[...]='lgc'>-> we must try to work to locate modalities of ="trms">stagnancy (rokud) without necessarily seeing the Exit. how do we live with these catastrophic markers that mark us='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-Paleonymics='lgc'>: a certain operation ="trms">according to which one continues to put old words to work. The use of a pre-existing word in a new context. ='lgc'>-- we are stuck with old pomping meanings.
='lgc'>--(="ppl">="ppl">Stengers) connecting ="trms">materialism with struggle ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (in ="nms">apass) we are descendants of this ="trms">trope
for ="frds scrmbld">Luiza, the meaning of ‘in="trms">fold’='qstn'>? instead of ‘unravel’='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">interface='strcls'>*
(i want to point out the ‘synthesis’ in her work rather than the ‘analysis’ implied in the term ‘unravel’)
="ppl">Lacoue-Labarthe made ="ppl">Heidegger possible to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read for ="ppl">Avital
(and that is what ="ppl">Avital does, make a lot of things possible to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read for me)
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(to incorporate a) ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous hesitation='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's “slowness”)
going step by step in the confrontation (essential to the un="trms">folding of thought)
='strcls'>**not turning ‘weakness’ (or ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical weariness) into a (compelling) paraconcept ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Levinas does it='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-taking on the the big topoi of the day like a warrior
courage ='lgc'>--comes='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> from the ='strcls'>*="trms">abyss of needling fearfulness='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*German romantics invented the always-with-="trms">community, a living-with, a Mitsein practice of living life philosophically (full of moments of restricted solitude, pressure zones, etc.)
(office of friendship...) i am friend in a ="ppl">Freudian ambivalence, that means i undermine the friend, try to ="trms">trap him and catch him off guard
="prgrph">-if you are so calm, then i will try to bring you over to my side of the barricade of obsessional ="trms">neurotic (a condition in which the mind is intruded upon against her will by images, ideas, or words. consciousness remains lucid and power to reason remains intact ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> temporarily deprivation of individual of freedom of thought and action ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>== ="trms">intrapsychic conflict of sexual o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin that mobilizes and blocks all flows of energy (in the case ="trms">neurotic a source of pleasure to the ="trms">child ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= hysteric)='lgc'>])
="prgrph">-when we ="trms">write do we need to de="trms">monstrate a far-ranging grasp of the political consequences of every possible ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical move='qstn'>?
...prime mover or suspects such as ="ppl">Plato, ="ppl">Heidegger, ="ppl">Derrida
='strcls'>*acceleration='lgc'>: that we are result-oriented, business-oriented, under the gun of gains, and subject to the push towards ="trms">scientific objectification ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= i try to work with ="trms">different degrees of attention='lgc'>: slowing down for checkpoints, allusive ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters and ="trms">dense indicators, that are also problematic and short-circuited (in my ="trms">lectures) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> to get to the ='strcls'>*notational space='strcls'>* that we can calmly observe, examine and explore together.
="prgrph">-to be lucid about your own part taking in ="trms">narcissistic economy
='strcls'>*="trms">mimesis='strcls'>*='lgc'>: those things we are still stuck in in very covert and unavowed ways ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> ‘destiny’ (a term i use when i mean ="trms">mimesis for us ='lgc'>[-a disease that shows ="trms">symptoms characteristic of another disease='lgc'>])
(i am not pessimistic at all) i have just a catastrophic intuition that informs my grammar ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">mimetic hell
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='strcls'>*="trms">complaint (blocks ‘becoming’='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-so if i am used to ="trms">complaint in all ="trms">sorts and forms and shapes, what do i do if not ="trms">complaining='qstn'>? that means i need to start learning new ="trms">techniques of being in the ="trms">world.
="prgrph">-="trms">complain, forms of protest, grievance, ='lgc'><='lgc'>--(contamination)='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> lament (sug سوگ, zaje ضجه)
="prgrph">-dis="trms">positions of Beschwerde
="prgrph">-which minorities are as="trms">sociated with bitching and moaning='qstn'>? (naleh va shekayat ناله و شکایت, ghor غرولند, غر) (a feminine accent='qstn'>?!)
="prgrph prgrph2">-it is often said that “="trms">children should stop ="trms">complaining”
“stop ="trms">complaining” ='qstn'>?!! ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> pointed to or relevant for ="frds scrmbld">Lili also='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***="trms">complaint ='lgc'>: the disenfranchised (az hagh mahrum shodeh از حق محروم شده) ="trms">language of muted rage='strcls'>***
what is (let's) bitching together='qstn'>?
is ="trms">religion one long ="trms">complaint='qstn'>? (='lgc'>--'reformation’ as a cover-up)
the “i prefer,” non-need, non-preference
='strcls'>*forms of relatedness='lgc'>--in certain ="trms">societies the opening self of ="trms">sociality consists in ="trms">complaining. (starter-utterances; ="trms">social encounter involves nagging about your friends, parents, ="trms">lovers, etc.) ='lgc'>--making friends is via ="trms">complaining. (this is about the conditions of Mitsein, being-with) ='lgc'>{non-affirmation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=='qstn'>? ="trms">complaint; we mistake so easily non-affirmation with ="trms">complaining. (is this ="frds scrmbld">Lili's take='qstn'>? her ="trms">complaints about the insufficiencies of being.)='lgc'>} ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> is ="trms">complaint parasitized by calls for retribution='qstn'>?
Klage (="trms">complaint) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> Anklage (accusation)
='strcls'>*="trms">complaint remains a repetitive fixation that feeds rather than exhausting its course (/="ppl">Avital, aw9Cv_wQ4CQ) ='lgc'>-- it does not finish itself off, or move up the ladder of transformation ='lgc'>[important for ="frds scrmbld">Sana='lgc'>], actually increases pain ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> so, (="trms">according to the analyst='lgc'>:) ="trms">complain is jacking up one's suffering (the Analytiker can't take it anymore)
="ppl">Avital > ="ppl">Kittler='lgc'>: the Ach of Sprache, (in our ="trms">historical ="trms">language usage='lgc'>:) ="trms">literature or ="trms">language as ="trms">complaint. sigh in ="trms">literature (also pointed out by ="frds scrmbld">Lili)
='lgc'>--the ="trms">modern techo-="trms">monster Faust opens with the ="trms">complain
='strcls'>**what is then a proper address='qstn'>?
...the wish for more
="prgrph">-do machines ="trms">complaint or lament='qstn'>?
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luiza; (one of sub-="trms">phenomenon of utterance) ='strcls'>*blush='strcls'>* registers a ="trms">complaint(='qstn'>?)
(='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> to be noted that certain white skin-colors considered racistly “capable” of displaying moral ="trms">anxiety.)
="prgrph">-a level of ="trms">affect and meaning that remains at the loss of words, between shame and ex="trms">citement, confession and disavow. blush speaks for her at moment when she cannot stand up for herself='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-or it betrays her with a sudden sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of skin-mapping releasing a secret or indexing a moral blemish (lakedar لکه دار), a pigmentation... (how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read it='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-blush manages to register a ="trms">complaint and it signs off ='lgc'>[con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes='lgc'>] at an unspoken accusation...
="prgrph">-blossoming of senses, cultural significance, who is capable of blushing='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (decency's) ='strcls'>*outrage='strcls'>* (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> libidinally charged, prompting a political arousal ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> still a vitality stirs in the ="trms">complaint='lgc'>--='strcls'>*the ="trms">complaint can bring movement='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Luiza's climate of resistance and her ="trms">integrated modality of ‘struggle'='lgc'>] ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='strcls'>**inner life of morality='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-flush='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[="trms">complaint,='lgc'>] is it issued from a place of impotence or does it have the potential to move mountains='qstn'>? (="ppl">Avital='lgc'>--="frds">Sina's emergency supply of meaning)
can it arrive at any destination whatsoever='qstn'>?
‘="trms">complain’ and ‘explain’ ="trms">relationships
(="trms">laughter as a form of ="trms">complaining)
‘="trms">complain’ and ‘politeness’ ="trms">relationships
what ="trms">complaint has to do with our ="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger-management programs='qstn'>?
