[...]) <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>non-affirmation <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>/=lgc>lss='qstn'>? lss="trms">complaint; we mistake so easily non-affirmation with lss="trms">complaining. (is this lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lili's takelss='qstn'>? her lss="trms">complaints about the insufficiencies of being.)<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> is lss="trms">complaint parasitized by calls for retributionlss='qstn'>?
Klage (lss="trms">complaint) <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> Anklage (accusation)
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">complaint remains a repetitive fixation that feeds rather than exhausting its course (/l clss="ppl">Avitall>, aw9Cv_wQ4CQ) <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc> it does not finish itself off, or move up the ladder of transformation <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>important for lss="frds scrmbld">Sana<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, actually increases pain <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> so, (lss="trms">according to the analyst<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) lss="trms">complain is jacking up one's suffering (the Analytiker can't take it anymore)
l clss="ppl">Avitall> > l clss="ppl">Kittlerl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the Ach of Sprache, (in our lss="trms">historical lss="trms">language usage<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) lss="trms">literature or lss="trms">language as lss="trms">complaint. sigh in lss="trms">literature (also pointed out by lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lili)
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>the lss="trms">modern techo-lss="trms">monster Faust opens with the lss="trms">complain
ls clss='strcls'>**ls>what is then a proper addresslss='qstn'>?
...the wish for more

lss="prgrph">-do machines lss="trms">complaint or lamentlss='qstn'>?

lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Luiza; (one of sub-lss="trms">phenomenon of utterance) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>blushls clss='strcls'>*ls> registers a lss="trms">complaint(lss='qstn'>?)
(<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> to be noted that certain white skin-colors considered racistly “capable” of displaying moral lss="trms">anxiety.)
lss="prgrph">-a level of lss="trms">affect and meaning that remains at the loss of words, between shame and exlss="trms">citement, confession and disavow. blush speaks for her at moment when she cannot stand up for herselflss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-or it betrays her with a sudden splss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of skin-mapping releasing a secret or indexing a moral blemish (lakedar لکه دار), a pigmentation... (how to lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read itlss='qstn'>?)
lss="prgrph">-blush manages to register a lss="trms">complaint and it signs off <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>conlss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> at an unspoken accusation...
lss="prgrph">-blossoming of senses, cultural significance, who is capable of blushinglss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (decency's) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>outragels clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> libidinally charged, prompting a political arousal <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> still a vitality stirs in the lss="trms">complaint<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the lss="trms">complaint can bring movementls clss='strcls'>*ls>) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Luiza's climate of resistance and her lss="trms">integrated modality of ‘struggle'<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>**ls>inner life of moralityls clss='strcls'>**ls>
lss="prgrph">-flushlss='qstn'>?

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms">complaint,<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> is it issued from a place of impotence or does it have the potential to move mountainslss='qstn'>? (l clss="ppl">Avitall><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss="frds">Sina's emergency supply of meaning)
can it arrive at any destination whatsoeverlss='qstn'>?
‘lss="trms">complain’ and ‘explain’ lss="trms">relationships
(lss="trms">laughter as a form of lss="trms">complaining)
‘lss="trms">complain’ and ‘politeness’ lss="trms">relationships
what lss="trms">complaint has to do with our lss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger-management programslss='qstn'>?

lss="trms">complaint <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>/=lgc> lament (lss="trms">complaint won't shut up but lament desires its ending)
lament is fined to mourning and loss <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>/=lgc> lss="trms">complaint (resisting a fixed lss="trms">relation to loss) seems unable to mourn
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">complaint cannot mourn. <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms">complaint as a form of mourning-disorder<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
(is mourning busy with ‘continuity in life’lss='qstn'>? a lss="trms">world that is not made of connections<lgc clss='lgc'>: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 lss="trms">complaintlss='qstn'>? not throwing something in the field of lss="trms">complaintlss='qstn'>? (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Luiza, lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lili; certain forms of protest dominates their utterances)
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss="trms">different lss="trms">morphs of civic grief<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>
(why am i concerned with lss="trms">complaint of my friendslss='qstn'>? this is about checking my own infrastructural concerns about zones of encounter and redirecting oversized libidinal aggressions, <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>and pain-relieflss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>is lss='mywrk'>my work all about (philosophical/artistic) pain-relieflss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>)

