[...]eone 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
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="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'>==> 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
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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'>==> 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'>==> irregular subject of war='strcls'>*
(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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="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'>==> 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'>==> ='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'>==> ='strcls'>*devitalization='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*damaged subjectivity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ an ='strcls'>*alternative ="trms">historic consciousness='strcls'>* ='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'>==>) 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
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'>==> ='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'>==> (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 s[...]