[...]of the Qur'an's wisdom, were washed from head to head, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding throwing re="trms">member, of ignorance and misery.
To his own, wept in prostration. Also had goals for blood-stained eyes. Embarrassment was lost in sweat.


Left in grief and joy, before he went wandering all;
The following day, ='thdf'>thanks to John reject all,
Sheikh said that, “Having a secret, may be open before the sun is out. Infidelity arose from the meeting of Ra and faith, Roman pagan God-worship, sea wave suddenly passed out.
You want to work the ="trms">intercession of the Apostle='qstn'>? This time ='thdf'>thanks to the ="trms">world.”
What a sugar ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right now! God's grace in the sea, the sun shall obviously know he will turn black. Repentance knows that with several of sin, ignite the fire of his repentance.
Must also in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude his burns.


I make ="trms">story short, its place='lgc'>: Sheikh will open robe.
="lsts lst1">•Went with his companions toward the Hejaz.

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> Saw it after, the christian girl, to sleep='lgc'>: in the sun beside him='lgc'>='lgc'>---the ="trms">language='lgc'>: “Then walk with Sheikh's center after this time. That is his ="trms">religion, her soil. Off Evil!
Cleared that is him.
He was in you='lgc'>='lgc'>---no ="trms">tropes. In fact, I ="trms">intercepted him open. The released body, to drive his way. Because it was the way you view the way.
That is, along being with his ‘="trms">interceptor,’ be more of these ‘="trms">intercepted.’”


Because the christian girl was sleeping, she felt the light of the sun.
What a pain in her heart arose!- and the pain of ="trms">loving it. Fire.
Hands on his heart, the heart of hand, her restless soul did not know what was inside her eggs.
Failed and the absence of a tail, see herself in the ="trms">wonders of the universe.
Where a ="trms">world that way, one must be dumb, the way of no tongue. It took all cute -and cheerfulness, like of a rain, collapsed.
Bellowed garment gave run-out.
The soil over the blood ran.
With the painful and incapa="trms">citating person, followed the Sheikh and his disciples running.
Also ran bleeding cloud.
Following the footsteps of the running, him in the desert and plains, from which must be passed by.
Welcomed helpless and confused. Welcomed her rubbing face in the dirt.
Said, “O God, work! Private parts of any work left.
I ran man's way because of you. You on me, that I was never aware.
The boiling sea. I did not take my poor. Dean agreed, stuck my hands. Nobody does not help us.”

Sheikh was told from within of that girl christian, “Not familiar with our port, she fell this time on our way.
Go back before it pop idol! And tune up your paid companion.”
Sheikh while returning like wind, opened disciples’ salt='lgc'>='lgc'>---in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the head of what was open.
“What's the new single and had repented and several more='qstn'>?! Once again, ‘="trms">love you’='qstn'>? Much you repent='qstn'>?!”
Sheikh told of his girl, leaving dead each that hear it.


Sheikh and his companions came days after opening, till it was the ‘smooth’ (Tarsaa) was.
When he saw the yellow gold, lost in rounds, ="trms">intercepted her coma. Clean bare feet and torn clothes.
The men on the ground, for example. Give it a month since his Sheikh bet his epileptic sore.
Because it takes months in epileptic sleep. Sheikh growth of water.
It looked like the journa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list Sheikh. Tears fell like a cloud of spring.
His promises. In his own hands and feet. Said “you burned my soul. I can no longer burn in the curtains of repentance, to be aware. Supply now Islam! (to be ="trms">intercepted)
He launched the Sheikh of Islam. Fellowship bubbling sentence rejected.
Because it was the idol of the people exposed. ="ppl">Rain tears, the woman waves in between.
San'an, because he was the last governor, heard tasteful faith in the heart.
She was restless taste faith.
“My patience was Sheikh's vault.” Said, “I do not have any patience at parting.
Saddle go full family. Sheikh, Hajj, Pilgrimage, ="trms">world, I will be as brief as speech, my poor... rather than an adversarial amnesty and not...”
This said in the hands of John, and was half dead. Her sun was hidden under cloud. Sweet life of girl parted, hesitated.
She followed a drop in the ocean.
The sea was actually open.


In="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the ="trms">world, it goes like the wind. He went and we all go.
Saddle such fall much in the way of ="trms">love. This person is conscious, knows that ="trms">love. Anything said may be ="trms">intercepted.
Mercy, despair, deceit, and securely.
This can hear the secrets of the soul, Nasibat (نصیبت) cannot be won without balls. This is certainly the heart and soul, must be heard. Water
and mud reliance should not be heard. War was the heart and soul of
each tail hard. Dirge in that mourning was hard.

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='lgc'>='lgc'>==='lgc'>==='lgc'>==='lgc'>==='lgc'>==='lgc'>==='lgc'>==='lgc'>===

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his mental hygiene, through strange theological appartouses, is not standing intrusions and pollutants of the middle ages trans-="trms">religiousity and cross-boundry encounters between the dislikes and those who differ in sexuality.
his hygiene is polluted
but in a peotic reappropriative act of ="ppl">Attar this will operate in another iteration to produce a more radical transcendence; still again a vital encounter with ="trms">religious pollution is avoided



='lgc'>[my teacher and prosecutor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> malamat, San'an students='lgc'>]

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
main title='lgc'>:
“Four Eastern Cartographies of En="trms">trapment”

video='lgc'>:
“="trms">Writing on Chaos - A Terminal Intimacy”

performance='lgc'>:
“The Reward of The Victim - Towards ="trms">Poetic Extremism”

image assemblage wallpaper='lgc'>:
“Bad Temper - Apocalyptic Climates of End="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered Subjectivity”



delve
delvi
delphi

dilated

dionysian ecotone for performance
defp

dionysian epitom studies for performing ecotone
desfpe

artistic research center for ="trms">material epitom studies
arcfmes
(art)mes

eccentric center of/for ="trms">material and performance studies
(eco)maps

dionysian epitom for ="trms">material and performance studies
demaps

eccentric center of/for epitomized ="trms">material studies
ecfem

cologne center for ="trms">social research
ccsr

ecotone
epitom

parc
performance and research center

cream
center for research in ="trms">epistemology and ="trms">matter

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='strcls'>***sharjah project='strcls'>***

='lgc'>[general approach of the project:='lgc'>]

this proposal gathers ="trms">literary forces from the speculative insights of ="ppl">Jason Bahbak ="ppl">Mohaghegh (on ‘radical modes of resistance’) and ="ppl">Edouard ="ppl">="ppl">Glissant (on ‘modest modes of resistance’) in order to perform a ‘slider’ between hostile and relaxed patterns of “contact” and “nothingness” that has been rotating throughout the ="trms">past century in the Middle East. the performance of a knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-="trms">zoom in the hypnotic effects, nondialogue, non="trms">narrative, and radical exile spaces that have emerged in eastern post="trms">modernism to reverse and supersede the ="trms">question of ="trms">modernity.

by ="trms">traversing the domains of revolutionary ideology, avant-garde ="trms">literature, new-wave cinema, extremist thought, and protests from the limitless ="trms">imaginative reservoir of their political, ="trms">poetic, spiritual, and ="trms">aesthetic predecessors='lgc'>--this projects examines a Middle Eastern navigation of identity (via the concept of the ‘mask’) and its particular modest/hostile modes of resistance (via the concept of the ‘text’). visiting sites such as='lgc'>: subversive epitomes of charismatic ="trms">authority undertaking a ="trms">poetic ="trms">articulation, when chaotic ="trms">imagination makes contact with nothingness, the will to chaos, and inscription of fatality in ="trms">literature-as-moral-transaction.


='lgc'>[pressure points:='lgc'>]

mobile within a speculative/sug="trms">gestive milieu, this project is ="trms">interested in examining ="trms">literary sites such as Kelile-o Demne's ="trms">communal forms of fragile human cohabitation (11th century political/bestial ="trms">fable), ="ppl">Rumi's simulation of nonexistence (13th century production of ="trms">schizo-darvish), ="ppl">Hafez's engineering ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor-factory (14th century ="trms">imaginal faculty of extreme ="trms">presence), Hedayat's Buf Koor the Shelley's Frankenstein's ="trms">monster favorate ="trms">book (20th century forms of r="trms">enunciation), Amir Naderi and Forough Farrokhzad films (20th century strategies of withdrawal), Jala Al Ahmad and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali Shariati ="trms">writings (20th century fatal concepts of the outside), ='lgc'>[="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list to be modified='lgc'>]


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this form of half-di="trms">gestive omnivorous work is ="trms">situated in a larger ="trms">trajectory of creative investigations, which i have been busy with under “="trms">storytelling,” are dealing with the ="trms">questions of conditions in which non-antagonistic critical encounters between ordered conventions of knowing and chaotic textuality/="trms">imagination is possible. to take the mind where it does not belong. to the rogue arsenals of middle eastern reservoir of ="trms">imagination and its locatable mimicries. to its repetitive scaf="trms">foldings, fugitive ="trms">trajectories, its performances of fatal experience of the text. to unload its corrosive textualities and let them run their acids across one another. this project is ="trms">interested in both the unleashing and the pleasure of watching the text die.

part of the dis="trms">position of this proposal is also the sug="trms">gestion that the two collaborators of this project, ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Foad, are invested in those notions in their practice. ="frds scrmbld">Foad Farahani's ="trms">poem “farar” enacting contemporary artistic formations and ="trms">past-compound-mask, and ="frds scrmbld">Jassem Hindi transnational ="trms">poetic ="trms">agency, are both artists with acute appetite for chaotic ="trms">imagination. Their instinct for the fusion of nothingness and ="trms">excess, appearance and disappearance, creation and destruction, is at once carved and unpacked in the ="trms">literary-="trms">poetic mosaics of their work='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">Foad's use of middle-persian mystic sensibilities and ="frds scrmbld">Jassem's combination of intensive encounter with the ="trms">poetics of apocalypse and acid textuality.