<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> lss="trms">complaint <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> staying within the boundaries of lss="trms">coded gracefulness
(...credit reserved for non-lss="trms">complainers) ,,, ((minor scales of)) protest and breaking rhymes (of master discourselss='qstn'>?) (lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Sana, perturbed by manners of injustice; her libido <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>zist-maye زیست مایه, shur-e hayat شور حیات<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> is at stake)
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>when lss="trms">complaint takes over and you don't even know if there is an injury anymore at the root of it.
(we are lss="trms">traveling behind its possible meaning-fields)

de-shamanization and lss="trms">translation /(non-transparency should rulelss='qstn'>?!)
lrg>

are we lss="trms">trapped in a grid of grievancelss='qstn'>?

lss="trms">different forms of ‘maybe’ (i am trying to installlss='qstn'>?)

how lss="trms">complaint is then lss="trms">situated in ‘becoming’lss='qstn'>?

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> lss="trms">complaint haunts our era of desperate justice (lss="frds scrmbld">Xiri, lss="frds scrmbld">Sana, lss="frds scrmbld">Varinia)
. a calling-lss="trms">systemlss='qstn'>? a GPS that has lost its signallss='qstn'>?

maternal super-ego
political passion emerging as a defensive strategy
(lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Xiri, is she trying to add-on the super-ego for her concern of lss="trms">social justicelss='qstn'>?)

so, does lss="trms">complaint prevent the arrival of change or make way for new forms of lss="trms">socialitylss='qstn'>?

“I can't lss="trms">complain.” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (a blockbuster;) those in stubborn destitution <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc>that there is no address in the era of the becoming anonymous of God. ‘Who would pick up your calllss='qstn'>?’
however, “the friend, whether ghostly, futural, or closely bound in time, receives the brunt of the lss="trms">complaint” <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>friends structurally lss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listens to disappointed expectation, disappointed lss="trms">worldliness
lrg>
what-should-have-been

On what approved lss="trms">contingencies, contractual loopholes, or lss="trms">transferential coordinates could I possibly befriend anotherlss='qstn'>?

lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical lss="trms">heritage of friendship (... reconfigured personhood)

(how can I do things without being a psycho about itlss='qstn'>?)
(How do I know by which politics of friendship, grid or lss="trms">writing practice I am being called uplss='qstn'>?)
a lss="trms">vocabulary existed to designate, approximate certain lss="trms">routines


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(30.03.2017) Rabih Mroue and Hito Steyerl duo<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> concern for injustice and conservative justice call disguised under an elaborated and augmented lss="trms">complaint (in the lss="trms">aesthetic terms of contemporary art lss="trms">market), non-reselss="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 clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='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 clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="prgrph">-in their notion of “Artist in the Reign of Terror” they ask disturbingly “but many individuals have died and it means nothinglss='qstn'>?!” with a sneer (artwork as puzkhand پوزخند <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>**ls>“sneer” is a contemptuous or mocking smile, remark, or tone, coming from a family of sarcastic lss="trms">tropes of lss="trms">complaint and ironizated lss="trms">complaining<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="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’
lss="prgrph">-for Hito and Rabih<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> zeitgenössisch (contemporary)<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>grausam (atrocious)
lss="prgrph">-they dichotomize (fact/lss="trms">fiction, real/unreal, etc.), rather than allowing a novel and lss="trms">interesting lss="trms">question to be raised
lss="prgrph">-what is the state of unknown in one's practicelss='qstn'>? rather than being a news lss="trms">agency




