[...]ی” (="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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> 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

copy ='lgc'>~= contact

movies, ads, malls, car phones, daydreams,

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


(“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'>~= vitality/hope) ='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


(="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


the labor of looking

“Movies made for women ="trms">imagine a picture='lgc'>--perfect s="trms">cene of an Inside='lgc'>--a Home filled with tangible objects that Mean or a Self filled with the intricate dramas of dreams launched, wounded, and finally satisfied or left behind. ="trms">Affect itself is laid out on the carpet like a beautiful fetish that it is okay to ="trms">love.”

(the ='at'>#telegram is littered with image-="trms">written signs of personal/public disaster)
the surge of ="trms">affect toward the s="trms">cene of abjection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abjection itself is felt as a contagion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Navid's comments turned into stickers
="prgrph">-fascination of catastrophe
="prgrph">-something pleads to be touched
="prgrph">-the act of looking at the telegram's forward='lgc'>: my desire is your desire and we are all together in the mass desire
="prgrph">-images on telegram offer ="trms">affects to ="trms">mime, lines of vitality to follow, intimate secrets to plumb, tips to imbibe for safety or good health or the search for things new and vibrant with collective envy
="prgrph">-browsing telegram, we're trudging the rough terrain of bodies, ="trms">sensuous accumulation, impact


“Sometimes when you hear someone scream it goes in one ear and out the other. Sometimes it passes ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right into the middle of your brain and gets stuck there.”

="large lg1" stl="font-size:133%"> (cryptic and as) crystal clear as a scream


='lgc'>[a ="trms">question or something else='lgc'>] lodged in a tactile sensate ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aesthetic s="trms">cene (of the senses) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> s="trms">cene ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shape
(="trms">anxiety has to do with the sensate and tactile and opens ="trms">onto asthetic)
(some do this all the time ='lgc'>[unknown shock of ="trms">anxiety in the morning='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) morning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mourning ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sudden d="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and start scanning () () ='lgc'>[='lgc'>], (trauma as an) everyday walking path

traumatic realism='lgc'>: a figuring that, like traumatic ="trms">memory, fails to re="trms">present the inflicting force as an object in a ="trms">symbolic order and therefore feels compelled to ="trms">literally re-="trms">present it over and over, ='strcls'>*miming the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal haunting impact.='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > Hal Foster)
="prgrph">-the subject surging to bear an ="trms">affect, surging toward an actualization, passionate connection of the subject who goes with the flow in an intoxicated moment (='lgc'>=/= sober distance)
(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's impact of) shocked subjectivity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the real understood as traumatic) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conjure up ="trms">memories of death ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">communal grieving
='lgc'>{referential vs. simulacral ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld">Marialena (‘referential object for’ / ‘empathetic object in’ /or ‘criticality of’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- i don't agree with these clear cuts of ”/"='lgc'>]; what is “the reality of suffering and death” (or “reality and suffering of death”) for ="frds scrmbld">Hoda='qstn'>? (="frds scrmbld">Xiri's ="trms">interest in her) object's “total ="trms">integration” into the political economy='lgc'>}

(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) signs of the senses
satisfaction in the making of sign-shrine
(="trms">question of satisfaction at ="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>:) satisfaction as a force, and end, in itself spoken through the b="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, blunt, sensate ="trms">aesthetics of the sign
="prgrph">-something slashes ='lgc'>[= a wound made by cutting='lgc'>] at itself and spits at the ="trms">world (/ politics of slashing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">poetics of slashing / the young girls who “cut” themselves so they can feel alive or, ="trms">literally “come to their senses”) ='lgc'>-- dramas of surge and arrest ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> They do not ask for ="trms">interpretation or construct the subject who would assign them a meaning, ='lgc'>[they refuse='lgc'>] reference to “underlying ="trms">systems” of signification that make them ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable as texts
="prgrph">-something refuses to disappear
="prgrph">-(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's land is) the land of sheer circulations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the ="trms">question of) equilibriums ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can she with her audience (let's say “we”) enter the un="trms">natural calm of another form of arrest='qstn'>? to feel the s="trms">cene resist synaesthesia

a state of the senses making contact with pen and paper (and matches)

(my enduring ="trms">love of watching images, my) optical eye

“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] young ="trms">embodiments of a ="trms">modern middle-ground-in-the-making came face-to-face with an otherness that compelled a closer look” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> violently ="trms">affective contact

surged toward the s="trms">cene of their confident ex="trms">citement

impact ='lgc'>==> the ="trms">social

='at'>#="trms">storytelling, compelled to repeat the event as the sentience of it still re="trms">verberated in their senses


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a grounded ="trms">writing, that sends people bouncing, takes place as a threshold, hits the senses as a set of provocations, or ="trms">presents as ='strcls'>*a problematic sensed in circuits of reaction al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready set in motion='strcls'>* ='at'>@="nms">apass

(working with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) ="trms">writing ="trms">affect ='at'>#workshop
a practice of ="trms">writing ourselves into our ="trms">worlds as ='strcls'>*emergent and disparate ensembles='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we need the speculative concept of ="trms">worlding (a term that wins philosophy, criticism, digital studies, and cultural study) in ="nms">Tehran urgently
="prgrph">-the workshop offers a process of sharing, hearing, ="trms">questioning, and proposing='lgc'>--for oneself and for the sake of others ='lgc'>==> to start to think through a project or concept by working with words
="prgrph">-we will learning how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read closely and to give feedback that is most useful for the ="trms">authors
="prgrph">-working with ="trms">questions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•How do forms of ="trms">writing change cultural theory='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•What ="trms">questions do forms of ="trms">writing raise about subjects and objects, forms of attention, the possibility of thinking through description='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•How do you describe a s="trms">cene, a character, an event, a ="trms">situation, a collective sensibility, a ="trms">difference, a ="trms">world='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•What does it mean to add ="trms">density and texture to description='qstn'>?


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armies of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors and metonymies that are to justify war

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="large lg5" stl="font-size:137%"> “there is something quite special about the recently discovered entities such as climate. these entities cause us to reflect on our very place on Earth and in the ="trms">cosmos” ='lgc'>==> hyperobjects (“seem to force something on us”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i say every object does that, and it is not recent='lgc'>: ="nms">="nms">ajayeb al makhlughat is about the description of that force

hyperobjects ="ppl">="ppl">Morton
="prgrph">-an object that is “hyper” in ="trms">relation to some other entity
="prgrph">-they are ="trms">viscous='lgc'>: they “stick” to beings that are involved with them
="prgrph">-they are “nonlocal” ='lgc'>: local manifestation of hyperobject ='lgc'>=/= hyperobject
="prgrph">-they exhibit their effects ="trms">interobjectively ='lgc'>: they can be detected in a space that consists of ="trms">inter="trms">relationships between ="trms">aesthetic properties of objects\
='lgc'>=/= apocalyptic environmentalism
='lgc'>=/= the possibility of transcendental leaps “outside” physical reality
='lgc'>=/= that we are “embedded” in a “life="trms">world”


high-dimrnsional phase space
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