[...]nst it)

آرامش قصاب
butcher's easy hospitality
slow time of sadism

='at'>#="trms">story
tribe of bonded laborer decide not to sacrifice ="trms">animals. “what is the use of someone's untimely death causing another='qstn'>?” (and because goats are expensive nowadays). one summer all the brothers get together and call the deity. he possessed my father's brother's son. we said='lgc'>: “baba, we won't give you a goat. eat us if you must.” the spirit began to get angry. he said if i accept this for you, then others will do the same. (after negotiation) he accepted only from one person and not others. the issue is still unresolved.

="trms">religiously infused con="trms">science
banality of secular cruelty
long-standing intimacy between violence and the sacred

='at'>#="trms">story
Nitin is jinn and no jinn wants to marry their daughter to someone who sells chicken for a living. Nitin has debilitating nightmares about dying chickens.
="lsts lst1">•poultry industry
="lsts lst1">•cage-free farming


(there is no “irreducible” ="trms">ontological gap, disjuncture of temporality, ="trms">ontological un="trms">translatability, between='lgc'>:)
time of ="trms">history/capital ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= time of the gods/ritual

both ritual and capital ='lgc'>--involve='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exchange ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unpre="trms">dictable forms of movement (across domains)

="lsts lst1">•(show of being halal) re="trms">citation of kalma with the first ="trms">bird and the last, assuming comprehensive coverage for the ones who fall between
="lsts lst1">•Skylard s="trms">laughterhouse building hospitals and temples
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emotional, ritual, commercial traffic across sacred and profane

="trms">consumption of neighboring ="trms">species


='strcls'>*cruelty as play='strcls'>*
(a less cultivated form of pleaser='qstn'>?)

deadended ="trms">bird
ceased-but-not-killed mouse
not dead, not killed, but not quite a being either

the power to turn ="trms">animals into things, as of they were never anything else

recognition of playful actually ='lgc'>--="ppl">Singh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ethics of immanent ="trms">obligation

(='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]collaboration='lgc'>: ="trms">interrupt each other's train of thought)


(dramatization of) agonistic intimacy ='lgc'>: a ="trms">relationship of proximity and violence between neighboring ="trms">social groups (the body of neighboring ="trms">species)
='lgc'>--Taussig='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ritual violence (the most stunning prop is the human='lgc'>: the all too profane body with its various appendages, fluids, undulating surfaces, ="trms">folds, exists, entrances)
='lgc'>--="ppl">Veena='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sacrificial violence ='lgc'>: dramatization of one's own inevitable death (there is a certain ="trms">anxiety around violence that is ="trms">integral to ='strcls'>*the ="trms">imagination of an ethical life='strcls'>* in Hindu texts and practices)
='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gamer video of ="trms">zoo

condition of ="trms">viscerality
a condition of being ransomed to death

Venna ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a major theological transformation (a critique of violence) in a nonmessianic nonsoteriological sense رستگاری شناختی in South Asia took place with the Mahabharata

='strcls'>*cruelty ='lgc'>=/= violence='strcls'>*

="lsts lst1">•the feeling of noncruilty expressed in the unpre="trms">dictable attachments, at times across ="trms">species (companionship) in the Mahabharata (="ppl">Veena) ='lgc'>[in ="ppl">Attar='qstn'>? in Kelile and Demne='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•companionable thinking (Cavell)
="lsts lst1">•com="trms">mission ="trms">species (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Singh's agonistic intimacy='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. companionship may also involve forms of ="trms">mutual violence
="lstsrd">2. violence inevitability (in af="trms">finity or animus) does not remove a consideration of the mode of violence from the sphere of the ethical ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we must make space for the consideration of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦cruelty
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">differential vulnerability
="lstsrd">3. certain forms of companionable noncruilty may also breed accompanying forms of cruelty
="lstsrd">4. within conditions of death and cruelty ='strcls'>*it is not always clear what noncruilty might be='strcls'>*


a ="trms">bird cursing (="trms">presently taking root that will someday come to fruition) a human who is stubbornly injuring when need not, or تو نیکی می‌کن و در دجله انداز
(myth) asks us to think about cycles of violence
how an act never exists in isolation
chaos theory, the effect might come later

informal epic subplots ="trms">narrated in improvised forms


which ritual laments are available for massive ="trms">ecological shifts
...the death of others
...s="trms">cene of loss (='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= milieu)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Singh='lgc'>-- virtue, piety, self-="trms">fashioning do not help to work through this (='at'>@="nms">apass)


devastation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> cohabitation (of ="trms">species that were apart before)


Kelile and Demne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> agonistics can be comic (even if repercussions of tragic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mood of violence


“everything has to die”
="trms">question of ="trms">routinized ritual or commercial production of killable bodies and of things ceasing to ="trms">matter

="trms">animals don't die in villages, they could only be killed

="trms">anthropology of ethics
what is to kill='qstn'>?
what is to kill well='qstn'>?
what is to ber killed='qstn'>?
what is to be killable='qstn'>?

can we speak of a quality of death='qstn'>?

(="ppl">Veena, Cavell, Harraway's) ‘companion’ is not a resolution to ethical quandaries of human-="trms">animal ="trms">relations


culpability of homicide ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> veneration of sacrifice

life ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">zoo ='lgc'>=/= bios

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retro='lgc'>: (a post="trms">modern sensibility firmly rooted in the ="trms">present) appropriating ='lgc'>[use ='lgc'>+ exploit, pick ='lgc'>+ mix='lgc'>] the ="trms">aesthetics (aspects) of the ="trms">past while not longing for its return ='lgc'>=/= nostalgia='lgc'>: a mode of resistance against the ="trms">present

retro='lgc'>: a mode of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, an attitude towards the ="trms">past without emotional attachment

ironic ="trms">consumption...

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... ='lgc'>=/= how adults might perceive the political context

="large lg34" stl="font-size:109%"> dissident discourse
(audience looking for) counter regime messages

='strcls'>*nostalgia ='lgc'>+ nationalism within a postcolonial Europe='strcls'>*
Europe's repressed imperial ="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> longing for the divided Europe of the Cold War ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list nostalgia (in television ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cultural ="trms">memory='lgc'>])

="trms">past='lgc'>: retro comedy

comedy='lgc'>: retrospective re="trms">presentation

(comedy does not='qstn'>?) antagonize its audience ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= build a ="trms">memory conflict
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]comedy='lgc'>: strive for reconciliation (by focusing on the everyday life of its colorful characters)

the good soldier Svejk ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> good-="trms">natured side of czech national identity

self-congratulatory ="trms">narrative ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (when you think you are always) morally on the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right side
='at'>@="nms">apass

(tv series) forging resistance-based (national or individual) ="trms">memory


the way in which a ="trms">society understands its own ="trms">past ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> through culture (not a ="trms">matter for politicians and legislative ="trms">measures alone) that particular ="trms">narratives about the ="trms">past are kept alive and help to structure understandings of the ="trms">present

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strolling='lgc'>: walking in the city ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sense of belonging to the city
walking in 19th century (starting with England) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> something for the lower class
='lgc'>--later='lgc'>='lgc'>--> walking became a middle class pursuit (something you do in your garden ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> parks for walking)
city walking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> claiming step by step parts of the city ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practice of belonging ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ sense of place (in ="trms">history='lgc'> = nationalism) of certainty ='lgc'>+ comfort='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> belonging is an individual imperative (something that is created by the individual on the ground) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? a ="trms">category of ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion='lgc'>]

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="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='lgc'>: an expression by which the observer perceives as if something ='strcls'>*happened to the person who is angry='strcls'>* (a passive experience, not something that the person did)

intuition='lgc'> = recognition

="lsts lst1">•="trms">memory is really bad at re="trms">membering ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists
="lsts lst1">•="trms">memory is really good at re="trms">membering routes through space
="lsts lst1">•(humans are good at re="trms">membering) ="trms">agent-thinking ='lgc'>=/= abstract notions


='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger ='lgc'>==reveals='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world='strcls'>*

="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> makes you ungly ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> prompts action
='lgc'>[the strange connection of='lgc'>: action ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ugliness='lgc'>]

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="large lg14" stl="font-size:116%"> post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list nostalgia='lgc'>: ="trms">relational expression of a heterogeneous set of desires that operate in an ="trms">intercultural ="trms">network

Imre

western European longing for the divided Europe of the Cold War ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Europe’s repressed imperial ="trms">history


two ="trms">different modes of re="trms">membering='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> official, public and professional modes (as="trms">sociated with com="trms">memoration and musealization)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">memory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unofficial, popular and private modes (frequently as="trms">sociated with nostalgia and ="trms">consumerism)

="trms">literary and cinematic texts that foreground some form of preoccupation with the ="trms">past


="large lg26" stl="font-size:110%"> ="prgrph">-television (amnesiac qualities) has been accused of undermining ="trms">memory and perpetuating a sense of ephemerality and transience ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*television is also a powerful mnemonic tool='strcls'>*

='strcls'>***television is both amnesiac ='and'>& mnemonic='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tv's propensity to resonate in ="trms">different temporalities at once

television='lgc'>: a vehicle for the transformation of and a source of information about the quotidian ='lgc'>~ primary generator of collective ="trms">memory ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is now ="trms">social media, In="trms">stagram TikTok='lgc'>]

="trms">historical drama
pseudo documentary
period drama series
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> providing the viewers with a “useable ="trms">past” that is always related to and relevant to the concerns of the ="trms">present


in the post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list region, the ="trms">past has especially sensitive nerve endings in the ="trms">present

national regimes ='and'>& individual citizens alike have tried to revive usable paradigms of identity from ="trms">past periods (to clear away or at least cover up the ="trms">historical debris left behind)

television as a massive archaeological site

poly="trms">morphic, undefinable identity with tentacles in several fields that makes television (and popular ="trms">internet media) so confusing

="large lg22" stl="font-size:123%"> (to understand who has stakes) in keeping ="trms">history and ="trms">memory practices separate and in minimizing the role of television and other popular media


(="trms">internet popular media) television's messy status as a medium

="trms">communist parties ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mould television to standardize citizens's everyday domestic life rhythms
="lsts lst1">•cheerleading docu="trms">fictions
="lsts lst1">•educational quiz shows
="lsts lst1">•uplifting entertainment such as theatrical broadcasts of Russian and European classics
="lsts lst1">•doctored news
="lsts lst1">•limited advertising
="lsts lst1">•domestically produced dramatic series focused firmly on the romanticized ="trms">historical ="trms">past

='lgc'>{projective ideals ='lgc'>=/= actual experiential realities of ="trms">socialism='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> layer of ironic distance between ='lgc'>[media (television) and its viewers='lgc'>]

(1990s following the Soviet empire's dis="trms">integration ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ironic overidentification ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> nostalgia
='lgc'>--Imre='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evasion of television allows for nostalgia to be misframed and misappropriated as a sentiment that marks the end of ="trms">socialism ='lgc'>[temporally and clearly demarcates backward-looking post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list populations from forward-looking (Western) observers='lgc'>]
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> takes into account television's (and ="trms">internet ="trms">social media) relevance to collective ="trms">memory

post-X nostalgia='lgc'>: a near-="trms">visceral yearning for the false sense of safety derived from the ="trms">memory of X (fetishistically attached to public personas or ="trms">consumer products of the ="trms">past)


nostalgia='lgc'>: an ="trms">interpretive framework ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>**sense of intimate ="trms">sociality disrupted by the collapse of a centralized ="trms">system of governance and the influx of globalization='strcls'>**

nostalgia is a discourse (that is not ="trms">specific to Eastern Europe) populations disappointed with and un="trms">="trms">equipped to deal with the advent of ="trms">market democracy


there are more than one way of (content of) longing

television='lgc'>: a medium whose chief mode of operation is in reruns, recombinations, circulating formats and generic adaptations that constantly ="trms">interweave national, regional and global scales ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= digital ="trms">social media

(Imre > Boyer) to trace nostalgia back to the intellectual o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of European cultural nationalisms

...diverse and contradictory sentiments that make us see European cultures conjoined in ="trms">mutual ="trms">relationships of dependence, rather than separation