My work has been about='lgc'>: learning/training in the ="trms">crafts of noticing little ="trms">traps of ="trms">semiotic and ="trms">material trans-="trms">species cohabiting, ="trms">mutual coproduction of economics, ="trms">ecology, ="trms">affect-studies, ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical household studies, and understanding of the orders of the ="trms">natural and human ="trms">world, in the particular ="trms">history/="trms">story of the East. in my projects i take ="trms">history as the overlapping tracks and traces and many tranjectories of ="trms">world-making, human and nonhuman. the textual performance of this project is in the effects of ='mywrk'>my research and practice with the ="trms">questions of globalism and in="trms">heritance='lgc'>: difficult ="trms">translational spaces, ="trms">communicative nonunderstanding, ="trms">relational ="trms">aesthetics, and the ="trms">differential sites of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading. and i use performative ="trms">lectures='lgc'>: a ="trms">material practice, hybrid in digital manual tactile operations of speaking.

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“Four Masks of an Eastern Post="trms">modernism”

insurgent, ="trms">poet, mystic, sectarian
    |       |       |        |
chaos, violence, illusion, silence

="lsts lst1">•(sectarianism) apocalyptic ="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">poetic) will to chaos
="lsts lst1">•(mystic) exile space
="lsts lst1">•(insurgent's) otherless subjectivity


یاغی
شاعر
نوچه
زاهد


='lgc'>[performative ="trms">methodology='lgc'>]
for the collaborative part of sharjah project, i like to propose four “masks” (or “rotational avatars”) of subjective anarchy, that are few among many existential prototypes and subjectivity constellations of eastern post="trms">modernism, as collaborative sites of encounter with four (or less and not necessarily individual) artists/participants.

="lsts lst1">•collaborators’ masks='lgc'>: chaos, violence, illusion, silence / (yaghi یاغی, sha'er شاعر, noche نوچه, zahed زاهد)='lgc'>--each endeavoring to discern the ="trms">ontological possibilities and ="trms">aesthetic ="trms">imaginations of four theoretically-worked dis="trms">positions that ="ppl">Jason Bahbak ="ppl">Mohaghegh puts forward='lgc'>: insurgent, ="trms">poetic, mystical, sectarian modes of consciousness, operating within multiple terrains of human and inhuman experiences of the middle east.
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> masks (the above mentioned four masks are accompanied by four “performative epitomes”)='lgc'>: the exile, the ="trms">animal, the shadow, the machine, (the ="trms">monster, the thing, the contagion, the mirror image)

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installation='lgc'>:
speculative objects (='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= ="trms">anthropological objects) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quasi objects
between research, ="trms">social critique, speculative theory, and artistic production ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> politics of re="trms">presentation

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]insurgent='lgc'>:
resistance to ="trms">modernism, and revolutionary ="trms">agency
='lgc'><='lgc'>== exhaustive dis="trms">integration of belief-structures in ="trms">modernity
otherless individuation
eternal war
killer's freedom
(="trms">affective) overreaction


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">poet='lgc'>:
will to chaos (='lgc'>--a type of consciousness that perceive the catastrophic-apocalyptic hint at each turn)
='lgc'><='lgc'>== cataclysmic time of ="trms">modernism (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- great ="trms">social disorder='lgc'>: prison, exile, censorship, etc. ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Hedayat, ="ppl">Shamlu, Forough, Nima's tone of aggression ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a proto-sectarian space='lgc'>: secret ="trms">societies, iconoclastic ="trms">trajectories, ='strcls'>*the compartmentalized and esoteric ="nms">iranian avant-garde with ="trms">aesthetic devices of='lgc'>: unity, isolation, subversion='lgc'>])
fugitive post="trms">modern map of escape from the grasp of the experience of the ="trms">modernist ="trms">phenomenon
|
="trms">responses to ="trms">historical events of atrocity and ="trms">transition
mystical, criminal, mercenary, revolutionary edifice
a="trms">morphous, obscure, versatile (thinker/="trms">writers)
conceptual axes/="trms"nttrm="search">archetypes of='lgc'>: power, hostility, banishment, solitude, desire, sacrifice


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]mystic='lgc'>:
sunken tranquility, relaxed self-annihilation, ascetic r="trms">enunciation of ="trms">material (='lgc'>=/= post="trms">modernism's obsession with speed, with ="trms">narcissistic ="trms">technologies, hyper-="trms">materialism)
neomystial ="trms">trajectories of new-wave ="nms">iranian cinema filmic style ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hypnotic effect ='lgc'>=/= audition, dialogue, ="trms">narrative
& exile space


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sectarian='lgc'>:
will to extremity
(apocalyptic ="trms">writing)
breakaway modality
نوچه پروری noche-parvary's effective radars and tactics of attunement, detection, ="trms">narration
(annihilatic temptation to) convert the text into a closed circle
(sect's threats of) forbidden power, moral ambiguity, collective ="trms">density(/destiny)

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='lgc'>[this project works with:='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[='lgc'>]
contributions/="trms">responses of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•radical leaders (Jala Al Ahmad, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali Shariati, Khomeini) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideological suspicion towards models of machinism and ="trms">cosmopolitanism in the ="trms">modern age
="lsts lst1">•intellectual forerunners (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sectarian)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">literary icons (textual innovations of Hedayat, ="ppl">Shamlu, Akhavan, Baraheni) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">poetic violence='strcls'>* and its apocalyptic tendencies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that the declared east is plunged into a catastrophic epoch ='lgc'>==freed='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a “will to chaos”
="lsts lst1">•artistic visionaries (Naderi, Forough, ="nms">iranian new-wave cinema neomystical) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strategies of withdrawal, aims of disappearance, ="trms">situated in obscure elsewheres of auditory and visual landscape
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#ideology ='at'>#="trms">literature ='at'>#mysticism ='at'>#sectarianism
(from the middle eastern front) to (the issues of)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦post-="trms">historical instant
="lsts lst2">◦catastrophic resistance
="lsts lst2">◦creative ="trms">imagination
 ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> issues of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst3">◾="trms">technology
="lsts lst3">◾re="trms">presentation
="lsts lst3">◾globalization
="lsts lst3">◾colonialism
  ='lgc'>+='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> drastic re="trms">interpretations of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst4">◽time and being
="lsts lst4">◽death
="lsts lst4">◽pain
="lsts lst4">◽transcendence
="lsts lst4">◽victory
="lsts lst4">◽blood

='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~(="trms">modernity is an extremist epoch)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mithridatic approaches
anticultural visionaries
extreme ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resistance-fighter/ideological ="trms">dictator, artistic forerunner/experimental thinker, ="trms">different constellations of desire
='strcls'>***mithridatism مهردارو mehr-daru='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*="trms">internalization of toxicity='strcls'>* (the gradual in="trms">gestion of lethal substances so as to gain immunity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an archaic protective tactic, an ancient model of defense, (subterranean practice of pirates, alchemists, cult leaders, shamans, guerrilla columns, spies, ="trms">paranoid kings's ='strcls'>*logic of encounter='strcls'>*)
(="trms">poetic extremism ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) mithridatic='lgc'>: dispensing fragmented verses, aphorisms, and engravings of the atrocity; invitation and unleashing of the malevolence itself, to seduce ob="trms">literation;
="prgrph">-affliction, existence thriving in the wound
(assumptions of) inevitability ='lgc'>+ anticipation ='lgc'>+ projection ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mithridatic remedy (in ideological ='and'>& ="trms">literary ="trms">apparatuses)='lgc'>: “swallowing partial glances of the extinction of ="trms">society, actuality, and being itself” (="ppl">Mohaghegh) ='lgc'>[a form of training='qstn'>? for continuation='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">poet asking us to fasten our reeling gazes to the objects of damage and derangement (='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali ) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (extremist='lgc'>:) thought and expression have taken the shape of a ='strcls'>*meteorological device='strcls'>*, forecasting seasons of pestilence and mutilation ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my whole work has been against that='lgc'>]

fanatical ="trms">responses to the evolving storm ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= the fool (the one whose cognitive defend-="trms">system is down), the ="trms">joker (figure of the always problematic, with its speculative sense for potent tie between meaning and bodies), the cheerleader (porpoising ="trms">socially deviant, corrupting forerunner), the sleep-walker (moving in anachronistic temporality, in non-explicit non-intentional acting), the eros (weaker than the problem it tries to solve), the queer (optically ="trms">dense and less elegant kind of corporality in our encounters), the rabbit-chaser (detouring off the ="trms">ontological ="trms">anxiety of humanity's enigmatic destination)='lgc'>]



