[...]ular culture (to be ="trms">articulated 7 decades later by ="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord
the crowd (in Le Bon) is a ="trms">generalized site on which the accumulated d="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and hope as="trms">sociated in the 19th century with ="trms">social insurrection collapse into am abstract countless mass ="trms">onto which dream ="trms">imaginary of any ="trms">sort can be projected
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Crary
19th century ‘crowd psychology’ ='thdf'>assumption that attention has no necessary connection to objective optical observation of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*crowd='lgc'>: drift toward a more primitive order of consciousness='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-withdrawal from surroundings and refocusing on some real or ="trms">symbolic figure
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theatrical con="trms">figuration='lgc'>: means for controlling crowds ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (La Bon's) image of theater exceeding its older place within models of ="trms">mimetic ="trms">relation ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new effects of subjectification
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Wagner's volkish homogeneity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> uniform modes of perception and ="trms">response ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (problem of) ="trms">community formation
Wagner's optical ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor (="trms">community could see itself reflected in the mirror of tragedy) of theatrical existence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*sense of vision serves to reinforce one's place within the ="trms">social whole='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> when i look at Brussels from the 14th floor...='lgc'>]
Wagner's cultural program for ="trms">social re="trms">integration and his belief in the transformative effects of the collective experience of music drama preformed and produced as a ritual ="trms">communal event
(typical 19th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> debates about the effects of mass culture ='lgc'>--="trms">articulated='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “distraction ='lgc'>=/= self-conscious contemplative perception” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) Wagner's deploying the ="trms">pervasiveness of ='strcls'>*distracted modes of cultural ="trms">consumption='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “higher (deeply attentive ='lgc'>--advocated='lgc'>='lgc'>--> purified and ethically superior perceptual engagement) ='lgc'>=/= lower (distracted)” forms of ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening
="prgrph">-his dissatisfaction with traditional theatre that had allowed or encouraged audiences to look at each other at the diverse ="trms">social texture of the theatre
an attentive, absorbed public (unthinkable in the 18th century ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Sennett)
(still we are suffering ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='lgc'>[to have='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*control over the attentiveness of an audience='strcls'>* to subordinate it to the will of the artist ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> generate a ='strcls'>*collective state of reception='strcls'>* (worthy of an art with such ="trms">social aspiration ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali , ="frds">Sina, ='lgc'>--to which extent my mysticism in art was about my ideas about ="trms">spectators incapacity for attention in contemporary ="nms">Tehran='qstn'>?)
19th century theatre ='lgc'>--(transform into)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***construction of visibility='strcls'>*** (structure the ="trms">spectators perceptual experience)
“collective act of seeing ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> semblance of a ="trms">community”
(phantasmagoric character of his work) Wagner='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•eliminating lateral views ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> frontal engagement
="lsts lst1">•near-complete darkness ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> preventing peripheral distraction
="lsts lst1">•lowering the orchestra out of sight
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">systematic concealing and mystification of the process of production
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Wagner stands for) will to mastery over all aspects of the ="trms">spectacle ='lgc'>==allow='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> calculated production of states of regression, fascination, dream (="trms">synchronized sound ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cinema's attentiveness half a century later)
="prgrph">-control over emotional ="trms">response
="prgrph">-remaking of ="trms">spectator experience
="prgrph">-production of dreamlike clairvoyant
(-can theater ="trms">stage be a place of distraction='qstn'>? again)
intelligible ="trms">relation of distance between viewer and illusory s="trms">cene
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the way diorama commanded visual attention
in my ="trms">stage design drawings from 2009='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•standardized perspectival expectations
="lsts lst1">•metric ="trms">relations
="lsts lst1">•="trms">position of ="trms">spectator
="lsts lst1">•luminous detached rectangle
="prgrph">-
Wagner's Ring cycle='lgc'>: the last expression of a 19th century fantasy of the recuperation of tragedy and myth ='lgc'>~ the dream that culture could make whole what capitalism has broken ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>+="ppl">Lacoue-Labarthe='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[disturbing conviction/dream:='lgc'>] in an age where transcendence is undone, (the vacations of) art can recover an ancient destination and establish the type of mythological figure (in which humanity or a people could recognize itself)
="prgrph">-verisimilitude='lgc'>: the quality of seeming to be true, gloss, semblance
com="trms">posite ="trms">imaginary of the 19th century
______________
crowd
theater
phantasmagoria
="ppl">="ppl">Crary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Seurat's Parade de Cirque='lgc'> = disclosure of ='strcls'>*the absence at the heart of ="trms">modern ="trms">spectacle and perception='strcls'>*
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vivid opening into a light-filled action-filled arena
='at'>@="nms">apass, a common way of criticism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*evoke, then withhold='strcls'>*
(fir example='lgc'>: evoke ‘entertainment commodity’ but withhold it. ="frds scrmbld">Laura, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Ale ,)
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*invest, and dismantle='strcls'>* (we are invested in what we dismantle)
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*desolation of older s="trms">cenes of re="trms">presentation='strcls'>* ='at'>@="frds">Sina
="ppl">="ppl">Crary on Seurat Cirque ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> investigation of the conditions under which a subject could be activated as an attentive perceiver
(forensic ="trms">aesthetics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conditions under which a subject could be arrested as a witness)
(="frds">Sina ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">bestiary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conditions under which a subject could be contested as a knowing ="trms">agent)
“frame='lgc'>: an isolating ="trms">agent” (='lgc'><='lgc'>== Wagner ='lgc'>~ to make an ='strcls'>*autonomous and luminous field of attraction='strcls'>* with a deliberately ambiguous spatial identity)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> explicit r="trms">enunciation of the classical (and early ="trms">modern) status of the image
='lgc'>=/= as a windowlike plane ="trms">intersecting a cone of vision
='lgc'>=/= as a flat plane covered with colored patches
(Seurat's optics='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>***images apparitional value='strcls'>*** ='lgc'><='lgc'>== effect of image's detachment from a broader visual field (='lgc'>=/= diaroma and stereoscop)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> 19th century optical experiences that severed the image from any continuous or intelligible ="trms">relation to the ="trms">position of the observing objects
(='lgc'>=/= Wagnerian ="trms">aesthetics)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*collective visual experience='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> precinematic forms of moving images
