[...]type='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
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
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
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
buraq='lgc'>: a ="trms">chimera of='lgc'>: ="trms">animality ='lgc'>+ humanoid ='lgc'>+ gemological (multiplicies) ='lgc'>+ machinic ='lgc'>+ vegetal ='lgc'>+ spectral (virtues) ='lgc'>=/= taxonomical purity of creation
="lsts lst1">•stretch the barometers of hybridity, androgeny, disproportionality
="lsts lst1">•zig-zagging, levitation, elliptical arcing
="lsts lst1">•like a horse, smaller than a mule and bigger than a donkey. Its face was like a human's face, and its ears were like the ears of an elephant...Its head was of ruby, its wings of pearl, its rump of coral, its ears of emerald, and its belly of red coral. Its eyes were like glittering stars, and its tail of pearl, and its reins of light
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vehicle to ="trms">traverse from geographical to ="trms">cosmological space
journey-to-the-center or exile-to-the-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*the old-hag ="trms">world='strcls'>*
being-in-the-="trms">world='lgc'> = old hag with an ugly face, practice of seduction, artifice, cosmetic embellishment, optical tricks, enhancements
the designer, the seamstress, the architect, the sculptor, the illusionist, the surgeon, the perfumer ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> surat صورت ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? facade
='lgc'>[infernal-geological finale='lgc'>]
I heard a voice, whose intensity caused me to tremble with fear…I said, “O Gabriel, what is this terrible sound='qstn'>?” He answered, “O Muhammad, know that on that day God created hell, a rock slipped from the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of hell. Until tonight it's been falling down. It has reached the bottom of hell just now.
='at'>#darkness, zolmat, rock
="lsts lst1">•pit's conceptual trinity
="lsts lst1">•hearing/="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening is closely linked to ominous experience (the bell's toll, the wolf's howl, the thunder's rumble)
some passive surrender to vague faith
any sug="trms">gestion of intuitive-experiential awareness (gnosis)
subject caught-between
sitophobia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fear of eating anything
aquaphobia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the fear of drowning everywhere
between lamenter and euphoriac
islamic insistence on the concealed (unseen face of God) ='lgc'>==> profuse dissension, variance, discord, agitation (in="trms">finite faces)
lohe mahfuz
the guarded tablet
quantification
institutionalized record
universal ="trms">finitude
="lstsrd">1. artifacts of hell
="lsts lst2">◦camphor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> link between the demonic and the aromachological (mastery of the psychological effects of fragrance)
="lsts lst2">◦chain ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experience of ligatures, cords, shackles
="lsts lst2">◦nail ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impalement potential
="lsts lst2">◦stones ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crushing effect
="lsts lst2">◦drink boiling water (hamim) and filth (ghislin)
="lsts lst2">◦devils force-feeding them Zaqqum
="lsts lst2">◦demons were placing fiery bits of corpses into their mouths
="lsts lst2">◦ichor was dripping from their tongues ='lgc'>--="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ichor ="trms">interestingly refers both to the mythic substance that runs in the veins of pagan gods and the putrid discharge that oozes from fresh wounds
="lsts lst2">◦hell-dweller='lgc'>: scorpion, ideal killing-machine, back-biter, poisoned tips
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***nonstop leaking of the inward outward='strcls'>***
="lstsrd">2. body parts of hell
="lstsrd">3. topographies of hell
Mohammad's night-journey's hellscape, vivid orchestration of space
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]in one direction, a “river of bile, blood, worms, and fire='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] boiling together, putrid and revolting” alongside another “black and rippled with fire='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] growling at itself with clamour and terror”
experimental cuisine (="trms">demand a certain oblique consciousness from the participant)
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angel physiognomy (multi body, collective chant) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= under="trms">world scorpions
atonal angelic larynx ='lgc'>==> non-harmonic, anarchic, cacophonous image of the heavens (='lgc'>--="ppl">Mohaghegh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> divinity as noise)
