[...]as”

give ="trms">literature in its totality

initiate a program

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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”

“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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:127%"> 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

="large lg22" stl="font-size:120%"> 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)



="large lg6" stl="font-size:118%"> 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'>?

="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)


(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, rather='lgc'>: which phantom-sphere is more arresting='qstn'>? which archive remains in fire throughout='qstn'>?

="trms">modern-individuality versus the magnetic power of the sectarian voice..

counter-="trms">veiling de="trms">finitions of freedom='lgc'>: the freedom of in="trms">finite mediocritized choices versus the freedom to choose the all-engulfing one thing.

these preferences='lgc'>: on some remote place of calculation or in terms of immediate force='qstn'>?


(this talk might be) a critical rant

(eastern thirds='lgc'>:)
the voice of a strange immunity

sacred crimes

one is hard pressed to find a truth that does not have a dead body


never-ending allegory of loss and primal innocence

="large lg18" stl="font-size:135%"> irrational desire of a no-man's land of an eternal immaturity


(an existential evacuation)
committing oneself to erratic wanderings in the desert ='lgc'>=> ="trms">translation of a familiar topology into an ="trms">ontological modality='qstn'>?

the extravagant paradox of proximity and distance
(="trms">interiority and exteriority, ="trms">presence and absence)

civilizational taxonomies (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> versus animist taxonomies, in ="ppl">Attar's ="trms">animal-="trms">birds)



the (sacred boundaries of mysticism) and mystic boundaries of the civilized city
the peripheries of the city became mystic/sacred


mystical channels='strcls'>*


they ="trms">present ="trms">worlds immersed in a kind of constructed a ="trms">priori

two irrational analytical strands='lgc'>:
(1) to isolate the rare ="trms">technical and conceptual arsenal behind an ethnographically ="trms">imagined space (San'an's biography missing in ="ppl">Attar's Tazkirat al-Awliya='lgc'>--="ppl">Attar's obsession with biographies, he is ="trms">drugged by bios, totally high='lgc'>='lgc'>---he can't let go of them, he cannot detach from the absents, the paternals='qstn'>? his master-complex='qstn'>? has he forgotten to mention his teacher, San'an, in Tazkirat al-Awliya='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--="ppl">Attar is himself San'an='qstn'>? ="trms">drugged and doped by tastes and spices of his shop, his establishment. OR San'an is Ibn-Sagha (ابن ساقا)='qstn'>? (Ibn-Sagha was a Islamist jurist who lived in Baghdad 11th century, lived Muslim and died christian.) ="ppl">Attar's engagement with re="trms">membrance and bios ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is the San'an's ="trms">narrative also about forgetting='qstn'>? Tazkirat (تذکره) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Tazakor (تذکر) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">member! ='lgc'>--we are now on how ="ppl">Attar's San'an influences ="ppl">Hafez='lgc'>--(حافظ) The ="trms">Memorizer. ="ppl">Hafez ="trms">loves the ="trms">story of San'an the non-="trms">memorizer, San'an loses his ‘hafeze’ (حافظه). (="trms">according to ="ppl">Hafez and San'an, the best student is the one who doesn't re="trms">member. precisely because they are trying so hard to remind San'an of what they thing ‘he’ is) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[Indian MATSYENDRANATH amnesia tale, tells the ="trms">story of a yogi who falls in ="trms">love with the woman kind='lgc'>--one of his students puts makeup and dances his ="trms">memory back to him. he must become the woman. there is a queer moment in the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story of the San'an, which ="ppl">Attar censures(='qstn'>?). he erased his name from the black-="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of death-‘the forgottens’, then danced for him as a woman-="trms">story-teller. (muse is the mother of ="trms">memory.) the class struggle has obviously a Bollywood touch to it='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>-->="ppl">Attar's source and storage='qstn'>?)
regarding ="ppl">Hafez and San'an, the ="trms">poet must leave the home, the ="trms">poet must ="trms">travel foreign zones, and stay in the foreign. (this is, by the way, ="ppl">Heidegger's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of the ="trms">poet.) and that is also one ="ppl">Heideggerian ="trms">poetic ="trms">demand that ="ppl">Hafez is failing to reconcile with, when he is turned back, not having the balls to cross the Indian ocean.
(2) importance of an elite ="trms">rhetorical plane

initiatives towards the horizons of a mystical inquest


(cinematic) mystical landscapes
(what kind of mystical landscapes I am exploring in San'an's ="trms">story='qstn'>?)


