[...]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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> (='qstn'>?who and when sends) ="trms">neurotic ="trms">demand for an unmediated cognitive intimation


(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

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 )

(="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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:127%"> 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 (examined thus far)


...caught up in your prose


on Sa'edi’ short ="trms">story “Dandil” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> grotesque cultural dis="trms">affection of the masses within Sa'edi's Dandil='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-depicting the ="trms">horrors of daily life within a semicolonized atmosphere of a red-light district of a northern ="nms">Iranian city
="prgrph">-there is an imagery of closure and suffocation
(Sa'edi revealing='lgc'>:) the ="trms">material despair of a colonial condition leading (in high speed) to the entropy of cultural-individual ethics
under the overwhelming weight of tangible misery
='lgc'>--cognize='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the immediate ="trms">material urgency of the third ="trms">world subject
(Dandilian gathering around to watch the taking of the picture ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) the third ="trms">world subject has assumed the ="trms">schizophrenic role of a voyeur himself, ="trms">spectating his own ="trms">literal-="trms">symbolic rape but not fully understanding it as such, while the real ="trms">agent of power remains camouflaged in semi-invisibility
(="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>:) the ideological content of Dandil stands ='thdf'>the notion that the ="trms">technological advancement of the western ="trms">world has turned the peripheral individual into its unknowing accomplice همدست, a vital participant in the abuse and mutilation of his own locality
(a Dandilian policemen remarking='lgc'>:) “They ='lgc'>[westerns='lgc'>] are not beggers like us. they all have private cars. their whores spend four or five hours a day just playing around in the beauty shops.” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for Sa'edi that is the pathological fantasy endemic to the inner workings of a colonized mind. the third ="trms">world subject perceiving itself as the negational instantiation of occidental greatness ='lgc'>==> swallowing down the civilizational hierarchies of its oppressor's self-projecting image

(preparing for the coming of rapist colonizer) the Dandilians rush to make the Madame's house clean and tidy='lgc'>: “='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]the curtains had been drawn aside. Pots of geranium had been placed on the wall and beside the steps='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]” ='lgc'>~-> ="ppl">Baudrillard's theory of simulation ='lgc'>: the Dandilian ="trms">presenting to the colonizer a Disneyland, ='strcls'>*a play of illusions and phantasms='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~->='qstn'>? Dubai='lgc'>: self-affirmation via the domination of the constructed other='lgc'>]

(the american officer leaves the next morning with a mocking ="trms">laughter and he refuses to play and the Dandilians can't do anything)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the civilizational dichotomy remains intact in spite of the horrifying events that have transpired, with the trafficked deflowered ="trms">child serving as a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for the cultural-political mistreatment of the third ="trms">world under colonial rule



on Akhavan's “Adamak” (“Stick-Figure”) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical treachery committed within Akhavan's nostalgic Stick-Figure='lgc'>]
demonization of the television's arrival
="prgrph">-television as a “magical box” an artificial ="trms">phenomenon that “entrances” its audience
again ='thdf'>the idea of authenticity is largely emphasized here, as the television is perceived as a “foreign” entity and therefore an enemy to the millennial ="trms">history of the province
new medium ='lgc'>=/= indigenous modes of ="trms">communication/expression (of which the roving ="trms">storyteller is the ultimate instantiation)
(poignancy of the) ="trms">poet's ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic profile of the new ="trms">technologically oriented media
="prgrph">-Akhavan's re="trms">presentation ="trms">symbolizes the ="trms">storyteller himself, lamenting his own erasure from the moment of the now (or it is his prophecy for the imminent destruction of the new media in the coming islamic regime='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetic testament to the possibility for a third ="trms">world revolutionary ="trms">imagination to emerge from the ruins of the colonial era ='lgc'>[, ='strcls'>*from the ruins of the empire='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presenting the third ="trms">world as in a state of complete existential-cultural atrophy (tahlil تحليل رفتن) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda

='strcls'>**anticolonial ="trms">literature reaffirms the all-encompassing grasp of ="trms">modernity over peripheral subjectivity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> marginal leader (Mamitua Saber's Marginal Leadership in a Culture Contact ="trms">Situation)='lgc'>]

(="ppl">Mohaghegh > Huyssen on ="ppl">Baudrillard='lgc'>:)
="ppl">Baudrillard's notion of the ='strcls'>*silent mass='strcls'>* of the ="trms">spectators disables any analysis of ='strcls'>*heterogeneous subject ="trms">position in the act of reception='strcls'>* ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Laura
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