(Imre ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*nostalgia as something by de="trms">finition national at its core='strcls'>*

nostalgia ='lgc'>--foreground='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coexistence of ="trms">different temporalities in the ="trms">present

post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list nostalgia in Romania is similar in structure to late ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list nostalgia of the 1980s in Hungary

manage feelings of dislocation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> longing for national homes
='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> preference for ="trms">literature and high art as expressions of what has been identified as cultural nationalism (“national tradition='lgc'> = tradition invested in high art”) ='lgc'>+ perceived illegitimacy of popular cultural production and ="trms">consumption (concealed by the allegedly rebellious “dissident” status of intellectuals) ='lgc'>==organize='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the contents of collective ="trms">memory


Imre ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> racialized underpinnings of allegedly “pure” ="trms">aesthetic judgments


inherently nostalgic and pre-="trms">modern post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list population ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Western Europe as the epicentre of progressive ="trms">scientific ="trms">modernity


television's capacity for personalization and ="trms">narrativization

='strcls'>*demi="trms">world of popular culture='strcls'>*
television’s dominant ="trms">position within the domestic environment and its special appeal to an emotionally available female or feminine ="trms">consumer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> television='lgc'>: the mass medium of the ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list period ='lgc'>--pose='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger of a passive mindless ="trms">consumption of ="trms">formulaic ="trms">narratives (a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger that has been ascribed to women’s inferior psycho="trms">social needs and tastes ='lgc'>=/= cerebral ="trms">modernist masculinity of art) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Baxstrom's realizing the witch


Western European cultural nationalisms

='thdf'>the notion of nostalgic and pre="trms">modern post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list population ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Western Europe as the epicentre of progressive ="trms">scientific ="trms">modernity


West’s fanning of East European nostalgia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a post-imperial ="trms">symptom='lgc'> = (expression of a growing Western European awareness that) ="trms">modernity is p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurinodal rather than centred in European metropolitan headquarters


(postimperial European dimension of) ='strcls'>*cultural nationalism ='lgc'><='lgc'>~÷='lgc'>+='lgc'>-> nostalgia='strcls'>*
...utopian national rebirth scenarios for a united Germany ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (promoted by intellectual artists) the bad idea that suppression of German nationalism ='lgc'>==open='lgc'>='lgc'>==> influx of American audio-visual culture (that muat be resisted in order to preserve and nourish German culture in its purest ="trms">literary manifestation)
= logocentric return to the ethos of German Romanticism ='lgc'>[Kulturnation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> certain cultural identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cliche-ridden elitist racist implications='lgc'>] ='lgc'>+ new nationalism ='lgc'>=/= results of Western ="trms">integration over the last forty years


aspirational ="trms">narrative (of nation...)

postimperial power dynamic='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•western rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> has the political capital to afford studying popular media
="lsts lst1">•eastern rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> has to faithfully fulfill the role to re="trms">present their national culture (elite achievement)


(Bourdon >Imre) the most obvious European commonality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**a focus on high culture='strcls'>**


national ="trms">specificities of ="trms">memory ="trms">systems developed around television


nostalgia machine
="lsts lst1">•Putin ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> TV programming to a ="trms">literary Soviet ="trms">heritage
="lsts lst1">•Hungarian FIDESZ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">children’s channel of ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">children’s programmes
="lsts lst1">•showcase oeuvre of popular performers from the ="trms">past
="lsts lst1">•rerunning vintage highbrow content='lgc'>: old films, television series and documentaries
="lsts lst1">•popular music's capacity to call up depoliticized ="trms">affective ="trms">memories
="lsts lst1">•commercials (='lgc'>--t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigger='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list nostalgia)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> depoliticized reminiscences ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an image of (="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list) ="trms">sociality as a ="trms">natural connecting glue among citizens gathered around the warm glow of their favourite singers and cabaret actors

FIDESZ='lgc'> = alarming racism ='lgc'>+ anti-Semitism ='lgc'>+ drastic neoliberal economic restructuring ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> television='lgc'> = ="trms">interfaces of official state nationalism ='lgc'>+ commercial purposes of a nostalgia industry


(ghost of ="trms">dictators in) humorous commercial context='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Tito in post-Yugoslav republic commercials (as anti-capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and anti-commercia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list hero)
="lsts lst1">•Ceausescu in commercials in Romania (old footage of him walking his dog in car tires ads)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--Imre='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (blending) ='strcls'>*top-down ="trms">history lessons='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ the work of ='strcls'>*popular ="trms">memory='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> punctuate contemporary continuities with the ="trms">communist regime that are taboo in official ="trms">narratives but prevalent in popular perceptions of ="trms">history
(='lgc'>==Georgescu='lgc'>='lgc'>==> counter-="trms">memory ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- does it assist coming to terms with the ="trms">past, processing the paralyzing ="trms">past and the humiliating ="trms">present of globalization coupled with reactionary state control)

="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list advertising (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> promoted products and services that had not competition in the absence of a real ="trms">market) ='lgc'>==now='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a sense of awkwardness (absurdity of an era) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an oxymoron ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (the ads’) appeal ='lgc'>==guarantee='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the authenticity of re="trms">membering ='lgc'>+ ="trms">mutual recognition (among ="trms">members of the nostalgic ="trms">community) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*longing for a bond ="trms">specific to an elusive era='strcls'>*


(for late ="trms">socialism ='lgc'>--Imre='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]nostalgia='lgc'>: a popular and essential compensatory ="trms">gesture to make up for the loss of a contradictory temporality
='lgc'>+
a mode of continuity with an era that was al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready nostalgic for the unrealized transformative potential (of real ="trms">socialism)


(Yurchak's) ='strcls'>*frozen ="trms">present='strcls'>*='lgc'> = the time of nostalgia
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>== late ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list culture itself lived in a nostalgic mode, at a certain ironic, knowing distance from what it was ="trms">supposed to be ="trms">according to the ="trms">memories of the heroic 40s-50s and the remnants of ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list propaganda ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*a familiar ironic mode of experiencing ="trms">history vicariously='strcls'>* (in a way that is experienced in the ="trms">imagination through the actions of another person)


(looking at televisual nostalgia ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) late ="trms">socialism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> an ="trms">affect ='and'>& ="trms">epistemology that can only access the “authentic” through contra="trms">diction ambivalence self-reflective irony
='lgc'><='lgc'>--Holdsworth='lgc'>-- expression of ="trms">present ="trms">anxieties about ="trms">history and ="trms">memory in general

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___='lgc'>[notes ="nms">Tehran 2023='lgc'>]___

="trms">semiotics='lgc'>: study of the differnce between “what you say ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= what they understand”

(my fundamentals='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*sharing ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">communicating='strcls'>*


آشپز دیو سپید
it is said that the White Div had a cook ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exploring the ="trms">cosmology of Div (in Shahnameh) with food, hunting for eating, ="trms">bestiary, cooking ="trms">technology, taste
(inspired by anime JYfdfDU9JUY)
='at'>#short ="trms">story='lgc'>: narrartor describes the ="trms">story after the defeat of the White Div (Div-e Sefid) by Rostam. “rather than worring about the kingsmen X, he was more ="trms">interested in what is for dinner...”. there is another being. a baby ="nms">hayula (non-formity)... what other beings Div hunts for meat='qstn'>? (="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, ="trms">bestiary) “he would think about the next hunt X and get ex="trms">cited about the kabab of X...”  “immediately asked for more”

dungeons and dragons ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a non-cartographic space, there are no maps and one only learns by dying many times
dungeon has nothing to do with the medieval prison, it is a deterritorialized habitat, defined precisely by not having a map (or guide) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are we in a dungeon='qstn'>?

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journalism='lgc'>: professional discursive pursuit (of truth, of propaganda, etc.)
='lgc'>=/= journalism='lgc'>: proximity to the event ='lgc'>+ the risks that that entails

(Ghazzi's notion of) ='strcls'>*="trms">affective proximity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: (a mode of consideration, a way) to make sense of local media practitioners’ reporting and witnessing of suffering in their country
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a media practitioner ='lgc'>=/= the event they are re="trms">presenting and participating in
="trms">affective proximity ='lgc'>: what locals navigate to reconcile their emotional and ="trms">embodied entanglement within events in their country ='lgc'>=/= discursive

='strcls'>*emotional labour='strcls'>* of media practices of local reporters and witnesses

what the word “revolution” mediates (in Syria, ="nms">Iran, etc.) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?= civil war='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">1. an indication of commitment to a desired goal
="lstsrd">2. an identity marker based on a ="trms">past-oriented lament over what was sought but not achieved

study of ="trms">affect and emotion in global news ='lgc'>--(contextualized within)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unequal power ="trms">relations (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> journa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic roles ='and'>& modes ofre="trms">presentaiton)

user-generated-content
political economy of global war reporting
living with violence

journalism ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affect

="trms">affective proximity
='lgc'>==shape='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the boundaries of journ0alism and activism
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> captures the feeling of being close to violence='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fear for one's life and that of others
="lsts lst1">•having to deal emotionally logistically with deaths of ="trms">loved ones (escape, exile) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why we need an ='strcls'>*="trms">anthropology of the exile='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> living-in-violence ='lgc'>=/= encounter, exposure

(Ghazzi is too fast in favoring “="trms">affective proximity ='lgc'>=/= western rationalism”, as an ="nms">iranian I am more exposed to an ='strcls'>*="trms">affective jurnalism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= activism='lgc'>: politically motivated and highly emotive role='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= journalism as a ="trms">modernist and rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list institution)
“activism ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= jurnalism” ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> they need to='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. project authenticity and emotion ="trms">onto news ="trms">narratives
="lstsrd">2. act as objective witnesses able to produce truthful accounts

(more and more i feel the ="nms">iranians need for ‘activism ='lgc'>=/= jurnalism’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what one wants to happen ='lgc'>=/= understanding what is happening)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>[the ="trms">question of how one makes sense of one's practices ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in the case of Syria (also ="nms">Iran)='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">affective proximity to violence='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> sense='lgc'>]

...negotiating the distance of mediation when viewers and producers in the Global North are witnessing the suffering of others

(in ="nms">Iran) activism ='lgc'>+ art='lgc'> = the human body as tool, medium, ="trms">symbol, ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect='lgc'>: circulation ='lgc'>+ stickiness of emotion (="trms">onto and between bodies, texts, objects, experiences) (="ppl">Ahmed)

journalism='lgc'> = re="trms">present ='lgc'>+ ="trms">narrate

(the ‘trick’ of) relying on the ='strcls'>*outsourcing of emotional labour='strcls'>* to non-journa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists (by='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•having them express their emotions
="lsts lst1">•having the journa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list describe them

(Ghazzi conceptualising the emotional field in journalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>***unequal power ="trms">relations ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> emotioal labor='strcls'>***

proximity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what i heard so much when i went back to ="nms">iran='lgc'>: to ke inja insti nemiduni تو که اینجا نیستی نمیدونی)

='strcls'>*="trms">aesthetic of authenticity='strcls'>* in news reports (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- mobile phones)
political economy of foreign reporting
politics of hope (with an ambition to inspire all Syrians to rebel)
...emotional attachment to political goals


='strcls'>*revolution='lgc'>: the event that changes people's lives and in ="trms">relation to which they locate themselves politically
="lsts lst1">•conflict in Syria began as an uprising, it ended up an ="trms">international war, which in 2020 appears to have mostly con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded in the favour of the regime ='lgc'>=/= revolution
="lsts lst1">•the word “revolution” means something else to activists in Syria (how the meanings projected on the term changed in ="trms">accordance to circumstances)
="lsts lst2">◦(most of the time, artists and activists) ='strcls'>****use a word to galvanise their emotions and bodies='strcls'>**** and inspired them to take actions they would not have ="trms">imagined to pursue ='lgc'>[use of words ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what people hope ='lgc'>=/= descriptive='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦word (for example “revolution”)='lgc'>: a marker of an ='strcls'>*inward-looking description='strcls'>* of belonging to a broad political ="trms">community defined by op="trms">position
="lsts lst1">•“the revolution” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affectively ="trms">consumed the pursuit of truth
="lsts lst1">•an identity-marker (based on a political orientation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an inward-looking signifier to mark who one is ='lgc'>+ what political ="trms">community they belong to ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a politics of what one had wanted ='lgc'>=/= describe what one observes='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(revolution='lgc'>:) personified and humanised as a well-meaning political ="trms">agent (that sometimes strays from its goals by committing errors)
="lsts lst1">•motivating people to get involved in activism
="lsts lst1">•

(Said's Orientalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) subaltern others (are typically considered) living within a constant state of violence ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- much older Western regime of re="trms">presentation perceived them as culturally close to violence

