[...]te knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'>=/= merely general knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)

="ppl">="ppl">Foucault ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intuition cannot ground knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the absolute ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of individual human beings and their ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">histories cannot provide knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of “the human”

Evans-Pritchard ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> witch="trms">craft satisfies the ="trms">demands for an explanation of the singular event='lgc'>: this death, of this individual, in this moment (not death in general)
='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> for Bubandt, witch="trms">craft='lgc'>: reproduction and valorization of this aporia (between the transcendental and the ="trms">="trms">empirical)

James Siegel naming the witch (not only a political ="trms">history but an investigation into the entire ="trms">history of ="trms">anthropological discourse on witch="trms">craft and sorcery)
="prgrph">-he links the crisis of recognition brought on by the collapse of an ="trms">authoritarian state that ='strcls'>*had appropriated for itself the function of recognition='strcls'>*, to the rise of witch="trms">craft accusations, to efforts to name a witch ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> witches and not witch="trms">craft were seen to proliferate after the fall of Suharto
="lsts lst1">•how the labor to designate the source of a menace that exceeds the ="trms">="trms">empirical and that fails to explain the singular is inevitably failed
="lsts lst1">•the misrecognizing belief that eliminating witches could eliminate witch="trms">craft

discern death drive in the very place that there is an effort to escape death

='lgc'>{ radical ="trms">="trms">empiricism='lgc'> = close ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> attentive ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/689012

(two competing conceptions and aspirations,) two paradigms of ="trms">communication='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•an ideal public sphere that recognizes the task of mediation but also requires its effacement
="lsts lst1">•to bypass mediation through apparently immediate forms of speech that range from visual slogans to messianic utterances that can be heard even by the dead (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> frustrated by deferral)

="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>: the ="trms">social s="trms">cene is ="trms">technologically heterogeneous ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> epochal and ="trms">ontological schemata of mediatic displacement must thus be rethought

structure='lgc'>: an eruption of the mediaticity of the medium ="trms">onto the horizon of reflexive consciousness (="ppl">Kittler)

(in still decolonizing nations) the function of mediation has implicitly emerged as an agonistic exchange about the very possibility of exchange (not of deliberation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibility of political re="trms">presentationalism

..stranded in its ="trms">imaginary between the twin phantasms of the mining town in postapartheid South Africa

aspiring to a radical openness and threatened by it...
limits and the contra="trms">dictions of democratic consciousness

environment as a ="trms">monstrous hybrid of statistical hysteria and ="trms">narrative compulsion as well as real violence (that takes its shape under conditions of largely racialized economic inequality)

='lgc'>[i have been working and ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening to that which='lgc'>] call our attention to ='strcls'>***other spaces, identities, and structures of ="trms">obligation='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/= defensive strategies)

cell phones
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological mediums of absent voices
="lsts lst1">•lighting up, buzzing, or ringing
="lsts lst1">•ciphers of a profane immanence
="lsts lst1">•fetishes in which are concealed the ="trms">histories of mining and labor elsewhere
="lsts lst1">•promise contact with elsewhere ='lgc'>+ obstacles to the desire for full ="trms">presence and the performative power of words ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> frustrated desire

a public whose ="trms">membership cannot be known in advance='lgc'>--even when ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary limits are constitutive of its domain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]public sphere='lgc'>: ="trms">social formations enabled by ="trms">technomedia ="trms">phenomena (='lgc'>=/= spaces of rational deliberation and con="trms">sensus making='lgc'>--as in liberal political theory, public sphere characterized by deliberative processes)
='strcls'>*s="trms">cenes of overhearing='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> public speaking makes that overhearing its goal

