[...]elation 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
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'>***
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="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.)
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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 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
='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'>}
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="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
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)
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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 Col[...]