[...]hildren of ="trms">modernism art of De Kooning) reaching inward to find within the body that ="trms">sublime thing (="ppl">Deleuze calls) the ='strcls'>*figural='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= (="nms">iranian miniature's) ="trms">sublimity of the in="trms">finite (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Aela testing this, under ‘mysticism'='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> state of constant openness ='lgc'>==> transformative ="trms">relation between self and other)='lgc'>]

we can trace the (seductive power of) fana فنا in contemporary media art (="frds scrmbld">Hoda's ="trms">sublime digital-rhythmic ="trms">embodiments='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendental desires remain ="trms">questionable)

doctrine of the minimal='lgc'>: smallest unit is the atom or point ='lgc'>=/=
doctrine of Zaher/Baten='lgc'>: smallest unit is the ="trms">fold='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>==> ="trms">zoo="trms">morphic ="trms">writing, in="trms">finitesimal

(mysticism='lgc'>:) a ="trms">system of ="trms">measurement based (not on the point, rather) on the ="trms">fold

="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extensive universe of the in="trms">finite ='lgc'>=/=
="nms">tasavof ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intensive universe of the in="trms">finitesimal

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> apotropaic, turning away evil ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=
="trms">memory sticks, ward off the fear of ="trms">data loss

...the letter ceases to be a ='strcls'>*figure='strcls'>* and becomes a ='strcls'>*field='strcls'>*

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='at'>#comparative ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Hedayat's The Bene="trms">dictions (Afringan آفرینگان) and ="ppl">Sohrevardi's ghorbat gharbia (رساله غربةالغربیة)

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='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is like ‘face recognition’ (='lgc'>~ cannot say how he cognizes a “know” yet he does)
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali='lgc'>: daneshe hozuri ='lgc'>+ politics (which is a secular know="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, Sachlich, based on scales, ="trms">measures, and divisions)
='strcls'>*intellect (='qstn'>? can never be merely='lgc'>:)
non-pro="trms">positional knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= daneshe hozuri دانش حضوری
='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ='thdf'>the idea of non-mediation and direct awareness ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="trms">internal ="trms">memory (='lgc'>='lgc'>~->='qstn'>? belief)
='lgc'>=/= descriptive knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, pro="trms">positional knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of pro="trms">positions (“know-that”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> explicit knowing ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- why am i practicing this='qstn'>? (i say things like “this is this...”) and yet not transfering without the ‘knowing subject’ (depending on close ="trms">interaction, shared understanding, trust, and even ="trms">love. in combination with my performances that are like that, thinking on the fly ='lgc'>=/= storage and retrieval of conceptual knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge) ='lgc'>[in ="nms">ajayeb.net i pretend i am ="trms">coding ="trms">articulated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in explicit aggregation and appropriable without the ‘knowing subject’ but it is not. it is also part of something personal, distributive, and contextual='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[my education in setar was tacit and cognitive apprenticeship, ="trms">situated cognition,='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= “know-how”, procedural knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, tacit ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodied characteristic of the expert who acts without explicitly reflecting on conditions of its involvement (body's nervous ="trms">system ='lgc'>+ endocrine ="trms">system دستگاه درون‌ریز)
“know-who” (knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of ="trms">networks)


(="ppl">="ppl">Gibson's) affordance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relational account of perception (='lgc'>=/= en="trms">coding of environmental features into the perceiver's mind), preconditions for activity

(effects ='lgc'>=/=) effectivity='lgc'>: abilities that determines what one could do and the ="trms">interactions that could take place

‘perceived affordance’='lgc'>: perception of an object's utility ='lgc'>=/= object's itself

="large lg1" stl="font-size:137%"> affordance ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mental re="trms">presentations (models, schemata, etc.)

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='at'>#idea for a performance for ghorbat gharbia
one performer eyes closed in a room or laboratory research lab speaking the text while engaging through touch (throwing, fixing, putting, dropping) with the ="trms">different optics and ="trms">technologies, objects and ="trms">positioned tools in the room (color, catapult, optical ="trms">systems, laser, array of transparencies and opacities, etc.)
performer='lgc'>: ="frds">Sina
director='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">Foad

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(pre="trms">historic)
your mother='lgc'>: violence
your father='lgc'>: tool
='lgc'>==> human

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="ppl">Geroulanos on emergence of an atheism disengaged from humanism during the second quarter of the 20th century

1925 to 1950

...in nonsecular horizon of existence and thought
conceptual reorganization of human in atheism

(19th century was marked by) “death of god” = man after the era of catastrophe ='lgc'>: the age of ="trms">World War I, the rise of Nazism, Stalinism, ="trms">World War II, and the immediate postwar period