“migrant pirates of deindustrialization” (speak only to threaten) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> liberal op="trms">position between ="trms">language and violence ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">rhetorical grace appropriate to leadership (inauguration speech of Obama, his charisma emanated from his identification with a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteous struggle ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*his being more than himself='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- young artist selflessness syndrome in aspiration with the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right politcal cause='lgc'>])
zamazamas’ il="trms">literacy, not eligible for a public sphere that depends on ="trms">literacy. for without ="trms">literacy, they cannot submit to the law. ='strcls'>*defined in its essence by legality='strcls'>* (sustained by a desired op="trms">position between ="trms">language and violence)

a sig="trms">nature (sign your own name)='lgc'>: a form of ="trms">writing recognizable across all (mainly romanized) ="trms">languages and is the ideal condition of possibility of recognition from within its constitutional order

mimic the address of someone wit charisma (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">authority)


(="ppl">="ppl">Morris on) mediaticity of speech (and not merely of media ="trms">technologies)

="ppl">="ppl">Morris ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of a s="trms">cene (of quotidian exchange) in HIV/AIDS NGO office='lgc'>: a metonym and a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for a kind of South African public sphere that aspires to in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusiveness but is terrorized by its incapacity to know what that opens it up to
="lsts lst1">•arms itself against potentially aggressive others
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narratives of violence work ='strcls'>*to reinforce the sense of necessity='strcls'>* (for a general securitization)
="lsts lst1">•work in the mode of a ='strcls'>**negative meritocracy='strcls'>** (= those who would violate the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of others are to be ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, but no others ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to know in advance who has perpetrated or intends to perpetrate such a violation='qstn'>?)

...in the shadow of ="trms">communicational ="trms">technology's ="trms">fashion industry
...bountiful banality of the ="trms">technologies and artifacts of mass reproducibility

='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lithography ='lgc'>--(superseded by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> photography ='lgc'>--(gives way to)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cinema ='lgc'>--(transformed by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sound ="trms">technology ='lgc'>--(displaced by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">integrated and multiplatform digital media ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
(teleological fantasy='lgc'>:) ="trms">ontologized in epochal schema (these sequences become something more and ="trms">different) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> analog media are said to be displaced by digital media ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> logic of re="trms">presentation gives way to that of information
='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Morris ="trms">questioning) the conflation of media with mediation, which is itself ="trms">symptomatic of both a ="trms">technological determinism and an effort to ="trms">ontologize ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a crises of mediation (not media)='lgc'>: the ="trms">communicative aspiration and the presumptive unity of medium and message in ="trms">language are brought to their limit (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> media ="trms">technologies play a role in this drama, but they do not explain it. ='at'>@OSP ='and'>& ="frds scrmbld">Femke)

="prgrph">-women's understanding of improper English of Zuma's speech='lgc'>: a ="trms">communicational fail that (from their perspective) is as="trms">sociated with illegality, corruption, and violence

(not to embrace) the kind of logocentric ="trms">historiography that ="trms">imagines ="trms">literacy to constitute a secondary mediation of a primal and auto="trms">affective orality

witches='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">technicians of a speech='strcls'>* in which the identity between word and ="trms">world reaches its maximal extent, when the mere utterance of a spell (even when that utterance is non="trms">verbal) is thought to cause things to happen

zamazama's ="trms">literacy='lgc'>: the means for ="trms">communication across ="trms">difference ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the mastery of mediation and thus its effacement (='lgc'>=/= signify the secondary mediation of a primary orality)

...a ="trms">society that is being reconstituted around a commitment to constitutional multi="trms">lingualism and democratic proceduralism

rituals of governmentality
delay and deferral

fantasy of immediacy ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•messianic movements
="lsts lst1">•direct-action politics
="lsts lst1">•various kinds of violence
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">language
="lsts lst1">•hollowed out of ambiguity
="lsts lst1">•pried away from subjectivity
="lsts lst1">•="trms">instrumentalized in slogans and catchphrases (from obsolescent ideological programs)

='strcls'>*violent drive to immediacy='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= direct-action politics)

