[...]nd 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)
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(="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.
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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
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
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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.
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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.
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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”
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“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.
(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)
the intellectual mask...
="trms">semiotic of learning and thinking
(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.
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> http://www.sinaseifee.com/VomkleinenMaulwurf.html
how can we bring the variety of ="trms">animals into the singular butterfly ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='qstn'>? (="ppl">Attar's ="trms">bird's butterfly effect)
Schmetterling! (parvaneh - پروانه)
(‘schmettern’ in German='lgc'>: v. smash, shatter, slam; blare, fanfare, bellow, roar) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- in schmettern you al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready have the ‘smashing,’ the butterfly smashing in the windshield, by that we are in the land of ="trms">technology.
Schmetterlinghaus='qstn'>? (The Imperial Butterfly House in Vienna)
خرمن پروانه
Schmetterling is also a German (Reich Air Ministry) air-to-air missile project developed during the WWII, which is detonated by acoustic and photoelectric proximity fuses (Abstandszünder)
(="ppl">Jason Bahbak ="ppl">Mohaghegh)
time, space, being, death, subversion, pain, transcendence, victory, blood, ="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">Heidegger, ="ppl">Adorno, ="ppl">Benjamin, ="ppl">Baudrillard,
="lsts lst1">•="trms">poetic violence, obscure elsewhere,
="lsts lst1">•="trms">imaginative reservoir.
="lsts lst1">•political, ="trms">poetic, spiritual, or ="trms">aesthetic sources of inspiration.
="lsts lst1">•the rebel factor
resistance-fight / ideological ="trms">dictator
artist-forerunner / experimental thinker
constellation of desire
ambush of destruction ='lgc'>=>
...="trms">internalization of toxicity
to assimilate the poisonous
mithridatic (“mehr-dad” معجون مهرداد)
what is the dominant information in San'an ="trms">world='qstn'>?
(ideological and) ="trms">literary ="trms">apparatus
issues of belonging and desertion
to endure the direct
="trms">epistemic fear
I sug="trms">gest we go through the ="trms">rhetorical treatises of Middle East political ="trms">past century
(mystic war='lgc'>:)
the decadent view of the ob="trms">literated
(swallowing partial glances of the)
“extinction of ="trms">society”
drinking it
these signals of vanishing are forms of training='qstn'>?
a ="trms">formula of continuation='qstn'>?
ancient models of defense='strcls'>****
مکانیزم دفاعی
other mature forms of defenses='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">sublimation
="lsts lst1">•projection='lgc'>: a characteristic that one perceives in oneself but seems unacceptable is instead attributed to another person, denial in attribution ='lgc'>[still popular ="ppl">Feuerbach's idea of “="trms">religion='lgc'> = projection”, “God='lgc'> = outward projection of a human's inward ="trms">nature” informing secular ="trms">anthropological explanation='lgc'>] نسبت دادن احساس خود به دیگری
="lsts lst2">◦it changes the reality (for the person who projects)
="lsts lst2">◦it operates unconsciously (the person won't accept that they project)
="lsts lst1">•rationalization='lgc'>: irrationalities are explained in a seemingly rational or logical manner and are made consciously tolerable, ad hoc hypothesis='lgc'>: to save it from being falsified ='lgc'>[='lgc'><== introspection illusion='lgc'>: cognitive bias of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of one's own state='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•fantasy
="lsts lst1">•denial
="lsts lst1">•reaction formation='lgc'>: ="trms">responses to ="trms">internal threats and ="trms">anxieties, ="trms">anxiety is mastered by exaggeration of the directly opposing tendency. phobia is always reaction formation='lgc'>: the person wants what he fears. ='lgc'>[solicitude (may be a reaction formation) against cruelty, pacifism against sadism, etc.='lgc'>] when ='strcls'>*instincts (and their derivatives) are arranged as pairs of op="trms">posites='strcls'>* (life/death, construction/destruction, action/passivity, dominance/sub="trms">mission); ="trms">techniques='lgc'>: exaggeration, compulsiveness, inflexibility='lgc'>: “reactive ="trms">love protests too much.” “the lady doth protest too much, methinks.” (it cannot adapt itself to changing circumstances as genuine emotions do)
="lsts lst2">◦intellectualization ='lgc'>{="trms">memory of event ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intellectualization ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> conscious analysis of non-="trms">anxiety provoking information about an event='lgc'>}
="lsts lst2">◦dis="trms">sociation
="lsts lst2">◦displacement='lgc'>: means of dream-distortion, ego relocates ="trms">anxiety somewhere else, ="trms">transference of emotions/wishes
="lsts lst3">◾="trms">sublimation والایش ='lgc'>[a form of displacement='lgc'>]='lgc'>: long-term conversion of the initial (negative) impulse, (alchymical in Jung) transformation of shit into gold. ='lgc'>[in ="ppl">Freud='lgc'>: ‘="trms">sublimation='lgc'> = plasticity of the sexual instincts’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= in ="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>: ‘="trms">sublimation='lgc'> = (usually cosmic='qstn'>?) process of creation in ex nihilo style’ ='lgc'>: an object (manufactured or not) defined in ="trms">relation to the emptiness of Das Ding (empty canvas) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sublimation ='lgc'>~ dismissal/Verwerfung='lgc'>: obsessional ="trms">relational behaviour attributed to the avoidance of the primordial emptiness (of Das Ding) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? ="trms">religion/art...
