Ereignis: 0, (Max.: 500+)

[...]tence to the supernatural <-- quality of striving


Maududi's picture of aspiration
modern Muslim citizenry <--Maududi-- should be created by the state (the idea that state must mould every aspect of human life on consonance with its moral norms and program of social reform ==> *true Islam =/= muslim Islam*
~= Islam is perfect, muslims not


Asad --> muslim self-transformation (self-directed changed) ==> perfect form of islam
Maududi --> (Muslims who know themselves to be weak by constitution -->) one erect a state to install change in oneself ==> perfect form of islam
Iqbal --> striving: individuation without individuality ~= potentiel without concrete ~= experimentation on self


producing the concrete environment within something to make it available to X : enabling =/= entailing

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Naveeda chapter 3 law

Naveeda:
mosque = site of striving
law = state's efforts at striving (and inflecting muslim aspiration) [=/= law: site of colonial codification and ossification]

Foucault --> (when the state asks you for) registration: disinterested bureaucratic procedure = state's securing its authority
~/= Derrida --> law = a horizon of aspiration through a register of justice


munir report
semitic theory of state (Jewish, Christian, or Islamic): the object of human life is to prepare ourselves for the next life --> strive for human conduct which ensure for a person better status in the next world
*state --> act upon Muslim bodies to secure their afterlife* (by means of prayers and good work)
}--> define a Muslim:
1. identify the material body upon which am Islamic state is compelled to act (to ensure its afterlife)
2. to protect non-Muslims from the state
3. to protect the state from non-Muslims (kofar)


(for me there is a big difference between:)
islam: achievement of the Arabian nomads (that make the musulman of today live in the past)
islam: a tradition of intellectual imagination of those who were conquered


Pakistan 1972 constitution --(for the purpose of the constitution of the law)--> non-muslim: a person who does not believe in the absolute and unqualified finality of prophethood of Muhammad, the last of the prophets or claims to be a prophet, in any sense of the word or of any description whatsoever, after Muhammad or recognizes such a claimant as a prophet or a religious reformer


something akin to copyright (trademark law) --> disable non-Muslims from encroaching upon Muslim rights over their tradition (undertaking muslim modes of worship: use of honorific titles and modes of address specific to the prophetic community, building mosques, calling azan, citing from Quran or hadis, etc.)

khatam anbia --> khatm: seal --> aspects of Islam as sealed off and exclusive to muslims

(Pakistan supprim court's affective legal feedback loop) copyrighting islam = affirmation of Muslim nature <--Naveeda-- *a horizon of striving*
}<-- an example of (Iqbalian) reason + revelation


institutionalizing blindness


Iqbal on ahmadies:
Tipu sultan collapse by the British 1799 = mark of political and psychological subjugation of Muslims --Iqbal--> Ahmadiyya messianic movement = subjugated people explaining to themselves their state of decline (negative enlightenment)
tolerance = indifference

striving =/= progress

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Naveeda chapter 4 jinn


strident --> engaging speech with vivid imagery
differential --> differing knowledge to proper authority

lack of consensus on what X is (among its varient constituents) ==> (problem of) loss of tolerance
(for example Pakistan:)
contradictions between commitments to:
existing hierarchies
tribal ties
universalistic religion (whose version of community transcends those ties)


(Naveeda) thinking of the potential lines of movement among entrenched differences, cited texts, and possible positions generated by selves encountering others in the world

intensities that burn within you + openness to conversation

attention to time --Naveeda--> draw a consistent picture of an Islam with open future

disputation = a form of experimentation: doing and undoing of known forms (in the spirit of striving) [=/= experimentation: innovation in self-making, or social arrangements]
@apass

disputation: a form of interaction (with risks and ill effects [risk of alienation, estrangement of others])
--> [*]becoming: coming to terms with the trajectories and crystalization of tendencies within the transcriptions of the state and in public culture --> **excavating the resources (that this way of being Muslim) give to itself to reflect upon and evaluate (--> renew its inheritance of Islam)

approaching history from the perspective of plenitude
approaching history from the perspective of lack


