[...] (of geography, civilization, culture)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> many fabricatoins of art happens in ="trms">citadels in Europe
="frds scrmbld">Pierre has always been busy with the ="trms">question of synthesis
="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%">
entitlement='lgc'>: way of intrusion in homogenous axes of existence
xxxxx 164
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
xxxxx 213
most of ="ppl">Mohaghegh's attacks are ="trms">rhetorical
the (sacred='qstn'>?) boundaries of mysticism
(the boundaries of cities became mystic/sacred)
mystical channels
="trms">presenting ="trms">worlds immersed in a kind of constructed a ="trms">priori (arising from an a="trms">morphous collection of sound and image. ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda)
="ppl">Mohaghegh working to isolate the rare ="trms">technical and conceptual arsenal behind an ethnographically immagined space
initiatives toward the horizons of a mystical inquest
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
sect's threat
breakaway modality of a sectarian consciousness
hermeneutic arsenals
organic theoretical ="trms">apparatuses
(its own) effective radars and tactics of attunement, detection, and ="trms">narration
Adonis, Samih al-Qasim, Ghada Samman, Nazim Hikmat, Ahmad ="ppl">Shamlu, Farrokhzad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all tempted to (antihumanist) convert the text into a closed circle
forbidden power
moral ambiguity
collective destiny
will to extremity
shadow nears and targets
itself presumed source of all tension and unhappiness
while also sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading its influence over others
many are susceptible to its whisperings
thus he develops a perpetual alertness to its approach
schemes are everywhere
it seeks
to slip into (the sectarian's own) camp under disguise
penetrating the inner circles in dissimulated form and thus unspotted
no mediation
revenge in closeness
and even more than this,
shadow will attempt to escape accusation if possible
the ="trms">spectacle
enemy's overhanging ="trms">presence
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continual motion
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time is restless
tower, bastion, ="trms">citadel, stronghold
operational apparitional center
phantasmatic points of references
a spiritual geoscape of concentration
it must appear formidable, immutable, and impenetrable
as a tangible headquarters encased amid far-flung mountains.
it drifts mainly as a figment in the nomadic mind
of the one who lives most of the nights as a marauder in enemy camps
roaming through its courtyards
speaking with the tower's white and black keepers
before receiving the next command
with it the facticity of another harsh assignment.
from tower's security standpoint
the ="trms">world looks ripe for the taking.
the fortress holds, and with it, the dream of the fortress.
the earth
closing on us
a deteriorating prism
tightness, en="trms">trapment
this cylinder
to a ="trms">mutual ob="trms">literation
all inhabitants are squeezed together
to make another planet
another dream of the enemy='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ex="trms">traplanetary construction
="lstsrd">2. confinement of the unwanted
="lstsrd">3. momentary infiltration of the lair
="lstsrd">4. ="trms">consumption of the planet
|
conceptual twists='lgc'>: (quadrangulation='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>[four desires - four attributes - four cor="trms">responding identify-formation='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">1. the most accountable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creation ='lgc'>~~> ='strcls'>*labor='strcls'>* (to build it) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> carpenter خلق
="lstsrd">2. the most disconnected ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> banishment ='lgc'>~~> ='strcls'>*r="trms">enunciation='strcls'>* (to disown it) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> judge خلع
="lstsrd">3. the most invested ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possession ='lgc'>~~> ='strcls'>*stealth='strcls'>* (to invade it) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> trespasser خفيه
="lstsrd">4. the most around/above/upon ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> engulfing ='lgc'>~~> ='strcls'>*hunger='strcls'>* (to eat it) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> glutton دله
the entire ="trms">worlds are disponsable
to salivate and gorge on what is most detested
the torment of overlapping, of absolute possession and absolute dispossession
unreal
surrealism
anti-realism
hyper-realism
irrealism
inaccurate, misleading signs around each corner of the cityscape
deceptive and insidious facades
taken astray and stranded amid false omens
the misinformation of the ="trms">world's existence
the minor syndicate versus the drone
stretching between the ="trms">memorandum and the dispatch
always in a dual hermeneutics of suspicion and discovery
="large lg6" stl="font-size:107%">
drinking from the fool's gold of confusion ill-advising ="trms">codes
the sectarian's remedy='lgc'>:
vulgarization requires vulgarity
="trms">response to disgrace is to enter the disgrace
to inflict the profane occurence and encourage the contamination of ="trms">language and sign
into the stint of atrocity
to go barefoot and dis="trms">membered
sectarian appears before the maker='lgc'>:
in blemished and tattered from
(to prove hardship)
xxxxx 254
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
one must fear those who say “we”
="ppl">Mohaghegh's ="trms">writing reminds of ="ppl">Avital
...following it into its lower webs of ="trms">imagination
sect='lgc'>: an insider-outsider formation
='strcls'>*the sect redefines='strcls'>*
life, secrecy, ritual, fanaticism, martyrdom