(more than) the leakage of ="trms">affect into a ritually rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list space

trans="trms">mission and identification needs and secures the appearance of their exteriority

slogan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">traverse the gap between word and deed, convert the difficult tasks of education and redistribution into the clarion call ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> pop songs (anyone can utter these words and in so doing find themselves enthralled by the strange sensation of speaking someone else's words and ="trms">simultaneously experiencing them as one's own)
='strcls'>*slogan='lgc'>: a deeply reified speech (at once vacuous and overfull) at the point were the boundary between ="trms">language and thing threatens to dissolve ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•(its ="trms">communicative function='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*soli="trms">citation of identity among speakers='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•(its primary signification='lgc'>:) the fact of ='strcls'>*collective utterance='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= dialogism)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]slogan='lgc'>: ="trms">litera="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">response to the mundane crises of mediation (in a political rally) ='lgc'>[reduced to the most ="trms">instrumental dimension='lgc'>]

="large lg1" stl="font-size:118%"> the awkward trace of dubious ="trms">literacy (in miners message inscribed on the placard) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resistance into the ="trms">communicative process
who/what speaks='qstn'>?
(case of EFF='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•pidgin, minimal and unambiguous message borders on telegraphic ="trms">code (men miners)
="lsts lst1">•typographically standardized form, graphical form of a chant (women demo) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vocalization of a slogan that anyone can speak ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> resignification and redeployment

(public sphere avowes) necessity of mediation but also of its effacement ='lgc'>=/= short circuiting to which the slogan aspires with ="trms">language that is stripped of ambiguity


messianism='lgc'>: the drive to transcend mediation altogether

(="frds scrmbld">Jassem's mode of) explaining what had happened with all the art of a ="trms">storyteller and truly Spartican ="trms">authority
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[Spartan athlete='lgc'>: marked by simplicity, frugality, or avoidance of luxury and comfort='lgc'>]


(leftist activist='lgc'>:) those who claim better re="trms">presentational capacities (because the re="trms">presentative function has been confused with a governing function) ='lgc'>+ aspiration for something beyond this re="trms">presentation

performance of moral ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteousness

ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion at the threshold of liberation

unconscious mytho="trms">poetic structures

insistence on being clandestine='lgc'> = claim of importance

offering oneself in the role of “leader” in the pursuit of immediacy

strike as an ecstatic experience of collectivity and self-="trms">presencing ='lgc'>=/= self-re="trms">presentation, mediation


="ppl">Marx's view of the role of the individual in ="trms">history, in his Eighteenth Brumaire, that ='strcls'>*the identity of the workers’ ="trms">interests does not automatically become the basis of a sense of ="trms">community='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> workers are blocked in their capacities for self-re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***eloquent appropriation of the workers’ possible but ="trms">interrupted capacity for self-re="trms">presentation='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> messianism ='and'>& ="trms">sublime

(in liberal electoral democratic order='lgc'>:) “having a voice='lgc'> = the mark of political subjectivity” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a very bad de="trms">finition of) power='lgc'>: making oneself heard and heard in a manner to which others must ="trms">respond

(sensation of ="trms">presence and immediacy heightened in) face-to-face ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendent experience of ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that “there be no loss or dissipation between speaking and being heard”

(messianic utterance of) slogan ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> immediacy
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? banishing ambiguity at the expensive of signification

aspiration to immediacy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">communicative fullness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> simple ='strcls'>*op="trms">positional corrective='strcls'>*
a substantialized, corporealized ="trms">figuration of power vs. EFF make themselves into pure proxies

(pedagogy, a horrible and wrong idea of) “perfect trans="trms">mission of intention ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> production of con="trms">sensus”

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

='lgc'>[explosion of accuracies='lgc'>]

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

after death there is='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rumer
="lsts lst1">•afterlife
="lsts lst1">•


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

(Nicholas ="ppl">Shapiro shows in his research on) people in ordinary toxic homes='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*their apprehension of conventionally insensible domestic chemical exposure was informed by sustained attention to barely perceptible alteration of somatic function and atmosphere='strcls'>*