cyclopean protocols of extremity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> narrowest vision (immensified)
the cyclopean organ (of doing/thinking) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘oracle='lgc'> = explosive device’
|
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wisdom ='lgc'>+ rage
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> boundless confined
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> precision ='lgc'>+ enormity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technology
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> betrayal ='lgc'>+ devotion
|
....three brothers سه برادر
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----='lgc'>[they were said to have primordial understanding, having monitored the building of creation itself='lgc'>--yet this brings no consolation تسلى, no spiritual ="trms">composure ارامش, only chronic infuriation, such that they remain at once eternal and impatient='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----='lgc'>[they are gargantuan, immortal, and among the rarest exceptions to be released from the under="trms">world after the great defeat of the chthonic orders, and yet brought back to the surface to dwell among/away from men and the new gods in hard labor on a faraway island, discharged from one hell only to find another imprisonment='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----='lgc'>[they alone can swing the hammers that form mountains, bedrock, ocean floors, tectonic plates, seisamic, yet there is such insane detail even within their most jagged strokes, a punishing ="trms">symbiosis of the minuscule and the colossal='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----='lgc'>[they are the initial inventors of the earth's ="trms">wild proportions, yet now are condemned to serve as 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='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----='lgc'>[they are traitors to the new line of ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic gods, having fought against their false ascent, and thus still fiercely loyal to the old titanic ="trms">codes, even in their captivity and forced collusion, forever scarred by the robbery perpetrated against the older deities, able to picture the drainage ditches into which the others are now outcast, such that each episode of mastication and uproar is hurled like a psychic bomb intended to free this discarded confederation='lgc'>]

isolationism ='lgc'>+ monumentality

(teratological formations in ="trms">modernity)

inner contemplation / evacuation

attunement to the nothing
athleticism of stillness

='lgc'>[="trms">interiority (feels the need to='qstn'>?) stretch out into exteriority:='lgc'>] (to transfer) personal self-contained oblivion ='lgc'>--="trms">onto='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universal plane

(="frds scrmbld">Setareh's event='lgc'>:) one part shadow, one part mist, one part smoke and mirrors ='strcls'>*.='strcls'>*.='strcls'>*.

...one part strategic essentialism, one part deconstructive smokescreen

part amateur, part pseudo-scholar, part civil servant, part serial killer

part vigilante, part crusader, part cult ="trms">member, part thug


a site for hermeticism (recession from humans) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> elevation



='lgc'>[inoperative ="trms">community ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*="trms">excessive ="trms">community='strcls'>*, where players must remain mesmerized, enchanted, and vigilant

sectarian ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> full charismatic ="trms">authority ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? morshed (='lgc'>=/= “pseudo-autonomous passivity”)
مرشد ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> with its own matrix of study='lgc'>: hypnotic exchange ='lgc'>[it requires ecstatic projection, not scholarly detachment='lgc'>]

ISIS ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> scaf="trms">foldings of invisible subjugations, highly performative site

='strcls'>***how does one make the ="trms">memory ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>], the shadow ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Ehsan='lgc'>], the ="trms">ancestor ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds">Sina='lgc'>] speak across generations='qstn'>?='strcls'>***


the riotous, the militant, the deranged ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they have suspicions ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ='qstn'>?

(sectarian mode of) ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>: to entertain the same mania, drunkenness, cruelty, or absurd temperament that engendered the very ="trms">materialization of that text ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> apocalyptic significance (='lgc'>~ master-disciple ="trms">relationship)='lgc'>--San'an='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an excursion into the other="trms">worldly
="prgrph">-cryptic terminologies
="prgrph">-cosmic ideas
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘knowing’ becomes a high-stake transaction, one's own identity, future, and self-consciousness hangs in the balance (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i can recognize this extremism in myself)

(an issue with ="nms">iranian artists='lgc'>:) the pursuit to become the echo of a profound legacy='strcls'>***(!!)

='strcls'>***echo becoming='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Mohaghegh's tone='lgc'>:) in an epoch that runs entirely on hollow ="trms">spectacles of meaning and simulations of depth ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">aesthetic

(since declared by Western theory itself, and i agree too='qstn'>?) it is obsolete to speak of “legitimate/authentic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges ='lgc'>=/= mythic doctrines” ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">question then becomes='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*which phantom-sphere is more arresting, more ="trms">aesthetically philosophically attractive='qstn'>?='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> phantomology, ="ppl">Avital) ='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?= ='strcls'>*which archive remains on fire throughout='qstn'>?='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the concern of many of my peers in ="nms">apass. why archive has become a predominant topic and practice='lgc'>: lack of master signifier ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> archiving as one remaining meaningful thing to do, that there is nothing meaningful to be done ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- that is my source of disagreement with archive-discourse, because it ="trms">matters that there is something to be done now='lgc'>])


(taking) high doses of impulse and reason

='strcls'>**adapting old tales to new territories of experience='strcls'>** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we need to permanently work this, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read it, and so on)


exceedingly well-versed fever-dreams of ="ppl">Rumi
his intellectual-bodily ="trms">gesture
its innovative proportions
his typology of ="trms">communication/education (in Majales-e Sab'e مجالس سبعه)
remote plane of calculation


="lsts lst1">•magnetic power of the sectarian voice (='lgc'>=/= “the weak cult of ="trms">modern inevitability” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">formula of alienation, insularity انزوا, in="trms">difference)
="lsts lst1">•freedom to choose the all-engulfing one thing (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ISIS) ='lgc'>=/= countervailing de="trms">finitions of freedom='lgc'>: the freedom of in="trms">finite mediocritized choices (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">consumerism)


(="frds scrmbld">Elen's struggle to gauge her place in the existential game)


my critical rant


="large lg6" stl="font-size:131%"> ='strcls'>*build the raft='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a ="trms">poetic strategy (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i do this too, to go beyond the postcolonial aftermath)


tale of the “="trms">symptom of a plague” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tale of “where we stand”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (a concealed need for) ='strcls'>***immunity='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/= toxication)
‘reality principle’ of ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali , ="nms">apass

“the eastern post="trms">modernism arrives at the doorstep of the western philosophical outlook as a foreigner” -="ppl">Mohaghegh
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ='strcls'>*privileged semantic ="trms">heritage='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--sug="trms">gesting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an oc="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded alternative ='lgc'>--from='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a shrouded/shredded resource ریزریزشده ='lgc'>[='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> my reparative ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings (of ="nms">ajayeb). this is something i should be careful about='lgc'>: to give the ="nms">iranian semantic ="trms">heritage ="trms">density and texture, and not privileging it, not to give it a “voice” or “awareness"='lgc'>]

="large lg1" stl="font-size:147%"> (="frds scrmbld">Mona's dis="trms">position='lgc'>:) the assassin='lgc'> = the ="trms">spectator

(for ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali ) truth has a dead body, (deranged, tortured, raped)

(oriental)='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]exotic='lgc'>: commingling of ='strcls'>***="trms">excess ='and'>& absence='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= the third ="trms">world (middle eastern) becomes all that EU renounces='lgc'>: the indecent, unrefined savage whose raw delirium stood as an offense to your elegance but somehow still enchanting a disenchanted earth

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]eurocentrism='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*carving a mirror into your presumed beginnings='strcls'>* (so it is displaces in elsewheres, as the effect of the mirror ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> ='gtrw'>go to the discussion of mirror in my amazon project)
='lgc'>[an ="trms">imaginary mechanism of cutting off what the superego perceives as bad or good aspects of oneself (weakness or power) and projecting them ="trms">onto someone else “over there” where they can be condemned, punished, praised, or endorsed (='lgc'>--mirror='lgc'>='lgc'>--> relates to images='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? introjection='lgc'>: process of ="trms">symbolic identification ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> relates to signifiers)='lgc'>]

="nms">iran has become the global instantiation of madness

='strcls'>***dispossessed of ="trms">sublimity and excised from the ="trms">world-="trms">historical process ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*="trms">ontological vacancy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Taliban extremism, achieving the ="trms">mutual exercise of the death drive and the pleasure principle='strcls'>***(='qstn'>?!) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>->='lgc'>{rage of the id ='lgc'>+ libidinal appetite='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> never-ending allegory of loss and primal innocence

margin sedimented its own center


making my own white noise


masochistic ='lgc'>+ melancholic='lgc'> = ='qstn'>?


infantilizing and self-contained forms of play masquerading itself as autonomy
(="trms">fashion makes such ="trms">monsters='lgc'>:) “self-hating winners of the game”


='lgc'>[civilizational taxonomies='lgc'>]
of globa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list division of labor
of democracy (='lgc'>+ its negational counterpart ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ third ="trms">world='lgc'>] ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- to be very careful about it, i like to develop a bit of ="trms">paranoia for it)

(in the alterity of ‘the textual’ someone else might be living)

