[...]ies has been through ="trms">perversity.)

='lgc'>[for ="frds scrmbld">Juan:='lgc'>] (artistic) ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? fossilization (='lgc'>~->='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis)

='strcls'>*="trms">mimesis='strcls'>* is not about form
in order to re="trms">present the character of the ="trms">supposed ‘word’ of another
="trms">mimesis ='lgc'>+ ="trms">techne ='lgc'>~= copy (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Juan)

diegesis ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">mimesis
(telling) ='lgc'>-- (showing)
(recounted) ='lgc'>-- (enacted)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">poiesis _////(actually a useful and necessary ="trms">difference, synthesized by the ="trms">Greeks='lgc'>--="ppl">Plato and ="ppl">Aristotle)
(...and what about the ="trms">question of the medium='qstn'>?)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ='strcls'>*="frds scrmbld">Juan's ="trms">relationship with the (in)dependency of the individuated self of the artist='lgc'>--in this case himself='lgc'>--by means of ="trms">mimetic ="trms">techne is to overcome the visual artist's ="trms">narcissism='qstn'>?

(="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>:) being alone ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">mimesis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> through ="trms">mimetic ="trms">intra-acting with the other
(="frds">Sina='lgc'>: there is no “being alone” only ‘feeling lonely’ which is itself a form of ="trms">intra-acting ='lgc'>: ="trms">internalizing an external ="trms">phenomena. “loneliness” is a belief that one has.)

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="trms">narcissism as a ="trms">mimetic and performative mode
transindividual ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>--Maitra='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movement of the subject beyond ethnicity (ethnic formations that the bio-political processes of ="trms">interpellation ="trms">demand of the subject)
remediation of ethnic ="trms">narcissism

='lgc'>[Maitra's queer diasporic ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practice of='lgc'>] (in diaspora media theory) performing an identity (that is “="nms">Iranian” for example)

='strcls'>*="trms">intermedia='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= multimedia='lgc'>: fuse disparate media)
frictions between ="trms">different media
conceptual ="trms">interplay between media
space of alchemical transformation
(at the level of) conflict of ="trms">interpretations
radical understanding of ="trms">interdisciplinarity

diaspora='lgc'>: no longer having a clear answer to “where are you from='qstn'>?”

what might we learn from ="trms">narcissism (from ="trms">mimesis)='qstn'>?
mediate and fracture the ="trms">writing of the self

wound='lgc'>: disconnected event
not adding up to a comprehensive ="trms">narrative of the ethnic self

='strcls'>*ego-under-construction='strcls'>*
="ppl">Freud's primary ="trms">narcissism, we ="trms">love ourselves before ="trms">loving others
(for the ="trms">child) ="trms">narcissism='lgc'> = ="trms">intermediate
(secondary) ="trms">narcissism='lgc'>: the processes by which the distinction between the ego and external object is lost
(="ppl">Lacan) loss of distinction between the ego and its reflection in the mirror
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">narcissism helps the infant in trying to distinguish himself from the mother/other

="trms">narcissism beyond infantile sexuality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="trms">narcissism='lgc'>: structure (='lgc'>=/= state) ='lgc'><== when the burden of desire on the subject becomes intolerable

(='qstn'>?what are new structures of) artistic ="trms">narcissism
='strcls'>*an occasion to ="trms">erotisize your own body='strcls'>*
to ="trms">erotically emphasize a particular ="trms">memory
stitching together of the naked ethnic body

hupersexuality
...those who are undersexed

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='prcnt'>%note on ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's workshop='lgc'>:
how ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">mimesis came when we were not sure what she meant by “make note.” the signifier of “note” defined itself in a collective ="trms">mimetic semi-conscious way.
(='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ='mywrk'>my work on how signifiers transmit and transform ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> parasitism, ="trms">rumorology, etc. ... weaker neighborhoods of thought)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:123%"> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's notions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•explosion ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dance
="lsts lst1">•the “generative” notion in her discourse (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> notion of “active,” and “conscious intentionality” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a property of human ="trms">agency and ="trms">agential exceptionality. (the metric of) her work/workshop distinguishes the self-aware active entity from non-="trms">communicative receptive entity, ='strcls'>***="trms">intransitive ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">transitive='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{her privileged object='lgc'>}, and that distinction is not useful for me ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right now='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">authority of the ="trms">trope “practice” for ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice
(what would be a non="trms">mimetic understanding of eachother='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Juan)
="lsts lst1">•the workshop was not her ‘thinking’ or ‘making’ in process or an open ="trms">question or a not-knowing, rather the workshop was based on her (finished) ‘notions,’ with her ‘indisputables,’ her ‘="trms">literal’ objects; (dance, active, body, ="trms">imagination, practice, generative, creative, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•production of the “I” in her work; (a nasty side-effect='lgc'>: collateral individuation) (when were the moments in the workshop that an ="trms">interesting “we” was created and for whom='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•the problematic ="trms">difference between ‘="trms">literal’ and ‘="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical’ at the footing of her thinking (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my whole ="nms">apass research is about this)
="lsts lst1">•(artist's) ="trms">imagination as a magic wand that can transform things

