[...]="lsts lst1">•management reports
="lsts lst1">•staff
="lsts lst1">•servicescapes ='lgc'>[an environment where the first/primary perceived aspect is service='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•
harmful, deficient, deformed, secondary ='lgc'>=/= superman, supergirl
logocentrism='lgc'>: letting the logic lead the letter ='lgc'>--="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>--> images are logocentric in that they create meaning by appealing to a central apparently undeconstructible ="trms">system of ="trms">authoritative truth (appealing to sources of transcendence outside of the image) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for example forensic architecture images ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Derrida's ='strcls'>*there is nothing outside of the text='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•in investigating an image we often posses a logocentric vision, drawing it into convergence, making it coherent and giving it a non-contradictory and singularly ="trms">authoritative meaning
="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%">
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
ruined coherent ="trms">heritage
there is no escaping the enclosure of (logocentrism of western tradition of) ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we can critically engage it from within
bricolage
bricoleur ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one is participating in the intellectual ="trms">heritage one is critiqing
death of man
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Barthes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> death of ="trms">author
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Strauss ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list approach to human ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">="ppl">Foucault ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">history of the ="trms">historical arbitrariness (of the human ="trms">sciences)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> antihumanism (of ="ppl">Barthes and ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault) sug="trms">gests it might be possible to stand outside the humanist legacy (and analyse from a ="trms">position outside) ='lgc'>==="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (escaping from human constitutes) a very human tendency that has been at work in the cultural and ="trms">social ="trms">imaginary since antiquity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for example ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's archaeology='lgc'>: (to understand) ='strcls'>*how reason determined madness in ="trms">different eras by looking at how reason evolved ="trms">historically='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> puts the analyst outside the humanist legacy of reason ='lgc'>==restore='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical illusion of mastery and control
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Derrida
(my problem with making alternative ='strcls'>*archives, gar="trms">dens, and maps='strcls'>* in art='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical complicity (with archive and garden) ='lgc'>+ critique we direct against complicity (with archive and garden) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we cannot give up the “='lgc'>+"='lgc'> = slip into the form, logic, implicit postulations of precisely what it seeks to contest
logocentrism operates in images by appealing to sources of transcendence outside of the image ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>for example
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]map='lgc'>: visual organization of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quickly erase or black box the circumstances and ="trms">history of their own construction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> marshal vision into logocentric coherence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> act as reflection (='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presentation) of the ="trms">world
radical cartography is now an established sub-discipline of geography (='strcls'>*maps are deconstructed to identify their logos='strcls'>*) ='at'>@="frds">Sina's ="trms">mimesis of ="ppl">Olearius's cartography
deconstruction is most needed at precisely those images where our immediate reaction is to say “there's nothing to be deconstructed here” (“that's just the way it is”)
software design (website ="trms">interfaces) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> images of ="trms">technology
critical practice='lgc'>: producing a new knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the text (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> explain the ideological necessity of its silence) ='lgc'>=/= make a whisper audible, complete what the text leaves unsaid
other='lgc'>: other meanings of a text, other ways of seeing things
self/other ='lgc'>--="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it only has meaning insofar as it differs from something else
="lsts lst1">•every concept has its op="trms">posite or its other (somehow marked within it)
="lsts lst1">•the good one can be designated only through the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor of the bad one ='at'>#="trms">fable
deconstructing an image='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•looking at what the image in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes and ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes
="lsts lst1">•detecting the ="trms">social roles it creates
="lsts lst1">•examining the hierarchies that appear ="trms">natural in the image
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>**visual re="trms">presentation works as much through what is not shown as what is shown='strcls'>** (Hall), through feints and deceptions (Mitchel), through gaps and silences (Joy ='lgc'>+ Venkatesh), through stated and unstated (Stern), through the not seen or said (="ppl">Rose)
="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>: detailed and ="trms">specific examination (of a piece of text)='lgc'> = لاروب dredging machine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disturb the text (dissecting patiently and minutely the ="trms">narrative, structure, syntax, ="trms">figuration, images, ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors, metonyms استعمال لفظ در معنای غیرحقیقی majaz) ='lgc'>==(draw out)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> complexities, ambiguities, aporias, ironies, taken-for-grantedness, just-is-ness
='lgc'>--imply='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a critique of objectivity
='lgc'>{revelation='lgc'> = dist="trms"nttrm="disturban">urbance='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{alternative meaning='lgc'> = site of ="trms">simultaneous deconstruction='lgc'>}
dynamics of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (close ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading)
="lstsrd">1. working of a text hides itselg (images of soap powder, ="trms">children's ="trms">science homework, computer chips, etc.)