the dominion of the partially unseen


guarding its inner workings and ="trms">trajectories
(the cinematic openness also is) guarantor of its constant mutability(='qstn'>?)



the exoteric logic of ="trms">interiority (reigning since centuries in ="nms">Iran)


for only the buried dimension is sovereign

secrecy ='lgc'>=/= lie
(I am a fan of lie and against secrecy)
talk about a theory of lie
(a talk about a theory of violence)

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='lgc'>[the issue of='lgc'>: op="trms">posite, omen, and alarm (in art)='lgc'>]
omen ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? artwork
(omen is a ="trms">phenomenon that is buried to foretell the future, isn't that an attractive ="trms">trap for artist's self grandiosity='qstn'>?!)
omen has a binary answer
omen ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ ‘audire’ (Latin root, to ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen)
omens come in the artistic and ="trms">poetic production='lgc'>--in the ="trms">poiesis='lgc'>--when the artist is young='lgc'>: the ="trms">fabulous age of self-assertion, and he or she starts way to big and later is abandoned or abused by it.


(enforcement of an elusive stance from within) the self-enveloped site of the event='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----the artworks become closer to omens


at once episodic and ="trms">veiled, protecting their ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to invisibility above all else


(perceive themselves as) the merchants of the unreasoned experience.
(as opposed to the mechanisms of ="trms">instrumental reason) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- omens


="trms">Literatur(ware)haus
warehouse vs. Haus
(at the house of being)

warehouse of the irrational, a cellar-arena of provocation and unrest

I don't have an eloquent ="trms">language='lgc'>--I am not in the house of ="trms">language, but ="ppl">Attar is

transmutative
depthforming


sudden exposure to exile space

a postcultural ="trms">interaction (='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>--with no proximity to the ="trms">past or known ="trms">present
(am I trying to create proximity to ="trms">history in my ="trms">lectures versus my non-proximity in earlier visual works such as “vagabond” 2011 ="nms">Tehran)
is that to adopt an ='strcls'>******existence without context='strcls'>******='qstn'>?
(in ="trms">lectures, am I un-separating myself from my own ="trms">history='qstn'>?)

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='strcls'>*reverie (=the mind flees across se="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded planes)

exile space ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ refuge, solitude, immobility ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? nondialectics


='lgc'>[on Vagabond='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> http://www.sinaseifee.com/Vagabond.html
="prgrph">-domination of the partially unseen in my own film, ‘vagabond’
="prgrph">-did I believe that only the buried dimension is sovereign='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-continuously ="trms">interlacing experiences of solitude and immobility
="prgrph">-minima="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list side of mysticism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stillness is a catalyst for acceleration='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-nomadic dis="trms">positions
="prgrph">-suspended (=the chasm of self-consciousness)
="prgrph">-


="trms">aesthetic tactility over ="trms">aesthetic fantasy
where is the cinematic-mystical ritual happening='qstn'>?

profound separation from the ="trms">networks of ="trms">social reality
the subjects betrays its own ="trms">history

="trms">interrupting the trans="trms">mission of the ="trms">episteme

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the result of mystic disjointment ='lgc'>=> a renovated perception of all activity as self-forsaking (Tark-e Nafs='qstn'>? ترک نفس), (such that all locations appear scorched in turn)

stab-through and un-brace one once was

San'an's mechanistic commitments, he need to first ="trms">book out of a place in order to ="trms">write text, or to ="trms">book himself in again
the San'an's ="trms">poem's ‘Will'='lgc'> = instinct for abandonment and anonymity
is this instinct pre="trms">dicting what ="ppl">Attar will ="trms">write='qstn'>? or explains ='strcls'>*why he ="trms">writes='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[="trms">writing as an act of ="trms">memory and perform='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

the mystic event is predicted by an instinct for abandonment and anonymity,
at the same time it mutates the ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban environment in which it ="trms">stage its runaways line.
the cityscape is cast into the frenetic rush of this disavowal, to the extent that it becomes the equivalent of the desert

what are the indentitarian qualifiers that San'an wants or needs to chain-break='qstn'>?