='strcls'>*what helped me was ='thdf'>the idea of thinking with a ‘dormant ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor’ (in my own work) and ‘activate’ it, in a way that the problems and pleasures of thinking with that ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor is felt. by ‘dormant ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor’ what i mean is an operative word that one is using often and is left un="trms">interrogated. ='thdf'>for example the problems of “landscape” as a particular ="trms">ontological tool for me became apparent only after i committed myself to that ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor in the course of the ="trms">interview with ="frds scrmbld">Pierre and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice. to stay with a ="trms">story, to live its contra="trms">dictions. (and the ="trms">position of it in a sentence)
="lsts lst1">•“it was ‘landscape’ talking; not me!”
="lsts lst1">•why i was seeing ="nms">Tehran as the ‘ghostly landscape’='qstn'>? (="trms">matter of a confrontation with ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>? exteriority of my subjecthood is at stake='qstn'>? ='lgc'>~->!='qstn'>? the arbitrary ="trms">position of “genius loci” ='lgc'>: that from a genius ="trms">position one can see for good. -how to make myself nonarbitrary='lgc'>--not subject to individual determination='lgc'>--in ="trms">relation to ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> towards ‘="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’)
="lsts lst1">•what kind of ="trms">material-discursive practices thinking with “landscape” committed me to='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[to explore and feel this commitment (and its consequences) is ‘staying with the trouble’ for me='lgc'>]

it felt like ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice believes that people, we, have control over our ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors, but in the course of the workshop there were many occasions that was not the case='lgc'>:
="frds">Sina, landscape ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> optics
="frds scrmbld">Esta, building/house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">geometry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> security
="frds scrmbld">Agnes, super="trms">market ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exchange
="frds scrmbld">Juan, crime ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arrest
="frds scrmbld">Zoumana, garden (='lgc'>~-> fecundity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> immunity
="frds scrmbld">Eszter, electronic device ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> closed
="frds scrmbld">Ekaterina, ="trms">zoo ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objects of care (='lgc'>~-> ="trms">animal ='lgc'>~= diseased .='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectifying or babying them)


='strcls'>* landscape ='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? optic ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? way of dis="trms">embodied seeing
='lgc'>[artificial perspective ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (objects are in) proportional variations in a seamless continuum='lgc'>}, gaze of the ="trms">spectator, exterior space, homogeneous, in="trms">finite, ="trms">systematic,='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (this is all) ='strcls'>*="trms">symbolic form='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[(tele/micro)scope ='lgc'><==='lgc'>] landscape ='lgc'><== perspective ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- arbitrary point of the observer


(="ppl">Descola='lgc'>:) such “objectification of the subjective” ='lgc'>==>
(1) a distance between man and the ="trms">world
(2) ="trms">systematizes and stabilizes the external universe


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='strcls'>***factuality is not intrinsic, it is ="trms">rhetoric (that we live with)

="trms">history of ='thdf'>the idea of ="trms">nature

‘="nms">ajayeb's architects of a ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">cosmology who establish hierarchies and discontinuities among them ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">cosmogenesis of ="trms">modernity's subjectivity's illusions of continuity
='lgc'>[="ppl">Descola's “con="trms">figurations of continuity"='lgc'>]
(="nms">ajayeb creates) hierarchical order ="trms">according to the levels of the exchange of information that is reputed to be possible.
="prgrph">-which parties are set on the same level of reality (in ="nms">ajayeb)='qstn'>?

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> (what are the human and nonhuman) proliferation of forms in ="nms">ajayeb (='qstn'>?)
who are the “mothers of games” there='qstn'>? snake, Div, etc. (spirits that protect the game)

="trms">technical know-how to create ="trms">intersubjective ambience/ambivalence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> regulated ="trms">relations between one person and another ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--these are='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cultivated plots
how can i, starting with ="nms">apass, learn to create theaters of a subtle ="trms">sociability (in which beings with ="trms">different forms of ="trms">language and physical aspect are ="trms">ontologically indistinguishable)='qstn'>?

the ="trms">category of “persons”='lgc'>: variations in the modes of ="trms">communication that are made possible by an apprehension of perceived qualities that are unequally distributed

whose dialects are ="trms">mutually intelligible='qstn'>?

human ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>: that if a being possess a soul is only then capable of recognizing humans
='lgc'>='lgc'>---then let's give everyone souls!

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(="ppl">Massumi > ="ppl">Deleuze's) critique ='lgc'>~= modulation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> actively modulated from within the ="trms">situation, immanent to it ='lgc'>{
="prgrph">-augmenting='strcls'>* (taking a certain tendency to the limit)
="prgrph">-diverting='strcls'>* (deflecting it into a ="trms">different tendency)
="prgrph">-transmutational='strcls'>* (="trms">interacting with other tendencies in a way that invents a whole new direction as a kind of surplus value of ="trms">interaction)
="prgrph">-or, it can lead to a clash that stops the process

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