[...]problematic, not affirmed by theoretical bullshit! ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my performances are about trying to find a way of not being theorematic while doing theory='lgc'>]='strcls'>***** (and they say ‘problematic’ the problem it is not an “obstacle”)
='lgc'>=/= “royal ="trms">science”='lgc'>: reducing the “problem-element” and subordinate it to the “theorem-element.” State needs to subordinate hydraulic force ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> prevent turbulence (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Middle East ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? distributed turbulence across a smooth space ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- fucked up='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[in smooth space:='lgc'>] vortical movement that can rise up at any point)
="lsts lst1">•civil
="lsts lst1">•static
="lsts lst1">•ordinal
/="trms">matter ='lgc'>--assigned-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> content
/form ='lgc'>--assigned-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> expression
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= hylo="trms">morphic='lgc'>: implying both a form that organizes ="trms">matter and a ="trms">matter prepared for the form (='lgc'>=/= hydraulic) ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>*a ="trms">society divided into governors and governed='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> State ="trms">science (appropriates and transforms the elements of='lgc'>:)
='lgc'>=/= “nomadic ="trms">science” (Homeland TV series sug="trms">gesting US government is a nomadic ="trms">science='lgc'>: viewpoint of ="trms">affections ='lgc'>+ nomadic operation of rogue CIA operatives ='lgc'>+ presidential decentralized power dynamic)
="lsts lst1">•becoming
="lsts lst1">•heterogeneity
="lsts lst1">•in="trms">finitesimal
="lsts lst1">•passage
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in tune with the connection between content and expression, ='strcls'>***essentially laden with singularities='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">lectures='qstn'>? an art, a ="trms">technique, a ="trms">science ='lgc'>: following the connections between singularities of ="trms">matter and traits of expression, they seize or determine singularities in the ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/= constituting a general form)
='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*chaotic ="trms">science='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what kind of figure of engineer='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds">Sina)
='strcls'>*the problemata='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vortices ='and'>& projections ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> chaotic ="trms">imagination='lgc'>]
(projected into an abstract knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mapping knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges)
State ="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek
imposes its form of Sovereignty on the inventinos of nomad ="trms">sciencet
to administrate projections ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> submit (war machine) to civil and metric rules that strictly limit, control, localize (nomad ="trms">science)
“rhythm ='lgc'>=/= turbulence”
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cursing of a river='strcls'>*
Gothic conquered a smooth space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the cutting of the stone (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? digital) ='lgc'>+ ‘plane of projection’='lgc'>: a plane limit, a series of successive approximations or placings-in-variations
='lgc'>=/= Romanesque remained striated space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vault depends on the juxta="trms">position of parallel pillars
='lgc'>--D='lgc'>+G='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***one does not re="trms">present, one engenders and ="trms">traverses='strcls'>***
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*to engender='lgc'>: give you a baby from behind. ='strcls'>*to ="trms">traverse='lgc'>: zigzagging='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--democracy='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one re="trms">presents visually
='lgc'>--="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one sug="trms">gests chaotically
roadways (well-centralized administration) ='lgc'>=/= bridges (active, dynamic, collective experimentation)
lobby='lgc'>: a group with fluid c="trms">ontours, whose ="trms">position is very ambiguous in ="trms">relation to the State it wishes to influence
(for Ibn Khaldun='lgc'>:) war machine='lgc'>: families or lineages ='lgc'>+ esprit de corps
pouvoir (monopoly of an organic power) ='lgc'>=/= puissance (a vortical body in a nomad space)
(to address the) vague='lgc'> = vagabond, nomadic, ="trms">morphological essences (='lgc'>=/= ideal, royal, imperial essences)='lgc'> = haecceities
='lgc'>{='thdf'>for example the circle is an organic, ideal, fixed essence, but roundness is a vague and fluent essence, distinct both from the circle and things that are round (a vase, a wheel, a sun)='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> State is perpetually producing and reproducing ideal circles ='lgc'>=/= war machine makes something round
="frds scrmbld">Agnes drawings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proto="trms">geometry
="frds scrmbld">Agnes='lgc'> = drwaing and linking up smooth space