(upsurge of excitement accompanying the creation of Pakistan --Smith--> a tendency [=/= social movement for example reform or piety with identifiable advocacies and trajectories] called) [*]aspiration: sustaining the striving towards an ideal final form (a state, society, self, etc.) =/= achieving

the aspiration of making Pakistan --> to aspire an islamic state ~~Smith--> muslim way of saying that Pakistan should build for itself a good society
--Naveeda--> demand for a state = demand for a society ~= demand for a self

how to read Pakistan's historical records shaped by the *aspiration to strive as Muslims*?


to effect experimentation <==
disputation (jadal)
argument (bahs)
disputation (monazereh)
debate + polemic
building mosques


tradition and ethics of debate and disputation


Carl Schmitt --> political theology
*politics discovers its modernity by repressing the theological foundations of its concept and practice*

theology was always about worldly politics <--> religious transcendence }==> run analysis both ways:
transcendental coming into play (in some instances)
worldly life coming into play (in some instances) [immanent quality]

--Singh--> self-making & self-perfecting

evidence fact model subduction trench mathematics [source: Laura Moriarty]woman horse text dragon assemblage [source: Gottingen University Library]ocean rigs rigging soft body rigid ware construction name [source: Christian Schnellhammer] }--Naveeda--> religious argumentation : expressive of ongoing striving

media literature German discourse database deutsch Sprache language computer link text Bild Ton Video station [source: widrichfilm.com]snake serpent person reptile limb assemblage body [source: hiveminer.com] **one works on oneself by revisiting and reinhabiting theological conundrums (through words and practice)** [same in artists as well?]


planet, cyber, robot species, transform, interface, partial digestion, moon, 3*'1G  (.* [source: The Transformers The Movie 1986] perceived eagerness for debate among lay muslims --> (anxiety over) disputation ==>
indulgence in abstract thinking
undermine the tenacity of individual faith
reduce the hold of the daily obligations of ritual worship
lead to a diminishing attachment to worldly life or stakes in the social


wind fact environment affect plot story literature ajayeb wonder inflow signifier nature culture representation [source: Qaswini] Veena, Cavell > skepticism:
philosophical efforts at securing one's knowledge of the world unmediated by sense experience (<-- classical)
human disappointment with our earthly condition of being distinct and separate from others (<-- social)
efforts to secure unmediated knowledge of others (<-- social)


world multi species contingency assemblage human animal dog space society place [source: Peter Westenberg / constantvzw.org] [Veena (giving historicity and ethnigraphic precision)-->] skepticism ==>
renders other vulnerable to suspicion
unsettle social relations
produce the conditions of possibility for suffering and violence


skepticism <--> aspiration

moon wonder creation inflow follow rise [source: Qazwini book of ajayeb] aspiration =/= clear vision of ends

ajayeb wonder [source: unknown] Pakistan:
idemtifies itself as an ideological state (Islam) [==Naveeda==> (the possibility of) some experimentation within its apparatus : ***articulation and dispersal of ideology is not linear or cumulative*** it flows in directions other than from the top down]
inherits the colonial administrative structure + imperatives of government (postcolonial state)

(Sina -->) to be ideological about X : driven to ascertain and adjudicate the others relation to X
(certainly as an achievement)

in islamic ideological states (like Pakistan and Iran) you are allowed to experiment on what is it to be a Muslim
(+ skepticism with respect to those who strive)
skepticism transforms into an *impersonal force* (that can emerge anywhere and strike anyone) [<-- disembodied aspect of skepticism]


thunder stone rock fire transportation affect [source: Engraving by I.F.Schley of the drawing by Y.M.Felten. 1770 - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thunder_Stone.jpg] discourse of spiritual diagnosis
(takes place through an evaluation of one's physiology)

