[...]abelais and others) is the diabolical element amongst the classic tricolon='lgc'>: gunpowder, the nautical compass, and the printing press

emergence of a ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="trms">science of the devil (in the medieval West) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> liberation of demons (from supralunar to sublunar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> into earthly realms)

Sabbat='lgc'>: an outpost of hell very much belonging to this ="trms">world

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='strcls'>*finding ghost is what we are all here for='strcls'>*

...nagging mischief they cause can turn deadly
violently jerks the body of the medium around
occasionally threatening or attacking onlookers

“keep filming” one of the old women whispers behind me ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i do what i am told='lgc'> = i do exactly what i want to do

="trms">anthropologist='lgc'> = i cannot directly “see” the demon or the spirit ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ what i am told to see, ='at'>@="nms">apass ='at'>#feedback='lgc'>], but i am convinced that they are there


(="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) older practices of defining ="trms">social facts and the discovery, ="trms">interpretation, and de="trms">finition of the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (roots of the predis="trms">position of research='lgc'>:) to sense, ="trms">interpret, and eventually master forces that appear to be nonsensical and yet are held to be essential to the reality of everyday ="trms">social life

='lgc'>[mad:='lgc'>] ='thdf'>the notion of ='strcls'>*irrational='strcls'>* as a privileged space in medical discourses (in France in the 19th century) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a mysterious and extra-="trms">social ="trms">language that the rising medical profession could adapt to its own purposes

“nonsense” of the “native”

(="ppl">Baxstrom's work on witch craze ='lgc'>[in 16th century='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--arguing='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) the problem of establishing proof in reference to the invisible forces has durably shaped our modes of investigating human ="trms">social and cultural life

='lgc'>[="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>]
="trms">social or cultural ="trms">anthropology in the 21st century='lgc'> = (human ="trms">sciences’ contemporary equivalent of the) ='strcls'>*old efforts to master the invisible='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{test ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> felicitous information as to the “true” ="trms">nature of obscure forces and their operations within ="trms">="trms">empirical real-="trms">world contexts='lgc'>}

='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: (part of the ="trms">histories of)='lgc'>] ="trms">systematic, ="trms">="trms">empirical investigation of strange events, singularities, miracles, and other types of staple ="trms">phenomena ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientific ="trms">method and the forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that emerged as the foundation of an ensemble of ='strcls'>*="trms">sciences proper to humans='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yet has been unable to expel (the unprovable forces) considering the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins and forms of human diversity

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">anthropology='lgc'>: the desire to credibly master nonsense

='lgc'>[with ="nms">ajayeb studies i am learing to be='lgc'>] able to argue for a ="trms">world below the threshold of perception (of medicine, biology, physics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> defined their ="trms">relation to the nonsensical via a ='strcls'>*visibility to come='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[="trms">embodied in new ="trms">technologies:='lgc'>] photograph, microscope, telescope)

="ppl">Deleuze ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when ="trms">writing of ="trms">communication between heterogeneous ="trms">systems ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[we must pay attention to='lgc'>] what is this ="trms">agent, this force which ensures ="trms">communication='qstn'>? (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- role of ="trms">difference and resemblance)

forensic ="trms">anthropology

="large lg6" stl="font-size:130%"> ='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="trms">imaging and ="trms">imagining ="trms">technologies


the confusion of the ="trms">="trms">empirical (knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">traversed by our everyday observations, sensations, passions) and the transcendental (construction of an ideal knower, now it is the queer) in ="nms">apass

figure of man foundational to the human ="trms">sciences ='lgc'>[did not exist in classical thought ='lgc'>~ ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--move-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms">empirically institute the experience, witnessing, and testimony of an individual human subject='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*the central linking relay between evidence, judgement, and the real='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ability of a human being alone to serve as the sole source of evidence in an investigation of “the real” (='at'>#feedback) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= Gilgamesh='lgc'>]
(in Qazwini's ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh the testimony of an individual human subject is ambiguous)

