[...]tical homogeneity of the regions of the moon
ibn Heisam ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the color of the body has the effect of darkening the light
='strcls'>*color is a result of ="trms">density='strcls'>*
“you will not find any color without ="trms">density, because a body that s extremely transparent is not ="trms">dense and therefor it has no color. for this reason we maintain that the color of a body can be equated with its ="trms">density”
eclipse of the moon ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “this color is dark, its ="trms">nature is blackish and comparable to red”
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da Vinci's report
="lstsrd">1. vapours rise from the moon, after the manner of clouds and are ="trms">interposed between the moon and our eyes
="lstsrd">2. moon ="trms">composes of more or less transparent parts
="lstsrd">3. moon='lgc'> = carrying ="trms">thickness or ="trms">density ='lgc'>[refractive ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is easily how I modeled my moon for the WIELS exhibition='lgc'>]
="lstsrd">3. moon ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= mirror (='lgc'><='lgc'>== large amount of water on the moon)
Galilei
lunar waterlands (in Kepler’s dream journey ="trms">Somnium https://frostydrew.org/papers.dc/papers/paper-="trms">somnium/)
Kepler saw (in the moon craters) large circular buildings that moon
s inhabitants (endymionians) had erect to drain the swamps
="trms">science and cartography of th physical features of the moon
Hevelius
W. ="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert
moon’s waxing phase ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> earth that is in b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightlight reflects light back (one third of the sunlight that reaches it) to the dark side of the moon
“what if the atmosphere had really withdrawn to this dark face='qstn'>? and if air, why not water='qstn'>? would not this be enough to infuse life into the whole continent='qstn'>? why should noy vegetation flourish on its plains, fish in its seas, ="trms">animals in its forests, and man in every one of its zones that were capable of sustaining life='qstn'>? to these ="trms">interesting ="trms">questions, what a satisfaction it would be to be able to answer ="trms">positively one wat or another! for thousands of difficult problems a mere glimpse at this hemisphere would be enough to furnish a satisfactory reply. how glorious it would be to contemplate a real, on which the eye of man has never yet rested!” (Jules Verne, All Around the Moon)
the side of the moon facing earth is being gradually eroded by earth’s gravitation
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Pythagoreans ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- one of the first recorded visions of an inhabitable moon on which animas and plants flourish, larger and more beautiful than on earth ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>*it makes to sense to create a planet that is uninhabited='strcls'>*
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] for she would then appear to have come into existence vainly and to no purpose, neither brining forth fruit nor providing fir men of some kind an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin, an abode, and a means of life, the purpose for which this earth of ours came into being” (Plutarch, On the Face of the Moon)
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors for the silence of the space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perennial ="trms">question of humankind
the black sea sparkle with lustrous fires, like the ceiling of a vast hall of ebony encrusted with flashing diamonds
with what a soft sweet light every star glowed
no ="trms">matter what its magnitude, the stream that flowed from it looked calm and holy
not twinkling
no scintillation
no nictitation
disturbed their pure and lambent gleam
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night dreams (after WIELS's exhibition)
starting with the ="trms">story of the jinn studying o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of ="trms">species ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">bestiaries
mix of reports from Hedayat'neyran="trms">gestan ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Shamlu's ketab kuche ='lgc'>+ Marzolph's topology of persian folklore ="nms">iranian ="trms">stories ='lgc'>+ ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">stories ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='qstn'>?
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jin lamp
tree
scared face
="trms">book Skala='lgc'>:
royal fairy tales
baba jaga kostliva noha / bony legs
the first worm
death skeleton afraid of itself, of its own image
self-reflective
you are following, while being followed, and the one who follows you is being followed...
