[...]e='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.”

(cryptic and as) crystal clear as a scream

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

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



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'>='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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“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'>='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
invisible to humans for stretches of time

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]hypocrisy ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the conditions of the impossibility of a ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">language= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= an “outside”)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Lacanian truth='lgc'>:) “there is no ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">language” ='lgc'>=/= post="trms">modernism's “everything is a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor” ='lgc'>=/= some ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors are better than others ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*there is nowhere to stand outside of things='strcls'>*
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy ='lgc'>=/= cynicism

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]weakness ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]lameness ='lgc'><='lgc'>== the fact that all entities are fragile

="trms">imagination as='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Hume='lgc'>: a bundling of as="trms">sociations
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Kant='lgc'>: the possibility for synthetic judgments a ="trms">priori
="lsts lst1">•object-oriented ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: immanence of thinking to the physical, radically displacing the human by insisting that my being is not everything it is cracked up to be='lgc'>--the being of a paper cup is as profound as mine


which hyperobject you are caught in='qstn'>?

image of ="trms">writing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shy, retiring octopuses that squirt out a dissembling (mask, cloak, vortäuschen) ink as they withdraw into the ="trms">ontological shadow


figure of ='strcls'>*mill='strcls'>* (the characters and ="trms">technologies and ideas of the ages mill around in a state of a mild, semiblissful confusion) ='lgc'>=/= ="frds scrmbld">Eszter's vortex

my intimate impressions “personal"='lgc'> = footprints of hyperobjects, distorted as they always must be by the entity in which they make their mark

="trms">situatedness is now a very uncanny place to be, like being the protagonist of a ="ppl">Wordsworth ="trms">poem of a character in Blade Runner


='strcls'>*cool impersonality of the ="trms">scientific ="trms">language='strcls'>* (now is deprived of its ideological status)


the concept of the ‘="trms">world’ is no longer operational
can we think environmentally without ='thdf'>the idea of ‘the end of the ="trms">world’='qstn'>?

(="ppl">="ppl">Morton asking for) a geophilosophy that doesn't think simply in terms of human events and human significance

="ppl">="ppl">Morton='lgc'>: global warming ='lgc'>=/= climate change
if one takes the ‘climate change’ as a substitute for ‘global warming’ is like “cultural change” as a substitute for Renaissance, or “change in living conditions” as a substitute for Holocaust


acronyms, abbreviations='lgc'>:
="acrnms">dialoc دیالوک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
="acrnms">tomas توماس ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> terrain of media and the ="trms">sociopolitical realm
="acrnms">cohhatg کوهاج ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> coincidence of human ="trms">history and terrestrial geology
="acrnms">hhatg حج ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> human ="trms">history and terrestrial geology
="acrnms">pb پی بی ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> philosophy's bandwidth
="acrnms">sdwa صدوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> substances decorated with accidents ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="acrnms">ldwa لدوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lumps decorated with accidents ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> featureless lumps, and those things have accidental properties, like cupcakes decorated with colored sprinkles (arayesh آرایش) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this thinking still continues, despite the fact that ‘thought has al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready made it irrelevant’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="acrnms">thamii تامی, (='thdf'>for example ="trms">birds for ="ppl">Attar are merely decorative features of ="ppl">Attar's ="trms">social, psychic, and philosophical space)
="acrnms">soth صوث ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speculating outside of the human
="acrnms">sim سیم ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> small island of meaning
="acrnms">etimom اتیموم ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everything is made of mind
="acrnms">hhbn هبن ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hand-holding benevolent ="trms">narrator (-which is vanished)
(auto) ="acrnms">cad کد ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (automatic) comforting ="trms">aesthetic distances
="acrnms">iockat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
="acrnms">atot آتو ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (you only ever perceive your particular) ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic ="trms">translations of things
="acrnms">ejich جیش ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> displacement that Copernicus or ="ppl">Derrida does
="acrnms">foe ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> fantasies of embeddedness ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">phenomenology ='lgc'><='lgc'>== grounding of ="ppl">Kant (begining in 1900)='lgc'>]
="acrnms">avaa اوا ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a vertiginous anti="trms">literal ="trms">abyss
="acrnms">iwen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intimacy with existing nonhumans
="acrnms">mok ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mathematization of knowing (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Descartes, ="ppl">Newton) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">ontology (as a vital and contested political terrain)
="acrnms">icad ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideology of “the ="trms">consumer” and its “="trms">demands” (that capital then “meets”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adventure of ="trms">modernity
="acrnms">fvod ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready here)
="acrnms">toc ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> troops of critique
="acrnms">towwk توک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘="trms">technology of what we know’ (="trms">techniques that decide the ="trms">differences between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's hyperobject is a ="acrnms">towwk)
="acrnms">usoc ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of ="ppl">Heidegger)
="acrnms">lawot ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken ="acrnms">lawot)

visist='lgc'> = visit ='lgc'>+ resist


cor="trms">relationism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the notion that philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-="trms">world correlate ='lgc'>: meaning is only possible between a human mind and ‘what it thinks'='lgc'> = its “objects” (flimsy شل و ول and tenuous رفيق as they are) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> the light on in the fridge when you close the door
="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger (towering through) is a cor="trms">relationist who asserts that without Dasein, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk of the truth of things, which for him implies their very existence='lgc'>--for him idealism, not realism, holds the key to philosophy. (="ppl">Heidegger's tool-analysis='lgc'>: when ="trms">="trms">equipment='lgc'>--which for all intents and purposes could be anything at all='lgc'>--is functioning, or “executing” ='lgc'>[Vollzug='lgc'>], it withdraws from access ='lgc'>[Entzug='lgc'>]; that it is only when a tool is broken that it seems to become ="trms">present-at-hand ='lgc'>[vorhanden='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is this what ="frds scrmbld">Femke is proposing to ="nms">apass='qstn'>?)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:100%"> ="ppl">Descartes uncritically importing the very scholasticism his work undermined

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">epistemology='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•how can i know what there are (or are not) real things='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what gives me (or denies me) access to the real='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of access='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of possibility='qstn'>?


