[...]ion='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

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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:122%"> 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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> 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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> ='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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="large lg5" stl="font-size:144%">
="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 alwa[...]