[...]="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)

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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)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:149%"> ="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'>~= 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!)


="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ='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'>=~ 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)


="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> ="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

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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 locatin[...]