[...]HM 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'>~=> 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)

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> 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'>~= (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'>~= 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'>~= 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'>~=> 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)

='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'>~= 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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> neighborhood='lgc'> = ties ='lgc'>+ tensions

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="ppl">Naveeda chapter 2 Iqbal

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ="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

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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:167%"> 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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