[...]llution. In turn, the planetary connection ensures the exchange of images regardless of the visual regimes from which they come from. Images no longer speak anywhere. In this ="trms">situation, the political task is to return to the ="trms">linguistic battlefield. It won't be possible to do things ="trms">differently if we do not start talking ="trms">differently. The most urgent imperative is a ="trms">language inventiveness.”


(atomism)
="prgrph">-constant and precarious self-management of molecular projects in a horizon-less future
="prgrph">-artists in the operation of self-making ourselves

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='at'>#the image i made for ="ppl">Sohrevardi; allegory of ="ppl">Sohrevardi; the image's discursive architecture and its diverse inventiveness; (being careful with being) seductive in ="trms">staging diversity; ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “an ="trms">ecology of monologues”='qstn'>? (="frds scrmbld">Renan);
="prgrph">-“The monologue is a ="trms">linguistic space freed from negotiation.” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]  “Now, it seems that everything could be solved by the universal application of mediation, participation, collaboration processes ='lgc'>[etc.='lgc'>] without realizing that this entails the strengthening of the ="trms">social cohesion model that becomes universally in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive.” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] “The monologue, in this perspective, is a form of silence, a way of disappearing. One way to cease-to-be when we are forced to be.” (="ppl">Peran)

how can i stop and resist “self-exploitation”='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> instead of thinking about transindividualism and commons, etc.

“An artwork executed from fatigue ‘exposes’ its intensity.” (="ppl">Peran)
A “tired” artwork

(="ppl">Marti ="ppl">Peran)
a minority that wishes to be a majority
the ="trms">semiotic body disciplined to daily exercise and beautification
fatigue, unlike melancholy's passivity, implies performativity.
a way of being ill


(capital gains concentrated in the) self-production of identity
subject occupied full time in itself
the logic of “do it yourself”
="trms">obliged to make countless small decisions in all areas
subject mixed up with the incessant movement of its own alienation
='strcls'>*hyperactive life ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> poverty of experience='strcls'>*
the banality of “i Like”
(maybe ="trms">interesting for ="frds scrmbld">Laura='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*fatigue='strcls'>* is the instant of stopping and pausing ='lgc'>[of exercise and beautification='lgc'>] (after which a diversity might be possible)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]fatigue='lgc'>: capable tiredness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politicizes discomfort
='lgc'>[='at'>#we are in the domain of passivity, disappearance and inaction='lgc'>]
="ppl">Peran sug="trms">gests a ="trms">position of fatigue where (some time ago) was occupied by melancholy
“is this not a mere “don't like” that re-enters the spiral of our mobilization='qstn'>?”
“we are left with just the option of making an index, a collection of trails and marks ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]”
sunday='lgc'>: “empty time that forces us to fill it through apparently free decisions that, if they are resolved properly, please us and re-constitute us” (="ppl">Peran)
='strcls'>*freedom of action for self-realization='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unstoppable egocentric machine
space of perpetual connection (='at'>@ERG's website)
(pseudo) ="trms">communicative action by way of ="trms">technological devices ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> camouflaged alienation
“The promise of self-realization and the ="trms">demand for visibility organize the mobilization of desire, turning it into work.”



do we need to ="trms">formulize and formalize our uncomfortable concerns and experiences='qstn'>?
='at'>@="nms">apass, artist research



i want to ='strcls'>*give connections='strcls'>*

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='at'>#semester/seminar on destruction
="prgrph">-care, suffer, fubar,
='lgc'>[fubar='lgc'>: “fucked up beyond all recognition"='lgc'>--a term from veterans returning to the United States in 1960s='lgc'>]



='at'>#semester on Hojum
(surge,) on performance, media, sculpture, and surplus
Hojum has to do with the hojum (='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ‘bodies’) of people to get in front of the line, the hojum of enemy, of friend, of information, also in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes the p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lural form of ‘hajm’ (حجم)



="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ='at'>#seminar on the ="trms">history of ="trms">translation
archaeology, ="trms">interpretation, spaces of difficult ="trms">translation, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading out of time, ="trms">technology and transformational studies, ="trms">semiotics, ="trms">poetry, ="trms">writing,