(="ppl">Baxstrom ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault) ='strcls'>*insist on rooting our form of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the figure of the human being and the human being alone ='lgc'>--yet='lgc'>='lgc'>--> our gaze is continually drawn to a host of beings and ="trms">phenomena (the witch, the spirit, the shaman, etc.) that cannot properly be en="trms">folded back within this figure='strcls'>*


="large lg22" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">fabled de="trms">finition (='at'>@="nms">apass ="trms">relationship with defining)

="trms">fable of ="trms">anthropology (a dis="trms">position with regard of the ="trms">interlocutor other as truly “other”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
“This goal is, briefly, to grasp the native's point of view, his ="trms">relation to life, to realise his vision of his ="trms">world. We have to study man, and we must study what concerns him most intimately, that is, the hold which life has on him. In each culture, the values are slightly ="trms">different; people aspire after ="trms">different aims, follow ="trms">different impulses, yearn after a ="trms">different form of happiness. In each culture, we find ="trms">different institutions in which man pursues his life-="trms">interest, ="trms">different customs by which he satisfies his aspirations, ="trms">different ="trms">codes of law and morality which reward his virtues or punish his defections. To study the institutions, customs, and ="trms">codes or to study the behavior and mentality without the subjective desire of feeling by what these people live, of realising the substance of their happiness—is, in my opinion, to miss the greatest reward which we can hope to obtain from the study of man.” -George Stocking


...the field-worker must, under the sig="trms">nature of ="trms">science, achieve the cultivated, sensed point of view of the other
='at'>@="nms">apass ='at'>#feedback (a privileged ="trms">relation with the unknown ='lgc'>[of the other artist to whom one gives feedback='lgc'>])


(="ppl">Baxstrom='lgc'>:) witch hunt='lgc'> = experiential engagement with nonsense

Malinowski ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can the invisible be forced into visibility or sensibility='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•connect the study of diverse human ="trms">social practices to the seemingly nonsensical ="trms">worlds of gods, spirits, and witches that were offered as explanations
="lsts lst1">•countering hierarchical and polygenetic theories of diversity
="lsts lst1">•appropriate ="trms">="trms">empirical tests in the face of the doubled, impossible object of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

='strcls'>*="trms">method='lgc'> = cultivated ability to ="trms">craft experience and testimony into a “sensible” explanation of what otherwise would simply be ruled out as “nonsense”

15th century Europe ecclesiastical crisis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•demons going viral (the viral proliferation of demonic power beyond the grasp of human intuition and thought)
="lsts lst1">•proliferation of witches (within the general population)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> growing power of Satan on earth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (sign of impending) apocalypse
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> growing fear and great doubt ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> like today!='lgc'>]

Malleus Maleficarum (on witch="trms">craft, a revolution in early middle ages) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lstsrd">1. local ="trms">relation between investigative procedures
="lstsrd">2. constitution of evidence
="lstsrd">3. assertion of a fact
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> expertise in ="trms">matters real but invisible

16th century notions of the ="trms">positive element of seeing witches, sorcerers, and Satan himself

God's apparent absence ='strcls'>*in times of great change and strife='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ='strcls'>*="trms">interpretive expertise='strcls'>* over the concrete, secondary manifestation of God's reality (was reassuring) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a relief to the pious believer ='lgc'>: “God's embrace of life ='lgc'>=/= devil's embrace of life” ='lgc'>=/= Heretics managed God's absence without that op="trms">position (a luxury to ="trms">imagine such a ="trms">world was denied to most of the people in that period, also denied to the ="trms">modern subject of the secular ="trms">present)

how does one know who is really hearing the prayers ='lgc'>[of the faithful='lgc'>]='qstn'>?
devil overhearing and ="trms">interfering with even the most intimate ="trms">communications


inquisitor ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- 16th century ="trms">questions of theology (in a ="trms">world where the ="trms">trappings of belief are everywhere but there is no incontrovertibly visible evidence of god's...)


demonologists of the 15th and 16th century were not sure about='lgc'>:
god
man
witch='lgc'>: the ="trms">abyss between god and man='lgc'> = a kind of proof, a reassurance that the evil of the ="trms">world can be explained (through the various iterations of satan's power)

demonologist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “God must exist because Satan is ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right in front ot me!”


