[...]ow='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'>]
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="trms">authoritarian populism
(="ppl">Hegelian) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]action='lgc'>: pursue one aspect of ="trms">history ='lgc'>+ breaking away from away from another
="lstsrd">1. (="trms">modern) revolutionary='lgc'>: telling a new ="trms">story, (='lgc'>--popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list='lgc'>='lgc'>--> focus on) ='strcls'>*ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary politics='strcls'>*, once the leader is in power the objective is to prolong ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">historic juncture ='lgc'>--justify='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continued ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion
popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ='lgc'>--="ppl">Laclau='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (invocation of)
="lsts lst1">•people='lgc'> = empty signifier
="lsts lst1">•leader='lgc'> = ="trms">embodiment of people's ="trms">agency
='strcls'>***="trms">rhetoric of resentment='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> victimhood
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]resentment='lgc'>: an emotional-moral framework ='lgc'>--aim='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continuously regenerate the felt intensities ='lgc'>--under="trms">write='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">demands for revenge ='lgc'>+ lamentations (of victimhood)
='strcls'>***nationalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> populism='strcls'>***
(many countries) national identity (& militancy) is ="trms">intertwined with='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narrative of self-victimization ='lgc'>--
="lsts lst1">•invocation of trauma
victorious victimhood ='lgc'>==fuels='lgc'>='lgc'>==> aggressive militancy
for example ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Israel='lgc'>: nothing counts as evidence as one's own empowerment, one is always under threat, if Israel cannot maintain the omnipotent ="trms">position that its victory offered (1967) it would be under existential threat
anticolonial nationalism (or postcolonial populism)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">past injury (“We have been oppressed” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “re-empower ourselves again”)
="lsts lst1">•decades after independence ='lgc'>--still='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fixated on the anticolonial moment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perpetuate a sense of victimhood ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to mask ="trms">authoritarianism
victimhood
="lsts lst1">•Hindu nationalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">formulated ="trms">history from a focus on colonialism and postcolonial nation-building into a ="trms">narrative of victimhood that blames ="trms">historic Muslim invasions for the decline of Hindu civilisation and nationhood
="lsts lst1">•China ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">formulated its school ="trms">history text="trms">books to stress victimhood and humiliation through ='thdf'>the idea of China's “100 years of humiliation” in reference to Western and Japanese invasions
="lsts lst1">•United States ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nationalism often takes the shape of antipathy to government that is enmeshed with an ideology of liberal individualism
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***logic of empowerment='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>--permeate='lgc'>='lgc'>--> economies of visibility)
='strcls'>***="trms">memory ="trms">narrative='strcls'>***
="nms">iran ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shohada شهدا martyrs of ="nms">iran-iraq war ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> after the war became the picture of collective victimhood (“heroes='lgc'> = us”)
Erdogan's speech
“we have been tested by fire” (='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Siavash's fire trial is popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>~= “we have been tested by enemy”
='lgc'>~= “evil forces”
(from) populism ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> neofascism
(from) generic ="trms">rhetoric of an unidentified enemy ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">articulation of an identifiable foe (who is met with political violence)
="trms">authoritarian state ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>[= political ="trms">system ='lgc'>+ culture ='lgc'>+ institutions ='lgc'>+ ='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--allow='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smoother way of operationalisation of ="trms">narratives (about the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers of adversaries)
="prgrph">-exactly what kind of state ="trms">apparatus we have in ="nms">iran='qstn'>?
="trms">historical victimhood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resurgent popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list discourse
="lsts lst1">•people have been enduring victimhood for too long
="lsts lst1">•fateful junctures throughout ="trms">history
="lsts lst1">•authentic great path
="lsts lst1">•urgency of message
="lsts lst1">•
animating ="trms">rhetoric with self-victimhood ='lgc'>==produce='lgc'>='lgc'>==> divisions (men ='lgc'>=/= women, us ='lgc'>=/= enemy, etc.)
ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary politics ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- homogeneous ="trms">community (='lgc'>=/= alien intrusion, outside forces, immigrants, minorities, etc.)
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Kundera
is humor ="trms">modern='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*humor is not ancient='strcls'>* (='qstn'>?!)
“whatever humor touches it ambiguites”
humor='lgc'> = ambiguitor
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globalization ='lgc'>=/= cold war
globalization ='lgc'>=/= enlightenment (“universal humanism ='lgc'>+ rationalized tech ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> freedom for all”)
cold war='lgc'> = a meaningfull ="trms">relation between ideology ='and'>& power ='lgc'>[='lgc'>==give='lgc'>='lgc'>==> orientation ='lgc'>+ identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> normative approach to global ="trms">phenomena='lgc'>]
geopolitc ='lgc'>+ ideologic borders
='lgc'>=/=
globalization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> completly ="trms">different political behaivor (de="trms">finitions of national goals, friend and enemy, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list democracy (="trms">differences ='lgc'>+ contrasts) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social democracy (erasing ="trms">differences)
globalization='lgc'> = attitude حالت ='lgc'>=/= meaning
='lgc'>[cold war='lgc'>: “="trms">world ='lgc'>~= (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.
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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.)
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(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)
(ston[...]