='lgc'>[(who/why does that='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">translation of='lgc'>] a familiar topography ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ="trms">ontological modality

state of non-temporality (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>-- majaz ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> no more locked in the imperishable antagonism of='lgc'>: ="trms">interiority ='and'>& exteriority, ="trms">presence ='and'>& absence ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extravagant paradox of ='strcls'>*proximity ='and'>& distance='strcls'>*
='lgc'>==='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>==> derivative subjectivity


architects of the law (that ="frds scrmbld">Elen is against)


(="trms">fable of the) “despotism of the oriental way-of-life”


existential homogenization

traumatic ="trms">obligation

disjointed ='lgc'>+ cyclical (mind) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>? ...

the (faint) whisper of “no more.”


disarray


artificial becomes set in stone as the ="trms">natural

bankrupt master-discourse

explode text ='and'>& life into...


horizon of textual expression

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='thdf'>the idea of chaos for the experience of ="trms">writing and thought

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*the ="trms">world as a whole='strcls'>*, inexhaustible ='lgc'>+ urgent ='lgc'>+ unmastered (abundance of self-creation/destruction) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> totalitarian stimulus ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] chaos='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>?! hegemonic will to mastery='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">poetic ="trms">imagination (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an art that ventures and wins chaos)
="lsts lst1">•insurgent mind-set (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that every man is surrounded, oppressed, and penetrated by chaos ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Heidegger wants to live ='lgc'>=/= insurgent's reflex in middle eastern anticontext, ='strcls'>*eastern revolutionary ethos='strcls'>*, “thinking of struggle='lgc'> = dialectical”, no revolutionary ="trms">intersubjectivity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= otherless subjectivity='lgc'>])

Apollonian hyper-rational retreat from the void
Ascetic immensified retreat from the ="trms">world

self-willed experience of the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge allowed to guide forward

(="ppl">Nietzsche's Zarathustra's chaotic temperament='lgc'>:) “one must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.”

“chaos"='lgc'> = what (western) ="trms">modernity has left (in east)
(='thdf'>that is why terminologies of “nomadism” can hardly be appropriated in middle east='lgc'>--they are chaotic, not nomadic)


='lgc'>[idioms of resistance='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intoxicating sense of power

="large lg42" stl="font-size:127%"> (anti-,) “being-against”='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a direct/dialectical op="trms">position of forces
="lsts lst1">•in post="trms">modernity='lgc'>: an oblique/diagonal stance
="lsts lst1">•today='lgc'>: “alternatives within"='lgc'> = an imperial device that works well ‘in itself’ but not ‘for itself’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> trans-="trms">systemic reality

...to believe in an outsider subjectivity capable of a="trms">historical ="trms">imagination

(inflated dis="trms">positions of) triumphalism and alarmist nightmare


="trms">communist (="ppl">Marxist silhouette) and liberatory combatants of the 20th century, intellectuals persecuted and exiled in the course of anti-fascist struggles, freedom-fighters of the anti-colonial/anti-imperia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list wars ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nostalgic portrait of the contemporary militant
(="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">Kafka, ="ppl">Bataille, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, ="ppl">Artaud, ="ppl">Baudrillard, ="ppl">Serres, D='lgc'>+G, etc.) continental thinkers architects of masks='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the overhuman (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nietzsche)
="lsts lst1">•the supplicant
="lsts lst1">•the deviant (or barbarian ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault)
="lsts lst1">•the body-without-organs (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> D='lgc'>+G)
="lsts lst1">•the criminal
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">schizoid
="lsts lst1">•the headless ="trms">monstrosity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Bataille)
='lgc'>[(an exilic) postcolonial intelligentsia='lgc'>]


='lgc'>='lgc'>---='lgc'>{="ppl">Nietzsche and ="ppl">Artaud's familiar persuasive ="trms">authority, similar exuberant phraseology, and motifs in extremis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘cruelty,’ ="ppl">Artaud wanted to “reject form and in="trms">cite chaos.” antipsychological violent physical determination (a cruel yet necessary act upon the ="trms">spectator) to shatter the false reality (theatre/art as a place where the ="trms">spectator/actor is ='strcls'>*exposed='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= “protected"='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>=/= (="trms">aesthetic) distance (='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---> ='gtrw'>go to ‘distance ="trms">matters’); this is the paradigm in ="nms">iran's theatre and performance s="trms">cene, where the audience are to be engulfed and physically ="trms">affected by the show, ‘to be ="trms">trapped and powerless’ as a theatrical value is an ="ppl">Artaudian tradition.
="prgrph">-delirium='lgc'>: he wanted to deliberately become/stay mad ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Jassem, ="frds scrmbld">Sana's ="trms">methodology, the state of horrible energy='lgc'>] in order to heal/strengthened
="prgrph">-ecstatic loss of the self, hermetic elements in his works, and ='thdf'>the idea of the “complete actor,” whirlpool of feelings and lunatic expressions, counter-force from the act of ="trms">gesture, (and from his teacher Dullin) emphasis on ="trms">mime, gymnastics, improvisation, voice production, and various exercises intended to heighten sensory perception, all reminds me of my own theatre training with Reza in jome class.='lgc'>}


(demonizing) the vital concept of the outside(r)


untrustworthy ="trms">epistemic climate ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> patterns of smoothness/coarseness

militant negotiations of desire

(Dabashi's vertical-horizontal colonialism='lgc'>:)
the third ="trms">world subject='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- marginalized by enlightenment discourse
="lstsrd">2- ="trms">materialy exploited under global division of labor
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
alienated by='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- (horizontally) the ="trms">epistemic violence of colonialism
="lstsrd">2- (vertically) foreign colonial state ='lgc'>+ indigenous comprador elite (واسطه‌ها و دلالان سرمایه‌داران خارجی در کشورهای آسیا و آفریقا و آمریکای لاتین)
="lstsrd">2- (vertically) subsequent oppression and exploitation of anti-colonial regime
="lstsrd">3- (horizontally) global division of labor


navigation of identity



the reward of the victim جایزه قربانی (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to be beaten)
the reward of the survivor (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the self-conscious affirmation of having endured and gone beyond)

slave moralities

="large lg30" stl="font-size:115%"> the ='strcls'>*self-with-no-other='strcls'>* (too far gone)

="ppl">Hegel's master-slave dialectic (an insight into the skeleton of domination)='lgc'>: the basic way in which it is always the master (self) who requires recognition from an external entity (the othered slave) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> West="trms">world TV series base='lgc'>: master remains in a state of complete dependency for his own self-de="trms">finition on the slave, whereas the slave can gradually ascend toward an independent consciousness by virtue of his subjection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “its own being-for-self” (='lgc'>=/= multi="trms">species companionship)='lgc'>]
or
Spikvak's dissolution of the master-slave dialectic='lgc'>: pro="trms">position for individuals to ="trms">imagine themselves as both “receivers and givers” (distinction between ‘="trms">agency'='lgc'>[as rationally legislated and institutionally validated='lgc'>] and ‘subjectivity'='lgc'>[as unre="trms">presentability='lgc'>])
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this ="trms">intervention is successful in ="trms">greeting ="trms">modernity as a global ="trms">responsibility


='strcls'>***decolonization as a popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list mode of resistance

otherless individuation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the hermit
="lsts lst1">•the mercenary
="lsts lst1">•the maniac


the lowest common denominator turned into a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics

authentic malevolence


='strcls'>*objective cruelty='strcls'>* (of the ="trms">modern epoch and its dialectic s="trms">trap) can only be undone by (a non-matching iteration of) ='strcls'>*subjective cruelty='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*!!!


local='lgc'>: a forced site of radical alterity
(be careful with ='thdf'>the notion of pre="trms">modern local ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= anti-="trms">modern='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> retrieved moment of pre="trms">modernity. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">rhetoric of retrieve and retrieving / re="trms">membering / )


(detachment is a genre)

justice='lgc'>: a sacrosanct universal
to protect one concept above all others, (justice)
undeconstructible call to planetary justive='strcls'>**

o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal philosopher being called='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger support Nazism
="prgrph">-="ppl">Adorno turned his back on postwar German student movement
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Foucault endorsed Islomic front in the ="nms">Iranian revolution and Zionism at ="trms">different times

Spikvak's project='lgc'>:
to ="trms">articulate an escape from the border ="trms">position of otherness
to make indivuality the culprit متهم beneath the heels of packed generalities
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a negational subjectivity='lgc'>: preluding any form of existential action that is not politically oriented

(="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>:) otherness cannot be the best point of departure for resistance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one walks over the ="trms">abyss; one does not stay within it

belligerence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resentment

“an Eastern post="trms">modernity cannot therefore come about through the constitution of aplanetary subjectivity, which fearfully resembles the libera="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">rhetoric of universalism and in the wrong hands could even potentially serve as an underhanded discursive alibi for globalization, but must arise from the emergence of a supra-planetary subject within the third ="trms">world that refuses to recognize the very existence of that which calls itself ="trms">modernity”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> insurgent='lgc'>: is an elitist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> he pushes ="trms">difference to its extremity (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i do that!)