='strcls'>***desire to believe ='lgc'>=/= (simple) belief='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>['desire to believe’ and ‘belief'='lgc'>] were not the same during the time of the witch craze
="lsts lst1">•were not the same in the fast-evolving discourses of the human ="trms">sciences of the 19th century and early 20th century
="lsts lst1">•are not the same today


='at'>@="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. the general tendency to remain an artist ='lgc'>~ a myth, an effect, a warrior
="lstsrd">2. to make anomaly the law عمومیت استثنا


hearing the name of the witch ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subject to stict verification
demonologists and inquisitors at this time desired proof ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- viral proliferation of the witch came to provide that proof

='strcls'>***="trms">interrogation under torture='lgc'> = an experimental form of knowing in crisis='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='at'>#="trms">styles of knowing='lgc'>]
confession ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ ='strcls'>*status of witnessing='lgc'> = a form of truth='strcls'>* ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> Boyle's New Experiments 1660 revolutionized practical experimental procedures in the laboratory (for gernerations to come...)
="lsts lst1">•experiments such as the trial by water de="trms">monstrates a deep (if not misguided) ='strcls'>*appreciation of cause-and-effect ="trms">relations='strcls'>* relative to the invisible forces at work in the ="trms">natural ="trms">world (='lgc'>=/= in="trms">difference to the truth, retreat into superstition) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> rendering of such procedures in expressive works of ='strcls'>*art='strcls'>* (indispensable to nascent proto="trms">science ='lgc'>--today='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an essential element of ="trms">science's ability to express truth)


_='lgc'>+='strcls'>***'`='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~/!=-='lgc'>='lgc'>~>

='strcls'>***the logic of gathering evidence='strcls'>***
(fundamental ='thdf'>assumption of ="trms">anthropology='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>[asserted by Levy-Bruhl:='lgc'>] ="trms">ontological ="trms">difference between the nonsensical ="trms">world of “primitives” and the ="trms">science of Western research ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*“natives” could not (or would not) produce a “proper” explanation of the forces around them or their own beliefs and motivations in ="trms">relation to these forces='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> testimony ='lgc'>+ experience became essential tools for ethnographers)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***encounter between rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer and subject='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[was never that of good faith ="trms">intercultural sharing='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==constituted='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a series of severe tests (by which the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer could gather necessary ="trms">="trms">empirical evidence in order to make a felicitous truth statement regarding what was “really” at play)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the nonsense to be mastered shifted from the demonic (='lgc'>~ incredible forces at play for the inquisitor ديوى) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ديوانه the misguided tall tales fo the native
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{this is relevant for artistic research environment, encounter/friction between ="trms">different ="trms">styles of knowing
='at'>#feedback='lgc'>: mastering the nonsense of the other artist-rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer
='at'>@="nms">apass, research ="trms">presentation='lgc'>: misguided tall tales artists tell themselves='lgc'>}

='lgc'>[='at'>#feedback as passion='lgc'>]
="ppl">Avital ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a passion or experience without mastery, without subjectivity, testimony, as passion, always renders itself vulnerable to doubt
(='lgc'>[='qstn'>?can we think of='lgc'>] artistic feedback as a) ='strcls'>*s="trms">cene of ethnographic encounter='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a kind of ='strcls'>*antagonistic trial='strcls'>* (whereby the ghosts and gods of the natives are forced out of the shadows and made concretely apparent to the senses of the ethnographer)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (in this context) fieldwork ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of hauntings ='lgc'>+ other nonsense that is itself haunted ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> what gives testimony its power of fact ='lgc'>{='lgc'>--="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if testimony truly resolves as certainty or mere information, it would lose its function as testimony ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> testimony must allow itself to be haunted='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]testimony='lgc'>: visualization of what cannot normally be seen