<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>negativitylss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> your bad feelings <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> غر ghor lss="trms">complaint <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(turn it into)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> critique <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(start doing)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> research <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(get)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> diploma <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(turn it into)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> phd <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(make your)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> department of studies <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(into)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">craft tradition
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>you don't have to start with negativity!<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>you don't need to end in your own myth tradition!<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

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lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Anouk (lss='at'>@her “breathing archive”)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lev l clss="ppl">Manovichl>l>'s) lss="trms">relationship between ‘lss="trms">interface’ and ‘lss="trms">database,’ ‘perceptable’ to ‘information’. <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms">Database as lss="trms">Symbolic Form<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> http://courses.ischool.berkeley.edu/i290-1/s04/lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings/manovich_lss="trms">database.pdf<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
what is for lss="frds scrmbld">Anouk ‘information’lss='qstn'>? and what is for her the lss="trms">relationship between information, knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, lss="trms">interface, and perceptablelss='qstn'>?
for her what is the lss="trms">relationship between ‘information’ and ‘inlss="trms">finite’lss='qstn'>? (inlss="trms">finite as the universe of all possible images)

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ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="frds scrmbld">Pierre's ‘lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of nerves’ <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “talking to everybody”
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of nerves<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> you are promted to do what you do out of disgust, outrage, fear, or driven by lss="trms">anxiety, you don't know why, you are compelled towards an object or project or thing or unthing<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:125%"> lrg>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="frds scrmbld">Seba<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> for him “lss="trms">narrative <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> complex” (the lss="trms">question of “complexity's lss="trms">situatedness”) for him<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “multiple perspectives <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> coherency (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> bi-rabt بی‌ ربط, na-ham-dusti ناهمدوستی lss='qstn'>?)” (is his idea of “coherency” leads to ‘friendship’lss='qstn'>? is for lss="frds scrmbld">Seba ‘amity’ <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ravabet-e hasane روابط حسنه<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> at stakelss='qstn'>? )
lss="frds scrmbld">Seba's lss="trms">epistemological object(lss='qstn'>?)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ‘evidence’ (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>! cordial dislss="trms">positions)

(complexity is the name of our game. l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Harawayl>l>)

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my current work and lss="trms">interest involves the investigation of individualized subject formation (tajarode nafs تجرد نفس lss='qstn'>?); lss="trms">interrogating the production of lss="trms">language; and tracing the divisible distinguishing limits between lss="trms">categories of human, lss="trms">animal, and lss="trms">monstrous.
lss='at'>#subjects of lss="trms">interest<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> The lss="trms">translator, lss="trms">language, the lss="trms">sublime, lss="trms">animals/lss="trms">animality, lss="trms">technicity/mechanicity, the divine/sacred,

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the myth of Poros, Penia, and Eros for lss="frds scrmbld">Aela<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
(in l clss="ppl">Platol>'s lss="trms">Symposium;) Penia, the “lss="trms">child of poverty,” decides to forcefully impregnate herself with the inebriated Poros, “the personification of plenty,” who is always in oplss="trms">position with aporia, (<lgc clss='lgc'>~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 clss='lgc'>+lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>plenitude <lgc clss='lgc'>×lgc> aporia<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> eros <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>lss="trms">agency of passivity <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> resourcefulness<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">1-lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical inquiry begins from ‘aporia’
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">2-rationalss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list inquiry begins from ‘a lss="trms">priori’
lstsrd> <lstsrd clss="lstsrd">3-lss="trms">lss="trms">empiricist inquiry begins from ‘tabula rasa’ (hakim's beginning)
lstsrd> /
/
<lstsrd clss="lstsrd">4-mystical inquiry begins from ‘lss="trms">affective a posteriori’ (effect, lss="trms">wonder, heyrat, tahayor)
lstsrd>

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sci-fi is lss="trms">imagining the elsewhere inside mortality. (<lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> feminism stakes in SF)

