[...]tional 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'>**
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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'>*
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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”
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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)
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='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
(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
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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'>?
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="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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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 [...]