[...]he 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


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

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='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'>***


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

='strcls'>*(colorfulness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> entanglement)='strcls'>*

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the ligature (خط پيوند)
the outliner
un="trms">imagined destiny


(little freedom called) curiosity ='lgc'>=/= alertness (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- freedom of nerves)

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(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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:122%"> the problem is those who have no patience for either concepts of “the ="trms">world” or “the ="trms">historical”

(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[...]