="large lg1" stl="font-size:130%"> (Ghazzi > ="ppl">Badiou >) some events are felt as ="trms">historic as they galvanise the energies of political actors who ="trms">imagine themselves as ‘mounting the ="trms">stage of ="trms">history’ ='lgc'>--Koselleck='lgc'>='lgc'>--> acts of information dissemination are engulfed by the event and are aimed at bridging the temporal distance between the desired and experienced ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “journalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= activism”

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collective ="trms">memory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical victimhood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> consolidating power
(="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) a view of ="trms">history as a series of junctures where good fought evil ='lgc'>==Ghazzi='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">historical victimhood

global rise of popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list politics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">tropes of self-victimisation
="lsts lst1">•revolutionary
="lsts lst1">•resistance
="lsts lst1">•nationalism
="lsts lst1">•populism
="lsts lst1">•neo-fascism
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operationalize victimhood (by whom / against whom)

one is wronged, targeted, injured (by the elite, the media, external enemies)
="lsts lst1">•self='lgc'> = true underdog ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> victim
="lsts lst1">•opponents='lgc'> = inauthentic adversary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> oppressor
= homogeneous ='lgc'>+ antagonistic
='lgc'>--="ppl">Laclau='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chain of equivalence='lgc'>: (from) corruptions ='lgc'>=/= o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> traitors ='lgc'>=/= patriots ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intruders ='lgc'>=/= natives ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> faithless ='lgc'>=/= faithful ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*sub="trms">mission  ='lgc'>=/= heroism='strcls'>* and ...
='lgc'>}= ='strcls'>*populism='strcls'>* (political dialectic)

(="trms">storytelling)
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of ='strcls'>*what='strcls'>* a ="trms">society re="trms">members ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{highly ="trms">formulaic plot structures ='lgc'>--for='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narrating the ="trms">past='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of ='strcls'>*how='strcls'>* a ="trms">society re="trms">members ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{powerful actors push for particular kinds of ="trms">story forms that shape the ways they tell all ="trms">stories='lgc'>}

zigzag structures of a rise and fall and/or fall and rise of the nation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> future dramatically takes one of two routes='lgc'>: (in the direction of) either a golden age or the dark ages
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--Ghazzi='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forked ="trms">historical consciousness ='lgc'>: (an understanding ='and'>& speaking of) “="trms">history='lgc'> = a series of junctures scattered across time”


(the problem is) ='strcls'>***="trms">historical consciousness='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> orientational
“bestows upon actuality a temporal direction, an orientation that can guide action intentionally by the ="trms">agency of ="trms">historical ="trms">memory” (Rüsen)
="lstsrd">1. make ="trms">specific references to ="trms">historic events (compare them to the ="trms">present ='lgc'>[='lgc'>==guide='lgc'>='lgc'>==> political action='lgc'>])
="lstsrd">2. ='strcls'>*making references to “="trms">history” at large='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]zigzag ="trms">memory structure='lgc'>: deploy mnemonic spins to reframe ="trms">historic events
="lsts lst1">•establish equivalent between the ="trms">present and the ="trms">past ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--!='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (fundamentally despotic='qstn'>?) ="trms">technique that i also use in ="trms">lecture performances='lgc'>]


="trms">authoritarian populism


(="ppl">Hegelian) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]action='lgc'>: pursue one aspect of ="trms">history ='lgc'>+ breaking away from away from another
="lstsrd">1. (="trms">modern) revolutionary='lgc'>: telling a new ="trms">story, (='lgc'>--popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list='lgc'>='lgc'>--> focus on) ='strcls'>*ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary politics='strcls'>*, once the leader is in power the objective is to prolong ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">historic juncture ='lgc'>--justify='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continued ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion

popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ='lgc'>--="ppl">Laclau='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (invocation of)
="lsts lst1">•people='lgc'> = empty signifier
="lsts lst1">•leader='lgc'> = ="trms">embodiment of people's ="trms">agency

='strcls'>***="trms">rhetoric of resentment='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> victimhood
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]resentment='lgc'>: an emotional-moral framework ='lgc'>--aim='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continuously regenerate the felt intensities ='lgc'>--under="trms">write='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">demands for revenge ='lgc'>+ lamentations (of victimhood)


='strcls'>***nationalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> populism='strcls'>***

(many countries) national identity (& militancy) is ="trms">intertwined with='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narrative of self-victimization ='lgc'>--
="lsts lst1">•invocation of trauma

victorious victimhood ='lgc'>==fuels='lgc'>='lgc'>==> aggressive militancy
for example ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Israel='lgc'>: nothing counts as evidence as one's own empowerment, one is always under threat, if Israel cannot maintain the omnipotent ="trms">position that its victory offered (1967) it would be under existential threat

anticolonial nationalism (or postcolonial populism)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">past injury (“We have been oppressed” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “re-empower ourselves again”)
="lsts lst1">•decades after independence ='lgc'>--still='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fixated on the anticolonial moment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perpetuate a sense of victimhood ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to mask ="trms">authoritarianism

victimhood
="lsts lst1">•Hindu nationalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">formulated ="trms">history from a focus on colonialism and postcolonial nation-building into a ="trms">narrative of victimhood that blames ="trms">historic Muslim invasions for the decline of Hindu civilisation and nationhood
="lsts lst1">•China ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">formulated its school ="trms">history text="trms">books to stress victimhood and humiliation through ='thdf'>the idea of China's “100 years of humiliation” in reference to Western and Japanese invasions
="lsts lst1">•United States ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nationalism often takes the shape of antipathy to government that is enmeshed with an ideology of liberal individualism
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***logic of empowerment='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>--permeate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> economies of visibility)


='strcls'>***="trms">memory ="trms">narrative='strcls'>***


="nms">iran ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shohada شهدا martyrs of ="nms">iran-iraq war ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> after the war became the picture of collective victimhood (“heroes='lgc'> = us”)

Erdogan's speech
“we have been tested by fire” (='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Siavash's fire trial is popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “we have been tested by enemy”
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “evil forces”


(from) populism ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> neofascism
(from) generic ="trms">rhetoric of an unidentified enemy ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">articulation of an identifiable foe (who is met with political violence)

="trms">authoritarian state ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>[= political ="trms">system ='lgc'>+ culture ='lgc'>+ institutions ='lgc'>+ ='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--allow='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smoother way of operationalisation of ="trms">narratives (about the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers of adversaries)
="prgrph">-exactly what kind of state ="trms">apparatus we have in ="nms">iran='qstn'>?


="trms">historical victimhood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resurgent popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list discourse
="lsts lst1">•people have been enduring victimhood for too long
="lsts lst1">•fateful junctures throughout ="trms">history
="lsts lst1">•authentic great path
="lsts lst1">•urgency of message
="lsts lst1">•

animating ="trms">rhetoric with self-victimhood ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> divisions (men ='lgc'>=/= women, us ='lgc'>=/= enemy, etc.)



ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary politics ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- homogeneous ="trms">community (='lgc'>=/= alien intrusion, outside forces, immigrants, minorities, etc.)

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Kundera
is humor ="trms">modern='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*humor is not ancient='strcls'>* (='qstn'>?!)
“whatever humor touches it ambiguites”
humor='lgc'> = ambiguitor

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globalization ='lgc'>=/= cold war
globalization ='lgc'>=/= enlightenment (“universal humanism ='lgc'>+ rationalized tech ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> freedom for all”)

cold war='lgc'> = a meaningfull ="trms">relation between ideology ='and'>& power ='lgc'>[='lgc'>==give='lgc'>='lgc'>==> orientation ='lgc'>+ identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> normative approach to global ="trms">phenomena='lgc'>]
geopolitc ='lgc'>+ ideologic borders
='lgc'>=/=
globalization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> completly ="trms">different political behaivor (de="trms">finitions of national goals, friend and enemy, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list democracy (="trms">differences ='lgc'>+ contrasts) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social democracy (erasing ="trms">differences)

globalization='lgc'> = attitude حالت ='lgc'>=/= meaning
='lgc'>[cold war='lgc'>: “="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (a ="trms">sort of) problem” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> behaviors had='lgc'>] meaning ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (base for) power

cold war='lgc'>: war ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> identities
globalization='lgc'>: conflits ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=> identities

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="large lg6" stl="font-size:113%"> two points
="lsts lst1">•artistic research='lgc'>: a form of art that uses knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as its main medium
="lsts lst1">•artistic research has no ="trms">relation to the unknown (='lgc'>=/= an idea of research im in which one faces something unknown or new therefore needs to research)
="lsts lst1">•='mywrk'>my work (in general) has been about the critique of engineering (the talent of engineering)

="brkr">
the fossil of fire goes back before the ="trms">wild-life

the ="trms">history of fire related to the ="trms">history of forest

In the 1950s, government officials in Sierra Juarez of Oaxaca='lgc'>--in southern Mexico='lgc'>--blamed forest destruction upon the local indigenous ="trms">communities. Fire, as a ="trms">symbol of disorder, became the target of state control and the subject of a state-sponsored discourse of environmental degradation. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] Fire suppression frequently has been part of state policies of ="trms">social control. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] The vision of fire as destructive, part of the state ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] How has the ="trms">memory of the traditional use of fire by indigenous ="trms">communities been suppressed='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]State political myth has obscured ="trms">community ="trms">memories of fire as a force in the forest, and as a tool for human use. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] Why the indigenous ="trms">communities of the Sierra Juarez no longer talk about the long-term ="trms">history of their forests. Clearly, the ="trms">communities ="trms">internalized parts of the state-sponsored degradation discourse. (However, discourse analysis is not enough; it is all too easy to treat discourse as a monolithic structure of ideas='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ) ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] These discourses require a threat, a source of chaos and disorder to which the moral regeneration of the progressive discourse can provide a solution. In the case of the Sierra juarez, forest fires provide this op="trms">position. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] It is exactly this resistance of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world to discursive domination that is one of the themes of this article. ='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]ANDREWSA LVADORMA THEWS - suppressing FIRE AND MEMORY='lgc'>: ENVIRONMENTALDE GRADATIONAN D POLITICALRE STORATION INT HES IERRAJ UAREZO F OAXACA, 1887-2001

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Jinn older and Man

="trms">ecology of the Jinn


(Qur'an)
raging fire
scorched by burning fire
striking sparks of fire
and roasting at hell-fire
the fire of Allah, kindled
...



bringing together of two homogeneous blocks of ="trms">material in a given, al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-inhabited space

as if we knew what space and time mean



“the desert bighorn is an ="trms">animal shaped by ice. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the design of ="trms">wild sheep is very much an expression of arctic cold.” (="ppl">Meloy)
(what the design of fire is as expression of='qstn'>? what shaped fire='qstn'>? ice='qstn'>?)
(we are shaped also by fire)

how you go from lizard to ="trms">bird='qstn'>?
it must have been through the behavior of lizard that ‘="trms">birdness’ has come to be possible. a certain trait of behavior have allowed the lizard find itself in the air.


ice age
="trms">story of fire, ="trms">story of grass, ...

after the establishment of a land-based flora (Middle Ordovician period, 470 million years ago) and permitting the accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere it permitted the possibility of ="trms">wildfire.

Fire also became more abundant when grasses radiated and became the dominant component of many eco="trms">systems, around 6 to 7 million years ago;

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electrical fire



conflict between the “junk” and the “text” that seemed to fascinate

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how to ="trms">write cold with fire='qstn'>? the medium of fire is incompatible with that of the paper. paper burns fire off! the combustion emerging elements energized by their contact fuels a sudden blow of increase in their ex="trms">cited entropy. flame. action is the breeze that death digs. foam knows no halt. the focus is noised and seeds location. place penetrates in shattery nozzles o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginating from thousands of nowheres. inferno's insurance is about aggression of hot.