(is Finn in Adventure Time a man of State ot nomadic ="trms">scientist='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) journey-men's as="trms">sociations
nomadic ='lgc'><='lgc'>==form='lgc'>== masons, carpenters, smiths
labor ='lgc'><='lgc'>== regulating the movement of the flow of labor, assigning it channels and conduits, forming corporations, relying on forced manpower ="trms">recruit
(plane of) consistency ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= com="trms">position ='lgc'>=/= (place of) organization ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= formation
='strcls'>***everything is about the division of labor='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the most critical about ="nms">apass)
State='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•repress the nomad
="lsts lst1">•repress the minor ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•oppose vague essences (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> visa and ="trms">integration)
="lsts lst1">•operative ="trms">geometry of the trait
='lgc'>=/= nomad imply a division of labor opposed to the norms of State
="frds scrmbld">Steven='lgc'>: a dynamic connection between support and ornament ='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex's hylo="trms">morphic schema (the search for laws in extracting constants ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an invariable form for variables ='lgc'>[for ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex='lgc'>: the invariable de="trms">finition of artistic research for variable artists='lgc'>])
compars ='lgc'>=/= dispars
(let's go) from ="trms">matter-form ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-force(= placing the variables themselves in a state of continous variation)
='lgc'>[="frds">Sina='lgc'>: let's go instead of thinking about ‘flow’ ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘force'='lgc'>]
force (is full of)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•equations “=”
="lsts lst1">•adequations (change in the meaning of a term depending upon context)
="lsts lst1">•inequations “='lgc'>=/=”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">differential equations (functions ='lgc'>+ derivatives ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> useful for modeling and simulating physical ="trms">phenomena) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> solution of a ="trms">differential equation is a function ='lgc'>=/= algebraic equations (solution of an algebraic equation is a value)
="lsts lst1">•
(distribution of ="trms">matter in='lgc'>:)
space of pillars
striated by the fall of bodies
verticals of gravity
parallel layers
quantitative and ="trms">scientific oppsositions (such as='lgc'>: speed/slowness, quick/weighty, celeritas/gravitas)
='lgc'>=/= qualitative oppsositions
='lgc'>=/= mythological structures
(i am basically ="trms">interested in the law of falling bodies)
(my ="trms">lectures='lgc'>: an art of) following ='lgc'>=/= flowing
="prgrph">-one never follows in order to reproduce
="prgrph">-in following, one is in search of singularities of a ="trms">matter
(my whole work has been about the art of being carried away by the vortical flow of texts)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a vertical field across which singularities are scattered like so many accidents (i see them as ‘problems,’ and my job is to follow them)
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global theory of waves
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari romanticizing the royal ="trms">science='lgc'>:) “reproducing implies the performance of a fixed point of view that is external to what is reproduced” (='lgc'>--no='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is about saying what you say attached to a temporary fixed point ='lgc'>[for example an identity='lgc'>], in order to be able to be proven wrong)
="trms">categorical apo="trms">dictic ="trms">apparatus
='lgc'>[="trms">category='lgc'> = intrinsic concepts='lgc'>]
content is (not='qstn'>?) always conformist (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- Julia was never)
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex='lgc'>: imperium of true thinking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capture, seizure, binding, constituting the efficacy of a foundation (= myth) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]logos='lgc'>: sanction of a ground
="trms">modern state='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*realized reason='strcls'>*, the rational and reasonable organization of a ="trms">community
="prgrph">-what are the exchanges that take place between the State and reason
="trms">modern state reason ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “the more you obey, the more you will be master” (for you will be only obeying pure reason) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> philosophy assigned itself the role of ground
common sense='lgc'>: the unity of all faculties at center
(in the archaic model imperial State='lgc'>:) ="trms">poet='lgc'> = image trainer ='lgc'>=/= (toady's) artist='lgc'>: (="ppl">Deleuzian) ='strcls'>*private thinker='strcls'>* (making counterthought, destroy images) ='lgc'>=/= public professor
="prgrph">-problem with private thinker is that it exaggerates ="trms">interiority when it is a ="trms">question of outside thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">question of how ='strcls'>**to place the thought in an immediate ="trms">relation with the outside, with the forces of the outside='strcls'>** (to make thought a war machine='qstn'>?)