(Sloterdijk, ="ppl">="ppl">Latour, Anderson, ="ppl">Berlant, ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart, ="ppl">Shapiro) to explain body's ="trms">relation to the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ancillary process of being a living body as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•becoming sensitive
="lsts lst1">•="trms">embodying atmospheres
="lsts lst1">•somatically judging environments
="lsts lst1">•becoming corporeal aware of nonhumans
="lsts lst1">•protracted low-level encounter with domestic chemicals ='lgc'>--accumulate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*chemical ="trms">sublime='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (indistinct and distributed harm of) late industrial ="trms">material ="trms">ecologies (='lgc'>=/= enlightenment ="trms">sublime='lgc'>: ="trms">spectacle ="trms">material threat with transcendence of im="trms">material reason)

silent and invisible microe="trms">missions accrue within the envelope of the home ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> residents reckon with how their homes are de="trms">composing into them as they de="trms">compose in their homes

somatic work of the chemically concerned is enmeshed with an ='strcls'>*apprehension of their own bodies that is ="trms">simultaneously ="trms">sensuous and ="trms">epistemological='strcls'>* (='lgc'>~ “bodily knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” ="trms">situated within a process of “bodily reasoning” that tempers not just what one knows but what one becomes with or is estranged from ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= forensic architecture notion of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>])

‘sustained bodily reasoning ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> chemical ="trms">sublime’
="ppl">Shapiro ='lgc'>+ Kim Fortune ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> call for ways to ="trms">differently know and re="trms">imagine our ongoing late industrial ="trms">present, which is marked by deteriorating ="trms">socio="trms">technical ="trms">systems and economic, climate, and infrastructural instability


='strcls'>**somatic susceptibility and ="trms">epistemic capacity='strcls'>** common to human life ='lgc'>--(informed by nonhuman life)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> molecular and ="trms">relational appreciation ='lgc'>--="ppl">Shapiro='lgc'>='lgc'>--> domestically exposed (the ‘chemically wounded’ attuning to their own effects and ="trms">affects ='lgc'>~ discerning the barely perceptible constituents of their environment ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= “deviant ="trms">agents,” diagnosed, resistors='lgc'>]


toxic='lgc'> = potency ='lgc'>--implicate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vulnerability of a living body

years of exposure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> biochemically magnified effects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">semiotically enflamed

="large lg22" stl="font-size:113%"> somatic cognizance

(="ppl">Shapiro on ="trms">affect and ="trms">phenomenological studies of environmental exposure ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) formaldehyde indicators and ="trms">agents of ="trms">social abandonment and precarity

(growing ="trms">literature on) the body as existential, pedagogical, and ethical grounds of (cultures of) ="trms">science

="ppl">Shapiro='lgc'>: “how can expanding the avenues and temporality of sensing yield an appreciation of what many of us are abbreviating from our own sense of the ="trms">world='qstn'>?”

="ppl">Shapiro ethnographically elucidates the ='strcls'>*somatic mode of attention='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bodies are sites for both actively absorbing the ="trms">world and being put into motion by its constituent medley of humans and nonhumans

="prgrph">-becoming with (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
="prgrph">-orienting toward (="ppl">Ahmed)
="prgrph">-bodily reasoning (="ppl">Shapiro)='lgc'>: the dynamic process through which knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of individual spaces of chronic exposure is somatically attained

women's accounts of self-monitoring for bodily dysfunctions (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feminization of body care)
='lgc'>[="ppl">Shapiro discovered='lgc'>] men's active in="trms">difference to slight somatic abnormalities (rejecting the possibility that their bodies wear permeable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> masculine self-image)


olfaction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> take displeasing scents as primary indicators of environmental contamination
='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smell recede from perception over time as they become incorporated into new senatorial norms (sensitivity down-regulates in a process of olfactory adaptation)


microscopic encounters ='lgc'>--sensed='lgc'>='lgc'>--> less nameable and more diffuse sensory practices

exposure='lgc'>: an ="trms">affective space, at the limit of the ="trms">phenomenal, the somatic proceeds and then is entangled with the rational

