[...]
="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > ="frds">Sina='lgc'>: every critical work (today) must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the centrality of ="trms">data (and calculation) in our lives
(from pre="trms">modern) ='strcls'>*describe the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">modern necessity to) ='strcls'>*calculate the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[recognizing a calculated ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">interest in ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>]
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(Cameron's image of) Terminator='lgc'>: relentless unidirectional progress ='lgc'>[that you can't negotiate with='lgc'>] (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">modernity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destruction of cultures and ="trms">communities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> destroy ourselves
how to live with Terminator='lgc'> = how to live with ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modernity
(in the film the Terminator is finally terminated by a determined woman using rather old-="trms">fashioned ="trms">technology)
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absolutely will not stop
inside='lgc'>: hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor controlled, fully armoured, very tough
outside='lgc'>: living human tissue, flesh, skin, hair, blood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> controlled by a clinical logic='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*it cannot be reasoned with='strcls'>*, it cannot be bargained with
its ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal skeleton rises from the ashes and carries on with its ="trms">mission. the skeleton too is chopped to bits, the individual bits come to life and continue with their goal
(for ="ppl">Sardar) ="trms">modernity is the conceptual equivalent of the Terminator (incepted in European Enlightenment='lgc'>: ="trms">modernize traditional cultures and relentlessly lead mankind, screaming and protesting, by the nose towards a progressive utopia)
="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> (witnessed, if not caused='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•death and elimination of numerous cultures
="lsts lst1">•destruction of countless ="trms">communities and ="trms">histories
="lsts lst1">•disappearance of hundreds of valuable ="trms">animal and plant ="trms">species
="lsts lst1">•transformed arable land into wastelands and deserts
="trms">modernity='lgc'>: the official culture of the ="trms">world
(="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) it is not possible to think our way out of ="trms">modernity with the philosophical ="trms">system of thought and ="trms">language supplied by ="trms">modernity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Vattimo's (bad) philosophy of crisis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history
what was traditionally referred to as “="trms">history” is now perceived as having broken down into an in="trms">finity of “="trms">histories” that can no longer be (re)combined into a single ="trms">narrative governed by a central theme
(today='lgc'>:) ="trms">history='lgc'> = a kind of ="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•progress='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*something qualitatively ="trms">different from what precedes it='strcls'>* (a forward movement in ="trms">history) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[now:='lgc'>] welf established ="trms">technique (of such masters as ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, ="ppl">Deleuze, ="ppl">Derrida, ="ppl">Lyotard and ="ppl">Baudrillard='lgc'>:) to deconstruct rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics in order to open it, to re="trms">write it and thus to lay the foundation, in terms of a ="ppl">Marxian-inspired ="trms">historicism, of new truths for a post="trms">modernist thought
="lsts lst1">•(Vattimo's use of) nihilism as weapon to attack notions of ‘truth’ and ‘reason’ (in western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst2">◦‘logic='lgc'> = (just another kind of) ="trms">rhetoric’
="lsts lst2">◦‘truth='lgc'> = will to power (by those who claim to be seeking truth over those who are being addressed by them)’
="lsts lst2">◦‘="trms">science and ="trms">technology='lgc'> = dominating ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">systems’
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (eliminated any) possibility of a dialogue with cultures that are truly other as the rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology
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(='thdf'>the idea of) p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of cultures and discourses must become a basic premise of post="trms">modernist thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and widely p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">religious revival ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ ="trms">excessive indulgence in relativism='lgc'>]
(the meaning of) morality and principles of justice in a post="trms">modern ="trms">world='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[democracy's western ethos:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•recognition of human needs
="lsts lst1">•courage
="lsts lst1">•solidarity
="lsts lst1">•justice
="lsts lst1">•prudence
="lsts lst1">•(virtue of) participating in rational discourse
(="ppl">Sardar's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•stating the obvious with a sense of grand discovery is an essential post="trms">modern disease
="lsts lst1">•what ="trms">modern ="trms">science and ="trms">technology, free ="trms">market economy and multinational corporations are doing in the name of freedom, justice and fairness
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> despite ="trms">wonderful sentiments, and all the arguments for justice and equify, we end up with more of the same
(problem of the East with) ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a European cultural construct based on ="trms">specific ="trms">historical legacy and condition, and its basic goal has always been to shape ="trms">science, politics, arts, morality and the ="trms">world ="trms">according to its own image and inner logic
='lgc'>+
much of post="trms">modernist thought is a sitnilar European construct and continues the old programme in a renewed attempt to justify neomarxism or new brands of liberal humanism
="prgrph">-what is a a genuine, radical departure from post="trms">modernism='qstn'>?
