[...]n o="trms">verbundance of things to be described or ="trms">imagined; concepts are lived; the subject is ="trms">present as witness to the moment in which some ="trms">worlding is about to disclose itself in some form or event. the result is a subject attached to ="trms">worlds throwing together in a sensory refrain, a ="trms">literally unbelievable image, or a muscle of ="trms">sociality or belief. theory='lgc'>: drawn through ="trms">writing into the ways that people and things venture out into reals. a ="trms">world in the ="trms">present tense is always other than its re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- another argument for ='at'>#="trms">excess='lgc'>]. nonre="trms">presentational ="trms">writing ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*a ="trms">phenomenal ="trms">method of attending and ="trms">composing='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= epi="trms">phenomenal='lgc'>: an expression of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready garnered انبار from scholarship. to spin out of critical thinking's bad habits='lgc'>: the prizing of prefabricated good objects over bad objects.)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Singh, ="ppl">Anand; ="trms">agency as a threshold of life with its own immanent forms of movement and flux, studying spirits and shifts in intensity)
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(the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous and bizzar idea of) a pure ‘human’ ="trms">society
‘="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism’ actually ‘underestimates our humanity,’ in that the ‘="trms">anthropos’ and the ‘="trms">morphos’ together mean both that which has human shape and that which gives shape to humans (="ppl">Philo ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Wilbert > ="ppl">="ppl">Latour)
="trms">techno="trms">morphism, ="trms">zoo="trms">morphism, ...
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="trms">anthropocentrism of the standard ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism critique ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human-referenced starting-point
trophies, stuffed parts, drawings
urine, faeces and other dirts
feral ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">wild ='lgc'>=/= tame ='lgc'>=/= feral
in-between ="trms">animal-findings and ="trms">animals finding
appropriate places of ="trms">animals='lgc'>: in ="trms">zoo or animations
(the 2016 film Fantastic ="trms">Beasts and Where to Find Them is about proper ="trms">zoology and not ="trms">animal ="trms">epistemology. here what comes after “Find Them” is crucial.)
(the developement moral identities and psychological ="trms">interiorities for Pixar's human teller in ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphist films such as Ratatouille.)
="prgrph">-we need to ="trms">imagine a new ="trms">animal geography
='strcls'>*territory='lgc'>: “...sites of a completed cycle of parentage and exchanges ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] spaces of insurmountable reciprocity.” (="ppl">Baudrillard)
(is ="ppl">Baudrillard sentimentalizing ="trms">animal territoriality='qstn'>? and giving them ‘psychic life’='qstn'>?)
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='lgc'>[="ppl">Michael ="ppl">Woods='lgc'>]
...through re="trms">presentation an entity becomes ‘immutable mobiles’ (="ppl">="ppl">Latour) that allow political debate to take place by ="trms">presenting to decision-makers convincing re="trms">presentations of things which they have not directly experienced. (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hollywood)
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='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital='lgc'>]
the maternally contacting ="trms">child is menaced
it is the mother who call(ed) first
mother and ="trms">child, each the absolute ho="trms">stage of the Other
to face the immense, faceless Someone
the ="trms">nature of our encounter is on a timer
ask for subtitle if I go foreign for you. (i might go foreign for you)
in nerves sense, i am pushed and persecuted by the need to quickly tell you everything that I know ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the pedagogical instant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i don't think one can proceed slowly enough and pull the break in the age of rapid and fast food and acceleration.
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our ="trms">verbal velocities could reach no one in a way that would truly mark or unhinge the brutal protocols of lived reality... ='qstn'>?
...who took no prisoners (...who can truly say that='qstn'>?)
(I also='qstn'>? take pleasure in) the injurious effects of ="trms">language ='lgc'>: words are bodies that can be hurled at the other, they can land in psyche or soma ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manifesto
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(as a ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader) friend is a partner in crime
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="ppl">Sa'di's s="trms">cene of ="trms">writing, saying goodbye='lgc'>:
ای ساربان آهسته رو کآرام جانم میرود وآن دل که با خود داشتم با دلستانم میرود
سرو سیمینا به صحرا میروی نیک بدعهدی که بی ما میروی
بگذار تا بگرییم چون ابر در بهاران کز سنگ ناله خیزد روز وداع یاران
(="nms">iranian culture and its ="trms">relationship to farewell and khoda-hafezi, expanding it. why we find it so difficult to say goodbye, or even can't say goodbye. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- resume work with ="frds scrmbld">Mona='qstn'>?)