Deleuze's symptomatology: a creative act bringing about a change in health + affirmation of a way of life
striving --> good health

wonder child animal ocean assemblage species camera media photography spiderman leg strange [source: lolzhumor.com]wonder technology exhibition media image world system planet fuse [source: Frank Vincentz / Wunder des Sonnensystems, Ausstellung im Gasometer Oberhausen] Iqbal --> attentiveness to thr physiological as a means to gauge whether one's spirituality is on the right track
with Bergson --> concern for the futurity of Islam
with Nietzsche --> concern for the spiritual health
Nietzsche: physician of culture, (understood as political act) “striving and self-diagnosis ==> implicates the individual in the world ==> produce charges in the world


lexicon global architecture interpreter translator standard language international diplomacy vocabulary [source: LexiconUSA] Naveeda's ethnography method of interviewing:
1. locate traces of X in (context:)
everyday life
public culture

3. see how this tendency crystallizes
at particular points
within particular persons
within particular texts

5. study this crystallization
comes to be overlaid
expressed through lived experiences
be productive of
further movements of the tendency
countertendencies
its dissipation


jinn <--> striving
Naveeda shiwsyin her research a single worshiper's choice of striving: relay upon a jinn for guidance on better ways to be a Muslim

vision subject object optics visuality position apparatus organism media [source: Athanasius Kircher / Deutsche Fotothek] *striving --> put collectivity (for example family) in jeopardy*
*@apass

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(state pronouncements of) correct way to [?how to] *attach to the prophet*

natural history museum Isfahan Esfehan wunderkammer visualization animal [source: commons.wikimedia] becoming a knowledgeable religious disputant

Naveeda > Iqbal > the weary self that could not be roused to piety by religious zeal strikes a posture as much of resignation to sin by a nonpracticing Muslim as of a certain pride of withholding oneself from conformism.
--> of one goes to prayer in a mosque it is by one's own choice

stone energy field matter hayula story nunhuman agency [source: Emanuel Swedenborg] ...to dismiss differences = the political expression of the petit bourgeoisie


Iqbal's disapproval of guidance --variance--> (Sahib) seeking guidance from a jinn for pious pursuits

bird ajayeb wonder existance taxon species [source: Qazwini - https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/arabic/natural_hist4.html] singularity of Sahib's efforts at improving himself as a Muslim --> (Iqbalian aspiration) posture of the nonconformist

state's fears that the milieu was pervaded by non-Muslim others posting as Muslims --jinn--> [made vivid] *skeptical experience of everyday life as a place of illusion and trance* (go to --> my work on Relaxing Horror Tales for Children and Adults)

bedat بدعت
accretion of customs in the form of innovation


jinn
-what nature of influences jinn introduce into human lives?

library of religious commentary
prophetic tales
magicians’ manuals
folklore
ethnography

--> characterization of jinn

cosmic order world soul woman panpsychism psyche intensity conscious potential Sadra [source: Robert Fludd] human ~= jinm --> endowed with passion, rational faculties, responsibility for their actions, etc. they eat, grow, procreate, die

constantly evolving relationship between humans and jinns

from pre-islamic --to--> Islamic
both good & bad ascribed to jinn's constitution --to--> to be much more unequivocally associated with evil

the little mischievous nafs نفس that make up a self --> Muslim interiority (projects?)

