[...]r /> a word on ="trms">anxiety='strcls'>*

For Kierkegaard and ="ppl">Heidegger, ="trms">anxiety deals with “nothingness.” It is a breakdown of both ="trms">world and self. For Goldstein, the drive to overcome ="trms">anxiety by the conquest of a piece of the ="trms">world is expressed in the tendency towards order, norms, continuity, and homogeneity. ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari echo this diagnosis when they claim that striation is negatively motivated by ="trms">anxiety in the face of all that passes, flows, or varies and erects the constancy and eternity of an in-itelf.

='lgc'>[can we say that the whole enterprise of the beyond is a striation of the unkowable, motivated by anxeity='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

The ="trms">affect can be inhibited; it can remain in consciousness but attached to another idea, or it can undergo transformation, notably into ="trms">anxiety.

automatic ="trms">anxieties

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">poetry of the others

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my text, like Mohsen Feyz (one of the most brilliant students of Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra) will wait for me at the end, ="trms">greet me at the meeting-place of the Vadegah-e Ghiamat وعده‌گاه قیامت (The Resurrection, The Last judgment)

like Mohsen Feyz (one of the most brilliant students of Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra,) I hope to meet again this text as it is waiting for me at a “beyond” that Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra beautifully and ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorously theorized. At the meeting-place of the Vadegah-e Ghiamat, at The Resurrection, The Last judgment, this text will ="trms">greet me, as all ="trms">writing is resurrected and approaching their ="trms">authors, while we tremble together to the other-side.
='at'>#For those who ="trms">love stones.



better that your tomb be the hearts of men


a ="trms">symbolic geography of the land of fireplaces, poses a landscape which creats its own generation of eyes.

their minds each a fireplace

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="ppl">Sohrevardi, in one of his ="trms">stories, proposes a creature in darkness with no senses, blind and deaf. still he recieves a mail, an incoming call, in the dark.

elsewhere, the ="trms">agency of fire (khasiate fa'ale atash) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- bizari az khala (abhorrence of vacuum/void='qstn'>?)

the extraordinary honor of fire is because of its ability to move more ="trms">sublime than any other. fire is related to movement. stillness is darkness and lack of ‘cause’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> if you move, you create the ‘cause’ of movement in the ="trms">world, in the beings that sense that movement, ="trms">interpret it, and absorb your movement='lgc'>: the movement is ="trms">semiotic, because it generates/proposes/sustains/initiates ="trms">causality='lgc'>--not in the sense that your movement has consequence, but it that it risks ="trms">semiotically in the eyes of the beholder a ="trms">causation ‘of’ movement ="trms">prior to the mover.

tabiate atash shabihe jan ast (="trms">nature of fire is like essence of life)

(for ancient ="nms">iranians) fire became thus Qibla

fire='lgc'>: atashe mahsus (sensable fire,) khalife anvare maghul (deputy of intellectual illuminations)
(not stewardship='qstn'>?)

(Empedocles) “only with fire fire can be seen.”

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(what complicates='qstn'>?) the itinerary of claims we make about the ="trms">world and its contractions

the expansive fields of immanence and trancendence we can ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read in fire fossil


our contract with Allah

with fire we are at a testing site, at least of the the God of the Old Testament who showed a will to perpetual pursuit, perpetual rupture, fire is a testing device for subsidiary ad="trms">mission policy. this function or figure is precisly that which permeats ="trms">modern existance

...drafts that describe an outer domain of signification

contaminative and ="trms">communicative

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in talking about our agreements with fire, i like to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read how our rapport to the beyond has mutated (='lgc'>--undergone considerable mutations='lgc'>--) by means of our adherence to the imperatives of... trial by fire(='qstn'>?), test of the beyond. ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> our ="trms">relation to (explanatory and descriptive) ="trms">language, truth, process, and identity. (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Ferdosi's ="trms">poetic site)

what kind of grid the fire produces='qstn'>?

beyond cannot be tested, it tests you='strcls'>***

testability='qstn'>? we want everyone and everything tested

after testing the fire...

="large lg14" stl="font-size:128%"> monitor time ="trms">according to the pulse of German/="nms">Iranian Idealism/="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">Metaphorism,

="large lg1" stl="font-size:128%"> ='lgc'>[God='lgc'>] singular in="trms">finity (='lgc'>~= beyondness) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[death of God='lgc'>] unlimited ="trms">finiteness


the temporality we as="trms">sociate with informtion ="trms">technology is o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated with fire

what ciruits are installed by this='qstn'>?

how the mediality of talking fire designs an actual real ="trms">materially enabled='qstn'>?

what reality has stood its ground since Siyavash trial='qstn'>?

what form of trial discovers, exposes, establishes, or perhaps even invents the ground (on which Sudabeh has no standing)='qstn'>?

how my th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading between black-box, darkness, and beyond helps us to spot those figures that makes claims of absoluteness='qstn'>?
(energizing the creative ="trms">imagination in ="nms">Iranian Islamicate phiosophy='qstn'>?)