="large lg10" stl="font-size:132%">
="trms">sublime (in chemistry)='lgc'>: transform from solid to gas bypassing the ="trms">intermediate liquid form

='strcls'>*nuclear ="trms">sublime='strcls'>*
weapons ="trms">scientists felt the blast bore into the being, into their faces, register of the power of the bomb
="trms">spectacular, brutal, and lightening-fast sensorial pummeling, tossing them to the ground
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>*chemical ="trms">sublime='strcls'>*
formaldehyde sedate speed of chemical off-gassing and the regular human breathing; (not signalled by overwhelming sensory stimuli rather) indicated by a ="trms">thickening ="trms">veil of indistinction as perceptual faculties became oc="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded
...the bodywork employed to apprehend the qualities of indoor air

(Masco ='and'>& ="ppl">Kant's privileging of) ="trms">sublimity's cor="trms">relation with public, ="trms">spectacular, and violent events ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Shapiro's ="trms">sublimity='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*profundity and ="trms">density of widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read, private, indistinct, chronic, and fragmented ="trms">phenomena='strcls'>*

chemical ="trms">sublime='lgc'> = انباشت استدلالهای جسمانی accrual of bodily reasoning
irritations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> agitations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> attenuate the effects of vast toxic infrastructure


(masco nuclear) ="trms">sublime ='lgc'>==="trms">translate='lgc'>='lgc'>==> resounding ethical call
chemical ="trms">sublime ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>?

...industry's mobilization of law, ="trms">science, capital


="ppl">Shapiro='lgc'>: we must look at how the ="trms">sublime has brokered ="trms">relations between exposure and the status quo since at least down of the enlightenment

(quintessential of enlightenment project) ="ppl">Kant's ="trms">sublime='lgc'>: the immensity/might first overwhelms our ="trms">imaginative capacity (or indicating the fragility of human body yielding a sense of helplessness and distress) then this feeling is countered and ultimately overcome by reassuring one's self of power of the mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> reason sets humanity apart and above the physical ="trms">world
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">sublime='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">internal turmoil and ="trms">sensuous displeasure is elevated into the delight and superiority of reason='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> humanity's continued progressing

(="ppl">Shapiro ='lgc'>+ Gene Ray='lgc'>: ideological function of the ="trms">aesthetic ="trms">category of the) ="trms">sublime within ="ppl">Kant's critical ="trms">system is ="trms">anxiously bound up with deep ='strcls'>*="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical optimism='strcls'>*

="trms">formulation of ="trms">sublime='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•form (space, time, and intensity) of exposure
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">relation between the supersensible (mind) and the sensible (="trms">matter)
="lsts lst1">•orientational movement (from without to within or vice versa)
="lsts lst1">•political reckoning

='strcls'>*bodily reasoning ='lgc'>=/= object (of ="trms">sublime) held at a distance
='strcls'>*="trms">sublimation of toxicity ='lgc'>=/= mental mastery (over perceived threats)
='strcls'>*amplify ='lgc'>=/= extinguish (the tensions, agitations, dissident potentiality of large-scale hazards)
='strcls'>*coalescing of underrecognized dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbances ='lgc'>=/= compensation
='strcls'>*beginning of a confrontation ='lgc'>=/= resolution

foil of human triumph='lgc'>: “transforming the worst into the best” ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- not possible anymore
...='lgc'>='lgc'>~->='qstn'>? potentiality of living otherwise (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Tsing's contaminated diversity, ="ppl">Chen's queer toxicity)


...in these spaces where ='strcls'>*enduring and knowing='strcls'>* are coterminous, the feeling of a living dead seeped into the margins of life for those with even minimal ="trms">symptoms

