[...]e most ="trms">modern, creating a ="trms">respond characterized as both ultra-alertness and in="trms">somnia of anticipation (acts by which the future can be nailed down) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> becoming a ='strcls'>*faceless engraver='strcls'>* (to remain fugitive and errant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a course of action ="trms">supposing a discontinuity that must be overcome in order to define a ="trms">trajectory)
(="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia are capable of being) bodies fully engaged in perspectival ="trms">communication and battles of will, provided with ="trms">affect and capacities, capable of knowing ="trms">different things, types of ="trms">relations they entered into ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? poltergeist



='lgc'>--research='lgc'>--

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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ="lsts lst1">•unstable space
="lsts lst1">•process ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= performance ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= meeting ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
="lsts lst2">◦dinner ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*transaction='strcls'>* (what did you learn from the dinner that you bring='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst2">◦invite (exchange='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst2">◦respect ='and'>& resist


now='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•something need to be named
="lsts lst1">•something need to be ="trms">staged
="lsts lst1">•(something need to be styled)


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


contract of misunderstanding the “dance” (proposed by ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia)
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">categorically dance is misunderstood, dinner is understood


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

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



for ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of death='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what is the sign of transformation of perspective (='lgc'>=/= change of perspective)='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•


="large lg1" stl="font-size:129%"> 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'><='lgc'>== ="trms">modern globalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reinventing of the new common culture /humanism ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> coalescence='lgc'>: meeting, ="trms">intermingling of ="trms">different people and ="trms">species and cultures and goods ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> could be damaging and unintentional, hurting the ="trms">world='lgc'>: decay, emergent, atrophy, new identities, crisis in ="trms">language, confusing boundaries, challenges of life,,,='lgc'>]

(o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of bad feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) looking at='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•damaged bodies
="lsts lst1">•damaged subjectivities
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">communities
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Udyr ="trms">monster
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">ecologies
="lsts lst1">•damaged ="trms">histories ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> in="trms">somnia
="lsts lst1">•

(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia) is there (only) death at the end of entropy='qstn'>?
sequence of events from the point of view of plague ="trms">narrative
extermination ='lgc'>+ determination, laws of identity, repetition

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



='lgc'>--faceless='lgc'>--
non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonhuman ='lgc'>+ non='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=animal'>animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destabilizing effects
with their flexible plasticity, has an issue with appearance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjectivity's disas="trms">sociation from the ="trms">world
='lgc'>[in no (or which) calculus of assurance are they moving='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


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


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

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

rage ='and'>& ecstasy

ruin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> innocence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> delivery='lgc'>: performance


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

bring your curiosity

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%">
contaminated diversity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= doom='lgc'>: a form of missing that which is contaminated, (an ="trms">affect typical of ="nms">Tehran,) one has lost the pulse of the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
(hard to clasify)
='strcls'>*cultures and ="trms">species that don't adjust well to dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we shouldn't lose hope on them)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**precarious survival='strcls'>** ='lgc'>: in order to live you need help, always subject to the indeterminacy of self and other's transformations (='lgc'>=/= MacGyver selfish gene ="trms">story) ='lgc'>[="frds">Sina and ="frds scrmbld">Agnes hiking in the need for sticks to walk='lgc'>], ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? “kinds” and “types” emerge; and you need multiple forms of curiosity


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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> neoclassical economics theories='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•supply and ="trms">demand
="lsts lst1">•rational individual choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maximize utility and profit (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">methodological individuation='lgc'>: “motivation/action of individual ="trms">agents ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">causal accounts of ="trms">social”)
="prgrph">-

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


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

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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:153%"> living in ruins
='lgc'>--="frds scrmbld">Jassem='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maybe is a nightmare ="trms">story
='lgc'>--="ppl">Tsing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maybe is a mushroom ="trms">story
(capital/genocide/...)
(destroyed by...)

rats, rabbits, and algae seaweed

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