='strcls'>*the postcolonial arguments continue ti operate within a domain of critical theory that is always ="trms">articulated from the space of dorment self='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lstsrd">1- absolute annihilation of the other (<='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ my kind of ="trms">paranoia='qstn'>?)
="lstsrd">2- acceptance/="trms">internalization of the other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> being for-itself to behold the existence of the other but “not to make use of it”


“a freedom fighter traces his name in fire, and in the frozen throats
He dies”
(-Adonis)


="ppl">Mohaghegh's ="trms">methodological sug="trms">gestion for how masks are forged='lgc'>:
a man or woman sits kneeling in a bare nondescript room, at which point various concepts are then ="trms">intermittently released through the ventilation shafts and into the room's atmosphere, one after another, in slow vaporous bombardments that compel their own trans="trms">figurations for whoever breathes them. The ="trms">question of what happens for the immediate circulation/navigation of the self at the center of that room, the imprint or re="trms">verberation that a lone concept holds on this hanging form, the way it inscribes and inflects an inescapable existential spasm (like a serum), is of the highest order for our project.


='strcls'>*on ="ppl">Levinas
="ppl">Levinas's concept of otherness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> its theoretical production is ="trms">articulated from the ditch of the ="trms">historical self in ="trms">modernity (part of the Western philosophical tradition) ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] entrenched within an enlightenment discourse that cannot conceive of a self without mediation through a ="trms">formulated other ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*otherless subjectivity='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-="ppl">Levinas's principle goal is to repair the totalitarian self and not to explore the other="trms">worldly powers of the other ='lgc'>--proving='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***something that might fix the master='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> self is to be redeemed by otherness, made well by otherness, made sane by otherness ='lgc'>==="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the other is never entitled to just walk away and seek its own external dominion
the other possesses (the talent of) in="trms">finity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ther other's ="trms">responsibility is to dispense that in="trms">finity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ethics (not permitting the other leaving the ="trms">situation)
='strcls'>***why is the other never allowed the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to isolation, solitude, hermeticism, anti="trms">communalism, or mis="trms">anthropy='qstn'>?='strcls'>***


it has become frustrating for me to chase these ="trms">sublime phantoms (of the impossible, the unthinkable, the unknowable) drifting into incessant negative theologies... ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> self always sees itself as that which it is not ='lgc'>=/= (="trms">ontological ="trms">differential of) the earthly dehumanized Eastern subject, the one with a staunch existential verifiability, the one whose trachea or fingertips might be severed by five bullets around the corner, the one who plays with mortal stakes and states of emergency on daily basis, the one of famine, war, or occupation


rapid evacuation
agility
velocity
dexterity
third ="trms">world subjectivity must transmit itself through the ="trms">affective matrix of radical coldness

="ppl">Nietzsche and ="ppl">Sartre locating their own becoming-f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigid within the realm of otherless individuation, neither hesitate to look at Eastern corridors


insurgent becomes the ="trms">writer of (Manning's) impersonal event


touchstone of a rare immunity and a weapon

to evoke the ="trms">anxiety of the audience (-="frds scrmbld">Hoda='qstn'>?)


“kill him” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shortening of ="trms">language to mirror the contra="trms">diction of being ='lgc'>: most horrifying manifestation of formalized coldness. not just the license to kill, but the mechanistic invocation of the license


the ‘what has always been’
eternal war
همیشه اینجوری بوده ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pro="trms">position of the insurgent stoicism یاغی رواقى ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ a self-without-other='lgc'>: has experienced firsthand the detriment of othering, ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad='lgc'>]

(the rant, the taunt متلک, the insult فحش, the battle cry)

axis of eternity, middle eastern recourse to an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal circularity of things
a concept of time as pure circle (from medieval mysticism)
='lgc'>=/=
deconstruction's uncanny
psychoanalysis's trauma

='lgc'>[a ="trms">technique i use in my ="trms">lecture-performances, i work reverentially='lgc'> = reverie ='lgc'>+ reference='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> could be helpful for ="frds scrmbld">Eszter

='strcls'>*(colorfulness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> entanglement)='strcls'>*


the ligature (خط پيوند)
the outliner
un="trms">imagined destiny


(little freedom called) curiosity ='lgc'>=/= alertness (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- freedom of nerves)


(my problem with the) discourse of the trace (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">heritage, tradition studies)
“let's leave a trace” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you create your own kind of starting from yourself. you have no ="trms">ancestors and your roots are in your footsteps
(it is never my concern how to leave a trace. rather, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading the fubar that is left by others for me to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read)


(contemporary colonialism is tentacular)

contemporary colonialism with its ='strcls'>*clash of civilizations ="trms">rhetoric='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>='qstn'>? multiculturalism='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= ancient warlords and dynasties (='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Foucault showing the ="trms">difference between a medieval monarch’s beheading of a subject and the self-regulating disciplinary ="trms">apparatus of the ="trms">modern state) ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- they don't get it='lgc'>: Middle Eastern ="trms">response of Adonis, Darwish, ="ppl">Shamlu, Hedayat, and others. that is, to perceive ="trms">modernity as the mani="trms">fold extension of an eternal atrocity

the problem is those who have no patience for either concepts of “the ="trms">world” or “the ="trms">historical”

(eastern insurgent has been='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technically innovative
="lsts lst1">•="trms">epistemologically and ideologically distinctive
="lsts lst1">•existentially grounded in the waters of ‘what has always been’

="ppl">Mohaghegh making a link between Hassan Sabbah and Ahmad ="ppl">Shamlu='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Sabbah='lgc'>: leader of the Ismaili assassins and keeper of their Nizari fortress at Alamut='lgc'>: that he was said to have never left his inner quarters ='lgc'>[the library, courtyard, or bedchamber='lgc'>] for thirty-five years except twice to stand on the rooftop and look out beyond the mountain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the ="trms">worldview of the eterna="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list at work. He participated in ‘change,’ manipulated them toward fatally constructive ends even, but did not honor these developments as a journey of any substantial kind.
='lgc'>[flash forward a thousand years...='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Shamlu='lgc'>: same attitude='lgc'>: when he was asked to comment on his country's most recent uprisings offered the following ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='lgc'>: he said to think of the event as when a man who is sleeping on one side of his body for most of the night begins to ache and so rolls over to his other side and continues sleeping ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the movement is not sufficient as to prove impressive


(="ppl">Mohaghegh stresses in post="trms">modern Middle Eastern thought='lgc'>:) the prominence, variability, and magnification of the willing subject


="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's early out="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right support for the ="nms">Iranian Revolution of 1979
="prgrph">-="ppl">Baudrillard's theoretical flirtation with Islamic terrorism
="prgrph">-="ppl">Badiou and Zizek's dazzled looks toward the Arab Spring
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they mistake fireworks for explosions, and ill-="trms">="trms">equipped for such far-off archaeological digs


="trms">internal saboteur

="trms">heritage of deconstruction='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•parody
="lsts lst1">•parasitism
="lsts lst1">•mimicry

="ppl">Rumi points to those madmen who would wash their wounds in blood
... we are no longer ="trms">interested in the face of the other but only the other's defacement

the destruction that cleanses
the rabidness that is a precipice

(what i am learning from Shahrzad, i wish and ='mywrk'>my work has been always about the ways of learning='lgc'>: ='strcls'>****to buy my people time to think and breathe in other directions='strcls'>****)


an eastern step='lgc'>: to make ="trms">language peripatetic (salek سالک wandering from place to place on foot ='lgc'>[why not make it to the ="trms">Wonderland's ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (a non-regimented) textuality within a body that charges ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*uncivil incarnation='strcls'>*


='strcls'>*killer's freedom='strcls'>*

freedom
="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: (massive ="trms">difference between) a self-automating freedom that one attains via a borrowed sacred (handed-over, Frankenstein) and a hard-won-freedom attained through the rending-apart of a closed ="trms">world (through the ="trms">intractable سرپيچی)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Sartre='lgc'>: a self-conscious ="trms">authorship of the ="trms">world, condemned to a certain ="trms">responsibility before the event of one's own existence ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the problem occurs when someone made it their task, duty, or entertainment to compel the other to experience such freedom='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>: ‘freedom='lgc'> = ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive gift of the enemy’ ='lgc'>~ ‘respect-for-life='lgc'> = euphemism for death’ ='lgc'>[life (if it has worth) is meant to be disrespected, contested, and hounded='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘insurgent='lgc'> = warrior’(='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the substance remains the same)


Adonis='lgc'>: “don't come closer, the wound is nearer than you / don't come closer, the wound is more beautiful than you” (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )

ancillary فرعى کمکى, تابع, مستخدم بومى ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> کلفت
avarice حرص


="trms">affective overreaction <='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='lgc'>-> radical coldness


='strcls'>**="trms">literal='strcls'>**
western inability to understand the turbulant reaction abroad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> loss of the power of the ="trms">literal (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*democracy depends and works with the ="trms">literal='strcls'>*='lgc'>:)
="trms">literal has given way in the west to the ="trms">transference of image, ="trms">language, and thought to a purely re="trms">presentational or ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphoric domain (to talk about things, but not speak the event itself)
“one cannot grow ="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered over a film, sculpture, treatise, or drawing (or a dance), then one also cannot experience captivation with a film, sculpture, treatise, or drawing” (="ppl">Mohaghegh)
='lgc'>[yet the ="trms">literal is sneaky in that is always decontextualizes, it vibrates and swings so conspicuously from its point of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='lgc'>]

