[...] the figure of trickster ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] trickster re="trms">presents an ="trms"nttrm="search">archetype of transformation (rebirth='qstn'>?) and a ="trms">symbol of life, ='lgc'>[with='lgc'>] humor, irony (and self-irony), as well as the confrontation between the comic and the tragic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">situates the trickster between the ='strcls'>*="trms">world's balance and unbalance='strcls'>*

(migration or) migrant='lgc'>: (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= fugitive='lgc'>:) individuals who are reborn existentially precisely through the act of the escape, in order to trick their persecutors ='lgc'>==> survive
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= the juggler='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">Nicolas='lgc'>]

="ppl">Mohaghegh's proposal='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*to lie our way into the lie='strcls'>*

="prgrph">-how and where is my unreal located in ='mywrk'>my work on ="trms">bestiaries='qstn'>?
="trms">past ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forsaken ancients
outside ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> time of disappearance

seduction='lgc'>: immersion in style


="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> our guardian='lgc'>: the thief

(learning from ="ppl">Mohaghegh and ="nms">Cinderella to be/operate for each other) between='lgc'>:
orchestrator (influence, innovation, experimentation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> laboratory)
partner (equivalence, benefit, reciprocity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alliance)
slave (captivity, labor, devotion, service, worship ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bondage)
='lgc'>--or='lgc'>='lgc'>--> l.a.b. stands for='lgc'>: laboratory, alliance, bondage ='lgc'>{bondage should be part of every (artistic or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-intensive) practice='lgc'>}

the ="trms">question/problem of='lgc'>: incompatibility of ="trms">past and ="trms">present, there and here

object of event or journey (expedition, venture,)

="trms">story of the “archive of...” ='lgc'>: collection of savored ="trms">differences

the unreal is not always ="trms">imaginative or speculative
it is sometimes='lgc'>:
a drive (suffering, passion,)
a password (encryption)
a device (machine, guide,)
accidental and chosen

the character’s wisdom, impulse, cunning, courage (end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerment), innocence (purity), violence (rage, atrocity)

intelligence='lgc'>: diabolical perception

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(to achieve) the perfect secret='lgc'>: a secret that when revealed remains a secret (a riddle, a puzzle ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">monster='lgc'>: confrontation of the raw unnamable)
future liar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to resurrect (in the form of ="trms">fable or ="trms">rumor)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fake archive (='lgc'>=/= real witness)
="lsts lst1">•buried forged artifacts in some gamble
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> future out of ="trms">sync (hyperbolic commons) ='lgc'>==> (an ="trms">aesthetic of) temporal deviation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= messianic time of revolution, ="trms">historical time of ="trms">modernity, chronological time of capitalism,='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the task of) ='strcls'>**thinking untimely='strcls'>**='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•forgetting
="lsts lst1">•erasure
="lsts lst1">•recreative
(="ppl">Artaud's vampiric ="trms">schizophrenic untimeliness...)

(="frds">Sina ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Mohaghegh's) ='strcls'>*existential radicalism='strcls'>*

night='lgc'>: underground of time
where other things can happen
a ="trms">phenomena where people encounter mercilessly anonymous in="trms">different impersonal inhuman ="trms">nature of the universe
(="ppl">Mohaghegh's work on the renditions of nocturnality)

(carnaval's) multiple forms ='lgc'>[prototype after prototype='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> formfullness ='lgc'>=/= (deconstruction's) formlessness

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ordering ='lgc'>==> violence, ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion, injustice, sacrifice ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> residue (of ordering ='lgc'>--="ppl">Serres='lgc'>='lgc'>--> its ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded inessential, peripheral, parasitic) ='strcls'>*thermal ex="trms">citer='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•the anthologizing, selecting, and ordering act ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena
="lsts lst1">•with the discourse of parasite we are at in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding and in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion

now our ="trms">relationship to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is to be more extravagant and parasitic ='lgc'>=/= economic and fast

every time we ="trms">write (sometimes referring the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader to the ="trms">dictionary) we are also reviving ="trms">language

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criminal's ="trms">relation to the dark (fugitive, dealer, prowler ولگرد) ='lgc'>=/= wanderer's ="trms">relation to the dark (nomad, sojourner, sleepwalker)

