[...]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.


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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:129%"> (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'>*


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'>~=>='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”

(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 bedchamber='lgc'>] for thirty-five years except twice to stand on the rooftop and look out beyond the mountain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the ="trms">worldview of the eterna="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list at work. He participated in ‘change,’ manipulated them toward fatally constructive ends even, but did not honor these developments as a journey of any substantial kind.
='lgc'>[flash forward a thousand years...='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Shamlu='lgc'>: same attitude='lgc'>: when he was asked to comment on his country's most recent uprisings offered the following ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor='lgc'>: he said to think of the event as when a man who is sleeping on one side of his body for most of the night begins to ache and so rolls over to his other side and continues sleeping ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the movement is not sufficient as to prove impressive


(="ppl">Mohaghegh stresses in post="trms">modern Middle Eastern thought='lgc'>:) the prominence, variability, and magnification of the willing subject


="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's early out="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right support for the ="nms">Iranian Revolution of 1979
="prgrph">-="ppl">Baudrillard's theoretical flirtation with Islamic terrorism
="prgrph">-="ppl">Badiou and Zizek's dazzled looks toward the Arab Spring
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they mistake fireworks for explosions, and ill-="trms">="trms">equipped for such far-off archaeological digs

="large lg14" stl="font-size:113%">
="trms">internal saboteur

="trms">heritage of deconstruction='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•parody
="lsts lst1">•parasitism
="lsts lst1">•mimicry

="ppl">Rumi points to those madmen who would wash their wounds in blood
... we are no longer ="trms">interested in the face of the other but only the other's defacement

the destruction that cleanses
the rabidness that is a precipice

(what i am learning from Shahrzad, i wish and ='mywrk'>my work has been always about the ways of learning='lgc'>: ='strcls'>****to buy my people time to think and breathe in other directions='strcls'>****)


an eastern step='lgc'>: to make ="trms">language peripatetic (salek سالک wandering from place to place on foot ='lgc'>[why not make it to the ="trms">Wonderland's ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (a non-regimented) textuality within a body that charges ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*uncivil incarnation='strcls'>*


='strcls'>*killer's freedom='strcls'>*

freedom
="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: (massive ="trms">difference between) a self-automating freedom that one attains via a borrowed sacred (handed-over, Frankenstein) and a hard-won-freedom attained through the rending-apart of a closed ="trms">world (through the ="trms">intractable سرپيچی)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Sartre='lgc'>: a self-conscious ="trms">authorship of the ="trms">world, condemned to a certain ="trms">responsibility before the event of one's own existence ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the problem occurs when someone made it their task, duty, or entertainment to compel the other to experience such freedom='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>: ‘freedom='lgc'> = ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive gift of the enemy’ ='lgc'>~ ‘respect-for-life='lgc'> = euphemism for death’ ='lgc'>[life (if it has worth) is meant to be disrespected, contested, and hounded='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘insurgent='lgc'> = warrior’(='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the substance remains the same)


Adonis='lgc'>: “don't come closer, the wound is nearer than you / don't come closer, the wound is more beautiful than you” (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )

ancillary فرعى کمکى, تابع, مستخدم بومى ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> کلفت
avarice حرص


="trms">affective overreaction ='lgc'><='lgc'>~=='lgc'>-> radical coldness


='strcls'>**="trms">literal='strcls'>**
western inability to understand the turbulant reaction abroad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> loss of the power of the ="trms">literal (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*democracy depends and works with the ="trms">literal='strcls'>*='lgc'>:)
="trms">literal has given way in the west to the ="trms">transference of image, ="trms">language, and thought to a purely re="trms">presentational or ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphoric domain (to talk about things, but not speak the event itself)
“one cannot grow ="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered over a film, sculpture, treatise, or drawing (or a dance), then one also cannot experience captivation with a film, sculpture, treatise, or drawing” (="ppl">Mohaghegh)
='lgc'>[yet the ="trms">literal is sneaky in that is always decontextualizes, it vibrates and swings so conspicuously from its point of o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='lgc'>]