="lsts lst1">•Einstein discovered a rippling, flowing spacetime
="lsts lst1">•Tarkovsky discovered the ‘="trms">sensuous ="trms">material of film stock’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="acrnms">s="trms">soci
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Husserl discovered something strange about the objects='lgc'>: no ="trms">matter how many times you turned around a cion, you never saw the other side as the other side ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ='at'>#coin had a dark side that was seemingly irreducible


="ppl">="ppl">Morton's (="trms">technology of what we know) hyperobject is his sense of an a="trms">symmetry between the in="trms">finite powers of cognition and the in="trms">finite bening of things, yet he doesn't evoke descriptive practices, which could be helpfull='lgc'>--he is missing something, here='lgc'>: “the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of ="trms">presence and being in the ="trms">world.”
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] i cannot locate the gap between ="trms">phenomenon and thing anywhere in my given, ="trms">phenomenal, experiential, or indeed ="trms">scientific space” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Xiri's problem
he disagrees with='lgc'>: (from ="ppl">Plato up until ="ppl">Hume and ="ppl">Kant) that there is some kind of dotted line somewhere on a thing, saying “cut here” ='lgc'>--so he con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes='lgc'>: “things are themselves, but we can't point to them directly.” ='lgc'>=/= nonre="trms">presentational theory, ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart is much more useful. we can see ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's taste for (a masculine) ="trms">sublime in modeling his hyperobjects

flat ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: there is hardly any ="trms">difference between a person and a pincushion. and ="trms">relationships between them, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="trms">causal ones, must be vicarious (نيابتى) and hence ="trms">aesthetic in ="trms">nature


(no) realism that only bases its findings on “ontic” ="trms">data

="trms">scientific discoveries are necessarily based on a decision about what real things are

='strcls'>*disaster ='lgc'>[="trms">ontologic='lgc'>] taking place against a stable background ='lgc'>[ontic='lgc'>]='strcls'>*

="trms">causality after ="ppl">Hume and ="ppl">Kant ='lgc'>: ="trms">causality as a feature of ="trms">phenomena, rather than things in themselves ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humans are not totally in charge of assigning significance and value to events that can be statistically ="trms">measured
entities that become visible through post-="ppl">Humean and post-="ppl">Kantian statistical ="trms">causality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropogenic global warming

="trms">causal factoid


humiliators ='lgc'>[there is no center and we don't inhabit it='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•Copernicus
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Darwin
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Freud (displacing the human from the very center of psychic activity)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Marx (displacing human ="trms">social life with economic organization)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Heidegger
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Derrida (displacing the human from the center of meaning-making)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Nietzsche
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>~= there is no ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>=/= (film Lucy or Neil Tyson series sug="trms">gesting that) there is an ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (of time to see everything perfectly), in some (privilaged) transcendental sphere of pure freedom, Lucy's chair ="trms">literally sitting a VIP box beyond the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropocentrism='lgc'>: ='thdf'>the idea of a privilaged transcendental sphere
="ppl">Kant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (although we are limited in ="trms">finitude) our transcendental faculties are at least ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorically floating in space beyond the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the universe ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#milieu ='at'>#="nms">tasavof ='at'>#sufism


...هزار و یک hezaro yek
universe of trillions of ="trms">finitudes


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]thing='lgc'>: a rift between what it is and how it appears


(="ppl">="ppl">Morton > Herman='lgc'>:) human consciousness wants ='strcls'>*to preserve knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge as a special kind of ="trms">relation to the ="trms">world quite ="trms">different from the ="trms">relations that raindrops and lizards have to the ="trms">world='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous and so difficult to resist ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- next level of ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) also want to claim that the very status of ='lgc'>[his='lgc'>] utterance is somehow special ='lgc'><='lgc'>== (human) ‘thought’ is given a unique ability to negate and transcend immediate experience
(claims that the human doesn't exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) elevating the strucure of human ‘thought’ to the ="trms">ontological pinnacle سرمنزل

everything (such as ="trms">modernity) banks on a certain forms of ="trms">ontology and ="trms">epistemology to secure its coordinates


speculative realism, a rogue machinery

saving power='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•expecting an eschatological solution from the sky
="lsts lst1">•a revolution in consciousness
="lsts lst1">•a people's army seizing control of the state
="lsts lst1">•

obsessive robots (that hold open the sliding doors of ="trms">history just as they appear to be snapping shut, imprisoning us in ="trms">modernity forever)


='strcls'>*distance='strcls'>*='lgc'>: (the ="trms">schizophrenic defense, “object in mirror,”) a psychic and ideological construct designed to protect me from the nearness of things
="prgrph">-the concept of ‘="trms">nature’ is (such) an “object in mirror” (='at'>#amazon project)
بنداز دور mythical land away ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a dis-dimension called ‘away’ (door دور) in ="nms">iran (door andakhtan دور انداختن)
(there is no away on this surface we are in) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> throw away='lgc'>: an optical effect ='lgc'>: there is no loger distances our image from us in a nice, ="trms">aesthetically manageable way, but sticks to us ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are glued to our ="trms">phenomenological ="trms">situation (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> entanglement of ="trms">="trms">equipment and quanta ='lgc'>=/= three pigs)

a threatening proximity

“i do not feel ‘at home’ in the biosphere” (yet it surrounds them and penetrates them) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> most humans feel that way. how one's entire physical being is caught in its meshwork of narezayati نارضایتی
(physical existence carrying with it) a trace of unreality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> آمدنم بهر چه بود ='lgc'>: “i am not sure where i am anymore. i am at home in feeling not at home.”


one's normal sense of time as a container


="frds scrmbld">Ehsan's ghost/sheikh film ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> demonic in that through them ="trms">causalities flow like electricity


ambient, latin ‘ambo’ means ‘on both sides’


the old art theories that separated sweetness and power collapse
sweetness, it turns out, just is power='lgc'>: the most powerful thing


weather as ="trms">monster

baby learns to distinguish between the vomit and the non-vomit, and comes to know the non-vomit as self


(a ="trms">society in which) growing ="trms">scientific ='strcls'>*awareness of rish='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==changes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ="trms">nature of democracy

back-to-="trms">nature festivals

nihi="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic princes of darkness

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='mywrk'>my work is ='strcls'>*to mix ="trms">stories='strcls'>*

everyday engagements with other kinds of creatures (in my case='lgc'>: ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> opens new kinds of possibilities for relating and understanding

="trms">cosmo="trms">ecology='lgc'>: multiple beings (gods, jinns, ="trms">animals, humans, living, dead, etc.) each bearing the consequences of the others’ ways (of living and dying)

‘the ="trms">ecological ="trms">question’ is about the needs that ought to be met in the ongoing creation of rapports and connections ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">questions are how does this being achieve the task of holding ="trms">onto its existence ='lgc'>=/= “does this being really exist, or is it not a re="trms">presentation”
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*we may never know (safely and re="trms">liably, either ahead of time or a posteriori) which beings will bear/enjoy the consequences of the concrete attention we give to them='strcls'>*

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on Kate Rich work
feral ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> before or without a political state ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> state of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>[a lot of moral political philosophers of the state asking “What was life like before civil ="trms">society='qstn'>?"='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in feral there are only freedoms ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> contracts (='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what cultural ="trms">anthropology has to say about that='qstn'>?)
she is in the ="ppl">Rousseauian tradition of ='strcls'>*how to establish a ‘political ="trms">community’ in the face of the problems of ‘commercial ="trms">society’='strcls'>* (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Rousseau's The ="trms">Social Contract ='and'>& Discourse on the O="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin and Basis of Inequality Among Men)
fighting the ="trms">system ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feral ="trms">tropes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> arsenal of the Enlightenment (="ppl">Kant's motto='lgc'>: “Dare to think for yourself!” ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= “I don't follow orders!”), application of Reason in the public sphere of human affairs
with her work we are in the Age of Enlightenment, Age of Reason, resourcing ="trms">authority and legitimacy, ideals of individual liberty and progress ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Kate's thinking founded on philosophical ="trms">fictions of the 18th century (='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Foucault='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problematic legacy of the Enlightenment)
="lsts lst1">•the legecy of 20th century='lgc'>: (Kate's dialectical negativity) to define and work in negative way, an ‘exit,’ a ‘way out’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendental ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to ="ppl">Singh, ="ppl">Khan,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">question of contemporary reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Kate does a totalizing elevation (like many other artists)
="lsts lst1">•the realm of obedience ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> artists’ ="trms">childish attitude of never accepting someone else's ="trms">authority (='at'>#fighting the ="trms">system; should we fight the ="trms">system ="trms">systematically='qstn'>? ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Nicolas)


