[...]agile, important, hard work of asking ="trms">questions of the ="trms">world in such a way that you might have half a chance of knowing if you are wrong='strcls'>***


you get it “there” ='lgc'>==> (you have a chance of) figuring out something else='strcls'>*


(sustainable life ways that involve) breeds ='lgc'>=/= factory farming

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's problem with veganism's moral, who="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic, complex claim that they make on us (also a necessary kind of contemporary witness)='lgc'>: that people's practices with ="trms">animals as food and fiber and work ="trms">animals, turning into nothing but museum pieces at best. vegans deadly ="trms">imagination sometimes don't get what they kill='lgc'>: most kinds of ="trms">animals that have long ="trms">histories in close as="trms">sociation with people.

there is no ="trms">relationship to this ="trms">world that does not involve extensive killig (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)


up-to-the-minute ="trms">technologies

complicated issues around security ="trms">apparatuses and ="trms">different national struggles

="trms">histories of dispossession and genocide


“do you believe='qstn'>?"='lgc'> = "do you believe in a ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of dogma='qstn'>?”
totally wrong ="trms">question='lgc'>: do you believe in God='qstn'>?


='lgc'>[should i go to Berlin after ="nms">apass='qstn'>?='lgc'>] a parochial person دهاتی (in the pressure of the ="trms">seriously elite places)='lgc'>: you could be here, you could succeed here, but never belong here


="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's ‘="trms">literal’ makings='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•“companion” is about whom you are at table ="trms">literally='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•to be homo sapiens is to be in multi="trms">species ="trms">interdependencies ="trms">literally='strcls'>*


my issue with the image of the free floating meaning ="trms">network popular in artists’ thinking='lgc'>: yes meanings foreground and background. they swirl, but they don't swirl at random

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MOU (="trms">memorandum of understanding)='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Esta ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Zoumana ='lgc'>+ ="frds scrmbld">Hoda
='strcls'>*="trms">memorandum='lgc'>: ="trms">memo, reminder, note, تذکره ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> passport ='lgc'>: آنچه موجب یادآوری شود ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> آنچه موجب دخول شود
a legal document describing an agreement between parties less formal than a contract
='lgc'>[1994 U.S.-North Korea nuclear pact, the MOU between Bush and Kerry for 2004 debates,='lgc'>]

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batlagh باتلاق



="large lg1" stl="font-size:111%"> it is (perhaps the most) important to help transform (your or my) ‘wounded-="trms">child’ to ‘="trms">wonder-="trms">child’ (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda)
='lgc'>[the image of the ="trms">wonder-="trms">child in all ='mywrk'>my workings='lgc'>]='strcls'>***

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="lsts lst1">•accumulative='lgc'>: gradual increase as a whole, someone/something doing the accumulating, emphasis on the process of accumulating
="lsts lst1">•cumulative='lgc'>: nongradual successive additives, as="trms">sociated with that which is accumulated, emphasis on the result
ad- (“in addition”) plus cumulare, “heap up”, from cumulus, “heap”

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='lgc'>[we need='lgc'>] ability to move from ‘close attention’ to ‘="trms">gestures’ and actions on the ="trms">material ="trms">world, all the way to an as="trms">sortment of ‘artifacts’ able to enhance cognition, sensitivity, and ="trms">sociality

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="ppl">="ppl">Stewart

surge of signs ='lgc'>+ capital ='lgc'>+ sensoriums of public culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">matter ='and'>& image

images, when circulating things, suddenly enter the senses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">literally make sense ='lgc'>==> look and smell of an incipient vitality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> immanent intensity or force ='lgc'>~ ="trms">affect

='at'>#my coin='lgc'>: two-sidedness of things, virtual meeting actual, seeping ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of potentiality

common sensate ="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shock ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “continuous trembling that haunts the stable gaze” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> images and sensibilities that constantly exceed (reason, order, and common sense) ='at'>#telegram

="trms">Affect, is about something is happening, something capable of impact
="lsts lst1">•sometging half noted out of the corner of the eye
="lsts lst1">•something in the commonsense ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•
(that which escapes/exceeds enclosure) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it can be put into words='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to become a figure of vitality and even freedom='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='strcls'>*** ='at'>@="nms">Iranians

='lgc'>[i welcome the reprieve (rokhsat, رخصت, a temporary relief) from='lgc'>] ="trms">symbolic gridlock

“="trms">affect gathers its force to make image touch ="trms">matter” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> image's power is the power of synaesthesia ='lgc'>=/= collection of named “feelings” (invented in discourses of morals, ideals, and known subjectivities)

(let's study how ='lgc'>[in ="nms">Iran='lgc'>] raw ="trms">materials are formed and exceeded ='lgc'>-- sudden and lingering intensity of things) (which darvaze/دروازه/gate we can't and which سوراخ سوزن / surakh-e suzan / hole of needle we pass through)
='lgc'>[i am having always multiple ="trms">books open, at least two, is that how connection occur for me='qstn'>? ='at'>#="trms">simultaneity='lgc'>]