(='at'>@="nms">apass='lgc'>: hand drawing is not about being “="trms">trapped in older artisanal modes of production” ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “performance ='lgc'>=/= projection”)
to assess (the ="trms">relationships between)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•your own ="trms">technological products
="lsts lst1">•makeup of your audience
="lsts lst1">•economical realities of the ="trms">marketplace
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> inventor of 19th century (Raynaud, Edison, )
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> modify your machines in terms of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•performance
="lsts lst1">•shifting audience needs (and possibilities)
phantasmagoric='lgc'>: occultation of production by means of the outward appearance of the product (creating an experience for a solitary and immobile ="trms">spectator)
(spectral) atopic image='lgc'>: ="trms">literally not there
shimmering ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> effect of detachment from the environment
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Reynaud's projected moving images ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> elastic and reversible temporalities (that had little to do with Lumieres's “real time”)
Cheret's posters (joyful ="trms">modern women, advertisement for cosmetics, lighting fixtures, department stores, ballets, and so on) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">technology of attention ='lgc'>+ a ="trms">specific ornamental re="trms">presentation of commodity culture
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practical functionings of ="trms">consumption culture in the 1870s) ='at'>@OSP
='strcls'>*Cheret's “personal style” in graphic design='lgc'> = an abstract luster جلوه a decorative ="trms">formula that could be applied promiscuously to any possible object of ="trms">consumption='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= Seurat's dream of universal style
='strcls'>****rich textures of entertainment and visual ="trms">spectacle='strcls'>****
="prgrph">-which range of optical ="trms">apparatuses are available for public ="trms">consumption now='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[in 1880s='lgc'>: peep show, magic lantern, shadow theater, large-scale stethoscope, zeo="trms">tropes, etc.='lgc'>]
my links with Seurat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> his ="trms">interest in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•contemporary popular visual culture
="lsts lst1">•perceptual ="trms">modernization
="lsts lst1">•
="ppl">="ppl">Crary's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Seurat's cirque='lgc'>: new experience of form deployed in time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> kinematic (='lgc'>=/= semantic, iconographic significance of the clown and acrobat in the painting) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the illusion of movement='strcls'>*
beginning with the phenakistoscope and zoe="trms">trope in the 1830s ='lgc'>--through='lgc'>='lgc'>--> innumerable optical devices all the way into 1890s ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> endlessly fascinating and repetitive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sites of attentiveness (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= attraction)
='lgc'>{ Seurat ='lgc'>+ Reynaud ='lgc'>+ Edison (='lgc'>~ producers of the ='strcls'>***machines of the visible='strcls'>***, allowing the constructed and synthetic ="trms">nature of machine vision to coincide with their own rationalization of perceptual process) ='lgc'>+ forms of machinic vision developing through 1880s ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (examples of an emerging) ='strcls'>*****industrial art='strcls'>***** ='lgc'>: from ='strcls'>*artisanal practices='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> standardizing industrial modes of image-making
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="ppl">="ppl">Crary ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading Seurat without isolating him from the effects of what Raynaud, Edison and many others (Muybridge, Fuhrmann,) were developing through out the 1880s
='lgc'>{ the audience in Seurat's painting='lgc'> = the audience of the static backgrounds used in Reynaud's machines ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the unchanging, unreflective, even unseeing ="trms">nature of ="trms">modern ="trms">spectatorship ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*a crowd of ="trms">spectators permanently in place, installed as a fundamental component of the ="trms">social ="trms">world='strcls'>* (in which the ="trms">specific content displayed to them is the ="trms">matter of absolute inconsequence)
shadow show
clown as magician-engineer who with his ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right hand opens the curtains ="trms">onto an illuminated and abstractly assembled plane of visual stimulation
(Seurat were disclosed to the) congruence of an im="trms">material, atopic and evanescent image with powerful reality effects and ="trms">techniques of attraction
="trms">techniques of perceptual ="trms">modernization ='lgc'>--constituting='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an autonomous space of invention ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> imposing its own constructed visions and truths on viewers
(="ppl">="ppl">Crary shows how) the mechanization of vision had no intrinsic link to objectivity, but rather to new capacities for simulation, illusion, conjuration
(my paintings='qstn'>? ...early) dreams of an impossible and inhuman vision, of a desire for perceptual ubiquity exceeding the spacial and temporal limits of human faculties ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> remake the self into a sovereign eye would create and impose its own truths
="prgrph">-the horses of Gericault and Seurat, in their airborne oneiric ="trms">trajectories, incarnate a deeper truth of the body='lgc'>: they become abstract correlates of psychological and kinetic ="trms">response to perceived movement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideomotor experience (='lgc'>=/= truth of mechanical spatial movement)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb description movement ="trms">animal in motion)
='strcls'>***="trms">animal is arrested ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">presence is not directly accessible to human vision, but can only be the product of ="trms">technical procedures of simulation='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">nature='lgc'> = scenographic space” (='lgc'>--collapse='lgc'>='lgc'>--> precondition for the impossible unseeable apparition specter ='lgc'>--Seurat='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">spectacle)
phantasmal homeostasis
detemporalization of experience
management of attention ='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>--> ="trms">techniques of attraction
(="frds scrmbld">Foad and) Seurat's efforts (in Cirque)='lgc'>: abstract conceptualization of perceptual experience
(possibility of ="trms">spectacle)
differed
displaced
denied
(image of ="trms">spectacle)
derealized
drained of ="trms">presence
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='strcls'>*attentiveness of an observing subject='strcls'>*='lgc'> = site of increasingly specialized operations of power
...a twilight state of restricted consciousness ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (Durkheimian solidarity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is at stake is that) the autonomy of the individual is reduced
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> importance of Seurat's work ='lgc'>: to have intuited ='strcls'>**how the collapse of scenic space allowed new ="trms">imaginary ="trms">figuration of immediacy='strcls'>** (of a regressive unity based on a corporeal engagement of the ="trms">spectator) ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Esther, ="nms">apass, OSP, ="frds scrmbld">Femke
Seurat sensed something fundamental about the industrialization of contemplation (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> now fully matured in Hollywood cinema) ='lgc'>+ (he anticipated, like Wagner) the ='strcls'>*effects of a phantasmatic luminous image on which essence had been displaced by appearance='strcls'>*
(you can still) escape into the psychological time (but don't erase the sense of the obdurate ="trms">historical conditions out of which your dreams of equilibrium emerges)
Seurat's resisted the temptation of the phantasmagoric and of myth (='lgc'>=/= Wagner)
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are we the hairs of Seurat='qstn'>?)