="lsts lst1">•prophetic ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener (body became organs of hearing, ="trms">schizophrenic audition of شش جهت six directions)
wind of barrenness
rih al ‘aqim (from the ="trms">species of criminal wind bad-e dabur, God sends it to destroy things)
="lsts lst1">•blows throughout the placeless realm
="lsts lst1">•particular condition of absence (in taxonomies of ruin and chasm)
="lsts lst1">•their moon-like faces
="lsts lst1">•innumerable
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">veil='lgc'>: transcendent invisibility, receptacle of competing back="trms">stories (of shame, conspiracy, superiority, covert, elite)
galleries of self-covering demonic beings
Gabriel='lgc'>: angel of revelation (oversees='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•khasf خسف sinking into the ground
="lsts lst1">•maskh مسخ dis="trms">figuration of features
astigmatism (a type of refractive error, retinal tearing)
cartographical layerings
(="ppl">Mohaghegh ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading a Babylonian nocturnal prayer)
(old) god ='lgc'>[divinity cults of ancient ="trms">worlds='lgc'>]='lgc'>: signposts of an extra-human ="trms">imaginary ='lgc'>==> consciousness trespass beyond itself
in the face of the night's obscurity (when the all-seeing shuts its eyes)
="trms">pastoral life turns murderous (at dark)
signaling the absence of fairness...
b="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurring of omni="trms">science...
delay of verdict...
aimlessness of quest
="lsts lst1">•blindness to fill the void of divination
="lsts lst1">•wandering, detour, or stillness to fill the void of odyssey
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Sin
moon-god
="lsts lst1">•enigma (“he whose heart cannot be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemic
="lsts lst1">•futurity (remote='lgc'>: “could see farther than all the gods”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> temporal
="trms">somnolence خواب و بيدارى
='lgc'>==> branches of nonsense ="trms">pervade (disbanding of the herd)
(cypress سرو) tree
inspector of ="trms">cosmological space
in theo-terrestrial plane='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. alluvion='lgc'>: the wash or flow of water against a shore ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inundation
="lstsrd">2. alluvium='lgc'>: a de="trms">posit of clay, silt, sand, and gravel left by flowing streams in a river valley or delta ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> detritus ='lgc'>[residuum alone is left to control the universe='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
Ishtar
guardian of prostitutes
surrounded in myth by death and disaster
goddess of contradictory connotations and forces (fair play ='and'>& enmity, etc,)
Lillith (derived from the Akkadian lilitu='lgc'>: evening creature, specter, or ="trms">monster)
kidnapping sleeping ="trms">children
(="trms">according to the Babylonian ="trms">cosmology) night requires (non-identitarian) gods capable of abomination (backstabing)
="prgrph">-recognized by their tangible outlines as actual constellations in the night sky
="prgrph">-related to the more expansive domains of ="trms">animality, vehicles, and objects
="prgrph">-emanate from a perceptual faculty closer to the ="trms">child's ="trms">imagination of cloud-shapes (='lgc'>=/= ="trms"nttrm="search">archetypal meaning)
Tiamat
primordial goddess of the salt sea, darkness, chaos, and creation
from the time of permanent nightfall
a destroyer-deity and yet whose sliced body parts form the heavens and earth
re="trms">presented as unconscious, reckless annihilation and yet also holding diabolical intelligence
bathed in eternal blackness and yet known as “the g="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening one”
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Girra
dystopian potentials of ="trms">technological invention
figure of wicked logos (undoing words)
(leader of the terrible)
non-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical and equally nonhumanist devotion to the artificer (="trms">apparatus)
cosmic bal="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listics='lgc'>: ="trms">scientific field of mechanics concerned with the launching, propulsion, flight, and effect of projectiles (="trms">trajectory and impact)
nocturnality and contagion
snakes and dragons of constellations
paradox (the ="trms">beast)
="trms">instrumentality (the builder)
unleashing (the despoiler)
death-spell
نابودی ="trms">gesture of ='strcls'>*extispicy='lgc'>: ancient Mesopotamian practice of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="trms">animal organs (often a sheep's liver) spattered upon a wall's surface
="prgrph">-a discipline involved less with knowing than with watching
The Egyptian ="trms">Book of the Dead
philosophy of night, dusk, shadow
egyptian night-deities
="prgrph">-with astounding ="trms">narrative-theoretical flexibility
="prgrph">-some slither, hunch, fly, or remain seated
