[...] 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>)

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'>?!)


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

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

<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>?
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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

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>


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> /
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<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

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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

<lrg clss="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> 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>)
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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)

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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