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ls clss='strcls'>*ls>make a series of studio photos with white clear backs, two lss="trms">different genders lss="nms">iranians having a physical/lss="trms">verbal fight or some lss="trms">sort of aggressive encounter

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the idea is to lss="trms">write a script for a movie or short series, combining the lss="trms">historical 14th century lss="nms">Iran with the 14th century lss="trms">imaginal lss="trms">beast lss="trms">fables from the lss="nms">ajayeb. the camera creats a non-exotic continuation between the two

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<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>with l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

lss="prgrph">-how to let emerge a lss="trms">seriousness as collective lss="trms">matters of carelss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-how to stimulate lss="trms">pragmatic lss="trms">questions about how to lss="trms">craft relevant knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgelss='qstn'>?

speculation is all about lss="trms">pragmatism


<lrg clss="large lg18" stl="font-size:102%"> capitalss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list speculation <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “one must speculate to accumulate” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> relating lss='and'>& lss="trms">narrating

lss="trms">scientific speculation lss='and'>& venture capital <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> big lss="trms">epistemic/financial pay-offs or costly dead ends <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stengersl>l>'s notion of speculative) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>being at risk with ones claimsls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> received notions of lss="trms">authority or rationality<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

(an abstract challenge<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) to bring lss="trms">specificity and lss="trms">imaginative traction

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>speculation is a more feral practice
(lss="trms">wild) speculation <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>always improper<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> proper lss="trms">science <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> rational production of univerasal knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
lss="prgrph">-speculation is not about what there is but what there might be
lss="prgrph">-speculation is on the side of the possible <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> probable (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stengersl>l>)

speculative operations (quietly) insist that ls clss='strcls'>*ls>another lss="trms">world is herels clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> my lss="nms">ajayeb) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> the smooth operation of business-as-usual (,, lss="trms">interrupting it)

<lrg clss="large lg14" stl="font-size:114%"> for my lss="nms">ajayeb, how can i carve out a space to nurture my idealss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> nest-building <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss="trms">position/place<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> digging out a bit of earth

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>speculative lss="trms">lss="trms">empiricism <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">scientific <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="trms">narrative
working with lss="nms">ajayeb so that it might stimulate a specualtive lss="trms">lss="trms">empiricism for lss="trms">composing more livable lss="trms">worlds <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="nms">ajayeb's storied biospheres

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lss='thdf'>the notion of ‘magic’ in popular TV series, such as ‘Harry Potter’ franchise and ‘The Magicians’ among many others, and lss="trms">instrumentalization. magic as information lss="trms">technology that is completely lss="trms">instrumentalized. the capitalss="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 lss="trms">interupt lss="trms">history and knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-burdened living. “stop the lss="trms">history lessen! tell me how do we kill the lss="trms">beast with itlss='qstn'>?” (the stupidity of the hipster hero moving through the matrix of merely teleological lss="trms">phenomena, stripping pleasure off thinking...)
(utopianlss='qstn'>?)

<lrg clss="large lg14" stl="font-size:123%"> what a magic spell is good for if it is not a leveragelss='qstn'>?
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<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>title<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
The Magicians and The Absolute Freedom and Terror

(‘The Magicians’<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) magic<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">instrumentalizing the logos
knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is lss="trms">literal <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> magic spells are lss="trms">literal <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>the result of magic spell is predetermined<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>. in this case, the magic is both an lss="trms">instrument of power and rlss="trms">enunciation of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
(l clss="ppl">Heideggerl>ian) lss="trms">techne of the Western project is an lss="trms">instrumentality that takes over, arrests, or enframes what it desires to manipulate or contain. (l clss="ppl">lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian l clss="ppl">Hubertl>l>'s notes)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">poiesis, a bringing-forth (in l clss="ppl">Heideggerl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> blooming of the blossom) (also lss="trms">Greek)