(in a fragmented age ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) sectarianism='lgc'> = apocalyptic ="trms">writing ='lgc'>+ insurgent practice ='lgc'>["='lgc'>+” ='lgc'>: a lethal combination='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***an abstract idea ='lgc'>+ its immediate execution (within the ="trms">world)='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>["='lgc'>+” ='lgc'>: collapsing the boundary between the emergence of the two='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**(its other names='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•underground movements
="lsts lst1">•secret ="trms">societies
="lsts lst1">•forbidden as="trms">sociations
="lsts lst1">•cult gathering
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*artistic circles='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•urgan gangs
="lsts lst1">•rebel cadres کادر
="lsts lst1">•terrorist units
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>**(its forms='lgc'>:) they banish themselves and plan their hostile-ecstatic return to the surface='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•revolutionary
="lsts lst1">•criminal
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religious
="lsts lst1">•mystical
="lsts lst1">•magical
="lsts lst1">•military
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*avant-garde='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>**(its conceptual coridors='lgc'>:) each fuses the minimal (elitism) and the ="trms">excessive (universality)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•delirium
="lsts lst1">•murdur
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucination
="lsts lst1">•whispering
="lsts lst1">•doom
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}<='lgc'>=~ ='strcls'>***the self-chosen against the ="trms">world='strcls'>***
(“we” is the electric compartment of the sect. the sectarian channels the alarming vibration of the “we"='lgc'>--the one who becomes many)
='strcls'>*evil='lgc'>: a force of liberation, beauty, complexity
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's microhostilities (on me, the way he tells)
='strcls'>*guided by dislike='strcls'>*
(='strcls'>*terminal Intimacy='strcls'>*='lgc'>: de="trms">finite concept of friendship='lgc'>:) “they will all die for one another"='lgc'> = "they will all kill one another”
“the sect occasionally allows the opening of the closed circle, reforming as a st="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right line that penetrates the ="trms">world of others” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a phantom) ='strcls'>*imperative to entirity='strcls'>*
sectarian ="trms">language='lgc'>: the ="trms">author cages the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader (in each verse)
sectarian animism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">paranoiac dialogues='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">language of things (="trms">communication with the inanimate)
="lsts lst1">•concert with sacred ="trms">beasts (oracle, snakes, ="trms">animal spirits, etc. ='strcls'>**the uncooperative figures of ="trms">nature='strcls'>**)
="lsts lst1">•warnings of extraterrestriality (those of faraway sentience)
="lsts lst1">•murmurings of superstition (man, fate, chance, fifth column='lgc'>[= the group who undermine a larger group from within='lgc'>])
hiding as ="trms">mission ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dissimulation ='and'>& hollowing
sectarian lives by ="trms">code, but cannot be deciphered or analyzed='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="trms">methodological='lgc'>='lgc'>--> leaves one undetected (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assassins who are inflexible, precise, and ="trms">systematic to the highest degree, and traceless for this very reason)
...they remind of the ungovered body, the accidental, and death
xxxxx 280
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
(="ppl">Mohaghegh's work on the middle east in his ="trms">book) it is ='strcls'>***a theory that does not speak for ‘the East’(= a construction) but rather ='strcls'>*an East='strcls'>*(= a radical illusion)='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-it offers careful insight into singular, distinctive episodes of thought and ="trms">writing in the Middle East (and to explore their relevance across the topology of ="trms">world thought at large)
="prgrph">-the fractal ="trms">nature of his four separate subject-="trms">positions point to the ='strcls'>*exceptional diversity and heterogeneous makeup of Middle Eastern cultural ="trms">imaginaries='strcls'>*
...the insurgent carries a hundred masks within one, the ="trms">poet a hundred more, the mystic a hundred more, and the sectarian a thousand
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Geert)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a self-naming ="trms">historical epoch that redefines/fuses the exercise of power and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and for which the enlightenment, capitalism, colonialism, ="trms">technology, humanism, ideology, simulation, and the domination of ="trms">instrumental reason become the main pillars of subjectivity
="ppl">Mohaghegh offers a ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of secondary ="trms">literature that forms the relevant archive from which his manuscript borrows, and ='strcls'>**marks its axis of engagement with preexisting ="trms">interventions='strcls'>**
='at'>#bibliography
="ppl">Nietzsche's conception of chaos
“="trms">nature and mask determine ="trms">phenomenal being, the ="trms">phenomenon in its being, as chaos”
(="ppl">Deleuze ="trms">interprets ="ppl">Nietzsche's chaos as='lgc'>:) a philosophical overture toward “the pure unformed”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the subject is this free, anonymous, and nomadic singularity which ="trms">traverses men as well as plants and ="trms">animals independently of the ="trms">matter of their individuation and the forms of their personality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~~> ='at'>#="trms">write a short ="trms">story for ="nms">hayula='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*Eastern insurgent's participation in the chaotic event='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no ="trms">natural or pure ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (a more) apocalyptic ="trms">response ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to became available
