[...] (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

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entitlement='lgc'>: way of intrusion in homogenous axes of existence


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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

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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
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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

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)


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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'>==> ='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'>*

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> sectarian ="trms">language='lgc'>: the ="trms">author cages the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader (in each verse)

sectarian animism ='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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> 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



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(="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 [...]