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A) Accident, Action, Adrenaline, Aggressive, Aid, Air="trms">craft, Alarm, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alert, Ambulance, Apprehension, Arson, Ash, Assess, Assist
B) Bad, Barricades, Battle, Blacken, Blame, Blanket, Blast, Blaze, B="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lister, Blow out, Breeze, Burning, Burns, Bystander
C) Car, Careless, Catastrophe, Caution, Challenge, Char, Chimney, Choice, Claim, Conflagration, ="trms">Consume, ="trms">Consumption, Contain, Control, Coordination, Crackle, Crash
D) Damage, Death, Destruction, Detect, Dig, Direction, Dirty, Dispatch, Drama
E) Electrical, Embers, Emergency, EMT, Engulf, Experience, Explode, Extinguish
F) Facts, Fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, Fared, Fascination, Fell, Fierce, Fire-break, Firefighter, Fireplace, Flames, Flammable, Flash, Foam, Focus, F="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, Fuel
G)
H) Halt, Happening, Holocaust, Home, Hose, Hot, Hot spot, House, Hydrant
I) Inaccessible, Inferno, Injury, Insurance, ="trms">Interfere, Investigation
J) Judgment, Juris="trms">diction
K) Kindle, Knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
L) Laboring, Life-threatening, Lightening strike, Limitations, Lives, Location, Losses, Luck
M) Malfunction, Matches, Mechanical, Medical attention, ="trms">Memory, Mesmerize, Misery
N) Needs, Nine-one-one, Noise, Nozzle
O) Observe, Odor, Ordeal, O="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin
P) Paramedic, Penetration, Place, Police, Potency, Potential, Prevention, Progress, Prone, Pumps
Q) Quench, Quick
R) Reaction, Repellent, Requirement, Residue, Risk
S) Safety, Scenario, Set, Shatter, Shelter, Siren fire truck, ="trms">Situation, Smell, Smoke, Smoke jumper, Smokey the Bear, Smoldering, Smother, Sprinkler ="trms">system, Statement, Stop, Strategy, Strength, Stressful, Stretcher, Suffering, Susceptible, Swath
T) Tactic, Target, Terror, ="trms">Thick, Threaten, Trailer, Training, Trees, Trench
U) Uncontrolled, Urgent
V) Victim, Vigilant, Volunteers
W) Watch, Water, Weakness, Weather, ="trms">Wilderness, Wind, Worse
X) X-ray
Y) Yelling
Z) Zone



(Ajayeb)
Know! That I saw in fire many benefits, insomuch benefits that ‘he’ set in fire, the intellects of India and Greece erred and prostrated this fire-thing and this betrayal stayed in magus ='lgc'>[Zoroastrians='lgc'>] and they became fire-worshiper until it became certain that the God's guidance offers and just with reason alone work cannot be done fully and if they worship fire of its benefits then in mud there is more benefits than that and in water more benefits than there is in fire and if The Creator wants to make wanderers of a folk he infects them with a substance as he infected the Indians with worshiping cow and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christians with worshiping the hoof of Christ's donkey and the pagans with worshiping idol and ="trms">matter
and we shall mention the attributes of fire and its properties='lgc'>:
Know! That fire has taken the whole ="trms">world of universe and no stone and no wood is not uncharged with fire. If a fool takes a piece of wood and asks “where is fire='qstn'>?” I say the way of everything is in manifestation as when two woods strike together made of Margh and Afar,='lgc'>[1='lgc'>] fire will appear or hit stone to ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal

="large lg50" stl="font-size:122%"> ='lgc'>[1='lgc'>] ="trms">According to Jashn-e Sadeh recalls the importance of light, fire and energy; light which comes from God is found in the hearts of his creatures. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hushang and the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of fire

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we are too abstract, we are thinking yes there are things out there ="trms">wild or whatever. then we must be surprise to see that the abstract far thing is made of flesh, quartz, or fire.

unlike camels and rats and sheep, other four legged or mammals, fire is not designed for something, the way organisms evolved to have meanings and re="trms">presentations to each other. fire ="trms">embodies a vast place in our ="trms">material and industrial and ="trms">semiotic ="trms">world but itself is not a creature of evolution. it knows nothing of ="trms">symbiogensis nor of molecular compartmenship. fire is an elementary radical reaction to closeness. the third person. pure manifestation.

every mountain range have personalities. rock is arrange by evolution. it tells you about itself when you feel it firm in your hand pressing to your ear, asking thousands of ="trms">questions, exploring with ="trms">imagination. stone is not a ="trms">social creature, maybe that's why we ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to them. fires are ="trms">social beings, death sentences.
their ="trms">society and ="trms">ecology
reaching access to the ="trms">literacy of fire-work

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(...) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the black-box ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ka'ba ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ="trms">intermediate mechanism to reach beyond the door-knob ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dark medium of worship ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the jinn ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ontology of the envelopment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ="trms">interiority that is exterior ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> talking-fire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mediums of the beyond ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> put your ‘thing’ in the fire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> going through the fire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> test some fossils ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ice age ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">databases that survive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> promises of futurity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tech ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> black-box is always about the-envelope and the-beyond ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> going back to the cave ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> monotheism invented darkness (praying in the dark marked singulaity of worship as the begining of subjectivity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is a sudden big shift from telling-stone to talking-fire (introducing the ="trms">spectacularization of truth-event, where risky ="trms">aesthetic of fire ="trms">coded as masculine is traded for a ="trms">mutuality of slower ="trms">wilderness a more feminine ="trms">trope. the telling-stone proposes a totally ="trms">different ="trms">ecological model than the survivorship ="trms">narratives en="trms">coded in the trial of the talking-fire. truth became untouchable visual ="trms">spectacle that can burn and annihilate charging off the haptic closeness of the stone to the ear. truth became the ="trms">matter of untouchable, visual. the angry truth god came with the fire both as tool of worship and punish (human taking lessens and used fire to discipline the forces of ="trms">nature) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the darkness that enveloped the worship, made the absence of light crucial for constructing ="trms">interiority ='lgc'>[note='lgc'>: before going to light-fire the worshipers must wash themselves in Vozu, in Namaz the worshpers wash themselvs before going to the darkness of prayers='lgc'>='lgc'>---is this water that we make vozu the same as ‘abe heyvan’='qstn'>? before going into the hyper space, the ritual plays a key role and a key hole. like all hyper spaces that forwards you yo the beyond the box as well is about deliverence (to the ="trms">lover='qstn'>?)='lgc'>: (for the sake of) salvation ‘rastgari’ is about delivering ‘you’ (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Ma'ad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> masaleye “enteghal” ='lgc'>[be alame digar='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[dar tarikh falsafeye eslami ="nms">irani ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to footnote in Motakhabat 2nd volume page44='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for ='strcls'>*="ppl">Rumi people is firewood, hizom, inflammables; fire is the ="trms">present tense, its light is about the future and its ashes about the ="trms">past='lgc'>: we like ash to perform our archiological ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings of old fires and we like its light becsuse it helps us to push through and constatly make-="trms">imagine-lighten the future, i this model the ="trms">present is untouchable.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the beyond is beginning to loosen its ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> accumulation of synonyms (before ="trms">language) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors given birth slowly ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from the Pleisto="trms">cene to Ordovician ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the accumulation of oxygen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fire was permitted to exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> etc.
(keeping a fire burring for a long time is a very strange thing to do. it is utterly Paleolithic to do keep fire, making it stone. it was Muhammad who turned off the lights, ="trms">literally. when he was born, one the oldest Zoroastrians fire temples suddenly extinguished for no apparent reason. the blessed dark. the box, fire, both are means to have access to the inaccessible. ='at'>#Muhammad inception/birth had to be connected to a super="trms">natural event.)

(talking) fire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speech
(telling) stone ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">written

in the ="trms">history, the leg-less-stone and the lying-visage have been together. a study of apparition must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the physical ="trms">material as well, not as counterparts, rather as its play-mate.

(fire suppressing) an older ="trms">ecology of reflection (namely the stone)

the telling stone is the same as spirit stone(='qstn'>?)='lgc'>='lgc'>---non-="trms">animal container (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Karin)
(stone is related to the spirits of the ground. the prisoner who throw a pebble into the pit, the pebble's sound is going to tell about the depths and darknesses that the human, on death sentence, does not have a long enough rope to carry too. so the rope is never enough, the linear connection, the closed chain of links, but the throwing stone can risk a disjunction between that mother='lgc'>->king='lgc'>->prisoner='lgc'>->darkness)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sending a guy into the pit is not typical for the cultures of Pleisto="trms">cene='lgc'>: (using linear connection, darkness ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= unkown, and so on)
='lgc'>[="ppl">Shepard='lgc'>] Pre="trms">historic humans were autochthonous, that is, “native to their place.” (related to the earthly stone ='lgc'>=/= fire that perpetually evacuates) (it is not that of the introvert stone and the extrovert fire, but the op="trms">posite, stone was ="trms">social and fire allied ="trms">interiority, it sent/banished the subject to the land of the mediated, ‘from now on you are coming from mediation.’ (Where the subject comes from='qstn'>? it comes from the mediation.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> use me ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> industrialize with me ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technologize with me ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stone-tech are 1.5 million years earlier than fire-tech ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> with stone you can't reach the sky but by controlling combustion you can go up ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> alienation as the touchstone of humankind ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> then comes the “reflective consciousness” of humankind ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and later the invention of the very strange object='lgc'>: the mirror ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to amazon='at'>#2DifficultForests='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a change in the “structure of existence” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> then ='thdf'>the idea of “selftranscendence” by monotheist ="trms">religions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adventures of power and ideology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> then a very bad idea called “="trms">history” was introduced='lgc'>='lgc'>---an active, psychological force that separates humankind from the rest of ="trms">nature because of its disregard for the deep connections to the ="trms">past.='lgc'>[="ppl">Shepard 2004='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- Lévi-="ppl">Strauss points out, ="trms">historical thought is analytical and concerned with continuity and “closing gaps and dissolving ="trms">differences” to the point that it “transcends o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal discontinuity.”)
='lgc'>[in east mirror was never used as mean to self reflect, rather it was weaponized agains evil, although this evil was female and men used mirror to defeat it. unlike the western thought since the ="trms">greeks in the ="trms">Narcissus ="trms">story where mirror is the foundation of self-absorbance and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and madness, the easterns since they did not posses the same brand of selfhood they found mirror strange and uttelized it in curious ways, another optical problem ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to mirror and the ="trms">laughing snake - mar-e ghahghahezan, img='lgc'>]
...through the speaking fire, events “on earth” were finished except for a final judgment by fire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> invention of sin, spiritual existence ='lgc'>: selftranscendence. ="trms">anthropoce separating themselves from earth and its processes
="prgrph">-‘essence’, ‘appearance’, and ‘change’ became sources of ="trms">anxiety
="prgrph">-other forms of life are now irrelevant to humans
="prgrph">-from now on “you cannot be two things, in two places, or in two times, at once.” , no more overlapping identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> alienation from (the domains of) nonhuman life
="prgrph">-the “Persian” new mind, (intanced by fire,) divided the ="trms">world into ="trms">material creation and in="trms">finite spirit that would shape the philosophy of the civilized ="trms">world. (="ppl">Shepard 2004)
(-in my amazon ="trms">book i am pointing out='lgc'>: Esthetic distancing also made possible the landscape arts and connoisseurship and commercialization as s="trms">cenery painting, tourism, and recreation. To the credit of the ="trms">Greeks, they resisted converting the landscape into s="trms">cenery and ="trms">wilderness into an ="trms">aesthetic experience.)

we are not directed towards a ="trms">measured location, (as his-="trms">story tries to make belief)

“After you die, others live.” (="frds">Sina)

old ="trms">world's arboreal simians, monkeys

="trms">Anthropos

cultures of Pleisto="trms">cene
="prgrph">-Pleisto="trms">cene was the time of glaciation and ice. Much of the ="trms">world's temperate zones were alternately covered by glaciers during cool periods and uncovered during the warmer ="trms">interglacial periods when the glaciers retreated. it is when the evolution and expansion of Homo sapiens and by the close of the Pleisto="trms">cene, humans had sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read through most of the ="trms">world.