="trms">complaint ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= lament (="trms">complaint won't shut up but lament desires its ending)
lament is fined to mourning and loss ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= ="trms">complaint (resisting a fixed ="trms">relation to loss) seems unable to mourn
='strcls'>*="trms">complaint cannot mourn. ='lgc'>[="trms">complaint as a form of mourning-disorder='lgc'>]
(is mourning busy with ‘continuity in life’='qstn'>? a ="trms">world that is not made of connections='lgc'>: zendegi bi/ba tadavom زندگی بی/با تداوم, jahani ke be ham mortabet nist جهانی که به هم مرتبط نیست)
is any critique not a ="trms">complaint='qstn'>? not throwing something in the field of ="trms">complaint='qstn'>? (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="frds scrmbld">Luiza, ="frds scrmbld">Lili; certain forms of protest dominates their utterances)
='lgc'>--="trms">different ="trms">morphs of civic grief='lgc'>--
(why am i concerned with ="trms">complaint of my friends='qstn'>? this is about checking my own infrastructural concerns about zones of encounter and redirecting oversized libidinal aggressions, ='lgc'>[and pain-relief='qstn'>? ='lgc'>{is ='mywrk'>my work all about (philosophical/artistic) pain-relief='qstn'>?='lgc'>}='lgc'>])
="trms">complaint ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= staying within the boundaries of ="trms">coded gracefulness
(...credit reserved for non-="trms">complainers) ,,, ((minor scales of)) protest and breaking rhymes (of master discourse='qstn'>?) (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana, perturbed by manners of injustice; her libido ='lgc'>[zist-maye زیست مایه, shur-e hayat شور حیات='lgc'>] is at stake)
='lgc'>--when ="trms">complaint takes over and you don't even know if there is an injury anymore at the root of it.
(we are ="trms">traveling behind its possible meaning-fields)
de-shamanization and ="trms">translation /(non-transparency should rule='qstn'>?!)
are we ="trms">trapped in a grid of grievance='qstn'>?
="trms">different forms of ‘maybe’ (i am trying to install='qstn'>?)
how ="trms">complaint is then ="trms">situated in ‘becoming’='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ="trms">complaint haunts our era of desperate justice (="frds scrmbld">Xiri, ="frds scrmbld">Sana, ="frds scrmbld">Varinia)
. a calling-="trms">system='qstn'>? a GPS that has lost its signal='qstn'>?
maternal super-ego
political passion emerging as a defensive strategy
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Xiri, is she trying to add-on the super-ego for her concern of ="trms">social justice='qstn'>?)
so, does ="trms">complaint prevent the arrival of change or make way for new forms of ="trms">sociality='qstn'>?
“I can't ="trms">complain.” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (a blockbuster;) those in stubborn destitution ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----that there is no address in the era of the becoming anonymous of God. ‘Who would pick up your call='qstn'>?’
however, “the friend, whether ghostly, futural, or closely bound in time, receives the brunt of the ="trms">complaint” ='lgc'>--friends structurally ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listens to disappointed expectation, disappointed ="trms">worldliness
what-should-have-been
On what approved ="trms">contingencies, contractual loopholes, or ="trms">transferential coordinates could I possibly befriend another='qstn'>?
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">heritage of friendship (... reconfigured personhood)
(how can I do things without being a psycho about it='qstn'>?)
(How do I know by which politics of friendship, grid or ="trms">writing practice I am being called up='qstn'>?)
a ="trms">vocabulary existed to designate, approximate certain ="trms">routines
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(30.03.2017) Rabih Mroue and Hito Steyerl duo='lgc'>: concern for injustice and conservative justice call disguised under an elaborated and augmented ="trms">complaint (in the ="trms">aesthetic terms of contemporary art ="trms">market), non-rese="trms"nttrm="search">archers of their subjects and topics, they have no ‘topic’ only ‘resource’ (in the making of their own myth of the figure of artist,) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= when something becomes a topic for you, it bounds you to the unsettling commitments of curiosity and research and hard work.='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-in their notion of “Artist in the Reign of Terror” they ask disturbingly “but many individuals have died and it means nothing='qstn'>?!” with a sneer (artwork as puzkhand پوزخند ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )
='lgc'>[='strcls'>**“sneer” is a contemptuous or mocking smile, remark, or tone, coming from a family of sarcastic ="trms">tropes of ="trms">complaint and ironizated ="trms">complaining='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-their art-work finds and flourishes in a terrain of terror. in their nonspeculative work there is no “but, what if” or “but, not yet” and therefore no ‘becomings’
="prgrph">-for Hito and Rabih='lgc'>: zeitgenössisch (contemporary)='lgc'> = grausam (atrocious)
="prgrph">-they dichotomize (fact/="trms">fiction, real/unreal, etc.), rather than allowing a novel and ="trms">interesting ="trms">question to be raised
="prgrph">-what is the state of unknown in one's practice='qstn'>? rather than being a news ="trms">agency
='lgc'>[negativity='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> your bad feelings ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> غر ghor ="trms">complaint ='lgc'>--(turn it into)='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> critique ='lgc'>--(start doing)='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> research ='lgc'>--(get)='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> diploma ='lgc'>--(turn it into)='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> phd ='lgc'>--(make your)='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> department of studies ='lgc'>--(into)='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">craft tradition
='lgc'>[you don't have to start with negativity!='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[you don't need to end in your own myth tradition!='lgc'>]
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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Anouk (='at'>@her “breathing archive”)='lgc'>: (="ppl">Lev ="ppl">Manovich's) ="trms">relationship between ‘="trms">interface’ and ‘="trms">database,’ ‘perceptable’ to ‘information’. ='lgc'>[="trms">Database as ="trms">Symbolic Form='lgc'>: http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-1/s04/="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings/manovich_="trms">database.pdf='lgc'>]
what is for ="frds scrmbld">Anouk ‘information’='qstn'>? and what is for her the ="trms">relationship between information, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="trms">interface, and perceptable='qstn'>?
for her what is the ="trms">relationship between ‘information’ and ‘in="trms">finite’='qstn'>? (in="trms">finite as the universe of all possible images)
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='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Pierre's ‘="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of nerves’ ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “talking to everybody”
='lgc'>[="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of nerves='lgc'>: you are promted to do what you do out of disgust, outrage, fear, or driven by ="trms">anxiety, you don't know why, you are compelled towards an object or project or thing or unthing='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Seba='lgc'>: for him “="trms">narrative ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= complex” (the ="trms">question of “complexity's ="trms">situatedness”) for him='lgc'>: “multiple perspectives ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> coherency (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= bi-rabt بی ربط, na-ham-dusti ناهمدوستی ='qstn'>?)” (is his idea of “coherency” leads to ‘friendship’='qstn'>? is for ="frds scrmbld">Seba ‘amity’ ='lgc'>[ravabet-e hasane روابط حسنه='lgc'>] at stake='qstn'>? )
="frds scrmbld">Seba's ="trms">epistemological object(='qstn'>?)='lgc'>: ‘evidence’ (='lgc'>=/='qstn'>?='lgc'>=>! cordial dis="trms">positions)
(complexity is the name of our game. ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
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my current work and ="trms">interest involves the investigation of individualized subject formation (tajarode nafs تجرد نفس ='qstn'>?); ="trms">interrogating the production of ="trms">language; and tracing the divisible distinguishing limits between ="trms">categories of human, ="trms">animal, and ="trms">monstrous.
='at'>#subjects of ="trms">interest='lgc'>: The ="trms">translator, ="trms">language, the ="trms">sublime, ="trms">animals/="trms">animality, ="trms">technicity/mechanicity, the divine/sacred,
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the myth of Poros, Penia, and Eros for ="frds scrmbld">Aela='lgc'>:
(in ="ppl">Plato's ="trms">Symposium;) Penia, the “="trms">child of poverty,” decides to forcefully impregnate herself with the inebriated Poros, “the personification of plenty,” who is always in op="trms">position with aporia, (='lgc'>~ snafu before aporia,) “puzzlement, which breaks with the logic of identity,” and thus defining aporia. The result of this union is Eros...
poverty ='lgc'>+ ='lgc'>{plenitude ='lgc'>× aporia='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> eros ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{="trms">agency of passivity ='lgc'>+ resourcefulness='lgc'>}
="lstsrd">1-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical inquiry begins from ‘aporia’
="lstsrd">2-rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list inquiry begins from ‘a ="trms">priori’
="lstsrd">3-="trms">="trms">empiricist inquiry begins from ‘tabula rasa’ (hakim's beginning)
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="lstsrd">4-mystical inquiry begins from ‘="trms">affective a posteriori’ (effect, ="trms">wonder, heyrat, tahayor)
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sci-fi is ="trms">imagining the elsewhere inside mortality. (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> feminism stakes in SF)
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='strcls'>*make a series of studio photos with white clear backs, two ="trms">different genders ="nms">iranians having a physical/="trms">verbal fight or some ="trms">sort of aggressive encounter
='strcls'>*the idea is to ="trms">write a script for a movie or short series, combining the ="trms">historical 14th century ="nms">Iran with the 14th century ="trms">imaginal ="trms">beast ="trms">fables from the ="nms">ajayeb. the camera creats a non-exotic continuation between the two
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='lgc'>[with ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-how to let emerge a ="trms">seriousness as collective ="trms">matters of care='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how to stimulate ="trms">pragmatic ="trms">questions about how to ="trms">craft relevant knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='qstn'>?
