[...]s='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
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="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
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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 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)
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='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)
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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)
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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
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(="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'>***chao[...]