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:127%"> “<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>(for the lss="trms">techno-lss="trms">monster-magicians) everything is<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> lss="trms">code to be cracked”

a kind of fantasies that Don l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Ihdel>l> calls lss="trms">techno-fantasy, which have been part of the transhumanism since 19th century

the toxic distinction between lss="trms">techne from lss="trms">episteme (since l clss="ppl">Homerl>). ‘The Magician’ suglss="trms">gests magic as a lss="trms">technology or tool apart from its context of involvements and referentialities <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a hermeneutic or alterity lss="trms">relation <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> (l clss="ppl">Heideggerl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) the tool is an lss="trms">embodiment lss="trms">relation
(one of the characters even states that humans without magic invented computers as replacement)

‘The Magician’ dismisses the generation of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in the praxis of tool-use. lss="trms">science/magic is lss="trms">pragmatic lss="trms">relation of lss="trms">lss="trms">equipment or tools as lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-to-hand. the ideology of a knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge lss="trms">relation<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> magic (as tool) is lss="trms">present-at-hand <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">ontological lss="trms">relationship to the lss="trms">world (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='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 clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">epistemological object) in use achieves (what Don l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Ihdel>l> calls) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">instrumental transparencyls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> It “withdraws” when in use, but becomes conspicuous again when broken or missing <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> this is precisely the standard account of lss="trms">technology in high-lss="trms">techno-lss="trms">scientific capitalss="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list sunny lss="trms">societies<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss='thdf'>the idea that magicians can “forget” (or “lose”) their magic suglss="trms">gests a guarantor of lss="trms">instrumental transparency of magic (or knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge).
lss="prgrph">-the popular vision of magic hinges around the desire for total transparencyls clss='strcls'>**ls>
lss="prgrph">-this lss="trms">instrumental rationality is the heart of the lss="trms">modernizing project (which characterizes capitalism) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the value-free calculable efficiency of administrative processes (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a project of domination and denial of dependence) (<lgc clss='lgc'>=lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc> Auschwitz)

(how to make The Magician's bounded utilitarian individualism unthinkablelss='qstn'>?)

(Frankfurt School<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) lss="trms">technology <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">instrumental reason <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> reification (madiat, jesmiat) as reason
(l clss="ppl">Habermasl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) lss="trms">systems rationality, economic and bureaucratic rationality (<lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> patterns of meaning rendered functional) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">communicative processes that sustain the lifelss="trms">world

the same l clss="ppl">Platol>nic tradition produces<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>theory <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> practice<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>mind <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> body<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>"conceptual” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> “lss="trms">material"<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> (and privileging one over the other)
(for the Frankfurt School) truth<lgc clss='lgc'> = 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 “lss="trms">world” that they inhabit.
...that lss="trms">science is an ‘account’ of reality not a ‘tool’ for coping with it
...when the lss="trms">world and the lss="trms">instrument lss="trms">interact
descriptions of the affordances of indissoluble lss="trms">instrument / lss="trms">world complexes are at stake

then how can we think magic/knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge/lss="trms">science without lss="trms">instrumentalization (‘something in order to’)lss='qstn'>?


lss='thdf'>the notion of ‘lss="trms">world’ and ‘lss="trms">worlding’ in other Hollywood sci-fi franchises, and the way a lss="trms">world (lss='thdf'>for example survival in Mars in ‘The Martian,’ surviving “outer space” in ‘Gravity,’ “pure lss="trms">wonder” and “lss="trms">abyssal unknown” in many Icarusian space exploration moves and movies, the deprived Earth in ‘lss="trms">Interstellar,’ and so on) is rendered dead or dlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous or prosperous, ideologies of lss="trms">anthropocentric extensionalism.

(this directly concerns my lss="nms">ajayeb lss="nms">apass research about the lss="trms">past, because hollywood constantly making lss="trms">science lss="trms">fictions about the lss="trms">past.)