speculation is all about ="trms">pragmatism
capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list speculation ='lgc'>: “one must speculate to accumulate” ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= relating ='and'>& ="trms">narrating
="trms">scientific speculation ='and'>& venture capital ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> big ="trms">epistemic/financial pay-offs or costly dead ends ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Stengers's notion of speculative) ='strcls'>*being at risk with ones claims='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= received notions of ="trms">authority or rationality='lgc'>]
(an abstract challenge='lgc'>:) to bring ="trms">specificity and ="trms">imaginative traction
='strcls'>*speculation is a more feral practice
(="trms">wild) speculation ='lgc'>[always improper='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= proper ="trms">science ='lgc'>: rational production of univerasal knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="prgrph">-speculation is not about what there is but what there might be
="prgrph">-speculation is on the side of the possible ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= probable (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="ppl">="ppl">Stengers)
speculative operations (quietly) insist that ='strcls'>*another ="trms">world is here='strcls'>* (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> my ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= the smooth operation of business-as-usual (,, ="trms">interrupting it)
for my ="nms">ajayeb, how can i carve out a space to nurture my idea='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> nest-building ='lgc'>--="trms">position/place='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> digging out a bit of earth
='strcls'>*speculative ="trms">="trms">empiricism ='lgc'>: ="trms">scientific ='lgc'>+ ="trms">narrative
working with ="nms">ajayeb so that it might stimulate a specualtive ="trms">="trms">empiricism for ="trms">composing more livable ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="nms">ajayeb's storied biospheres
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='thdf'>the notion of ‘magic’ in popular TV series, such as ‘Harry Potter’ franchise and ‘The Magicians’ among many others, and ="trms">instrumentalization. magic as information ="trms">technology that is completely ="trms">instrumentalized. the capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ideology of ‘tool’ and ‘usefulness’ are insinuated heavily in the hipster figures of ‘The Magicians’ in the way that they ="trms">interupt ="trms">history and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-burdened living. “stop the ="trms">history lessen! tell me how do we kill the ="trms">beast with it='qstn'>?” (the stupidity of the hipster hero moving through the matrix of merely teleological ="trms">phenomena, stripping pleasure off thinking...)
(utopian='qstn'>?)
what a magic spell is good for if it is not a leverage='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
The Magicians and The Absolute Freedom and Terror
(‘The Magicians’='lgc'>:) magic='lgc'>: ="trms">instrumentalizing the logos
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is ="trms">literal ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> magic spells are ="trms">literal ='lgc'>{the result of magic spell is predetermined='lgc'>}. in this case, the magic is both an ="trms">instrument of power and r="trms">enunciation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(="ppl">Heideggerian) ="trms">techne of the Western project is an ="trms">instrumentality that takes over, arrests, or enframes what it desires to manipulate or contain. (="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert's notes)
='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">poiesis, a bringing-forth (in ="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: blooming of the blossom) (also ="trms">Greek)
“='lgc'>[(for the ="trms">techno-="trms">monster-magicians) everything is='lgc'>] ="trms">code to be cracked”
a kind of fantasies that Don ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde calls ="trms">techno-fantasy, which have been part of the transhumanism since 19th century
the toxic distinction between ="trms">techne from ="trms">episteme (since ="ppl">Homer). ‘The Magician’ sug="trms">gests magic as a ="trms">technology or tool apart from its context of involvements and referentialities ='lgc'>: a hermeneutic or alterity ="trms">relation ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>:) the tool is an ="trms">embodiment ="trms">relation
(one of the characters even states that humans without magic invented computers as replacement)
‘The Magician’ dismisses the generation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the praxis of tool-use. ="trms">science/magic is ="trms">pragmatic ="trms">relation of ="trms">="trms">equipment or tools as ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-to-hand. the ideology of a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">relation='lgc'>: magic (as tool) is ="trms">present-at-hand ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">ontological ="trms">relationship to the ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----the characters want to go and have an icecream when they are finished with all the magical fights.)
this notion of magic as tool (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">epistemological object) in use achieves (what Don ="ppl">="ppl">Ihde calls) ='strcls'>*="trms">instrumental transparency='strcls'>* ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> It “withdraws” when in use, but becomes conspicuous again when broken or missing ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> this is precisely the standard account of ="trms">technology in high-="trms">techno-="trms">scientific capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list sunny ="trms">societies='lgc'>] ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='thdf'>the idea that magicians can “forget” (or “lose”) their magic sug="trms">gests a guarantor of ="trms">instrumental transparency of magic (or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge).
="prgrph">-the popular vision of magic hinges around the desire for total transparency='strcls'>**
="prgrph">-this ="trms">instrumental rationality is the heart of the ="trms">modernizing project (which characterizes capitalism) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the value-free calculable efficiency of administrative processes (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> a project of domination and denial of dependence) (='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> Auschwitz)
(how to make The Magician's bounded utilitarian individualism unthinkable='qstn'>?)
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(Frankfurt School='lgc'>:) ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">instrumental reason ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= reification (madiat, jesmiat) as reason
(="ppl">Habermas='lgc'>:) ="trms">systems rationality, economic and bureaucratic rationality (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> patterns of meaning rendered functional) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">communicative processes that sustain the life="trms">world
the same ="ppl">Platonic tradition produces='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= practice='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='lgc'>{mind ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= body='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='lgc'>{"conceptual” ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= “="trms">material"='lgc'>} (and privileging one over the other)
(for the Frankfurt School) truth='lgc'> = "a moment of correct praxis”
what is at stake is the way ‘The Magician’ heroes’ way of non-relating to an entire environment and with it to an implicit “="trms">world” that they inhabit.
...that ="trms">science is an ‘account’ of reality not a ‘tool’ for coping with it
...when the ="trms">world and the ="trms">instrument ="trms">interact
descriptions of the affordances of indissoluble ="trms">instrument / ="trms">world complexes are at stake
then how can we think magic/knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/="trms">science without ="trms">instrumentalization (‘something in order to’)='qstn'>?
='thdf'>the notion of ‘="trms">world’ and ‘="trms">worlding’ in other Hollywood sci-fi franchises, and the way a ="trms">world (='thdf'>for example survival in Mars in ‘The Martian,’ surviving “outer space” in ‘Gravity,’ “pure ="trms">wonder” and “="trms">abyssal unknown” in many Icarusian space exploration moves and movies, the deprived Earth in ‘="trms">Interstellar,’ and so on) is rendered dead or d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous or prosperous, ideologies of ="trms">anthropocentric extensionalism.
(this directly concerns my ="nms">ajayeb ="nms">apass research about the ="trms">past, because hollywood constantly making ="trms">science ="trms">fictions about the ="trms">past.)
='lgc'>[as much as Matt Damon is ="trms">schizo-constructing a ="trms">social environment (on “dead” Mars trying to contact “home”), ="nms">Cinderella's ="trms">schizo-="trms">affective ="trms">relation with the talking ="trms">animals is doing the same='lgc'>: talking back to a ="trms">world that talks to her, where Matt is only able to talk to home station. I think we have better chances with ="nms">Cinderella's kind of split personality.='lgc'>]
="trms">Modernity ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “Project of Enlightenment” ='lgc'>: ="trms">religion ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">science ='lgc'>+ morality ='lgc'>+ art ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> objective ="trms">science ='lgc'>+ universal morality ='lgc'>+ law ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----='lgc'>{each with its own “inner logic"='lgc'>}
(="ppl">Luhmann; ="trms">transition to ="trms">modern='lgc'>:) stratified and hierarchical organization ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “functionally ="trms">differentiated” organization
(project of ="trms">modernity requires) a universally assumed but nowhere concretely localizable life="trms">world='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)
="trms">modern person ='lgc'>: the self-fulfilling and self-justifying observing subject
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(="ppl">Freud's) ego='lgc'>: the record of abandoned object cathexes
(cathexes ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= electrical charge; the libidinal energy invested in some idea or person or object)
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(15.02.2017) three objects from ="nms">apass='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="trms">complaint
="prgrph">-evidence
="prgrph">-monologue
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on futurity; in SF capital (Mark Fisher) the information (somewhere between cybernetic futurism and “New Economy”) is a direct generator of economic value ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ‘the information about the future’ circulates as as increasingly important commodity='strcls'>* (="ppl">Eshun)
SF='lgc'>: engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming ="trms">present ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> future ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> manufacturing tools capable of ="trms">intervention (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? disruption; the Sun Ra, character in the movie The Place is The Space, disrupts when he enters the youth ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">club.)
