[...]ce 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
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="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)
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
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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'>***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'>*
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='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
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(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
(="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'>*
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experiential elsewhere
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 [...]