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>as much as Matt Damon is lss="trms">schizo-constructing a lss="trms">social environment (on “dead” Mars trying to contact “home”), lss="nms">Cinderella's lss="trms">schizo-lss="trms">affective lss="trms">relation with the talking lss="trms">animals is doing the same<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> talking back to a lss="trms">world that talks to her, where Matt is only able to talk to home station. I think we have better chances with lss="nms">Cinderella's kind of split personality.<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>


lss="trms">Modernity <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “Project of Enlightenment” <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">religion <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">science <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> morality <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> art <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>  objective lss="trms">science <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> universal morality <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> law  <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>each with its own “inner logic"<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
(l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Luhmannl>; lss="trms">transition to lss="trms">modern<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) stratified and hierarchical organization <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>to<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “functionally lss="trms">differentiated” organization
(project of lss="trms">modernity requires) a universally assumed but nowhere concretely localizable lifelss="trms">worldls clss='strcls'>***ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? lss="trms">situated knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)
lss="trms">modern person <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the self-fulfilling and self-justifying observing subject

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(l clss="ppl">Freudl>'s) ego<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the record of abandoned object cathexes
(cathexes <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>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 lss="nms">apass<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">complaint
lss="prgrph">-evidence
lss="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 clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> ‘the information about the future’ circulates as as increasingly important commodityls clss='strcls'>*ls> (l clss="ppl">Eshunl>)

SF<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming lss="trms">present <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='not'>✕<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> future <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> manufacturing tools capable of lss="trms">intervention (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? disruption; the Sun Ra, character in the movie The Place is The Space, disrupts when he enters the youth lss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">club.)

lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Ale <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>her<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> predatory features/futures <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (a space for researching<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> dimensions of) anticipatory designs, projects of emulation, manipulation, parasitism, lss="trms">interpellation into a blss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right corporate tomorrow <lgc clss='lgc'><==lgc> faces smiling at screens (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lss='qstn'>? a bitter lss="trms">joke)
lss="prgrph">-in her criticism of “eurocentrism” how are afrofuturism and arabfuturism locatedlss='qstn'>? (curatorial) let's invite them as her allies in Hansaring Studio.

counterlss="trms">memorial mediated practices

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خودشیفتگی khodshiftegi<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms">narcissistic personality disorder<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
(exaggerated feeling of) self-importance, self-absorbed, self-perception of being unique, lss="trms">situated within self-lss="trms">presentation, sense of entitlement حق به جانب and self-centeredness schema
adult lss="trms">neurotic's sense of omnipotence <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> relic of the old megalomania of infancy (<lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> all lss="trms">paranoic disorders) (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>->lgc> hurt with denial)

(l clss="ppl">Freudl>'s) primal state<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>id <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> ego <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> external lss="trms">world<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>(not lss="trms">differentiated)
one could not lay hold of oneself as other <lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> lss="trms">narcissism expires
(l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lacanl>'s) ego<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>another <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=<lgc clss='lgc'>=>lgc>lgc> the specular ego (in the mirror lss="trms">stage) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">narcissistic
(‘<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc>’ <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">erotic attraction or aggressive tension)

l clss="ppl">Nietzschel><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the utterance “I am ugly” created “the beautiful”
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>does this mean<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “I am beautiful” created “the ugly” (in the other and lss="trms">world)lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

