[...]ypes 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'>~/= ="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
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="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


="large lg1" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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'>~~(="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'>]

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cyclopean protocols of extremity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> narrowest vision (immensified)
the cyclopean organ (of doing/thinking) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘oracle='lgc'> = explosive device’
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='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
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....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

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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'>*.

="large lg5" stl="font-size:163%"> ...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 m[...]