[...]imes the construction (of a ="trms">world)

contemporary politics of state="trms">craft

...to locate a mobile site of anguish to project the portrait (of epic and lyrical scope) of a national subject='qstn'>?
...between experience and fantasy for the sake of producing ="trms">imaginary conquests in the shape of self-aggrandizement='qstn'>?

ingenieur du moi
medium engineers


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> ="trms">imaginary space, nation, selfhood

='strcls'>*** the self-possessed individual ='strcls'>***

(="ppl">Conley calls) ="trms">writing “cartographic” insofar as tensions of space and of ="trms">figuration inhere in fields of printed discourse
(although his understanding of ="trms">writing as ‘effects of recorded speech’ is not ="trms">interesting)
(and he ties to fast cartography to expansion and conquest, allegorical propaganda of cartographer's ="trms">presence)


living conditions of vocal exchange


visible coordinates that enclose, frame, quantify

a process of discovery ='lgc'>--that='lgc'>='lgc'>--> maps its movement as it goes
="prgrph">-making a fetish of progress and accuracy
="prgrph">-vital, ="trms">narcissistic illusion that the ="trms">world begins with our birth and expands through our perception of it


isolario='lgc'>: illustrating the islands of the ="trms">world, a genre


“national” subjects attached to the geographies that they are both mapping and describing
graphic construction of the self
="ppl">Olearius's globe of Gottorf (='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">="ppl">Morton's hyperobject)='lgc'>: the effect of totality, of having engineered a ="trms">world through its own labors. ='lgc'>[Ptolemaic-="ppl">Aristotlian machinery of the spheres, which hold the fixed stars in place, stars in a trace on the relatively stable horizon of earth and sky (in which meteor deviation from this harmonious arrangement or celestial machinery was considered disastrous)='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**self become autonomous ='lgc'><== fixed to an illusion of a geographic truth, it can be detached from the coordinates that mark its point of view, its ="trms">history, its formation, and the ="trms">aesthetics (and politics) of its sig="trms">nature. ='lgc'>[and with ="frds scrmbld">Sana, through ="ppl">Sa'di, we start with this ="trms">position, rehearsing criticism studies in terms of the birth of the subject and of subjectivity in early ="trms">modern Europe='lgc'>]


terrae incognitae='lgc'>: the unknown, graphically inscribed, and to be conquered

“nomination is a mode of ="trms">symbolic appropriation that furnishes virgin territories with a ="trms">memory, with a gridding that dispossesses space of its alterity and that makes of it an object of discovery subjected to the constraints of ="trms">linguistic reference, that intends that at every identifiable site there cor="trms">respond a name” (="ppl">Conley > ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian Jacob > ="ppl">Mallarme)

="large lg1" stl="font-size:141%"> lodged in the corporal space of an image of “man”

spectral ="trms">presence of death

navel='lgc'>: construed to be a site where the ="trms">relation of the unknown has its first noticeable, physical trace, ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] the site of a ruptured attachment
="prgrph">-as an ="trms">embodiment of the ="trms">relation to the unknown
="prgrph">-the subject desires to give birth to himself or herself

artificial self-birthing and self-monumentalization

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> creation of a universe of wise (hakimane حکیمانه)


it is so strange in ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>: the process of detachment that constitutes every subject's psychogenesis inspires a geographic desire (to retrace one's tenuous “roots,” which are woven through the visible register of ="trms">language, the audible areas of images...) ='lgc'>-- with ="ppl">Conley

="ppl">Olearius's being='lgc'>: at one with the local, national, global, and cosmic space in which he or she visualizes an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin as="trms">sociated with a site of birth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> womb='lgc'>: the reassuring rectitude of the map, which is both a ="trms">material and paternal image of seemingly timeless ="trms">symbolic order


tensions between the visible and the invisible
(what is taken to be evident or “visible” meets what remains invisible or outside of ="trms">language; ='at'>#amazon project)
to grid the ="trms">relation of the visible and the invisible (in cartography and ="trms">writing)
their certain mobility of flux and indeterminacy (in ="ppl">Descartes becomes a ="trms">subliminal practice)
the ideological dimensions of known and unknown become crystallized
='strcls'>*the viewer is urged to look at things transversally ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= tangency='lgc'>: having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader invents the process of subjectivity when analyzing the ="trms">differential patterns that are working in the cartographic document
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*double bind='lgc'>: of cosmic and local space, of viewer in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded and ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded from the discourse, of weakened deixis ='lgc'>[deictic, words or expressions that rely absolutely on context='lgc'>] (or dialogue) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mobilizes subjectivity


quasi-spatial conquest (through the extension of the delimited field of the known in the channel of a ‘polar ="trms">relation with the unknown,’ ="trms">according to mappings that envisage the progression of a deferred knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge) ='lgc'>[="ppl">Conley > Rosolato ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">technologies that construct early ="trms">modern space (='lgc'>--also with ="ppl">Olearius)='lgc'>]