='strcls'>**penis ="trms">sublimates into ="trms">seriousness='strcls'>**, adolescence into ="trms">poetry, emotions into mystical art into dominance,,,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦repression/suppression='lgc'>: subduing in the unconscious (under the influence of the superego='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•withdrawal
="lsts lst1">•regression='lgc'>: a way of relating to the ="trms">world that was formerly effective (to recapture some ="trms">childhood satisfaction)
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•pathological defense mechanism='lgc'>: delusional projection, denial, distortion, extreme projection, splitting
="lsts lst1">•immature defense mechanism='lgc'>: acting out, fantasy, idealization, passive-aggression, projection, projective identification, somatization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">neurotic defense mechanism='lgc'>: displacement, dis="trms">sociation, hypochondriasis, isolation, rationalization, reaction formation, regression, repression, undoing
="lsts lst1">•mature defense mechanism='lgc'>: altruism, anticipation, humour, identification, intellectualization, introjection, ="trms">sublimation, suppression
="lsts lst1">•other defensive mechanisms='lgc'>: compartmentalization, defensive pessimism, exaggeration, minimisation, postponement of ="trms">affect
='strcls'>*it is job of defense mechanism to distort, transform, or falsify the perceived reality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to help deal with the id or superego, reducing ="trms">anxiety
ego='lgc'>: part of our psyche that is reality based
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
methinks
...the absence of mercy
="trms">complain ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ elegy ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ prayer (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire to future)
(elegy assumes that there is something in the information that makes a ="trms">difference and not in the receiver of info.)
(="trms">question to an ="nms">Iranian friend='lgc'>:) “why must we fasten our gaze to the objects of damage and derangement='qstn'>?” “why light lanterns to behold the corpse='qstn'>?” “or extend our focus on them='qstn'>?” (I am using ="ppl">Mohaghegh's words,) the extremist (or other ="trms">aesthetic-philosophical strands of extremisms) would tell us not to look away, for the thought and expression have taken the shape of a ‘meteorological device,’ forecasting seasons (of storm)...
(you take the mithridatic venom to) cross into the next level of temporal experience
he makes “engravings of the atrocity”
(حکاکی از) سبعیت
a fanatical ="trms">response to the storm
a charismatic ="trms">authority undertakes a ="trms">poetic ="trms">articulation
or a ="trms">poetic ="trms">articulation becomes committed to an ideological program
='lgc'>[="nms">Iran Iraq war='lgc'>]
mysticism, a protocol of extremity, geared towards the immensification of narrow vision
gigantic singularity
itself the house of many paradoxes='lgc'>: that of wisdom and rage, that of boundlessness and confinement, that of precision and enormity, ="trms">nature and ="trms">technology (apprentices to a lesser artisan-="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurgist god ="trms">interested only in functional architecture and ="trms">instrumentalized objects), betrayal and devotion,
mysticism is one of post="trms">modern ‘mask,’ there are many others (the chaos-mask / face='qstn'>?, etc.)
one of many existential prototypes, subjectivity constellations, etc.
sliding between hostile and relaxed patterns of ...
with a sixth sense for disappearance
gained attunement to nothing
what are the athleticism of this stillness='qstn'>?
the turn in the thought of the mystic to externalize that same meditative daze!
what if an enthusiasm took hold to transfer this personal, self-contained oblivion ="trms">onto a universal plane='qstn'>?
a single mood-shift='lgc'>: ="trms">interiority feels the need to stretch out into exteriority.
without the logic of judgment
(in the aftermath of the 2th century) many visionaries of western thought (='lgc'>--post="trms">moderns='lgc'>--) have emphasized a (desperate) need to inject ambiguity and doubt into our collective ="trms">imagination
where is absolutism in San'an='qstn'>?
own descent (Abstieg) into ="trms">paranoia
when in master-disciple ="trms">relationship one is asked/taught not only ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the works of ="trms">past visionaries='lgc'>: rather to entertain the same mania, drunkenness, cruelty, or absorb temperament that engendered the very ="trms">materialization of that text.
='lgc'>[="ppl">Attar asking us to entertain the same mania when ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading Tazkirat al-Awliya='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
...lending cryptic terminologies and cosmic ideas
to become an echo of a profound legacy
we ask again='lgc'>: which phantom-sphere is more ="trms">interesting='qstn'>? more ="trms">aesthetically and philosophically attractive in its c="trms">ontours, appearances, and orchestrations='qstn'>?
which archive remains in fire throughout='qstn'>?
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="prgrph">-which (archival='qstn'>?) constructs promise to survive us='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-things that run on hollow ="trms">spectacles of meanings and simulations of depth
="prgrph">-adapting old tales to new territories of experience
an apocalyptic significance in the master-disciple ="trms">relationship
(topology of ="trms">communication/education)
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(mysticism) an excursion into the other="trms">worldly (or the eternal)
lending cryptic terminologies and cosmic ideas a palpable and resurgent quality.
THE pursuit='lgc'>: to become the echo of a profound legacy
the ="trms">question is not the legitimate/authentic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges versus superstitious/mythic doctrines, [...]