pop-up ="trms">book
="lsts lst1">•endless doors (on top of each other)
="lsts lst1">•rotation='lgc'>: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR4VTo8s/
="lsts lst1">•rotation='lgc'>: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR4Vp8Yb/
="lsts lst1">•https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR4Vw7qk/
="lsts lst1">•https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR4VttgH/
="lsts lst1">•moon https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMR4VV2CC/
="lsts lst1">•Philippines ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetics of poverty ='lgc'>[culture of ="trms">material poverty ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> poverty as scenic design and working philosophy='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the imperative to eliminate nonessentials ='lgc'>=/= my philosophy)
="lsts lst1">•="nms">Iran ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetics of ='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•(='qstn'>?what is) In="trms">stagram or TikTok people's appreciation of beauty ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">aesthetics of poverty's coupling expression with survival and change
='thdf'>the idea that becoming sensitive to the ="trms">aesthetic qualities of local ="trms">materials ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> increasing one's power of expression
theater director='lgc'> = ="trms">aesthetic coordinator='lgc'> = sensitivity ='lgc'>+ selectivity
scenography in artistic research
my early ="trms">interest in ="trms">stage design ='lgc'>{='lgc'>~ use of backdrops in capturing the essence of a play or ="trms">story ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way to ='strcls'>*establish setting='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= s="trms">cene='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sense of (not necessarily authentic) ="trms">history, calling for the patina of ="trms">history='lgc'>} ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> my recent scenic paintings ='lgc'>--="trms">present='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*visual stream of consciousness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= diorama ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to capture the essence of a practice ="trms">interest optic ="trms">episteme (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> establish a setting to get caught ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured)
(in ='mywrk'>my work='lgc'>: ='thdf'>assumption of)
="trms">symbolic use of visual elements ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> collective consciousness ='lgc'>+ revitalized forms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> vision of a larger culture ='lgc'>: capturing a ="trms">gestalt='lgc'> = everyone can understand
Shake, Rattle and Roll
romance, light sex, and comedy segments='lgc'>='lgc'>---laced in ="trms">horror
(Tolentino)
="trms">horror genre
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> big young stars performing non-iconic roles
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (analogue of ='lgc'>[collective='lgc'>]) ="trms">anxiety (of nation='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>: making-do processes and mechanisms of ordinary people ='lgc'>+ imperative of profit and state formation
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how (mis)governance get to be re="trms">presented ='lgc'>+ how citizenry is enforced and ="trms">embodied (at the ground level)
Philippines='lgc'>: from Marcos ="trms">dictatorship ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> neoliberalism='lgc'>: privatized, deregulated, commercialized, ="trms">marketized public services
="lsts lst1">•Crane using psychoanalytical ="trms">tropes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">horror='lgc'> = everyday terror
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">horror='lgc'>: ="trms">excessive ="trms">communication
="lsts lst1">•Creed using ="trms">trope of ="trms">monstrous-feminine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">horror='lgc'> = ="trms">gestalten deeds in adjection and castration
="lsts lst1">•Lim ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">horror='lgc'> = temporal critique='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{fantastic local ="trms">horror ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">historical time, super="trms">naturalism, occult modes of thinking en="trms">coded in fantastic ="trms">narratives='lgc'>}
='lgc'>[="ppl">Bergson > Lim > Tolentino:='lgc'>] ="trms">horror ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> heterogeneous temporality, heteroglossia='lgc'>: multiple tongues, to disengage in certain (nation) formations
horrific real
="trms">translation of ="trms">historical terror in filmic ="trms">horror
="trms">historical real ='lgc'>+ filmic mobilization ='lgc'>--render='lgc'>='lgc'>--> real as porous ='and'>& artificial
="trms">horror ='lgc'>--Tolentino='lgc'>='lgc'>--> trans="trms">historical (transgressional) continuity of the project of desire ='and'>& pleasure
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> masochistic viewing experience ='lgc'>+ ="trms">trajectory of critique
(during Marcos order in Philippines ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">horror genre talks about the popular dialectics of the known ='and'>& unknown, moral ='and'>& immoral, in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion ='and'>& ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion, defeat ='and'>& triumph, struggle ='and'>& redemption, normal ='and'>& abnormal, reality ='and'>& alternative realities, ="trms">religious ='and'>& secular
="lsts lst1">•="trms">horror provides a cultural ="trms">trope for the ="trms">imagination of the nation
="trms">anxious state in ="trms">horror films ='lgc'>--re="trms">present='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anxious state in ... (nation-formation, citizenship, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> irony='lgc'>: (the ="trms">anxious state) it is not what it is
='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]viewing='lgc'>: a sadomasochistic act ='lgc'>[you know it is f="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightful (or garbage) yet enjoy viewing (in KHM we called it hate-watching)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pervers pleasure ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> individual and ="trms">social ="trms">categories to remain constantly in a flux