="trms">religiosity='lgc'>: that which transcends the ="trms">world (can be expressed in Fascism, ="trms">Communism, Nationalism, ="trms">Scientism, ="trms">Aestheticism, Nuclearism, or in several other secular ="trms">religions)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]secularism='lgc'>: a dishonest kind of ="trms">religiosity='strcls'>***
(mark of out time='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*necessity of recovering our sense of oneness with ="trms">nature='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our total alienation
='lgc'>[='qstn'>?my artistic research is the very expression of='lgc'>] (Griffin's) post="trms">modernism ='lgc'>: a new ="trms">relationship with the ="trms">past (and the future) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- post="trms">modernism acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, appreciates and wants to learn from the wisdom of traditional ="trms">societies ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= neoconservative ="trms">religious fundamentalism ='lgc'>=/= constructive nihilism
='lgc'>[the strive for a new ‘enchanted ="trms">science’ (='lgc'>=/= sacred ="trms">science) that='lgc'>] overcomes the separation between truth and virtue, value and fact, ethics and practical necessity
(Falk's) Disneyland post="trms">modernism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•abstract affirmation of a ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic harmonious future
="lsts lst1">•homogenized uniformity (based on a colonizing logic and westernization of the globe)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">interpret ="trms">science and ="trms">natural reality as confirmatory of a spiritual grounding for human
="lsts lst1">•ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic possibilities of encompassing conflict
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***post="trms">modernism as an expression of the privileged status of the West='strcls'>***
='strcls'>*="trms">greek gnosis is the Terminator in its guise of mystic='strcls'>* (which provided the Enlightenment with its springboard and ="trms">modernity with its ="trms">mission to subjugate non-western cultures)
arrogance and ="trms">authoritarianism are intrinsic in both ="trms">Greek rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and mystical thoughts='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Socrates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped reason and was an arrogant and obnoxious man who enjoyed ridiculing ordinary folks
="lsts lst1">•Buddah ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped ="trms">nature and produced a totally ="trms">authoritarian ="trms">system of thought (as have most philosophers in western ="trms">history who have appealed to ="trms">nature for ethics)
new post="trms">modernism's value='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ecological wisdom
="lsts lst1">•grassroots democracy
="lsts lst1">•personal and ="trms">social ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•non-violence
="lsts lst1">•decentralization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">community-based economics
="lsts lst1">•postpatriarchal values
="lsts lst1">•respect for diversity
="lsts lst1">•global ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•future focus
='strcls'>*="trms">modernity is based on a fundamental value-idea ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> secularism (a value whose op="trms">posite cannot be chosen as value)='strcls'>*
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importance of scale
archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> scale of the in="trms">finite
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='strcls'>*="trms">history of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]='lgc'> = dream of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (="trms">present in the mind) of the people who are not anglophone ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">history of ="trms">science='strcls'>*
inside and outide the mental map of the ="trms">historian (of ="trms">science)
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SDzVaBj492s
="ppl">Daston on ='strcls'>*disciplinary ="trms">neurosis='strcls'>* of the ="trms">history of ="trms">science
all timelines are maps (are chronologies, are provincial)
most drawings are maps (are charming)
='lgc'>[="frds">Sina:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****can we have (="trms">imagine) ="trms">science without ="trms">modernity (not coming ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right after it)='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my research ="trms">question (to separate the bond between ="trms">science and ="trms">modernity='qstn'>? to flow the curiosity in that direction)
