[...]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the Idiot's illness
="lsts lst1">•between psyche ='and'>& soma
="lsts lst1">•between the ='strcls'>*theory of trauma='strcls'>* (which focuses the ="trms">history of the subject) ='and'>& the ='strcls'>*theory of fantasy='strcls'>* (which refers to ="trms">transference and counter="trms">transference)
="lsts lst1">•the only illness to have its own mythological figure ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•madness
="lsts lst1">•visionary ="trms">excess

herald of epilepsy='lgc'>: Hercules, Buddha, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoléon, Lord Byron, Pascal, Van Gogh, Dostoevsky, etc.


foolishness
drunkards
maniacs
the pathologically resentful
the envious
a rapist
a crowd of cheaters
classic ="trms">neurotics
subjects of delusional rantings
subjects of criminal intent


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> conscious ='lgc'>=/= unconscious ='lgc'>=/= drive

contract to his illness
manipulations of care

the sick often find someone who is even sicker to take care of (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the case with the Prince)


(="trms">according to ="ppl">Nancy ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">literature has always tried to produce the body (which philosophy suppresses)

any discussion of the body risks engaging a double bind (a psychosis)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure to produce a discourse on the body
="lsts lst1">•fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure not to produce discourse on the body
='lgc'>--="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the sick body='strcls'>* (in a frenzied state of belated, compensatory awakening) ='lgc'>--="trms">demands='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (="trms">interpretive and diagnostic strategies) that often culminate in ='strcls'>*an ="trms">excess of discourse='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> opens up the space of necessary obscurity by which our bodies come to us

="ppl">Nancy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> The body does not know; but it is not ignorant either. Quite simply, it is elsewhere. It is from elsewhere, another place, another regime, another register ='lgc'>[not an “obscure” knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, or a “pre-conceptual” knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, or a “global,” “immanent,” or “immediate” knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•philosophy calls “body” pre="trms">supposes the determination of something like an
="trms">authority of “immediate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge,” a contra="trms">diction in terms, which inevitably becomes “mediated” (as “sensation,” “perception,” synaesthesia, and as immense reconstitutions of a pre="trms">supposed “re="trms">presentation”)

the site of nonknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that the body ="trms">traverses ='lgc'>--="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*is related to thought='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- the body thinks (in a sense) beyond giving or making sense
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*thought is itself a body='strcls'>*

="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger was the one who unhitched “thought” from philosophical operations and gave it weighs in as body ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="ppl">Nancy

in Dostoevsky ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the body commended by ='strcls'>*illness='strcls'>* bears a ="trms">memory trace of the ='strcls'>*sacred='strcls'>* (='lgc'>+ ="trms">finitude of all bodies)

“God is dead='lgc'> = God no longer has a body” ='lgc'>==="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>='lgc'>==> bodies (bereft of trickle-down ="trms">symbolicity) will have to be='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•pumped up
="lsts lst1">•prosthetically amplified
="lsts lst1">•steroid-enhanced
="lsts lst1">•“built”
="lsts lst1">•buffed
="lsts lst1">•bionically ensured
="lsts lst1">•="trms">drugged
="lsts lst1">•“medicated”
="lsts lst1">•cloned
="lsts lst1">•remade
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">technobody or replicant will be made to substitute for the lost body of the divine trait

last night he dreamed of (apocalypse ="trms">technological dominion='lgc'>:) sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of the railroad and the distribution of connectors installed by new ="trms">technologies as instigators of the unsacrificeable...

(in ="trms">literature) apocalypse='lgc'> = vehicle (a ="trms">technological momentum)

the unnamed God has vanished together with this unnameable thing...

Myshkin’s illness still binds him to the sacred ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this body retains and persists in making sense, the illness continues to produce sense

="large lg1" stl="font-size:125%"> ...poverty, hunger, deportation, torture, deprivation, ugliness, ="trms">horror ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bodies sacrificed to nothing


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]sacrifice='lgc'>: a body's passage to a limit where it becomes the body of a ="trms">community

(after Christ ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) body is nothing but a wound ='lgc'>=/= illness

(when it persists) pain ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> I'm not well, I'm in trouble, therefore I am.

jouissance='lgc'>: a pain that succeeds ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a place where being, utterly exposed, is external to itself


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]body='lgc'>: surplus of objectivity

our body acts as a traumatic place (that causes a series of fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures)

(idiot's seizure) epilepsy
Then suddenly something seemed torn asunder before him; his soul was flooded with intense inner light. The moment lasted perhaps half a second, yet he clearly and consciously re="trms">membered the beginning, the first sound of the fearful scream which broke of itself from his breast and which he could not have checked by any effort. Then his consciousness was instantly extinguished and complete darkness followed.

