[...]trophy
='lgc'>[="nms">Cinderella doesn't experience atrophy after insult upon insult ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Bambi's ="trms">memory='lgc'>]

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

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

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

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

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='lgc'>--faceless='lgc'>--
non='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'>*

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

rats, rabbits, and algae seaweed

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

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

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

stability is a privilege

='lgc'>[what is='qstn'>?='lgc'>] the future of your dreams
='lgc'>[what are='qstn'>?='lgc'>] the nunhumans worth noticing

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


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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="trms">ecologies of nothingness='strcls'>***

premise of my ="trms">lecture='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*all places are polluted and difficult='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•‘abuse of ="trms">language’ is every time you open your mouth
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">social always always in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes nonhuman
="lsts lst1">•there is no encounter without t[...]