intensification of ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> carnavalesque moment of drawing pleasure
(in the film) ="trms">history of a chosen local
logic of absence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> prohibitive ="trms">history of violence ='lgc'>+ ="trms">excess
ritual of horrific foregrounding
s="trms">cene ='lgc'>+ coherence of meaning
='strcls'>*="trms">horror is performative ='lgc'>: it needs to be re="trms">staged in order to be evocative of meaning='strcls'>*
sexualization of women ="trms">integral to the genre of ="trms">horror ='lgc'>[aimed at its male audience, similar to Charmed='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sexy female leading role (in ="trms">love triangle)
="lsts lst1">•man ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presenting evil and under="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•man ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re="trms">presenting true ="trms">love (engaged in a battle for ="trms">love ='lgc'>+ choice of the young woman, sexualized in the male contest)
="lsts lst1">•female viacera sucker ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> female creatures need to show hidden skin ='lgc'>[popular sex-oriented star ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> female ="trms">monstrous figure ='lgc'>--allow='lgc'>='lgc'>--> display of prohibited body parts ='lgc'>+ heteronormative desire='lgc'>]
(female star rendered both strong and weak)
="lstsrd">1. exposing and defying the ="trms">horror figure (first)
="lstsrd">2. ="trms">embodying the horrific abject subject (second)
in the ="trms">narrative of ="trms">horror
="lsts lst1">•the moral forth="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightness that makes the female subject survive, endure, move on
="lsts lst1">•they are punished but never totally ob="trms">literated into the ="trms">horror s="trms">cene
="trms">internalization of fear ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? domestication ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? maintaining the status quo in ="trms">community fronts ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>='lgc'>--> docile ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> productive for state formation
(the survivor never fully survives and triumphs over the adversaries of the) ="trms">horror s="trms">cene ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> open-endedness of the closure='lgc'> = of knowing ='lgc'>+ of being abjected
(libidinal drive in) citizenship claims in nation-formations ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (libidinal drive in) continuing performative of the ="trms">horror subject
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one is constitutes through but never thoroughly in power ="trms">relations
white sexy female star ='lgc'>+ ="trms">horror ='lgc'>+ ="trms">social melodrama (= Charmed)
orally told tales of female violence
miscegenation
desire for liminal female sexuality
necrophilia
female haunting
heterosexual desire
nostalgia for truth
='lgc'>==provide='lgc'>='lgc'>==> template for cultural idiomatic ="trms">imagination
="trms">historical experience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> futile ='and'>& ="trms">enunciated through the orality of retelling (='lgc'>+ being capable of retelling)
="trms">historical justice has not been served in actual ="trms">social reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">horror s="trms">cene bears the constant threat and possibility of repeating itself on the future
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='at'>#idea
namaz ="trms">gestures as alchemical ruse to open portals, kill enemies, transmute objects, and other specs
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="ppl">Naveeda chapter 1 mosque
mosque ='lgc'>=/= shell for prayers
="lsts lst1">•monumental structures built by the state
old mosque='lgc'>: part of complex devoted to
="lsts lst1">•learning
="lsts lst1">•dispensing justice
="lsts lst1">•channeling charity
oft repeated statement='lgc'>: Pakistan is a mosque ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= one has to learn to inhabit this place, aquire the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right etiquette in sharing it='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what it means to be Muslim in Pakistan)
="lsts lst1">•a place of assembly='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•a sacred place='qstn'>?
qabza, ghabze قبضه, violent seizure, forcible possession
(depending on who you ask ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) Pakistan under ghabze by='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the state
="lsts lst1">•venal ="trms">religious figures
="lsts lst1">•unscrupulous lay muslims
="lsts lst1">•sectarian groups
="lsts lst1">•
“="trms">narratives of loss ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> investment on self-betterment='strcls'>* (='lgc'>+ bettering of one's ="trms">community) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= striving
emergence of new independent mosques ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new property arrangements (='lgc'>+ admin ='lgc'>+ funding) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> growth of civil institutions
city bureaucracy of Islamabad ='lgc'>==Hull='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*uncivil politics='strcls'>* (سیاست غیرمدنی ='lgc'>=/= civil ="trms">society)
(like ="nms">Tehran) Lahore='lgc'> = ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban fabric ="trms">palimpsest of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">different eras of ="trms">history
="lsts lst1">•political leadership
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social com="trms">position
="lsts lst1">•="trms">aesthetic styles
="lsts lst1">•modalities of ="trms">social engineering
='lgc'>=/= dissolving the ="trms">past into hyper="trms">modern
='strcls'>*postcolonial ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> sectarian politics='strcls'>*
local mosque-related politics
سیاست محلی مسجدی
demographic change ='lgc'>+ population growth ='lgc'>+ strengthening of sectarian politics='lgc'> = ='qstn'>?