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basically everything i do is related to the ="trms">question of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> make us better ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers

my ="trms">excessive use of footnote ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the most decisive indication of the concerns of a text are to be found in its margins ='and'>& no ‘proper’ starting/ending point for ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading

each of my performances/projects reflect on their own status as examples of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading/mis="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>=/= achieving correct ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading

="trms">literature='lgc'>: the problem of mis="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">language it uses)
='lgc'>[with De Man='lgc'>]

="large lg10" stl="font-size:133%"> i have become sensitive to the ="trms">systematic avoidance of the problem of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, of the ="trms">interpretative or hermeneutic moment, in ="trms">literary analysis and art

all ="trms">language-use is tropological (='lgc'>~ ="trms">rhetorical)


catachresis (the misuse of a word) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--fluid='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor (the non-="trms">literal application of a word) ='lgc'><='lgc'>--fluid='lgc'>='lgc'>--> metonymy (in which the name of one thing is put for that of another related to it)

="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readability='lgc'>: the possibility of producing an essential/de="trms">finitive ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> closure ='lgc'>=/= further ="trms">interpretation

a ="trms">language which would perfectly fit my multiple identity='lgc'>--persian consciousness
="trms">emboding (belonging to) two bordering cultures='lgc'>: western university and persian tradition of subjectivity
="lsts lst1">•mixture of English and ="trms">Farsi
="lsts lst1">•spontaneous shift of style
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•


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learning from academia='lgc'>: committed to ="trms">excessive ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor ='lgc'>+ sriousness of purpose

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(Erikson's) developmental ="trms">stages characterized by a psycho="trms">social crisis of two conflicting forces='lgc'>: (each ="trms">stage that came before and that follows has its own ‘crisis’)
='lgc'>[conflictual psycho="trms">social crisis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> virtue ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> (answers to) existential ="trms">questions='lgc'>]

="prgrph">-(0-18 months) Trust / Mistrust ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Hope
='lgc'>[Can I trust the ="trms">world='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> what constitutes d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous ="trms">situations (in life)
="trms">world is undependable, unpre="trms">dictable, and possibly a d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous place
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]trust='lgc'>: syntonic quotient
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]mistrust='lgc'>: diatonic quotient
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> oral ="trms">stage

="prgrph">-(2-4 years) Autonomy / Shame-Doubt ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Will
='lgc'>[Is it okay to be me='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
venture out to assert their will ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> learning about environment
lack/="trms">excess/ridiculed restriction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> shame ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> doubt (in dealing with, handling problems)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anal ="trms">stage

="prgrph">-(4-5 years) Initiative / Guilt ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Purpose
='lgc'>[Is it okay for me to do, move, and act='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
autonomy ='lgc'>+ mastery (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> artists who stay at their own autonomy and mastery are fixated at this age)
discourage the pursuit of independent activities ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> guilt about needs and desires
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> phallic ="trms">stage

='lgc'>='lgc'>---till here we were in the realm of play='lgc'>='lgc'>---

to master trust, autonomy, and industrious ="trms">skills
(i have mastered ‘trust,’ failed at ‘autonomy,’ and overdosing ‘industrious ="trms">skills’)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:127%"> ="prgrph">-(5-12 years) Industry / Inferiority ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Competence
='lgc'>[Can I make it in the ="trms">world of people and things='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•beginning to grasp the concepts of space and time in more logical, practical ways
="lsts lst1">•="trms">causality
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading (is an industrious ="trms">skills='qstn'>?!)
="lsts lst1">•recognizing cultural ="trms">differences (is an industrious ="trms">skills='qstn'>?!)
="lsts lst1">•completing the task
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> latency ="trms">stage

="large lg10" stl="font-size:106%"> ="prgrph">-(13-19 years) Identity / Role Confusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Fidelity
='lgc'>[Who am I='qstn'>? Who can I be='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
concerned with how to appear to others
fit into ="trms">society
(used to be evidenced in career, now in sexual identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) superego identity is the accrued confidence that the outer sameness and continuity prepared in the future are matched by the sameness and continuity of one's meaning for oneself
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> sense of identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> re-establish boundaries (in a potentially hostile ="trms">world) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is difficult because commitments are asked for before particular identity roles have formed
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> experiment and explore (in a ‘psycho="trms">social moratorium’ ='lgc'>[allowed adolescent role confusion='lgc'>]) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> firm sense of identity
(experimentation is about identity formation='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[="trms">according to Erikson='lgc'>] only when identity is established ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ experimentation stopped='lgc'>] the ="trms">questions “What have I got='qstn'>?” and “What am I going to do with it='qstn'>?” can be asked
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]identity='lgc'>: to identify the object of one's fidelity='strcls'>***
="prgrph">-identity crisis for persons of genius is frequently prolonged
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? genital ="trms">stage

="prgrph">-(20-39 years) Intimacy / Isolation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">Love
='lgc'>[Can I ="trms">love='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]distanciation='lgc'>: “the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readiness to isolate and if necessary, to destroy those forces and people whose essence seems d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous to our own, and whose territory seems to encroach on the extent of one's intimate ="trms">relations”

="prgrph">-(40-64 years) Generativity / ="trms">Stagnation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Care
='lgc'>[Can I make my life count='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
guiding the next generation

="prgrph">-(65-death) Ego ="trms">Integrity / Despair ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Wisdom
='lgc'>[Is it okay to have been me='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
(only now is able to) develop ="trms">integrity

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you have a ‘bad day’
(in ="ppl">Socrates='lgc'>:) because you are ignorant of ="trms">geometry
(in Feminism='lgc'>:) because you are a man
(in ="trms">communicative capitalism='lgc'>:) because you are ‘boring’


how to plot to take over the ="trms">world='qstn'>?


(="ppl">Rilke)
“I wish to help and expect to be helped. Everyone's eternal mistake is to take me for a healer when, in fact, I am only attracting others, for my own profit, in the ="trms">trap of a simulated assistance.”


(your) ="trms">interview and ="trms">interruption


I would take a bullet for you
/////
you go for the knife and i prepar myself to die

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duty ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= Dienst nach Vorschrift
(the problem is that it is not enough to have a duty, rather, you have to define what ‘duty’ is. that is the only duty)

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MADMAN='at'>#1='lgc'>: i like to think, “i am rich they can't hurt me.”
MADMAN='at'>#2='lgc'>: that's a mistake.
MADMAN='at'>#1='lgc'>: i am being punished for making my job look easy... Although, that kid, guy, he has a spark. He is a pure account man.
MADMAN='at'>#2='lgc'>: and what is that job all about='qstn'>?
MADMAN='at'>#1='lgc'>: i don't know. it's about ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening to people and never saying what's really on your mind.
MADMAN='at'>#2='lgc'>: no. it's about letting things go so you can get what you want.


