[...] 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'>==> 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)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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'>==> 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 ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animals. or to ="trms">imagine a pet store that sells both
="lsts lst1">•coalescence ="trms">story='lgc'>: a cat-feeding fad that requires that cats eat nothing but goldfinches to give the cats a sleeker coat, while goldfinches become ="trms">seriously end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered because of the program ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*both cats and goldfinches are changed in the encounter='strcls'>*

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:119%"> ...if one ="trms">travels too far down the phylogenetic tree, people gradually shed their faith that there is experience at all

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

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

“our own experience provides the basic ="trms">material for our ="trms">imagination, whose range is therefore limited” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nagel's view remains secular and in the bounds of his disciplinary field. (="trms">religious studies, theology, ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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'>==> ="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 ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:105%"> 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'><== 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'>: ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal) bad or corrupted ='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal, non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal, ="trms">monster, (rootless existence)

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



='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;)


='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'>==> 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


="large lg6" stl="font-size:135%"> now='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•something need to be named
="lsts lst1">•something need to be ="trms">staged
="lsts lst1">•(something need to be styled)

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="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'>==> omen)

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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='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>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'><== ="trms">modern globalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reinventing of the new common culture /humanism ='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'>==> Udyr ="trms">monster
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">ecologies
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">histories ='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



='lgc'>--faceless='lgc'>--
non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonhuman ='lgc'>+ non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='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'>==> 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'>==> ="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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ruin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> innocence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delivery='lgc'>: performance


="large lg14" stl="font-size:121%"> ='lgc'>--ruin='lgc'>--
we can [...]