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='lgc'>{ ='thdf'>the idea of “="trms">science created the ="trms">modern ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ western global dominance” (='lgc'>=/= everyone else) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “understanding of ="trms">modernity='lgc'> = understanding ="trms">history of ="trms">science”
(one of rare moments that) european middle ages is conflated with the whole of middle east civilization, as pre-="ppl">Newtonian (in the eyes of W. Rostow)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cold war (maneuvering for the alliances of the newly decolonized nations)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all the ways of knowing that were not in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded in the current Anglophone and Francophone de="trms">finition of “="trms">science='lgc'> = the ="trms">natural ="trms">sciences in English only in mid 19th century” ='lgc'>=/= elm علم, Wissenschaft
='strcls'>**there is no culture without (its own implicit ="trms">systematics of) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•="trms">epistemological hierarchy (even without the display or existence of ='strcls'>*="trms">epistemic culture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[dedicated to the persue of knoweldge='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yet put pressure on ="trms">communities of learning ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ideas ='and'>& practices, for example alchemy was court ="trms">science par excellence)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social hierarchy
="lsts lst1">•rational who can practice them why
(="ppl">Daston='lgc'>:) the stuck of hands-on knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge shoots up and then ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics plump it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persue of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge becomes collective (with ="trms">different pressure points)
for many cultures ='lgc'>[in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding Persian='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the philology (grammer) is the queen of the ="trms">sciences
="lsts lst1">•the stricing prevalence of ='strcls'>*dispute='lgc'>: intellectual discourse ="trms">staged as agonistic duel ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (most of our) ='strcls'>***intellectual life is conducted as polemic='strcls'>***
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the more you study an environment the less your in="trms">heritiability of that environment will be (='qstn'>?)
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="trms">history='lgc'>: study of ="trms">past as it it com="trms">memorate in traces (textual, physical, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb studies =='lgc'>] ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>: subjective com="trms">memoration of the ="trms">past, collective forms of com="trms">memorations (for example the name of streets, or monuments, or unconscious way of navigating in Tajrish square, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">present in oral ="trms">interviews
="lsts lst1">•how the ="trms">past has been en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed emotionally, politically, ="trms">communally,,, (in various causes='lgc'>: construction of autobiography to the construction of national myth) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> objectivity does not make sense in ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•it in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes (not only that which cab be documented, it rather) in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes an element of the subjective ='lgc'>: how people feel about what happened in the ="trms">past, how they reconstruct events of the ="trms">past but also ="trms">narratives ='lgc'>=/= what happened in the ="trms">past ='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectivity (among ="trms">histories='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst2">◦cross-checking of sources
="lsts lst2">◦(19th century ="trms">technique of) “="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading against the grain”='lgc'>: try to discover, from the surviving sources, from what perspective they were ="trms">written (what ="trms">historical context they were embedded in)='lgc'> = “critical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading” from the stand point of all of one might say “the illusions of ="trms">memory” which might cloud an objective impartial records of events (not accepting the ="trms">narrative that place value in the source) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦securing evidence (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to archive) ='lgc'>: ="trms">intersection of objectivity with study of ="trms">history
(since 17th century) ="trms">memory has been essential to our conceptualization of what does it mean to have a self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> why we are so concerned with ="trms">memory damage ceases (alzheimer, etc.)
