[...] Islam.



="trms">stories='lgc'>:

The action of these Re="trms">citals, in fact, takes place in the ‘alame mesal’ ='lgc'>[عالم مثال='lgc'>]. In them, the mystic relates the drama of his personal ="trms">history on the level of a supra-sensible ="trms">world, the ="trms">world of the events of the soul, because the ="trms">writer, in con="trms">figurating his own ="trms">symbols, spontaneously discovers the meaning of the ="trms">symbols of the divine revelations.

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> We are not concerned with a series of ‘allegories’ but with the secret hiero="trms">history, invisible to the external senses, which un="trms">folds in the ="trms">world of the malakut, and with which external and fleeting events ="trms">symbolize.



سهروردی ="ppl">Sohrevardi's noble venture is not an ‘insurrection’ to islam an external and ="trms">litera="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">religion, rather view that sees the ="trms">integral Islam is spiritual, then ="ppl">Sohrevardi lies at the summit of this spirituality and is nourished by it.

crypto-Shiism شیعه

prophetic philosophy

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Between a ="trms">scientific treatise, a ="trms">fable and philosophical discourse, Vampyroteuthis Infernalis ="trms">imagines a pitch-dark ="trms">world of an ="trms">animal living as deep as possible down in the ="trms">abyss in order to disclose a way of living opposed to the luminous one of the human being.

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analogy of the cave


man with the x-ray vision

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nowhere prosperous
ruinous prosperous

accidental intellects (subjects, qualities, quantities,)

light, self, ="trms">presence, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

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One night darkness had settled in sky and a darkness that and held the hand of the brother of non-existence had been catered around the lower ="trms">world.

After sleep came upon me, disappointment resulted.

I was holding a candle.

has two doors, one to the city and the other one to the desert. I went and closed the door

tailors of divine words

I then saw an eleven-layered pot thrown into the desert with some water in it and in the water were some pebbles around which here were a few ="trms">animals.

The heavenly spheres were absolutely round and a straight line could not have been ='lgc'>[drawn='lgc'>] between them. Those eleven levels were colorless and due to their extreme fineness, what was in them could not be ="trms">veiled.

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='lgc'>{="ppl">="frds scrmbld">Laura ="ppl">="ppl">Marks='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='lgc'>[her ="trms">method of description, “="trms">affective analysis”='lgc'>: act of describing, what is going on in your body, ="trms">prior to the body, and ="trms">prior to perception='lgc'>--i have to describe well and simply. (sometimes even doesn't go back to the object we are describing) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to tribute ="trms">imagination to people='lgc'>]

muslim majority countries (! instead of ‘muslim countries’)
occasional and atomist ="trms">fabulation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">agency of God
(Occasionalism='lgc'>: God as the cause of things)
Islam's atomism it is not coming from ="trms">Greek atomism

Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Process philosophy='lgc'>: ="ppl">Whitehead, ="ppl">Deleuze, etc.
تشخص tashakhos ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert ="ppl">Simondon theory of individuation

...so perception does not give complete access to the ="trms">world (this is ="ppl">Foucauldian)
='lgc'>=> perception seems to have a more protective role (from unnecessary stimuli='lgc'>--in order to safe guard our survival) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Bergson='lgc'>: “it is grass in general that ="trms">interests the herbivore” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘sensory-motor schema’ is an ="trms">agent of abstraction (="ppl">Deleuze)
='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Varinia's “could/should/would”; ‘line of flight’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> becoming; disturbing the virtual, in her work how is actual/virtual (made impossible to='qstn'>?) distinguished='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

sensory-motor schema='lgc'>:
Within constructivist theories, the sensorimotor schema is held to be the principal unit of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in use during infancy. A sensorimotor schema is a psychological construct which gathers together the perceptions and as="trms">sociated actions involved in the performance of one of the habitual behaviors in the infant's repertoire. The schema re="trms">presents knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ="trms">generalized from all the experiences of that behavior. It in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the context in which the behavior was performed as well as expectations about the effects. Sensorimotor schemas are central to ="ppl">Jean ="ppl">="ppl">Piaget's explanation of infant development.
='lgc'>[http://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007='prcnt'>%2F978-1-4419-1428-6_463='lgc'>]


(motions, ="trms">gestures='lgc'>:)
purposeful ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">communicative



(="ppl">="ppl">Marks on) Invisibility, Legibility (khanayi خوانایی), and Aniconism (that the artist should or must avoid depictions of human beings or icons; an art that refuses to un="trms">fold its ="trms">code, asserting that ="trms">relationships need not be ="trms">interpreted='lgc'>--a view developed in the conservative Sunni thought of the later Abbasid caliphate)

