[...]dentities, 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)
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(="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'>]
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
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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
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(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”
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='lgc'>[explosion of accuracies='lgc'>]
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after death there is='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rumer
="lsts lst1">•afterlife
="lsts lst1">•
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(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'>*
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(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
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
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exposure='lgc'>: an ="trms">affective space, at the limit of the ="trms">phenomenal, the somatic proceeds and then is entangled with the rational
="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
(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)
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kulturgeist
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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'>]
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(='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...
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(="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”
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="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
='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 force for medicine in that the very incomprehensibility of the mad created a mysterious and extra-="trms">social ="trms">language that the rising medical profession could adapt to its own purposes
“nonsense” of “the native” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my start-up engine in Islam ="trms">lecture series, a privileged site of mysterious incomprehensibility allowed me to to form the ="trms">methodological basis for a fieldwork for unknown forces of irrational life in distant ="trms">societies...='lgc'>]
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='strcls'>*="trms">anthropology='lgc'>: (a distinct human ="trms">science from the desire to credibly) master nonsense='strcls'>*
(="ppl">Baxstrom ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Meyers)
="trms">anthropologists claiming to have assumed the “point of view” of another (='lgc'>~ fieldworker must achieve the cultivated sensed point of view of another) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distillation of ="trms">method ='and'>& dis="trms">position (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- when confronted with the ="trms">question “who are you='qstn'>?” and “what do you do='qstn'>?”
(="trms">according to Malinowski='lgc'>: this) privileged ="trms">relation to the unknown must emerge through the ability to test what is asserted to be real ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a series of subjective trials subsumed within the rubric of “fieldwork”
='strcls'>*presumptions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•experiential dis="trms">position of the analyst ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> understanding of a ="trms">phenomenon other wise held to be ="trms">imaginary and ="trms">fictional
="lsts lst1">•witnessing and testimony ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> evidence as to the reality beyond the direct experience of the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer
(='lgc'>[Malinowski updated and secularized a much older ="trms">epistemology of='lgc'>] Luther='lgc'>:) faith='lgc'> = a commitment to the re="trms">presentation of a truth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Western ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christianity's own efforts to discern truth and the ="trms">nature of the ="trms">world
proliferation of witches in 15th century Europe
reassuring relief for the pious believer='lgc'>: force Satan (and his followers) from the shadows through an ="trms">interpretive expertise over the concrete secondary manifestations of God's reality ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (most had no luxury to ="trms">imagine) ='strcls'>*the embrace of life that the devil urges in binary op="trms">position to that of the good='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Devil ="trms">interfering with the most intimate ="trms">communications with the Divine
="prgrph">-how does one really know who is speaking when prayer is returned='qstn'>?
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='lgc'>[for='lgc'>] the demonologists of the 15th and 16th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “God must exist because Satan is ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right in front of me!” ='lgc'>: reality of witches ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Satan
Institoris, Sprenger, Johannes Nider,
the name of the witch ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> sacrilegious and inhuman deeds (subject to verification)
='strcls'>*inquisitors believed that what was reported to them was possible='strcls'>* (still they desired proof) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">interweaving of learned demonology into the fabric of a dominant theology (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- sovereignty of God ratified primarily through the ="trms">worldly evidence of Satan) ='lgc'>+ invisibility of the spiritual ="trms">world was expressed as an essential given
='lgc'>{for the inquisitor (witch hunter) it was never enough to simply “believe” ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">narrative must be produced that at least partially satisfied the ="trms">demands of evidence='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">interrogation under torture='lgc'> = an experimental form of knowing in crisis='strcls'>*
