[...]ing together issues of voyeurism, sur="trms">veillance, violence, media and mediation, and predation in ="trms">poetic itineraries.
='lgc'>[business='lgc'>] friendliness, تعارف ="nms">Tarof and ="trms">greetings ='lgc'>[and its artificial inseminations='lgc'>] (sometimes) is it covering up or masking really predatory behaviors(='qstn'>?)
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and in Kelile o Demne,
کلیله و دمنه Kelile o Demne (i am becoming more convinced that) is (all) about the ="trms">phenomenology of ='strcls'>*friendship and the ='strcls'>*contract
="ppl">Sa'di is the theoretician of friendship (“mojaverat” مجاورت) and Kelileo Demne is the theoretician of “sherarat” (شرارت villainy, felony) saying that the closeness of ="trms">different subjects is catastrophic ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proper ="trms">differences between kinds and subjects.='lgc'>] ="ppl">Sa'di is ="trms">writing golestan گلستان and bustan بوستان at the time of the Mongols threat='lgc'>='lgc'>---it is the news of the Mongols coming and we know about the velocities of news can penetrate within the ="trms">thick walls of any city. ="ppl">Sa'di is theorizing proximity based on “mohabat” (محبت ="trms">love, Liebe and kindness), he assembles a setting of ‘garden’ for the coming of Mongols army. Kelileo Demne's project is pessimist ="trms">pragmatism, mobilizing ethics in a milieu of violence and power.
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">story of ="trms">birds en="trms">trapped escape away with the cage
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">story of cat and mouse project
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bat and owl
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> scorpion and..
="ppl">Shakespearean villain ='lgc'><== ="trms">nature ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i prefer Ursula, evil corporally located='lgc'>]
="trms">modern villain ='lgc'><== power struggle
کلیله و دمنه Kelile Demne is full of disastrous laws of encounter and encounters of law
a ="trms">sort of a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of ="trms">presence (imposing and projecting to and with ="trms">animals) that regulates the possibility of a pedagogical encounter
="lsts lst1">•no mediated forms of ="trms">presence and so on
="lsts lst1">•nobody breaking the ="trms">semiotic rules
="lsts lst1">•what subject-="trms">supposed-to-know
="lsts lst1">•what blocks cordial dis="trms">position and ="trms">animal amity='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what genital lickings are welcomed or unwelcomed and discouraged or abandoned='qstn'>? and so on
to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read Kelile Demne not as something that works as legitimator
="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">greeting
to form (an) intention
all that ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism performs and withholds on and with ="trms">animality
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='lgc'>[="ppl">Rickels='lgc'>]
(my) ="trms">animal-findings and fairy-tale as="trms">sociations
if dogs ="trms">communicate through their trainability cats redirect lines of ="trms">communication through play. the dog waits and watches, the cat looks and looks, which when is your turn to be looked at, can be therapeutic or unnerving.
meeting the cat half-way
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='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital='lgc'>]
the ="trms">greeting ‘hello’, the initiatory and inaugural moment of our encounter
the gift sabotaging the freedom of the subject to receive ="trms">greeting or offering ="trms">greeting
a gift that becomes a curse for the person,
who has the civic stability to refuse a ="trms">greeting='qstn'>?
the finantialy challenged and the ="trms">greeting
explore friendship as a crucial modeling of justice='qstn'>?
con="trms">figuration of encounter
It doesn't always have to be ="trms">science ="trms">fiction, risking the wrong blend and watching the uncontrollable spill of consequences ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hook up friends
friendship, as ="ppl">Avital practices it, should often involve triangulation and the drama of departure='qstn'>?
I found myself (also) tempted to reduce her/him/you to sameness,
“meant to be,” relying on a kind of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical latency.
invasion with little violation(='qstn'>?)
(In ="trms">rhetoric='lgc'>:) ="trms">citation='lgc'> = apostrophe ='lgc'>[address to an absent or ="trms">imaginary person, calling to the other='lgc'>]
(i am late. i am transed late. ="trms">translation and trans-="trms">relations has everything to do with latency. )
="ppl">Avital='lgc'>: For ="ppl">Bataille, friendship is part of the sovereign operation and is linked to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading.
apostrophe (="trms">citation) for ="ppl">Derrida is the possibility of postmortem discourse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">memory, acts of bringing back, recalling
can we take out no insurance policies to safeguard thinking or ="trms">writing or building='qstn'>?