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husod3oqLds
many time when we define (say “what X is”), what we are doing is to how to make a term more precise, to make something ='strcls'>*artificially operational='strcls'>*
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='strcls'>*="trms">sciences of the archive='strcls'>*
depend on longed lived collections
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(since 16th century, as we know it) ="trms">modern ="trms">science's ="trms">epistemic goal='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*pre="trms">dictive accuracy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*to elevate certainty='strcls'>* (the case in medieval Latin Europe)
="trms">books (="trms">past discoveries) ='and'>& ="trms">instruments (future discoveries) ="trms">interspersed ='lgc'>--when='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they both belong to the same practice ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> library
(="ppl">Goethe='lgc'>:) search nothing beyond the ="trms">phenomena
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="ppl">="ppl">Morris
movement of commerce's subject (='lgc'>=/= walking of the Parisian flaneur)
plaque's morbid sentimen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evades the reduction of signs to mere reference
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]public art='lgc'>: the art of a ="trms">world bifurcated by capital ='lgc'>--tending='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*monumentality='lgc'>: an exaggerated ="trms">literality ='lgc'>+ ="trms">excess of scale (incapable of irony)
(of image ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) textuality='lgc'>: something ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurking off that bids us engage the ambiguity
metonym
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critique='lgc'>: (analogy of) a movement toward the outside
a grammatical negative can never efface what it attempts to contradict
a call for judgment hides in the defensive ="trms">gesture
criminality='lgc'>: departure from (or fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure) to recognize a law
new violence
="lsts lst1">•violence against the sovereignty of local subjects
="lsts lst1">•violence against an ="trms">internationalized regime that increasingly claimed ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive sovereignty for itself
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ethnography of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list crisis (a project on='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•the politics of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]transparency='lgc'>: the ideological pointing stick by which the ="trms">market has appropriated for itself the function of regulating the state (where it was the function of the state to regulate the ="trms">market)
="lsts lst1">•how capitalism (='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>] in Thailand) disguises itself as mere monetization
="lsts lst1">•how money's total and totalizing meditations have come to be experienced in the contrary idioms of immediacy and eternal ="trms">present-being
="lsts lst1">•
(='lgc'>[i am='lgc'>] learning with ="ppl">="ppl">Morris) ethnography of crisis
="prgrph">-how capitalism in Thailand disguises itself as mere monetization
="prgrph">-how money's (total and totalizing) mediations have come to be experienced in the contrary idioms of immediacy (and eternal ="trms">present-being)
="prgrph">-="trms">rhetorics of transparency and visibility (conceived in ="trms">aesthetic domains)
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(="trms">narcissistic act of) tele="trms">technic encompassment
='strcls'>*spirit mediumship='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[auratic threshold of re="trms">presentation='lgc'>]
(the nationally renowned spirit medium) Chuchad, flamboyant media savvy
daguerreotypy='lgc'>: a demonic receiving device that had the capacity to retain and thereby diminish the photographed subject's substance
(in Thai) kaan thaay ='lgc'>[taking, wasting='lgc'>] ruup ='lgc'>[picture='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Thai word for photography
="lsts lst1">•concomitant transformation and discharge
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> spirit practices were brought into conversation with the mass media
="lsts lst1">•conceptualized largely in terms of atavism and/or residue (repressed orgiastic impulse buried)
="lsts lst1">•(located on the periphery of) the ='strcls'>*nation's geo-body='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= state's formed public='lgc'>]
(from the perspective of rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list Buddhist orthodoxy ='lgc'>[and in the case of ="nms">iranian superstitions, Holakouee خرافه khorafe='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) mediumship='lgc'>: (="trms">imagined as) a temporal ="trms">interruption of the nation's ="trms">modernity
="trms">communist occult practices
emasculating magic
phantasmatic triad of nation, ="trms">religion, monarch
mediums='lgc'> = state's other
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='lgc'>[today='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•identification between the local and the global (facilitated by transnational ="trms">communication ="trms">systems) compete with those of the nationalism
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">market-based discourses of civic politics in the anticipation of being seen from afar by a multinational media audience='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•
mediumship reborn as...
