[...]uffer 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'>='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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="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (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'>='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

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

='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">-disappearance of ="trms">authority functions as a figure for democracy in crisis; loss of ="trms">authority and the loss of the enemy opens up ="trms">abysses in boundaries that have kept the ="trms">world recognizable

maternal (runs of) ="trms">interference (or motherly Wechsel) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> still pumping effects of ="trms">authority

="trms">authority of the breast

to slave tyranny

(who='qstn'>? insists in remaining a) non-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader='lgc'> = solid descriptor (sharh-dahande شرح دهنده) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> transparent utterance ='lgc'>~  ="trms">rhetorically un="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluttered argument

="trms">literature is snafu

how ="trms">authorship (dead or alive) feeds ="trms">authority='qstn'>?

What has been packaged as terror can be in fact misleading.

="trms">authority is the most elusive of terms that inform ="trms">relations, and yet no politics, no family, no pride of accomplishment can exist without it

for ="ppl">Arendt, ="trms">authority is an undeletable term, key to any grasp of politics
="trms">authority ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">rhetoric of persuasion

="ppl">Plato's ="trms">authority of philosophy='lgc'>: in an effort both to ="trms">memorialize and to exact revenge for the verdict on ="ppl">Socrates. (as if ="ppl">Socrates didn't have any bullying tendencies in his persuasive energies.)
a recovery operation
the ‘need’ for ="trms">authority
(="ppl">Arendt='lgc'>:) “It was after ="ppl">Socrates’ death that ="ppl">Plato began to discount persuasion (and argument) as insufficient for the guidance of men and to seek for something ="trms">liable to compel them without using external means of violence.” ='lgc'>==> a power that renounces power; coercion without violence, (invention of hell, is it nonviolent='qstn'>?! a more earthbound ="trms">rhetoric of persuasion='qstn'>?!)
(when we are out of master/slave ="trms">relationship) expert knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge commands confidence and obtains compliance (without force nor persuasion); soft coercion as="trms">sociated with reason ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Plato's philosopher-king ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**“="trms">Authority establishes ="trms">relationality ="trms">prior to command, promising compliance in the absence of force or argument”='strcls'>** (="ppl">Avital)

aspects of the ="trms">authority that might take in or shake up the other without harm

="trms">historical comfort zones ...and ...the ongoing torment of ="trms">worldlessness

(="ppl">Avital,) are the mourners of ="trms">authority masking another loss for which “="trms">authority” would be a cover='qstn'>?

="trms">Greek way of handling='lgc'>:
domestic affairs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persuasion
foreign affairs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> force and violence


="large lg1" stl="font-size:111%"> ='strcls'>*="trms">authority of the Father
="trms">ontological proof of God's existence (Kojeve contends) rests on the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical placement of divine ="trms">authority as the ="trms">authority of the Father, who is seen as cause='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paternal ="trms">authority in power and political ="trms">authority ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> as ="trms">author of a work who exerts ="trms">authority over the ‘Oeuvre’

father/judge/="nms">Pir='lgc'>: the principal figure holding together political and ethical qualities of existence ='lgc'>~ imago (in psychoanalysis is an idealized image of someone='lgc'>--usually a parent='lgc'>--formed in ="trms">childhood), firm but benevolent caretaking, funding sources of divine ="trms">authority, hierarchical hold, ="trms">categorical imperative, a secure ground from which commands can be issued, “Achtung!”,
="prgrph">-="trms">authority subsists on borrowed transcendence
="prgrph">-="trms">authority produces effects of respectful adherence
="prgrph">-softening the space of committed citizenry (ground for political relatedness)
="prgrph">-is it possible to keep ="trms">authority separate from respect='qstn'>? what this se="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion assures='qstn'>?

(="nms">Pir's ="trms">authority nearing the) ="trms">sublime regions of human relatedness

Kojeve > What accounts for the unconditional surrender of human reactivity='qstn'>?
legitimate principle of coercion

God is always the God of our ="trms">ancestors ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> character of “tradition”

where violence begins or what gets counted as violence='qstn'>?

the discourse of effacement (امحاء emha’, self-effacement='lgc'>: withdrawing into the background, making yourself inconspicuous)

is there an ="trms">authority outside inequality='qstn'>? ="trms">responsible a="trms">symmetry, the egological space, ="trms">tropes of domination='qstn'>?

='prcnt'>%this is anout the quality of a="trms">symmetry='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--(are we still in the realm of the human='qstn'>?)

="ppl">Levinas tactics is ="trms">spectacular, he runs down patriarchy and meets the ma="trms">jestic escalade of the absolute other, he doesn't escape ="trms">internment (toghif توقیف)
='lgc'>[patriarchy='lgc'>: when it is “of course” obvious who is the mother='lgc'>]

(where do we go with helplessness directed by the destruction of the ="trms">world='qstn'>?)

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Sennett='lgc'>] on ="trms">authority, trust and cooperation

...in both a subtle and a coherent ="trms">social structure

inequality makes a profound ="trms">difference in the lives of ="trms">children

“earned ="trms">authority” manages the everyday experience of inequality


cultures in which the ='strcls'>*dramaturgical display of yourself='strcls'>* is foregrounded ='lgc'>=/= diplomacy as model for ="trms">social ="trms">relationships

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> face="trms">book, an engineered ="trms">social ="trms">network organized for display ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">communication



in capitalism, in firms people at the top has more power but less ="trms">authority, and that is a problem.
in reverse, ="trms"nttrm="learn,clear,Clearl,Olearius">Lear loses its power but keeps his ="trms">authority, his lag on administrative change.

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">authority is a bound, a volunteriy obidience and care-giving
parent-="trms">children='lgc'>: something the ="trms">child needs desperitly, they need direction, they need people not only as guids but as witnesses of what they are doing.


the destructive charismatic authoiry in politics
tests if he/she can keep himself together

the charisma of the user on face="trms">book (marat, jonathan, etc., but both are also very good at face to face ="trms">communication)

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="ppl">Sennett

we don't know how to use ="trms">material objects and machines well

="trms">craftsmanship='lgc'>: the quest to make physical things well
="lsts lst1">•how th[...]