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to deal with sense as a predicate مسند or a property دارايى ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? to deal with sense as an event='lgc'>]
="trms">community
(on Eastern post="trms">modern gathering)
(alternative ="trms">categories that express the potential for “="trms">relationality”='lgc'>: assemblage, alignment, circle, swarm, etc. that are based on multiple vantages of ="trms">intersection and divergence ='lgc'>=/=) ='strcls'>*="trms">community='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•tends to evoke an essentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list claim
="lsts lst1">•there is typically some centralized discourse of unity, some absolute principle that binds everyone
="lsts lst1">•functions as self-enclosed and ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusionary ="trms">phenomenon
="lsts lst1">•breeds insularity and protectionism
='lgc'>=/= vulnerable, permeable, susceptible to transformation
='lgc'>=/= riot crowd (open fever and pulsation always searching out new ="trms">formulations, ='strcls'>*new exteriorities='strcls'>* to ="trms">traverse ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> remains restless, agitated, insatiate)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">community eventually ofers abstract re="trms">presentation of their lived experience (='strcls'>**becoming ="trms">symbolic='strcls'>**) ='lgc'>=/= riot crowd remains ="trms">material, ="trms">visceral, a carnavalesque sensation, and therefore formless ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Elen's ="trms">response to ="nms">apass offered “="trms">community"='lgc'>]
(with the intention of it lasting, ='strcls'>*nothing deserves to stay “as is”='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?!='lgc'>])
='strcls'>*stale ="trms"nttrm="search">archetypes of the collective knowing subject (“they”)='strcls'>*
problem with ‘periphery’
='strcls'>***deadly and deathly delusion that there is a “within”='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-the periphery in its own removed site it circumscribes a sacred boundary
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exilic consciousness
="prgrph">-="trms">interior sense of belonging='lgc'>: remaining an outsider event ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> using treachery for the sake of vitality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~~>='qstn'>? ="frds scrmbld">Elen's ='strcls'>*playful betrayal='strcls'>* (in ="nms">apass environment) to emerge (and inflect) herself at will='lgc'>]
what makes the exile (='lgc'>=/= the knowing subject) more fascinating is that ='strcls'>*it does not need to exist='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ‘need to exist’ lies at the root of the knowing subject's violence)
the ="trms">community is desperate to exist ='lgc'>==degenerates='lgc'>='lgc'>==> into totalitarian declaration of its ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights; obsessed with constructing mythologies of ="trms">presence (and being re="trms">presented)
='lgc'>=/= the exile (the ="trms">animal, the ="trms">child, the shadow, the ="trms">monster, the machine, the thing, the contagion) carries none of the ="trms">anxiety of ="trms">ontological authenticity. they come and go, as impersonal, nameless, ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosing creatures, never too long in the same place, always with some ='strcls'>*new game='strcls'>* or ='strcls'>*secret to pursue='strcls'>*
="trms">communities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distinctly humanist ='lgc'>: importing a kind of micro-universality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ladem with oppressive sug="trms">gestions of an inborn ethical ="trms">obligation (o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginally from the enlightenment) ='lgc'>==became='lgc'>='lgc'>==> source of judgment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> taxonomies of power ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> disenchantment, alienation, genocidal playback
="ppl">Mohaghegh sug="trms">gests the always ="trms">social logic of ="trms">community formation is toxic, “the death sentence to its mutability and actual freedom” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to avoid the “="trms">trappings of a ="trms">social framework, with its false ="trms">codifications of ethical ="trms">responsibility, and seek more elusive pathways of dialogue and juncture” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i am not sure about it, this could be also problematic)
="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**chaotic topology of ="trms">imagination='strcls'>**
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's constant antagonism (in his work and in his speech acts)
="ppl">Mohaghegh's use of “third-="trms">world ="trms">authors”
they ="trms">write the unnamable ='lgc'>--&='lgc'>='lgc'>--> execute a vast becoming (of devastating scale and proportion)
to place these ="trms">authors in immediate exchange with “western” thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to allow for a toxic, فرسایشی abrasive confrontation that reveals the outstanding distance from such conventions of knowing ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='mywrk'>my work is about this, to visist (visit ='lgc'>+ resist) these sites of critical encounter and embed them in my performative acts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to provide/produce a condition in which a non-antagonistic critical encounter between the “Western” order of knowing and the chaotic textualities of “Middle East” is possible='lgc'>]
