[...]th 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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="large lg1" stl="font-size:127%"> (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'>=~ ="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'>~= 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 [...]