[...]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


='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'>]


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


='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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:133%"> ='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

="large lg14" stl="font-size:122%"> ='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'>:) investigators rarely ask the ="trms">question of how the people they ="trms">interview might be ="trms">interested in the ="trms">questions addressed to them

='strcls'>*relevance='lgc'> = adventure='strcls'>*
there are many examples of how a piece of abstract knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that looked like devoid of any ="trms">imaginable consequences came to ="trms">matter (acquired an importance nobody would contest)
="prgrph">-relevance may be lost in ="trms">translation
='strcls'>*="trms">ecology of dynamic and fragile patterns of relevance, of modes of ="trms">mattering for oneself and for others (Savransky)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]relevance='lgc'>: a sense that there is value beyond ourselves (something that is not ourselves, ="trms">matters) ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (daring to connect the) speculative ='lgc'>+ ethical ='lgc'>+ practical
(risk of) to renounce ='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ embrace ='strcls'>*knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge's achievement as an event='strcls'>*


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
(ego engineering)


='strcls'>***='lgc'>[2='lgc'>]device of anonymity (“to protect people”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> distributes expertise, and builds induces performs an a="trms">symmetry of roles
="lsts lst1">•the imperative of de="trms">ontology
="lsts lst1">•(can be) a regime of insult

“you, the refugees” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an anonymous mass marked with ='strcls'>**an identity that they had not chosen, and from which they cannot invent themselves='strcls'>**

risk of disclosing
risk of separating
risk of isolating
risk of making people talk while silencing
risk of stealing the words
risk of of drawing the words out from the speaker
risk of retying the secret to its etymology ='lgc'>[secretus='lgc'>: to separate, to isolate='lgc'>]


(what we like to think about in ="nms">apass) to reflect on what anonymity can produce in other research ="trms">situations
='lgc'>[instead of asking “what the body does/produces='qstn'>?” ='lgc'>=/= what ="frds">Sina's body does for the spider in his room='qstn'>? what Ninja Turtles body does for Iron Man='qstn'>? what anonymous refugee body does for ="frds scrmbld">Xiri='qstn'>? what Jane Fonda body does for ="frds scrmbld">Laura='qstn'>? etc.='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***anonymity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> identity='strcls'>***
(the ="trms">position of “subject” in an investigation is created by erasing the name)
="lsts lst1">•“feel free to say anything you want” or “speak without fear"='lgc'> = your words will have no consequences
="lsts lst1">•they are always at risk of putting people in ="trms">situations where they are unlikely to be ="trms">interesting ='and'>& unlikely to be ="trms">interested

="ppl">="ppl">Despret's ="trms">interview where an exchange really meant something ='lgc'>=/= Mette's notion of nothing means anymore except the absurd ="trms">gesture that announces meaninglessness of itself


inquiry='lgc'> = experience ='and'>& experimentation, ='strcls'>*testing ='and'>& putting into continuity an ensemble of experiences='strcls'>*
Kimiavi in his film The Garden of Stones, his subject by the very fact that they are now part of the conditions of the environment in ="trms">relation to which investigator develops ="trms">skills, desires, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge or ="trms">science
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='strcls'>*inquiry='lgc'>: set of transformations that the very process of inquiry imposes, concrete and existential transformations for the objects studied just as much as the inquiring subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Kimiavi's) logic of creative experimentation ='lgc'>=/= logic of logic of discovery
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='strcls'>*creative dimension (of every fieldwork)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(it may) take the form of a device that sparks the creation of thoughts
="lsts lst1">•(it may) transform the ="trms">relationship between the enquirer and the one she is addressing
="lsts lst1">•(it may) disclose some dimensions of the ="trms">situation that were not visible or felt
="lsts lst1">•(it may) completely redefine what people actually docile
="lsts lst1">•


="trms">positivist ="trms">sociological approach='lgc'>: to discover a reality al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready given, al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready stabilized ='lgc'>+ procedures asserting this stability ='lgc'>+ ="trms">questions wanting to be neutral ='lgc'>+ a large and distributed sample ='lgc'>+ a modest investigator='lgc'>: who disappears behind the strength of the ="trms">data (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)


="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]inquiry='lgc'>: studies what it creates while studying it, and the changes it provokes (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we know this in art, ='at'>@="nms">apass)

="prgrph">-can i no longer develop knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge behind the back of those that i have ="trms">questioned (my mother...)='qstn'>?

="nms">apass, ='at'>#feedback
it is up to them to make the connection between what they think and what determines their particular way of thinking


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> summoning ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">mimesis (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena)


='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre (from) critical analysis ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatism
='strcls'>***we do not think or act “because” of ="trms">social determination, but rather “with” them='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= better ="nms">Cinderella (learning ="trms">pragmatism from ="nms">Cinderella='lgc'>: how to think and act with the evil sisters='qstn'>?)


amateur='lgc'>: the one who develops an expertise, a ="trms">love, a taste ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dare to taste ='lgc'>=/= dare to know='lgc'>]<[...]