='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Ale ='lgc'>--her='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> predatory features/futures ='lgc'>: (a space for researching='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] dimensions of) anticipatory designs, projects of emulation, manipulation, parasitism, ="trms">interpellation into a b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right corporate tomorrow ='lgc'><='lgc'>== faces smiling at screens (='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='qstn'>? a bitter ="trms">joke)
="prgrph">-in her criticism of “eurocentrism” how are afrofuturism and arabfuturism located='qstn'>? (curatorial) let's invite them as her allies in Hansaring Studio.
counter="trms">memorial mediated practices
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خودشیفتگی khodshiftegi='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[="trms">narcissistic personality disorder='lgc'>]
(exaggerated feeling of) self-importance, self-absorbed, self-perception of being unique, ="trms">situated within self-="trms">presentation, sense of entitlement حق به جانب and self-centeredness schema
adult ="trms">neurotic's sense of omnipotence ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> relic of the old megalomania of infancy (='lgc'>~ all ="trms">paranoic disorders) (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> hurt with denial)
(="ppl">Freud's) primal state='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{id ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ego ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= external ="trms">world='lgc'>}='lgc'>--(not ="trms">differentiated)
one could not lay hold of oneself as other ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">narcissism expires
(="ppl">Lacan's) ego='lgc'> = another ='lgc'>}='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> the specular ego (in the mirror ="trms">stage) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">narcissistic
(‘='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=’ ='lgc'>: ="trms">erotic attraction or aggressive tension)
="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>: the utterance “I am ugly” created “the beautiful”
='lgc'>[does this mean='lgc'>: “I am beautiful” created “the ugly” (in the other and ="trms">world)='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
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="trms">sublimation is passion transformed
or, object displacement, transformation of instincts,
a desuxualization (from primary to secondary ="trms">narcissism) (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> what is ="frds scrmbld">Aela's “thirst for knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge”='qstn'>?)='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> un="trms">folding into (="trms">differentiated elements of a oneness of) instinctual-spiritual experience. (="frds scrmbld">Aela's) ‘oneness’ ='lgc'>[an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal unity ='lgc'>+ one hidden and defended against='lgc'>] stays alive as connection='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the ="trms">question of desire for ="frds scrmbld">Aela is about this hidden linkage.
='lgc'>[="trms">transitional objects, play, modifications of the pleasure principle, genital function,='lgc'>]
,
(noted by ="ppl">="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian ="ppl">Hubert='lgc'>: for ="ppl">Loewald='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*="trms">eroticism is genuine ="trms">sublimation='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a reconciliation in the area of ego development and of ="trms">internalization. (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela)
="prgrph">-de="trms">sublimation (of reason='qstn'>?)
objective of sexuality conceptual transformation into Eros ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (asking ="frds scrmbld">Aela with ="ppl">Marcuse='lgc'>:) what is the non-repressive ="trms">sublimation of the resexualized body='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">neurotic reactivation of ="trms">narcissistic libido)
why Eros is so powerful='qstn'>? what kind of ="trms">sublimation is the culture-building power of Eros='qstn'>?
in ="ppl">Derrida, ="trms">narcissism is the passage to the Other, and not necessarily merely a collapse into oneself.
auto-="trms">erotic solipsism
باطل کردن طلسم ضمیر the ego appears ='lgc'>[displaced elsewhere in the ="trms">world as an effect='lgc'>] as the result of primary ="trms">narcissism='qstn'>?
(batel kardan-e telesm-e zamir) dispulsion of ego
='strcls'>*ego forms in the ="trms">world='strcls'>* (="ppl">Lippit)
auto-="trms">erotic economy
the ego in the island, finding footprints of the others
(="ppl">Freudian protocols of existence='lgc'>:) there is no ="trms">world, there is only islands. ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> multiplicity of isolations ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> individuation
“In ="trms">narcissism the ego disappears from the ="trms">world and reappears in the ="trms">imaginary realm of invisible ="trms">interiority.” (="ppl">Lippit)
='lgc'>{the ="trms">erotic attachment to outside objects='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="trms">pervert ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">narcissist='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='lgc'>{withdraw, calls it “instinct for self preservation"='lgc'>} (a shortcut='lgc'>: my way of undering my own ="trms">narcissistic tendencies has been through ="trms">perversity.)
='lgc'>[for ="frds scrmbld">Juan:='lgc'>] (artistic) ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? fossilization (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>->='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis)
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='strcls'>*="trms">mimesis='strcls'>* is not about form
in order to re="trms">present the character of the ="trms">supposed ‘word’ of another
="trms">mimesis ='lgc'>+ ="trms">techne ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= copy (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Juan)
diegesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis
(telling) ='lgc'>-- (showing)
(recounted) ='lgc'>-- (enacted)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">poiesis _////(actually a useful and necessary ="trms">difference, synthesized by the ="trms">Greeks='lgc'>--="ppl">Plato and ="ppl">Aristotle)
(...and what about the ="trms">question of the medium='qstn'>?)
='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Juan's ="trms">relationship with the (in)dependency of the individuated self of the artist='lgc'>--in this case himself='lgc'>--by means of ="trms">mimetic ="trms">techne is to overcome the visual artist's ="trms">narcissism='qstn'>?
(="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>:) being alone ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">mimesis ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> through ="trms">mimetic ="trms">intra-acting with the other
(="frds">Sina='lgc'>: there is no “being alone” only ‘feeling lonely’ which is itself a form of ="trms">intra-acting ='lgc'>: ="trms">internalizing an external ="trms">phenomena. “loneliness” is a belief that one has.)
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="trms">narcissism as a ="trms">mimetic and performative mode
transindividual ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>--Maitra='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> movement of the subject beyond ethnicity (ethnic formations that the bio-political processes of ="trms">interpellation ="trms">demand of the subject)
remediation of ethnic ="trms">narcissism
='lgc'>[Maitra's queer diasporic ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practice of='lgc'>] (in diaspora media theory) performing an identity (that is “="nms">Iranian” for example)
='strcls'>*="trms">intermedia='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= multimedia='lgc'>: fuse disparate media)
frictions between ="trms">different media
conceptual ="trms">interplay between media
space of alchemical transformation
(at the level of) conflict of ="trms">interpretations
radical understanding of ="trms">interdisciplinarity
diaspora='lgc'>: no longer having a clear answer to “where are you from='qstn'>?”
what might we learn from ="trms">narcissism (from ="trms">mimesis)='qstn'>?
mediate and fracture the ="trms">writing of the self
wound='lgc'>: disconnected event
not adding up to a comprehensive ="trms">narrative of the ethnic self
='strcls'>*ego-under-construction='strcls'>*
="ppl">Freud's primary ="trms">narcissism, we ="trms">love ourselves before ="trms">loving others
(for the ="trms">child) ="trms">narcissism='lgc'> = ="trms">intermediate
(secondary) ="trms">narcissism='lgc'>: the processes by which the distinction between the ego and external object is lost
(="ppl">Lacan) loss of distinction between the ego and its reflection in the mirror
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">narcissism helps the infant in trying to distinguish himself from the mother/other
="trms">narcissism beyond infantile sexuality ='lgc'>-='lgc'>->
="trms">narcissism='lgc'>: structure (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= state) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== when the burden of desire on the subject becomes intolerable
(='qstn'>?what are new structures of) artistic ="trms">narcissism
='strcls'>*an occasion to ="trms">erotisize your own body='strcls'>*
to ="trms">erotically emphasize a particular ="trms">memory
stitching together of the naked ethnic body
hupersexuality
...those who are undersexed
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='prcnt'>%note on ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's workshop='lgc'>:
how ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">mimesis came when we were not sure what she meant by “make note.” the signifier of “note” defined itself in a collective ="trms">mimetic semi-conscious way.
(='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ='mywrk'>my work on how signifiers transmit and transform ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> parasitism, ="trms">rumorology, etc. ... weaker neighborhoods of thought)
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's notions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•explosion ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> dance
="lsts lst1">•the “generative” notion in her discourse (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> notion of “active,” and “conscious intentionality” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> a property of human ="trms">agency and ="trms">agential exceptionality. (the metric of) her work/workshop distinguishes the self-aware active entity from non-="trms">communicative receptive entity, ='strcls'>***="trms">intransitive ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">transitive='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='lgc'>{her privileged object='lgc'>}, and that distinction is not useful for me ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right now='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">authority of the ="trms">trope “practice” for ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice
(what would be a non="trms">mimetic understanding of eachother='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Juan)
="lsts lst1">•the workshop was not her ‘thinking’ or ‘making’ in process or an open ="trms">question or a not-knowing, rather the workshop was based on her (finished) ‘notions,’ with her ‘indisputables,’ her ‘="trms">literal’ objects; (dance, active, body, ="trms">imagination, practice, generative, creative, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•production of the “I” in her work; (a nasty side-effect='lgc'>: collateral individuation) (when were the moments in the workshop that an ="trms">interesting “we” was created and for whom='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•the problematic ="trms">difference between ‘="trms">literal’ and ‘="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical’ at the footing of her thinking (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> my whole ="nms">apass research is about this)
="lsts lst1">•(artist's) ="trms">imagination as a magic wand that can transform things
='strcls'>*what helped me was ='thdf'>the idea of thinking with a ‘dormant ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor’ (in my own work) and ‘activate’ it, in a way that the problems and pleasures of thinking with that ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor is felt. by ‘dormant ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor’ what i mean is an operative word that one is using often and is left un="trms">interrogated. ='thdf'>for example the problems of “landscape” as a particular ="trms">ontological tool for me became apparent only after i committed myself to that ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor in the course of the ="trms">interview with ="frds scrmbld">Pierre and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice. to stay with a ="trms">story, to live its contra="trms">dictions. (and the ="trms">position of it in a sentence)
="lsts lst1">•“it was ‘landscape’ talking; not me!”
