[...]r 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'>~-> ‘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'>?
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='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'>]
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(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'>?
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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)
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‘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'>?)
(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”
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what is at stake is the way ‘The Magician’ heroes’ way of non-relating to an entire environment [...]