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lss="trms">sublimation is passion transformed
or, object displacement, transformation of instincts,
a desuxualization (from primary to secondary lss="trms">narcissism) (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> what is lss="frds scrmbld">Aela's “thirst for knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge”lss='qstn'>?)<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> unlss="trms">folding into (lss="trms">differentiated elements of a oneness of) instinctual-spiritual experience. (lss="frds scrmbld">Aela's) ‘oneness’ <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>an olss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal unity <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> one hidden and defended against<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> stays alive as connectionlss='qstn'>? <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the lss="trms">question of desire for lss="frds scrmbld">Aela is about this hidden linkage.
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss="trms">transitional objects, play, modifications of the pleasure principle, genital function,<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
,
(noted by l clss="ppl">lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian l clss="ppl">Hubertl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> for l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Loewaldl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">eroticism is genuine lss="trms">sublimationls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a reconciliation in the area of ego development and of lss="trms">internalization. (lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Aela)
lss="prgrph">-delss="trms">sublimation (of reasonlss='qstn'>?)
objective of sexuality conceptual transformation into Eros <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> (asking lss="frds scrmbld">Aela with l clss="ppl">Marcusel><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) what is the non-repressive lss="trms">sublimation of the resexualized bodylss='qstn'>? (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">neurotic reactivation of lss="trms">narcissistic libido)
why Eros is so powerfullss='qstn'>? what kind of lss="trms">sublimation is the culture-building power of Eroslss='qstn'>?

in l clss="ppl">Derridl>a, lss="trms">narcissism is the passage to the Other, and not necessarily merely a collapse into oneself.

<lrg clss="large lg18" stl="font-size:129%"> auto-lss="trms">erotic solipsism

باطل کردن طلسم ضمیر the ego appears <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>displaced elsewhere in the lss="trms">world as an effect<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> as the result of primary lss="trms">narcissismlss='qstn'>?
(batel kardan-e telesm-e zamir) dispulsion of ego
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>ego forms in the lss="trms">worldls clss='strcls'>*ls> (l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lippitl>)

auto-lss="trms">erotic economy

the ego in the island, finding footprints of the others
(l clss="ppl">Freudl>ian protocols of existence<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) there is no lss="trms">world, there is only islands. <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> multiplicity of isolations <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>->lgc> individuation

“In lss="trms">narcissism the ego disappears from the lss="trms">world and reappears in the lss="trms">imaginary realm of invisible lss="trms">interiority.” (l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lippitl>)

<lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>the lss="trms">erotic attachment to outside objects<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc>lss="trms">pervert <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">narcissist<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>withdraw, calls it “instinct for self preservation"<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> (a shortcut<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> my way of undering my own lss="trms">narcissistic tendencies has been through lss="trms">perversity.)

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>for lss="frds scrmbld">Juan:<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> (artistic) lss="trms">narcissism <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? fossilization (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc>->lgc>lss='qstn'>? lss="trms">mimesis)

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">mimesisls clss='strcls'>*ls> is not about form
in order to relss="trms">present the character of the lss="trms">supposed ‘word’ of another
lss="trms">mimesis <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="trms">techne <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>ld>~ld>lgc>=lgc> copy (lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Juan)

diegesis <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? lss="trms">mimesis
(telling) <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc> (showing)
(recounted) <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc> (enacted)
<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">poiesis _////(actually a useful and necessary lss="trms">difference, synthesized by the lss="trms">Greeks<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>l clss="ppl">Platol> and l clss="ppl">Aristotll>e)
(...and what about the lss="trms">question of the mediumlss='qstn'>?)

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="frds scrmbld">Juan's lss="trms">relationship with the (in)dependency of the individuated self of the artist<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>in this case himself<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>by means of lss="trms">mimetic lss="trms">techne is to overcome the visual artist's lss="trms">narcissismlss='qstn'>?

(lss="frds scrmbld">Pierre<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) being alone <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">mimesis <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> through lss="trms">mimetic lss="trms">intra-acting with the other
(lss="frds">Sina<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> there is no “being alone” only ‘feeling lonely’ which is itself a form of lss="trms">intra-acting <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> lss="trms">internalizing an external lss="trms">phenomena. “loneliness” is a belief that one has.)