="lsts lst1">•why i was seeing ="nms">Tehran as the ‘ghostly landscape’='qstn'>? (="trms">matter of a confrontation with ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>? exteriority of my subjecthood is at stake='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>->!='qstn'>? the arbitrary ="trms">position of “genius loci” ='lgc'>: that from a genius ="trms">position one can see for good. -how to make myself nonarbitrary='lgc'>--not subject to individual determination='lgc'>--in ="trms">relation to ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> towards ‘="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’)
="lsts lst1">•what kind of ="trms">material-discursive practices thinking with “landscape” committed me to='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[to explore and feel this commitment (and its consequences) is ‘staying with the trouble’ for me='lgc'>]
it felt like ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice believes that people, we, have control over our ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors, but in the course of the workshop there were many occasions that was not the case='lgc'>:
="frds">Sina, landscape ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> optics
="frds scrmbld">Esta, building/house ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">geometry ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> security
="frds scrmbld">Agnes, super="trms">market ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> exchange
="frds scrmbld">Juan, crime ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> arrest
="frds scrmbld">Zoumana, garden (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> fecundity) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> immunity
="frds scrmbld">Eszter, electronic device ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> closed
="frds scrmbld">Ekaterina, ="trms">zoo ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> objects of care (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> ="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= diseased .='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> objectifying or babying them)
='strcls'>* landscape ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? optic ='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='qstn'>? way of dis="trms">embodied seeing
='lgc'>[artificial perspective ='lgc'>{='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (objects are in) proportional variations in a seamless continuum='lgc'>}, gaze of the ="trms">spectator, exterior space, homogeneous, in="trms">finite, ="trms">systematic,='lgc'>] ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (this is all) ='strcls'>*="trms">symbolic form='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[(tele/micro)scope ='lgc'><='lgc'>==='lgc'>] landscape ='lgc'><='lgc'>== perspective ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- arbitrary point of the observer
(="ppl">Descola='lgc'>:) such “objectification of the subjective” ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>
(1) a distance between man and the ="trms">world
(2) ="trms">systematizes and stabilizes the external universe
='strcls'>***factuality is not intrinsic, it is ="trms">rhetoric (that we live with)
="trms">history of ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">nature
‘="nms">ajayeb's architects of a ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">cosmology who establish hierarchies and discontinuities among them ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">cosmogenesis of ="trms">modernity's subjectivity's illusions of continuity
='lgc'>[="ppl">Descola's “con="trms">figurations of continuity"='lgc'>]
(="nms">ajayeb creates) hierarchical order ="trms">according to the levels of the exchange of information that is reputed to be possible.
="prgrph">-which parties are set on the same level of reality (in ="nms">ajayeb)='qstn'>?
(what are the human and nonhuman) proliferation of forms in ="nms">ajayeb (='qstn'>?)
who are the “mothers of games” there='qstn'>? snake, Div, etc. (spirits that protect the game)
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="trms">technical know-how to create ="trms">intersubjective ambience/ambivalence ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> regulated ="trms">relations between one person and another ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--these are='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> cultivated plots
how can i, starting with ="nms">apass, learn to create theaters of a subtle ="trms">sociability (in which beings with ="trms">different forms of ="trms">language and physical aspect are ="trms">ontologically indistinguishable)='qstn'>?
the ="trms">category of “persons”='lgc'>: variations in the modes of ="trms">communication that are made possible by an apprehension of perceived qualities that are unequally distributed
whose dialects are ="trms">mutually intelligible='qstn'>?
human ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>: that if a being possess a soul is only then capable of recognizing humans
='lgc'>='lgc'>---then let's give everyone souls!
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(="ppl">Massumi > ="ppl">Deleuze's) critique ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= modulation ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> actively modulated from within the ="trms">situation, immanent to it ='lgc'>{
="prgrph">-augmenting='strcls'>* (taking a certain tendency to the limit)
="prgrph">-diverting='strcls'>* (deflecting it into a ="trms">different tendency)
="prgrph">-transmutational='strcls'>* (="trms">interacting with other tendencies in a way that invents a whole new direction as a kind of surplus value of ="trms">interaction)
="prgrph">-or, it can lead to a clash that stops the process
asking people “to be true to what they re="trms">present” ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> having them “encapsulated in al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready arrived-at opinion and judgment” ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> blockage
war of “disqualification” ='lgc'>~ ="ppl">="ppl">Stengersian non-event
being (re="trms">presented and) legitimated in proxy war
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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Zoumana; “decadent gardener” that connot keep distinction between kin and pest, ="trms">nature and culture
what is a garden full of indirections, snakes='qstn'>?
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='at'>#my ="trms">trope-findings, (bi="trms">lingual non="trms">systematic comparative thinking for ="trms">storytelling) (work with ="ppl">Avital='qstn'>?)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•پیر ="nms">Pir / sujet ="trms">supposé savoir (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='qstn'>? پیر فلک ="nms">Pir-e falak in ="ppl">Hafez)
="lsts lst1">•غر Ghor / ="trms">complaint (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> shekayat شکایت, and then, khamush خموش in ="ppl">Hafez)
="lsts lst1">•تعارف ="nms">Tarof / ="trms">greeting
="lsts lst1">•transcend ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> darajat درجات (='lgc'>-> ="ppl">Attar)
="lsts lst1">•super-ego ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> Div-mardom دیو مردم (='lgc'>-> ="ppl">Nezami)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">NatureZolmat (ظلمت ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="nms">ajayeb)
="lsts lst1">•آبرو Aberu / economy of value
="lsts lst1">•طیالارض tey-ol-arz / body scale, intensity and ="trms">excess
="lsts lst1">•نگرانی negarani ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> practices of care
on Aberu, I became ="trms">interested due to my lack of Aberu in ="trms">presentationl quality and its abundance in other area's of my psychosomatic becoming.
Aberu ="trms">traverses, calls itself in, animates, and exists for later visits.
="prgrph">-when you are devalued by the marked of bi-aberu, you are less tied to the strictures of shame, and ‘your behavior’ becomes performance ="trms">material
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="trms">agency ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? boresh برش, jahd جهد (in ="trms">Farsi), “="trms">agential cut enacts a local ="trms">causal structure” (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
="trms">agency of ‘hemat’ همّت
hemate shahi همّت شاهی, lavazeme hemat لوازم همّت ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">apparatus
sufi's hemat ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= magic
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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Seba after accelerate manifesto ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>: (what is and how can we not pivot on our work) the ="trms">measure of the meaningfulness of action. (="frds scrmbld">Seba's notion of losing hope is because he put himself unconsciously in a cost-benefit analysis='qstn'>? “what is the effect of my actions='qstn'>?”) ='lgc'>[in practice it is difficult to ="trms">embody speculative thinking. we are still in the space of thinking in terms of the probable.='lgc'>]
to do hope-work is about ‘not talking (too much) about the future’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= commitment in terms of probabilities, refusal to treat your subjects as if they were objects of management ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> let's set aside our own hopes, and work to honour the ='strcls'>**hopefulness of others='strcls'>** (="ppl">Deborah ="ppl">Rose)
“And hope is here, all around us. Creatures want to live.” (not in the “future”)
the accelerationists putting things in their cascade of fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures, (everything sinks effortlessly into it,) and creating a vanishing point in terms of a western saturated temporality. for them the ="trms">present is the time of announcing the news of salvation or apocalypse, and has no ="trms">thickness. (the desire) to step out of ="trms">history, and is made void in the process of realization, ='thdf'>the idea that “everything is possible.” they experience their freedom as universal freedom ='strcls'>* (noted by ="ppl">Blanchot.) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the problem with all male action heroes...='lgc'>]
(is this a kind of “game-over” discourse='qstn'>?)