“I could tell the minute she saw who I realy was, she never wanted to look at me again, which is why I never told her.”
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i am not telling you anything, because the minute you see who i realy am, you never want to look at me again.

“...but nobody knows what is wrong with themselves, and everyone else can see it ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right away.”

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is this an honour='qstn'>?


(a) better thug


so, one summer evening, I was wrong, ...

once when i was wrong...


thank you for that kind (of an) introduction



i like to make decorations for other people's work

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="trms">Instructions of Shuruppak
“In those days, in those far remote times, in those nights, in those faraway nights, in those years, in those far remote years.”

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daftare bimani دفتر بیمعنی
hezar nokte هزار نکته



i can only stutter and telegraph you mutilated message
also i offer the hermeneutic of frustration so that we don't feel we have mastered or understood necessarily



janebe hagh ra gereftan جانب حق را گرفتن ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> hagh-be-janebi حق‌به‌جانبی


safineye nadan سفینه نادن
safineye nadani سفینه نادانی

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Bettina's self almost entirely to be construed within the order of the will


(="ppl">Hillman='lgc'>:) Eros is always curiously weaker than the problem it must deal with. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> logos is biger than its problem



="lstsrd">1. revolution='lgc'>: changing/disturbing the value ="trms">system
="lstsrd">2. reform='lgc'>: changing/disturbing the ="trms">social norm (hanjar هنجار) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> eslahat اصلاحات
="lstsrd">3. invention/noavari='lgc'>: changing/disturbing the ="trms">system/institution/sazman
="lstsrd">4. coup d'état='lgc'>: changing/disturbing the people/="trms">apparatus


(amal bar asase='lgc'>:) sonat='lgc'>: gozashte, diruz, anja, anha
گذشته
دیروز


phd='lgc'>: طرح مساله tarh-e masale ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everything depends on the ways you pattern a niche, a site of strings that you and your collieges are cought long enough

="lsts lst1">•using texture, form, color
="lsts lst1">•using ="trms">embodiments
="lsts lst1">•using optics (in knowing) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> some ="trms">sort of distance, dis="trms">embodied seeing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> abstraction, figure,




carnal intellectuality
(intellectual carnality)

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locating ‘shur’ شور del-shur دل شوره (also shuridegi شوریدگی) to the place of the unkown other
so when one has fearful fantacies about others in foreign lands they are in ‘shur’ for them



="large lg34" stl="font-size:115%"> (psychologically tethered phantasy of the “independent person”='lgc'>:)

='strcls'>**oral fixation ='lgc'>[everything depends on the duration of breast-feeding during the development of libido='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
in ="nms">Iranians='lgc'>: over-fed (more than 12 months) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> dependency, needing stimulant
in Balkan='lgc'>: insufficiently fed ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> طلبکار و ناراضی talabkar narazi dissatisfied and manipulative (in need of oral stimulant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for example sarcasm) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*narazi ='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tavagho’ توقع='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
(='lgc'>='lgc'>--> early experiences of ="trms">love bound up with various kinds of suffering, and later in adulthood one will look for familiar forms of suffering)
="lsts lst1">•oral fixation='lgc'>: everything related to pleasure ='lgc'>+ pain ='lgc'>+ security ='lgc'>+ sex are all bound together and located in the mouth

='strcls'>**anal fixation ='lgc'>[bowel and bladder control ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> focus of the libido='lgc'>: conflict of to pass or withhold='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> also a time person's ="trms">relationship with ="trms">authority is made. role of super-ego (parents) in toilet training. everything depends on what super-ego says about what you accomplish in the toilet (at the ages of 1 to 3) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> creativity / khesasat='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•anal-retentive='lgc'>: to hold back ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> tidy, khasis (='lgc'>~ careful with money), and respectful to ="trms">authority
="lsts lst1">•anal-expulsive='lgc'>: relieved whenever in inappropriate times ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> sharing personality, give things away,


subjectivity is porous, flow of thoughts without a thinker, self is unnecessary
‘self’ is such an unnecessary ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor for the process of awareness and knowing
the ="trms">question of “who/what am I='qstn'>?” is utterly boring


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]

might suffer

="ppl">Freud's penis


="large lg42" stl="font-size:118%"> ignoria


aghsa اقصا
far, farther, to send far, everywhere places, earth
(='lgc'>+ aknaf) ='lgc'>[virtual locality='lgc'>]
='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maghsad مقصد (when aghsa overlapse the here and now)



tamrin تمرین üben/training (bazi-e khatarnak) ='lgc'>=/=
tajrobe تجربه Erfahrung/experience (experience in accident ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=> getting better at driving; or
fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=> ="trms">science)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> zehniate shakhshi mobtani bar bardashthaye mobtani bar tajribe ذهنیت شخصی مبتنی بر برداشت‌های مبتنی بر تجربه experiential subjectivity
="lsts lst1">•experience ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> personal perception
="lsts lst1">•train ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">skill

taghirat va tahavolat-e donya ra az birun ba az bala negah kardan (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we need more. ='lgc'>[by “we” i mean ="nms">iranians='lgc'>])



="frds scrmbld">Lili's use of pre="trms">position or a conjunction “and” “or” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> discourse marker



regarding the ="trms">system, to resist is much more ="trms">interesting than to ="trms">complain

i am worried (as adult) about X's death, because earlier (as ="trms">child) i have wished X's death
="trms">neurotic ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'><='lgc'>== controlling the ="trms">child (bokon nakon بکن نکن) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> fear of punishment
="trms">neurotic ="trms">anxiety='lgc'>: unconscious fear that the ='strcls'>*libidinal impulses of the id='strcls'>* will take control (at an inopportune inappropriate time)

شخصیت واقع بین shakhsiat vaghe bin='lgc'>: objectivity montabegh bar subjectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> truth (in ="trms">science) ='lgc'>+ commitment based on (accepted) reality ='lgc'>[ta'ahod cannot be based on or created by mogheyiat, that means ="trms">situatedness cannot make us feel/care/hate/commit='lgc'>]
شخصیت موقع بین shakhsiat moghe’ bin='lgc'>: ="trms">situated subjectivity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">situated objectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> commitment based on care='lgc'>]

موقعیت mogheyiat (="trms">situtation, circumstance, condition) ='lgc'>=/= واقعیت vagheyiat (reality)
(='qstn'>?one should) to live by vagheyiat, not mogheyiat
='lgc'>[i am educated to base research and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge both on mogheyiat and on vagheyiat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crisis of ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">relations='lgc'>: to feel about others based on mogheyiat/="trms">situation is a bad idea(='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>: turning mogheyiat into vagheyiat


(="trms">verb ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adjective)
do the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right thing (or take the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right side) جانب حق را گرفتن ='lgc'>[a form of closing off distance ='lgc'>=/= dis="trms">embodied seeing='lgc'>] ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteous حق به جانب ='lgc'>[a form of ="trms">embodiment, zero distanciation='lgc'>]



