[...]g 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)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

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='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)


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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ='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

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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”


="large lg5" stl="font-size:142%"> ='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 livi[...]