[...]le and foreign nonself (!)
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reality function ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adapt to reality='lgc'>: to manufacture works which are realities

="trms">modern flirtation='lgc'>: refusal and the withdrawal of the self are fused with the ="trms">phenomenon of drawing attention to the self (in one indivisible act)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Simmel

="trms">Poetics of Reverie (by Bachelard) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter


how ="frds">Sina works
(in my more recent works i play with) ='lgc'>[no='lgc'>] enactment of visual mastery
='lgc'>[no='lgc'>] ocular potency
="prgrph">-my ="trms">storytelling operates in a state of distraction, in which the stability of the ="trms">story begin to erode ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> breakdown of normative attentive ="trms">narratives ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the audience finds themselves in a trancelike state ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> condition for mobile and transient synthesis
="prgrph">-i mobilize a set of as="trms">sociative chains that are part of a libidinal economy (that i am part of) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*exceeding the binding logic of the work='strcls'>*

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effectively
cross-eyed figure
sees
if anything at all
(it is a disunified field)
with two
disparate optical axes.
into the eclipse mental
the environment grows dim


attentive subject ='lgc'>--="ppl">Ricoeur='lgc'>='lgc'>--> part of the open state of the universe of signs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> juncture of the ="trms">erotic ='and'>& the semantic

="trms">symbols, in their overloaded ="trms">semiotic banality, is where the ruse of desire is expressed

(a diagram='lgc'>:) parallel lines ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a principle of nonconvergence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the binocularity of vision is not united or synthesized on a ="trms">specific plane or point ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a spliting apart ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*unreconciled binocular disparity='strcls'>* (='lgc'>--="trms">situates='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">difference and nonidentity within the midst of perception)
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= convergence (without which a normative attention would be impossible ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">world of focused clarity)='lgc'>]


...as if a single object is seen by two nonreconciled eyes


seamless modulation of normative attention into a dispersed distraction ='lgc'>==='qstn'>?!='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (reassemblage and rebinding into the) ='strcls'>*repetitive laws of the unconscious='strcls'>*

...the image of conjugality and adultery ="trms">simultaneously
="prgrph">-fixed ="trms">position of limits

Bindung ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">figuration of an adulterous liaison

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]adultery (in the context of ="trms">modernization)='lgc'>: “a cynicism of forms,” merely another effect of a dominant ="trms">system of exchange (circulation and equivalence)
Tanner

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]infidelity='lgc'>: capacity to de="trms">compose oneself into the p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of distinctly ="trms">different essential tendencies, to detach the periphery from the center, and to make ="trms">interests and activities independent of their ="trms">integral ="trms">interconnection ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ='mywrk'>my work='lgc'>]
="ppl">Simmel

in Duchampian terminology='lgc'>: (Manet's painting In The Conservatory) blossoming bride and bachelor enmeshed in a verdant anticonjugal machine of perpetual nonfulfilment

cultural corrosion of conjugality ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (one of) larger dis="trms">integration of pre="trms">modern ="trms">positions (of male and female)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•violent insertion of women into the process of commodity production

='strcls'>*labor and ="trms">society assume a mass character ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “women='lgc'> = mass articles” ='and'>& lose='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•their “="trms">natural” qualities (female essence defined by the production of life)
="lsts lst1">•their ="trms">poetic aura

="large lg1" stl="font-size:142%"> traditional ="trms">positions disrupted by the logic of exchangeability='strcls'>***


greenhouses in 19th century, extended the dwelling and bore witness to the expansion of the private sphere. greenhouse provided a place to stroll in all weathers
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> frozen temporality ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ="trms">memory and ="trms">history ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded =(congealed ="trms">present)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> de="trms">historisized subjectivity

(fundamental) withdrawal of the possibility of ='strcls'>*="trms">gesture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--="ppl">Agamben='lgc'>='lgc'>--> part of the particularly ="trms">modern fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of ethos, of character
='lgc'>[="trms">gesture ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? ethos='lgc'>]

incapa="trms">citation='lgc'>: r="trms">enunciation of ='strcls'>*potentia='strcls'>*='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= capacity for being ="trms">affected, any expansion of practical being ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Spinoza='lgc'>]


smell of flowers='lgc'> = dis="trms">integrated product of their sexual ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Freud


D='lgc'>+G becoming woman
='strcls'>*man='lgc'>: molar entity par excellence (='lgc'>=/= becomings are molecular), man constitutes the majority, the standard in which the majority is based='lgc'>: white, male, adult, rational ='lgc'>~ the average european, the subject of ="trms">enunciation
='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problematized by ="ppl">Grosz ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="nms">ajayeb.net/='qstn'>?q=="ppl">Grosz='prcnt'>%2B="ppl">Deleuze='prcnt'>%2B="ppl">Guattari)


the perpetual self-invention of “free subjectivity” ='lgc'>--defining='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">modernity
cycle of de="trms">coding ='and'>& re="trms">coding ='lgc'>:
daring innovation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hyper="trms">anxious self-consolidation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> renewed innovation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ...