Agonic / Hedonic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my Köln group, agonistic doctrine challenges that mode of personality

="trms">ontogenesis='lgc'>='lgc'>---extended in human (the specialized and scheduled development of physical and psychological traits that appear, disappear, or ="trms">stagnate during the life cycle of the individual.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Neoteny (a “state of newness"='lgc'>--a retardation of certain parts of the maturing process.) preprograms life ="trms">stages, so that our becoming is a lifelong process.
="prgrph">-developement of the self in terms of harmonious ="trms">relations to other ="trms">species and nunhumans.
="prgrph">-="trms">ontogenetic ="trms">agenda ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- (The ="trms">agenda is a given; the support depends on a ="trms">social ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readiness to nurture, itself a product of successful ="trms">ontogeny of an older generation.)
="prgrph">-many myths cor="trms">respond to the ="trms">ontogenesis. in ="trms">Ontogeny, timing is everything='lgc'>='lgc'>---="trms">narrative.
="prgrph">-aspect of the ="trms">ontogenetic self='lgc'>='lgc'>---(the ="trms">modern ="trms">world has lost the ways to guide the) new person emerging at each ="trms">stage
='lgc'>[from kinfolk complexity and elderhood to medically sustained old age='lgc'>] ='lgc'>-- i myself have turned to old folk to do ="trms">storytelling, as necessity(!='qstn'>?)

one emerging in Pleisto="trms">cene, is about perceiving one's place in the scheme of things (and not sending people down the pit into darknesses)

WE NOT ONLY LOOKED ‘AT’ ANIMALS, WE ALSO LOOKED ‘INSIDE’ THEM, realizing that they were more kin than indicated by our exteriors. (it wasn't ="ppl">Aristotle first who was performing such procedures)

attaching sounds to things/="trms">animals/="trms">species when they were not visible
(“Never ignore a sound!”)

in="trms">heritance (DNA, etc.) calls upon human ="trms">society and ="trms">imagination to invent its exact expressions.

human ="trms">species’ “theme” is Paleolithic

(those who are “better” live in a ="trms">natural environment and a cultural ="trms">system that are closer to) meeting the “expectations” of the genes

="trms">Children at age six are typically ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic

trees structure space

='strcls'>**="trms">imagining the possibilities of something else being in there.
(how we were doing it='qstn'>? before fire)

“A meditative stillness that is good for the human soul, sug="trms">gests ="trms">poet Gary Snyder, was invented by motionless hunters. That moment of silent reverence comes also at the final death stroke when one succumbs to the cycle of life.” (="ppl">Shepard)
='lgc'>[from predation to hunting (there is a huge ="trms">epistemological shift) (="trms">matter of re="trms">presentation and ="trms">interpretation)='lgc'>]

mammalian ="trms">ecology

='lgc'>[(let's) risk everything (instead of risk-reducing) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- issues of re="trms">presentation and ="trms">agency in thinking ‘with’ ="trms">animals. textual, ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ="trms">animal in ="ppl">Attar line of thinking='lgc'>]

a distant call in known terrain says it is the there, not the here, where attention should be paid. ='lgc'>[far, o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of our ="trms">tropes, ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='qstn'>? abstraction='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? motionless hunters invented motionless meditative worship='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-(kinfolk in) swamps, brush, and forest (in terms of discerning the ='strcls'>*="trms">relationships between ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clues='strcls'>*)
="prgrph">-(indirect) dealing with the escapable (='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> tracking strategies ='lgc'>+ ="trms">symbolic thought)

a central theme='lgc'>: (a banquet/feast at which) the participants='lgc'>--eater and eaten='lgc'>--risk the improvements of mind against the certainty of occasional poor decisions, (faulty ="trms">memory, carelessness, errors of judgment, and the decrepitude of age and disease.)
="prgrph">-Those who fled had to understand ='lgc'>[the limits of distance, the intentions of the others, and='lgc'>] (the ability to control) the ="trms">abyssal terror that itself would engulf them if they submitted to panic. ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mind
="prgrph">-“self” emerged as the consequence of “participation,” a calculative and organizational relatoin of the individual within the group='qstn'>? (and perceiving the so-called “inanimate” entities) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- shaped by the game ='lgc'>-- a participant amidst other participants oriented by the action
(David Abraham='lgc'>: Perception is Participation, in an animistic logic)

mind, ="trms">memory, ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cognition and ="trms">communication ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reference ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> imitating the ="trms">animal's calls ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> stylized performances ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (a repertoire of) ="trms">symbolized references (sign ="trms">language='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> accumulation of synonims (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ="trms">consuming ="trms">symbolic ambition) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> early ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphores ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narratives get out of hand (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “concrete” is invented) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narration of ="trms">past is invented which is always about the future) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">codification of ="trms">world without tense or ="trms">causality in ="trms">language ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tense ='and'>& ="trms">causality ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pervasive truths
="prgrph">-this diagram is about the future for the subject whom is using the signs, telling the others where the game ="trms">animal is and will be. in this text i am trying to panto="trms">mime a mimicked reference (of where the ='lgc'>[game='lgc'>] ="trms">animal is), sharing ='thdf'>the idea of a thing that is syntaxically there, so we can run it. every utterance is about where i have last seen the “="trms">animal,” and how fat or far it is. ='lgc'>[running had “magical ends” - Peter Nabokov, ‘Indian Running’ (Santa Barbara='lgc'>: Capra, 1981)='lgc'>]

="trms">symbolism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> man ="trms">traveling within himself ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> need to ="trms">travel outside an in="trms">finitely larger reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> beyond ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- ="trms">different brand(s) of in="trms">finity

secular hunting ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- the hunt becomes ="trms">monstrous. i am calling for an old sacred hunt ='lgc'>[sustained in myth and ceremony='qstn'>?='lgc'>] of concepts='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-hunt is ="trms">gestalt(en)

(with our) hopes and ="trms">tropes

boundary creatures and ="trms">matters ='lgc'>-- fire's function/act was peripheral, was in the threshold ="trms">world of human passages(='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>[then it made an entrance='lgc'>]

humans’ ="trms">mimetic participation with fire

in="trms">finitely complex af="trms">finities



to be noted the nuanced ="trms">differences between talking and telling (harf-zadan/goftan)
='strcls'>*talking='strcls'>* can not be accompanied by a direct object (the talked) and ='strcls'>*telling='strcls'>* might not be accompanied by a direct subject (you are told without a direct teller.) so talking is about the talker and telling is about the told, the ear.
(you ='strcls'>*ask fire ="trms">questions, but you ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to stone what it is telling. ='lgc'>[what fire sug="trms">gesting, offering to the sense='qstn'>? (i am thinking Ajayeb)='lgc'>] with fire you can debate but this debate is bulshit since you are under its ="trms">spectacularity and ="trms">authority, superior to the (inflammable) ="trms">world, became the domminent contemplated object, administrating conditions of existence, you can never touch the fire, you can never become ‘bodies’ with fire, it is immune from human activity, endusing one-way ="trms">communication (auto-governed gusture of comminution), garanteeing an abstract condition of hierarchical power. but stone ‘is’ for touching and bodying, ="trms">sensuous touch is the ="trms">matter of stone, intimacy='strcls'>*, ="trms">sensuous intimacy with the stone, ="trms">sensuous proximity)
='lgc'>='lgc'>---(rock in water ='lgc'>: reef)
="prgrph">-transcontextual; transcontextuality='lgc'> = tanglement ='lgc'>{figures running in op="trms">posit directions but held together='lgc'>}


="trms">nature is a context
='strcls'>*="trms">past is a context

='strcls'>*the landscape is full of ghosts (whether we want it or not)
mediated forms

="large lg10" stl="font-size:129%"> Some examples of exothermic processes='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-spontaneous combustion (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= fire)
="prgrph">-Nuclear fusion (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= sun)
="prgrph">-(in this ="trms">writing, i am going to take a defenition of fire recovering it from bible, that of the ="trms">spectacle flame that of the ="trms">material of specter in the Qur'anic Jinn, and not other forms of exothermic processes)

the issue is reversibility
(“evolution” inevitable='qstn'>? Irreversible='qstn'>?)


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•A ="trms">Materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list Inquiry into the Beyond
="lsts lst1">•A Mineral Inquiry into the Beyond
="lsts lst1">•Genealogy of a Worship='lgc'>: Talking-Fire and Telling-Stone
="lsts lst1">•Talking-Fire and Telling-Stone - Genealogy of a Worship
="lsts lst1">•Ajayeb-e Atash
="lsts lst1">•Fire and the Transcendental Subject
="lsts lst1">•Zolmat and the Appropriation of the Elsewhere
="lsts lst1">•Fire and ="trms">Different ="trms">Internals of Being
="lsts lst1">•Black-Box and other Human Extensions



genealogy of a worship (fire)
how can one pray ‘to’ ="trms">animals='qstn'>? (='lgc'>~ prey upon them)
how can one pray ‘to’ elements='qstn'>?

amenity (of stone) (='lgc'>=/= enmity of fire)



='strcls'>*trial by fire, fire as judge
(test, ="trms">respond to whether or not something is true or false)
="nms">iranian frost, is not the same as ice='lgc'>='lgc'>---ice was still the object of fascination. transforming fire into mosque='lgc'>='lgc'>---atash masjed shod. ‘dudeman’ coming from ‘dud,’ smoke as your ="trms">ancestery. a telling-smoke was your in="trms">heritence, your grandpa. same in Latin='lgc'>: ‘focus’ means both fire-place and ="trms">ancestral
ether ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> azar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> atash
fire='lgc'> = (institutional='qstn'>?)-order ='lgc'>~ justice='lgc'> = law ='lgc'>=/= nondialectic
the order of fire ='lgc'>=/= agonism ='lgc'>[="trms">positivly channeled disagreement='lgc'>]
the order of fire is a ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list conception of ="trms">history, that fire eventually purifies and leave no reason but the reason of harmonious ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= con="trms">sensus, the ubiquitous Übereinstimmung of fire
athletisism of Shahnameh and fire-trial (contest oriented toward victory of defeat; transcendence, truth, and growth are generated from the outcome of the contest;) is exactly the cancelation of an agonistic notion of defeat (in Shahnameh='lgc'>: dishonor='lgc'> = defeat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the defeated='lgc'> = the ="trms">monster, the ‘Div’)
‘agon’ in Latin ="trms">literaly means arena of competition, the s="trms">cene of contest='lgc'>--meydan='qstn'>? what would be (the ="trms">instrumental) ="trms">relation to the mode of destruction in Shahnameh's kind of fire='qstn'>?


Indo-="nms">Iranian register of fire worship (around 1500 BC)
="prgrph">-fire burns (ever) upwards
(Sadeh festival, Shahnameh, ="nms">Iran)
="prgrph">-Sadeh='lgc'>: fire-related festivals celebrated throughout Greater ="nms">Iran and date back to when Zoroastrianism was still the predominant ="trms">religion of the region. (Wikipedia)


Lindsey Collins ='lgc'>[on ="trms">intersection of illness and landscape='lgc'>]
="trms">wilderness therapy (in cancer activism)
a feminist and still-growing therapeutic model, slow ="trms">wilderness, in which risk is made manageable and contained, and fast and risky ="trms">aesthetics, ="trms">coded as masculine, are traded for ecofeminist ="trms">tropes of ="trms">mutuality, nurturing, and femininity
="prgrph">-recovery climbers actively make permeable bodies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">ecologies

“recovery climbs='lgc'> = ="trms">embodied practices of resilience ='lgc'>+ ="trms">inter="trms">relation” ='lgc'>=/= survivorship ="trms">narrative

(for Woolf) illness='lgc'>: emergence of new landscape (you discover “wastes and deserts” and “obdurate oaks,” more so than a mere subtraction from or attenuation of life)



fire's ="trms">dictatorship in Siyavash ="trms">story, a fire's aspect as instituted ="trms">social order

