[...]er ="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.
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(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)
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(="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
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(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
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)
='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
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(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
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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'>?[...]