='strcls'>*time (thinking with ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
the sequential ="trms">palindromic time (in Western-related cultures) ='lgc'>[جناس قلب ="trms">palindrome='lgc'>: from the ="trms">Greek roots ="trms">palin “again” and dromos “way, direction”; a word, phrase, number, or other sequence of characters which ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads the same backward as forward; (un)parsable ="trms">palindromic motifs;='lgc'>]
there are many ="trms">sorts of temporalities in West, but the most ="trms">naturalized and intuitive, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-to-hand (and black-boxed) version of it is the “="trms">past, ="trms">present, future.” ='thdf'>the notion of ‘="trms">present’ becomes a (mathematical) vanishing point, a pivot or a point rather than itself a ="trms">thickness, an inaccessible ="trms">past being transmuted into a future that is always to come. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= the lived time of the flesh='lgc'>]
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> what counts as a ="trms">responsible person in temporality='qstn'>? (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Seba, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre's “future”)
in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb in ="nms">apass, i choose to give account to ="trms">responsibility in a way ='strcls'>*to face those who come before rather than to face the future='strcls'>*, this is about a switch in the direction of attention.
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narratable ="trms">memory with named people turned to ="trms">ancestors and moved into dreaming time
="lsts lst1">•="trms">past='lgc'>: quiet country ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> bear the mark of the care of generation, inhabits both living and dying ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> recuperation (behbud بهبود, ramagh رمق)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">present='lgc'>: ="trms">wilderness ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">ongoingness (="trms">thickened with creatures)
='lgc'>[in (my ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='qstn'>?) ="nms">ajayeb's temporality='lgc'>] things come from the ="trms">past and the future ="trms">simultaneously
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what i ="trms">respond to='lgc'> = what i in="trms">herit
="trms">science (in the way that is ="trms">presented) is outside ="trms">history, and becomes simply that which is “the case” of the ="trms">world
='strcls'>**everything that one does is inside time, but that which is acquired (becomes a view ="trms">onto a s="trms">cene) and is outside of time='strcls'>**
='strcls'>***(d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous) ways of being outside of the time of the ="trms">thick ="trms">present='strcls'>*** (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)
‘-s="trms">cene’='lgc'>: a ="trms">thick ="trms">presence of now, has many durations in it
(='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">past tense trans-="trms">species affair) is about those with whom one must get on together, in the enacting of ="trms">responsibility for those who came before. how not to exit time='qstn'>? (= “staying with the trouble”)
trans-="trms">species affair then and now
(in our) multi-dimensional inhabiting of space with critters (you can't only talk about capital, land, labor without having a multi="trms">species affair)
="ppl">Badiou's points on accelerate='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•unifying us around negativity
="lsts lst1">•future of western ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•="trms">question of private property ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> key of soical organization
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='at'>#work on video series (with='qstn'>? ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian, ="frds scrmbld">Esta,)
messy short videos (for youtube or other places)
="lstsrd">1. critique of magic in cinema
="lstsrd">2. re="trms">presentation of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in cinema
="lstsrd">3.
to perform ="trms">past and ="trms">present alarmingly ="trms">simultaneously, to ="trms">intermix the directions of ="trms">causation and influence, they cannot be linear and progressive, against a production of ="trms">present ='lgc'>[="trms">presentism='lgc'>]
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='at'>#create identity research center for/with ='mywrk'>my work
="lstsrd">1. ="nms">harem (حرم)
="lstsrd">2. ="nms">ajayeb (عجایب)
="lstsrd">3. wortsalad
="lstsrd">4. erklammern (with ="frds scrmbld">Foad)
="lstsrd">5. san'at-e mojarad-sazi (صنعت مجردسازی with ="frds scrmbld">Foad)
="lstsrd">6. garden (باغ)
="lstsrd">7.
='at'>#what am i learning from Hiwa's Chicago Boys project='qstn'>?
="trms">history, recent region departures, study group, music, jam, more and more people together with their voices and ="trms">stories, faces, sing, play, discomfort in ="trms">instrument, tour, collectivity, sojourn in ="trms">stage, conviviality, cover song,
="prgrph">-when i look at the videos of the project i feel like i want to do or be part of something like that, i want those qualities, i want the way people are looking and feeling like there.
='at'>#i am learning from ="ppl">Kohn that the survival is complicated, from ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway that ="trms">world works by ="trms">excess and therefore filled with hope, with ="ppl">Sennett and ="ppl">Delanda a better account of ="trms">socio-="trms">material ="trms">history, from ="ppl">Ahmed a ="trms">different understanding of psychoanalysis, from ="ppl">="ppl">Barad ="trms">poetry and argumentation, from ="ppl">Scher the effort needed to become ="trms">interested, from ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney that there is no need for a “standard ="trms">language” to describe your ="trms">interventions or to produce a body of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about your ="trms">matters of concern,
(this is one place that i am recognizing and foregrounding a binary structure='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•women in my life='lgc'>: ="ppl">Avital, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, ="ppl">Ahmed, ="ppl">Scher, ="ppl">="ppl">Barad, ="ppl">="ppl">Despret, teaching me ="trms">science and art, attentive modes of ="trms">differential ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">writing, practices of care and concern
="lsts lst1">•men in my life='lgc'>: ="ppl">Serres, ="ppl">Sennett, ="ppl">Delanda, ="ppl">Levinas, ="ppl">Anand, teaching me a non-guilt-driven knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of ="trms">history and ="trms">past, a ="trms">different mode of re="trms">membrance which provokes a ="trms">different mode of ="trms">response and ="trms">responsibility
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alive ='lgc'>--='lgc'>[='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> dead ='lgc'>--='lgc'>[='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">ancestor
what provokes ="trms">storytelling='qstn'>?
(="ppl">="ppl">Harawayian) inhabiting ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">responsibility ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> alignment
(a split-self at home with) contra="trms">dictions ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> dealing with ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>}='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> this is about ‘ongoing’
note to self='lgc'>: not to throw away the contaminated concept that we have, (='thdf'>for example ‘human intentionality,’ ‘human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights,’ etc) ='strcls'>*but to hold on (while knowing how contaminated it is) to any concept (which are always unsettled) until it gets a particular (="trms">situated) job done
(which job i am try to get done with my good and bad concepts='qstn'>?)
where are we headed with our syntax='qstn'>?
“-s="trms">cene” ='lgc'>: the ‘now’ of the ="trms">species ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> pleisto="trms">cene image='lgc'>] also, a sharp change in the graph/diagram ='lgc'>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Extinction_intensity.svg='lgc'>]
="ppl">Sa'di, thinking not with the capital T, rather with the flower, with the cut tail of the animaux
competency ='lgc'>+ competency (of ="trms">different ="trms">animal, human, machine, pigeon, etc) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= subtraction, taboo, ="trms">obligation ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> deficiency='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
(additive competencies)
“="trms">excess” is the name of the ="trms">world
there is always more that we don't know; what yet has to come; the ="trms">world is constantly doing stuff; (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> accelerate manifesto, apocalyptic ="trms">narratives)
(i am drawn to and by ="trms">excess, and i am engaged in it='lgc'>: in my ="trms">lectures, talkings, ="trms">writings, and I take it up also visually in my drawings. my ="nms">ajayeb hypertext search is ="trms">contingent and opportunistic, and its se="trms"nttrm="search">arches are non-="trms">systematic)
in ="nms">apass what my project is all about='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">loving to tell you about what i am ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='strcls'>* (why it seams too difficult, complicated and impossible to understand!='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-“to provides a feast of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading pleasures”
holding each other's unasked-for patterns (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa)
taking up each other patterns ='lgc'>[which are sometimes obvious, sometimes cryptic='lgc'>]
(what is the other name of the practices of “string figures” in ="nms">Iran='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='lgc'>[stars, facts, ="trms">fabulations, “far”s, patternings,='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> all ="trms">cosmopolitical, ="trms">composes the “we”)
="lsts lst1">•a “we” com="trms">positional
="lsts lst1">•an “="nms">ajayeb” com="trms">positional
="lsts lst1">•
="trms">anthropo="trms">cene ="trms">system thinking
="lsts lst1">•feedback loops
="lsts lst1">•thermodynamics ='and'>& 18th century mathematics (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= hyperbolic mathematics in ‘crochet’ ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">excess of surface, ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">story of ="trms">interface)
="lsts lst1">•comparative ="trms">interpretive thinking (a dominant western model of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production='lgc'>--which i am using!)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modern synthesis='lgc'>: restrictive ="trms">system theories within evolutionary theories
="lsts lst1">•="trms">systems idea
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>*“The global scale takes precedence='lgc'>--because it is the scale of the model.”='strcls'>* ="ppl">Tsing
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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
Bi="trms">lingual ="trms">Stories for Ajayeb ="trms">NatureCultures
(...="trms">stories ‘for’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ...="trms">stories ‘of’)
does Brexit and Trumplandia changes the landscape of English use as a ="trms">language='qstn'>?
the image of pedagogy ='lgc'>: ="trms">semiotic ="trms">apparatus (& ="trms">technological) (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the ritual of Simpson strangling Bart)
(why am i cultivating the) ='strcls'>*non-inventive ="trms">imagination='strcls'>* (and its anti="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabole ='lgc'>[or chiasmus, chiastic patterns of antithesis='lgc'>]='lgc'>: non-="trms">imaginitive invention)
often we find ourselves inventing everything (in political animation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= to figure out what are we attached to
(in="trms">heriting something ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? being heir to something)
the ="trms">scientist inside me begs me to narrow my temporal scale, choose an epoch, let's say middle ages, choose a century let's say 15th, choose a year, choose a day, a moment, a micro-second slice of the cake of the milieu that you are ="trms">interested in, the instance in the bazar with Halaj in the sun and so on.