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lss="trms">narcissism as a lss="trms">mimetic and performative mode
transindividual lss="trms">narcissism <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>Maitra<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> movement of the subject beyond ethnicity (ethnic formations that the bio-political processes of lss="trms">interpellation lss="trms">demand of the subject)
remediation of ethnic lss="trms">narcissism

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>Maitra's queer diasporic lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practice of<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> (in diaspora media theory) performing an identity (that is “lss="nms">Iranian” for example)

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">intermedials clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> multimedia<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> fuse disparate media)
frictions between lss="trms">different media
conceptual lss="trms">interplay between media
space of alchemical transformation
(at the level of) conflict of lss="trms">interpretations
radical understanding of lss="trms">interdisciplinarity

diaspora<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> no longer having a clear answer to “where are you fromlss='qstn'>?”

what might we learn from lss="trms">narcissism (from lss="trms">mimesis)lss='qstn'>?
mediate and fracture the lss="trms">writing of the self

wound<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> disconnected event
not adding up to a comprehensive lss="trms">narrative of the ethnic self

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>ego-under-constructionls clss='strcls'>*ls>
l clss="ppl">Freudl>'s primary lss="trms">narcissism, we lss="trms">love ourselves before lss="trms">loving others
(for the lss="trms">child) lss="trms">narcissism<lgc clss='lgc'> = lgc>lss="trms">intermediate
(secondary) lss="trms">narcissism<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the processes by which the distinction between the ego and external object is lost
(l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lacanl>) loss of distinction between the ego and its reflection in the mirror
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="trms">narcissism helps the infant in trying to distinguish himself from the mother/other

lss="trms">narcissism beyond infantile sexuality <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>
lss="trms">narcissism<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> structure (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> state) <lgc clss='lgc'><==lgc> when the burden of desire on the subject becomes intolerable

(lss='qstn'>?what are new structures of) artistic lss="trms">narcissism
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>an occasion to lss="trms">erotisize your own bodyls clss='strcls'>*ls>
to lss="trms">erotically emphasize a particular lss="trms">memory
stitching together of the naked ethnic body

hupersexuality
...those who are undersexed

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<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> lss='prcnt'>%note on lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's workshop<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
how lss='thdf'>the idea of lss="trms">mimesis came when we were not sure what she meant by “make note.” the signifier of “note” defined itself in a collective lss="trms">mimetic semi-conscious way.
(<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc>lss='qstn'>? lss='mywrk'>my work on how signifiers transmit and transform <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> parasitism, lss="trms">rumorology, etc. ... weaker neighborhoods of thought)
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lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's notions<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•explosion <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> dance
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the “generative” notion in her discourse (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> notion of “active,” and “conscious intentionality” <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a property of human lss="trms">agency and lss="trms">agential exceptionality. (the metric of) her work/workshop distinguishes the self-aware active entity from non-lss="trms">communicative receptive entity, ls clss='strcls'>***ls>lss="trms">intransitive <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>=/lgc>=lgc> lss="trms">transitive<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>her privileged object<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>, and that distinction is not useful for me lss="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right now<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the lss="trms">authority of the lss="trms">trope “practice” for lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice
lsts> (what would be a nonlss="trms">mimetic understanding of eachotherlss='qstn'>? lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Juan)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the workshop was not her ‘thinking’ or ‘making’ in process or an open lss="trms">question or a not-knowing, rather the workshop was based on her (finished) ‘notions,’ with her ‘indisputables,’ her ‘lss="trms">literal’ objects; (dance, active, body, lss="trms">imagination, practice, generative, creative, etc.)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•production of the “I” in her work; (a nasty side-effect<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> collateral individuation) (when were the moments in the workshop that an lss="trms">interesting “we” was created and for whomlss='qstn'>?)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the problematic lss="trms">difference between ‘lss="trms">literal’ and ‘lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical’ at the footing of her thinking (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> my whole lss="nms">apass research is about this)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(artist's) lss="trms">imagination as a magic wand that can transform things
lsts>
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>what helped me was lss='thdf'>the idea of thinking with a ‘dormant lss="trms">lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor’ (in my own work) and[...]