="lsts lst1">•circulating along with its own images
="lsts lst1">•part of an endlessly proliferating series (='lgc'>=/= double of a lost o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal) in which it merely seeks to be legible as an image of its displaced self
='lgc'>[a figure many artists today want to be='lgc'>: spirit='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*medium='strcls'>* (profession of epiphanic discovery) ='lgc'>--transmitting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">paranoiac messages ='lgc'>--prophesying='lgc'>='lgc'>--> boundary penetration (o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated with the state)
(revolution reduced to) the status of mise-en-s="trms">cene
bourgeois democracy
="trms">market-based discourses of civic politics
simulacral space of the new mediascape
(Chuchad's promise of authenticity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) violent authenticity of an exposure in which mediumship's re="trms">presentations would be renounced ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">techniques of the performance themselves become the object of performative inscription='strcls'>*
="trms">history of ="trms">religious legitimacies
popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list conservative monk ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">religious sermon in the format of emphatically dialogic, using vernacular forms and local dialects to disseminate ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> content remaines deeply orthodox in its valorization of the foundational texts ='lgc'>+ its ritua="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list inscription='lgc'>]
='lgc'>+
medium's anti-="trms">ontological discovery
='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>
either there is nothing to transmit or there is no means of trans="trms">mission='lgc'> = silence or white noise
Phra Phyom ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodiment of fame itself, a bastardized auratic ="trms">presence that is always arriving (='lgc'>~ imminent without ="trms">specification)
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="prgrph">-what drew these people to this performance='qstn'>?
(seeking the) ambivalent pleasure (not without violence) of having a secret unmasked
acolyte
to ensure a line of vision between the medium and his audience
broadcasting device='lgc'> = recording device
="trms">authorship ='lgc'>--(displaced by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a logic of ='strcls'>*tracking of traces without a subject='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- reduction of re="trms">presentation and inscription)
="trms">modern mediumship ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]automatic ="trms">writing='lgc'>: (most as="trms">sociated with surrealism, in Western contexts) the ="trms">writer seeks to merely transmit his or her unconscious thoughts and, in the process, to disavow ='thdf'>the notion of ="trms">authorial ="trms">agency... ='lgc'>[it marks a more general ="trms">transitional moment in the ="trms">history of re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Morris='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***the production of meaning ceases to be a function of ="trms">writing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> actuality or facticity becomes the primary object of inscription='strcls'>***)
confessional performances
d="trms">enunciation of possession performance
un="trms">translatable utterances ='lgc'>[='strcls'>**increasing performance of un="trms">translatability, glossolalia غريبه گفتارى ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> contemporary spirit possession performances ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the truth of the spirits in the mass-mediatized ="trms">world is not referential and certainly not universal ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the truth of the spirits centers on ="trms">questions about the ="trms">difference between noise and information='lgc'>]
mediums embrace ="trms">technology
mediumship proliferates
mediums and the media provide each other with ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors
(mediums seek to escape the ="trms">relationship altogether) in forms of ecstatic nonre="trms">presentation or absolute r="trms">enunciation
Chuchad cutting his tongue ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disavow disavowal
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]he rendered himself voiceless, and the only sounds he could make were those of exhalation and inhalation='lgc'>: sounds of the body as machine”
...the crowd gasped and then repeated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> confused awe ='and'>& automatism
='lgc'>[a ="trms">fable:='lgc'>] “Chuchad placed the tongue on a piece of white paper, and the blood quickly diffused into the fibers. For a moment it appeared as though the tongue was ="trms">writing a blunt, indecipherable hieroglyph. Chuchad then held the paper to his mouth so it was covering his face and pressed the tongue back into its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal place. This time, he seemed to be re="trms">writing, or rather, ="trms">writing in reverse, and the glyph was inscribed on the tongue as though the tongue had been transformed into paper and the paper into pen. Thus did ="trms">writ- ing make speech possible. The medium pulled the paper away, ="trms">folded it carefully, and then, with only a little blood reddening his lips, began speaking.” (="ppl">="ppl">Morris)