...in the belief of jinns:
complex arrangement of cultural memory
political strategy
mental illness
individual subjectivity

----> *Naveeda taking the existence of jinn for granted ==> (her effort) to learn more about the family that adopted them and their efforts at striving*

*taking the existence of X for granted ==to==> learn about the people who adopted X*


“Muslim children - how bring them up?” vol 3
(in Islam) child: bring without aghl عقل + ability to communicate with divine beings, without sin
--> always under the threat of being easily led astray

eight-year-old Maryam
-attuned to ways in which this world and the jinn world were mirrored and intertwined
-would look into the palm of her hand to see what the jinn would have her to see
-relayed the requests of human world to the jinn
-bringing forth advice, instruction, expression of desire (from the jinn)

relationship of ventriloquism (between Maryam and jinn)

there was an accepted contiguity of jinn and human selves & possibility of a plurality of voices in Maryam's mediation --> enjoin her family to attend closely to her words

coterminous
هم مرز، هم زمان
Ahmadi in Pakistan
each Muslim group claimed itself the truest of all <-- the idea that *to accept the X's claim to be Muslim = accept one's own annihilation as Muslim*
--Naveeda--> question the limits of contiguity of different forms of life (when copresence was tolerable? when copresence was made intolerable?)


imitato Muhammadi
emulating X (to experience X) --through--> passionate love and ecstatic identification with the X
(for example the prophet: seeing the prophet on one's mind's eye + imitating him)
sufist approach: prophet is immanent in the world
varied affective relations to the prophet:
ecstatic love
reverential love
respect


jinns having a dynamic disruptive presence within the human world

Sunni Deobandi's belief that the prophet is alive in his grave in Medina ~= Shia's notion of the hidden imam


brittlestar intrinsic discursive predator body bodily boundary container world stage difference differential production aqua media arm [source: Wikimedia Commons] *several (competing) bodies of knowledge*

Naveeda --read--> Sahib taking cues --on--> prophet's example --from--> faceless voiceless jinn --with--> little child surving as its medium


-parental disappointment with sons
-children possible abandonment by their fathers
-wife's estrangement from her dying husband
--> ambiguities that undergrid lived relations

“Maryam rushed to greet him at the door of the house but then she fell back screening. apparently a thirty-feet-tall churail (witch) had followed Sahib from India. Sahib immediately dropped his bags at the doorstep and without pause rushed to the mosque to say his prayers. when he returned home, Maryam assured him that the witch had left him.”

Sahib allowed the entry of jinn into his home without the armature of the average amil (who undergoes considerable pain and deprivation to be able to lay claim upon particular force, and undertake continental exercises of the body and mind to control it)
--risk--> potential disruption of the family
--abdicate--> his position of authority within his family --to--> attend to his daughter's words of guidance

*his turn towards Maryam = turn away from the present* (of his everyday life not having the spiritual richness & *authoritative accounts* [he desired to make himself a better Muslim])

from a pedagogical figure --to--> pupil to his daughter

pursuits of the self ~=> incorporate the unexpected --extent--> abdicating full control of oneself

in bringing a jinn into his life --> it became a version of him joining other versions of himself with whom he was bound

fire rigs darkness black box fossil beyond tool [source: Sina Seifee] --Iqbal--> striving to one's next self


in the famous tale of Aladdin and the magic lamp, a child found a genie and could be literally pulled out of a humdrum existence to soar the skies
Maryam shared the jinn's joy in discovering human food
she got to whisper her secrets into his ears
make him complicit in her projects
she got to temporally take leave of her body that was changing beyond her control

(Naveeda asks) was Sulayman (the jinn) about the inability to acknowledge friendship over time?

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Wunderkammer exhibition collection environment writing [source: Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art] Naveeda chapter 5 mulla


graffiti --> awareness of X at the level of gesture and affect

image projection forest light table round multi-media performance security system representation hack child Linux interface predation [source: Jurassic Park movie 1993] participation in change