(philosophical and political) centrality of man='lgc'> = a conception dating to ="ppl">Descartes and proceeding through the tradition of ="trms">natural law, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and nineteenth-century liberalism and ="ppl">Marxism

rejection of central premises of post-Enlightenment, liberal, and ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list European thought

(how='qstn'>?) approach anew the ="trms">codes addressing human life and significance

new nonhumanist atheism came to be expressed at ="trms">different times in existentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, hyper-ethical, or cynical terms, in nondoctrinaire ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, reactionary, ultra="trms">modernist, or even down="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right antipolitical principles

(shift away from classical atheism and humanism ='lgc'><==) three movements='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. an ='strcls'>*atheism that would not be humanist='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: an atheism mistrustful of secular دنيوى, egalitarian تساوى, and transformative commitments
="lstsrd">2. a ='strcls'>*negative philosophical ="trms">anthropology='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">3. ='strcls'>*critiques of humanism='strcls'>*


(1)
(traditionally) atheism='lgc'> = secularism ='lgc'>+ humanism
absence of god in 19th century thinkers ="ppl">Feuerbach, Comte, ="ppl">Marx, Proudhon='lgc'>:
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibility of a good life and proper ="trms">society
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Feuerbach's ="trms">anthropotheism='lgc'>: “god='lgc'> = projection of human ="trms">nature ="trms">onto the heavens,” nothing more than man's re="trms">presentation of his own essence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the task of the ="trms">modern era was the realization and humanization of god ='lgc'>: (transformation and dissolution of) theology ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropology
="lsts lst1">•Comte='lgc'>: ="trms">positivist project for ="trms">science and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">religion of humanity, explicitly ="trms">religious atheism
="lsts lst1">•Proudhon='lgc'>: humanisme

='lgc'>{liberalism='lgc'>: humanism, and idealism had become moral and political expectations of the secular education projects='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]humanism='lgc'>: what could reach, reveal, and cultivate the ='strcls'>*proper and ethical='strcls'>* humanum of man ='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]man='lgc'>: irreducible, perfectible bearer and guarantor of dignity, equality, and freedom

="ppl">Levinas's ‘an atheism that is not humanist’='lgc'>: the exaltation of an obedience and a faithfulness that are not obedience or faithfulness to anyone

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> opening up an apocalyptic ="trms">imagination
destroying the cultural optimism that had marked the turn of the twentieth century

ground for ethics, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, and hope

(Kojeve, ="ppl">Bataille, reconceiving) atheism='lgc'>: a way out of any and all ideological ="trms">systems
theological ="trms">questions ='lgc'>+ mistrust of political hopes
to replace god with a political messianism, nation or state,
“disenchantment of the ="trms">world='lgc'> = death knell for man” (='qstn'>?)

nonhumanist atheism='lgc'>: determined op="trms">position to foundational concepts of man, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, and truth (='lgc'>=/= critically rethinking problems of ="trms">anthropotheism, of transcendence, of ="trms">finitude)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> critique of idealism='lgc'> = critique of transcendence
1920s='lgc'>: atheist humanism='lgc'> = idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list arguments about the capacity of the human mind (to transcend and objectively pattern the things that ="trms">compose the ="trms">world around it)

might and violence of ideologies relied on de="trms">finitions of humanity (that made this violence not only plausible and rational, but almost necessary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">communism and colonialism)

="ppl">Sartre's postwar minimal humanist commitment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “existentialism='lgc'> = humanism”
="prgrph">-call or claim to fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of foundations and of man's status in the universe ultimately called up a new ethical command ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> call for man to decide and to commit politically (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> atheism ='lgc'>+ political humanisms ='lgc'>+ old ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical commitment)

atheist political theology
Kojeve, ="ppl">Bataille, ="ppl">Sartre, Koyre, ="ppl">Heidegger, ="ppl">Adorno
mysticism of progress, self-perfection, and ="trms">history
their anti-utopian and antiprogressivist claims and that found expression in='lgc'>: ="ppl">Blanchot (The Most High), ="ppl">Bataille (Summa Atheologica), Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus), Beckett (Endgame)
="trms">figuration of ="trms">finitude
critique of dreams of transparency
replace transcendence with ="trms">excess or escape (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- mystical background...)
='lgc'>=/= un-self-conscious humanist mysticism

secular ="trms">interwar Europe's raising the human subject to all-powerful status ='lgc'>==> ="trms">techno-="trms">scientific apocalypse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> waste of hope in the self and in the ="trms">rhetoric of equality and humanism

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(2)
philosophical antihumanism
human in suspension and deny that it owns or controls his own ="trms">specificity and particularity

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> negative theology
denial to man of ="trms">positive knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of divine ="trms">nature
withdrawal from the possibility of first de[...]