="lsts lst1">•tongue excision='lgc'> = performative repudiation of mediumship
="lsts lst1">•voice='lgc'> = the vehicle of a simple exteriorization
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">fable='lgc'>: ="trms">staged risk in the form of a bad example ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “object of trans="trms">mission='lgc'> = the truth”
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]confession='lgc'>: a mode of accession or conformity to the message
in Buddhism of pre="trms">modern ="trms">cosmologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a domain of ="trms">natural signification where there is ='strcls'>*a pure identity between signifier and signified='strcls'>*
auxiliary hell جهنم کمکی
='lgc'>[a ="trms">fable:='lgc'>] scrutiny ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (meritorious beings='lgc'>:) people in ="trms">question become miraculously ="trms">="trms">equipped with ="trms">memory
recorded on luminous jewel-encrusted gold tablets
quaint traditions عجیب و جالب
(i am learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Morris how not to) reject the ="trms">cosmology as a ="trms">symptom of superstition or a relic of bygone times
ubiquity alone is inadequate to de="trms">monstrate relevance
(in the ="trms">story of Yama) in the evildoer's case, speech is not the mere ="trms">instrument of truth='lgc'>: it is both a ="trms">symptom and a cause of sin
where the law rules ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•there is no ="trms">difference between ='strcls'>*object='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*sign='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•there is no ="trms">difference between ='strcls'>*speech='strcls'>* and ='strcls'>*voice='strcls'>*
the ="trms">language of truth (personified in the speechless ="trms">child) ='lgc'>=/= corruptions of human utterance ='lgc'>: ='lgc'>{truth's silent ideality ='lgc'>=/= sin's “over-naming"='lgc'>}
mediumship's re="trms">presentational function='lgc'>: trans="trms">mission of a referential truth ='lgc'>+ repeated registration of the mere ="trms">technique of its trans="trms">mission
(Chuchad's) ="trms">instrumental “="trms">writing”
(like Chuchad, many performance artists are today) inhabiting the era of ='strcls'>***="trms">technique's fetishization='strcls'>***='lgc'> = (="ppl">Heidegger's era of) ="trms">technology
occult returning in the guise of transparency
nationalized discourse of ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: (op="trms">positional terms of) ="trms">science ='lgc'>=/= magic
redolent of... حاکی
when ='strcls'>*observation='strcls'>* (propelled by desire ='lgc'>=/=) become a form of ='strcls'>*attention='strcls'>* (propelled by labor)
='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris > ="ppl">Kittler on “discourse ="trms">network” of ="ppl">Freud, ="ppl">Simmel, ="ppl">Rilke:='lgc'>] ="trms">writing='lgc'> = an exhaustion that endlessly refused to end (='lgc'>=/= miniatures of meaning)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">writing is nothing beyond its ="trms">materiality” and people who practice this act simply replace ="trms">writing machine ='lgc'>==promis='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*mystical union of ="trms">writing and delirium='strcls'>*
(from) actual magicality of script ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the re="trms">presentational capacity of inscription ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a deployment of ="trms">writing in the mode of mathematics (bureaucratic ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">poetry)
incorporation of ="trms">technologies of mass mediatization into the ="trms">language (and performance of possession ='lgc'>--by='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the discourses of lost tradition)
="prgrph">-what kind of mediation is (not simply the inscription of its ="trms">technique, but) a renewed trans="trms">mission of meaning='qstn'>?
='strcls'>**the fantasy of a return to meaning='strcls'>**
='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris submits that='lgc'>] (direct ="trms">marketing ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=) ='strcls'>*pyramid schemes='strcls'>* are the economic counterpart of ='strcls'>*mediumship='strcls'>*
= the mode of retailing in which the function of distribution and resale (and indeed the movement of capital) is masked in the ='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric of directness='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]directness='lgc'>: withdrawal of an infrastructure of mediation into the person of the distributor ='lgc'>+ مستتر کردن occulting of ="trms">technique in the very moment of display
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]pyramid scheme='lgc'>: a structure in which retailers ="trms">recruit more retailers ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (mainly serves the ="trms">interests of) multinational entities parading as local entrepeneurialism
grotesquely functionalized room
abandoning the ="trms">ontology of mediumship (for...)