='lgc'>[my misunderstanding of ethnography ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> my approach to giving and receiving feedback ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the workshop i gave ‘little ="trms">fables of practice'='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*(your) ‘fact’ must allow itself to be parasitized by precisely what it ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes from its inner depths, of being a ="trms">fable='strcls'>*

the picture of rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer's humanity (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer='lgc'> = detective, examining magistrate دادرس
="lsts lst1">•crime='lgc'> = fact
="lsts lst1">•guilty='lgc'> = ="trms">interlocutor (in reality they guide you into ='lgc'>[often organized='lgc'>] labyrinths)
="lsts lst1">•inquest='lgc'> = strategic operation

='strcls'>**the ="trms">imaginative results of “I witnessing”='strcls'>**
='at'>@="nms">apass ='lgc'>[what we do mainly is='lgc'>] witnessing eachother's works and mode of existence
='lgc'>+ paradoxical necessity of an expressive element


testimony ='lgc'>+ experimental results ='lgc'>+ expert inquisitorial ="trms">interpretation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (an early versoin of) ‘case study’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> formation of ‘general law’

='strcls'>*inquisitorial strategies='strcls'>* (developed in the human ="trms">sciences from the 19th century onward)='lgc'>: جزء به کل ”(close analysis of) salient individual cases ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hidden tendencies visible” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and is abused in ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>]

="large lg14" stl="font-size:112%"> ='lgc'>[in both ="trms">science and art='lgc'>] seeking to move away from ='strcls'>*reliance on ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='strcls'>* to a ='strcls'>*reliance on verifiable details='strcls'>* (in their own expressions)


acknowledging satan's un="trms">questioned power ='lgc'><='lgc'>--doubt='lgc'>='lgc'>--> truth-value of statements made by unlearned witnesses


="large lg22" stl="font-size:117%"> ='strcls'>*possession='strcls'>* (confessions of another ="trms">sort)
confessions that were not ‘procured’ ='lgc'>[ritualized torture of the witch trial to generate evidence='lgc'>] but rather ‘volunteered’ and ‘enacted’ (without the aid of inquisitor)
='lgc'><='lgc'>== individual turmoil (='lgc'>=/= juridical manipulation)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> medicalization (of the invisible forces) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a new mode) ='strcls'>*didactic ='and'>& forensic='strcls'>*

17th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a shift in the ="trms">="trms">empirical approach to invisible forces


clinical hysteria ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fascination with a power that (by de="trms">finition) destabilizes binaries such as inner/outer

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre, ="nms">apass='qstn'>? ='at'>#feedback
='strcls'>****="trms">symptomology='lgc'>: discovering without learning='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physicians in ="trms">relation to haunted nun, mobilized by attention, considers the deployment of a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the new and visible form of an appearing ='lgc'>[of the other's nonsenses (='lgc'>~ artwork ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the object of feedback='lgc'>: an inconsistent invisible object of inquiry renamed and re="trms">imagined by the feedback)='lgc'>]

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Charcot ='lgc'>[in his storied career of the father of ="trms">modern ="trms">neurology='lgc'>] dealing with ="trms">relations between ="trms">religious ecstasy, magic, witch="trms">craft, and “nervous disease” ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- great doctor's decision to compile ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- discernible

="lsts lst1">•weyer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> appealed to people's better ="trms">nature and reason
="lsts lst1">•Bourneville ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> appealed to an appraisal of ="trms">history in service of a project on ="trms">modernity
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to de="trms">monstrate the precariousness of ="trms">interpretation ='and'>& the consequences of ignorance
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (errors of) demonologists and exorcists rooted in (what was characterized as) the mistaken conceptualization of their object of investigation

now antiquated ='strcls'>*forms of inquiry='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> 16th century's witch-hunting and exorcism of spirits ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= 19th century's clinical studies of nervous illness ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- conceptual scaf="trms">folding of the emergent ="trms">science (by Charcot and his students) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*visible effects of primary invisible forces='strcls'>* involved a ='strcls'>*long term labor of ="trms">social ="trms">interpretation='strcls'>* that required the mutation of old ="trms">categories and the creation of new ones...
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (19th century's new de="trms">finition of the) witch='lgc'>: misdiagnosed hysterics of the middle ages ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='lgc'>{ susceptibility of women to witch="trms">craft ='lgc'><='lgc'>== “feminine weakness” ='lgc'>}

physical signs of witch="trms">craft recorded centuries earlier ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> detailed indexing of ="trms">symptoms such as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religious ferver and stigmatization
="lsts lst1">•psychosomatic indicators such as blue edema or swelling with local cyanosis and hypothermia and autographic skin (that would appear intensely red after touch)


primitive practices ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the word “medicine” (derived from the name Medea='lgc'>: the mother of witch="trms">craft)