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='at'>#on ="trms">Situated Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges
="prgrph">-approach the text by creating intensity and my own partial perspective
="prgrph">-the elephant parable (against it)
="prgrph">-objectivity (dis="trms">embodied view from nowhere)
="prgrph">-neutrality (biologically insane)
="prgrph">-marked people (my own ="trms">story)
="prgrph">-="trms">situatedness of the ="trms">situated
="prgrph">-The cyborg is a figure in which ="trms">situatedness makes possible adventures with the beyond.
="prgrph">-globalization-as-="trms">situatedness='lgc'>: global is precisely space/place/time/="trms">situation
="prgrph">-the figure of the so-called ="trms">scientist gathered around certain ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors since the begining of the 17th cebtury, namely ‘objectivity’ and all its related adjectives='lgc'>: neutrality, perspective, universality, dis="trms">embodiment (for certain race and sex), etc.
="prgrph">-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors create perspectives ='lgc'>[the view that looks at blind men looking at the elephant='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="trms">situatedness is ="trms">different than ‘="trms">positionality’='lgc'>: a way of ="trms">systematic error correction
="prgrph">-(resolving) ="trms">specificity of vision ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">scientific objectivity (is achievable)
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Haraway expresses her informed dissatisfaction with (the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical substrate that supports) ‘="trms">social constrctivism’ and ‘traditional realism’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presentationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list belief in the power of the words to mirror preexisting ="trms">phenomena. they both believe that ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (in its re="trms">presentational formats='lgc'>: theoretical concepts, graphs, particle tracks, photographic images, etc.) mediates our access to the ="trms">material ="trms">world, whether it re="trms">presents “="trms">nature” or “objects” of ="trms">science both groups are subscribed to re="trms">presentationalism.
focus on the ="trms">nature and production of ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--(shift to ="trms">science studies)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dynamics of the actual practice of ="trms">science ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> on ongoing pattern of ="trms">situated activity

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ="prgrph">-(dis="trms">embodied ="trms">scietific) objectivity='lgc'>: that only certain people are allowed to have no body (Gender, race, etc.) and that high ="trms">science in practice is not acting on text="trms">book objectivity at all.

absent referents, deferred signifieds, split subjects, and the endless play of signifier

="ppl">="ppl">Haraway is feeling nervous with two views on objectivity='lgc'>:
(1)the ‘="trms">social constructionist’ view on this='lgc'>: getting to know the ="trms">world ‘effectively’ by practicing the ="trms">sciences ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-game (on an agonistic power field) ='lgc'>==> ="trms">science is ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>: artifacts and facts are parts of the powerful art of ="trms">rhetoric ='lgc'>~=  practice is persuasion. ='lgc'>{this view will use the nasty tools of ="trms">semiology and deconstruction to insist on the ="trms">rhetorical ="trms">nature of truth.='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway calls this ‘The imagery of force fields’ (also an imagery of high-tech military fields and of automated academic battlefields) ='lgc'>{will to power='lgc'>} (for ="frds scrmbld">Luiza)
="trms">epistemological electroshock therapy
(feminists protecting their) sense of collective ="trms">historical subjectivity and ="trms">agency and our “="trms">embodied” accounts of the truth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> these are just excuse not to learn
(2)Humanistic ="ppl">Marxism (structuring theory about the domination of ="trms">nature in the self-construction of man) (='lgc'>[young ="ppl">Marx, influenced by ="ppl">Feuerbach ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Hegelian idealism, saying that:='lgc'>] man's essential ="trms">nature is that of a free producer, freely reproducing their own conditions of life ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--however='lgc'>='lgc'>--> under capitalism individuals are alienated from their productive activity, etc.='lgc'>])

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “chance for life”

="trms">science='lgc'>: Global ="trms">System, universal knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">translation, convertibility, mobility
of meanings, and universality

="large lg5" stl="font-size:138%"> money in capitalism ='lgc'>~= reductionism in ="trms">science

...when we are talking about genes, ="trms">social classes, elementary particles, genders, races, or texts

='strcls'>*vision='lgc'>: a sensory ="trms">system that has been used leap out of the marked body ='lgc'>==> a gaze from nowhere
="prgrph">-“Vision is always a ="trms">question of the power to see='lgc'>--and perhaps of the violence implicit in our visualizing practices”
="prgrph">-also, the visual ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor allows one to go beyond fixed appearances, which are only the end products. The ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor invites us to investigate the varied ="trms">apparatuses of visual production (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding='lgc'>: the prosthetic ="trms">technologies ="trms">interfaced with our biological eyes and brains.)

unmarked body='lgc'>: the power to see and not be seen
objectivity in ="trms">scientific and ="trms">technological, late-industrial, militarized, racist, and male-dominant ="trms">societies

(she asks for='lgc'>:)
“So, I think my problem, and “our” problem, is how to have ="trms">simultaneously an account of radical ="trms">historical ="trms">contingency for all knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge claims and knowing subjects, a critical practice for recognizing our own “="trms">semiotic ="trms">technologies” for making meanings, and a no-nonsense commitment to faithful accounts of a [...]