[...]stinction 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'>=/= (="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'>=/= ="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'>=/= ="trms">communicative processes that sustain the life="trms">world

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> the same ="ppl">Platonic tradition produces='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{theory ='lgc'>=/= practice='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='lgc'>{mind ='lgc'>=/= body='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='lgc'>{"conceptual” ='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'>=/= ="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'>=/=='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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="large lg1" stl="font-size:134%"> 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'>=/=='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'><== 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'>~-> 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'>=/= ="trms">narcissistic
(‘='lgc'>=/=’ ='lgc'>: ="trms">erotic attraction or aggressive tension)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ="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'>]


="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'>=/= ="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.

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> 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'>~-> individuation

“In ="trms">narcissism the ego disappears from the ="trms">world and reappears in the ="trms">imaginary realm of invisible ="trms">interiority.” (="ppl">Lippit)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:125%"> ='lgc'>{the ="trms">erotic attachment to outside objects='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="trms">pervert ='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'>=/=='qstn'>? fossilization (='lgc'>='lgc'>~->='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis)

='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'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis
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