="lsts lst1">•exposure of ="trms">technical premises
="lsts lst1">•subversion of any stable “formation” (or ="trms">Gestalt, on which the al="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of the myth depends)
='lgc'>--Buchloh='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***avant-garde='lgc'>: a continually renewed struggle over the de="trms">finition of cultural meaning, the discovery and re="trms">presentation of new audiences, and the development of new strategies to counteract and develop resistence against the tendency of the ideological ="trms">apparatuses of the culture industry to occupy and control all practices and spaces of re="trms">presentation='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i am ="trms">interested in Walt Disney and Hollywood and Qur'an)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*to produce incompatibilities='strcls'>* (as an artistic strategy, visual or ="trms">epistemic and otherwise; to make opacity, hostility to virtuosity and expressionism, )
your work could be adjacent to ____
but not identical to ____
your work might be built out if mechanisms for the production of subjective ="trms">response ='lgc'>--but='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is never reducible to them
='at'>@OSP, ="frds scrmbld">Femke
Cezanne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (nonoptical) art of attention
music ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mode of experience ='lgc'>=/= an art of time
(unstable status of an apprentice observer in 1900s) Cezanne='lgc'> = reinvention of synthesis (='lgc'>=/= Manet and Seurat's strategies of binding, homeostasis, fixation)
="ppl">="ppl">Crary highlighting the highly contested ="trms">nature of the ="trms">questions of attention (possibly of pure perception, ="trms">presence, etc. in 1890s) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recreation of attentive ="trms">presence amid the impact of new conceptualizations and organizations of motion, ="trms">memory, temporality (='lgc'>+ emerging ="trms">technological arrangements)
='lgc'>[one of many sites in the late 19th century where a crisis in perception is diagnosed:='lgc'>]
Cezanne ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Husserl='lgc'>: attempt to bypass the accumulated cultural and commonsense assumptions about the ="trms">world as it appears in consciousness (="trms">heritage of ="trms">phenomenology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Foad... ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> and ="trms">fable of the artist='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•Cezanne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forgetting everything and make an image of what you see ='strcls'>*beneath the imposed order of humanity='strcls'>* (19th century preoccupation with “innocent vision” ='lgc'><='lgc'>== to be completely estranged from the ="trms">world ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">Schopenhauer) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> access to things-in-themselves
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Husserl ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pure form of consciousness ='strcls'>*stripped of all accretions of habit and ="trms">socialization='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “seeing essences”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> their work challenged (sought to exceed) features of perception that ="trms">apparatuses (of production and ="trms">consumption) regulated and standardized
="ppl">Husserl
attempt of description of objectivists in a certain atemporal fixedness ='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{attention='lgc'>: heightened awareness of a narrowed or focused range of perception, operation of selection, ="trms">question of existence of content in consciousness, empathic function which belongs in the sense of intuitional experience ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= psychophysical, as="trms">sociationist, sensationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, atomistic accounts of perception and cognition ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> how re="trms">liable and consistent the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the ="trms">world is possible ='lgc'>+ (classical model of vision='lgc'>:) privileged point of view of a perceiving subject from which the objectivity of the ="trms">world could be apprehended='lgc'>}
issue of cognitive and perceptual synthesis
="lsts lst1">•to resecure an unconditional basis for logic and ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•to escape from refined habitual patterns of perception inherent in various aspects of rationalization and compassion of experience in 1890s and 1900s (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dynamic, kinetic, distracted texture of ="trms">modern sensory life ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> attention='lgc'>: malleable entropic force susceptible to fatigue, distraction, and external management)
="lsts lst1">•to quest for the logic of meaning ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> primordial oneness of consciousness
='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (for ="ppl">Husserl) attention appears and appertains in the possibility of an ='strcls'>*impersonal, preindividual, transcendental sphere free of anything ="trms">="trms">empirical, of anything spatiotemporal='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> attention='lgc'>: intentional act with an absolute structure, quasi-machine searchlight for an unwavering mode of looking at the act of looking
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> amid the dynamic dissolution of ="trms">modernization (a ="trms">world in which previously stable meanings, signs, ="trms">social ="trms">relations were being uprooted, made exchangeable, and put into circulation) ="ppl">Husserl proposes ='lgc'>[in a hopeless quest='lgc'>] a monolithe ="trms">technique of attention (to discern a halo of absolute authenticity around every object or ="trms">relation) to determine the universal structure of (the authenticity of) subjective life="trms">world ='lgc'>[unable to go beyond ‘pre-cinematographic conditions’ (='lgc'>~ movement thought only from the anchorage of a static “pose”)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--Varela='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Husserl's (='lgc'>+ MerleauPonty) turn towards experience (the “things themselves”) was entirely theatrical ='lgc'>: lacked any ="trms">pragmatic dimension ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">="ppl">Despret, ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>]
what Cezanne did seek to “suspend” (to forget)='qstn'>?
(sensitivity to) perceptual experiences that had been ignored, marginalized, or incompatible (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> un="trms">articulated)='lgc'>--within='lgc'>='lgc'>--> organization of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about vision
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (Cezanne's) “attention to anomalous='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***engage a discordant exterior='strcls'>*** (that takes a hold on your recognizable ="trms">world) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our ="trms">heritage in art='lgc'>]
Cezanne='lgc'>: “perception='lgc'> = process of its formation” ='lgc'>: confronting and inhabiting the instability of perception ='lgc'>=/= recording the evanescent appearances of the ="trms">world
(Cezanne ='lgc'>+ Manet's discovery='lgc'>:) looking at one thing
=X='lgc'>=> fuller and more in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive grasp of its ="trms">presence (='lgc'>~ rich immediacy)
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> perceptual dis="trms">integration and loss, breakdown as intelligible form ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> invention and discovery of previously unknown ="trms">religions and organizations of forces
dissolution inherent in attentiveness ='lgc'>==support='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (Cezanne's) radical de="trms">symbolization of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ perpetually modulating set of ="trms">relations between the exterior and sensations
Cezanne attentive to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•activity of the eye
="lsts lst1">•visual sensation
="lsts lst1">•myriad intricacies of subjective vision
="lsts lst1">•(physiological) limitations of sensory experience
="lsts lst1">•the body (its pulsation, temporalities, ="trms">intersection of that body with a ="trms">world of ="trms">transitions, of events, of becomings)
="lsts lst1">•discontinuous com="trms">position of visual field (to its “concentric” format)
19th century ="trms">scientific research ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>
="lsts lst1">•comprehensive account of human perception
="lsts lst1">•disjointed ="trms">nature of the visual field
="lsts lst1">•central area of retina='lgc'>: photoreceptor cells
="lsts lst2">◦peripheral area of retina='lgc'>: sensitive to movement
="lsts lst1">•subjective visual field ='lgc'><='lgc'>== complex aggregate processes of the eye movement (“short fast jumps” ='lgc'>=/= instantaneous intake of an image) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a new psychological model of the human subject
acuity did not cor="trms">respond strictly to localized anatomy but rather was the product of a dynamic ="trms">relation of fovea and periphery as well as external luminous factors