="lstsrd">2. ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigorous inspection of the text
="lstsrd">3. text is not immune to ="trms">interpretation (='lgc'>~ text reconfigures itself ="trms">according to the touch of ="trms">history, personality, ="trms">method, intention, politics, culture of any given ="trms">interpretation ='lgc'>=/= closed space)
='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'> = producing meaning='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= reflecting
="lsts lst1">•Toyota's advertisement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an image of gay family life ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the image converges on a notion of multicultural pansexual divergence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">market conditions under which homosexuality is accepted
="lsts lst1">•Joe Camel campaign ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Joe (from Joseph Old Testament) shortened in colloquial american usages to “Joe”, which by the 1930s began to designate anyone whose real name is unknown or connoted the “most typical” of any ="trms">category of person ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= dinosaurs='lgc'>] ='lgc'>+ camel='lgc'>: ="trms">beast of burden and of humility (Aesop's ="trms">fables) and as creatures of uncontrollable lust (from depiction by monks in medieval times to teach moral ="trms">fables to the public)
performance of a textual sex change operation
(monotonality) monovisuality of the dominant visual message
logocentric='lgc'>: a transcendental signified to which the text refers
="ppl">Plato's powerful attack on ="trms">writing as “dead speech”='lgc'>: ="ppl">Socrates and Phaedrus walk in the countryside. ="ppl">Socrates recounts to him a myth about the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of ="trms">writing='lgc'>: the king Thamus is ="trms">presented with a ="trms">present from his son Theus; the gift of ="trms">writing. Theus tells his father that the gift will make his people wise as it will improve their ="trms">memory ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Derrida shows that in the same argument ="ppl">Socrates goes on to describe speech as another ="trms">sort of ="trms">writing; he actually uses a ="trms">writing ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor to describe the “true ="trms">nature” of speech “not merely as a knowing, living, animate discourse, but as an inscription of truth in the soul”
deconstruction ='lgc'>=/= re-="trms">interpretation
| |
impossible ='lgc'>+ providing a
plausible ="trms">story ="trms">different ="trms">story
deconstructive ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (idio="trms">syncratic to the text) ='lgc'>==offer='lgc'>='lgc'>==> multiple ='and'>& contradictory potential meanings to the text
="large lg10" stl="font-size:121%">
="ppl">Derridean approach to meaning making='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•cricular
="lsts lst1">•paradoxical
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= it requires us to ='strcls'>*deconstruct the deconstruction='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*work against meaning and ="trms">interpretation='strcls'>*
name of man='lgc'>: (the name of that being who throughout the entire ="trms">history has dreamed of full ="trms">presence='lgc'> = the reassuring foundation, the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ='lgc'>=/= play)
='lgc'>[my ="trms">fable workshop was about this ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] ="ppl">Derridean deconstruction of images ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•drawing attention to the way image constructs itself in order to implicitly re="trms">present a single ="trms">history (='lgc'>=/= seeking to tell the truth about what X means)
="lsts lst1">•keeping alive the contra="trms">dictions within it (='lgc'>=/= solutionizing)
(='qstn'>?how to deconstruct ='lgc'>[iamges of='lgc'>]) nano="trms">technology='lgc'>: practice of manipulating all types of living and non-living ="trms">matter at its atomic level
="lsts lst1">•corporations portraying nano="trms">technology as a ="trms">positive and legitimate force (='lgc'>+ visually close down the possible meanings of its products)='lgc'> = Iron Man
="lsts lst1">•nanospace='lgc'>: planetary bodies afloat in the darkenss of ="trms">intergalactic space
="lsts lst1">•fantastical un="trms">serious endeavour
(='lgc'>[what is='qstn'>?='lgc'>] my problem with) message شعاری
='strcls'>**advertisement ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> confuse ="trms">agency ='and'>& ownership='strcls'>**
the fantastic is rescued by the human (face)