به طور قانونی غیرقانونی
legally illegal mosques
(illegal structures on land legally put aside for this purpose)
="trms">presence of bureaucrats within mosques in south Asia (since 19th century)
creating an ideal state by means of the mosque
loud zekr ذکر
mosque='lgc'>: (bearing) traces of the changing fortunes of its worshippers
qabza ='lgc'>=/= voice='lgc'>: an individual's singular words and ="trms">gestures arising from her ="trms">embodiment ='strcls'>*of hey maslak مسلک='strcls'>*
...civil servents
cultivating a ="trms">modernist
="trms">cosmopolitan air
and their educated well-="trms">traveled
nuclear families
congregation (جماعت ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? collective, ="trms">community)
="trms">communal exchange
learning
contemplation
mosque employee hierarchy='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. khatib خطیب the person who gives sermons during Friday prayers
="lstsrd">2. imam امام the person who leads the give ="trms">obligatory prayers during the day expect Friday
="lstsrd">3. ghari قاری the person who had received enough training to render a pepper re="trms">citation of the quran
="lstsrd">4. moazen موذن there person who gives the call to prayers, also ="trms">responsible for cleaning the mosque
ghabze of mosque='lgc'> = expression of ambition (to found ="trms">religious space) to forge the model Muslim ="trms">community (beyond daily needs of worship)
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='strcls'>***legal exercices ='and'>& bureaucratic forms='lgc'> = a mode of experimentation='strcls'>*** (in being good ='lgc'>[Muslim, intrinsic to Pakistan='lgc'>])
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to enable civil ="trms">relation (learning from ="ppl">Naveeda and ="frds scrmbld">Femke)
Islam is only one element of a complex weave of politics (involving local leadership, emergent ="trms">communities of dissent and activism against an in="trms">different state)
flagging a ="trms">social problem ='lgc'>=/= filling a ="trms">complaint
jahalat جهالت (='lgc'>=/= common sense ='lgc'>+ education ='lgc'>+ good b="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading)
resentment of uneducated
not class-="trms">coded='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> character (determined by)
="lsts lst1">•nobility of birth ='lgc'>=/= lowly birth
="lsts lst1">•enlightenment of education ='lgc'>=/= ignorant
='lgc'>--="ppl">Naveeda='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘maslak ="trms">differences ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= grist for the art of war’
="trms">rumored
engineered
un="trms">folding
sectarian geography of the city
mobilized in the form of bored policemen
prophet's era ="trms">intermingled with Pakistan ="trms">present
masjed zarar
gabze (mosque seizure قبضه مسجد) ='lgc'>--explicit='lgc'>='lgc'>--> desire to stake a claim on a new nation-state (Pakistan)='lgc'> = expression of striving='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•tie ="trms">religious/moral development to the nation-state development
="lsts lst1">•tie ="trms">religious/moral development to the ="trms">imagination of an earlier era of Islam
='strcls'>*expression of striving='strcls'>* in art='lgc'>: opening an art space, studio, school, or an institute (='lgc'>=/= create an institution as a conceptual ="trms">gesture)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tie your development to the nation-state development and to an ="trms">imagination (of change='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•anything could be believed about a certain imam
="lsts lst1">•when someone (or group) attack you, they transform from human to ="trms">animal
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> skeptical turn towards the ="trms">world
neighborhood='lgc'> = ties ='lgc'>+ tensions
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="ppl">Naveeda chapter 2 Iqbal
="ppl">Naveeda's ethnographic ='thdf'>example of a s="trms">cene of aspiration='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•librarians sit around a table (in a public library) engaged in a heated ="trms">religious argument that threatens to spill into accusations of blasphemy
="lsts lst1">•Lahoris resolve to build mosques for their neighborhoods only to preside over the dissolution of their ="trms">communities in their fights over the mosques
='lgc'><='lgc'>-- sites of dissonance ='lgc'>+ aspiration
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aspiration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> efforts at being Muslim (in the ways one knows or attached to) marked by a striving to an as-yet-unattained self without presuming that this next self is the final one
='lgc'><='lgc'>-- tendency (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social program)
(='lgc'>=/= see these examples as the lack of con="trms">sensus in Islam)
Iqbal ='lgc'>--="ppl">Naveeda='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theory of creative workings of time
="ppl">Naveeda constructing a Pakistani Iqbal
Iqbal ="trms">presence within='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•everyday acts of striving to be Muslim
="lsts lst1">•state exertion (official ="trms">rhetoric)
="lsts lst1">•public culture of Lahore
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='strcls'>**synthetic mode of thought='strcls'>**
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how South Asian intellectuals created zones of thought by assimilating the work of thinkers from ="trms">different times and parts of the ="trms">world to their own ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (develop and sustain a) ='strcls'>*="trms">cosmopolitanism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[that exceed the limits places on ="trms">imagination by colonialism, nationalism='lgc'>]
(='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both locatedness and translocal ambitions ='lgc'>--understand='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*the openness and connectivity that characterizes the socal='strcls'>*
Iqbal's mode of self-experimentation='lgc'>: he put himself in ="trms">relation to dynamic individuals and emergent movements and institutions to see how they sat with him and he with them
='lgc'>--="ppl">Naveeda='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*experimentation does not require the creation of the new='strcls'>* but rather new ways of inhabiting the fundamentals (of ="trms">religion in Iqbal's case) ='lgc'>--toward='lgc'>='lgc'>--> producing the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readiness for change
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="prgrph">-attitudes of toleration comes with belief in dogma
Mohammad
the prophet's return is creative ='lgc'>: insert himself into the sweep of time with a view to control the forces of ="trms">history ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> create a new ="trms">world of ideals
='strcls'>*prophetic consciousness='lgc'>: a [...]