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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 it is obsolete to speak of “legitimate/authentic knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge"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

='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

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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>--> intoxicating sense of power

="large lg5" stl="font-size:153%"> (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
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