="ppl">Holderlin's ="trms">intervention/="trms">question='lgc'>: we arrive at the truth, Das Wahre emerges, the moment closing in on us, when we have to say goodby
in an ="nms">Iranian modality the farewell is the loci of truth, (locus='lgc'>: a place or ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical locality collecting the center of activity)
(the so-called) ="trms">poet's radical exposures
is violence in ="trms">farsi='lgc'>: ‘azar’ آزار='qstn'>? (how would that change instead of ‘khoshunat’ خشونت='qstn'>?)
kam-azari کم آزاری, bi-azari بی آزاری (possible='qstn'>?)
eshgh عشق ='lgc'>~= bi-niazi بی نیازی
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demography of violence and nonviolence
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(="ppl">Freud ='lgc'><='lgc'>--) ='strcls'>*liability='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Levinas)
not yet guilty, an almost predis="trms">position, an almost inclination toward being guilty, an openness to being guilty (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? ="frds scrmbld">Seba's notion of ‘Schuld’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~= debt, the ="trms">obligation to pay or do something='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>~-> super-egoic formation (='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? that which we call “raising awareness”)
Trauma is structuring='strcls'>***
(to be noted that the concern of super-egoic formation rests on the structuring of ‘="trms">demand,’ which is not the being of ‘="trms">question’ that it wants to be. ="trms">question is risky and consequential of new ="trms">articulation)
='lgc'>[dis="trms">position='lgc'>: vaz’ وضع, halat حالت, mezaj مزاج, seresht سرشت, khu خو, khim خیم, saz ساز,='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[predis="trms">position='lgc'>: este'dad استعداد, amadegi آمادگی, meyl-e ghabli میل قبلی; a liability or tendency to suffer from a particular condition='lgc'>]
super-ego ='lgc'>[that part of you that exercises ="trms">authority, “I am gonna make you swallow this” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> jouissance='lgc'>] ='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? Div-mardom دیو مردم (paternal correctional voice, “don't drink!” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nezami) ='lgc'>=/= Div (says “benush!” بنوش)
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(with ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway;) the ="trms">relation between what counts as ="trms">nature and what counts as culture (in ="nms">Tehran)='lgc'>--judging whether a behavior is the stuff of genes or rearing
the domestic ="trms">animal is the epoch-changing tool ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (free) wolf/dog (servant) ='lgc'>==> civilization
what are the things we hate in the name of ="trms">Wilderness (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> “fall” into culture)
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='lgc'>[="trms">lecture at ="nms">apass, 10.03.2017='lgc'>]
i follow the scribbles of jamming and jam session
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welcome to this ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical place
like you, i am also sometimes in heaven, sometimes in hell, in no-land, nowhere, elsewhere, in Belgium; also ="trms">interested deeply in what signals my and our arrival in the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical entity of Belgium. like ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian, as i am fantasizing his excursion that i missed, we went out and walked back into the city, studying what really signals our arrival, when and how and where on the body we feel that we are there. and my guess is that it is always ="trms">technological. but in an another universe your arrival might be registered by ="trms">greeting. and in an ="nms">Iranian sense...
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my ="trms">lecturing, when it is about going after a term or a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor or a sub="trms">phenomena or a paraconcept, ='lgc'>{to arrive at its essential qualities or range, its meaning and ="trms">historical rootedness, how does it hold things together, what holds it together (in related but ="trms">different speculative milieu,) its ="trms">intractable necessity, its ghostly effectiveness, its ="trms">phenomenological maintenance, in which framework they maneuver, and so on='lgc'>} is a tentative ="trms">intervention that i reside in the weaker neighborhoods of thought, even vandalizing (="trms">authoritative knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-)claims of legitimacy and abandoning the controlling of possibilities of comprehension.
="prgrph">-(purposeful='qstn'>?) anarchy of ="trms">questioning, un="trms">folding my thoughts anarchically
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='strcls'>*not to work on X in order to get the point across that one remains susceptible (mosta'ed مستعد, dar khatar در خطر, dar ma'raz در معرض) to and in need of X ='lgc'>: what X almost was, or is still about to be
(the character of X, and='qstn'>? the X-ian character)
="prgrph">-rather, ask, in what way X allows an approach='qstn'>?
='lgc'>{="ppl">Avital on='lgc'>} ='strcls'>**="trms">authority, violent shores of human governance
what happened to ="trms">authority after the demotion (tanazol-e rotbe تنزل رتبه) of the “big Other” (death of God, State, ="nms">Pir, and other mostly masculinist idols)='qstn'>?
a primal impulse in the cuing of group formation; pre-givenness of our way of handling private and public spheres of encounter, domestic and foreign affairs;
="prgrph">-disappeara[...]