(old ="ppl">Marxist, anarchist, and post="trms">modern critique='lgc'>: ‘hyper-mediation ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technological diffusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ob="trms">literation of the sharpness of the senses in ="trms">modernity’) ='lgc'>=/= loss of the radioactive potential of the ="trms">world of appearances ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*rabbit chaser='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[a mask that i am invested in,='lgc'>] a middle eastern existential cost at stake ='lgc'>: the myriad and t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggers that alone make possible the descent into ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's ="trms">Wonderland='lgc'>--the ="trms">child chases the the white rabbit(='lgc'>~a partial flashing image) without real thought to its enigmatic reasons or destinations (“why and where is he going='qstn'>?”) ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice (like ="frds scrmbld">Janina) is only ="trms">consumed by his color, speed, movement, and nervous incantation افسون of lateness='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorology of “depth” in east)

="trms">code of urgency='lgc'>: “mean what you say and say what you mean”

a (monumental problem or) discord in the West between='lgc'>: saying (or showing in terms of images) and meaning () ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problem for the propensity of acting, running, hungering, wanting, and living itself ='lgc'>--this-is-why='lgc'>='lgc'>--> most groundbreaking ideational products in the West often fail to penetrate enough to ex="trms">cite or instigate (the avant-garde can not longer shock ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bankruptcy of the contemporary artists in europe='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>=/= in the East='lgc'>: 1400 year mythologies can still provoke hysteria and radical fever ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a scary ="trms">difference='strcls'>***!!
='strcls'>*the visual, the auditory, the spiritual, the philosophical are still fulminating currencies of animation in the context (in the East ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why most art theory and conceptions don't apply to everywhere at the same time. values of European contemporary art s="trms">cene don't fully dig ='thdf'>the notion of art in middle east)


="ppl">Mohaghegh asking='lgc'>: how can the sentence, picture, musical note, ="trms">poetic, stanza, ideological or theological concoction, genrate so much energy in certain atmospheres, unleashing irregular storms while reviving millennia-old ones='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's ="trms">affect theory and atmospheric attunement could be helpful='lgc'>]

a ="trms">fable of ="trms">difference (between W&E)='lgc'>:
a tension between an agoraphobic West (with its endless barricades, shelters, and ="trms">technocracies of dilution رقيق سازى raghigh-sazi) ='and'>& an overexhilarated East (with its endless throngs, zealotries, dogmatic caresses, and emergencies)


dys="trms">morphic labor

emetic estefraghi استفراغ اور


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]insurgent='lgc'> = revolutionary of the unreal (='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Nasser's kind of='lgc'>] the traditional freedom-fighter who picks up a weapon and takes to the mountains, singing anthems of liberation or reveling in the simple ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">narrative of some diorama شهر فرنگ of good and evil)
the insurgent does not fall victim to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•collective mythologies of nation, ="trms">language, and culture
="lsts lst1">•elusive ="trms">rhetoric of ethics and justice ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> provide power with a convincing smokescreen
the third ="trms">world insurgents are anarchists of a higher order of ='strcls'>*aneurysmal consciousness and ="trms">affect='strcls'>*
(gaze of the aneurysmal='lgc'>:) an uncompromising gaze that sees what power tries so hard to mask='lgc'>--that there is nothing there to see


='strcls'>*practice of irregular warfare ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> irregular subject of war='strcls'>*

(weeds of) ="trms">modernity='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•as ideology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power
="lsts lst1">•as institutional mechanism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">society
="lsts lst1">•as ="trms">phenomenology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perception
="lsts lst1">•as ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> being/death
="lsts lst1">•as cultural emergence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">spectacle
="lsts lst1">•as temporal orchestration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time
="lsts lst1">•as con="trms">figuration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body/space
="lsts lst1">•as political economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capital
="lsts lst1">•as ="trms">epistemological framework ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•as discursive ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">language/meaning
="lsts lst1">•as epoch ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">history

immediacy ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? alienation
brutal ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic
retrograde ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? futuristic
esoteric ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? banal
="trms">technological ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? carnal
genesis ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? apocalypse
="trms">system ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? chaos

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="nms">iran='lgc'>: ="trms">transition from a semi-colonial to postcolonial space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anticolonial islamic front

the self-other construct

='strcls'>***islamic revolutionary thought borrows heavily from ="ppl">Marxist theory (at the same time equating them with colonial mastery)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> forge a ="trms">specific revolutionary mind-set out of its own ="trms">historical realities/myths (='lgc'>=/= “ill-trafficked remedies of an outsider ideology”, a ='strcls'>*second-hand personality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is OK!='lgc'>])

cartographies of en="trms">trapment

Al Ahmad binary reasoning in his Westoxification
="prgrph">-the “eternal” struggle of east and west ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">rhetoric of transcendental struggle
="prgrph">-to perceive the “west” as merely an ='strcls'>*="trms">epistemic fabrication='strcls'>* and not a civilizational reality ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the enemy is authenticated
(-he makes a very bad move='lgc'>: relocate the structural site of resistance to somewhere outside the walls of the university)
='strcls'>*Al Ahmad's orchestration of degrees of cultural estrangement ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a tone of nationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list triumphalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***vanished pre="trms">modern subjectivity to be restored='strcls'>*** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i have to be careful with this)
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[that='lgc'>] the colonized intellectuals and political officials participate together in the eradication of third ="trms">world ="trms">heritage
="prgrph">-="trms">agents of foreign ministries='lgc'>: orienta="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists, ambassadors, advisors, who ="trms">write hideous scrolls when they have finished their assignments that say “yes, you have the head of a lion and the tail of an elephant” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this also close to my account of ="ppl">Olearius='qstn'>?!) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*devitalization='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*damaged subjectivity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ an ='strcls'>*alternative ="trms">historic consciousness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hostile tenant of the before-this ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= i work on an alternative queer='lgc'>]
(cyclopean view) Al Ahmad's dismissal of media='lgc'>: he is unable to see it as anything but a promoter of in="trms">finite pacification ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> media ='lgc'>=/= local
(a civilizational dichotomy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) portray media as abusive of islamic tradition
='strcls'>**="trms">rhetoric of end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered cultural subjectivity='strcls'>**
disappearance or extinction of one's own ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightful place within the ="trms">world (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~ will to hegemonic mastery)
='strcls'>*(Al Ahmad deduces Chomsky on a global-imperial scale ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) the operation of the media can not be divorced from objective ="trms">systemic violence ='lgc'>: media='lgc'> = ="trms">instrument of bourgeois valuation

Shariati='lgc'>: existentialism ='lgc'>+ leftism ='lgc'>+ islamism
='lgc'>[islamic anticolonialism ='lgc'>+ neomarxist critical theory (of Frankfurt School)='lgc'>]
(presumed) deterioration of global consciousness ='lgc'>+ industrialization ="trms">onto the ="trms">stage of ="trms">world ="trms">history
="prgrph">-homogenized mass ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emergence of automation ='lgc'>: an objectified and self-activating process wherein the subject becomes an ="trms">instrument
“impersonation of the machine” ='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Adorno='lgc'>--='lgc'>{totalitarian seizure of consciousness ='lgc'>+ devastating effects of ="trms">instrumental reason='lgc'>}
Shariati's ="trms">writing='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the third ="trms">world subject embraces the false consciousness
="lsts lst1">•self-inflicted cultural betrayal
="lsts lst1">•predatory-parasitic operation of the colonized ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
='strcls'>*defilement of the “what once was”
='strcls'>*the elevation of the indigenous as re="trms">presentative of an authentic return
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***="trms">past as antithesis to the ="trms">present='strcls'>*** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- transcendental signified of a precolonial subjectivity ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- how not to do that while visiting ="trms">heritage sites such as ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
Shariati's defense of the non-western ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manufacturing an exaggerated imagery of its ='strcls'>*now lost grandeur='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (its former) essential identity-status
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{what would ="ppl">Lacan's mirror ="trms">stage say about this='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘sudden realization of a complete (specular) image of self ='lgc'>=/= infant's primordial sense of her fragmented body’ before it is objectified in the dialectic of identification with the other
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]subjectivity='lgc'>: spatial ="trms">relations (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> self-other construct)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]the ="trms">imaginary='lgc'>: the space in which the ="trms">relation between the ego and its images is developed='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[eastern='lgc'>] undo the moment of assimilation into a repressive ='lgc'>[western='lgc'>] ‘="trms">symbolic order'='lgc'>[= the way the subject is organized ='and'>& how the psyche becomes accessible='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]The Real='lgc'>: what cannot be ="trms">symbolized – what loses it's “reality” once it is ="trms">symbolized (made conscious) through ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the real is traumatic (& ="trms">sublime='qstn'>?, ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? media,,) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>}

='strcls'>*cultural extinction='strcls'>*

urgency is (always='qstn'>?) ="trms">neurotic

(='qstn'>?who and when sends) ="trms">neurotic ="trms">demand for an unmediated cognitive intimation


