[...]ستگاری 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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> retro='lgc'>: a mode of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, an attitude towards the ="trms">past without emotional attachment

ironic ="trms">consumption...


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

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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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


="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

="large lg14" stl="font-size:114%"> 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

(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

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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)

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(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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="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'>*


="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:117%"> (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'>*[...]