="large lg10" stl="font-size:100%">
(chemical ="trms">phenomenology)
molecular cohabitants who physically hold our ="trms">world together also encourage our unravelling='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[="ppl">Shapiro='lgc'>] becoming a pupil of the air ='lgc'>[Sloterdijk='lgc'>] is to attune to the aerostolized ="trms">material culture and more-than-human ="trms">semiotics ='lgc'>[="ppl">Kohn='lgc'>] within which one is immersed
='strcls'>***


chemical ="trms">sublime (does not merely refigure a form of ="trms">sublime in philosophical discourse but) poses an alternative ='strcls'>**schema of eventfulness='strcls'>** (or call to action)

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

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
kulturgeist

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

Zizek - Organs without Bodies. ="ppl">Deleuze and Consequences

(i am still at the title='lgc'>:) in your efforts to make ‘body without organ’ (the emergent, non-hierarchical, in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive, flexible, smart, liquid good object) you might end up creating ‘organ without body’ (="trms">monstrous, hierarchical, ="trms">authoritative, soulless, archaic bad object)

functional ="trms">specificity of organs ='lgc'>=/= to release the de="trms">coded and deterritorialized flows of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]desire='lgc'>: a process of production without reference to any exterior ="trms">agency (='lgc'>--although='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘fascism='lgc'> = desire’)='lgc'>]

an ='thdf'>example of body without organ is the ‘ocean’ for ="frds scrmbld">Marialena
(for ="frds scrmbld">Marialena) ocean ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? fluid women='lgc'>] (an unstratificated, non-="trms">coded flow, sex organs sprout everywhere, no organ is constant as regards either function or ="trms">position) ='lgc'>=/= (male fantasies of) armored body

(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari sug="trms">gest) dismantling of the organism (='lgc'>~ molar organic body) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•hypochondriac body (suffering from ="trms">imaginary ="trms">symptoms)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">paranoid body
="lsts lst1">•="trms">schizo body
="lsts lst1">•="trms">drugged body
="lsts lst1">•masochist body ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my favourite
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are all about the body from the point of view of its ='strcls'>*potential='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">method='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are at (an ="trms">anthropological / psychoanalytic discourse of) ="trms">excess and transgression ='lgc'>--="ppl">Artaud='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ organs='lgc'>: functional ="trms">articulations forced on the body ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> separation, determination, re="trms">presentation

body without organ ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">body image http://="nms">ajayeb.net/='qstn'>?q=body='lgc'>+image

="prgrph">-what feminist theory has to say about that='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="ppl">I="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigaray='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is not the body without organs women's own ="trms">historical condition='qstn'>?
...the machinic, the inorganic, as well as the notions of loss of self, dispersion, and fluidity are all too familiar to women
(and to non-western subjects, i would say. Tasavof has been advocating body without organ within the context of mysticism in ="nms">Iran)

are ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari “cyberpunks, constructing ="trms">fictions of terminal identity in the nearly familiar ="trms">language of a ="trms">techno-surrealism”='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> (to dissolve the body ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) will to regain the ="trms">world <='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[death of the auratic object ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> subject='lgc'>: a condemned and useless vestige alongside the simulacra that precede and envelope it='lgc'>]

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

(='qstn'>?we need) political ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis

the tensions between='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]artist's “special task” (to oppose intellectual divisions) ='lgc'>{(art of) forming, inventing, fabricating concepts (='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari), (a “task” that) proceeds with a plane of immanence (or consistency) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= self-referential (='lgc'>=/= referential) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> syntagmatic (word as="trms">sociations)='lgc'>}
and='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]the increasing difficulty to ask ="trms">questions (as a result of the constant increase in the specialization of the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science) ='lgc'>{pro="trms">positions in discursive ="trms">systems, (a “task” that) proceeds with a plane of reference ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paradigmatic (a ="trms">worldview) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? to ='strcls'>*confront chaos='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to provide chaos with reference points ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- artists need to learn this='lgc'>]='lgc'>}='strcls'>****

(='mywrk'>my work in ="trms">lecture-performance='lgc'>: to provide chaos with reference points)

="ppl">="ppl">Barad, ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers, ='lgc'><='lgc'>== stable foundations of physics had broken up and it is time for ="trms">science to become philosophical