(Agamben -->) [*]gesture: inhabiting of potentiality



Naveeda four scenes of aspiration:
1. librarians engaged in argumentation over the nature of the prophet's body after his death --gesture--> argumentation
2. neighborhoods embroiled in fights over mosques in attempting to prescribe the rightful atmosphere for prayer --gesture--> seizure
3. the state drawn into theological disputation and legal experimentation over how over should attach oneself to the prophet --gesture--> legal experimentation
4. a pious man trying to seek guidance on how to be Muslim from an invisible being (jinn) --gesture--> search for guidance
}--affect--> accompanied by intensity of seriousness, sincerity, excitement, disappointment, sense of loss
}--commitment--> friendship, neighborliness, familial ties

large arsenal of off-color jokes about specialist fogures of all religious traditions in the popular culture of the subcontinent...
horror stories
psychological profile of mullas
weekly skewing of mullas
mulla jokes
cartoons

political commentary <--> criticism
--> mulla was to blame for everything that was perceived to be wrong (in Pakistan) --> *pervasive skepticism* [also in Iran]

polaritons  layered two-dimensional materials [source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4792.html] skepticism shadows striving (?)


the other of the striving muslim in Pakistan:
shadowi Shia
deceiving Ahmadi
bad-tempered mulla بدمزاج


ganj earth stratum desire projection pit treasure mountain ghaf research ajayeb [source: noorbaran90.ir] mulla:
Iqbal --> ossification of the institution of ulama
Pakistani state --> ossification of commentary upon Islamic texts

Delphinus surgeon monster marvel encyclopedia curiosity human animal nature figure fish [source: On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Paré 1510] ...everyday assertion that one's religiousity is superior to others


mulla = full-fledged maleficent persona


web archive environmental scan wonder [source: Qazwini / ids.lib.harvard.edu] skepticism of daily existence
1. ...(they become skeptical) about his rationality and grounds for his beliefs
2. ...(at some point) anything could be said or believed about him
3. ...(he felt like) everyone around him had turned to animals
4. ...(he presumed) everyday life was one of illusion and appearances [go to --> kelile demne این همه سودا است، مجاز]
}--> actualize the potential for *skepticism that existed in the social fabric*
=/= chance encounter
=/= pervasive condition


figure of the mulla [~= collective fear + revulsion] --traverse--> the fragmented public culture of the city


[*]ulama: guardian, transmitter, interpreter of shari'a
+ specific claims of knowledge upon:
1. تفسیر tafsir (commentary upon the Quran)
2. فقه figh (jurisprudence)
3. حدیث hadis (sayings of the prophet)
4. کلام kalam (speculative theology)
+ (in Pakistan) personnel in mosque:
1. امام imam
2. خطیب khatib (Frida sermon)
3. قاری ghari
4. موذن muezzin

mulla --derogatory--> one who is overzealous in upholding the letter of the shari'a
(+ additional connotation:)
ignorant master [go to --> mulla nasruddin: religious master who gets by in life through hypocrisy and cunning + outsmarting those of noble birth and high cultivation]
gabza agent (seizure of property)
sodomizer (one who rapes men)
a naive fool out of step with his time



kinetic kinect machine vision glitch Amazon rain forest nature culture technology interface enfold digital travel journey perception tactile reality dream surface 3D motion mimesis [source: Sina Seifee] colonial politics in south Asia --> British colonial administration in India see ulama as outdated, deliberately obscurantist, jahel ==> negative stereotype ----> post-colonial period

mullaism:
Pakistani state --> fossilized state of knowledge on Islam
Iqbal --> mullaism =/= freedom of ijtihad


landscape cartography mapping affect architecture narrative space heaven paradise sky God environment embodiment technique [source: Sina Seifee] (Talal Asad -->) Islamic diskursive tradition is grounded in *argument that anticipates resistance* in the form of doubt, indifference, or lack of understanding ==> it employs the force of reason to bring forth the *willing performance of a practice*
}==produce==> domain of orthodoxy (+ relations of power)