(Khomeini's) omat امت diesenfranchised populace

عناصر گول خورده perceptual ="trms">perversion


="lsts lst1">•Khomeini ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Marcuse (one-dimensional ="trms">society, that promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood)
="lsts lst1">•Khomeini ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Chomsky (how superficial happiness can function as a detraction from the adverse effects of an alienated condition) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Marxist tradition of the “="trms">serious” (='lgc'>=/= unreflective state) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad, “let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals or the personalities and their problems ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">consumption becomes ritualized='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Shariati ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Jameson (theory of the “ever-new but always-the-same” within the theatrical operation of political economy)
="lsts lst1">•Al Ahmad ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Adorno (skeptical prophecy)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> principle of utopian potentiality

centers of corruption
pleasure-houses
makeup
games
alcoholic beverages
luxury goods

="ppl">Marxist tradition='lgc'>:
the underground ="trms">aesthetic is quickly transfigured into a mainstream ="trms">aesthetic ='lgc'>--always='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in the hands of an ="trms">authoritarian elite (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- in ="nms">apass with ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo we were talking about this)

جنبش mass ="trms">aesthetic fears becoming official سازمانی

...based on exposing the damage of the global-becoming-local

Al Ahmad traces this “transnational hypnosis” to economic o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )

(="ppl">Mohaghegh's judgment on ="nms">iranian anticolonial ideology='lgc'>:) its ineptitude Ungeeignetheit in realizing the myriad variances that render any medium riddled with paradoxes='lgc'>--derives itself from its concurrent inability to observe the possibility for ="trms">different subject-="trms">positions within the third ="trms">world

omni="trms">present deception of ="trms">modernity

(="trms">aesthetic radicalism ='lgc'>[ X ) political resistance='lgc'>]
“X” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> limited anticolonialism


(="ppl">Mohaghegh on)
="prgrph">-Mehrjui's The Cow, offers a moving allegorical journey into the psychic turbulence of a peasant confronted with the ob="trms">literation of his pre="trms">modern ="trms">world (and thus becomes his lost ="trms">animal)
="prgrph">-Naderi's Man with a Gun, depicts the ="trms">material avarice that has overtaken local con="trms">figurations in the wake of nascent capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list formations to such a drastic extent that it gives rise to a well-digger's being cheated of his life savings
="prgrph">-Kimiai's The Deers, ...
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strong consonance with the anticolonial ideologues (examined thus far)


...caught up in your prose


="large lg50" stl="font-size:110%"> on Sa'edi’ short ="trms">story “Dandil” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> grotesque cultural dis="trms">affection of the masses within Sa'edi's Dandil='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-depicting the ="trms">horrors of daily life within a semicolonized atmosphere of a red-light district of a northern ="nms">Iranian city
="prgrph">-there is an imagery of closure and suffocation
(Sa'edi revealing='lgc'>:) the ="trms">material despair of a colonial condition leading (in high speed) to the entropy of cultural-individual ethics
under the overwhelming weight of tangible misery
='lgc'>--cognize='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the immediate ="trms">material urgency of the third ="trms">world subject
(Dandilian gathering around to watch the taking of the picture ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) the third ="trms">world subject has assumed the ="trms">schizophrenic role of a voyeur himself, ="trms">spectating his own ="trms">literal-="trms">symbolic rape but not fully understanding it as such, while the real ="trms">agent of power remains camouflaged in semi-invisibility
(="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>:) the ideological content of Dandil stands ='thdf'>the notion that the ="trms">technological advancement of the western ="trms">world has turned the peripheral individual into its unknowing accomplice همدست, a vital participant in the abuse and mutilation of his own locality
(a Dandilian policemen remarking='lgc'>:) “They ='lgc'>[westerns='lgc'>] are not beggers like us. they all have private cars. their whores spend four or five hours a day just playing around in the beauty shops.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for Sa'edi that is the pathological fantasy endemic to the inner workings of a colonized mind. the third ="trms">world subject perceiving itself as the negational instantiation of occidental greatness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> swallowing down the civilizational hierarchies of its oppressor's self-projecting image

(preparing for the coming of rapist colonizer) the Dandilians rush to make the Madame's house clean and tidy='lgc'>: “='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]the curtains had been drawn aside. Pots of geranium had been placed on the wall and beside the steps='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>-> ="ppl">Baudrillard's theory of simulation ='lgc'>: the Dandilian ="trms">presenting to the colonizer a Disneyland, ='strcls'>*a play of illusions and phantasms='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>->='qstn'>? Dubai='lgc'>: self-affirmation via the domination of the constructed other='lgc'>]

(the american officer leaves the next morning with a mocking ="trms">laughter and he refuses to play and the Dandilians can't do anything)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the civilizational dichotomy remains intact in spite of the horrifying events that have transpired, with the trafficked deflowered ="trms">child serving as a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for the cultural-political mistreatment of the third ="trms">world under colonial rule



on Akhavan's “Adamak” (“Stick-Figure”) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical treachery committed within Akhavan's nostalgic Stick-Figure='lgc'>]
demonization of the television's arrival
="prgrph">-television as a “magical box” an artificial ="trms">phenomenon that “entrances” its audience
again ='thdf'>the idea of authenticity is largely emphasized here, as the television is perceived as a “foreign” entity and therefore an enemy to the millennial ="trms">history of the province
new medium ='lgc'>=/= indigenous modes of ="trms">communication/expression (of which the roving ="trms">storyteller is the ultimate instantiation)
(poignancy of the) ="trms">poet's ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic profile of the new ="trms">technologically oriented media
="prgrph">-Akhavan's re="trms">presentation ="trms">symbolizes the ="trms">storyteller himself, lamenting his own erasure from the moment of the now (or it is his prophecy for the imminent destruction of the new media in the coming islamic regime='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetic testament to the possibility for a third ="trms">world revolutionary ="trms">imagination to emerge from the ruins of the colonial era ='lgc'>[, ='strcls'>*from the ruins of the empire='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presenting the third ="trms">world as in a state of complete existential-cultural atrophy (tahlil تحليل رفتن) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda

='strcls'>**anticolonial ="trms">literature reaffirms the all-encompassing grasp of ="trms">modernity over peripheral subjectivity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> marginal leader (Mamitua Saber's Marginal Leadership in a Culture Contact ="trms">Situation)='lgc'>]

(="ppl">Mohaghegh > Huyssen on ="ppl">Baudrillard='lgc'>:)
="ppl">Baudrillard's notion of the ='strcls'>*silent mass='strcls'>* of the ="trms">spectators disables any analysis of ='strcls'>*heterogeneous subject ="trms">position in the act of reception='strcls'>* ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Laura
any economic or institutional analysis of ="trms">apparatuses of image production is rendered obsolete by ="ppl">Baudrillard's notion of an almost self-generating and monolithic machinary of image production ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Laura should be very aware of this)
="ppl">Baudrillard's ="trms">society of simulation does not allow for such distinctions ... simulation, after all, may simply be the latest version of the ideology of the end of ideology
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> part of the theoretical ="trms">apparatus of ='strcls'>*anticolonial ideology='strcls'>*
one immediate d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger of this approach is that it recklessly dismisses anything as="trms">sociated with the other side of the binary (of West/East, self/other, first-="trms">world/third-="trms">world, ="trms">modern/pre="trms">modern, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> overlook the subversive utility and democratic accessibility of certain ="trms">technological innovation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evident in Shariati's ultra-atavistic endorsement for an ="trms">aesthetic tradition='lgc'>: “intrusion of the machine into the humna-half may go so far as to paralyze man; it destroys creativity. ="trms">imagine a type-="trms">written page that can be imposed upon millions of people, while before the advent of the type="trms">writer everyone was free to use his creativity to the utmost in calligraphy” ='lgc'>--="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is not reflecting on the ="trms">historical reality that the exercise of calligraphy was always linked to a feuda="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list class structure, and often ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusively to the confines of the palace court, whereas the printed word open to a more widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read audience independent of ="trms">material status
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anticolonial ideology ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•carries out the pre="trms">supposed will of ="trms">modernity by homogenizing its very own constituency, diminishing any possibility for individual initiative or insubordination
="lsts lst1">•pre="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes the advent of outsider radicalism independent of some ="trms">religio-civilizational confrontation with ="trms">modernity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “there can be only one diagnosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> only one elixir” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> produce an antidote that is equally colossal in scope, shape, and execution

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***the local is no longer accepted by anticolonial ideology as a worthwhile site of contestation='strcls'>***

="large lg14" stl="font-size:124%"> ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Sa'edi ='lgc'>+ Akhavan ='lgc'>+ ...) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ='strcls'>*messianic defender='strcls'>* of the national ="trms">history ='lgc'>: the sole harbinger جلودار of a ='strcls'>*return to the real='strcls'>* ☠ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= cheerleader='lgc'>]

            _,-='lgc'>+-._
         .-’       ‘’-._
        /               \
       ‘        ='lgc'>~.       \
      /    ='lgc'>~`’    ) .=” , )
     |           I (   ='lgc'>~ (
     \        ‘"”   `='  ='lgc'>+
      `.,_   `”;:L0Ve’   ='strcls'>*’
          `='lgc'>~'='lgc'>~.’  )_Y_0_U!\