(old ="ppl">Marxist, anarchist, and post="trms">modern critique='lgc'>: ‘hyper-mediation ='lgc'>+ ="trms">technological diffusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ob="trms">literation of the sharpness of the senses in ="trms">modernity’) ='lgc'>=/= loss of the radioactive potential of the ="trms">world of appearances ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*rabbit chaser='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[a mask that i am invested in,='lgc'>] a middle eastern existential cost at stake ='lgc'>: the myriad and t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggers that alone make possible the descent into ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice's ="trms">Wonderland='lgc'>--the ="trms">child chases the the white rabbit(='lgc'>~a partial flashing image) without real thought to its enigmatic reasons or destinations (“why and where is he going='qstn'>?”) ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice (like ="frds scrmbld">Janina) is only ="trms">consumed by his color, speed, movement, and nervous incantation افسون of lateness='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorology of “depth” in east)

="trms">code of urgency='lgc'>: “mean what you say and say what you mean”

a (monumental problem or) discord in the West between='lgc'>: saying (or showing in terms of images) and meaning () ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problem for the propensity of acting, running, hungering, wanting, and living itself ='lgc'>--this-is-why='lgc'>='lgc'>--> most groundbreaking ideational products in the West often fail to penetrate enough to ex="trms">cite or instigate (the avant-garde can not longer shock ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bankruptcy of the contemporary artists in europe='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>=/= in the East='lgc'>: 1400 year mythologies can still provoke hysteria and radical fever ='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a scary ="trms">difference='strcls'>***!!
='strcls'>*the visual, the auditory, the spiritual, the philosophical are still fulminating currencies of animation in the context (in the East ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why most art theory and conceptions don't apply to everywhere at the same time. values of European contemporary art s="trms">cene don't fully dig ='thdf'>the notion of art in middle east)


="ppl">Mohaghegh asking='lgc'>: how can the sentence, picture, musical note, ="trms">poetic, stanza, ideological or theological concoction, genrate so much energy in certain atmospheres, unleashing irregular storms while reviving millennia-old ones='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's ="trms">affect theory and atmospheric attunement could be helpful='lgc'>]

a ="trms">fable of ="trms">difference (between W&E)='lgc'>:
a tension between an agoraphobic West (with its endless barricades, shelters, and ="trms">technocracies of dilution رقيق سازى raghigh-sazi) ='and'>& an overexhilarated East (with its endless throngs, zealotries, dogmatic caresses, and emergencies)


dys="trms">morphic labor

emetic estefraghi استفراغ اور


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]insurgent='lgc'> = revolutionary of the unreal (='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Nasser's kind of='lgc'>] the traditional freedom-fighter who picks up a weapon and takes to the mountains, singing anthems of liberation or reveling in the simple ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">narrative of some diorama شهر فرنگ of good and evil)
the insurgent does not fall victim to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•collective mythologies of nation, ="trms">language, and culture
="lsts lst1">•elusive ="trms">rhetoric of ethics and justice ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> provide power with a convincing smokescreen
the third ="trms">world insurgents are anarchists of a higher order of ='strcls'>*aneurysmal consciousness and ="trms">affect='strcls'>*
(gaze of the aneurysmal='lgc'>:) an uncompromising gaze that sees what power tries so hard to mask='lgc'>--that there is nothing there to see


='strcls'>*practice of irregular warfare ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> irregular subject of war='strcls'>*

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (weeds of) ="trms">modernity='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•as ideology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power
="lsts lst1">•as institutional mechanism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">society
="lsts lst1">•as ="trms">phenomenology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perception
="lsts lst1">•as ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> being/death
="lsts lst1">•as cultural emergence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">spectacle
="lsts lst1">•as temporal orchestration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time
="lsts lst1">•as con="trms">figuration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body/space
="lsts lst1">•as political economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capital
="lsts lst1">•as ="trms">epistemological framework ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•as discursive ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">language/meaning
="lsts lst1">•as epoch ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">history

immediacy ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? alienation
brutal ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic
retrograde ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? futuristic
esoteric ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? banal
="trms">technological ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? carnal
genesis ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? apocalypse
="trms">system ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? chaos