="lsts lst1">•epilepsy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the sacred disease (='lgc'>[perceived='lgc'>] to result from hostile magic ='lgc'>--rethought='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to result in terms of individual physiological disorder)
="lsts lst1">•hysteria ='lgc'>[from the ="trms">greek “uterus"='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hold a special place in the moral ="trms">imaginary

indigent madwoman='lgc'>: in the 17th century nearly 10000 women (destitute women, the insane, “idiots,” epileptics, and Parisian ="trms">society's “least favored classes” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>]) were kept in La Force prison, a second Bastille, in Paris
='lgc'>=/= the nuns and devoted female ="trms">members of the church, who raised special concern when they were “possessed” by unexplained forces of demonic or ="trms">neurologic o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin


='strcls'>***(Ulrich Baer > ="ppl">Baxstrom='lgc'>:) Charcot ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> transformation of ='strcls'>*tableau vivant='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*tableau clinique='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a hysterical reliving of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal ="trms">symptom and reframed trauma that attempted to suspend the two temporalities (real ='lgc'>+ ="trms">imagined) in the same image='strcls'>***
='lgc'>[="frds">Sina ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*tableau critique='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Freud and Breuer's efforts (in “reliving” with hypnosis) to isolate the mechanisms of hysteria


Acta Sanctorum ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Attar's tazkirat ='lgc'>~ hagiography='lgc'>]
countless early descriptions of entities speaking through the mouths of girls and of the manifestation of “external signs” in the possessed ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Bryana

(as="trms">sociated with) possession='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•anesthesias
="lsts lst1">•amnesias
="lsts lst1">•subconscious acts
="lsts lst1">•="trms">somnambulisms
="lsts lst1">•fixed ideas
="lsts lst1">•


='strcls'>***conceptually arranged ="trms">abyss between outer and inner states ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">literal mastery of nonsense='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> gaining ="trms">="trms">empirical purchase over forces openly acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged to be invisible and insensible in themselves='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•the exorcists (building upon the ="trms">techniques of inquisitors and witch-hunters) take on possession acted as the ='strcls'>*bridge across this ="trms">abyss='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">neurologists and psychologists draw unknowable forces out of the inner voids via the ='strcls'>*="trms">symptom='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--Malinowski='lgc'>='lgc'>--> witches, spirits, demons acting as middlemen and guids (='lgc'>=/= explicit target of inquiry) in the field of worker's journey to the dark cornerss of the real
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Baxstrom's ="trms">anthropological insight is useful in artistic feedback, for) in ="nms">apass='lgc'>: (we use exorcist ="trms">technique ='lgc'>+ clinical ="trms">symptomology) to bridge across the ="trms">abyss between the artwork and artist (='lgc'>~ the ="trms">enunciation and ="trms">enunciator) ='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘="trms">enunciation is the guide to an ="trms">enunciator’ ='at'>#feedback


Levy-Bruhl's haughty binarized “us and them” (his focus on “the primitive” as a ="trms">category of ="trms">social analysis and his insistence upon an unbridgeable ="trms">epistemic gap) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> darker ="trms">history of human ="trms">sciences='lgc'>: an embarrassing ="trms">historical curiosity... ='strcls'>*an unsunstainable ="trms">position='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Baxstrom='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Levy-Bruhl lost his ="trms">position in th canon because the logic of his arguments regarding the forces that shaped the life-="trms">worlds of non-western people denied the possibility of a field rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer's being able to assume the ='strcls'>*point of view='strcls'>* of the native in the bold manner that Malinowski declared was not only possible but actually the highest aspiration for ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> also the aspiration for critical feedback='qstn'>?='lgc'>]


