[...]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)

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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


="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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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> (="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)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:155%"> ="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 [...]