='strcls'>*trial by fire
trial by mountain ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= rock='lgc'>] (slow ="trms">wilderness) ='lgc'>-- suffering and healing in difficult landscapes (Lindsey Collins - phd) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{climbing mountain peaks and summits figures as a journey similar to a struggle with disease ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- ="trms">wilderness therapy creates what she calls a ='strcls'>**slow ="trms">wilderness,='strcls'>** in which risk is made manageable and contained, and fast and risky ="trms">aesthetics, ="trms">coded as masculine, are traded for ecofeminist ="trms">tropes of ="trms">mutuality, nurturing, and femininity. ='lgc'>-- it is about making permeable bodies (='lgc'>+and landscapes through their ="trms">interactions.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- climb='lgc'>: ="trms">embodied practices of resilience and ="trms">inter="trms">relation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">different ="trms">ecological model='lgc'>: working with the limits and obstacles that illness brings ='lgc'>=/= repudiating illness in favor of ='strcls'>***survivorship ="trms">narratives='strcls'>***='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is a moment in Shahnameh highlighting this narative='lgc'>='lgc'>---can we look at the ="trms">story of Siyavash, his fire-trial, against Sudabeh='qstn'>? Siyavash raised by masculine figure Rostam cannot ="trms">love the feminine processes of Sudabeh, (she wants him, in an experimental ='lgc'>[sex='lgc'>] ="trms">erotic participation, her attempt at melting his moral ice, which we later find out fire cannot melt='strcls'>***) to break the fabric of ="trms">obligation (his intense commitment to the father-king combination) ='lgc'>=/= tribalism, betraying the patriarchal arrest (the myth of a single god/father and patriarchal faithfulness - ='strcls'>*the myth of the strong personality='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Siyavash='lgc'>--patriarcal type of guy who doesn't know how to ="trms">greet her snaky figure politly='lgc'>--excuses himself of a vital encounter and sustains an ascetic subtraction, and lets ="ppl">Ferdosi='lgc'>--alwayes on God-Fire's side='lgc'>--execute Sudabeh through the bad boy Rostam hyper-masculinity itself. Siyavash/Rostam is utterly non-queer, Siyavash='lgc'>: Rostam's pet project, domesticated, passes the exam. Sudabeh is shocked and screwed-over by the ="trms">narrative and ="trms">spectacularisation of the fire's truth-event in an “enactment” plotted by ="ppl">Ferdosi='lgc'>--she is done, she doens't have a deal with fire. She is accused of being Eros, of being garrulous, of wasting words with lunatic prodigality, the chattering, ranting, gossiping female, the tattle, the scold, the toothless crone her mouth wind-full of speech.
smell of Sudabeh='lgc'>: moshk, golab, sharab, in="trms">finite odors='lgc'>--she is ‘full of it.’ ="trms">drugs, toxins, ="trms">rumorous texts, etc. smell of Siyavosh='lgc'>: nothing. neutral. sober. his silence-treatment appeals to the big father. (king's nose. smelling as justuce ="trms">method='qstn'>? objective observation, provisional logic of nose, smell of smoke, and fire)
Rostam takes no delight in Sudabeh's voice since its register is nothing sweet nor low.
Siyavash cor="trms">responds to a set of idioms and is enraptured in the movement of certain silences in which he can grasp only certain falsehoods or menaces.
so Siyavash is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to go to-the-fire but not to-the-woman.
(never hesitant, even kills his own son by ignoring his signals) Rostam never daird to look the devil in the eyes (='lgc'>='lgc'>---Sudabeh had='qstn'>?)

the Sudabeh's case is a non-agonistic agon, not to be fooled by its decieving ="trms">differences from Rostam's combats='lgc'>--both are competition as a form of ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion. in her case we see forms of ="trms">social conflict in gender, class, race, and even ="trms">material ="trms">relations, (she is not relating to fire) leading to her losing the boy's game.

under the barbarous mathematics of Rostam, her figure fades into aspects and grammar of men,

fire signaling essence, essencing being (of her, his, it)
='lgc'>[things are still essencing at the distance='lgc'>='lgc'>---what Rostam radically is unable to understand='lgc'>]

(a ="trms">network of ="trms">relations and non="trms">relations depends on the way we address how ="ppl">Ferdosi ="trms">greets Sudabeh, failed in the exam and examination ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> fire creating a ="trms">network of ="trms">relations ='lgc'>[Rostam, Siyavosh,='lgc'>] and non="trms">relations ='lgc'>[Sudabeh, ="ppl">King,='lgc'>])
="prgrph">-what are the conditions enabling the delivery of the Sudabeh ='lgc'>[to the beyond (of Shahname)='lgc'>]='qstn'>? (of ="trms">greeting her='qstn'>?) which ="trms">poetic sites ='lgc'>[we don't want to enroll='lgc'>]='qstn'>? (we don't want to enroll in Rostam's department. the tragic hero, he ‘hits’, always after to save his sovereign, good at haft-khan, ending ="trms">beasts ='lgc'>[we are ="trms">interested in the ="trms">beasts, and not in his “seven” trails='lgc'>], so hurried in killing that he finshes his own son, not invincible to treachery and that is his end. but what was treachery again='qstn'>? (in Shahnameh) anything other than athletism and boys sord play='lgc'>: female “mouth”)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Ferdosi resisting any project of fusional gathering
='lgc'>[unlike Sudabeh, Tahmineh='lgc'>--Rostam's wife='lgc'>--was after having a ="trms">child with him. she gets a pass, passing ="ppl">Ferdosi's test of maternity. is Sudabeh's fault that she doesn't want to mother='qstn'>? And Rudabeh wants Zal az far as he plays the classic male role model in stealing her='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[there is a moment in Shahname when it conjoins women and ='lgc'>[disgust='qstn'>?='lgc'>], enmeshing them='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[and why am i taking upon myself to defend woman='qstn'>? ="trms">interrupting the ="trms">abyssal enjoyment of the ="trms">poem in punishing Sudabeh='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----of ="ppl">Ferdosi not allowing a feminine drift and deviation, from the Law. ='strcls'>***it's Father Time.
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> am i reclaiming otherness by enforcement='qstn'>? (recover her='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? understand her) why ="trms">zoom in her='qstn'>? why teaching myself how to trust and desire her='qstn'>? (allowing myself being ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured by her. why it is imperative to let ourselvse to be ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured by the “her-idea”='qstn'>?) (is ="ppl">Ferdosi mobilizing forces in ="nms">iranian hearts='qstn'>? militarize them='qstn'>? “jang-avari”) (the point is not to take critical power in disclaming the fire that valorized Siyavash and then take Sudabeh's side. rather the point is to energize the experiences of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphic transformation that animated fire of the fire-temple in the mind of ="ppl">Ferdosi. by participating in Sudabeh's case, her assemblage, i am also recovering my own capacity to care for ="ppl">Ferdosi's fire too and accept being mystified by its telling flames. ='lgc'>[end of Sudabeh part='lgc'>])

in a ="trms">world where humans were increasingly rendered particularly lively (than the creatures without nervous ="trms">systems ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= objects) with intense awarenesses, fire seemed to be even more lively, with an access to a/its/the beyond
(from stone as a fellow being to the fire the ="trms">authority figure='lgc'>='lgc'>---by the end of Pleisto="trms">cene)

(Jesus) will baptize you with fire. (the Old Believers)

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moses in fire='lgc'>: stop the re="trms">presentation! stop the constant de="trms">monstration! show me body! show me a flesh i can feel! put your hand in the fire moses! i am that which is not burning your hand. i am what that lies beyond. you are my creation, you are of mediation. if your body was my creation, your hand would burn.
it is told that Zaratustra had a fire that was everlasting and would not burn.

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Ibrahim's case is a ='strcls'>*warm var

water trial, drowning women to examine if they are witches
water='lgc'>+fire trial ='lgc'>-- azmun-e ab-o-atash آزمون آب و آتش



The Paleozoic was a time of dramatic geological, climatic, and evolutionary change. The Cambrian Period witnessed the most rapid and widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read diversification of life in Earth's ="trms">history, known as the Cambrian explosion, in which most ="trms">modern phyla first appeared. Fish, arthropods, amphibians, anapsida, synapsida, euryapsida and diapsida all evolved during the Paleozoic. Life began in the ocean but eventually ="trms">transitioned ="trms">onto land, and by the late Paleozoic, it was dominated by various forms of organisms. Great forests of primitive plants covered the continents, many of which formed the coal beds of Europe and eastern North America. Towards the end of the era, large, sophisticated diapsida and synapsida were dominant and the first ="trms">modern plants (conifers) appeared.

The Paleozoic Era ended with the lar="trms">gest mass extinction in Earth's ="trms">history, the Permian-Triassic extinction event. The effects of this catastrophe were so devastating that it took life on land 30 million years into the Mesozoic to recover.='lgc'>[4='lgc'>] Recovery of life in the sea may have been much faster.='lgc'>[5='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[4='lgc'>] Sahney, S. ='and'>& Benton, M.J. (2008). “Recovery from the most profound mass extinction of all time” (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal ="trms">Society='lgc'>: Biological. 275 (1636)='lgc'>: 759-65. doi:10.1098/rspb.2007.1370. PMC 2596898free to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read. PMID 18198148.
='lgc'>[5='lgc'>] http://www.economist.com/node/16524904 The Economist


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not a ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic schema of the ="trms">geometry of hot point, nor a ="trms">geometric schema of ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic fire.



i am loosening the tight axiom of ="trms">relation of A='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>-->B, something other than the predecessor-successor or cause-effect pair (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this order of structure is coming from ="trms">greek ="trms">geometric,) i am trying an unordered order-of-reason that is more reflexive, ="trms">symmetric, and ="trms">intransitive. (in the San'an text, the construction of the text re="trms">presents each chain incomplete and displaced.)



="trms">greet and grid you

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a word on ="trms">anxiety='strcls'>*

For Kierkegaard and ="ppl">Heidegger, ="trms">anxiety deals with “nothingness.” It is a breakdown of both ="trms">world and self. For Goldstein, the drive to overcome ="trms">anxiety by the conquest of a piece of the ="trms">world is expressed in the tendency towards order, norms, continuity, and homogeneity. ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari echo this diagnosis when they claim that striation is negatively motivated by ="trms">anxiety in the face of all that passes, flows, or varies and erects the constancy and eternity of an in-itelf.

='lgc'>[can we say that the whole enterprise of the beyond is a striation of the unkowable, motivated by anxeity='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

The ="trms">affect can be inhibited; it can remain in consciousness but attached to another idea, or it can undergo transformation, notably into ="trms">anxiety.

automatic ="trms">anxieties

="trms">poetry of the others

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my text, like Mohsen Feyz (one of the most brilliant students of Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra) will wait for me at the end, ="trms">greet me at the meeting-place of the Vadegah-e Ghiamat وعده‌گاه قیامت (The Resurrection, The Last judgment)

like Mohsen Feyz (one of the most brilliant students of Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra,) I hope to meet again this text as it is waiting for me at a “beyond” that Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra beautifully and ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorously theorized. At the meeting-place of the Vadegah-e Ghiamat, at The Resurrection, The Last judgment, this text will ="trms">greet me, as all ="trms">writing is resurrected and approaching their ="trms">authors, while we tremble together to the other-side.
='at'>#For those who ="trms">love stones.



better that your tomb be the hearts of men


a ="trms">symbolic geography of the land of fireplaces, poses a landscape which creats its own generation of eyes.

their minds each a fireplace

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="ppl">Sohrevardi, in one of his ="trms">stories, proposes a creature in darkness with no senses, blind and deaf. still he recieves a mail, an incoming call, in the dark.

elsewhere, the ="trms">agency of fire (khasiate fa'ale atash) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- bizari az khala (abhorrence of vacuum/void='qstn'>?)

the extraordinary honor of fire is because of its ability to move more ="trms">sublime than any other. fire is related to movement. stillness is darkness and lack of ‘cause’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if you move, you create the ‘cause’ of movement in the ="trms">world, in the beings that sense that movement, ="trms">interpret it, and absorb your movement='lgc'>: the movement is ="trms">semiotic, because it generates/proposes/sustains/initiates ="trms">causality='lgc'>--not in the sense that your movement has consequence, but it that it risks ="trms">semiotically in the eyes of the beholder a ="trms">causation ‘of’ movement ="trms">prior to the mover.

tabiate atash shabihe jan ast (="trms">nature of fire is like essence of life)

(for ancient ="nms">iranians) fire became thus Qibla

fire='lgc'>: atashe mahsus (sensable fire,) khalife anvare maghul (deputy of intellectual illuminations)
(not stewardship='qstn'>?)

(Empedocles) “only with fire fire can be seen.”

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(what complicates='qstn'>?) the itinerary of claims we make about the ="trms">world and its contractions

the expansive fields of immanence and trancendence we can ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read in fire fossil


our contract with Allah

with fire we are at a testing site, at least of the the God of the Old Testament who showed a will to perpetual pursuit, perpetual rupture, fire is a testing device for subsidiary ad="trms">mission policy. this function or figure is precisly that which permeats ="trms">modern existance

...drafts that describe an outer domain of signification

contaminative and ="trms">communicative

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in talking about our agreements with fire, i like to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read how our rapport to the beyond has mutated (='lgc'>--undergone considerable mutations='lgc'>--) by means of our adherence to the imperatives of... trial by fire(='qstn'>?), test of the beyond. ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> our ="trms">relation to (explanatory and descriptive) ="trms">language, truth, process, and identity. (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Ferdosi's ="trms">poetic site)

what kind of grid the fire produces='qstn'>?

beyond cannot be tested, it tests you='strcls'>***

testability='qstn'>? we want everyone and everything tested

after testing the fire...