hearing='lgc'>: aggregate perpetual process
Wundt's optical model (polarity between='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•Blickfeld='lgc'>: field of consciousness
="lsts lst1">•Blickpunkt='lgc'>: focus of consciousness (where apperception occur) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= attention
='lgc'>=/=
Locke, ="ppl">Descartes, ="ppl">Leibniz
consciousness='lgc'> = camera obscura
apperception='lgc'>: focalization of some content in consciousness ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> structure experience
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is at stake (with Wundt) is a cognitive modality part of a larger ='strcls'>***="trms">modern process of decentering='strcls'>***
(='lgc'>+ James ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) a ="trms">question of the primacy of ‘="trms">transitive’ states in which the shifting fringes of perception were constitutive features of psychic “reality”
="trms">modernization of perception
center ='lgc'>=/= periphery
dispersed functioning of sensory ="trms">response
(how in 19th century capacities of human eye was made into='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1. architectural model of ='strcls'>*panorama='strcls'>*='lgc'> = permanent activation of optical periphery ='lgc'>+ no stable center of focused attentiveness
="lstsrd">2. ='strcls'>*stereoscope='strcls'>*='lgc'> = decisive ex="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion of the periphery ='lgc'>+ 3D image hypertangiblity (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our model of visual ="trms">consumption)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> loss of ='strcls'>*consistent and coherent ="trms">relations of distance between image and observer='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this lost consistency is now in 2020 what everyone in art is busy with or to reactivate='lgc'>]
...having the fixed eye many disconnected areas of the visual field at once='lgc'> = continual beginning at a new center='lgc'> = Cezanne ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*radical rethinking the ="trms">nature of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]synthesis='lgc'>: rhythmic coexistence of radically heterogenous and temporally dispersed elements='strcls'>*
...a subjective immobilization
seeking to enter into the ="trms">world's ceaseless movement of destabilization (='lgc'>=/= holding together the content) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> a more intensive recreation of a subjective ="trms">interface with the ="trms">world (='lgc'>=/= reverie, disas="trms">sociation)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•every object's identity is swallowed up in ="trms">difference
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*vision='lgc'>: veritable theater of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis and permutations='strcls'>*
(Cezanne reexamining the com="trms">position of the visual ="trms">world ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>)
fanatical attentiveness to the ="trms">data of sense ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> dissolution of unity, destabilization of objects ="trms">onto flux, dispersion, displaced the body to the ="trms">world, into a stream of change, of time, ='strcls'>*undoing the immediacy of the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my reexamination of the com="trms">position of the ="trms">epistemological ="trms">world of ="trms">fables in West Asia, ='mywrk'>my work's ="trms">relationship with knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is like that. to gain control of myself in the midst of moving concepts, the circulation of concerns, jumble of paths and knots, whirlpool of velocities, and recourse to my capacity for forgetting...='lgc'>]
perceptual consistency is a phantom
(="ppl">="ppl">Lucretius='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">world='lgc'>: in="trms">finite Cascades of self-="trms">differentiation
="prgrph">-the ="trms">question is='lgc'>: how to make ="trms">aesthetic constructions ='lgc'>[the task of the artist='lgc'>] (if the ="trms">world is so fragile)='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how to go back and forth between attention and reverie='qstn'>?
perplexity of the eye (related to a deeper and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical perplexity)
an imageless vision
...a mind for which no visible form is visible enough
the fixed and monocular eye has been posed (in recent theatrical ="trms">writing) as the formative element of classical ="trms">system of re="trms">presentation ='strcls'>**functioning to arrest duration and change in order to achieve a conceptual matey mastery of ="trms">phenomena='strcls'>** ='lgc'>{='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">zoocentric ="trms">animal anatomy ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>}
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Crary's sug="trms">gestion that) ='strcls'>***the fixed immobile eye is what annihilates the “="trms">naturalness” of the ="trms">world='strcls'>*** (disclosing the provisional and fluid ="trms">nature of visual experience) ='lgc'>=/= mobile glancing eye is what preserves the preconstructed character of the ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•moving eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> habitually familiarly caresses objects (extracting previously established ="trms">relations among them)
="lsts lst1">•fixed eye ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (immobile eye t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggers a ferment of activity ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>) trance and perceptual dis="trms">integration ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dissolving the physiognomy of the everyday ="trms">world ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? ="trms">bestiary's perceptual uncanniness='lgc'>]
fixed truth-taking stare ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> perceptual uncanniness
='thdf'>the idea of un undistorted o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal perception ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> objects in some accessable state available for objective comparison and evaluation
fixation sets the ="trms">world in motion
visual field begin vibration and oscillating
chromatic instability
the physiological ="trms">apparatus (our bodies) incapable of stability ='lgc'>=/= the aim of stabilizing the ="trms">world to look at it analytically
perceptualism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea that (artists, cultures, etc.) expressions in varying degrees involves the transcription of the ="trms">world “as it appears” to them
Cezanne ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> understanding of the ="trms">world (as processes of becoming) that doesn't possess a ='strcls'>*premade ="trms">integrity='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world of ="nms">ajayeb is full of premade ="trms">integrities)
reckon ='and'>& calculate
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Nietzsche's) formless un="trms">formulable ="trms">world of the chaos of sensation
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Cezanne's) continual emergence and dis="trms">integration of constellations (of ="trms">relationships ='lgc'>+ self)
production (of other kinds) of fixed vision (amid the increasing awareness of the ="trms">transitive and unstable ="trms">nature of perception)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modern psychology (late 19th century)='lgc'>: how to incorporate the vagaries and unpre="trms">dictability of subjectivity into a set of constants ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> quantify subjective perceptual experience ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">question of artistic feedback='lgc'>: how to perceptually isolate stimuli='qstn'>? how to temporally control one's exposure='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•tac="trms">histoscope (mid 1880s='lgc'>--search for elemental unit of attentive behavior)='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea of instantaneous perception, mechanically producted “="trms">presence” ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantasy of a descrete quantifiable perception detached from the lives dynamics of the body ='lgc'>+ ='thdf'>the idea that pure nonsense reveals ="trms">specific aspects of attention that hermeneutics could not conceive ='lgc'>{based on naive realism (ignoring the existence of transient iconic ="trms">memory) pre="trms">supposing='lgc'>:
1- the subject's visual experience directly mirrors the stimulus pattern
2- the subject's visual experience begins when the pattern is first exposed and terminates when it is turned off
="lsts lst1">•Muybridge's machine ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> reconstruct appearances through the production of consecutive images
="lsts lst1">•
tac="trms">histoscope (nonconsecutive visual stimuli) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how within the context of ="trms">technological ="trms">modernization, faster mechanical speeds are reciprocally related to new bodily forms of stasis (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Virilio)
="lsts lst1">•chronometric device='lgc'>: ="trms">measurement of ="trms">relation time
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the break or ="trms">interrupting of vision becomes the primary element within perceptual experience, rather than a visual continuum that maintains the cohesiveness of the ="trms">world