="trms">epistemic warfare (='lgc'>~/= my ="nms">ajayeb)
masks of an impersonal nightwalker consciousness
madness
="trms">hallucination
amnesia
becoming a faceless engraver
their explicit conceptual elements='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•burial ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> blindness
="lsts lst1">•annihilation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contagion
="lsts lst1">•shadow ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inhuman
="lsts lst1">•desertion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deception
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chaotic experience
(="trms">according to ="ppl">Mohaghegh) this chaotic middle eastern elsewhere is not yet openly acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged by ="trms">literature
="prgrph">-borderline illegible ="trms">narratives
="prgrph">-emergent textualities
(my allegiance is with ="ppl">Mohaghegh's allegiance with) badlands of postcolonial site and its rogue arsenals ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==allows='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a fugitive, errant ="trms">trajectory
(i have been tracing the locatable mimicries of middle east)
='strcls'>***chaotic textuality ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>==> conflict='strcls'>***
actualization of a ='strcls'>*will to cruelty='strcls'>*
to performance a fatal experience of the text
(="trms">literature as ="trms">question ='lgc'>=/=) ="trms">literature as moral transaction ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- chaos reminds us='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali, ="frds scrmbld">Shabnam, ="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> let's enjoy the pleasure of watching the text die='strcls'>* (_to rid ="trms">literature of its survival instinct)
="trms">literature as a space of unbearable vulnerability ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perpetual sabotage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> each idea, each ="trms">interpretation draws the text closer to (the hour of a) collapse
='strcls'>*contact with nothingness='strcls'>*
inscription of fatality
conceptual matrix of fatality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•extremity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> breaking points
="lsts lst1">•="trms">excess ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an effusion, an unforming
="lsts lst1">•exhaustion (='lgc'>=/= fatigue)
the avatar of ecstasy
="trms">veiled secrecy of affirmation
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="search">archetype of cruelty='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[to speak of='lgc'>] (chaotic text as) ='strcls'>*alchemy='strcls'>*='lgc'>: corrupt the order of things, become reborn in a polluted sensibility
(is this what i do='qstn'>?)
chaotic text must ="trms">fashion a generative prism, un="trms">natural admixtures, ='strcls'>*contaminated alliances='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[let's='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*unload texts toward corrosive depths ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] where they run their acids across one another='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='mywrk'>my work
="trms">transition from theory ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theft
="trms">transition from (the profession of the) ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smuggler
(strands of thought ranging='lgc'>:)
from cruelty ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fatality
from alchemy ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> piracy
chaos ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anarchic potential, disquieting ="trms">worlds
="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%">
(="ppl">Mohaghegh asking='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>*is chaos an affirmative or nihi="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic experience of the ="trms">world='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*is chaos primarily creative or destructive='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*is the expressive act (="trms">aesthetic or philosophical) a chaotic state='qstn'>?
='strcls'>*(east's) horizon fastened to the exteriority of Western thought='strcls'>*
experiential elsewhere
="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%">
the so-called ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]cultural ="trms">difference='lgc'>: an old game of declaring the ="trms">world's disjointment
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> many people (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding myself) ='strcls'>***to perceive their intellectual and ="trms">poetic exercises as in partial alignment with the creative possibilities of their culture='strcls'>***
='strcls'>*partial cultural alignment='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> german discourse on ="trms">integration
='lgc'>[chaos='lgc'>] manifesting and fading within countless spheres of speculation='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Benjamin's temporal arabesque
="lsts lst1">•="trms">schizoid desire-production of ="ppl">Deleuzian nomadology
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Artaud's hysterical ="trms">demand (-="trms">demand is always hysteric)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fable of “chaos outside the ="trms">system” (Schlegel's concept)
="lsts lst1">•active ="trms">presence of an inhuman turn in Camus
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Serres's ‘genesis’ a quasi-mystical force of an im="trms">memorial ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Mohaghegh's ‘chaotic’ marks (no resurrection of a primitive ="trms">world but rather) an extravagant departure from the ="trms">history of being, an expressive wire being shaped as we speak
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*topologies of ="trms">imagination / mode [...]