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='lgc'>[God='lgc'>] singular in="trms">finity (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= beyondness) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[death of God='lgc'>] unlimited ="trms">finiteness


the temporality we as="trms">sociate with informtion ="trms">technology is o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated with fire

what ciruits are installed by this='qstn'>?

how the mediality of talking fire designs an actual real ="trms">materially enabled='qstn'>?

what reality has stood its ground since Siyavash trial='qstn'>?

what form of trial discovers, exposes, establishes, or perhaps even invents the ground (on which Sudabeh has no standing)='qstn'>?

how my th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading between black-box, darkness, and beyond helps us to spot those figures that makes claims of absoluteness='qstn'>?
(energizing the creative ="trms">imagination in ="nms">Iranian Islamicate phiosophy='qstn'>?)

="trms">interpretation ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experience

fire-tech con="trms">science ="trms">translated and ="trms">sublimated into a ="trms">scientific con="trms">science='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-transvaluation


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="trms">technologies concerning heat='lgc'>--thermodynamics='lgc'>--shocked the traditional ="trms">world and shaped the one we are working in now.
...theories concerning processes of transformation
...="trms">stages of alchemical initiations; archaic figure of fire

(ice and fire) is only relatively cold

fire, and transcendental subject

='lgc'>[my body lives still in that space that the ="trms">society of sudabeh-fire-siyavash has formed, with fixities and ="trms">social variieties. it is not an euclidian house.='lgc'>]


siyavosh/sohrab is one of the descendants of disseminated spaces, of catastrophic separation of the continuous

when Rostam recognizes the mark of his son, ="ppl">Ferdosi giving a version of recognition s="trms">cene, connects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Oedipus
the son, the mother
="prgrph">-we can recognize a typological space='lgc'>: the same and the other='lgc'>: the separated
="prgrph">-the space of the ="trms">world is described requiring connection
="prgrph">-family tree
="prgrph">-parts are to be joined
="prgrph">-Rostam and Sohrab, Siyavosh and Sudabeh, cannot be ="trms">composed to form a single homogeneous space. (Rostam and Siyavosh do that)


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the “call” comes from me and from beyond and over me.

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against the curtain of fire trial stands a stack of ="nms">iranian pro="trms">verbs about stone t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggering often ideas of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigidity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= stupidity='lgc'>:
aghlesh par-sang barmidare عقلش پاره سنگ برمیداره (crazy, ="trms">imagination, thinking, ="trms">excess,)
divane sangi be chah miandazad... دیوانه سنگی به چاه می اندازد... (stupidity, tool, irreversibility, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
naravad mikhe ahanin dar sang نرود میخ آهنین در سنگ (stupidity, penetration,)
shamshir bar sang azmudan شمشیر بر سنگ آزمودن (uselessness, stupidty, destruction, test, inattention,) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= shekar zire ab penhan sakhtan (شکار زیر آب پنهان ساختن ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">story of the apes, Buzinegano Kerme Shabtab بوزینگان و کرم شبتاب) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= mosht dar tariki zadan مشت در تاریکی زدن='lgc'>]
sang az pase divar andakhtan سنگ از پس دیوار انداختن (uselessness, wrongness, chance,)
pay dar sang amadan پای در سنگ آمدن (random trouble, ="trms">naturaly unforseen hardship, cripeled,)
sang dar kise kardan سنگ در کیسه کردن
del dar sang shekastan دل در سنگ شکستن (to keep quite, benefit of silence, resist speaking the ="trms">rumorical utterence,)
dele sang دل سنگ (cold-hearted,)
آتش از دل سنگ بیرون آوردن atash az (ضمیر چوب zamire chub va) dele ='lgc'>[darune='lgc'>] sang birun avardan (possiblity through work, ="trms">interrogatory turture,)
sang سنگ ='lgc'>=/= la'l لعل ='lgc'>--how='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sang (in Pahlavi) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= value
sang سنگ ='lgc'>=/= abgine آبگینه (glass, mirror, sky, diamond,) (سنگ آبگینه sange abgine='lgc'>: a rock to create mirrors with, abgine ze sang mizayad='lgc'>--khaghani آبگینه ز سنگ می زاید)
sange emtehan سنگ امتحان, az sang birun amadan از سنگ بیرون آمدن, bar sang zadan بر سنگ زدن (trial, test, valuate, messure, quality check,) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> related to mine and mineral that gave ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal and gold (in many parts of ="nms">iran sang is the unit of messurment for water ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Dehkhoda) (sang is just a mean to put other things in weight, due to its abundance and nonshiny surface in front of reflective ="trms">materials='lgc'>: diamond, water, etc.)
sang dar darya andakhtan سنگ در دریا انداختن (="trms">positive chance, relying on destiny, butterfly effect, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang andakhtan سنگ انداختن (="trms">causality, scale, benefiting from the ="trms">nature, lever, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang bendaz baghalet baz she سنگ بنداز بغلت باز شه (stupidity, uselessness, unrewarded hardship, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang az mum sakhtan سنگ از موم ساختن (impossibility, stupidity, wrongness,)
sang bar shishe zadan سنگ بر شیشه زدن='lgc'> = not drinking wine anymore (breaking the wine glass) (sometimes stone has come to mean the wine glass itself='lgc'>: sang ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= bade باده)

sange ghali سنگ قالی (to put a rock on an ="nms">iranian carpet so the wind doesn't take it away. the stone is invited into the culture. doesn't ="trms">matter why. it is there sitting with us.)

as a unit of ="trms">measurement, it apears that in ="trms">farsi stone as="trms">sociates with quantitative ="trms">nature, and in Ajayeb (therefore) fire with qualitative production of ="trms">nature(='qstn'>?)
atash is pure quality
sang has no quality, it has only quantity
='lgc'>='lgc'>---this is undermind='lgc'>:
a trip to the archive of stones, muze jawaherat ="nms">tehran (Treasury of National Jewels موزه جواهرات ملی ایران)
ahjare nafise احجار نفیسه (diamond, gold, etc.)
ahjare karime احجار کریمه (zomorod زمرد, yaghut یاقوت, la'l لعل, etc.)


exposure to its antibodies
risks contamination

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="large lg10" stl="font-size:114%"> stones tell destinies, they are old old old, they are carriers of ="trms">memory, witnesses of the ="trms">past, no to wipe out its rough-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged remainders

another take on rock='lgc'>: Stromatolite (are the real telling stone, once bacteria) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fossilization (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= stone) ='lgc'>{structure, ="trms">morphology,
(gaining sale ='lgc'>[Stromatolite is bacteria preying='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> predation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Multicellularity)
="prgrph">-distinguish between biologically formed and abiotic stromatolites is (hopefuly) still open
="lsts lst1">•a stromatolite from 2000 million years ago made by a comunity of bacteria, the same bacterial who produced oxigen (that we have in the atmosphere today) (Lynn - https://www.youtube.com/watch='qstn'>?v=UlxqeSXyPd8)
="lsts lst1">•landscape made by bacteria='lgc'>: cyanobacteria became the first microbes to produce oxygen by photosynthesis. (although the ="trms">excess of free oxygen was toxic to anaerobic inhabitants, therefore ="trms">responsible for one of the most significant extinction events in Earth's ="trms">history.)

Stromatolites (/stroʊˈmætəlaɪts, strə-/='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]='lgc'>[2='lgc'>]) or stromatoliths (from ="trms">Greek strōma, str='qstn'>?ma, mattress, bed, stratum, and ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?, lithos, rock) are layered bio-chemical accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the ="trms">trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by biofilms (microbial mats) of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria.='lgc'>[3='lgc'>] Fossilized stromatolites provide ancient records of life on Earth by these remains, some of which may date from 3.7 billion years ago.='lgc'>[4='lgc'>]='lgc'>[5='lgc'>] Lichen stromatolites are a proposed mechanism of formation of some kinds of layered rock structure that are formed above water, where rock meets air, by repeated colonization of the rock by endolithic lichens.='lgc'>[6='lgc'>]='lgc'>[7='lgc'>] (Wikipedia)


='strcls'>*oxygen

='lgc'>[img https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxygenation-atm-2.svg='lgc'>]

O2 build-up in the Earth's atmosphere. Red and green lines re="trms">present the range of the estimates while time is ="trms">measured in billions of years ago (Ga).
="trms">Stage 1 (3.85-2.45 Ga)='lgc'>: Practically no O2 in the atmosphere. The oceans were also largely anoxic with the possible exception of O2 gases in the shallow oceans.
="trms">Stage 2 (2.45-1.85 Ga)='lgc'>: O2 produced, and rose to values of 0.02 and 0.04 atm, but absorbed in oceans and seabed rock.
="trms">Stage 3 (1.85-0.85 Ga)='lgc'>: O2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces. There was no significant change in terms of oxygen level.
="trms">Stages 4 and 5 (0.85-="trms">present)='lgc'>: O2 sinks filled and the gas accumulates.='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[1='lgc'>] Holland, Heinrich D. “The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal ="trms">Society='lgc'>: Biological ="trms">Sciences. Vol. 361. 2006. pp. 903-915.


="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metazoan phyla ='lgc'>: ="trms">animal

="trms">history of life is tight to hisory of oxygen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fire
Aerobic ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism is more efficient than anaerobic pathways

Abiogenesis='lgc'>: the ="trms">natural process of life arising from non-living ="trms">matter, how pre-life chemical reactions gave rise to life on Earth
="lsts lst1">•self-replicating molecules
="lsts lst1">•RNA ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> catalyze peptide ligation or amino acid polymerization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> protains, specialized biocatalysis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> RNA ='lgc'>+ iron ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> DNA ='lgc'>: ="trms">data storage
="lsts lst1">•synthesized from inorganic compounds
="lsts lst1">•catalysis in chemical ="trms">systems ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> molecules necessary for self-replication
="lsts lst1">•this is a protain ="trms">writing


='strcls'>*water
Study of zircons has found that liquid water must have existed as long ago as 4.4 Ga, very soon after the formation of Earth ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] water with similar deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio was al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready available at the time of Earth's formation, as evidenced in ancient “eucrites” meteorites o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginating from the asteroid Vesta. (wikipedia)


(four elements temporal hierarchy)
earth > water > oxygen(air) > fire

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='lgc'>[with ="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord='lgc'>]

fire media theoretic

‘image’ detached into a stream, percieved as generality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an inversion of life (“visible” negation of life - that has invented a visual form for itself)

(its ="trms">social practices)

fire, not subordinate, as ="trms">spectacle comes as means of unification, locus of illusion, ="trms">generalized apparition ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> seperation
(its general truth) fire untouched by evolution and form binding constrains, is a universal mater, the ="trms">spectacle of burning flame manifests itself as a ="trms">positivity out of reach and beyond. the case of fire is ="trms">different than Deobord ="trms">spectalcle who speaks='lgc'>: “Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear.”

therefore fire specatle is not image, rather ="trms">social ="trms">relationship between subjects that are mediated by it

="large lg46" stl="font-size:100%"> thus the function and ="trms">phenomenon of separation mediated by fire becomes part and parcel of the unity of the ="trms">world, from now on
="prgrph">-a new form of the sacred emerged with the discovery of fire's image
="prgrph">-produced new worshipful subjection

the ="trms">language of the fire as ="trms">spectacle is ="trms">composed of signs that talk to Moses, Zaratostra, and others
="prgrph">-in this ="trms">writing i like to rewind theology and pause at the moment Moses meets Fire in mount sinai, go after some media theoretic specualtions, asking what are the conditions of this (="trms">inter)mediated encounter='qstn'>? and what are the consequences of talking to fire='qstn'>? (="trms">technicity and ="trms">affectibilty)
(mount sinai ='lgc'>: cradle of stone, rendered dead ="trms">matter when ‘he’ comes out of stone-age)
="lsts lst1">•the Israelite's God, who appeared “by day as a cloud and by night as a fire” (Exodus 13:21)

="large lg70" stl="font-size:130%"> ='lgc'>[fire and brimstone, an idiomatic expression of signs of God's wrath in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fate of the unfaithful
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perceptible to the naked of the prohpet)

fire's mechanisms of contemplation

(in my preaching here i won't do what christians used to encourage repentence)

it is important not to put fire in abstract op="trms">position to concret stone activity

mystic order ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='qstn'>?='lgc'>-> ="trms">spectacular order

the ="trms">spectalce of fire reciprocal alienation was part and parcel of human ="trms">social life and its essence underpinning its ="trms">relations to the real

diversities and contrasts in looking into the image of flame

what is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready in ="trms">society that fire (="trms">spectacle) gives expression='qstn'>? the beyond

(fire, we are) governed by its ="trms">agenda

='strcls'>***monopolization of the realm of appearances='strcls'>*** (ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding other illusions, apparition, tellings, etc.)