“your ="trms">joke is the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right of the other person”


you are hurt ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “the other was bad” (is not the con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion that is helpfull or capable of giving an opening, and it ends badly)
='lgc'>=/= people make mistakes

roshd رشد ='lgc'>=/= pishraft پیشرفت
roshd ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shodan, becoming
pishraft ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to gain, progress,


selfishness ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> being nice
khod khahi خود خواهی ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> nagozashtan-e tasvir/tasavor bad dar digari ='lgc'>["this is me, not you!"='lgc'>]
selfish='lgc'> = good at ="trms">communication (do taraf-e miz khub harf zadan), bad at relating (nazdik shodan)
shakhsiat farasu-negar (cannot see themselves; ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? selfish personality) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">narcissistic pesonality (they have better chances for healing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> small doses of ="trms">narcissism is necessity for self-="trms">interogation and ="trms">integrated ego formation='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])


='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger is cheating='strcls'>*
(behavior hal, negah be mozu-ha ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bazi بازی, hoghe حقه ='lgc'>[transvaluated into innocence='lgc'>])


farar az ta'rif-haye ejtemayi فرار از تعریفهای اجتمایی ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> farar az ejtema فرار از اجتماع

paying attention to others doesn't mean that you are understanding them (in the case of lonliness)

="large lg34" stl="font-size:125%"> ='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
thousend and one ="trms">questions

dark answers

why ="trms">aesthetics of cooking and feeding new in art doesn't work in ="nms">iran='qstn'>?



="large lg22" stl="font-size:126%"> negah dogane نگاه دوگانه
='lgc'>[duality='lgc'>] dual perspective='lgc'>: if it is not X then it is Y (='lgc'>=/= X)

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savad سواد='lgc'> = ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, siahe, سیاهه, marginal note

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being ambivalent (dis="trms">interest)='lgc'>: (masking ="trms">anxiety and insecuruty,) gaurding oneself against disapointment, defensive alufeness

ethos of “resistence” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moral ="trms">authority ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moral supeiority movement

="trms">narcissism (of the artist) as part of a process (of building something creative)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">interiorizing things ='lgc'>[is part of ="trms">narcissism='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•thinking about things and self's problems ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">writer's ="trms">memoir
low self esteem ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> building up

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“nothing is more important in the ="trms">world than the old ones” ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?!='lgc'>]


liberation ='lgc'>=/= freedom
="lsts lst1">•when it comes to liberation (those liberating actions that someone does, ex='lgc'>: women scarf in ="nms">Iran, etc.), as long as it doesn't hurt anyone else, you just support it
liberation has to do a lot with style, or changing of style
="lsts lst1">•freesom is totally another thing, much more complicated, sometimes is in the op="trms">posite direction of liberation
(i think i might be committed to the freedom of ="nms">Iranians, not their liberation...)



takhlie ehsas (feelings) ='lgc'>=/= takhlie hayajan (emotions ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> behaiviour)


تعميم
="trms">generalization ta'mim ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sign of depression
or ='lgc'>--Borges='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of abstracttion by forgeting (certain) ="trms">differences='lgc'> = thinking


the ="trms">fable of “alem-e bi amal='lgc'> = zanbur-e bi asal” عالم بی عمل، زنبور بی‌عسل
="prgrph">-this kind of علم ‘knowing’ or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge refer to a more personal or subjective understanding of a given problem برداشت
="prgrph">-has nothing to do with ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge


rubah-palangi-e falak روبه پلنگی فلک
trick-rage of ="trms">nature
farib (فریب deep in the view of ="ppl">Nezami regarding ="trms">nature and his own work)
hendu (هندو most used insult word in ="ppl">Nezami)

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="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">neurotic='lgc'>: makes a house, doesn't show it to anyone, lives in it alone happy ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disability to adapt to reality; (="trms">neurosis is a descriptive term for ‘hidden psychological mechanisms’ ='lgc'>=/= behavior); a form of dis="trms">sociation='lgc'>: ="trms">anxiety, hysteria, phobia, repetition, fantasizing, negativity, cynicism, perfectionism,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦compulsive need ='lgc'>=/= genuine ="trms">interest in the ="trms">world
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">neurotic caretaker ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">child develops basic ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (="trms">imagined) idealized self-image; solution of basic conflict='lgc'>:
="lsts lst3">◾تسليم compliance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> goodness, ="trms">love
="lsts lst3">◾سلطه aggressiveness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strength, leadership
="lsts lst3">◾کناره گیر aloofness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wisdom, independence
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*psychotic='lgc'>: makes a house, take it ="trms">seriously, invites everyone to come (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> loss of touch with reality)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= richer, more complex, more satisfying personality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> person ="trms">responds to the ="trms">world with the full depth of his or her spontaneous feelings

="lsts lst1">•old ="trms">world of patience ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>== lack of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, sabr konim bebinim chi mishe='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•new ='lgc'>[industrial capital='lgc'>] ="trms">world of opportunity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proactive (even before action; causing something to happen; ="trms">world, you set it out;)




my problem with celebrity is problem with the victorious cause, when an other has hardened into an iconic ="trms">position, and has become inauthentic with oneself


IHOTcgKYWXg 21:25
hoghe bazi حقه بازی babel
eye='lgc'> = pit of babel چاه بابل, because Harut and Marut, two great magicians where thrown down in a pit under the tower of babel, and the eye have the two in them ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the capacity to bewitch you if you look into them too long


vafa وفا='lgc'> = mardi مردی
three things doesn't do vafa (loyal)='lgc'>: horse, sword, women
asb, shamshir, zan (اسب، شمشیر، زن)

death='lgc'>:
جان jan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> father (aflak افلاک)
کالبد تیره kalbod tire corpse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mother (like earth, every hand can make her fruit, and bi-vafa بی‌وفا, ="trms">liabl)


put into words='lgc'>: have I been destroyed='qstn'>?


='at'>#workshop on ="nms">Iranian elementary and post-elementary school ="trms">books with adult artists


parde پرده ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= tasvir تصویر

damagh-sh دماغش
dar akhar -sh

حکمت مبتنی بر امور بین‌الذهانی
(hekmat mobtani bar omur-e) beyn-ol-azhajni='lgc'> = common sense


='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
کاتب وحی kateb-e vahy
کاتب وحش kateb-e vahsh

کتاب وحی
کتاب وحش


="trms">pragmatism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> مصلحت maslahat (chi bayad goft) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> alternative truth
less concerned with “reality” or good and bad


='at'>#project='lgc'>: an experiential field inquiry on how people think about randomness in ="nms">Tehran.
what was the last little thing or a ="trms">historical epoch-shaping event that they concider as random='qstn'>?