(for Naveeda) anxiety or skepticism ~= sign of aspiration for striving


lens beauty decoration science telescope embodiment aesthetics ornamentation divine rich care attention encode decryption value meaning mystery [source: Galileo Galilei Objective lens, Padua, late 1609 n a frame made of ebony and ivory - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence / astronomy2009.org] labbaik: i am here (to follow your orders)

theatrical unteality

snake star wunderkammer dichotomy lexicon taxonomy nova techne [source: Johannes Stradanus, nova reperta] ...animus lies in the world
[later he] identitues this animus with thr workings of iblis (satan)
...this is a city of whispers [waswasen], a city of mad possession [shar], a city of deviation [ilhad], a city of anxiety [tazadzud], a city of dispersion [intishar]

the ability to smell oneself --> to experience oneself as other


how public culture can ability skepticism as a pervasive condition


mulla jokes --> horror stories = fear + revulsion

Stromatolite stone rock fire media [source: Boston University 1984, NASA Environmental Science. Snapshot of video] (Freudian) eruptive quality of jokes --> joke erupts into everyday life as of from elsewhere

political cartoon: maximum effect through a minimum of details

(mulla) jokes, horror stories, political cartoons --Naveeda--> *exiling the foreignness within*


stories of:
1. mosque in an upscale shopping center
2. sexually predictory mulla
}--> (speaks of:)
1. the perception that there were places in Pakistan where vise was allowed to grow unchecked
2. the menace the ulama introduced into everyday life
}==> (the effect of:)
keeping public attention upon possible sites and agents of corruption
putting the everyday life into question (as to whether it was what it appeared to be)


political cartoons --imply-->
Pakistanis are caught in someone else's game
growing unfamiliarity of Pakistan


(charges of)
sinfulness
sexual voraciousness
cunning
gluttony
political ambition
worthlessness
corruption
self-destruction
--> continuous efforts to set the mulla outside of oneself (=/= everyday familiarity with the ulama)

***negative stories and cartoons --express--> various degrees of skeptical orientation to the world***
jokes --(descriptive density)--> full expression to skepticism
--{also in Iran}--> making (mulla) grotesquely other ==> inconcevable to imagine any points of relatedness (to mulla)



scatological jokes
reworking of official rhetoric for ludic effect
exaggerated performance of power
}--Mbembe-->relationship of conviviality with the realm of official power”

simulation representation child human model earth world grasp understanding tangibility memory device vision science [source: Ender's Game film 2013] vulgarity ==long-term==> *zombification of official figures* (robbed of their humanity --> they cannot be apprehended except through their caricatures)

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to loosen some terms carefully: memory, form, order,


[The arts of memory- Comparative perspectives on a mental artifact. Revised and updated by the author Carlo Severi. Translated by Matthew Carey - Severi - HAU- Journal of Ethnographic Theory]


memory as a domain of social life

Galileo telescope optics affect medium interaction exteriority [source: astrofiliveronesi.it] archive
“order” constitutes a principle to engender other forms of knowledge

totem poles, simply records the different circumstances that marked a particular social group, were comprised of organized series
occupied with the transmission of ‘names’, but necessarily, paralleled by a form of logical power, implies sequential ordering of different forms of knowledge.

travel Hafez aesthetics Spain decorative influence path way frontispiece [source: Johann August Corvinus - Die Anlandung Konigs Caroli in Catalonien, und Erfolgter Einzung in Barcelona - raremaps.com] the “art of memory” applies different types of relationships or archival techniques that are not limited to mere numerical calculation: mnemonic, iconographic, and logical techniques.

provide a convincing account of the complex process of ordering

Persia native scene scenic oriental frontispiece monument architecture curtain paradise [source: ] in a measured rigorous way...

what characterizes the system

Fascia body tissue matter animal heyvan hayula terrestrial locomotion flex jell [source: anatomytrains.com] development of taxonomic principle
system endowed with a high degree of logical power

the idea of pure quantity, based on decimal numbers applicable to wide range of categories: people, objects, units of time or space, etc.

system cosmology hierarchy matter being planet Venus Mars Luna moon [source: Eudes Picard] an “art of memory” possessed of rudimentary form of visual salience and an extremely complex ordering of representable knowledge

what matters are system's logical implications and not its visual manifestations

salience
(colors, shapes of knots, folds)

the qualitative categories (meant to be named)

