[...]d) 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)
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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
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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”
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(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
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(="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'>]resentm[...]