[...]="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
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='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)
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)
='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.)
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
(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
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(="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
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='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
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)
(="trms">narcissistic act of) tele="trms">technic encompassment
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='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
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="trms">communist occult practices
emasculating magic
phantasmatic triad of nation, ="trms">religion, monarch
mediums='lgc'> = state's other
='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)
="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'>**
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='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...)
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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[...]