="trms">interpretation ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experience

fire-tech con="trms">science ="trms">translated and ="trms">sublimated into a ="trms">scientific con="trms">science='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-transvaluation


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='lgc'>[="ppl">Serres='lgc'>]

="trms">technologies concerning heat='lgc'>--thermodynamics='lgc'>--shocked the traditional ="trms">world and shaped the one we are working in now.
...theories concerning processes of transformation
...="trms">stages of alchemical initiations; archaic figure of fire

(ice and fire) is only relatively cold

fire, and transcendental subject

='lgc'>[my body lives still in that space that the ="trms">society of sudabeh-fire-siyavash has formed, with fixities and ="trms">social variieties. it is not an euclidian house.='lgc'>]


siyavosh/sohrab is one of the descendants of disseminated spaces, of catastrophic separation of the continuous

when Rostam recognizes the mark of his son, ="ppl">Ferdosi giving a version of recognition s="trms">cene, connects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Oedipus
the son, the mother
="prgrph">-we can recognize a typological space='lgc'>: the same and the other='lgc'>: the separated
="prgrph">-the space of the ="trms">world is described requiring connection
="prgrph">-family tree
="prgrph">-parts are to be joined
="prgrph">-Rostam and Sohrab, Siyavosh and Sudabeh, cannot be ="trms">composed to form a single homogeneous space. (Rostam and Siyavosh do that)


transsubstantiation

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the “call” comes from me and from beyond and over me.

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against the curtain of fire trial stands a stack of ="nms">iranian pro="trms">verbs about stone t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggering often ideas of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigidity ='lgc'>~= stupidity='lgc'>:
aghlesh par-sang barmidare عقلش پاره سنگ برمیداره (crazy, ="trms">imagination, thinking, ="trms">excess,)
divane sangi be chah miandazad... دیوانه سنگی به چاه می اندازد... (stupidity, tool, irreversibility, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
naravad mikhe ahanin dar sang نرود میخ آهنین در سنگ (stupidity, penetration,)
shamshir bar sang azmudan شمشیر بر سنگ آزمودن (uselessness, stupidty, destruction, test, inattention,) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~= shekar zire ab penhan sakhtan (شکار زیر آب پنهان ساختن ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">story of the apes, Buzinegano Kerme Shabtab بوزینگان و کرم شبتاب) ='lgc'>~= mosht dar tariki zadan مشت در تاریکی زدن='lgc'>]
sang az pase divar andakhtan سنگ از پس دیوار انداختن (uselessness, wrongness, chance,)
pay dar sang amadan پای در سنگ آمدن (random trouble, ="trms">naturaly unforseen hardship, cripeled,)
sang dar kise kardan سنگ در کیسه کردن
del dar sang shekastan دل در سنگ شکستن (to keep quite, benefit of silence, resist speaking the ="trms">rumorical utterence,)
dele sang دل سنگ (cold-hearted,)
آتش از دل سنگ بیرون آوردن atash az (ضمیر چوب zamire chub va) dele ='lgc'>[darune='lgc'>] sang birun avardan (possiblity through work, ="trms">interrogatory turture,)
sang سنگ ='lgc'>=/= la'l لعل ='lgc'>--how='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sang (in Pahlavi) ='lgc'>~= value
sang سنگ ='lgc'>=/= abgine آبگینه (glass, mirror, sky, diamond,) (سنگ آبگینه sange abgine='lgc'>: a rock to create mirrors with, abgine ze sang mizayad='lgc'>--khaghani آبگینه ز سنگ می زاید)
sange emtehan سنگ امتحان, az sang birun amadan از سنگ بیرون آمدن, bar sang zadan بر سنگ زدن (trial, test, valuate, messure, quality check,) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> related to mine and mineral that gave ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal and gold (in many parts of ="nms">iran sang is the unit of messurment for water ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Dehkhoda) (sang is just a mean to put other things in weight, due to its abundance and nonshiny surface in front of reflective ="trms">materials='lgc'>: diamond, water, etc.)
sang dar darya andakhtan سنگ در دریا انداختن (="trms">positive chance, relying on destiny, butterfly effect, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang andakhtan سنگ انداختن (="trms">causality, scale, benefiting from the ="trms">nature, lever, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang bendaz baghalet baz she سنگ بنداز بغلت باز شه (stupidity, uselessness, unrewarded hardship, ="trms">questions of ="trms">agency and ="trms">responsibility,)
sang az mum sakhtan سنگ از موم ساختن (impossibility, stupidity, wrongness,)
sang bar shishe zadan سنگ بر شیشه زدن='lgc'> = not drinking wine anymore (breaking the wine glass) (sometimes stone has come to mean the wine glass itself='lgc'>: sang ='lgc'>~= bade باده)

