[...]avid 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'>==> stylized performances ='lgc'>==> (a repertoire of) ="trms">symbolized references (sign ="trms">language='qstn'>?) ='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'>==> beyond ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- ="trms">different brand(s) of in="trms">finity

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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

='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'>?

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> 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'>?

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%">
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'>==> ="trms">ecologies

“recovery climbs='lgc'> = ="trms">embodied practices of resilience ='lgc'>+ ="trms">inter="trms">relation” ='lgc'>=/= survivorship ="trms">narrative

="large lg5" stl="font-size:114%"> (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)



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 Collins - phd) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{climbing mountain peaks and summits figures as a journey similar to a struggle with disease ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- ="trms">wilderness therapy creates what she calls a ='strcls'>**slow ="trms">wilderness,='strcls'>** 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. ='lgc'>-- it is about making permeable bodies (='lgc'>+and landscapes through their ="trms">interactions.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- climb='lgc'>: ="trms">embodied practices of resilience and ="trms">inter="trms">relation ='lgc'>==> a ="trms">different ="trms">ecological model='lgc'>: working with the limits and obstacles that illness brings ='lgc'>=/= repudiating illness in favor of ='strcls'>***survivorship ="trms">narratives='strcls'>***='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is a moment in Shahnameh highlighting this narative='lgc'>='lgc'>---can we look at the ="trms">story of Siyavash, his fire-trial, against Sudabeh='qstn'>? Siyavash raised by masculine figure Rostam cannot ="trms">love the feminine processes of Sudabeh, (she wants him, in an experimental ='lgc'>[sex='lgc'>] ="trms">erotic participation, her attempt at melting his moral ice, which we later find out fire cannot melt='strcls'>***) to break the fabric of ="trms">obligation (his intense commitment to the father-king combination) ='lgc'>=/= tribalism, betraying the patriarchal arrest (the myth of a single god/father and patriarchal faithfulness - ='strcls'>*the myth of the strong personality='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>==> Siyavash='lgc'>--patriarcal type of guy who doesn't know how to ="trms">greet her snaky figure politly='lgc'>--excuses himself of a vital encounter and sustains an ascetic subtraction, and lets ="ppl">Ferdosi='lgc'>--alwayes on God-Fire's side='lgc'>--execute Sudabeh through the bad boy Rostam hyper-masculinity itself. Siyavash/Rostam is utterly non-queer, Siyavash='lgc'>: Rostam's pet project, domesticated, passes the exam. Sudabeh is shocked and screwed-over by the ="trms">narrative and ="trms">spectacularisation of the fire's truth-event in an “enactment” plotted by ="ppl">Ferdosi='lgc'>--she is done, she doens't have a deal with fire. She is accused of being Eros, of being garrulous, of wasting words with lunatic prodigality, the chattering, ranting, gossiping female, the tattle, the scold, the toothless crone her mouth wind-full of speech.
smell of Sudabeh='lgc'>: moshk, golab, sharab, in="trms">finite odor[...]