to be honest, ="ppl">Attar's San'an's ="trms">poetry, is living by a roaming assemblage of assertions. ='lgc'>[he wrote his ="trms">poem in a time when the highly ="trms">religious Sheikhs would go to monasteries and get drunk with the non-Muslims, getting high with the nonhuman. it is Seljuq (سلجوق) time, medieval Turko-Persian. The Seljuqs were educated in the service of Muslim courts as slaves or mercenaries. The dynasty brought with itself a sense of revival. Under the Seljuqs, New-Persian became the ="trms">language for ="trms">historical recording. ="ppl">Attar (عطار) means herba="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, ="trms">druggist, perfumist or alchemist, and during his lifetime in Persia, much of medicine and ="trms">drugs were based on herbs. Therefore, by profession he was similar to a ="trms">modern-day town doctor and pharmacist. ="ppl">Rose oil means ‘attar’. ="ppl">Attar died a violent death in the massacre which the Mongols inflicted on Nishapur in April 1221.='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-in his ="trms">Birds epic, he is bringing an instinct coalition that ="trms">translates all movement into a devouring collectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the logic of their fading (='lgc'>--of the ="trms">birds) is the same explosively that that fuels their inception, (why the ="trms">birds must gather in the first place='qstn'>?!)

once-mystical and now-post="trms">modern tribalism (='qstn'>?)

(“I” threatens the nomadic workings of the pack event)
='lgc'>[there is a pack-event in the San'an's students='lgc'>]
self='lgc'> = migratory sensibility of a subjectivity adrift

the exile does not need to exist / the ="trms">community is desperate to exist (which is why it degenerates into totalitarian declarations='lgc'>--do the San'an's students have that='qstn'>?)
is ="ppl">Attar, in his ="trms">poetry, obsessed with constructing mythologies of ="trms">presence (and being re="trms">presented)='qstn'>? (when he repeatedly tries to synthesize an “authentic” discipleship, ﻣﺮﯾﺪى, Anhängerschaft='qstn'>?, for the San'an's “teachings”) ='lgc'>--whereas the exile, the ="trms">animal, the shadow, the ="trms">monster, the machine, the thing, the contagion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> carries none of the ="trms">anxiety of ="trms">ontological authenticity



رسوایی - using treachery for the sake of vitality
(‘Verrat'='lgc'>--betraying the student, in order to produce truth-event)

going into vicious levels of self-consciousness

="large lg6" stl="font-size:130%"> between all the lines of statement that ="ppl">Attar constructs, what is being sug="trms">gested in his music or words='qstn'>?


San'an, taken by other="trms">worldly ="trms">crafts that signal him to become (gracefully) transfixed

‘naaareh’ - نعره
far cry from the mystic's encounter with divinity

disavowal of (an explicit) ="trms">narrative (="trms">trajectory)


='lgc'>[sunken tranquility, relaxed self-annihilation, ascetic r="trms">enunciation of ="trms">material='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*mystic='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= or='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ ='strcls'>*post="trms">modern='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[obsession with speed, with ="trms">narcissistic ="trms">technologies, hyper-="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic='lgc'>]
is there in post="trms">modernism then an alternative version of mystical experience='qstn'>?
...


feeling like a foreign body, until you find a job='qstn'>?! (="ppl">Attari as a job)


let's jam on this


this ="trms">story is ="trms">prior to psychoanalysis (='qstn'>?)
="trms">positionality, placements, displacements

a ="trms">system that doesn't have access to its own knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge



="trms">historical struggle for the de="trms">finition of the real


I can't keep clean boundaries


rituals (of promise and contract), (things that) must address ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">religious stamp


what is the San'an text promising the Other='qstn'>? (like every text does, every utterance)
what it cannot ='strcls'>*not do='qstn'>?


="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> my ="trms">childish playful inventiveness and its ="trms">relationship to weakness.
so I come up week, saying ‘let us do this or that,’ but that is a will to power (='qstn'>?)


we are here to understand the appropriation of meaning.
what does or does not belong to the protocols of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, etc.

(think in terms of de-appropriation, whic[...]