sange ghali سنگ قالی (to put a rock on an ="nms">iranian carpet so the wind doesn't take it away. the stone is invited into the culture. doesn't ="trms">matter why. it is there sitting with us.)

as a unit of ="trms">measurement, it apears that in ="trms">farsi stone as="trms">sociates with quantitative ="trms">nature, and in Ajayeb (therefore) fire with qualitative production of ="trms">nature(='qstn'>?)
atash is pure quality
sang has no quality, it has only quantity
='lgc'>='lgc'>---this is undermind='lgc'>:
a trip to the archive of stones, muze jawaherat ="nms">tehran (Treasury of National Jewels موزه جواهرات ملی ایران)
ahjare nafise احجار نفیسه (diamond, gold, etc.)
ahjare karime احجار کریمه (zomorod زمرد, yaghut یاقوت, la'l لعل, etc.)


exposure to its antibodies
risks contamination

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(to address) unmarked territory and unmarked destiny

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stones tell destinies, they are old old old, they are carriers of ="trms">memory, witnesses of the ="trms">past, no to wipe out its rough-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged remainders

another take on rock='lgc'>: Stromatolite (are the real telling stone, once bacteria) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fossilization (='lgc'>~= stone) ='lgc'>{structure, ="trms">morphology,
(gaining sale ='lgc'>[Stromatolite is bacteria preying='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> predation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Multicellularity)
="prgrph">-distinguish between biologically formed and abiotic stromatolites is (hopefuly) still open
="lsts lst1">•a stromatolite from 2000 million years ago made by a comunity of bacteria, the same bacterial who produced oxigen (that we have in the atmosphere today) (Lynn - https://www.youtube.com/watch='qstn'>?v=UlxqeSXyPd8)
="lsts lst1">•landscape made by bacteria='lgc'>: cyanobacteria became the first microbes to produce oxygen by photosynthesis. (although the ="trms">excess of free oxygen was toxic to anaerobic inhabitants, therefore ="trms">responsible for one of the most significant extinction events in Earth's ="trms">history.)

Stromatolites (/stroʊˈmætəlaɪts, strə-/='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]='lgc'>[2='lgc'>]) or stromatoliths (from ="trms">Greek strōma, str='qstn'>?ma, mattress, bed, stratum, and ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='qstn'>?, lithos, rock) are layered bio-chemical accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the ="trms">trapping, binding and cementation of sedimentary grains by biofilms (microbial mats) of microorganisms, especially cyanobacteria.='lgc'>[3='lgc'>] Fossilized stromatolites provide ancient records of life on Earth by these remains, some of which may date from 3.7 billion years ago.='lgc'>[4='lgc'>]='lgc'>[5='lgc'>] Lichen stromatolites are a proposed mechanism of formation of some kinds of layered rock structure that are formed above water, where rock meets air, by repeated colonization of the rock by endolithic lichens.='lgc'>[6='lgc'>]='lgc'>[7='lgc'>] (Wikipedia)


='strcls'>*oxygen

='lgc'>[img https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxygenation-atm-2.svg='lgc'>]

O2 build-up in the Earth's atmosphere. Red and green lines re="trms">present the range of the estimates while time is ="trms">measured in billions of years ago (Ga).
="trms">Stage 1 (3.85-2.45 Ga)='lgc'>: Practically no O2 in the atmosphere. The oceans were also largely anoxic with the possible exception of O2 gases in the shallow oceans.
="trms">Stage 2 (2.45-1.85 Ga)='lgc'>: O2 produced, and rose to values of 0.02 and 0.04 atm, but absorbed in oceans and seabed rock.
="trms">Stage 3 (1.85-0.85 Ga)='lgc'>: O2 starts to gas out of the oceans, but is absorbed by land surfaces. There was no significant change in terms of oxygen level.
="trms">Stages 4 and 5 (0.85-="trms">present)='lgc'>: O2 sinks filled and the gas accumulates.='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[1='lgc'>] Holland, Heinrich D. “The oxygenation of the atmosphere and oceans”. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal ="trms">Society='lgc'>: Biological ="trms">Sciences. Vol. 361. 2006. pp. 903-915.