="ppl">Mohaghegh ='lgc'>--on='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sub-identities whose survival relies upon a certain exact mastery of night's ="trms">formulas ='lgc'>+ learning its conceptual-experiential ="trms">relations to='lgc'>: time, space, fear, nothingness, desire, death, forgetting, enigma, solitude, sensation, vision, secrecy, ="trms">monstrosity, the body

night
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[where one='lgc'>] fathoms otherwise
="lsts lst1">•the time-space of the visionary, the ="trms">imaginary, the unreal, the unknown, the elsewhere, the outside, the emergent
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[where one='lgc'>] letting fall those droplets of mad and d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous consciousness
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[where='lgc'>] governing ="trms">categories of human existence are suspended ='lgc'>==> alternative classifications (banned libraries, archives, catalogs, arrangements)
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>=/= light ='lgc'>--promises='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a certain stability of Being

those with a pathological need to rule
those with a diabolical impulse to abandon (subvert, reinvent)
those with nothing to lose (desperation)
those with everything to gain (quest)

time of weeping
(mourn, “this should never have happened”) creation as error; being as error


solipsistic cruelty='lgc'>: no longer recognizes itself in anything else nor anything else within itself


='lgc'>[="ppl">Mohaghegh, prototype harbour, night harbors:='lgc'>]
return of the full moon ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> werewolf
return of the nightmare ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dreamer
return of the sacred ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> resurrection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> redeemer
return of the curse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vengeance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enemy
return of the tides ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> migration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sailor
return of the banished ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hatred ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exile
return of the ancient ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idol
return of the text ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evocation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> messenger
return of the threat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intimidation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extortionist
return of the dead ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disappearance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghost
return of desire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> obsession ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stalker
return of pain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> infection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> virus
return of the discarded ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> waste ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vagrant
return of glory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vindication ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fighter
return of the s="trms">cene ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concealment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> criminal
return of dust ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mortality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creation
return of instinct ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creature
point of no return ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> irreversibility ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lost cause


masochistic skepticism
sadistic truth
(="ppl">Mohaghegh's) ='strcls'>*deception theory='strcls'>*


death of God ='lgc'>+ death of the Human ='lgc'>+ death of the Real ='lgc'>==> limitless epochal existential era of lying

existential forgery
ingenuity
deceit
treacherous play
="trms">fictive double-crossing
elaboration


(thief's, runaway's, in="trms">somniac's, hysteric's, sorcerer's, and other night-="trms">traveler's) sensorial orchestrations of the dark ="trms">intervals

="trms">morphologies of the night-="trms">traveler='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the old boat-passengers once placed under enforced isolation
="lsts lst1">•the exiles displaced from occupied homelands
="lsts lst1">•the marauding sectarian factions who patrolled city streets each night (darkness='lgc'> = ideology)
="lsts lst1">•the s="trms">laughtered minorities ="trms">traversed into non-being
="lsts lst1">•night-revelers عیاش
="lsts lst1">•

militant ="trms">storyteller
phantom ="trms">ancestors
phantom offsprings


night="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">club='lgc'>: a place of nocturnal survival

="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">club manager
lighthouse-keeper

(catastrophic ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">fable of) slum='lgc'> = the true face of the city

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> persecuted, transient, unrescued

(wunderkammer) a cabinet of curiosities (='lgc'>~/='qstn'>?= pandora's box) of subjects, objects, atmospheres, as="trms">sociates, body parts

="trms">ontocidal='lgc'>: decimation of Being, both individual and universal


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> medieval islamic ="trms">world renders us countless templates linking night to sacred and profane realms='lgc'>: ="trms">stories of augury, mantic beings, and vatic utterances in circulation from all sides

Thousand and One Nights
god's turbulent ="trms">relation to obscurity

crescent moon

...brilliant speculative accomplishment of the Golden Age of Islamic Thought now a dark age of its own

معراج miraj (="ppl">Mohaghegh's Dante's ascension)
sky-voyage of the Prophet Mohammad from Mecca to Jerusalem and then upwards into heavenly spheres, filled with super="trms">natural descriptive passages of guardian angels, paradisiac gar="trms">dens, hell-bound valleys, meteorological orbits, fatal latitudes and meridians, and the gargantuan throne of God itself

="large lg5" stl="font-size:167%"> night-journey='lgc'>: spiritual ='lgc'>+ corporeal ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prophetic night (of strange breathing ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- angelic wing)

angel's wing ='lgc'>[that spans entire ="trms">worlds='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--reopens='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the ="trms">relational channel between) desire ='and'>& fear
(descriptions of seeing an angel's body)
='lgc'>==> sarin, cyclosarin, tabun, soman
='lgc'>==> respiratory fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, diaphragm hyperactivity, fainting, pupil constriction, salivation, myoclonic jerks (muscle spasms), cardiac arrest
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> synaptic breakdown ='lgc'>==> cholinergic crisis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> captive in a state of poisonous ventilation
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