='strcls'>*disease becomes temporary cure='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practiced by Al Ahmad, Shariati, artists ='lgc'>[as irony and with the always problematic conception of the “masses” توده مردم mardom='lgc'>]='lgc'>:)
“='lgc'>[let's='lgc'>] re-employ the same reactionary elements in order to stir the masses, to restore awareness, and to fight superstition”
='lgc'>[still very common within critically-minded humanist ="trms">social ="trms">science schollar artists is the tendency to use critical theory (as diverse as it is) ='strcls'>*to ="trms">interrogate reality='strcls'>*
for us (='lgc'>[left in="trms">heritance='lgc'>] as postcolonia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, feminist, or biopolitician) the modus operandi of critical theory is to derealize, is to say='lgc'>: “this is an expression of paar.” “this is discursive formation.” “this is ="trms">material assembly of objects.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (an attempt to say) “this isn't real.” ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this has been essentially a really powerful force and set of political strategies of the left ='at'>@="nms">apass; this modus operandi is a killer blow for climate change from a leftist perspective (because the climate change is very real) (='lgc'>=/= speculative realism)='lgc'>]

Khomeini's cassette-tape revolution (radio medium infused with anticolonial propaganda) de="trms">monstrates the insufficiency of ="ppl">Benjamin's stance that “mechanical reproduction of art changes the reaction of the masses toward art...”
the ="trms">symbolic fury of Khomeini's voice is only magnified in its cult-value through its trans="trms">mission over the air waves, testifying more to MacLuhan's ="trms">interpretation of the persuasive impact of radio
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technological media in ="nms">iranian anticolonialism does not elicit the democratizing effect anticipated by ="ppl">Benjamin

="large lg30" stl="font-size:105%">
from='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical awe ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> banalized ="trms">horror

each year the islamic republic itself reenacts the arrival of the Khomeini in ="nms">tehran airport through a procession of myriad cardboard ="trms">interact and converse with these mock-images of the imam in a kind of makeshift, state-run passion play



post 1979 ="nms">iranian cinematic renaissance
="lsts lst1">•medium of film achieved in the decolonized space
="lsts lst1">•hooked into the contemporaneity of the localized apocalyptic (in="trms">finitesimal becomings)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">present as close an ="trms">interpretation of the unthinkable strangeness of reality as possible
="lsts lst1">•on an ongoing desertion of the real

="ppl">Adorno='lgc'>: “works that make ="trms">socially univocal discursive judgments thereby negate art as well as themselves” ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Laura's judgment on the fascist body (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> can ="trms">consumption be resistance='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Laura='lgc'>: becoming fascist body ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>? )

the medium of film-making in ="trms">present-day ="nms">iran attempts solely to bring the crypto-vantage of the everyday into obscurity-ridden view (to leave less clear ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my pre-2012 videos ‘Vagabond,’ ‘Constant Prince,’ and ‘city of domes’), allowing for a critical distance on the part of the ="trms">spectator to examine one's own being-in-the-="trms">world in raw, b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurred form (the truth is haze itself ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Hoda)

exoticization of the local ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reduce it to a nativist enterprise

(="ppl">Mohaghegh > Tomlinson='lgc'>:) the everyday culture has in="trms">gested foreign elements from exogenous sources, with the various elementss gradually brcoming “="trms">naturalized” within it ='lgc'>=/= image of pure, ="trms">internally homogenous, authentic, indigenous culture


Sharjah art foundation of the Emirate's ='strcls'>*postcultural ="trms">imagination='strcls'>*


="trms">literary front
Hedayat, Yushij, ="ppl">Shamlu, Forough

Hedayat's The Blind Owl variants of a “will to chaos”

middle eastern avant-garde's vision of the ="trms">writing-act ='lgc'>--sketching='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a fugitive post="trms">modern map of escape from its grasp

='lgc'>[in='lgc'>] moments of great ="trms">social disorder
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> secret ="trms">societies, iconoclastic ="trms">trajectories, a type of consciousness that perceives the catastrophic-apocalyptic hint at each turn

(how an eastern or third ="trms">world vanguard characterize itself in the heart of major ="trms">historical tremors='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to their ='strcls'>*tone of aggression='strcls'>*:='lgc'>]
Nima='lgc'>: “with my ="trms">poetry i have driven people into a great conflict; good or bad, they have fallen in confusion; i myself am sitting in a corner, watching them='lgc'>: i have flooded the nest of ants”
Forough='lgc'>: “all those who are involved in creative work have as their motive ... a ="trms">sort of need to confront and struggle with annihilation”
="ppl">Shamlu='lgc'>: “the ="trms">children of the depths,” “the ="trms">children of the storm,” “the horsemen,” “the bold ones,”

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de="trms">finition of the ="trms">poetic ="trms">world as a protosectarian space
رابطه مریدی مرادی
دار و دسته
قبيله

(="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali, to a subculture of) persecuted and end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered

='lgc'>='lgc'>==> peripheral narative (marginal leadership) become a force of int="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigue and seduction (among ="nms">iranian youth)

="prgrph">-how did ="trms">poetry ="trms">respond to ="trms">historical events of atrocity and ="trms">transition
="prgrph">-did the ="trms">poets understand themselves as resembling a mystical, criminal, mercenary, or revolutionary edifice='qstn'>?

="large lg14" stl="font-size:124%"> a="trms">morphous, obscure, versatile (thinkers and ="trms">writers launching an intellectual-existential offensive against the disenchantment of the ="trms">modern age)
along ="trms"nttrm="search">archetypes='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•power
="lsts lst1">•hostility
="lsts lst1">•banishment
="lsts lst1">•solitude
="lsts lst1">•desire
="lsts lst1">•sacrifice


contradictory experiences of the ="trms">modern cityscape of the middle east ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> at once a site of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•autocracy and insurgency
="lsts lst1">•concealment and detection
="lsts lst1">•connectivity and alienation
="lsts lst1">•="trms">integration and crumbling
="lsts lst1">•="trms">gesticulation and idleness


="frds scrmbld">Setareh's topics='lgc'>:
experiences of upheaval, hysteria, sabotage, collective suffering
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Sana's topics='lgc'>:
existential-spatial understanding of ="trms">questions of cruelty, betrayal, torment, annihilation


(="trms">poets finding themselves ="trms">consumed with) the distinctive emergence of “the martyr”='lgc'>:

='lgc'>[-='lgc'>]Akhavan ="trms">writing/witnessing at the time of reterritorialization of ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban space during Mossadegh era='lgc'>: the subdivision of streets, districts, and neighborhoods into dueling sectors of power and resistance.
Akhavan's lament in “W="trms">inter”
disenchantment, bitterness, ="trms">semiotic disorientation
touch='lgc'> = final sensory prism
Akhavan's task='lgc'>: to protect the domain of radical individuality (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's subjectivity)
(="ppl">Mohaghegh asking='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*is the artist charge a mere diguise of influence and supermacy='qstn'>?='strcls'>* or ='strcls'>**is the firmness of its ="trms">articulation sanctioned by some dominant elsewhere or other="trms">worldliness='qstn'>?='strcls'>**
='strcls'>*does the ="trms">poetic consciousness believe itself of an elite unknown rank (against the monolith)='qstn'>?
="trms">sociopolitical discourses either bore or aggravate Akhavan ='lgc'>--only='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (transient ="trms">historical ="trms">specificity of) ='strcls'>*turmoil ="trms">demands ="trms">poet's greater urgency='strcls'>*
(the ="trms">poet has earned the station to say) “no more of this” (“it's enough”) ='lgc'>~ an ='strcls'>*order='strcls'>*  ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= wisdom, sage, diplomatic ="trms">response of an ="trms">interlocutor, truth-telling, equal dialogue, negotiation='lgc'>]
="trms">poet's expertise and sensitivity='lgc'>: the ="trms">storyteller's intimate ="trms">relation to impermanence and destruction (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali, ="frds scrmbld">Sana, ="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld">Setareh)

='lgc'>[-='lgc'>]Baraheni's depiction of the spatial domination of the city by Pahlavi regime from 1952 to 1979 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> SAVAK ="trms">responded to and fueled a striking development in the political consciousness of the ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban centers ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> labyrinthine evolution of the rebel form
hie ="trms">poem “An Epic in Reverse” (Akhavanian reversal) neighborhoods of stigma, filth, and backwardness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hybrid of ="trms">animality and criminality
(="ppl">Mohaghegh asking='lgc'>:) what is the ="trms">author's recourse once stranded behind those iron bars, and now acquainted with the gleaming tools and ="trms">instruments of the guards and royal executioners='qstn'>? for Baraheni, the answer seems to rest within a ="trms">literary turn toward the arsenal of vulgarity, where ="trms">language is forced to howl and curse again, to match the shock treatment and flagellation (شلاق shalagh) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lstsrd">1. to un="trms">veil the degradation and depravity of power, to show it as unbeautiful and disgusting in its most bude form
="lstsrd">2. to wage some reciprocal hate against power, to maximize the rawness of what is happening

='lgc'>[-='lgc'>]="ppl">Shamlu's (dead-end) sightings of public execution and secret police night-ra[...]