(my old school) ="trms">obligatory knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- salon of ="trms">scietific entertainment
='lgc'>}='lgc'>-> (is about creating) proper witness='strcls'>***
the ="trms">tropes i am building in my current research, do they help build a better ="nms">Iran='qstn'>? and how='qstn'>?
="trms">interms of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•an ="trms">ongoingness
="lsts lst1">•a commitment to a recent future thinking
‘homo-’='lgc'>: stuff of the soil, that figures of b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right and sunny image of the same
='at'>#="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs and ="trms">syms='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•games
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological designs
="lsts lst1">•plots
="lsts lst1">•mechanisms
="lsts lst1">•sfs
="lsts lst1">•="trms">jokes
="lsts lst1">•="trms">jests
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
critical ="trms">bestiaries
critique-="trms">bestiary
belonging='lgc'> = achievement (dastavard دستاورد) ='lgc'>+ violence (khoshunat خشونت)
...the ways we renounce the ="trms">world through the use of the word “real” and “really”
(="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>:) weaving='lgc'>: not secular nor ="trms">religious, not traditional nor ="trms">modern, is ="trms">sensuous
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='at'>#='lgc'>[nodes and notes='lgc'>]
the emptyland, terrestrial life, ‘per-’ instead of ‘her’ or ‘his’
="prgrph">-the way i started with ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway was through the way i ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read her notion of ‘critter,’ juju (جوجو) in ="trms">Farsi, jako junevar (جک جونور), little life animators often easy and ok to kill, a term in ="trms">farsi for kids that ="trms">worlds for them in particular ways
bio (“qualified life”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= zoe, juju, “bare life” (="ppl">Agamben)='lgc'>: that which is killable ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?!='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> that which must be transformed
='lgc'>[="trms">stories of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginary ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion and com="trms">position of body='lgc'>]
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the form and function are having too tight fit. no no no!
(cities) being in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive but not ="trms">integrative
(setar ="trms">different ="trms">technique of vibrato and ="trms">measure for instance in Saba and Ghavami, which part of the finger or body, one works in certain way for one and not for the other musician ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the explicit unpacking of the activity ='lgc'>: what was formerly tacit ='lgc'>[zemni, khamush, ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= habit='lgc'>] becomes dr="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged into explicit ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= expressive='lgc'>] consciousness, precisely because there is a resistance, that there is something not ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right for the musician ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> reconsidering, reexploring ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the ="trms">technique then again disappears into the tacit realm ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">technique becomes variegated)
='strcls'>**tacit ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> explicit (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= that which becomes available for reconsideration)='strcls'>**
when one masters a ="trms">skill it is about being ="trms">="trms">equipped to address a whole new set of problems
='lgc'>{expertise/mastery='lgc'>: problem solving='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{="trms">craft='lgc'>: problem finding='lgc'>}='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> when other things become problematic='lgc'>='lgc'>---the condition (in the ="trms">craft work) that when you learn how to do one thing you see other things that need to be explored ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-> ="trms">question for ="frds scrmbld">Eunkyung's drawing ="trms">skills and practice='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="trms">craft is more important than art(='qstn'>?) (="ppl">Sennett)
...='thdf'>the notion that the work art breaks the conventions of practice, that it is something that makes an ="trms">epistemic break. ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> emphasis on innovation (something new)='lgc'>--that is a reflection of ="trms">sort of 19th century bourgeois ideas of about making art.
="lsts lst1">•privileging the creative act over the ="trms">craftsman act
="lsts lst1">•in innovation the “innovator” is separated from the “mass” ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">craftsmanship is collective and additive ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (in ="trms">craftsmanship) the performance is myself
="lsts lst1">•creativity being a form of individuation or separation (='at'>@the exploratory shift in ="frds scrmbld">Eunkyung's work that ="frds scrmbld">Pierre highlighted)
='strcls'>*** ="trms">craft-work is about additive ="trms">skill; it is about building on what you know rather than throwing it out ='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list logic of progress, creativity in the sense that ‘something’ where before was ‘nothing’) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> a ="trms">different way of building quality (into practices and objects)
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="ppl">Bakhtin's dialogic, to become a ="trms">skilled ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener ='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening='lgc'> = ="trms">response (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= simply answering) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (when we speak) we give other people talismans that are not (perfectly) clear to us='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----we penetrate and unpack what someone doesn't have the words clearly and ="trms">response to what they intend ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “common understanding,” “make something work,”
cooperation is about getting deeper into something
conditions that more ="trms">skills are required (and not the op="trms">posite)
in ="trms">modernity everything seams to need to be ="trms">verbalized. what happens to the un="trms">verbalized, the unprogrammatic='qstn'>? ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> can you have an implicit ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right which can't be ="trms">verbalized='qstn'>? maybe no, maybe this is the limit of the ="trms">social...
purposiveness='lgc'>: when you hear somebody go “i am going to put clearly what we all want...” you have submitted to that person (almost ="trms">erotic) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “they really know who they are” ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> you become a ="trms">spectator to their de="trms">finiteness
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who the fuck='lgc'> = theology
how the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">="trms">empiricism
what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">ontology
how the what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">epistemology
why what the fuck='lgc'> = ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics
why the fuck='lgc'> = ethics
why give a fuck='lgc'> = teleology
the fuck itself='lgc'> = ="trms">phenomenology
fucked up='lgc'> = pathology
fuck all='lgc'> = nihilism
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="frds scrmbld">Aela to ="frds scrmbld">Sven='lgc'>: “everytime you disappoint me you gain in depth” (5 April 2017)
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(06.04.2017) ='prcnt'>%notes after my ="nms">apass endweek ="trms">presentation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•my implicit focus and energy on the body and its organs of ="trms">gesture that animates us
="lsts lst1">•="trms">loving telling you what i ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read
="lsts lst1">•giving you what i don't fully understand ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= gift from above
="lsts lst1">•(in ="trms">lecture) to allow ="trms">language ="trms">greet the un="trms">verbalized
(it is about) organizing my ="trms">memory
(it is about) that which comes to (my) mind, and “things” coming to minds
(it is about) the things I am told
__='lgc'>[these are perhaps other names of cognition, ="trms">affect, ="trms">memory, ="trms">semiotics, ="trms">history, in="trms">heritance, ="trms">figuration, ="trms">interface, thing-="trms">relations, huntology,='lgc'>]
__in our shared space where we let eachother in the effect of our ="trms">languages, I want to practice what comes to mind when I stand in front of you and your work, ask myself ‘what else’ comes to mind='qstn'>? in a sense, my project on ="nms">ajayeb is that kind of training
also in ="nms">apass i want “to catch you in your acts”
it is my privilege to recognize you (as...)
asking='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- what do I know='qstn'>?
="lstsrd">2- what am I told='qstn'>?
="lstsrd">3- (how getting good at to) explain what somebody else said
="lstsrd">1- the first ="trms">question has no clear answer, what i know is not placed somewhere in me, it is always an ="trms">articulated ="trms">matter of ‘with’ or in ="trms">interaction with, it is a ="trms">sym, changes before i can grasp, knowing is done always with a figure or a thing, it in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes all ="trms">sorts of optics and ="trms">technologies, (="trms">affect theory, media theory, ="trms">epistemology,)
="lstsrd">2- the ="trms">response to the second ="trms">question is also not clear, i am not sure what i am told, i don't re="trms">member or hear, what i am told is in="trms">folded in what i know, (when i started with my islam ="trms">lecture series i was testing the waters of these two ="trms">questions and the possibility of staying with them without freaking out of ambiguity or ploting an answer)
3='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='at'>#cat's cradle
='at'>#on hypertext note='lgc'>:
i am becoming ="trms">skilled at looking at my notes='lgc'>:
='lgc'>{(1) what are the ='strcls'>*="trms">skills necessary='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= tabula rasa (of the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader, of the audience) of the ="trms">communo-capitalism's standard of “user-="trms">interface"='lgc'>--the strange idea that the ="trms">interaction and ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading doesn't need or must not need learned-efforts or ="trms">skills, that it should be “easy” and “effortless” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> fallacy of the un="trms">skilled ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener.='lgc'>] to engage, ="trms">interact, and get involved with the ="trms">interface, ="trms">data-set, grammar, and ="trms">literacy of (my) reservoir='qstn'>? ='lgc'>}='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='strcls'>** let's ask that ="trms">question with every ="trms">apparatus that engages us into desire, movement, ="trms">articulation, ...