putatively unmediated truth (of...)
magic's ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis entailes a repetition
(='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Morris analysis of Chuchad:='lgc'>] a medium becoming) a middleman disavowing the mediations that he performed in order to produce the illusion of value, or meaning, or truth
="lsts lst1">•working only in the repression of its own operations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> truth-effect of ="trms">marketing
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the ="trms">market can substitute for magic='strcls'>*, the media can be itself, the very ="trms">nature of money (its abstractions and its generality) can compensate for the ="trms">differences it effaces
='strcls'>*="trms">rhetoric of asian family='strcls'>*
occult ="trms">network='lgc'>: ="trms">networks that are not publicly disclosed
(in environments that are believed not to operate as an open economy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> economies are dominated not only by particular families but by the logic of family ='lgc'>[ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive and unassailable ties between small ="trms">communities='lgc'>])
='lgc'>=/= rationalization of local economies, ="trms">market liberalization,,
="lsts lst1">•anachronistic ="trms">imaginary of transnational capitalism and the racialized family (of asian nations) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idealized
="lsts lst1">•="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical ruse of kinship's discourse
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*neocolonial fantasy concealed in the dream of immediacy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Amway='lgc'>: theologically informed ="trms">market liberalism='lgc'>--pursuing a noiseless ="trms">world where feedback is impossible
confessional disclosures of new capital
="trms">rhetoric of transparency
mediumship's (enthralling) dramaturgy of disclosure
(="ppl">="ppl">Morris asking) what else is transparency in the massified ="trms">world='qstn'>? a mediation so total that it has become invisible (='qstn'>?)
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="lsts lst1">•to challange them
="lsts lst1">•to break with their own ="trms">gesture
="lsts lst1">•to in="trms">herit from them
='strcls'>*="ppl">Socrates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alleged ="trms">epistemo-="trms">sociological enquiry (='lgc'>[the tradition of='lgc'>] asking people what they know and how they think) ='lgc'>--Savransky='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (hallmark of ="trms">social ="trms">sciences today='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*ethics of estrangement='strcls'>*='lgc'>: ‘becoming estranged’ from the realm of appearances made available by direct experience in order to ‘gain access’ to a realm of facts and causes='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>==="ppl">Whitehead='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*bifurcation of ="trms">nature='strcls'>*='lgc'>: a mode of understanding whereby experience only discloses that which is apparent, whereas the ‘relevant’ factors in the process of knowing the ="trms">world must always lie, and be sought, somewhere else
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice in ="trms">Wonderland
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Cinderella ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">harem girl, ="trms">hallucinating with ="trms">animals, not becoming a psycho (angry), arrested='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*='lgc'>=/= William James='lgc'>: inquiry is about ='strcls'>**the way some people cultivate an expertise='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they hesitate='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they think='strcls'>**, ='strcls'>**how they complicate a problem='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='at'>#feedback='lgc'>] (='thdf'>for example)
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*="trms">religious experience='lgc'>: to address his ="trms">questions to the ones who know, the ones whose expertise could help him learn something new and often unexpected ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> passionate, even if problematic, experience of living in a ="trms">world where God ="trms">matters='strcls'>*
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*emotional experience='lgc'>: with theater actors, who know about creating, discriminating, disclosing, and sharing emotional experiences='strcls'>*
='strcls'>***from whom should we in="trms">herit our practices, and how='qstn'>?='strcls'>***
learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Despret's ='strcls'>*anachronism='strcls'>* (her field philosophy)
اشتباه در ترتیب حقیقی وقایع
(="trms">heritage of ="ppl">Socrates) form of ="trms">epistemic and ethical bifurcation ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> search for hidden causes (underlying the conduct of actors)
="ppl">Socrates's “you think you know, but actually, you don't know and you don't think” ='lgc'>==created='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>***='lgc'>[1='lgc'>]a device that inhabits thinking and produced only mental paralysis='strcls'>***
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>:) invest[...]