(عقل سرخ aghl-e sorkh ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Ulf Langheinrich's works)
the ways ambiguity stimulates ="trms">imagination
“rubied mind-body”

(...ruined main body)


sense-perceptibles='lgc'>: images, etc. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">matter that is processed by information ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in new media (as ="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert ="ppl">Simondon put it,) ‘form’ arises almost ="trms">symptomatically from a ground modulated by information processes

a new level of invisibility='lgc'>--though not im="trms">materiality='lgc'>: information

cognitive attention as information to be processed ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">sensuous ="trms">material to be experienced ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this a shift (predicted by ="ppl">Deleuze) from visual to information culture='qstn'>? (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Trevor ="ppl">Paglen's works characterizes arts of the information age in general='lgc'>='lgc'>---image is the trace, effect, or document.)

the perceptible ='lgc'>=/= the legible

aniconic='lgc'>: what we do not see is more significant than what we do ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that the temporal and ="trms">social are more important than the visible='strcls'>***
“Islamic aniconism emphasizes the word='lgc'>--as ="trms">written, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read, and re="trms">cited='lgc'>--and the ="trms">social spaces of worship.”

en="trms">fold ='and'>& un="trms">fold


(="ppl">Deleuze's) ="ppl">Leibniz's monad='lgc'>: smallest unit of ="trms">matter is the ‘="trms">fold’ (and not the point.) Each ="trms">fold, being connected to the entire plane, has a point of view on the whole ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘plane of immanence’ ='lgc'>: a vast surface ="trms">composed of an in="trms">finite number of ="trms">folds; en="trms">folded ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> un="trms">folds ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> actualizes


you might work on a concept, on a percept, on an ="trms">affect, or on...

(="ppl">Deleuze's) real='lgc'> = virtual ='lgc'>+ actual
="lsts lst1">•actual='lgc'>: exists; a thing, event, concept
="lsts lst1">•virtual='lgc'>: potential to exist or to pass, all that cannot ="trms">presently be thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*most ="trms">materiality is virtual='strcls'>*

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> wood grain (longitudinal arrangement of wood fibers) that guides the artisan to invent ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “thought's powerlessness at the heart of wood” (="ppl">="ppl">Marks)

(what is thought's powerlessness at the heart of digital new media='qstn'>?)

calligraphy ='lgc'>--(="trms">interface)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Qur'an ='lgc'>--(="trms">interface)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the divine

(Gregory ="ppl">="ppl">Bateson='lgc'>:) information='lgc'> = "the ="trms">difference that makes a ="trms">difference”
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Anouk)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> “in Islamic art and new media art, we have two triadic models in which the in="trms">finite is mediated to perception by some kind of information.”

worship !='lgc'>='lgc'>~/='lgc'>=>='qstn'>? transcendence
(Who can say what people are really experiencing when, in the course of worship, they gaze at a dome, kneel on a carpet, or let an allegorical painting dazzle their senses='qstn'>? -="ppl">="ppl">Marks)


(="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that) “every body of thought has its own plane of immanence, an unthought against which it struggles to give rise to new concepts”, still, they dismiss Chinese, Hindu, Jewish, and Islamic “philosophy” as prephilosophical(!)
intellectual struggle ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= jahd جهد, ejtehad اجتهاد (="ppl">Averroes) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> to bring new concepts into the ="trms">world

yes, Islam assumes an ="trms">epistemological endpoint, yet this endpoint is never achieved and inspires endless intellectual struggle (Sufi mystics, تفکر اسماعیلی Isma'ili thought) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> engaging with the ='strcls'>*divine plane of immanence='strcls'>* ='lgc'>{perceptual and contemplative venture into the in="trms">finite='lgc'>}

="large lg5" stl="font-size:144%"> mediation between the divine and the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>=> a certain manner of un="trms">folding (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for ="ppl">Sohrevardi='lgc'>: emanation='lgc'>--in terms of a philosophy of light ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universe is a cascade of un="trms">foldings ='lgc'>[="trms">veil='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
="prgrph">-="ppl">Farabi='lgc'>: God contained the forms or models of things ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> the spirits of the spheres, active reason, soul, form, and ="trms">matter
="prgrph">-="ppl">Avicenna='lgc'>: all existence is ="trms">contingent; God='lgc'> = 'the uncaused’
(="ppl">Avicenna's conception of) the nonentity (or anti="trms">matter) as the virtual double of every existent ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= (="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari's) concepts of the virtual and the actual
(="ppl">Avicenna='lgc'>:) God ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> existence/nonexistence
(="ppl">Deleuze='lgc'>:) existence ='lgc'><='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> nonexistence; (mirror each other='qstn'>?)


virtual (حق hagh ='lgc'>~ truth) ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> actual (حقیقت haghig[...]