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='strcls'>*possibility of pure sensation without perception='strcls'>*
“mental test”
detailed psychometrics of individual performance and behavior ='lgc'>--preoccupied='lgc'>='lgc'>--> features of a ="trms">generalized consciousness
20th century behaviorism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abandonment of ="trms">interest in any ="trms">internal or introspective experience (in favor of ="trms">data resulted from objective external controlled observation)
='lgc'>==Cattel='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> application of ="trms">systematized knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge to the control of human ="trms">nature
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**accommodation of subjective life to machine operations='strcls'>** (='lgc'>+ speeds, temporalities)
new objective ="trms">world='lgc'>: de="trms">composed into autonomous and abstract stimuli (='lgc'>+ machine rythmes that differed dramatically from those of the body) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> re="trms">positioning of the perceiver (='lgc'>+ motor ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readiness) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•new patterns of production
="lsts lst1">•="trms">spectacular ="trms">consumption
='strcls'>*machinic ="trms">interface is the body='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> related temporal shaping of everyday life
computer ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> psychic field of expectant attentiveness ='lgc'><='lgc'>--within='lgc'>-- one inevitably trains one self to maximize the speed of ="trms">response to ="trms">specific commands and functions (and derive at least one satisfaction from these habitual operations of mechanical facility)
='lgc'>}='lgc'><='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>-- ="trms">epistemic shift in 20th century to theorise of subjective vision
instantaneity='lgc'>: unproblematic ="trms">presentness of vision
Helmholtz (discovery of slow speed of nerve trans="trms">mission) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “="trms">present state” of perception is deployed within a temporally extended physiological set of events
19th century ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the essence of human life ceased to be something re="trms">presentable in the tabular space of classical re="trms">presentation ='lgc'>=/= human life understood in terms of it's existence in time, of functions and energies that un="trms">folded and developed outside the ='strcls'>**immediacy of classical visibility='strcls'>**
='strcls'>*the conditioned reflex='strcls'>*
a ="trms">chimerical notion of the western ="trms">imagination in the 20th century
reflex (central cerebral process, onset of stimulus ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> preparation of motor ="trms">response)
="lsts lst1">•one of the ways in which attention was ="trms">positioned within knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of human behavior
='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> new forms of sensory experience outside of (various myth of) organic wholeness of subjectivity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distinction between “="trms">natural” ='and'>& “artificial” sensation ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ='mywrk'>my work in WIELS ="trms">bestiary characters='lgc'>: what was individual experience in middle ages='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•practical recon="trms">figuration of behavior ='lgc'>+ possibility of external ="trms">intervention and control
='lgc'>=/= Dewey's (galvanic image of) subject in a perpetual sensory ="trms">interface with the ="trms">world='lgc'> = un="trms">interrupted mass motion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unity of activity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{='strcls'>*continuity='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==sustain='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> an ideal of unity and wholeness ='lgc'>=/= dis="trms">integration of individual experience, ='strcls'>*disconnected ="trms">nature of reality='strcls'>*='lgc'>}
(domain of experience in ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list life="trms">world='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•industrial production
="lsts lst1">•="trms">spectacular condonation
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological ="trms">modernization
="lsts lst1">•rational, ="trms">social, managerial control
(apperceptive experience of) anticipation, ="trms">memory, and preparation for future actions
(halfway ="trms">modernist Dewey didn't consider) breaks in perception might also have the capacity for ='strcls'>*revivifying or expanding the limits of thought or cognitive awareness='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- and today 2020 many don't consider our contemporary media culture has this capacity='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what if our fragmented ="trms">nature is one of the forms the discontinuous ="trms">nature of reality can be apprehended='qstn'>?
celestial camera obscura
Dewey was deeply ="trms">interested in practical ways of mind-body unity
rhythm, eurhythmy
alexander ="trms">technique
unwavering model of pure contemplation
“pure knowing subject='lgc'> = forget your own personality, lose oneself in perception"='lgc'> = clear eye of the ="trms">world (="ppl">Schopenhauerian model of knowing in Doctor Strange movie, seeing the ="trms">world directly and leave entirely one's own ="trms">interests, the pre="trms">modern idea of ='strcls'>*perception='lgc'> = ="trms">presence='strcls'>*)
="ppl">Bergson (='lgc'>+ Cezanne) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deepest forms of perception are mixed and com="trms">posite
(in ="trms">Matter and ="trms">Memory) ="ppl">Bergson='lgc'>: establish a model of perception ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">routinized and reified forms of perceptual experience within western ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban and ="trms">scientific culture of the late 19th century
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]externality='lgc'> = dream of inhuman immediacy='lgc'>: a vision of ="trms">matter both immediate and instantaneous
='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to Lucy movie primordial and fundamental act of perception
="ppl">Bergson (='lgc'>+ Dewey's ideal of coordination)
(the role of the) ='strcls'>*body='lgc'>: reproduce in action the life of the mind='strcls'>*
(the role of the) ='strcls'>*mind='lgc'>: hindering the thought from being lost in dream, an organ of ‘attention to life’
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ="trms">memory and perception ="trms">interpret each other
='strcls'>*="trms">memory coincides (diverge, ="trms">intersect) with the “="trms">present” perception='strcls'>*
='lgc'>{ ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]determine='lgc'>: the more habitual and repetitive one's perceptual ="trms">response to one's environment ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> the less autonomy and freedom characterize that individual experience ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creativity='lgc'> = (zone of) indetermination
='lgc'>--again='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Bergson (disturbed by new arrangement of ="trms">spectacular ="trms">consumption posed as novelty within a mass ="trms">society ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> redundancy and habit ='lgc'>+ decay of traditional forms of collective ="trms">memory) his work is a ="trms">response to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•general standardization of experience
="lsts lst1">•automation of perceptual ="trms">response
(='lgc'><='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>-- typical problem of life-philosophers lebensphilosophie at the turn of the century reaction to the “intrusion of the mechanical”)
='strcls'>*preconditions of a free and autonomous subject='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ ='strcls'>*end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered (coherent) ="trms">system of meaning='strcls'>*
(weak evolutionary assumptions of ="ppl">Bergson's elaboration of) human subject (= the most developed organism)='lgc'> = potential (for indetermination)='lgc'> = escape from a ="trms">relationship of constraint and necessity in one's lived milieu ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="trms">animal='lgc'>]
Helmholtz (research on physiological optics) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> غیر واقعی nonveridical status of vision (and perception) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= there is no direct cor="trms">respondence between sense experience and objects in the ="trms">world ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>
="lsts lst1">•uprooting='lgc'>: rationalization and ="trms">instrumentalization of senses (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technical prostheses)
="lsts lst1">•displacing='lgc'>: reterritorializing of perception
Helmholtz (='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= ="ppl">Bergson) committed to expanding and optimizing the productive functioning of ="trms">socioeconomic ="trms">world (of imperial Germany) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vision of capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list industrialization (exchangeability, convertibility, etc.)
