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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'>==> 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'>==> 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'>==> غیر واقعی nonveridical status of vision (and perception) ='lgc'>~= there is no direct cor="trms">respondence between sense experience and objects in the ="trms">world ='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'>~/= ="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'>==> 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'>==> 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'>==> ='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'>==> 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'>==> an endless chain of dislocations and destabilizations ='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'>==> 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'>=~ ="trms">interface between consciousness and the stored stimuli of wishes, ="trms">memories, anticipations='lgc'>}

(mid 1890s) ="ppl">Bergson ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Freud ='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'>[=[...]