s) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>>lgc> contaminated (lss="trms">stories/diversities)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> diagram<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> http://lss="nms">ajayeb.net/lss='qstn'>?q=rationalizable
(lss="frds">Sina performing) diffractive optics of knowing <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> ongoing lss="trms">articulation <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> perspective<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>


<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•i shouldn't be talking, opening this
lsts> |
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•relss="trms">membrance <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="nms">Bambi's mother studies <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>what if relss="trms">membering is something totally lss="trms">different than “lost lss="trms">member"<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
lsts> |
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•fox lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">animal lss="trms">trap<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦perception <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>lss="trms">rhetorical perception, evil perception, etc.<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure 🌀 can't stop following, lss="trms">trap<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> nearby-ness, becoming bodily, engaged in perspectival game and will <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> fox's lss="trms">relation to the forest <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>he is suspicious and rend <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured into desiring lss='and'>& trustingls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> we bring our lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures and needs towards each other, (sometimes it is) critique is an art that tangles with what you are proposing, like fox in a lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure (octopus is much better with lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures than fox)<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst3">◾prolss="trms">positions
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst3">◾abstractions <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (i lss="trms">love) ideas<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> to animate humans, lss="trms">erotic lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure for soul <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">morphic attentionls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lsts> |
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•omen <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> potent sign of alarm
lsts> |
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•evil <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>lss="trms">category crossing lss="trms">monsters <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> lss="nms">ajayeb's context of evil<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, force of liberation, beauty, complexity<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
lsts> |
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•Ursula's sea (from little mermaid)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦the way she says “yes” <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>multisensorial call “yes” and “more"<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦her lss="trms">laughter <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>develish perception, perceptual lss="trms">joke, joy of corrupting her morality <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> her heroism<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> who the hero is and how to live happily ever after<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦fish-lss="trms">story <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> aqua culture
lsts> |
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•Ursula l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>La Guinl> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> Urashima lss="trms">story
lsts> |
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•finish with evil lss="trms">laughter
lsts>

(follow the departure from ‘evil’ to ‘misunderstanding’ or ‘perspective’ in Disney's animated movies)


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms">according to ls clss='strcls'>*ls>creation lss="trms">ancestral dreamingsls clss='strcls'>*ls>(<lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> founding lss="trms">ancestors):<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> shape-shifter (are not only haunted, but also are) creators of biotic life, founders of kin groups (of humans and ghosts)

lrg>lbrkr stl="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................lbrkr>

the wind (of...lss='qstn'>?) carries ghosts<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>signs of lss="trms">past ways of life still charged in the lss="trms">present ... lss="trms">stories of those winds as they blow over haunted landscapes ... ghosts are the traces of more-than-human lss="trms">histories through which lss="trms">ecologies are made and unmade
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>haunted <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">presence of lss="trms">past
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>landscapes <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> arrangement of living spaces
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>ghosts <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> disturb us in their indeterminacy


lss="prgrph">-cracked cement
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">worlds have ended many times before lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem
lss="prgrph">-which ‘endings’ come with which ‘death of’lss='qstn'>?
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a leaf
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a city
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a friendship
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a small promise
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a small lss="trms">story
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts> ls clss='strcls'>***ls>endings <lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>grow<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc> landscapesls clss='strcls'>***ls>


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>title<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
shadow biology

lrg>

lss="frds scrmbld">Jassem<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> make sami complicated

project's two lss="trms">categories<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">nature <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">perverse
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•culture <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> endlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered (<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>thereforelss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> innocent, pure)
lsts>
lss="prgrph">-homesick
lss="prgrph">-seasick
lss="prgrph">-sickened in home

چیقزستن

شخصیت توصیفی <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> descriptivelss='qstn'>? (drift in describing)
شخصیت حاشیه‌ای <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> digressive نامربوط  پرت, excursions superficial relevances, off the subject <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> انحرافی<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
شخصیت خود محور <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> rotating along the axis of ego, tangled subjective schemas with objective reality, talking regardless of the lss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>egoist<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> vampire without self-reflection <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> lss="trms">narcissistic personality<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
شخصیت مقایسه‌ای <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> comparinglss='qstn'>?
<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> (always asking) how do you make a subject of conversation out of what you are concerned with <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> make ‘your subjects’ into ‘subjects of conversation’ with others <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> موضوع
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•غیر قابل حل کردن <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•تفکیک کردن
lsts> (مطرح کردن به صورت که تکه تکه کرد)


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>research<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> problem of entering a culture from outside


points of the lss="trms">lecture<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lss="prgrph">-a nano-expose
lss="prgrph">-of kicking off this...
lss="prgrph">-not dramatically pitched at you
lss="prgrph">-cartography of collapse and lss="trms">sublime
lss="prgrph">-coming down or crushing down the watching post
lss="prgrph">-(disclosures and) promises of frontier lss="trms">technology
lss="prgrph">-


ghosts of the project<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
/poltergeist <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> not really capable of knowing lss="trms">different things and lss="trms">different types of lss="trms">relations they are entered into, bad at perspectival lss="trms">communication
/Hamlet's father <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> wanting you to relss="trms">member <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> revenge
/lss="nms">Cinderella <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> doesn't show any psychological lss="trms">symptoms (she has no psychologylss='qstn'>?), she is not the master of anything, not even her name
/ruin <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> place of unsettled identities

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> lss="trms">questions of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•doom <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> adjustment, management<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “contamination<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>end”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•subject surging to bear an lss="trms">affect, subject who goes with the flow in an intoxicated moment
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•traumatic realism
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(endlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>==lgc>>lgc>) survival<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> fighting for “your lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right against others”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•less-than ideal livable collaborations
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•constructing lss="trms">interest (not that ‘you want to know’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">historically lss="trms">crafted and lss="trms">naturalized modalities of “knowing more”)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">contingent (<lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> lss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, abstraction, fragile <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> they create lss="trms">interested bodies<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>) <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? analytical <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> they create dislss="trms">embodied subjeclsts>[...]