...to produce a great geography of introspection

cosmic and ="trms">affective space


illusion of a universe of in="trms">finite curvature

='strcls'>*the impossible “point of view” given to the observer of early ="trms">world maps='strcls'>*



map ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? mystical ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> depends on an itinerary through space and ="trms">language

mysticism
only adjectival forms of the term had occurred (in Renaissance and before), sug="trms">gesting that the nonsubstantive status of mystical activities made them more ‘real’ than we might believe ='strcls'>** (="ppl">de Certeau)
the development of atlas-structures and of two-dimensional ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> attenuation (taz'if تضعيف) of the mixture of ="trms">scientific and mystical dimensions
incunabulum ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Cartesian ="trms">method
from a half-named sense of the unknown ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a clearly ="trms">articulated ="trms">relation with the unknown='strcls'>****


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perspectival object='lgc'>: the ="trms">positioning and mapping of the self in and about the ="trms">world in its ongoing construction of psychogenesis ='lgc'>+ ="trms">aesthetics ='lgc'>+ ="trms">history of perspective ='lgc'>+ clinical practice='strcls'>*='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a series of junctures between a viewer and what he or she sees, projects, fantasizes, and re="trms">members
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> body's location in the ="trms">world ='strcls'>***


="trms">excess of mastery
absolute quest of power

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> ='strcls'>*to make meaning enigmatic(='qstn'>?)

with ="frds scrmbld">Sana, we are engaged in an anti-globe making, a ="trms">transitional object rather than a ‘glory globe,’ “a field of diagonical or ="trms">interdiscursive ‘play’ between impressions and ="trms">memories”
in our exhibition, we are working the gridded/allegorized cartographic discourse/consciousness through appeal to spatial ="trms">rhetoric
(reworking) the new form of a self-produced “geography” of ="trms">writing (emerging in 16th century)
="prgrph">-we are perhaps inclined with the figure of Rhizome (from ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari), the unifying lines and connections that produce an image of...
='lgc'>[in a fairly common obsession, amateurs of maps ofen seek to find the names of the places where they were born or raised. but when ="frds scrmbld">Sana's father wanted to erase his name from the map ="frds scrmbld">Sana made with his itineraries we betrayed this o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginary site='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="trms">schizoanalytic cartographies, ="ppl">Guattari on='lgc'>: conditions of ="trms">enunciation, structures of individual and collective subjectivity)
="prgrph">-we say (in our work with ="ppl">Olearius)='lgc'>: ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading can be an actively vagrant, nomadic examination of ideological ="trms">materials


...an attempt to create in an ever recurring, mobile, and modular structures that endow themselves with renewed form

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%">
='strcls'>*the cartographic project invents a ="trms">relation with the ="trms">past

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]projective identification='lgc'>: an illusion that tells who, where, and what these maps are about, and ="trms">specifies the power that they wish to appropriate in diplomatic (and military) areas

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perspectival object='lgc'>: is the concept that shifts the ="trms">spectator from a passive role to that of an engaged ="trms">traveler who moves through the time and space of a given body of words, images, and sensation ='lgc'>--passage-into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vital and marginal areas where ="trms">imagination, fact, ="trms">history, and self are combined


="large lg5" stl="font-size:152%"> plastic and lexical attributes

confused pictorial and lexical properties

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]pictogram='lgc'>: alphabetical shapes ='lgc'>+ bodily form ='lgc'>+ ="trms">memory of a seemingly archaic ="trms">past of confusion and violence ='lgc'>+ ='lgc'>+
pictogram is mobile, it moves between one register of cognition and another, it resembles the rebus ='lgc'>[word puzzle re="trms">presenting form of pictures or ="trms">symbols; (Latin='lgc'>: “by things”) a kind of word puzzle which uses pictures to re="trms">present words or parts of words, ='thdf'>for example H ='lgc'>+ picture of ear='lgc'> = Hear='lgc'>] and calligram ='lgc'>[a ="trms">poem with (a phrase or single word) in which the typef[...]