="prgrph">-with fire a new brand of ="trms">storytelling
='strcls'>***fire's ="trms">spectacular aspect (accumulated to the point that) produces an image-object that is a seperate entity ='lgc'>[accumulation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> generality/="trms">category ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new object='lgc'>], that of the mediated, from the fire itself, a second objecthood detached from its ="trms">materiality, introduing transcendent im="trms">materiality ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics
="prgrph">-taking over life and existence


from vision to wisdom
="trms">categories of visulaity took human cognition ho="trms">stage, gave rise to a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical tradition/abundance imposing itself upon existence, regulating the perception of ="trms">material life, philosophizing ‘reality’ to ‘beyond ="trms">nature’ ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*alienated thought='strcls'>* (due to the alienated power of fire) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- im="trms">material specatle of the afterlife, the ="trms">world-beyond rendering life dead

abounding in ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical subtleties
="prgrph">-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical abundance

...allegiance to the frozen

(="ppl">Rumi's calling) “You must burn!” - this is very selfish
='lgc'>[to Siyavash='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

still today in sci-fi we are talking to a ="trms">technoilogized light (as the messenger of beyond)

fire, transforms the ="trms">world, not in terms of changing manifest matriality, rather the mind and thinking

fire in its temporal animation renders space fixated, giving the illusion that (visual) animation='lgc'> = life ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">spectacle='lgc'>}


the fire ="trms">spectacle colonizing our participation with the beyond, colonizing the way our flux of senses make tentative contact with the other sides,
(what a stone sug="trms">gests='qstn'>? the senses that never stop participating, never stop throwing themselves beyond the immediatly visible)

every phase of existence

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Scott ="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert='lgc'>]

(all organic beings have been formed on two general laws, ="trms">according to ="ppl">Darwin='lgc'>:)
(1) unity of type and (2) conditions of existence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inorganic='qstn'>? fire='qstn'>?
="trms">natural selection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adaptation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conditions of existence
embryonic homologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unity of type
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “descent with modification” (or decent modifications)
='lgc'>[(embryology ='lgc'>=/=) ‘fire’ could transform ="trms">matters, “change” their class, their type and its unity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “parvaneh sho!” ="ppl">Rumi wants embryology undermined='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

construct phylogenies
(phylogeny ='lgc'>: branching out evolutionarily)


small genetic changes was not sufficient to generate evolutionary novel structures such as teeth, feathers, cnidocysts or mullusk shells (="ppl">Goldschmidt, 1940) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lizards had ="trms">birdness in it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potentiality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> mutation is not random='lgc'>])

(="ppl">Waddington then launched into a) critique of ='thdf'>the notion of “random mutation,” noting that there are developmental constraints placed on what changes are possible.

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...a perceptual game of risking linearity, collapsing discovery and juris="trms">diction (a judiciary not a branch of any map of governance)

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(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway on Burning Man='lgc'>:) Fire in the North American West has a complicated multi="trms">species ="trms">history; fire is an essential element for ongoing, as well as an ="trms">agent of double death, te killing of ="trms">ongoingness. The ="trms">material ="trms">semiotics of fire is our times are at stake.
='lgc'>[='lgc'>]three icons (sug="trms">gestions by ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, three “-="trms">cene” tuned tor the touch of its critters)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- ‘missing ice’ of the Capitalo="trms">cene
="lstsrd">2- ‘flame’ of the ="trms">Anthropo="trms">cene
="lstsrd">3- ‘red clay pottery’ of the Cthulu="trms">cene




(="ppl">Conley >) Rosolato treats perspective in terms of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of ="trms">sensuous ="trms">affect='lgc'>:
infant's projective activity ='lgc'>+ infant closes its eyes to fend off menace, hence negotiating with the real in a space and time ="trms">prior to the mirror ="trms">stage

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The artful sandwich of Rostam-rock-div provides a thinking mode of who-caries-who='lgc'>: whose being is dependent on whose existence. The earth that the Rostam is laying on, is sacred, on the hands of an ancient creature, who has a very delicate way of “wounding” very much ="trms">different than Rostam’s quick hit-man style.='lgc'>[23='lgc'>] The div does not “end” Rostam as efficiently as the protagonist might have done it, but introduces the ="trms">intermediate being of the lithic and the riddle. The div engages in a game. Rostam wants to kill. Finish a job.

The ="trms">techno-sci-="trms">story of the bacteria producing the air, earth and mitochondria,='lgc'>[24='lgc'>] is the one I like to delink-with the Rostam of Shahnameh from its chain of meanings and ="trms">relations to the div that he must kill. The Rostam-stone-div compilation is about the ="trms">abyssal div’s death-forming and life-forming powers. Rostam, himself coming from certain transvaluative body-buildings, is taking a nap on a billion-years-old stromatolite. Is the div’s self a form of fossilization ="trms">story of the now='qstn'>? “Do you want to go to the mountain or ocean='qstn'>?” An old form of preying. He introduces an intimate perspective into the geological time-continuum. The thousands-years-old div as geological ="trms">phenomena (in Ferdowsi ='lgc'>+ Mu'in diagram='lgc'>:) structure and ="trms">morphology of a landscape made by bacteria, ='lgc'>[“...pay attention to your ‘place’ in='lgc'>] the bedrock I am carrying you on.”

The div Akvan, coming from Akoman and Aka Manah, in Avestan relates more or less to “noxious thinking.” Divs are old and ="trms">skillful ancient biotic entities with disagreeable characteristics. Their de="trms">finition is yet open and subject to ="trms">interpretation. But always disobedient to the sovereign’s project and ="trms">abyssal in ="trms">nature, divs promoted another kind of order, other than the old Gods. Their project was always to disillusionize the ideas of divine nondestruction and non="trms">technological purity. They are on the side of destruction, ="trms">technology and death. When Rostam captures the great White-Div, Div-e Sepid,='lgc'>[25='lgc'>] a nasty ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosical sentient master in “un="trms">sympathetic magic” and an expert in the ="trms">crafts of necromancy ='lgc'>[ارتباط با مردگان —> he works with form, apparition and spirit, “dead bodies,” his knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-="trms">cosmos in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes textures of mineral assemblage and recrystallization,='lgc'>[26='lgc'>]='lgc'>] his blood is eventually ="trms">instrumentalized in bringing back the lost eye-sights and unearthing the captured ones.

The athleticism of Shahnameh doesn’t allow Ferdowsi to have another take on the order of div. The ="trms">poem will not permit chaos.='lgc'>[27='lgc'>] In Shahnameh, divs are the defeated ones. Ferdowsi’s contest-oriented ="trms">poetic site is towards the defeat of victory of defeat. For him, transcendence, truth, and growth are generated from the outcome of the s="trms">cene of contest.='lgc'>[28='lgc'>] He locks “dishonor” inde="trms">finitely to “defeat.” The defeated-ones become inescapably ="trms">monsters, divs. So, upon a Ferdowsian landscape of heroism and agon, the way I am trying to archaeologically (re)locate the being of div on Earth and put him in ="trms">relationality to the lithic ="trms">techniques of geo-="trms">poiesis, is a way for me to ask='lgc'>: how Ferdowsi is dis="trms">articulating div’s bodies to re="trms">articulate other bodies='qstn'>? The humanoid Middle-Ages Persian body, the stoned, the fleshy mineral, the decaying ones, the creaturely, and so on. How can we reversely re="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorize his ="trms">tropes='qstn'>? How can we arrive at the stone='qstn'>? How can we unfinish the (death)sentence div is uttered with, and pre-epically re="trms">compose him in order to syntactically arrive at his kinship='qstn'>? OK. We are testing ="trms">questions of nonhuman alterity at Ferdowsi.

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“the mind needs ="trms">wild ="trms">animals”
="ppl">Meloy

more often, there are places where mammal should be but is no longer, ='strcls'>*and in this emptiness, too, there is fieldwork to be done='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]euphemism='lgc'>: roads that are too civilized

Jesuit padre-="trms">historian
Je suis padre (wanna-be-father) ="trms">historians
(18th century) calling the deserts of Baja California “destitute” without asking the natices if they were misreable
='strcls'>*for many natives in the Jesuit era, christianity was not a means by to give order to mystery (or give order to misery)='strcls'>* it was food. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] another kind of appetite could lead people there...
='strcls'>*the christian hell looked a lot like the life they had left ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] many Indians so hated the cold that on a chilly day at the ="trms">mission, a sermon about the fires of christian hell delighted them ='heart'>♥

="ppl">Meloy > Steinbeck='lgc'>: “food is hard to get, and a man lives inward, closely related to time”

better roads and bigger tourism='lgc'> = predatory brand of industrial leisure examplified by Cabo San Lucas (and Dubai in the middle east)

(="ppl">Meloy herself part of a group) a goofy one with ="trms">animal notes, plant ="trms">books, and ‘je suit’ ="trms">literature


(clinging to) the delusion of ='strcls'>*feral self-reliance='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]fishing='lgc'>: citizenry in the public of resourcefulness

“do not go to the hunt carrying meat from home.”


in ='mywrk'>my work the ="trms">technique of ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>: to create a ="trms">stage for a wider out-of-control explosion of ="trms">gesticulating arms

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    “wherever you are, wherever you go, there are untamed creatures nearby that need you attention. unplug your modem. slam shut your self-help ="trms">books. quit standing around like a wall trout. get to work.
    invite warblers to your neighborhood with shaggy plots of greenery. learn everything you can about the bandit-eyed racoon that stares at you through your sliding glass door, ="trms">demanding enchiladas.
    mark the direction of jet black darkling beetles marching up a red dune like a troop of miniature helmets. east='qstn'>? south='qstn'>?
    let black widows live in your soffits.
    lie on your back on a breezy sweep of beach and stare at the undersides of magnificent f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigate ="trms">birds. master a hyena's ="trms">laugh and use it when in the ="trms">presence of politicians.
    admire the make midwife toad, who carries fertilized eggs on his back for a month. understand that certain ="trms">species of mollusk can change their gender, know that from a ball afloat on tiny filaments inside its fanned shell, a sea scallop can tell which way is up.
    crane your neck. worm your way. wolf it down. monkey with things. outfox your foe. quit badgering your tax attorney.
    take notes on the deagness of coral, the pea-size heart of a bat. be meticulous. we will need these things so that we may speak.
    the human mind is the ="trms">child of primate evolution and our complex fluid ="trms">interactions with environment and one another. ="trms">animals have enrished this ="trms">social intelligence. they give concrete expression to thoughts and images. they carry the outside ="trms">world to our inner one and back again. they helped ="trms">language flower into ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, ="trms">symbol, and ritual. we once sang and danced them, made music from their skin, sinew, and bone. their ="trms">stories came off our tongues. we ate them. they ate us.
    close attention to mollusks and f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigate ="trms">birds and wolves makes us aware ont only of our own human identity but also of how much more there is, an assertion of our imperfect hunger for mystery. ‘without mystery life shrinks,’ wrote biologist Edward O. Wilson. ‘the completely known is a numbing void to all active minds.’”
(="ppl">Meloy, Eating Stone p142-143)

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Jacobsen on ancient mesopotamian

='strcls'>*="trms">religion='lgc'> = ="trms">response='strcls'>*

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]numinous='lgc'>: a unique experience of ='strcls'>*confrontation with power='strcls'>* not of this ="trms">world, confrontation with a ‘wholly other’
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> terrifying, demonic d="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read, awe, ="trms">sublime ma="trms">jesty, fascinating, ="trms">demanding unconditional allegiance, etc.
='strcls'>*="trms">positive human ="trms">response ='lgc'>[in thought (myth, theology) ='lgc'>+ in action (culd, worship)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">religion='strcls'>*

="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='lgc'>: human psychological reaction to the experience ='lgc'>[of numinous='lgc'>] by means of analogy
="prgrph">-in ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors all that is shared by the worshipers of an individual culture or cultural period in their common ="trms">response to the numinous is summed and crystallized
="prgrph">-choice of central ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='lgc'>: wants to recapture and transmit, the primary meaning on which it builds, which underlines and determines the ='strcls'>*total character of its ="trms">response='strcls'>*='lgc'> = the total character of its ="trms">religion
="prgrph">-major ="trms">religious ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors of the ancient mesopotamians have a double ="trms">nature as pointing beyond themselves to things not of[...]