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="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ="nms">iran='lgc'>: ="trms">transition from a semi-colonial to postcolonial space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anticolonial islamic front

the self-other construct

='strcls'>***islamic revolutionary thought borrows heavily from ="ppl">Marxist theory (at the same time equating them with colonial mastery)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> forge a ="trms">specific revolutionary mind-set out of its own ="trms">historical realities/myths (='lgc'>=/= “ill-trafficked remedies of an outsider ideology”, a ='strcls'>*second-hand personality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is OK!='lgc'>])

cartographies of en="trms">trapment

Al Ahmad binary reasoning in his Westoxification
="prgrph">-the “eternal” struggle of east and west ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">rhetoric of transcendental struggle
="prgrph">-to perceive the “west” as merely an ='strcls'>*="trms">epistemic fabrication='strcls'>* and not a civilizational reality ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the enemy is authenticated
(-he makes a very bad move='lgc'>: relocate the structural site of resistance to somewhere outside the walls of the university)
='strcls'>*Al Ahmad's orchestration of degrees of cultural estrangement ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a tone of nationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list triumphalism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***vanished pre="trms">modern subjectivity to be restored='strcls'>*** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i have to be careful with this)
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[that='lgc'>] the colonized intellectuals and political officials participate together in the eradication of third ="trms">world ="trms">heritage
="prgrph">-="trms">agents of foreign ministries='lgc'>: orienta="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">lists, ambassadors, advisors, who ="trms">write hideous scrolls when they have finished their assignments that say “yes, you have the head of a lion and the tail of an elephant” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this also close to my account of ="ppl">Olearius='qstn'>?!) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*devitalization='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*damaged subjectivity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ an ='strcls'>*alternative ="trms">historic consciousness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hostile tenant of the before-this ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= i work on an alternative queer='lgc'>]
(cyclopean view) Al Ahmad's dismissal of media='lgc'>: he is unable to see it as anything but a promoter of in="trms">finite pacification ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> media ='lgc'>=/= local
(a civilizational dichotomy ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) portray media as abusive of islamic tradition
='strcls'>**="trms">rhetoric of end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered cultural subjectivity='strcls'>**
disappearance or extinction of one's own ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightful place within the ="trms">world (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~ will to hegemonic mastery)
='strcls'>*(Al Ahmad deduces Chomsky on a global-imperial scale ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) the operation of the media can not be divorced from objective ="trms">systemic violence ='lgc'>: media='lgc'> = ="trms">instrument of bourgeois valuation

="large lg5" stl="font-size:143%"> Shariati='lgc'>: existentialism ='lgc'>+ leftism ='lgc'>+ islamism
='lgc'>[islamic anticolonialism ='lgc'>+ neomarxist critical theory (of Frankfurt School)='lgc'>]
(presumed) deterioration of global consciousness ='lgc'>+ industrialization ="trms">onto the ="trms">stage of ="trms">world ="trms">history
="prgrph">-homogenized mass ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emergence of automation ='lgc'>: an objectified and self-activating process wherein the subject becomes an ="trms">instrument
“impersonation of the machine” ='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">Adorno='lgc'>--='lgc'>{totalitarian seizure of consciousness ='lgc'>+ devastating effects of ="trms">instrumental reason='lgc'>}
Shariati's ="trms">writing='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the third ="trms">world subject embraces the false consciousness
="lsts lst1">•self-inflicted cultural betrayal
="lsts lst1">•predatory-parasitic operation of the colonized ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
='strcls'>*defilement of the “what once was”
='strcls'>*the elevation of the indigenous as re="trms">presentative of an authentic return
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***="trms">past as antithesis to the ="trms">present='strcls'>*** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- transcendental signified of a precolonial subjectivity ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- how not to do that while visiting ="trms">heritage sites such as ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
Shariati's defense of the non-western ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manufacturing an exaggerated imagery of its ='strcls'>*now lost grandeur='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (its former) essential identity-status
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{what would ="ppl">Lacan's mirror ="trms">stage say about this='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘sudden realization of a complete (specular) image of self ='lgc'>=/= infant's primordial sense of her fragmented body’ before it is objectified in the dialectic of identification with the other
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]subjectivity='lgc'>: spatial ="trms">relations (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> self-other construct)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]the ="trms">imaginary='lgc'>: the space in which the ="trms">relation between the ego and its images is developed='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[eastern='lgc'>] undo the moment of assimilation into a repressive ='lgc'>[western='lgc'>] ‘="trms">symbolic order'='lgc'>[= the way the subject is organized ='and'>& how the psyche b[...]