(="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex in search of) maxim ='lgc'>=/= aphorism (always awaits its meaning from a new external force, a final force that utilizes it) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my ="trms">interest
(='qstn'>?which) image inspired by State ="trms">apparatus
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">method='lgc'>: the striated space of the cogitatio universalis ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> path (='lgc'>=/= bridge)
thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= vampire (has no image)
(in the smooth space of Zen) the arrow does not go from one point to another but is taken up at any point, to be sent to any other point, and tends to permute with the ="trms"nttrm="search">archer and the target (='at'>#my bow and arrow ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it takes no aim but hopes the arrow will stick somewhere)
="prgrph">-whenever a “thinker” shoots an arrow, there is a man of the State, a shadow or an image of a man of the State, that counsels and admonishes him, and wants to assign him a target or aim (='at'>#my bow and arrow ="trms">joke ='at'>@="nms">apass)
pathetic texts='lgc'>: thought becomes pathos (='lgc'>=/= logos ='lgc'>=/= mythos)
(a lot of ="trms">poetry today is like this='lgc'>:)
(an antidialogue between brother and sister='lgc'>:) one ='strcls'>*speaks before knowing='strcls'>* while the other ='strcls'>*relays before having understood='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the necessity of not having control over ="trms">language ='lgc'>~ (="frds scrmbld">Chloe='lgc'>:) the necessity of being a foreigner in one's own tongue
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “bring something incomprehensible into the ="trms">world” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in the form of exteriority
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the becoming woman of the thinker ='lgc'>~ the becoming thought of the woman
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="frds scrmbld">Chloe =) the Gemüt ='lgc'>[feeling, heart, soul, mind='lgc'>] that refuses to be controlled ='lgc'>==forms='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a war machine ='lgc'>: a thought grappling with exterior forces instead of being gathered up in an ="trms">interior form
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> operating by relay ='lgc'>=/= forming an image ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Robin,Robot,Robert,Robocop">Rob='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a thought that appeals to government ministry
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> event-thought ='lgc'>=/= subject-thought
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problem-thought ='lgc'>=/= essence-thought, theorem
striating of mental space ='lgc'>=/= ="frds">Sina's textures and ="trms">lectures
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Pierre='lgc'>: is horizon a striation='qstn'>?
="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari='lgc'>: a horizonless milieu ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smooth space
the true name of race='lgc'>: bastard, mixed-blood
="prgrph">-a race is defined not by its purity but rather by the impurity conferred upon it by a ="trms">system of domination
='lgc'>[(aspects of) war machine or='lgc'>] machine='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•spatiogeographic
="lsts lst1">•arithmatic
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affective
principle ='lgc'>=/= consequence
="prgrph">-in nomads life what is a principle and what is only a consequence='qstn'>?
='lgc'>{migrant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> goes principally='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{nomad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> goes as a consequence='lgc'>}
='lgc'>{(sedentary) road ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> parcel out a closed space to people='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/=='lgc'>{(nomadic) ="trms">trajectory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distributes people or ="trms">animals in an open space, indi="trms">finite and non="trms">communicating='lgc'>}
(space) in the manner of a vortex
migrant leaves behind a milieu that has become a="trms">morphous or hostile
forest and house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both striated='qstn'>?
pigs ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">pragmatism or expertise
="prgrph">-the pigs ="trms">story might not predict the coming of the nomad wolf, but it constitutes the principles of architecture for which an incoming is striated. striated space is the result of the pigs ="trms">story
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does mysticism always requires deprivation of life='qstn'>? mysticism ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">symbolism
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]godzilla='lgc'>: dramatization of where the mountain recedes, of the earth deterritorializing itself ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> providing the nomad with a territory
='strcls'>*vectors of deterritorialization and local operations='strcls'>* that='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•wolf adds to the forest
="lsts lst1">•godzilla adds to Tokio
="lsts lst1">•
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='at'>#video concept
in tiktok comedy style, a group of ="nms">iranians (talking ="trms">Farsi, all acted by one person='qstn'>?) are personifying a govermental ="trms">response to a godzilla who is roaming in the city.
localized ='lgc'>=/= delimited
='lgc'>[the spot where the forest recedes='lgc'>] or the desert advances
گرگ در جنگل / آل در بیابان
.... .\ ____ _
... \_____
. .... \ __ __
.... . \ ____
. ...\ _ ___ _
assigned direction ='lgc'>=/= direction of the crossing
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(for ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari) ="trms">religion='lgc'>: a ="trms">technique of converting the absolute, making the absolute appear in a particular place ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the sacred place of ="trms">religion is fundamentally a center that repels the ='strcls'>*obscure nomos='strcls'>*='lgc'>[= Bayazid بایزید='lgc'>]
vagabond monotheism
Sascha's ="trms">relation to the absolute through the space of the machine
electrically tampered ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= electrically tamed
از چادر نشین به هجرت reterritorialization of the spiritual ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> همدستی مهاجر با چادر نشین ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> war machine
/='strcls'>*='lgc'>[khawarij خوارج during the first fitna فتنه اول ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arbitration ='lgc'>=/= war machine in which anyone can be Imam='lgc'>]
...when ="trms">religion becomes a war machine (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> absolute deterritorialization) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Isis
...a ="trms">society reduced to the military enterprise ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Avengers
...gravitational verticals ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forest
...="trms">generalized parallels ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> agriculture
three little pigs can be nomads='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creating the house and then leave it (as an empty stronghold)
="trms">animal raising for the most part outside the control of sedentaries
orient='lgc'>: absence of State-form (!)
