[...]ective ="trms">density(/destiny)
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='lgc'>[this project works with:='lgc'>]
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='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’
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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
(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
='strcls'>*build the raft='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a ="trms">poetic strategy (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i do this too, to go beyond the postcolonial aftermath)
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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'>]
(="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'>{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
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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
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(="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.”
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“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
(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
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'>***
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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
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='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”
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(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 bedch[...]