Manet ='lgc'>=/= Caravaggio='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•intense optical contact
="lsts lst1">•tactile contact
="lsts lst1">•a reciprocal ="trms">system of investment in the transactional ="trms">nature of the encounter='lgc'>--infused with the ="trms">interplay of the ="trms">social, libidinal, and economic ="trms">difference

hands as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•expression of individual consciousness (in Caravaggio)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">instrument of active ="trms">gesture (in Manet)


activity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? simulation of ="trms">gesture

pointing index finger
confirmation of the impossibility of a direct perception, impossibility of an attention that was an immediate possession of its object (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Sa'di pointing out to the moon and his ="trms">lover...)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> every point of fixation is deferral
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (once='qstn'>?) functioned to denote a plane of transcendence


="trms">figuration of utopia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">simultaneous mapping out of death, absence, and ="trms">finitude of ="trms">historical subjectivity


="ppl">Peirce's (nonoptical operation of attentive consciousness ='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Descartes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impossibility of direct intuition, of ="trms">interpretive process
='strcls'>**cognition and perception could only occur indirectly='strcls'>**
index='lgc'>: exercising a real physiological force over the attention ='lgc'>-- mesmerized into its particular object of sense.
= ='strcls'>*everything that focuses the attention='strcls'>*, (everything that startles us into an index)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> make something conceptually ="trms">present which is perceptually absent


installed economy of attraction(/distraction) ='lgc'>[in European cities, and its deviation in ="nms">Tehran ="trms">differences='lgc'>]


="trms">fashion works to bind attention ="trms">onto its own pseudo-unity

against the living, ="trms">fashion asserts the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of corpse and the sex appeal of the inorganic
(="ppl">Benjamin)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> death drive

(supreme cult of the commodity='lgc'>:) ="trms">fashion='lgc'>: a blossoming forth into a luminous apparition of the new
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? withdrawal from ="trms">fashion='lgc'> = a strategy of freedom='lgc'>]

="ppl">Adorno='lgc'>: in the age of growing powerlessness of subjective spirit vis a vis ="trms">social objectivity, ="trms">fashion registers the alien ="trms">excess of objectivity in subjective spirit, which is painful yet all the same a corrective of the illusion that subjective spirit exist purely within itself. against its detractors, ="trms">fashion's most powerful ="trms">response is that it participates in the individual's impulse, which is saturated with ="trms">history. (“="trms">Aesthetic Theory” p316)


(='qstn'>?what are my time's) rhythms of attentiveness


="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ='strcls'>*mask='lgc'>: a means of mental survival

mask (of masculinity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ability to keep a secret ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*all secrets are (at the end) sexual='strcls'>*


='lgc'>[='lgc'>]should our artistic practices comment or be continuous with the (emerging) ="trms">world of ="trms">consumer culture='qstn'>? ='at'>#make a ="trms">fashion magazine with ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali and ="frds scrmbld">Janina='lgc'>: excursion into the stultifying and emancipatory effects of the ="trms">fashion commodity. discussion on='lgc'>: jewellery, decoration, women's bodies, show, ="trms">travel, glitter, ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> kaleidoscopic decom="trms">position and displacement of the glitter object
="prgrph">-="ppl">Mallarme's La Derniere Mode
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> luminosity of a single object is lost amidst its inde="trms">finite reflections on the multiplied and fractured surfaces adjacent to it
='strcls'>*insubstantial ="trms">world (of mode) aligned with (its own) ="trms">sublime disavowal of the immediate='strcls'>* (, an emptiness and ="trms">anxiety at the heart of this impossible ="trms">presence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “to be out of style='lgc'> = death”)
="lsts lst1">•its titular concept
="lsts lst1">•="trms">internal movement of its text

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artisanal ="trms">craft


(repetitive forms of='lgc'>:)
primal intuition of absence
transcendental signifier of ="trms">religion
sacramental authenticity of antiquity


="large lg5" stl="font-size:130%"> (for Nietsche='lgc'>:) decadence='lgc'>: perpetual adaptability of ="trms">spectacular culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (one loses one's power of) resistance against stimuli ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali ='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= existing capacities for action and living
(obsolescence, not the business of the ="trms">poet. ="ppl">Mallarme)
(the ="trms">question of resistance is weak. we must ask what are the emergent forms of life caused by that='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> might be ="trms">interesting for ="frds scrmbld">Hoda)

(="nms">apass's own hoped-for ritual civic theater of the future)='strcls'>*

attention sustained and enhanced by the r[...]