[...]ric 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)


="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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'>==> 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'>~~ 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 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 becomes accessible='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]The Real='lgc'>: what cannot be ="trms">symbolized – what loses it's “reality” once it is ="trms">symbolized (made conscious) through ="trms">language ='lgc'>==> the real is traumatic (& ="trms">sublime='qstn'>?, ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? media,,) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>}

='strcls'>*cultural extinction='strcls'>*

urgency is (always='qstn'>?) ="trms">neurotic

(='qstn'>?who and when sends) ="trms">neurotic ="trms">demand for an unmediated cognitive intimation


="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> (Khomeini's) omat امت diesenfranchised populace

عناصر گول خورده perceptual ="trms">perversion


="lsts lst1">•Khomeini ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Marcuse (one-dimensional ="trms">society, that promote a false consciousness which is immune against its falsehood)
="lsts lst1">•Khomeini ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Chomsky (how superficial happiness can function as a detraction from the adverse effects of an alienated condition) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Marxist tradition of the “="trms">serious” (='lgc'>=/= unreflective state) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad, “let everybody be crazed about professional sports or sex scandals or the personalities and their problems ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">consumption becomes ritualized='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Shariati ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Jameson (theory of the “ever-new but always-the-same” within the theatrical operation of political economy)
="lsts lst1">•Al Ahmad ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Adorno (skeptical prophecy)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>==> principle of utopian potentiality

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> centers of corruption
pleasure-houses
makeup
games
alcoholic beverages
luxury goods

="ppl">Marxist tradition='lgc'>:
the underground ="trms">aesthetic is quickly transfigured into a mainstream ="trms">aesthetic ='lgc'>--always='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in the hands of an ="trms">authoritarian elite (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- in ="nms">apass with ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo we were talking about this)

جنبش mass ="trms">aesthetic fears becoming official سازمانی

...based on exposing the damage of the global-becoming-local

Al Ahmad traces this “transnational hypnosis” to economic o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali )

="large lg5" stl="font-size:155%"> (="ppl">Mohaghegh's judgment on ="nms">iranian anticolonial ideology='lgc'>:) its ineptitude Ungeeignetheit in realizing the myriad variances that render any medium riddled with paradoxes='lgc'>--derives itself from its concurrent inability to observe the possibility for ="trms">different subject-="trms">positions within the third ="trms">world

omni="trms">present deception of ="trms">modernity

(="trms">aesthetic radicalism ='lgc'>[ X ) political resistance='lgc'>]
“X” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> limited anticolonialism


(="ppl">Mohaghegh on)
="prgrph">-Mehrjui's The Cow, offers a moving allegorical journey into the psychic turbulence of a peasant confronted with the ob="trms">literation of his pre="trms">modern ="trms">world (and thus becomes his lost ="trms">animal)
="prgrph">-Naderi's Man with a Gun, depicts the ="trms">material avarice that has overtaken local con="trms">figurations in the wake of nascent capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list formations to such a drastic extent that it gives rise to a well-digger's being cheated of his life savings
="prgrph">-Kimiai's The Deers, ...
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strong consonance with the anticolonial ideologues [...]