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(in ="nms">apass we use constantly) ghias قیاس, and not esteghra استقرا (inductive reasoning)
="lsts lst1">•استقرا inductive reasoning='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> Y (can be strong or weak) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemic uncertainty (="trms">generalizing or ex="trms">trapolating from ="trms">specific cases to general rules) ='lgc'>[this is related to ‘hypothesis formation'='lgc'> = use of ="trms">specific observations to make ="trms">generalizations ='lgc'>--(='qstn'>?being replaced by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> discovery-based ="trms">sciences, in which ‘hypothesis formation'='lgc'> = ="trms">data-mining, analysis of (large volumes of) experimental ="trms">data with the goal of finding new patterns or cor="trms">relations, and further='lgc'>: machine learning and automated theorem proving ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--replacing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="nms">ajayeb's kind of) “="trms">natural ="trms">history” emerged in 16th century (='lgc'><='lgc'>== describing and classifying plants, ="trms">animals, minerals) which is becoming more about popular audiences='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•deductive reasoning='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Y (is valid or invalid) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> کل به جزء (applying reductively general rules that hold over a closed domain of discourse)
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[artist's most used process of reasoning:='lgc'>] صغرى کبرى syllogistic reasoning (قیاس)='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>=/= Y ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Z (or='lgc'>: some A are B, some B are C ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> some A are C ='lgc'>[which is often wrong='lgc'>], nesbat dadan chizi az yek nafar be deigari نسبت دادن چیزی به دیگری) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> premise's pattern of distribution is the key (='lgc'>~ case)
="lsts lst1">•abductive con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions='lgc'>: finding the simplest or most likely explanation for the observations ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> many forms of con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions are due to the lack of time in the process of reasoning. when we give feedback (‘fast diagnosis’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is that why ="ppl">Lacan is useful='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) in ="nms">apass we have initially 2 minutes to make con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions from observations, which later is deepened in the duration of block ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> کلی گویی='lgc'> = making sense of what is going here in order to guess what is going on elsewhere='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•

(='qstn'>?am i learning about and moving my art into) formal ="trms">sciences='lgc'>: ="trms">language tools concerned with characterizing abstract structures described by sign ="trms">systems ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> providing information/knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the structures used to describe the ="trms">world
="prgrph">-a formal logical ="trms">system with its content targeted at the real things
="prgrph">-all their statements are analytic
='lgc'>=/= synthetic statements (pro="trms">positions are true by how their meaning relates to the ="trms">world)

‘="trms">natural ="trms">sciences’ using tools from formal ="trms">sciences and validated by ‘peer review'='lgc'> = refereeing='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*the process of subjecting somebody else's work='strcls'>*

issues with artistic feedback that i have directly encountered='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for observation are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apprehend what you notice)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for induction are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movement from observation)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for inference are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> connecting with something other and elsewhere)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for ="trms">questioning are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> risking what you know ='lgc'>+ constructing ="trms">interest)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feedbacks are performative, perspectival, descriptive, discoursive, ="trms">affective, ="trms">fabulous, ="trms">rhetorical, allegorical, experimental, speculative, agonistic, antagonist, sadistic, funny, rude, brute, masochistic, direct, ="trms">sympathetic,


='lgc'>[two (organic='qstn'>?) ways of learning:='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**learing through ="trms">networked syntax='lgc'>: meaning emerges as ="trms">network, something new must be ="trms">interconnected to others, cognition works in the ="trms">network='lgc'>: a subject ="trms">matter must be linked to dozen other things in order to be congnized ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> something disconnected from their ="trms">network is something meaningless موضوع‌ها به صورت ارتباطات ذهنی مرتبط با هم ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mental intelligence='lgc'>: cannot learn something random='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>**learing through syllable, unconnected unit of something new (an arbitrary syllables هجا‌های بی‌معنی) can be cognized without previous links ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">linguistic intelligence هوش زبانی, can learn new ="trms">language easy='lgc'>]

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[although i am against and strongly hate arbitrary syllables='lgc'>] perhaps we need both, because sometimes ="trms">internalizing an alien syllable (via ="trms">linguistic intelligence) might nest and flower their own random meaning ="trms">networks, in a way that is not possible in mental intelligence



="trms">according to behavioral ="trms">neuro="trms">science, psychology soon will have been a myth
the move to the “hard” and biologically inspired ="trms">science about consciousness-related processes ='lgc'>{constitutive reductionism='lgc'>: ‘brain activity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mental processes'='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? end of psychology (and therefore='lgc'>: end of art='qstn'>? -because both always create ='strcls'>*speculative molds='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which discipline will install an ='strcls'>*understanding the psyche='strcls'>*
economically='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">neuro="trms">science will grow while psychology shrinks
='lgc'>[everything will depend on which reductionism you ascribe to them='lgc'>]

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ideology='lgc'>: wrong ="trms">questions

='lgc'>[parable of two side of a coin='lgc'>] tolerance='lgc'> = other side of harassment
(='lgc'>--Zizek='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the pseudo concept of) tolerance actually means “don't harassment me”

when you lack concrete politics ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> moralizations


we are no longer ="trms">interpolated or addressed by power
politics of self-realization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anti-bureaucratic creativity of artist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modern capitalism='lgc'>: (='lgc'>[pretends to be='lgc'>] no longer hierarchical bureaucratic but) creative ="trms">interactive auto="trms">poetic

(='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo='lgc'>:) ethics ='lgc'>=/= morals
='strcls'>*ethics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my consistency with myself, fidelity to my own desires (which is transvaluated as external and part of ="trms">social ="trms">system)
='strcls'>*moral ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">symmetry of my ="trms">relation to other humans (which is transvaluated as individual and ="trms">internal, “don't do to me what you don't want me do to you”)
being immoral out of principle, to act in a certain way as part of a fundamental existential choice.
being immoral (destroying men's lives) while being truly ethical (faithfull to her chosen path)
(="ppl">Nietzsche, the philosopher of) ='strcls'>*immoral ethics='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= unethical morality)

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]death drive (inerested in fucking, cannot being-with)='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*to lead organic life back into the inanimate state='strcls'>*, to return to an inorganic state (-we are talking ="trms">symbolically not biologically) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= eros (="trms">interested in ="trms">love, life, sex, and being-with, the ="trms">world is very vivid to eros)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{image of the eskimo piercing through the ice and snow='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being='strcls'>* (for the subject for whom the ="trms">world is prosaic ="trms">matter-of-fact ='lgc'>=/= vivid)
="prgrph">-(we live in a ="trms">society that we are no longer ="trms">interpellated ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) does death drive and archive drive have to do with one another='qstn'>? destruction and archiving...
="prgrph">-girl with the red dancing shoes, undeadness of ="frds scrmbld">Laurent, wanting to see himself in the image of that which cannot be destroyed (!!), his unbearable ='strcls'>*nostalgia for a lost harmony='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[followed by ="frds scrmbld">Hoda and ="frds scrmbld">Arjang='lgc'>] (-is that why they negate ="trms">love='qstn'>? because they cannot ="trms">love but still want to be alive='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[the drive='lgc'>] to remain alive after they are dead)
(their ="trms">relation to the city night='lgc'>:) they drive, Trieb, ='lgc'>[in a ="ppl">Lacanian sense='lgc'>: all drives are partial to the death drive (because='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1- every drive pursues its own extinction
="lstsrd">2- every drive involves the subject in repetition
="lstsrd">3- every drive is an attempt to go beyond the pleasure principle, to the realm of ="trms">excess ='strcls'>*jouissance='strcls'>*(='lgc'>: enjoyment experienced as suffering ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana)='lgc'>]
(death drive ='lgc'>=/= dying)='strcls'>*
with death drive we are at the dimension of the undead (spectral undeadness is the domain of the drive) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “horrible fate of being caught in the endless repetitive cycle of wandering around in guilt and pain”
(="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>:) deep inside they desire to return to the preoedipal fusion with the mother's breast (='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to ‘touch’ without ="trms">love, ‘will’ without desire)
‘death drive’ belongs to the suicidal tendency of (="trms">symbolic order of) ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>: (turning ‘libido’ into a) re="trms">presentation of indestructible life
(in the ="trms">neurotic's fantasy of the subject with death drive) there is no connection with object ='lgc'><='lgc'>== object is defined as the Other's ="trms">demand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they have to ‘fuck’ them
="prgrph">-accourding to Zizek='lgc'>: there is only one drive='lgc'>: death drive, which is such sexualized