(counter="trms">epistemological) Levy-Bruhl ='lgc'>=/= Malinowski ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]feedback='lgc'>: an art of engagement informed by critical relatedness and) ='strcls'>**="trms">anthropological expertise grounded in the careful cultivation of a ='strcls'>*="trms">sympathetic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the other='strcls'>* as a way of ="trms">="trms">empirically knowing that other='strcls'>** ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">method of ="trms">sympathetic as="trms">sociation='strcls'>*

in ="nms">apass ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the laboratory of the times located in the person of the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer himself

grounded Levy-Bruhl's ="trms">science in the real ='lgc'><='lgc'>== he rejected a focus on a knowable singular subject in favor of a ="trms">science based on the ability to detect and ="trms">interpret the invisible forces that worked to produce a particular “mentality” ='lgc'>[of the artist in the case of bad feedback='lgc'>]
(Levy-Bruhl's mistake='lgc'>:) ="trms">systematic ="trms">interrogation and illumination of mobile invisible forces that produced beings wholly unlike us ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{ ="trms">method of ="trms">sympathetic as="trms">sociation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> participant observation='lgc'>: the felicity of evidence produced through the qualitative experiential ="trms">methodological ="trms">instruments ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> comes to define the modes of critical relatedness in ="nms">apass='lgc'>]


(since 15th century) investigators ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> staking one's claim to the real on the mastery of those forces that relentlessly elude a plain direct visibility or sensibility ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human ="trms">sciences


='strcls'>*we still hunt ghosts, fueled by a desire operationalized in a ="trms">method of being close enough to something to sense it, because our form of mastery ="trms">demands a closeness to things unseen, unprovable, indeed ‘nonsensical,’ yet un="trms">questionably ‘there’='strcls'>* -="ppl">Baxstrom

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="ppl">="ppl">Despret on ="ppl">Derrida's ="trms">animal
the act of being seen by an ="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="ppl">Derrida groups together on the end hand “="trms">scientists and philosophers ='lgc'>=/= prophets and ="trms">poets”
='lgc'>{ ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson, Goodall, Bekoff, Smuts, and many others have met the gaze of the living diverse ="trms">animals and in ="trms">response undone an redone themselves ='and'>& their ="trms">sciences ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Derrida ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>--> why did ="ppl">Derrida leave unexamined the practices of ="trms">communication outside the ="trms">writing ="trms">technologies he did know how talk about='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> philosopher (speak in the absence of ="trms">animal) ='lgc'>=/= theoreticians (speak face to face with the ="trms">animal) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">scientists
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Derrida's o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal ="trms">positioning='lgc'>: to speak (starting) from ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ a partir de='lgc'>] a real ="trms">animal and not about ="trms">animality ='lgc'>[being ="trms">animal='lgc'>] ='lgc'>: to speak in the ="trms">animal's ="trms">presence and not in its absence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this ='lgc'>[this way of talking about ="trms">animal is against his philosophical tradition='lgc'>] is not particularly o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal, it is part of the very game of philosophy='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*to fight with ="trms">ancestors and contemporaries ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? recalcitrance تمرد tamarod='lgc'>] about great and noble ideas='strcls'>* (to denounce inequality and violence)

maintaining distance is a characteristic of the ="trms">episteme of the French philosophical tradition

the topic of ="trms">animal in French tradition='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">animal can be a topic of philosophy if it is called up as a figure of otherness (or a figure of deprivation) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is that why i started to work and think about ="trms">animal ="trms">fables after i moved to germany='qstn'>? because i became identifiable as deprived other='qstn'>? and ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading about the naming and d="trms">enunciation of philosophical violence towards the ="trms">animal became a proxy for philosophical violence towards myself as a foreigner='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animal as ancient ="trms">ancestor (a search for ="trms">difference with appeal)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**as a figure caught up in theoretical and abstract issues='strcls'>** (a philosophical ="trms">animal) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> animots='lgc'>: paper ="trms">animals, abstract inexistent ="trms">animals
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Derrida taking up the topic of the ="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to oppose a certain humanist hegemony, denouncing philosophical violence towards the ="trms">animal
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Derrida's rejection of philosophical game par excellence (the game that deals with re="trms">presentations, framework of re="trms">presentation)