Helmholtz's ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> physics
Helmholtz's ="trms">epistemology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">semiotics='lgc'>: re="trms">presentational and quasilogical order of signs
(Helmholtz ='lgc'>+) ="ppl">Bergson's attention='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. condition of relative motor arrest (Ribot)
="lstsrd">2. gives up the useful effect of ="trms">present perception
="lstsrd">3. backward movement of the mind
="ppl">Bergson's attention='lgc'>: a binding together of reality to ward off both perceptual and psychic dis="trms">integration
endosmosis='lgc'>: process of remaking an object of perception
="ppl">Deleuze's attention='lgc'>: gives back to duration its true characteristic... a very special coexistence (='lgc'>=/= succession), a ="trms">simultaneity of fluxes, in which the body was always implicated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “freedom='lgc'> = awareness of that coexistence”,
“reality function”
(psychic='lgc'>+) sensorimotor grounding in the reality
in early 20th century ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clinic designation of a condition called “the feeling of unreality” ='lgc'>: fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of an apperceptive attention ='lgc'>: when ="trms">present impressions do not link up with ="trms">memory as="trms">sociation ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> sense of unfamiliarity of the ="trms">present objects
='strcls'>*(inconsistent and ="trms">anxious treatment of) ="ppl">Bergson sketching out the marvels of a multidimensional perception='strcls'>* (capable of apprehending and creativity engaging the immanence of the ="trms">past and ="trms">present) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- fantast of artistic research
='lgc'>='lgc'>---="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for ="ppl">Bergson attention is one that does not waver, oscillate, or drift in and out of focus ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Avital ="trms">drug='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> his privileging of fusion, ="trms">interpenetration, and continuity does not apply to borderline states='lgc'>: insanity, dreaming, etc. piercing forms of nonspatialized experiences='lgc'>: dreamwork, trance, forms of hypnagogic visions (='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> powerful penetration of the ="trms">present by ="trms">memory)
="ppl">Bergson's indetermination='lgc'>: a human attentive concentration, an abortion that would never lose its conscious connection to the willed activity of the body (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- fantasy of wakeful critical subject) ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Crary's well argued) indetermination encompassing fluctuations in and out of trancelike states in which disas="trms">sociated ="trms">phenomenal might occur
="ppl">Bergson's work is typical of his period ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***great fear of perceptual behavior that is either passive or automatic='strcls'>***
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="trms">historically='lgc'>='lgc'>--> construction of various forms of automatic perception in cinema, recorded sound, and other ="trms">technological attachments ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ='thdf'>the idea of ='strcls'>**premade images ="trms">consumed passively='strcls'>** (...depreciation of experience when individual ="trms">memory images are stiffened into ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-made things)
(for ="ppl">Bergson, Janet, ="frds scrmbld">Foad, and many others='lgc'>:) automatic behavior ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> dissolution of ego boundaries (in which the individual will cease to exert itself), contraction of personality, scattering of the self
drift
reverie
trance
dream
='strcls'>**="ppl">Bergson's work='lgc'> = re="trms">fashioning of the ="ppl">Rousseauian conviction of the truth and authenticity of (inner) subjective experience, without grasping how that experience is determined by forces external to the subject='strcls'>**
='lgc'>--trying='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to overcome the degradation and devaluation of experience within a ="trms">modernizing culture founded on amnesia and obsolescence='lgc'> = collaptof auratic perception
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Bergson and others could not see the ways in which ='strcls'>*****capitalism itself was a nonfixable duree, a nonre="trms">presentable variation ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> an endless chain of dislocations and destabilizations ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> its own virtual realm of novelty='strcls'>*****
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(Cezanne and ="frds">Sina's attraction to) rock motifs
various spl="trms">intering and dispersal of rocks
="trms">intermingled with ruins of man-made stone structure
(rock's) precarious status as object
rock='lgc'> = (incarnated) resistance to drift and entropy ='lgc'>:
forces of gravity
geological erosion
inexorable dis="trms">integration of substance
...
(='qstn'>?like many artists i am looking for incarnations too, for) procedures of binding ='lgc'>: transformed re="trms">presentational logic
='strcls'>*operation of fixing, of fastening, within a ="trms">world in which ="trms">position no longer has its former meanings='strcls'>*
="trms">interpretation of tentatively scenic spaces
(BOZAR ="nms">Tehran tree project)
="lsts lst1">•flickering screen of sky and trees
="lsts lst1">•one stone lies nested or w="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged within the embrace of another element
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (logic of the ='lgc'>[phantom='lgc'>]) limbs
="trms">eroticized enclosure (seek to grasp and be grasped) ='lgc'>--becomes='lgc'>='lgc'>--> diagram of perception (seek to envelope and be enveloped)
Cezanne's discovery='lgc'>: any attempt to stabilize perception ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> dis="trms">integration and transformation
="lsts lst1">•Cezanne ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dispersed perceptual processes
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Freud ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dispersed psychic processes ='lgc'>{perception='lgc'> = ="trms">interface of the nervous ="trms">system with the ="trms">world <='lgc'>=='lgc'>~ ="trms">interface between consciousness and the stored stimuli of wishes, ="trms">memories, anticipations='lgc'>}
(mid 1890s) ="ppl">Bergson ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Freud ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> sustained and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal consideration of the anti-optical functioning of subjectivity perceptual experience as a nondirectional, acentric, multitemporal event
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> empathic decentering of the observer
='lgc'>+ (widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read) practical and discursive remaking of the observer as subject, vision is no longer a distinct and isolable ="trms">phenomenon
="ppl">Freud ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> psyche='lgc'> = a perpetually available innocence ='lgc'>+ in="trms">finite reserve of traces
='strcls'>*perception arouse ="trms">interest on the account of their possible connection with the object wished for='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: ‘perception='lgc'> = ="trms">question of ="trms">internal ex="trms">citation’
Cezanne ='lgc'>--(in Pineapple and Rocks)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coexistence (continuity) of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•an attentiveness that is bound (cathected) ="trms">onto established (facilitated) patterns ='lgc'>[= one's own ="trms">history ='lgc'>+ its fixation='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•a perception of ="trms">animality and novelty ='lgc'>[= relaxation of grip, musical, (="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari's) ='strcls'>*anti="trms">memory='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= atemporal forgetting='lgc'>]
vertigo='lgc'>: auto-movement of chaos
“Cezanne's work='lgc'> = model of a nonhuman perception” ='lgc'>: (="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Cezanne as) austere project of formal ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor, performed on some remote plane of ="trms">aesthetic production; an enterprise tragically detached from an engagement with the ="trms">social contra="trms">diction of his time ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">="ppl">Crary's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of) Cezanne coinciding ="trms">historically with new perceptual ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphoric possibilities
accumulated experience ='lgc'>--basis='lgc'>='lgc'>--> radical depersonalization ='lgc'>--intuit='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creative forces of chaos (in your own provence)
='strcls'>**Cezanne's ="trms">imaginative re="trms">figuration of himself as machine='lgc'> = ="trms">translate automatically='strcls'>** ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> release from grounded condition of human perception ='lgc'>: to become an ="trms">apparatus='lgc'> = implacability apprehend a ="trms">world outside of the terms (that the artist wants out) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> novelty (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to overcome the gravity of one's own ="trms">interiority) ='lgc'>--Cezanne='lgc'>='lgc'>--> primordial image (of irreducible formlessness, of ='strcls'>***="trms">world in process without horizon='strcls'>***, without ="trms">position, of slowly vibrating colors...) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*="trms">apparatus becoming='strcls'>* is now the cliche of contemporary artist='lgc'>]