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truth value of a nonsensical confession made sensible ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human belief, action, and ="trms">social practices
ethnographic style of early French ethnographers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**learning truth from lie='strcls'>** was essential to re="trms">presenting the “primitive” reality in order to ="trms">interpret it in its true picture
="prgrph">-Marcel Griaule's approach to fieldwork='lgc'>: “The crime is the fact, the guilty party the ="trms">interlocutor, and accomplices are all the ="trms">members of this ="trms">society. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]the abundance of pieces of evidence serving to convict appear to facilitate the inquest, but in reality they guide it into labyrinths='lgc'>--labyrinths that are often organized. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]The inquest must be treated like a strategic operation.”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nonsense to be mastered had shifted from the demonic, incredible forces at play for the inquisitor to the misguided tall tales of the native ="trms">interlocutor ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> same mistake that Federici does in her ="trms">book Caliban and the Witch. Federici, in search of the manifestations of misogyny, aggressively frames the s="trms">cene of a feminist encounter with witch-hunt as a kind of antagonistic trial of ="trms">social organization of the Middle Ages in ="trms">transition to early capitalism... a mode of attention that is equally didactic and forensic as the witch inquisitors='lgc'>]
recognition of the struggle that lay at the heart of raising testimony to the status of the “really real” ='lgc'>--="ppl">Avital='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Griaule aggressively frames the s="trms">cene of ethnographic encounter itself as a kind of antagonistic trial (whereby the ghosts and gods of the natives are forced out of the shadows and made concretely apparent to the senses of the ="trms">anthropologist)
='strcls'>*fieldwork ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of hauntings that is itself haunted='strcls'>*
="trms">imaginative result of “I-witnessing”
='strcls'>*paradoxical necessity of an expressive element within an objective test in ="trms">relation to what would other wise be nonsense='strcls'>* is evident in many of the examples of 16th century visual culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">bestiary
trial by ordeal
(illustrated in Eduard Fuchs)
the case='lgc'>: if the woman floats she is clearly able to con="trms">travene the ="trms">nature and is therefore a witch or heretic; if she sinks, she has made no such pact with Satan
="prgrph">-procedural expertise ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> trial by water here functions as ='strcls'>*experiment as much as a punishment='strcls'>* designed to reveal an other wise invisible truth
testimony ='lgc'>+ experimental results ='lgc'>+ expert inquisitorial ="trms">interpretation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> early version of the ‘case study’ (synthesized as evidence in service of accounting for variation that exceeded general laws regarding ="trms">relations and ="trms">phenomenon in the ="trms">world)
="ppl">Baxstrom ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Meyers
(="nms">ajayeb's) individual cases='lgc'>: an effective strategy in providing analytic (and ="trms">="trms">empirical) purchase for ="trms">phenomenon that were other wise invisible to even the discerning eye of the expert ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>**to move away from a reliance on ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='strcls'>**
='strcls'>**medicalization of the invisible='strcls'>**
possession
set the ="trms">stage for the explicit medicalization of the mobile invisible forces that experts had been struggling to master, explain, and take ="trms">measures against ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a new mode that was equally ='strcls'>*didactic and forensic='strcls'>* (as the theological frameworks deployed by inquisitors and the exorcise of demons by Church)
witch="trms">craft, faith healing, and demonic possession
Bibliotheque diabolique ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> case studies to de="trms">monstrate the precariousness of misre="trms">presentation and the consequences of ignorance ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= investigations collected by Charcot and his students in their studies of hysteria
="lsts lst1">•clarifying the link between witch="trms">craft and hysteria
='strcls'>*witch hunting and the exorcism of spirits in the 16th century (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> antiquated forms of inquiry) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>?! clinical studies of nervous illness in the 19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conceptual scaf="trms">folding of the emergent ="trms">science='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fascination with the secondary visible effects of primary invisible forces
="lsts lst1">•long-term labor of ="trms">social ="trms">interpretation that required the mutation of old ="trms">categories and the creation of new ones
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “witch='lgc'> = misdiagnosed”
epilepsy, the sacred disease, erroneously perceived as resulting from hostile magic
='lgc'>=/= hysteria (hold a special place in the moral ="trms">imaginary)
the special susceptibility of women to witch="trms">craft mirrored the “feminine weakness” as="trms">sociated with the hysteric, exacerbated by low ="trms">social status
="prgrph">-in countless accounts of possession, we find descriptions of demons speaking through the mouths of girls
='lgc'>[="ppl">Baxstrom ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Meyers ='lgc'>=/= Federici's flat analysis of witch hunt as the tool of subjugation of the local population or of woman by men='lgc'>]