(in advertisement ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>**the ways in which knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='and'>& reality are marshalled into collective visual con="trms">sensus='strcls'>**
visual deconstruction ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor towards the idio="trms">syncrasy and singularity of any text
="large lg1" stl="font-size:118%">
restricted economy of the text ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> particular meaning ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>: moveing from a restricted ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> general economy of the text
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='lgc'>: enterprise of returning (strategically, ideally) to an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin (a ="trms">priority) thought to be simple, intact, normal, pure, standard, self-identical ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= to think in terms of derivation, complication, deterioration, accident='lgc'>]
='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>-- (the most constant profound potent ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">gesture in Western philosophy='lgc'>:) conceiving simple before the complex, essential before the accidental
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> logocentric thought='lgc'>: thought which does not adequately attend to the contra="trms">dictions inherent in its own medium ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[logocentrism:='lgc'>] (="trms">fable) faith in the status of ="trms">language as a lucid carrier of meaning (='lgc'>=/= attentiveness to the ="trms">materiality of ="trms">communication and the implications of such a project)
pecific ="trms">languages make ="trms">communication ="trms">material, and exploring the ="trms">interplay of terms within a ="trms">linguistic ="trms">system (='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? baroque) ='lgc'>=/= Enlightenment='lgc'> = Age of Reason (logos)
="brkr">
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
Beauty and the ="trms">Beast
or, blast of the clean slate
(goddamn it)
The picture of a relatively un="trms">differentiated and continuous topological space undergoing discontinuous ="trms">transitions and progressively acquiring detail until it con="trms">denses into the ="trms">measurable and divisible metric space which we inhabit, is a powerful ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for the cosmic genesis of spatial structure. (Intensive ="trms">Science ='and'>& Virtual Philosophy)
baroque Trauerspiel, classical synthesis, ...
synthesis='lgc'>: synthetic thinking (the combination of ideas into a complex whole)
this is not a reasoning exercise (deducing particularity, etc.)
="trms">imagine you find a head. how do you search for the body='qstn'>? (research project)
graduating from ... and approaching ...
(from fairy tale ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> approach myth)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> http://www.sinaseifee.com/DifficultForests.html
becoming Amazon as the fear of the male.
(Amazon as male hunter ="trms">symbol)
(="trms">symbol for) masculine gender principle
(to disavow sexual ="trms">difference)
I am not bringing the text to you, or you to the text.
as you have al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready guessed we have to destroy both ='thdf'>the notion of text and you, to some extent, in order to permit a ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading to constitutes itself.
is San'an a prince charming='qstn'>?
(let's examine)
the spiritually established death-birth (death of birth and birth of death) at the end of ="trms">story
="ppl">Miyazaki's faceless ="trms">monster (in Spirited Away 千と千尋の神隠し), with his flexible plasticity, has an issue with appearance. he goes from loneliness, to ="trms">love, to greed, and finally becomes a student body. he has great ="trms">agency in the beginning and docile in the end, ='lgc'>[اسیر صورت ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> اسیر معنی='lgc'>]
San'an is determined to see it through, the whole process
the German super-ego
the German ego
to carefully inject some of German super-ego to the ="nms">Iranian ego
(for Anastasia) what is the next war='qstn'>?
ترسا
(to the audience='lgc'>:) you should feel free to make notes, because I am making notes while you are talking, and these kind of ="trms">lectures I am doing are the process of those note-makings.
I like to ="trms">interrupt you. the performance is itself an ="trms">interruption of you, like when we say in a conversation “may I ="trms">interrupt you” your pace, your velocity, your speech-acts, etc.
what is being ‘="trms">interested’ in the ="trms">history of illusion='qstn'>?
in your process in becoming woman, you might end up becoming a female robot.