glow of a geological dawn
archaic ='lgc'>+ inert
Precambrian
deterritorializing processes of capitalism (='lgc'>+ its imperatives of perpetual renovation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (its compatible) uprooted nonorientable subject
="trms">nature experienced as vibrations, animations, chromatic re="trms">verberation (='lgc'>+ seeking a “logic” to clarify its un="trms">folding)
hideous sign of progress (for Cezanne='lgc'>: electric light, cinema, )
artistic ="trms">modernism ='lgc'><='lgc'>==="ppl">Adorno='lgc'>== (the fact that) the most advanced procedures of ="trms">material production and organization are not limited to the sphere in which they o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to incarnation)
demotivated subjectivity
wants something that is neither optical nor mechanical nor intellectual ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> substitute a mode of consciousness that is predominantly intuitive ='lgc'>: the awareness of touch
="trms">historical adjacency (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Crary's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">zoom)
='strcls'>*late work of Cezanne (in spite of apparent ="trms">social isolation of its production)='lgc'> = a site where ="trms">modernization of subject occurs (of late 19th century)='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dynamization of perception (occurring in many ="trms">different domains around the year 1900 ='lgc'>--introducing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">techniques of vision)
Cezanne ='lgc'>=/= contemplative distance
Cezanne ='lgc'>=/= perceptual autonomy
Cezanne='lgc'> = nervous ="trms">system ="trms">interfacing with (a continually transforming) external environment
Cezanne='lgc'> = an ='thdf'>example of a contemporary conceptualization of reality (as a dynamic aggregate of sensations)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> emerging industries of ="trms">spectacle
(fundamentally distinct) machinic visual ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>--="ppl">Deleuze='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cinema ='lgc'>=/= previous ="trms">historical forms of simulation (some continuous western mode of re="trms">presentation, with its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins in Renaissance), re="trms">present the ="trms">world
cinema ='lgc'>--constitutes='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*an autonomous ="trms">world='strcls'>* made up of breaks and disproportions, deprived of all centers, addressing itself as such to viewers who are in themselves no longer the center of their own perception
percipiens
percipi
nonselectivity of cinema eye ='lgc'>=/= texture of human attentiveness
cinema='lgc'> = fusion='lgc'> = dream of the functional ="trms">integrity of the ="trms">world
film='lgc'> = validation of the authenticity of the perceptual disorientation
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Crary's analysis of Edison's train robbery s="trms">cene ='lgc'>: serial recon="trms">figuration of a kinesthetic constellation of moving forces (='lgc'>+ additional ="trms">system of movements and forces='lgc'>: bodies, bullets, explosion) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">question of mobile point of view
Cezanne ='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>--> cinema camera ='lgc'>--Dziga='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
i am a mechanical eye
i, a machine, show you the ="trms">world as only i can see it
now and forever, i free myself from human immobility
i am in constant motion, i draw near, then far away objects, i crawl under, i climb ="trms">onto them... i plug and soar together with plunging and soaring bodies
now, i, a camera, fling myself along their resultant maneuvering in the chaos of movement, recording movement, starting with movement of the most complex combinations
Sherrington ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stimuli in the external ="trms">world are selected and ="trms">fashioned by the organism
='lgc'>=/= Pav="trms">lov='lgc'>: stimuli='lgc'> = alien shocks encountered and ="trms">responded to
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Cartesian res extensa, res cogitans
“the great physical process of attention”
inhibition='lgc'>: an active process
anticipatory behavior
exploratory locomotor behavior
“="trms">integrative function” of nervous ="trms">system ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> binding
(="trms">integrative='lgc'>: incorporation of the exterior ="trms">world)
“human perception='lgc'> = possibility of motor activity”
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Cezanne sitting in ="trms">nature and studying motif, tilting his head ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> intensity un="trms">folding chromatically before him (a mode of physical being) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*time of the body='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is typical of today art in european='lgc'>]='lgc'> = inde="trms">finite scalar time ='lgc'>+ intensity is experienced outside re="trms">presentation
="lsts lst1">•river stands for his engagement with a more primal flux
="lsts lst1">•sustained condition of vibrating instability
="lsts lst1">•apprehension of multiplicity
="lsts lst1">•="trms">world='lgc'> = turn of a kaleidoscope (prismatic)
="lsts lst1">•(when you look at a) landscape has its own weird anima, it changes like a living ="trms">animal under our gaze (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to machine dreaming image learning 2020)
="lsts lst1">•to make yourself into a ="trms">responsible productive organ
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**incarnation of a contradictory enterprise of self-transformation, self-renewal='strcls'>** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- (Cezanne's retrospective fulfilment of a tradition from which he could not fully acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge his own decisive departure)
...your intuition on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the river
Cezanne='lgc'> = re="trms">formulation of ="trms">natural ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ broken hope of ="trms">community (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= intimacy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Rousseau's mode of attention contemplation='lgc'>: “thought ='lgc'>=/= reverie” ='lgc'>: the more sensitive the soul of the observer, the greater the ecstasy aroused in him. deep and delightful reverie ='lgc'>: a state of blissful self-abandonment)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> novelty of a smooth unorganized perceptual space
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>example of the non="trms">synchronous character of ="trms">modernism (='lgc'>~ coexistence of realities from radically ="trms">different moments of ="trms">history) ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- is my ="trms">bestiary research on the same p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lural ="trms">historical ="trms">positioning='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•termination of a romantic visionary tradition
(in the West) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]image='lgc'>: decentered chrono-iconography, automatic self-movement
rise of cinema='lgc'>: body-machine assemblage ='lgc'>--="ppl">Deleuze='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new paradigm of ='strcls'>*psycho-mechanics='strcls'>* ='lgc'>~ cinema is capable of touching the cerebral ="trms">system directly ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>
="lsts lst1">•experimental forms of life='lgc'> = freedom (affirmative model of automatic behavior ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> thought functions at a higher level with an arsenal of syntactic perceptual conceptual tools)
="lsts lst1">•management of attention (model of passive automatism)
(from) dreamer ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">somnambu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hypnosis ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sug="trms">gestion ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">hallucination ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> obsession
="ppl">Deleuze ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Benjamin ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Virilio
='thdf'>the idea of ='strcls'>*art of automatic movement coincide with fascism='strcls'>*
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre, pass, ="frds scrmbld">Foad
scopophilia='lgc'>: a forced ecstatic abjection before the image
='lgc'>=/= mastery
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">spectacle='lgc'>: (="trms">spectacular culture) attention would be made attentive to everything but itself
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“my experience is what i aggree to attend to” (James) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= affirmation of an autonomous self-choosing ="trms">world-creating subject liberated from the receptive status of a subject for whom experience was “the mere ="trms">presence to the senses of an outward order”) ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Crary='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">historical crisis in the ="trms">nature of experience='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*attention='lgc'> = simulation of ='lgc'>+ compensation for a ="trms">chimerical real experience='strcls'>*