(="ppl">Lyotard's) différend='lgc'>: a dispute or ="trms">difference that cannot be resolved by the cognitive or ="trms">linguistic resources we have at hand ='lgc'>--(indicating rather)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a rupture in the ="trms">presentation of testimony (='lgc'>~ litigate)
something you could turn your tattooed back on
(='at'>#='mywrk'>my work on ='lgc'>[post-feminist='lgc'>] ="nms">harem)
(companionship and sexuality and installations of ="trms">community) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> The Inoperative ="trms">Community ='lgc'>[="ppl">Bataille, ="ppl">Blanchot, ="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>]
(how to) create ="trms">community wherever I go='qstn'>?
(establish ="trms">relationships='lgc'>: humor, kindness, attention, reworking, “re-”, festivity, moderate arousal, silliness, playfulness, support,)
learning making a “="trms">fictive kin group in training” (how to learn to notice each other='qstn'>? how to learn to be in the same game='qstn'>?)
to insisted on ="trms">community without relying on transcendence ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">communion
(="trms">community without illusions about itself)
a ="trms">community that is self-annulling but ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous (="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorously ="trms">perverse)
(='lgc'>--the duties of the survivor)
="prgrph">-this is about creating convivial spaces (='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban design ideology)
(to set up around) work ='lgc'>=/= (bodies of) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(let's make this an ="trms">obligation='lgc'>:) to create an atmosphere in which ="trms">interesting mistakes can get made
let's bring a huge amount of ="trms">material what we get into trying to di="trms">gest
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[an effect of being in Europe ='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] is ="nms">harem about having a space/time to claim as my own='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[it can never be='qstn'>?='lgc'>] an actual space which i can dream of and re-create and hope toward='qstn'>? retrieving a mythic place of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ='lgc'>[that cannot be rebuilt='lgc'>]='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*the ="nms">harem girls my ="trms">ancestors='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Cinderella
='lgc'>=/= longstanding tradition of seeing the female experience as ‘inherently’ painful (as in the pathos of The Handmaids Tale TV series)
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(='at'>#="nms">harem Manifesto)='qstn'>?
..telos of anything ='lgc'>{in ="nms">apass, my bow and arrow='qstn'>? (='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">generalized claim) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it was about knowing the energy of each other and trusting the honesty and coherence of directional postures and ="trms">responsive movements. ='lgc'>[='at'>#="nms">harem='lgc'>] (='strcls'>*) one's game might be geared to build success ="trms">according to one's goals, but unless the game engages the other, it is worthless. (='strcls'>* it is about) learning how to wit. (='strcls'>*) my bow and arrow in use, my ="trms">tropes and abstractions, what are they good for if others don't play/engage with them='qstn'>? to recontextualize ‘="trms">method’ and ="trms">methodology. (='strcls'>*) “incommensurable tacit knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of diverse ="trms">communities of practice” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">communication” across irreducible ="trms">difference (where “="trms">method” is not what ="trms">matters most;) (game of) “="trms">situated partial connection” ='lgc'>==> subjects
(not always the human ="trms">language is the medium) two-way conversation ='lgc'>=/= naming (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= intention-laden and consciousness-ascribing ="trms">linguistic practice) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sometimes not God, logos, or sujet ="trms">suppose savoir, rather a dog makes you (in whose image='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is about making our ="trms">categorical labor harder='lgc'>}
it is about a politics dis="trms">interested in='lgc'>: self-identity, realization of intention, transcendence, ‘sweet and nice “feminine” ="trms">worlds and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges free of the ravages and productivities of power’ (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway 2003), cultural relativism, master-slave discourse,
='strcls'>**="trms">mutuality is mutability is ="trms">contingent is ="trms">historic='strcls'>** (='lgc'>=/= reciprocity, mo'amele be mesl معامله به مثل ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> retaliatory, ="trms">categorically the ="trms">relation of enemies)
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(things to vandalize='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•capital claims
="lsts lst1">•mystical foundations of ="trms">authorship
="lsts lst1">•legally protected stores of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•desire for legitimacy
="lsts lst1">•control freak of the possibilities of comprehension
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narcissistic comfort of secured sense
="lsts lst1">•="trms">geometrical optics of reflection
(="ppl">Burroughs='lgc'>:) “steal everything in sight.” (most ="trms">authors transvaluate theft back into property ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideologies of “influence”)
="trms">narcissistic reappropriation of/as friendship ='lgc'>: operate a reduction of the friend to the same or to the friend as other
mystified oneness of the Volk (Germanic ="trms">trope)
the desired erasure of ="trms">difference
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friendship in Qur'an='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[44:41='lgc'>] The day on which a friend shall not avail (his) friend aught, nor shall they be helped, (apocalypse is defined when friendship ends)
='lgc'>[42:9='lgc'>] Or have they chosen protecting friends besides Him='qstn'>? But Allah, He (alone) is the Protecting Friend. He quickeneth the dead, and He is Able to do all things. (God is jealous of friend[...]