[...]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)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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'>----> tense ='and'>& ="trms">causality ='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'>}


="trms">nature is a context
='strcls'>*="trms">past is a context

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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'>?)


="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> ='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)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:127%">

='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, Sha[...]