[...]nsider other's (="trms">species, peasant, etc.) ways of life-making ="trms">trajectories along ours='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world-making (requires this)='lgc'>]


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 the contractual

..and i can't tell grave from garden

="large lg1" stl="font-size:147%"> ="prgrph">-perhaps i have been unconsciously working on the ="trms">question of “why are we here='qstn'>?” or “am i here='qstn'>?”
="prgrph">-cartographies of thinking='lgc'>--&='lgc'>--how i am inscribed in them
(itineraries i am stuck with)
going to a place ='lgc'>=/= embrace it as a site
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> always i have a resistance to where i am='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ways we lose a sense of place ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> displacement
="lsts lst1">•the ways we experience livability through places
(has to do with my own broken/corrupt/fubar link with ="trms">ancestry ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- only “your people” can show you how to ="trms">imagine it, the center/home)

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

time of surprise ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> non="trms">animal (udyr)
="prgrph">-="trms">nature-culture patchworks
="prgrph">-perspectival and performative
="prgrph">-contaminative and ="trms">communicative
='strcls'>*fantastic and real vision='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-things that don't fit together, yet, there ='strcls'>*are='strcls'>* together ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sym (='lgc'>=/= bifurcation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> awkward ="trms">relations ='and'>& ="trms">interrupting ="trms">categories
="lsts lst1">•(necrophobia)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">schizophrenic ="trms">relations to...
="lsts lst1">•deconstruction of ="trms">presence...

(for you there is also) ='strcls'>***many fantastically large set of contexts within which to say “yes”='strcls'>***

(="ppl">Tsing's) ='strcls'>*contaminated diversity='strcls'>* (complicated, ugly, humbling) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ‘end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ="trms">species’ and cultures (innocent victims of human progress)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-implicates survivors in ="trms">histories of greed, damage, and destruction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cacophony of troubled ="trms">stories ='lgc'>--might='lgc'>='lgc'>--> help to learn something about the cultural and ="trms">natural ="trms">histories at stake
="prgrph">-difficult to ="trms">love and relate

joint organs ='lgc'>{part plant, part fungus='lgc'>} ="trms">inter="trms">species phisiology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*mushroom='strcls'>*



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

="lsts lst1">•bodies tumble into bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">monsters
="lsts lst1">•="trms">histories tumble into ="trms">histories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghosts
="lsts lst1">•="trms">stories tumble into ="trms">stories ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures

(="trms">material life="trms">world tumble into) forests tumble into ="trms">fables tumble into politics tumble into ...

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


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


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

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


suffering from the ill of another ="trms">species (or people)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•bacteria inside (='lgc'><='lgc'>== pollution, radiation)
="lsts lst1">•people next door (='lgc'><='lgc'>== war, politics)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the condition of ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene entanglement

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

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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> rage (violently ="trms">affective contact)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghosts='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia's performance ='lgc'>~ “big ="trms">story"='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**="trms">histories tumbled into ="trms">histories='strcls'>** (“ghosts” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== bad death ='lgc'><='lgc'>== settler colonialism ='lgc'>+ expansive capitalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they brought with them a peculiar kind of time='lgc'>: looking straight ahead to the future ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> optimization ='and'>& salvation of a ='strcls'>*single ="trms">past='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ruthless ambition ='and'>& ='lgc'>[="trms">modernity's time:='lgc'>] metronomic ="trms">synchrony 🕓)
="lsts lst1">•animating feral and partial connections
="lsts lst1">•remind us of an ='strcls'>*impossible ="trms">present='strcls'>* (that we live in)
='strcls'>* (="trms">embodied) ="trms">contingency, a="trms">symmetry, indeterminacy ='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•hauntings (are not im="trms">material!) ='lgc'>: presumptive absence (presumed in the absence)

="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">monsters='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Kirsten's objects ='lgc'>~ small ="trms">stories, little niches with ghostly c="trms">ontours (like a car's tire) ='lgc'>~ things growing in abundant='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**bodies tumbled into bodies='strcls'>** (“="trms">monsters” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== assets and wastes (="trms">animal entanglement with the burning man) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- bad ="trms">symbiosis)
='strcls'>* un="trms">spectacular afterlife of discarded things ='strcls'>* (debris of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list waste)
="lsts lst1">•weaving magical figures, conjuring ="trms">fictions
="lsts lst1">•constant speculation, that are fed and touched, reparative and tender
="lsts lst1">•textured, formful, colorful
='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure='lgc'>: things that evoke or capture feelings and ="trms">responses ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure out ="trms">relational ="trms">responses

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


="lsts lst1">•i shouldn't be talking, opening this
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="lsts lst1">•re="trms">membrance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Bambi's mother studies ='lgc'>{what if re="trms">membering is something totally ="trms">different than “lost ="trms">member"='lgc'>}
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="lsts lst1">•fox ="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animal ="trms">trap='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦perception ='lgc'>{="trms">rhetorical perception, evil perception, etc.='lgc'>}
="lsts lst2">◦="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure 🌀 can't stop following, ="trms">trap='lgc'>: nearby-ness, becoming bodily, engaged in perspectival game and will ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fox's ="trms">relation to the forest ='lgc'>[he is suspicious and rend ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured into desiring ='and'>& trusting='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: we bring our ="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 ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure (octopus is much better with ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures than fox)='lgc'>]
="lsts lst3">◾pro="trms">positions
="lsts lst3">◾abstractions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (i ="trms">love) ideas='lgc'>: to animate humans, ="trms">erotic ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure for soul ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphic attention='strcls'>*
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="lsts lst1">•omen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potent sign of alarm
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="lsts lst1">•evil ='lgc'>{="trms">category crossing ="trms">monsters ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="nms">ajayeb's context of evil='lgc'>], force of liberation, beauty, complexity='lgc'>}
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="lsts lst1">•Ursula's sea (from little mermaid)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦the way she says “yes” ='lgc'>{multisensorial call “yes” and “more"='lgc'>}
="lsts lst2">◦her ="trms">laughter ='lgc'>{develish perception, perceptual ="trms">joke, joy of corrupting her morality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ her heroism='lgc'>: who the hero is and how to live happily ever after='lgc'>]='lgc'>}
="lsts lst2">◦fish-="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> aqua culture
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="lsts lst1">•Ursula ="ppl">La Guin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Urashima ="trms">story
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="lsts lst1">•finish with evil ="trms">laughter

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(follow the departure from ‘evil’ to ‘misunderstanding’ or ‘per[...]