="ppl">Freud='lgc'>: “civilization='lgc'> = a reaction formation” (an effort to counter death drive)

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pedagogies of ="trms">affect and/or feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
understanding, curating, and fomenting public feelings
political/="trms">aesthetic ="trms">imaginaries

="large lg34" stl="font-size:121%">
bache
بچه='lgc'>: (in ="ppl">Rumi) object sexy-erfani ابژه سکسی عرفانی



(="nms">iranians='qstn'>?) mix ='lgc'>=/= tangle (='qstn'>?non="nms">iranians)



motley
miscellaneous
="trms">lecture consisting of haphazard patchwork of sections
a ="trms">jester is usually dressed in motley
mexican garden='lgc'>: a model of motley and devotion, of rapt attention to the ="trms">birds it draws

what was the ="trms">imaginary homeland (='lgc'>=/= re="trms">membered homeland) for ="nms">Iranians='qstn'>?

“here, forms and shapes revel themselves through patient inquiry and the luxury of enough carried water to let you trace them.”



to think about X='lgc'> = to change X
we change the subject
we get some info='lgc'>: there are 5 people in the room. but when we bring that information into thought (because of how we feel and of our believes ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) we start to bend the 5 to 6 or to 50 ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a try to change the reality ='lgc'>=/= thinking in calm condition using ="trms">science, information, conversation

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bipolar ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mood disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship of the self with emotions
borderline ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> personality disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship of the self with the ="trms">world (of subjects)
="trms">narcissist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> personality disorder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship of the ego with the ="trms">world

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people who grew up in ="nms">iran and former soviet countries ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> tajrobeye doganegi تجربه دوگانگی (they lived through contradictory experience) ='lgc'>='lgc'>=/=> settle down or grounded subejctivity ثبات sabat
“I like to ="trms">travel” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= escape from one's self گریز از خود goriz az khod ='lgc'>: need to be everywhere but here='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•zamineye sargardani بیقراری restlessness (='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> escape) ='lgc'>--sold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nomadic
="lsts lst1">•zamineye narezayati نارضایتی dissatisfaction ='lgc'>--sold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> critical
="lsts lst1">•zamineye konjkavi کنجکاوی curiosity ='lgc'>--sold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•zamineye majarajuyi ماجراجویی adventure ='lgc'>--sold='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder

="large lg30" stl="font-size:119%"> (a ='lgc'>[not always wanted='qstn'>?='lgc'>] form of relatedness in ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">relationships)
mentor ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= rahnama راهنما


(when someone is) angry='lgc'> = ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>+ depressed ='lgc'>+ obsessive–compulsive vasvasi ='lgc'>+ pessimist bad-bin ='lgc'>+ negative ='lgc'>+ offender motejavez
direct speech رک صریح  بی پرده rok sarih bi-parde harf zadan='lgc'> = saying the real and truth in the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right place that is necessary and almost an ="trms">obligation ='lgc'>=/= parde-dari provocation

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note on the workshop of anarchive in Zsenne ="nms">apass summer 2018
(my issues with Manning's ="trms">presentation of) process philosophy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">system-builder mode of thinking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*saying something (="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right) about every single thing at once='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-process philosophy puts forward the will and desire for “change,” therefore it developes a resistant to change (='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-it tend to be a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics without physics ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?!='lgc'>] (when a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics provoke less ="trms">interest for ‘-physics’ and more for the ‘="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-’ /and why is that a problem='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="ppl">="ppl">Barad is much more useful for me now='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-the real ="trms">question of the workshop remained “how to define what i like (such as ‘anarchive’) that it remains open at all time to the ‘more’ and ‘multi’='qstn'>?” ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- and they provide an elusive non-de="trms">finition of the term, impossible to pin down. because accourding to Manning when you pin down an idea/practice by its de="trms">finition it becomes “fixed,” and fixity is ="trms">categorically bad at all times ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- there is a desire to create a hygienic concept immune to corruption and hierarchy. Manning is alert to certain hierarchies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> not acknowledging other hierarchies that precisely emerge out of that (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> preserve the ‘health’ of ='thdf'>the idea of anarchive. ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- maybe we need to let concepts rot='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de="trms">compose='lgc'>])
Manning's elusiveness='lgc'>: (i have become hyper-conscious about qualities that endow in="trms">finite freedom of thought to human subjects...)
="lsts lst1">•elusive thought طفره (='lgc'>=/= volatile فرار) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Spiderman's mode of freedom (-you can never catch him ='lgc'>+ in="trms">finite flexibility ='lgc'>+ ) (the effect of Spiderman on himself is that his moves are “amazing”)
="lsts lst1">•elusive thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>~->='qstn'>? mystical
="lsts lst1">•elusive thought ='lgc'>=/= modest thought limited by curiosity
="lsts lst1">•
“hierarchy as the bad object” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•to escape thinking about your own ="trms">agency (='thdf'>for example what your name and reputation does='qstn'>? what are the precise ="trms">responsible consequences of your particular ="trms">position='qstn'>? your ="trms">position involves not only the ="trms">book you ="trms">write or the argument you make, it involves also your name and reputation, the currency of your gender, your mode of charisma and ="trms">authority, your ="trms">affective ="trms">techniques, your ="trms">network enacted, and so on.)
="lsts lst1">•to escape naming the engineering talents and ="trms">skills that are necessary to assemble (for example the senseLab website)
="lsts lst1">•to escape ="trms">epistemological commitment (the ="trms">question of='lgc'>: ='strcls'>**how is my ="trms">vocabulary ="trms">crafted for whom='qstn'>?='strcls'>**)
="lsts lst1">•
it is not clear (but i can maybe guess about it, Manning's commitments are)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>:) what they have witnessed ='lgc'>[hierarchies='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> anti-archive='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>:) which bodies they care for ='lgc'>[the autists='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> elusive creativity='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>:) where are their alliances پیوستگیها ='lgc'>[with multiculturalism='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> democracy's logos of ="trms">difference='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">Verran='lgc'>:) how their ="trms">="trms">equipments are ="trms">crafted ='lgc'>[by processual ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> in="trms">finity='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>:) how their ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor is built ='lgc'>[by conceptual description='qstn'>? ='lgc'>==commit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> non-habituality='lgc'>]