(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) “I re="trms">member ="trms">childhood as a collection of arresting images”
that hinge on sensory details and open ="trms">onto luminous s="trms">cenes of ="trms">affect ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Feherlofia/Fehérlófia 1981, Son of the White Horse film. (we must resist calling this film “psychedelic”)

“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]family as a ="trms">viscerality through screen images of”

...sudden, repetitive eruption of images of alcoholism, accidents, violence, cancers

='strcls'>*="trms">technologies of family, church, law, and nation='strcls'>* (lay confident claim to ="trms">affect as a capturable content of known and expected “feelings,” but ="trms">affect itself='lgc'>--that which surges into view along the jumpy border of the actual and the virtual='lgc'>--is their raw ="trms">material and their only renewable resource. ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)

(a sidestep='qstn'>? what) brings an uncanny, alien ="trms">presence into the field of vision

='strcls'>*an object insists on being seen='strcls'>* (through the tricks of trauma, through the seductions of compulsive beauty,, , ) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetic event of the senses ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>]

="trms">spectacular graphics of disaster

watching='lgc'>: inhabiting the power of the tuned-in ="trms">spectator; becoming an active participant in ='lgc'>[TV's='lgc'>] logic of image (production and) recognition

='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> catharsis of mean-spirited
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> festering (cherkin چرکین) alienation
='lgc'>--='strcls'>*='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vitality of the game itself

the image on the screen ='lgc'><='lgc'>--(game)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the walking simulacrum of ="trms">social life

the loop of the citizen as ="trms">consumer

='strcls'>***="trms">Mimesis in a State of Shock='strcls'>*** ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
="prgrph">-the link between shock and a cushioned re="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluse is direct, seductive, and ="trms">mimetic

“When ="trms">affect makes its jump between the visible thing, the idea, and the ="trms">social sensibility, it can leave in its wake uncanny connections between otherwise disparate states of arrest, like shock and re="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluse گوشه نشينی” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)


='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>: ="trms">affect jumps into view as the shock of an unassimilated trauma

cocoon room
holing up in your living room ='lgc'>==> “out there” ='lgc'>==> search for the arresting ="trms">presence

spectrality and concrete substance

(='qstn'>?when am i) “relaxing” the jumpy move of ="trms">affect

='strcls'>*="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's “jump of ="trms">affect”
tactile image ='lgc'>--(satisfies)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> move of ="trms">affect ='lgc'>--(actualizes)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> something tempting/haunting
="prgrph">-="trms">affecting ="trms">presence at rest
="prgrph">-='lgc'>[in glamour magazines='lgc'>] models frozen in time and space stare back at you in a s="trms">cene that ="trms">stages the jump from fantasy to actual body/image and back
="prgrph">-jump from ideal to ="trms">matter to ideal

="prgrph">-what to wear as the magic of ="trms">affect itself

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> copy ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= contact

movies, ads, malls, car phones, daydreams,

="trms">modernity's ="trms">mimetic machine


="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> (“middle class” ='lgc'>[or what people thinking as “="nms">Iranians"='lgc'>] is not just a “norm” it is a) ='strcls'>*womblike space of ="trms">affect='strcls'>* (where sentimentality and ="trms">interiority becomes tactile, where ideals and ="trms">materiality grow to ="trms">excess,) (imploding under the weight of its own ="trms">literal ="trms">embodiment,,,)
="prgrph">-(it is an ="trms">affective space) where the hegemonic claim ='strcls'>*to channel trauma into beauty='strcls'>* is actualized='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•sensible, solid accumulation, family values, colorful decor, ="trms">techno-gadgets, daily lottery,
="lsts lst1">•constant stimulation of the senses (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> syn="trms">aesthetic images, sounds, touches, and smells)
="lsts lst1">•circuitry of circulation itself


تأثر ta'asor, نتیجه‌ی عواطف natije-y avatef
="trms">affect (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= vitality/hope) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= (nightmare image of) soical entropy

the big, beautiful, basic, intensely sensate commodity-to-live-in

in ="nms">Iran='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(the ‘public space’ or) “outside” ='lgc'>==> a “="trms">wilding” s="trms">cene of crime, chaos, ="trms">drug-addled ="trms">monsters, d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, disease, and decay
="lsts lst1">•“inside” ='lgc'>--overflowing-with='lgc'>='lgc'>--> s="trms">cenes of ="trms">aesthetic connection
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anxiety is the ground over which they (both) march

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(="trms">modernist) image-="trms">affect of the new and clean and up-to-date

the feeling of being in the middle of something big and inevitable, watching it un="trms">fold
='at'>#my dreams
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