tableau vivant ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tableau clinique ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tableau critique
hysterical reliving of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal ="trms">symptom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reframed trauma='lgc'>: an attempt to suspend the two temporalities (real and re="trms">imagined) in the same image
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
one element of fascination with hysteria was its “look” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hysteria's ="trms">aesthetic link to forms of possession
possession ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> aneasthesias, amnesias, subconscious acts, ="trms">somnambulisms, fixed ideas
a scaf="trms">folding='lgc'>: conceptually arranged chasm between outer and inner states ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•exorcists building on the ="trms">techniques of inquisitors and witch hunters ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possession acts as the bridge across this chasm
="lsts lst1">•="trms">neurologists and psychologists construct the same
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Malinowski's) ="trms">anthropologists='lgc'>: fieldworkers as truth-tellers returning from the dark corners of the real (the witches are no longer explicitly the target of the inquiry)
="nms">Häxan's real object='lgc'>: the specter of sheer nonsense
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hunt (even in objective ="trms">scientific mastery) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fueled by a desire operationalized in a ="trms">method of being close enough to something to sense it
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(='qstn'>?every time we have to) show how ='strcls'>*the word (that we are using) relates to meaning='strcls'>*
Christensen makes every effort to ="trms">craft a witch that is real to us ='lgc'>: ="trms">ontological fluidity of a cinematic image ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “="nms">Häxan='lgc'> = word ='lgc'>+ image ='lgc'>+ thing”
metoposcopy='lgc'>: the expression of reasoning was to be found on the face, (dating back to Girolamo Cardano and the Renaissance) the operation of reason as the weaving together of images in the mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a proto-cinematic theory of the ="trms">relation between image and thought if ever there was one
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">spectable scholar indexes himself through his sources
="lsts lst1">•="trms">authoritarian first-person tenor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">instrumentally impersonal tenor
="lsts lst1">•establishing the X as a chapter within a much longer constellation of practices, discourses, traditions, and institutions
Kieckhefer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how the long ="trms">history of practical ="trms">natural magic was en="trms">folded into the ="trms">specificity of European witch="trms">craft in the late Middle Ages
Christ in Limbo ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Christensen's parallel editing ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> moving re="trms">presentation of a terra-centered universe ='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~ elaborate ="trms">wonders found in baroque wunderkammer (meticulously assembled by the German elite)
Renaissance Hermeticism='lgc'>:
="trms">writings of Hermes Trimesgistus ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> foundation for='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Ficino's relatively mild ="trms">natural magic
="lsts lst1">•Pico della M="nms">irandola's ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian Caba="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list
="lsts lst1">•Agrippa's ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian magus
="lsts lst1">•Tommaso Campanella's (1568–1639) utopian City of the Sun
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Bruno's full-blown Hermetic–Caba="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (through the power of astrology and magic to bypass the Church altogether)
="lsts lst1">•
...rippling effects of the Hermetic–Caba="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list tradition ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•scrupulously mathematical astrology of Girolamo Cardano
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorously ="trms">="trms">empirical studies of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world ="trms">demanded by ="ppl">Bruno's attempts to operate as a magus
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (paved the way for) ="trms">science of ="ppl">Newton and Copernicus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a new ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics to emerge
attacks on Renaissance magic and the Hermetic–Caba="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list tradition (that ="trms">authorized witch) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> anti-witch treatises
(case of Giordano ="ppl">Bruno's execution ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hermetic magic and Cabalism) how in the 16th century='lgc'>: “superstition='lgc'> = crime”
(Christensen attributing) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hortus deliciarum, a largely cohesive image of hell to a period when the ="trms">nature of hell's location and “topography” was a subject of fierce theological debate
="prgrph">-he strategically ignores debates and alternate conceptions of damnation that existed in the 15th and 16th centuries in Europe
='lgc'>[that which you choose='lgc'>] works to amplify ="trms">affect more than further analysis (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> such as Christensen's attempt to heighten the fiery terror of the s="trms">cene by billowing smoke ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> عام generic explanation)
...a palpable sexual dimension crepting into Christensen's thesis ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- images of women “sneaking away” to attend Sabbats
="nms">Häxan visually grounds itself in ="trms">citable e[...]