="trms">skills ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> to become ‘="trms">literate’ in this particular way ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes this ="trms">situated ="trms">literacy and ="trms">skills of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading particular to the object of “text” (in that case how do i address my ="trms">interest in the ="trms">pervert ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader='qstn'>? the ="trms">skills of the unlearning='strcls'>*)
the ="trms">skills necessary for ='mywrk'>my work to work comes with time, attention, and desire ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? ='at'>#="nms">harem (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ladies room)
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> (2) this ="trms">skills of (my) reservoir, what set of ="trms">questions or problems ="trms">="trms">equip me to address='qstn'>?
varzidan, varz, varzide, ورزیده
="ppl">Sennett's ="trms">love for his subjects is extraordinary (='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= iconoclasm, futurism) and it influences me deeply, his voice and care when he opens his reflection, findings, etc.
ok, again, the ‘="trms">skill’ ="trms">question='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•1='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> what are the set of ="trms">skills needed for ='mywrk'>my work='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•2='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> which problematics these ="trms">skills ="trms">="trms">equip me to address='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•3='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> can i (or should i) not know these problematics in advance='qstn'>?
the bow and arrow ='lgc'>--|)='lgc'>-> ='heart'>♥ in my ="nms">apass endweek (as sound object) was a relic of our shared physical energetic space, the nondiscursive ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> how to keep it in="trms">articulate='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•a way to record space, which is always ="trms">social ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= silenced with no ="trms">agency of the recorder (the “quiet recorder”)
="lsts lst1">•also a playful respective ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of ="ppl">La Guin, (something that may seem a misunderstanding of her carrier bag theory)
="lsts lst1">•carving out a practice agility area
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the ="trms">question ‘what does X mean='qstn'>?’ is always ‘what does X mean for you='qstn'>?’
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i am following the movement of certain words here
spam ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">internet
spam operates on/with patterns of ="trms">literacy or an existing (in)sufficiencies in known ="trms">categories of cognitive biases that people have
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“it's your turn now to play”
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(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa on space,) (="trms">question of='lgc'>:) producing (your) ="trms">presence
="trms">material-discursive ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">semiotic-psychosis ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> her Wortsalad
(="ppl">Bocola > ="ppl">Kohut > Mondrian's bipolar structure='lgc'>:)
creation of universal beauty / ="trms">aesthetic expression of oneself
(='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> transcend the framework of artistic production)
exhibitionist pole of the self / idealized pole of the self
the grandiose self / the idealized structures
="trms">worldviews / self-images
what is the (diametric, dialectical) ="trms">internal drama of her thinking and work='qstn'>?
(what are='qstn'>?) ="frds scrmbld">Luisa's overarching, idealized conception that lays claim to the validity of her values and standards as applied not only to herself and environment but to the entire universe='lgc'>: (="trms">question of structure)
="lsts lst1">•(pre-babylonian) universal abstractionism ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">embodied knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•fluid equilibrium ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> movement of Being
='lgc'>[is this a romantic structural attitude='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-and how is she confronted with ="trms">cosmos ="trms">prior to her inscriptions='qstn'>? (="trms">question of realism)
="prgrph">-what is (the mystery of) a ‘being through ="trms">interpretation’ for her='qstn'>? (="trms">question of performativity)
='lgc'>[rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic:='lgc'>] to take possession of essential aspects of the external reality (='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> recreate them in the ="trms">imagination) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">="trms">empirical='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[structural:='lgc'>] to experience the external reality as parts of an ="trms">interconnected and comprehensive whole
='lgc'>[idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic/="trms">symbo="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list:='lgc'>] to connect the (inner) particular to the general
='lgc'>[romantic:='lgc'>] to make (inner) invisible visible
="trms">sublimated gratification of instincts, ambitions and ideals, (homogeneous) ="trms">gestalt and expression of the self, ="trms">narcissistic equilibrium, test its viability, haptic art,
“invisible reality and the ="trms">aesthetics of universality” or a mean by which universal is recognized='strcls'>*
timelessness, wholesomeness, indivisibility, ="trms">aesthetic standards
="prgrph">-pictorial thinking, movement thinking, ="trms">affectual thinking, ='lgc'>{='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> all issued by ='thdf'>the notion of “pure” and “purity”='qstn'>? tendency toward idealization='qstn'>? utopian='qstn'>?='lgc'>}
movement (the act) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= mobility (the possibility)
(is ="frds scrmbld">Luisa ="trms">interested in='qstn'>?) the immanent laws and essential unity of all being
...step to complete nonobjectivity
...objects with their expression of plasticity
="prgrph">-what is the ="trms">symbolic term in her work='qstn'>?
she said='lgc'>: “space is ="trms">literal.” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> the wholesome is proclaimed in the artistic act itself (and not as ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> experienced directly ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= ="trms">imagined
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> احشايى the ="trms">viscera (ahsha), ="trms">visceral theory='lgc'>: ="trms">affect and ="trms">embodiment, transmissible physical charges, porous bodies,
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa
kP_AfO7Ms4I
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how to create a condition in which she can herself later give access to her thinking and making='qstn'>?
="lstsrd">1- propose a curatorial ="trms">gesture of an assembly='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">Luisa, Mondrian, Zen master, Malevich; with ="ppl">Bocola and ="ppl">Ahmed;
="lstsrd">2- to open an investigation of ="trms">affective economies for her='lgc'>: abstraction, constructivism, idealism, ="trms">figurative empathy, ="trms">symbolism, longing,
="lstsrd">3-
="lstsrd">4-
(psychoanalysis ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa='lgc'>] allows us to see that) ='strcls'>*emotionality involves movement='strcls'>*
as="trms">sociations whereby “feeling” take us across ="trms">different levels of signification, not all of which can be admitted in the ="trms">present. (='lgc'>+="ppl">Ahmed)
="prgrph">-emotions move back and forth (="trms">past as="trms">sociations, repression traces on ="trms">present) and sideways (sticky as="trms">sociations between figures and signs) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> something as the cause of a feeling in someone ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “involving ="trms">relationships of ='strcls'>*="trms">difference and displacement='strcls'>*='lgc'>{as the form or ="trms">language of the unconscious='lgc'>} without ="trms">positive value” ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="trms">affective economies ='lgc'>-='lgc'>->='lgc'>{="trms">social, ="trms">material, psychic='lgc'>}
='lgc'>{ psychoanalysis='lgc'> = "absent ="trms">presence” of ="trms">historicity='lgc'>-='lgc'>->(sideways movement of feelings) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>==offers='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> a theory of emotion as economy='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-by economy, ="ppl">Ahmed means, like capital (is about the movement of commodities and money='strcls'>*), an effect of its circulation (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ="frds scrmbld">Luisa)
="prgrph">-the subject is one nodal point in the economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/= subject as its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin and destination
='strcls'>**the movement between signs converts into ="trms">affect
feeling ='lgc'><='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> fetish commodity
in ="ppl">Freudian model, the movement between objects is ="trms">intrapsychic ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> trace of how ="trms">histories remain alive in the ="trms">present='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[regarding ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">histories, ="trms">histories that “stick” and which does not need to be declared, ='at'>#fohshe heyuan/heyvan فحش حیوان/حیوون sideways movements...='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-(="nms">ajayeb's) ="trms">past ="trms">histories of naming
objects, the ="trms">author of emotions
(how) emotions align subjects
_“surfacing” of individual_
(="ppl">Ahmed sug="trms">gests that) emotions are not simply “within” nor “without” but that they create the very effect of the surfaces or boundaries of bodies and ="trms">worlds.
="trms">narrative='lgc'> = production of the ordinary
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="lsts lst1">•(which crimes against persons become crimes against place='qstn'>? -‘us’-)
="lsts lst1">•“body of the nation”
="lsts lst1">•s="trms">cene of “our injury” (='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> also in ="nms">Iran='lgc'>: “our” ="trms">historical injury)
="lsts lst1">•(the fucking) ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to defense ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ‘home’ itself becomes to be mobilized as a defense against terror, becomes transformed into the ="trms">symbolic space of the nation ='at'>#='lgc'>[='thdf'>example of when the approach (to/by objects) itself becomes a fetish object='strcls'>*='lgc'>] ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> “staying at home”='lgc'>: a form of mobilization ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>-> ='gtrw'>go to three little[...]