="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metazoan phyla ='lgc'>: ="trms">animal

="trms">history of life is tight to hisory of oxygen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fire
Aerobic ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism is more efficient than anaerobic pathways

Abiogenesis='lgc'>: the ="trms">natural process of life arising from non-living ="trms">matter, how pre-life chemical reactions gave rise to life on Earth
="lsts lst1">•self-replicating molecules
="lsts lst1">•RNA ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> catalyze peptide ligation or amino acid polymerization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> protains, specialized biocatalysis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> RNA ='lgc'>+ iron ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> DNA ='lgc'>: ="trms">data storage
="lsts lst1">•synthesized from inorganic compounds
="lsts lst1">•catalysis in chemical ="trms">systems ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> molecules necessary for self-replication
="lsts lst1">•this is a protain ="trms">writing


='strcls'>*water
Study of zircons has found that liquid water must have existed as long ago as 4.4 Ga, very soon after the formation of Earth ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] water with similar deuterium-to-hydrogen ratio was al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready available at the time of Earth's formation, as evidenced in ancient “eucrites” meteorites o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginating from the asteroid Vesta. (wikipedia)


(four elements temporal hierarchy)
earth > water > oxygen(air) > fire

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='lgc'>[with ="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord='lgc'>]

fire media theoretic

‘image’ detached into a stream, percieved as generality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an inversion of life (“visible” negation of life - that has invented a visual form for itself)

(its ="trms">social practices)

fire, not subordinate, as ="trms">spectacle comes as means of unification, locus of illusion, ="trms">generalized apparition ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> seperation
(its general truth) fire untouched by evolution and form binding constrains, is a universal mater, the ="trms">spectacle of burning flame manifests itself as a ="trms">positivity out of reach and beyond. the case of fire is ="trms">different than Deobord ="trms">spectalcle who speaks='lgc'>: “Everything that appears is good; whatever is good will appear.”

therefore fire specatle is not image, rather ="trms">social ="trms">relationship between subjects that are mediated by it

thus the function and ="trms">phenomenon of separation mediated by fire becomes part and parcel of the unity of the ="trms">world, from now on
="prgrph">-a new form of the sacred emerged with the discovery of fire's image
="prgrph">-produced new worshipful subjection

the ="trms">language of the fire as ="trms">spectacle is ="trms">composed of signs that talk to Moses, Zaratostra, and others
="prgrph">-in this ="trms">writing i like to rewind theology and pause at the moment Moses meets Fire in mount sinai, go after some media theoretic specualtions, asking what are the conditions of this (="trms">inter)mediated encounter='qstn'>? and what are the consequences of talking to fire='qstn'>? (="trms">technicity and ="trms">affectibilty)
(mount sinai ='lgc'>: cradle of stone, rendered dead ="trms">matter when ‘he’ comes out of stone-age)
="lsts lst1">•the Israelite's God, who appeared “by day as a cloud and by night as a fire” (Exodus 13:21)

='lgc'>[fire and brimstone, an idiomatic expression of signs of God's wrath in the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament) and the New Testament.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fate of the unfaithful
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perceptible to the naked of the prohpet)

fire's mechanisms of contemplation

(in my preaching here i won't do what christians used to encourage repentence)

it is important not to put fire in abstract op="trms">position to concret stone activity

="large lg6" stl="font-size:102%"> mystic order ='lgc'>~='qstn'>?-> ="trms">spectacular order

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> the ="trms">spectalce of fire reciprocal alienation was part and parcel of human ="trms">social life and its essence underpinning its ="trms">relations to the real

diversities and contrasts in looking into the image of flame

what is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready in ="trms">society that fire (="trms">spectacle) gives expression='qstn'>? the beyond

(fire, we are) governed by its ="trms">agenda

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ='strcls'>***monopolization of the realm of appearances='strcls'>*** (ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding other illusions, apparition, tellings, etc.)

="prgrph">-with fire a new brand of ="trms">storytelling
='strcls'>***fire's ="trms">spectacular aspect (accumulated to the point that) produces an image-object that is a seperate entity ='lgc'>[accumulation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> generality/="trms">category ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new object='lgc'>], that of the mediated, from the fire itself, a second objecthood detached from its ="trms">materiality, introduing transcendent im="trms">materiality ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics
="prgrph">-taking over life and existence


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