="prgrph">-not residing on Olympian heights but rather in the subterranean below
star-covered nude woman
cow arching over the earth
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> night does rule from transcendent distances but rather envelops (or swallows) whole the existent into its gut (or uterus) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- di="trms">gestion='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics:='lgc'>] (away from) patriarchal gaze ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maternal stomach
Khonsu
="lsts lst1">•bloodthirsty (eating the organs of royal opponents)
="lsts lst1">•merciful ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[its creative epithets:='lgc'>] ="trms">traveler, embracer, pathfinder, defender, “He Who Lives on Hearts”
one who resembles his own waning moon
Nephthys
tied to the night of the soul's ="trms">traversal
sepulchral
(endow pharaohs) with the vision for “that which is hidden by moonlight”
Apep ='lgc'>=/= Ra (the light-god)
giant sea-snake said to ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurk again in the primordial gloom
evil lizard, ='strcls'>*="trms">world encircler='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•defeating Apep='lgc'>: base="trms">material outputs (spit) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> elemental properties (fire) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> man-made weaponries (lance, knife) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fetishistic physiologies (the left foot) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sympathetic magic (tearing apart of effigies
(sectarian logic='qstn'>?)
desire for clear reactional ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= sadistic or ="trms">paranoiac serial killings='lgc'>]
teratological and semi-demonological turn
="trms">interjecting thingness, fiendishness, and ="trms">monstrosity into our midst
night='lgc'>: inde="trms">finite de="trms">finite ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> nihi="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic force of closure
(from) orthodoxy ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dramaturgy
(="ppl">Mohaghegh's theory of) fanatical sovereignty in pagan thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ultimate keeping ='and'>& violation of the law ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= obsessive form ='and'>& apocalyptic formlessness
(reconciling) ='strcls'>*the toxic dialectics of ="trms">presence ='and'>& absence='strcls'>* behind every theo-political order ='lgc'>: gods walk among us in immanent ambush, hiding in night's open view (of many faces, masks, tongues, robes, tastes, proportions, and ="trms">gestures), adopt in="trms">finite visages, apparels, pseudonyms, and dialects ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= monochrome ="trms">trappings of daily identity='lgc'>]
Ahriman ='lgc'>=/= fire-god
omnimalevolent side
first destructive spirit
twins of the primeval choice
='lgc'>==> crises of perception
dwelling in non-being
shape-stealer
self-cutting (cooking of his own ="trms">paranormal tissue)
earthly creation='lgc'> = ruse, net, and temporary prison (a decorative window-dressing to ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure the false god away)
a sunless place
mortal transactions (of civilizational, philosophical, ="trms">religious, and moral trials)
night-raid
nocturnal fier="trms">ceness
asceticism of the warrior
asceticism of the night-watchman
(="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Godard">Goda riding with the) exponential disinformation of legend
learn to talk with night ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- not indicative of a knowing subject
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to become both hypnotized ='and'>& hypnotic whisper
="trms">language of mood (subtle movements of)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•temperature drops
="lsts lst1">•="trms">intermittent gusts of air and wind
="lsts lst1">•snapping of tree branches
="lsts lst1">•shooting comets of sky
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Bronze Age eschatologies
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queen of riddles
cosmic idolater
her ="trms">language never argues, only pro="trms">positions
dark thoughts
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evanescing moon
...guerilla leader who fled into the mountains and froze to death beneath the night sky
thoughts of
="lsts lst1">•obvious separation (from family, ="trms">lovers)
="lsts lst1">•potential victory and loss (fata="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic struggle)
="lsts lst1">•futility of human experience amid insects and ="trms">animals creeping in his midst (transfigured)
='strcls'>*night ='lgc'><='lgc'>--tied='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wondering='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*night <[...]