[...]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'>--> 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'>--- 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'>--> 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'>--> ="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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ='strcls'>*it is job of defense mechanism to distort, transform, or falsify the perceived reality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--> to help deal with the id or superego, reducing ="trms">anxiety


ego='lgc'>: part of our psyche that is reality based


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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
methinks

...the absence of mercy

="trms">complain ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ elegy ='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ prayer (='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)...

="large lg5" stl="font-size:137%"> (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


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