various components plied by escape vectors ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> despotic formation (in orient)
oriental State (sheltered in striated space) ='lgc'>=/= nomad war machine
revolution ='lgc'>--western='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transformation of the State
revolution ='lgc'>--eastern='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abolition of the State
the empires of the orient, africa, america run against wide-open smooth spaces that penetrate them and maintain gaps between their component (='strcls'>*the nomos does not become countryside='strcls'>*, the countryside does not ="trms">communicate with the town, large-scale ="trms">animal raising is the affair of the nomads, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= Black Panther's fantasy of the african State
psychoanalysis of the dream of the State ='qstn'>? and its ="trms">relation to its reality
(to establish) a zone of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights over an entire exterior ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rage ='and'>& innocence
Neon Genesis Evangelion anime series ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war machine striated final merged in a cyber-flux with its human counterpart ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature dominated (battle to occupy the smooth space)
='lgc'>[what now people want in ="nms">Iran='lgc'>: not the smooth space a deterritorializing State, rather:='lgc'>]
capture of flows
(need for) fixed paths
well-defined directions ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> restrict speed, regulate circulation, relativized movement
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> polics='lgc'> = management of the public ways ='lgc'>=/= fluidity of messages and masses
silk road...
="nms">Iran State='lgc'> = smooth ='lgc'>+ striated
State ="trms">translates='lgc'>: “moving bodies” ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “moved bodies”
” ” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ” “
="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek transportation ="trms">system
sedentary kind of tey-ol-arz طی الارض
what homeless/drunk people do in cities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reconstitution of a smooth space='lgc'> = a manner of being in space as though it were smooth
='strcls'>***rebellious space is always smooth space='strcls'>***
virtual space is neither striated nor smooth space
multiplication of relative movements ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> smooth space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the sea becomes the place of the ‘fleet in being’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nomadism accompanying a ="trms">worldwide war machine
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Jassem's rebellious ="trms">nature ='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Pierre's staying with the striated space (with the trouble, with the institution, )
decimal grouping ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> comes from the nomads
three major types of organization='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. lineal
="lstsrd">2. territorial
="lstsrd">3. numerical
number ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> lineage
spatium (="trms">differentiated space with depth and levels) ='lgc'>=/= extensio (immanent center, divisible homologous parts, and ="trms">symmetrical and reversible ="trms">relations)
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
numbering of numbers
census
taxation
election
(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari are wrong about numbers serving to gain mastery over ="trms">matter ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Verran's work on number in Africa)
State='lgc'> = a teritorial principle (of deterritorialization that links the number to metric magnitudes) ='lgc'>--D='lgc'>+G='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “we don't believe that the conditions of independence or autonomy of the number can be found in the State (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari leftist tendency to purity the State)
(operating war machine ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) numbering number ='lgc'>: autonomous arithmetic organization
='strcls'>*numbers appear as soon as one distribute something in space ='lgc'>=/= distribution of space (that is more the State's business)='strcls'>*
independence of the number in ="trms">relation to space ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concrete ="trms">nature of smooth space
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> number='lgc'>: a means of moving ='lgc'>=/= means of counting
='strcls'>*middle ages curse sheets and taxa='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">geometry of smooth space
="lsts lst1">•a minor, operative ="trms">geometry
='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh='lgc'>: ="trms">geometry of the trait between the rumers of the ="trms">world, senses, and ="trms">writing
vector ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> directional number ='lgc'>=/= dimentional number ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? metric number
directions are everywhere
rhythmic ='lgc'>=/= harmonic (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> setar / is my whole work about harmonic='qstn'>? ="trms">horror-nic)
order of displacement
concentration-camp ="trms">society='lgc'>: ‘people='lgc'> = deterritorialized numbers’ (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantasy of full despotism in The Handmaid's Tale)
='strcls'>**the ="trms">question is not one of good or bad but of ="trms">specificity='strcls'>** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- when i say who what artists say could have a chance of being disputed)
complex='lgc'> = ="trms">articulated
the Roman legion was a number made up of numbers, ="trms">articulated in such a way that the segments become mobile, and the figures ="trms">geometrical, changing, transformational
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logistics='lgc'>: the art of external ="trms">relations
Genghis ="ppl">Khan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> com="trms">position of the steppe
Moses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> com="trms">position of the desert
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nomads as ="trms">child stealers
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