(finding) the organizing principles

space human technoscience monitor system control room architecture extension culture interface outer outside euro house void [source: Harald Bischoff / DLR - German Space Operations Center]map empty space progress gaze geometry exhibition speed frontispiece [source: David Teniers der Jüngere, Ansicht der Stadt Valenciennes 1656. Öl auf Leinwand, 177 x 205 cm, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerpen.]monkey animal urban city travel personhood border boundary [source: Jon Rafman]sheep horn form social evolution sign meaning hand twist [source: 2011 -  S&P Weaver - Saltmarsh Ranch]animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams]wind raind text rewriting fold structure footnote palimpsest description poetry architecture stories [source: On Numerology attributed to Zosimos (d. 1100/493) / nlm.nih.gov]european union communicative process [source: europa.eu, Frank Toussaint]wood grain form techne invention art fiber arrangement poiesis [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Plain_quarter_sawn.png]wonder story assemblage composition affect tale report whirlpool animal media techne tail [source: reed-cpa.com]map cartography trajectory unknown figure diagram composition [source: Al Istakhri, Kitab al masalik wa l mamalik, Book of roads and kingdoms]ajayeb book taxon categorical classification [source: A 14th-century AD manuscript of Zakariya ibn Muhammad al-Qazwini's Aja'ib al-makhluqat (The Wonders of Creation; Persian: ﻋﺟﺎﺋب اﻟﻣﺧﻠوﻗﺎت )]rock material sensation [source: Sina Seifee 4/4/2016]ajayeb mountain earth pit Sina wonder mother matter horizon name people distance [source: scan from Qaswini's Ajayeb al Makhlughat]ajayeb rigs existence hierarchy snake world donya [source: Sina Seifee]interaction urban distance measurement vision percept organism Ihde responce environment [source: galileo.rice.edu]Triassic ecosystem marine reptiles system time relationship history [source: Henry De la Beche 1830.  University of Bristol]Sohrevardi cosmology angel vector animal movement evolution harkate johari rouge field force divine Islam flow mortality excess [source: Sina Seifee & many others]leonardo da vinci water flow physics [source: Leonardo da Vinci]ajayeb wonder [source: unkown]photo camera space stone tech self [source: ESA/Rosetta/Philae/CIVA]stone fire india saint Patthar Baba [source: anilkgupta1954,]anthropos wonder body human monster marvel [source: Ambroise Pare - On Monsters and Marvels]Culebra viperina snake lake forest trickster wonder intra-action human anthropos assemblage plot [source: depaseoporlanaturaleza.blogspot.be]world multi species contingency assemblage human animal dog space society place [source: Peter Westenberg / constantvzw.org]rig sort algorithm machine language series leg arm line map connect [source: stackoverflow.com/questions/18840088/advanced-sorting-algorithm]wood grain Laura Marks Islamic art form techne shape force intensification [source: wikimedia]technology machinery hall rocket cabinet wonder wunder transportation poetry religion [source: Hall of the Rocket Machinery at Tsiolkovsky State Museum of the History of Cosmonautics in Kaluga - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Zal_raketnoi_techniki.JPG]ajayeb wonder world past [source: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:SevenWondersOfTheWorld.jpg]map worlding geometry civilization space social [source: Tavarikh Al-Osman]animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams]Blickmaschinen gaze system visuality vision technique observer perspective situated knowledges positionality [source: Werner Nekes collection]polaritons layered two-dimensional materials [source: http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v16/n2/full/nmat4792.html]fire rigs darkness black box fossil beyond list [source: Sina Seifee]Wunderkammer exhibition collection environment writing [source: Alison and Peter Smithson et al., Parallel of Life and Art]stone human geology intensification matter flow catalog [source: Gall stones | Walz Elektronik]Munes al-Abrar moon fish twelve birds taxon [source: Folio from a Mu'nis al-Abrar fi Deqa'iq al-Ash'ar / top: The Moon and Fish; bottom: Twelve different birds in 2 registers]snake person assemblage semiotics [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Northern_Water_Snake.jpg]wonder story assemblage composition affect tale report whirlpool animal media techne waterbody fish [source: NOAA]firefly condensed precision prisma poesis cartography refraction [source: wikimedia]surgeon monster marvel encyclopedia curiosity human animal nature figure fish waterbody [source: On Monsters and Marvels by Ambroise Paré 1510]astronomy geography celestial cosmology tail sea water body collect abyss Andromeda Perseus beast [source: Joachim Wtewael  (1566–1638) - towerweb.net]ajayeb rigs existence hierarchy snake world donya [source: Sina Seifee]cosmology angels nature history king relationship aesthetic [source: Zubdat al-Tawarikh - Luqman ibn Husayn al-Ashuri  - 1593]wonder ray light water mechanism knowledge image diagram [source: Athanasius Kircher]animal pig wolf dog nature ajayeb matter becoming articulation people [source: Harmen Jansz. Muller ca. 1540 - metmuseum.org]constellation category [source: NASA; ESA; G. Illingworth, D. Magee, and P. Oesch]animating power footnote feeling metamorphic transformation desire think imagine attention difference worlding interruption story [source: Adilnor Collection - al-Jawahir al-Khams]nature material computation dell science knowledge representation microscope zoom [source: http://www.nature.com/]jinn bath human architecture demon hygiene wonder book [source: Kitab al-bulhan or Europe union science technology visualization identity image map [source: Kurzgesagt]field, geometry, architecture, navigational space, life, line, linear, map, eye, view [source: Lynn Randolph - Living Lines]animal turtle tortoise possum cat deer fish snake raccoon [source: John Lawson 1709]shahname Ferdosi Div Rostam pit kill articulation agon [source: Adilnor Collection]moon index Iran Sa'di world refraction poiesis poetics [source: Sina Seifee]moon indexicality finger drawing diagram moon finger Sa'di yar fish nakhshab reflection wonder [source: Sina Seifee & many others]optic visuality system Enlightenment measurement phenomenon [source: physics.kenyon.edu]attention frigatebird media sea anthropology information [source: wikimedia, photograph by Mario Müller]optics reflection mirror sun knowledge metaphore vision raytracing model animal image [source: Opticae Thesaurus]mineral karibibite oumlil stone fire [source: minfind.com]technology dictionary encyclopedia navigation rhetorics [source: Le Larousse pour tous: nouveau dictionnaire encyclopédique 1907]snake skin assemblage river organism environment Barad [source: Sean Gagnon (commons.wikimedia)]world snow white poison gift life cinderella [source: Jon Rafman]deer stone kurgan stelae fire [source: UKRAINE ASKANIA NOVA. Kurgan stelae - Koerganstele 1964]rigs diagram moon finger Sa'di yar fish nakhshab reflection [source: Sina Seifee]nature material computation atom science knowledge representation zoom simulation innovation wealth Hydrogen asymmetry [source: http://www.nature.com/]interference animal jewellery treasure ganj mountain force intensification material plane intra-action percept media data plot [source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prachtk%C3%A4fer_aus_der_Grube_Messel.JPG] precisely calibrated
oriented space
(geometrically?)

what constitutes the logical poles of the vast spectrum of the projects in the archive (people, objects, units of time or space, etc.)

(concerning the archive) we can negotiate two types of knowledge: lists and narratives

to identify a series of key elements that allow us to rethink a wider chronology

textual archaeology - evaluates and decrypts, layer by layer

discovering (evidential) mnemonically oriented means of organizing traditional knowledge

(Montesinos's book:) “list of one hundred kings”

should we abandon the conventional terms of “narrative”
the term narrative used to describe mnemonically oriented lists of names..
narrative was just one of several different means of organizing [...]