(going to fetal ="trms">position)
seizure='lgc'>: an enactment of a wish to return to the womb
epilepsy ='lgc'>--Sutterman='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sadomasochistic phantasms that feature the self as murdered ="trms">child

breaking a prized vase
delivering rants in place of conversation

Dostoevsky's idiot='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•repugnant
="lsts lst1">•uncanny
="lsts lst1">•a kind of ="ppl">Bataillean reversal (at bottom is unmistakably ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian)
="lsts lst1">•provokes ="trms">love

="trms">according to Dostoevsky='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*idiot ='lgc'>==provoke='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">love='strcls'>*

Faust had reported that two souls inhabit his body ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> switching body types='lgc'>] ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> two sick bodies='lgc'>} (="trms">hallucinated ='lgc'>+ ="trms">internalized)
="lstsrd">1. the ailing body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you can get rid off with ="trms">drugs (dealt with Mep="trms">histopheles)
="lstsrd">2. the abandoned body ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inglorious corpse

body doubles reflecting one another (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to mirror)

="ppl">Avital ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movements ='lgc'>[such='lgc'>] as ="trms">Positive Action, ="trms">Positive Choices, and the marks of similar tags of empowerment that issue from the hope that we know what we’re doing, that we can take charge and act up and affirm our bodies, our selves, that we can now stop being victims and relinquish passivity.

torturer ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> healer

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شطح shath='lgc'>: ="trms">literary ="trms">technique (san'at adabi صنعت ادبی)
(jCzF0RD-a_M)
shath='lgc'>: contradictory speech (kofr ='lgc'>+ iman)

del-bari (dressing up and going out='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>=/= gush be harf kasi dadan (="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening)
گوش به حرف کسی دادن ='lgc'>=/= دلبری

خجسته khojaste='lgc'>: thinking all the time that everyone is saying hello to you

="ppl">Hafez='lgc'> = connected pockets of meaning ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Ferdosi's organized pockets of meaning ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">bestiary's ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed pockets of meaning

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indian ocean diaspora
indian ocean slave trade ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> atlantic slave trade and the new-="trms">world diaspora

Lee ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> influence of African and afro-="nms">iranian people on other ="nms">iranians and on persian ="trms">society and culture

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> Ziba ="ppl">Khanum (d. 1932 Yazd)
the life of one enslaved African woman who lived in ="nms">iran
(recovering what can be recovered of their industrial lives)

="nms">iranian ="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> issues of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•race
="lsts lst1">•gender
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religion
="lsts lst1">•elite ="trms">social and economic ="trms">networks
="lsts lst1">•="trms">nature of slavery
="lsts lst1">•value of subaltern ="trms">history


='thdf'>the idea of (academioc study of) ="trms">history='lgc'>: study of structures, institutions, abstractions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">generalizing ="trms">categories (such as slavery, freedom, ="trms">modernization, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= (biographical turn) towards biography of one woman

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ='strcls'>****(biography ='lgc'>~~>) ='strcls'>*personal experience='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= (="trms">category of) slavery='lgc'>: an abstraction that bunches together and confuses ="trms">historical instances of displacement, isolation, dependence, unfree labor='strcls'>****
(='lgc'>--="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>='lgc'>-->)
personal experience ='lgc'>=/= displacement
personal experience ='lgc'>=/= isolation
personal experience ='lgc'>=/= dependence
personal experience ='lgc'>=/= unfree labor


19th century ="nms">iran (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> estimations='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•one/two million slaves exported into persian gulf (to Bandar Abbas in ="nms">iran) from east-african/indian-ocean trade
="lsts lst1">•two-thirds of the slaves were african woman and girls, almost always destined for residence in wealthy households (as domestic servants and concubines)

1868 census conducted in ="nms">Tehran='lgc'>: 2.6='prcnt'>% of the civilian population of the city was designates as african slaves and/or “household servants”

="trms">categories of slave/servant in shii ="nms">iran='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•nokar نوکر male servantkh
="lsts lst1">•khedmatkar خدمتکار female servant
="lsts lst1">•kaniz siah کنیز سیاه female black slave/servant
="lsts lst1">•khajeh خواجه male black slave/servant
="lsts lst1">•gholam siah غلام سیاه male black slave/servant

="large lg5" stl="font-size:164%"> issues of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•race
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religion
="lsts lst1">•assimilation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*enslaved africans were not given (arabic) muslim names, but were assigned persian names as part of the process of assimilation into persian households='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[Dade='lgc'>: persian for nanny, nursemaid='lgc'>]


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