="trms">science becomes philosophical philosophy becomes artistic art becomes ="trms">anthropological ="trms">anthropology becomes ="trms">poetic ="trms">poetry becomes biological biology becomes archaeological archaeology becomes speculative speculation becomes ="trms">scientific ="trms">science becomes ="trms">aesthetic ="trms">aesthetics becomes adventurous adventure becomes ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor becomes ="nms">Iranian ="nms">Iran becomes German Germany becomes ="ppl">Arabic Arab becomes Egyptian Egypt becomes ="trms">animalistic ="trms">animal becomes ="trms">fabulous ="trms">fable becomes political politics becomes...

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

(="ppl">Baxstrom ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Meyers highlight a productive gap between intent ='and'>& outcome in) Christensen making a case of witch="trms">craft (in his pioneering, bizarre, and lavish project of ="nms">Häxan)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•misidentified nervous disease
="lsts lst1">•incompatibility of superstition and ="trms">religious fanaticism with ="trms">modernity and ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•bringing “errors of belief” in the 15th and 16th centuries into our view

living cinematic tableau, ="nms">Häxan's ="trms">excess ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">socially constrained thinking, discursive mode of analysis

Christensen's thesis concerned/gripped with abnormalities, events, and causes ='lgc'>==provide='lgc'>='lgc'>==> diagnosis
(like Favret-Saada) he was an un-witcher at once caught ='and'>& catching

witch ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? epi="trms">phenomenon

(to bring the ="nms">ajayeb to life “objectively” is nonsense)

='lgc'>[="nms">Häxan='lgc'> = ="trms">spectacle ='lgc'>+ argument ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*to make ="trms">nature speak='strcls'>*='lgc'>] drove efforts to locate ='and'>& combat witches, and it served to shape similar aporias between ='strcls'>*sense ='and'>& distance='strcls'>* imbricated in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the invention of ="trms">modern hysteria in the 19th century
="lsts lst1">•the “discovery” of the “native's point of view” by ="trms">anthropologists in the early 20th century

for Christensen='lgc'>: “witch="trms">craft='lgc'> = unrecognized manifestations of clinical hysteria and psychosis”

="trms">excessiveness of ="nms">Häxan's reenactment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> construct the witch's ="trms">material, invisible, mobile force
(="nms">Häxan's objectivity) had no expectation that the real will simply “speak for itself”

="nms">Häxan's reception in the 1920s ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to energize a negative, conceptually dogmatic discourse that formed and hardened cinematic taxonomies ='lgc'>[particularly the division between “documentary” (non="trms">fiction) and “feature” (="trms">fictional) films='lgc'>]

experimentation ='lgc'>+ evidence making

sexual ="trms">intercourse, cannibalism, cauldron ='lgc'>--solemnize='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pact with the devil

evidentiary thinking

elaborated visualization of the witch stereotype

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> complex ="trms">nature of ='strcls'>*="trms">sensual explorations of the flesh='strcls'>* through masochism and exorcism

demonic influence
genres of trans="trms">figuration and ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis

Christensen shows how those who were once identified as witches are now the objects of medical and ="trms">social concern in ="trms">modern life ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shows the potency of her various forms over time

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%">
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Baxstrom ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Meyers
(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is based on that) ='lgc'>[there is a largely='lgc'>] unacknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged ="trms">historical tendency and predis="trms">position within the human ="trms">sciences with roots in much older practices of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•defining ="trms">social facts
="lsts lst1">•discovery, ="trms">interpretation, production of the real itself
='lgc'>[such as ="trms">bestiary='lgc'>]

="trms">method that allows the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer to sense
="trms">interpret and master forces that appear to be nonsensical (yet held to be ="trms">present='lgc'>: held to be essential to the reality of everyday ="trms">social life) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ="trms">epistemological concern

privileged space of the irrational in medical discourses in 19th century='lgc'>: (Jonathan ="ppl">Strauss ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) irrationality (nonsense) was a legitimizing for[...]