(because of her immense intelligence she cannot be normal, but that doesn't mean she can prescribe normativity, and issue a command ='lgc'>[in terms of the “de-” or “anti-“='lgc'>] or order a claim of reality ='lgc'>[in terms of “an-” or “ab-“='lgc'>])

="large lg6" stl="font-size:107%"> ="prgrph">-Manning's “philosophy of event” (='lgc'>=/= multi="trms">species ethnography, i prefer working with the ="trms">animal idea, because there is no way you can make philosophy out of ="trms">animal, they always relentlessly ="trms">contingent and ="trms">historically ="trms">materially ="trms">specific)

="prgrph">-Manning's notion of impersonality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘people are exchangble’ ='lgc'>+ ‘the work is what is important and not “you”’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">techniques of impersonality='strcls'>* has being used in sufism and ="nms">iranian mysticism. i have seen how the special effects of impersonality is used in political projects, making of soldiers, master-disciple ="trms">relationship, and so on
="prgrph">-look at the cool impersonality of the ="trms">scientific ="trms">language (depriving them of their own ideological status)
="prgrph">-early 19th century ="trms">modern public space was reinventing and operating with impersonality='lgc'>: individuals are ="trms">systematically habituated not to return the gaze of the other.
='lgc'>=/= i am actually very much attracted to persons. i am ="trms">interested in their personality. the “you” is what i fall in ="trms">love with, not the ‘abstract link'='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (Manning's) peripheral perceptivity ='lgc'>=/= (i am trying to learn) to describe what is in front of me (which is never easy)='lgc'>]

="prgrph">-Manning's notion of “the problem gives the ="trms">question to be asked of it” ='lgc'>=/= the ="trms">question problematizes

="prgrph">-focus on “sedimentation” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> where is the coexistence of contrasts for them='qstn'>?)

“decontextualization”='lgc'>: their ="trms">technique of concept-making (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> claims of reality, of nunhuman, etc.)
='lgc'>[decontextualization is a very d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous way of ="trms">crafting concepts. there are other ways, committed to the ="trms">contingencies of the ="trms">historical ="trms">material ="trms">world of multi="trms">species. ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor of conceptualization that i am learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart is about the ='strcls'>*quality of an access to part of a ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= decontextualization='lgc'>]='lgc'>--so='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i say we need ‘concepts’ and not ‘philosophy’='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*philosophy (as practiced by M&M and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex)='lgc'>: claiming the ="trms">nature of reality
='strcls'>*concept='lgc'>: a figure you make in order to do a limited ="trms">situated work

“conceptualization='lgc'> = fortification” استحکامات
(to fortify one's own work with concepts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> settlement)

Manning's af="trms">finity with in="trms">finitly, more, and multi ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what is their ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor is doing for them='qstn'>? commits them to the nonhabitual. (resisting to name their habits, depriving them of thier habitual labors) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work on descriptive practices='lgc'>]

="prgrph">-i want to know about their ="trms">="trms">empirical tools that make ="trms">translation-work visible (='lgc'>='lgc'>==> decom="trms">position), not their conceptual descriptions ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= textured description with ="trms">thick details ='lgc'><='lgc'>== i really think the devil is in the details!! ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> art of noticing things='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-i want to know how Manning is compromised into desiring what she is doing. ='lgc'>[compromise='lgc'>: being exposed or made ="trms">liable to d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, suspicion, or disrepute. ='lgc'>--the way she told the ="trms">story of her practice had a difficult sense of success in it, of being cool and correct at every turn, uncompromised. (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- why is this a turn-off for me='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]

for ="trms">aesthetic, political, ethical reasons i want Manning to address in their work='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of ="trms">apparatus ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> working within an ="trms">apparatus of thinking in order to get somewhere in a sustained way. i want them to name their ="trms">apparatus of ="trms">literary production. how they engage with the ="trms">interface, ="trms">data-set, grammar, and ="trms">literacy of their reservoir.
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of infrastructure ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how they balance the possible and the acceptable, the balance of action, tools, and the built environment
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of ="trms">technology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how they take apart the tool from its context of involvements and referentialities
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">question of political orientation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how they have accepted the democratization of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and multiculturalism (='thdf'>the idea of “knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge for everyone” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is a very thin line between the impulse to democratize and commodify knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>]; ='lgc'>--could multiculturalism be radical capitalism in action='qstn'>?! ...faking diversity to build more diverse companies ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- “lip service”='lgc'>: to just say something but not actually do it)
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the hegemony and ="trms">horror of “="trms">different experience” of the so-called ="trms">different cultures (a form of racism='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[multiculturalism ='lgc'>=/= trans-="trms">species='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[multiculturalism ='lgc'>=/= eurasia='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the hegemony and ="trms">horror of “the completely ="trms">different” (='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? de="trms">skilled ="trms">society)='lgc'>]

Manning='lgc'>: “in senseLab we work with the people who don't use ="trms">language, don't ="trms">write, etc.” (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- what does that legitimates, conceals, or smuggles='qstn'>? what ="trms">sorts of hierarchies and ideologies of status emerge out of that='qstn'>?)

="prgrph">-as the philosopher of nonintentionality how did she ="trms">responded (="trms">paranoically='qstn'>?) to our intents when ="trms">questions where asked='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-as the philosopher of discord how did she ="trms">responded to disagreement='qstn'>?

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(='qstn'>?how do you tell the tale of) ='strcls'>*your adventures سلوک and achievements کرامت='strcls'>* (karamat va soluk)
(why self-promoting is such a turn-off='qstn'>? it makes the ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener into someone to convince or win over into the Förderung of the speaker. ='lgc'>[with ="ppl">Campbell:='lgc'>] self-="trms">marketing creates a ‘="trms">perverse knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ about the work of the speaker, that means you give information about ‘healthy’ parts of your practice, your achievements and moral/="trms">material awards, with ='thdf'>the ='thdf'>assumption that the ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listener is going to make a good decision about the ‘halo effects’ of the speaker, but in fact you are made ‘brand ="trms">literate’)
or ='lgc'>[it is seems elementary but neccesory to ask Manning:='lgc'>] what is the ="trms">difference between advertisement and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='qstn'>?

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there are innumerable ways to adapt to the ="trms">world without creating a philosophical understanding of the ="trms">world

(Manning) “we feel the force of form. this kind of beauty has nothing to do with an external ="trms">aesthetic judgment.” (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how the personal judgment is not worthy of philo when a tsunami is coming or one is on the way of being gang raped='qstn'>?)


during the workshop Manning remains the center of command. she constantly “knows” (better). and she insists that through letting go of our critical thinking the participants can understand her notions ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? how can she not build disciples='qstn'>?!

on production
replacing the name of ‘production’ with ‘but we must leave a trace’ (which exactly do let ='thdf'>the notion of production sneak back in under an other name)[...]