(in my text ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigging demons ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reconciliation of='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•individual attentiveness to the fringes, ="trms">transitions, pulses of one's own particular “pure experience”
="lsts lst1">•“experience” as immersion in the tangled ="trms">density of a shared ="trms">mutually inhabited ="trms">world
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James's conception of selfhood='lgc'>: private property (='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Tasavof='lgc'>: the most radical of all possible alienation and disconnection) ='lgc'>--Lentricchia='lgc'>='lgc'>--> deployed to preserve a human space of freedom ="trms">interiorized from the vicis="trms">situdes and coercions of the ="trms">marketplace
='strcls'>**="trms">modern attention='strcls'>** ='lgc'>+ individual evasion of ="trms">memory (and ="trms">history) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> habitual ='and'>& commodified ='lgc'>: an ="trms">imaginary deletion of all that is unbearable in collective and individual experience
in Corridor Crew the perceptual selectivity of the ="trms">CG hackers sustains efficiency of animation tools ='lgc'>+ tangled ="trms">social and psychic machinery of ="trms">sublimation
(='qstn'>?do i have) agoraphobia ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Simmel
(destructive transformation of) ='strcls'>*="trms">modernization always preserve and carry over non="trms">synchronous components of ="trms">past moments='strcls'>*
="ppl">="ppl">Crary, Lefebvre
="nms">Piranesi's etching of Rone='lgc'> = foctive and atmospheric prison
="ppl">Freud's description of piazza='lgc'>: patchwork texture of screens and flashing signs (formless field of attraction ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad, ="frds">Sina; multidimensional field of stimuli, ="trms"nttrm="disturban">urban space='lgc'>: “a theater of ="trms">memory and a theater of prophecy”) ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Piranesian dissolution of the axial city (organized views around a coherent even if mobile subjective orientation)
="ppl">Freud's ="trms">technique of attention='lgc'>: gleichschwebende Aufmerksamkeit
‘evenly suspended attention’ (giving equal notice to everything, everything in low-level focus without the risk of ="trms">schizophrenic overload) ='lgc'>--define='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**a state of receptivity in the analyst that eill be commensurate with the spoken free as="trms">sociation of the patient='strcls'>** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dealing with a stream of information that has no evident structure or coherence ='lgc'>+ extracting from that disjunct texture (artwork, chaotic syntax of dreams, indecipherable ="trms">present,) some ="trms">interpretive clarity (feedback)
="ppl">Freud ='lgc'>+ Cezzaine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> design a countermodel of attentiveness that surmounts an ='strcls'>***inhibition of the peripheral='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>=/= notion of selection ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>=> finding out what one al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready knows)
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='strcls'>****diffuse attention ='lgc'>=/= critical attention='strcls'>**** (a faculty in which the observer is led to reject some of the ideas that occur to him after perceiving them)
(at the turn of the century) experience='lgc'>: compulsory ="trms">consumption of information
(from) the experience of deindividualtion (in piazza) ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a more controllable form of loneliness (bedroom)
='lgc'>[this='lgc'>] p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lural hybrid space of Roman square (="ppl">="ppl">Crary on ="ppl">Freud's re="trms">presentation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a ="trms">spectacle ="trms">society ='lgc'>: a patchwork of fluctuating effects in which individuals and groups continually reconstitute themselves (either creativity or reactively) ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Guy ="ppl">Debord's) seamless regime of separation, ominous collective mobilization
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="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari's Varuna and Mitra ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lacking a mythology of conflict (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Singh's analysis)
forming a milieu of ="trms">interiority ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> double ="trms">articulation that makes the State ="trms">apparatus into a stratum
State's operates by='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•seizes (immediate, magical capture)
="lsts lst1">•binds (preventing all combat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pre="trms">supposing a juridical ="trms">integration of war)
“chess (pieces are ="trms">coded)='lgc'> = a game of State”
chess='lgc'>: an institutionalized, regulated, ="trms">coded war, pure strategy ='lgc'>=/= Go='lgc'>: pure ="trms">semiology
(what is game's form of ="trms">interiority)
nonsubjectified machine assemblage
...returning from the outside with that inconceivable thing, an army
magical-despotic State (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter)
Genghis ="ppl">Khan didn't understand the ="trms">phenomenon of the city ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war machine='lgc'>: a pure form of exteriority
magic violence
military institution
="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>: State has no war machine of its own; it can only appropriate one in the form of a military institution
machine='lgc'>: ="trms">ontology of production
State thinkers='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Goethe
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Hegel
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Euclid (finding a foundation for the enterprise) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> logos='lgc'>: the law over the nomos (from Proto-Indo-European nem-='lgc'>: distribute)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{="ppl">Euclidian space='lgc'>: a sufficient number of dimensions, by which one reintroduces parallelism between two vectors, treating multiplicity as though it were immersed in this homogeneous and striated space of reproduction='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•Archimedes (an operative projective descriptive ="trms">geometry)
="lsts lst1">•Durkheim ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to give the republic a secular model of thought
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
political ="trms">differentiation ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> State ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= distinct organs of power (='lgc'>=/= chief رئیس قبیله) ='lgc'>==!='qstn'>?='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> economic development
(="frds scrmbld">Laura='lgc'>:) keep the ="trms">social body from crystallizing ='lgc'>=/= (concern of the State='lgc'>:) to conserve
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]war='lgc'>: a mode of a ="trms">social state that wards off and prevents the State; that which limits exchange, maintains them in the framework of alliances ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (critical ="trms">epistemologies='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*war replaces “exchange” with “alliances”='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[sometimes leadership='lgc'>] inhibits the installation of stable powers, in favor of a fabric of immanent ="trms">relations (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> could we say that about ="nms">Iran today='qstn'>?)
diffusion of prestige
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>:)
types/organs that center around organs of power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•rhizome
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>=/= aborescent
family (aborescent type that centers around organs of power ='lgc'>--structuring='lgc'>='lgc'>--> centralized ="trms">societies) ='lgc'>=/= pack (bands, rhizome)
State ='lgc'>=/= perpetual blackmail by abandonment or betrayal (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">Iran)
='lgc'>=='lgc'>=>='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•large-scale projects
="lsts lst1">•constitution of surpluses
="lsts lst1">•organization of the cor="trms">responding public functions
="lsts lst1">•on-the-spot emergence (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> kinda magical, and ="trms">monstrous, miraculous)
war machine='lgc'>: a counter-State mechanism
realized completely in='lgc'>: the “barbaric” assemblages of nomadic warriors (='lgc'>=/= “savages” assemblages of primitive ="trms">societies)
="prgrph">-problem='lgc'>: it cannot relay
="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari ask='lgc'>: so, why did the State triumph='qstn'>?
the ="trms">fable of Urstaat='lgc'>: the State clearly dates back to the most remote ages of humanity
law of the State ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">interior and exterior, Sovereignty only reigns over what it is capable of ="trms">internalizing, of appropriating locally
='lgc'>=/= the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights of segmentary ="trms">societies
_='lgc'>~='strcls'>*neoprimitivism='strcls'>*='lgc'>~_
poly="trms">morphous war machine
commercial circuit...
="trms">religious creation...
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari's) space='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*smooth='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•vectorial ↗️⤴️↘️↞
="lsts lst1">•projective 📹
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