(Tarsaa's part)
whose testicles are smashed here='qstn'>?
to the less molested .... (body of the pupil)
psycho-="trms">history
human preparedness for ="trms">inter-="trms">relations with ="trms">technology and ="trms">technologization
='strcls'>***test some fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures
a ="trms">different brand of ="trms">anxiety (='qstn'>?)
walking on groundlessness, ="trms">literature, house of ="trms">literature='qstn'>?
protest against “was”
give ="trms">literature in its totality
initiate a program
="large lg10" stl="font-size:129%">
we don't ="trms">love our selves nor our neighbors
San'an, when he thinks he is getting close, he has ="trms">abysses he has to clear
which ="trms">language the house speaks='qstn'>? or which ="trms">language German speaks='qstn'>?
house of ="trms">literature, house is the site of kinship too.
if ="trms">literature is like a house at all
un="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable algorithm of encounter
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
I hope we can get along famously
='mywrk'>my work has been really about old forms in the city, how should we build,
tyranny,
packaging (packaging existing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, the way for example the IT industry does it.)
am I against packaging='qstn'>?
rationalizing and separating functions in the city
place, space, face,
in the ="trms">history, the leg-less-stone and the lying-visage have been together. a study of apparition must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the physical ="trms">material as well, not as counterparts, rather as its play-mate.
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
="large lg6" stl="font-size:105%">
the structure of space in San'an ="trms">poetry
distinction between subject and object, between signifier and signified, encompassing the whole of dua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic logic through its branching patterns, through its de="trms">finitions of set pathways between root and branch.
the Arborescent model of ="trms">relationships in San'an ="trms">story='qstn'>?
The rhizome likewise resists structures of domination, such as ='thdf'>the notion of “the mother tongue” in ="trms">linguistics, though it does admit to ongoing cycles of what ="ppl">Deleuze refers to as “deterritorializing” and “reterritorializing” moments.
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
about my performances='lgc'>:
“There is no longer a tripartite division between a field of reality (the ="trms">world) and a field of re="trms">presentation (the ="trms">book) and a field of subjectivity (the ="trms">author). Rather, an assemblage establishes connections between certain multiplicities drawn from each of these orders, so that a ="trms">book has no sequel nor the ="trms">world as its object nor one or several ="trms">authors as its subject.”
(="ppl">Deleuze - Rhizome)
...consists not in an argument, but in the ecstatic elaboration of a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, a web of ="trms">interconnected concepts, the development of a new ="trms">vocabulary without a pause for explanation or so much as a simple de="trms">finition.
“...a mapping rather than a tracing”
“What distinguishes the map from the tracing is that it is entirely oriented toward an experimentation in contact with the real. The map does not reproduce an unconscious closed in upon itself; it constructs the unconscious”
“It fosters connections between fields, the removal of blockages... “
(removing some blockages of meaning-lock in San'an)
my ="trms">lecture, emphasizes the rhizomatic to foster ="trms">imaginative work that challenges typical critical forms.
not to overlook the working of ="trms">matters, and the exteriority of their ="trms">relations.
="large lg14" stl="font-size:129%">
(in a ="trms">book, a ="trms">lecture, etc.) there are lines of ="trms">articulation or segmentarity, strata and territories; but also lines of flight, movements of deterritorialization and destratification.
(what are ="ppl">Attar's Sheikh's actual ="trms">authority as a teacher='qstn'>?)
(George Makdisi='lgc'>: “Madrasa and University in the Middle Ages”)
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] “Perhaps the most fundamental ="trms">difference between the two ="trms">systems is ="trms">embodied in their ="trms">systems of certification; namely, in medieval Europe, the licentia docendi, or license to teach; in medieval Islam, the ijazah, or ="trms">authorization. In Europe, the license to teach was a license to teach a certain field of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge. It was conferred by the licensed masters acting as a corporation, with the consent of a Church ="trms">authority, in Paris, by the Chancellor of the Cathedral Chapter... Certification in the Muslim East remained a personal ="trms">matter between the master and the student. The master conferred it on an individual for a particular work, or works.” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
feeling cool and correct
(in) a parasitical golden age
what is “education” in a mystical ="trms">world (or actually a mystical ="trms">world-view)
how can be undermined or rewired, (“teaching” without education)
magical idealism
from Delphi-magiscism to the San'an
(does San'an actually wants to go to Greece='qstn'>?! but went to Italy='qstn'>?)
اقصای روم
the space we are founding ourselves in is not neutral, not innocent, not un-signed
it is paid for, has a certain architecture, (phallic work)
="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%">
the intellectual mask...
="trms">semiotic of learning and thinking
="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%">
(Maulwurf,) shit on your head, shit is the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of all gifts, when a ="trms">child offers his first donation, “look what I have produced!” I honor you with this Kacke.
="prgrph">-[...]