='heart'>♥ the parable of the twelfth camel
An old man, sensing his impending death, called to his side his three sons, to share with them the little he still owned. He said to them='lgc'>: my sons, I have eleven camels. I bequeath half of them to the oldest, a quarter to the second son, and to you, my youn="trms">gest, I give a sixth. Upon the father's death, the sons found themselves quite perplexed='lgc'>: how to divide their in="trms">heritance='qstn'>? A war over the division of goods seemed inevitable. With no apparent solution, the sons went to a neighbouring village to seek advice from an old sage. The old man thought awhile and then shook his head='lgc'>: I cannot resolve this problem. The only thing I can do for you is to give you my old camel. He is not very obedient and often does as he pleases. I don't know if you can use him but I think he may help you divide your in="trms">heritance. The sons brought the old camel back with them and divided up the in="trms">heritance='lgc'>: the first then received six camels, the second three and the youn="trms">gest two. This then left the camel of the old sage, which they could return to his owner.

        ,     ,
‘'’ ‘'’   ‘'’   ‘’

this parable reveals particular and essential dimension of all forms of in="trms">heritance='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Despret:='lgc'>] they place us in a ="trms">position of ="trms">obligation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to work out
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[="frds">Sina:='lgc'>] they had to go to the foreign to figure out their in="trms">heritance


the sons have to work out the ='strcls'>*="trms">position of ="trms">obligation='strcls'>*

='strcls'>*****in="trms">heritance (passed on as something that appears impossible) as such requires you to ='strcls'>*start from='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= about, concerning, with='lgc'>] this in="trms">heritance
="lsts lst1">•“start from” implies precisely the fact of remaining ="trms">obligated to that ='strcls'>*from='strcls'>* which we speak, think, or act ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ learn from ='and'>& create from events='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•“being ="trms">obligated” implies learning to do, speak, act, decide, not about these events, not concerning them, not facing or against them, but from them
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you are bound ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*you honor the terms of the problem='strcls'>* (such as it is posed along with its contra="trms">dictions ='lgc'>~ fubar)
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (help you to) resist the common sense (or less common sense) solutions


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]in="trms">heriting='lgc'>: an act that ="trms">demands thought and commitment, an act that calls for our transformation by the very gift of in="trms">heriting ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb, you start from ="nms">ajayeb (better than “coughing”='qstn'>?)


Despert in ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="ppl">Derrida through ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> studying the way in which ="trms">scientists were beginning to ="trms">respond to their ="trms">animals ='and'>& becoming attentive to the ="trms">animals’ ="trms">responses in trun

='lgc'>[="frds">Sina ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Despret ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***to in="trms">herit is an act that ="trms">demands a transformation on the part of the in="trms">heritor='strcls'>***

the importance of transforming that which is transmitted to us


thinking from ="trms">animals
(="ppl">="ppl">Despret working on) the meaning of ”(starting) from” ='lgc'>[a partir de='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•for philosophers='lgc'>: to depart from ="trms">animals, to leave them as quickly as possible and never to return ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “="trms">animal='lgc'> = text ='and'>& pretext” ='lgc'>: its function is to provide a reason for going (partir) elsewhere ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i have done this='lgc'>]


getting involved ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> martyrdom


="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ="trms">author-turned-ethologist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> classic genres of ethological ="trms">literature

(a ="trms">matter of) ='strcls'>*performing through ="trms">narration the passing ="trms">obligation that is now mine='strcls'>*

(="ppl">="ppl">Latourian) ='strcls'>*amateur='lgc'>: a person who likes and cultivates her tastes and does her best to cultivate a kind of becoming-sensitive to the ="trms">world='strcls'>*

in ethology (and in ="trms">animal ="trms">sciences) monologues make terrible ="trms">narratives

='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Femke, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre, ='qstn'>?can we do without='lgc'>] the philosophical tradition of='lgc'>: ='strcls'>**searching for traces of ideological and political contamination='strcls'>** in the work of ="trms">scientific ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (or whatever other field) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you (often) find a perfec[...]