[...] of time

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]hypocrisy <== the conditions of the impossibility of a [trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]<trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms><trms class="trms">languagetrms>= account for things while remaining uncontaminated by them, (<tld>~tld>= an “outside”)
--> (Lacanian truth:) “there is no <trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms><trms class="trms">languagetrms>” =/= post<trms class="trms">moderntrms>ism's “everything is a <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms>phortrms>” =/= some <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms>phortrms>s are better than others <tld>~tld>= trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>there is nowhere to stand outside of thingstrcls class='strcls'>*trcls>
the time of hyperobjects is a time of hypocrisy =/= cynicism

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]weakness <== the gap between <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>on and thing

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

tl="font-size:112%"> <trms class="trms">imagitrms>nation as:
ts class="lsts lst1">•Hume: a bundling of as<trms class="trms">socitrms>ations
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Kant: the possibility for synthetic judgments a <trms class="trms">priortrms>i
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•object-oriented <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy: immanence of thinking to the physical, radically displacing the human by insisting that my being is not everything it is cracked up to be--the being of a paper cup is as profound as mine
ts>

which hyperobject you are caught intn'>?

image of <trms class="trms">writtrms>ing --> shy, retiring octopuses that squirt out a dissembling (mask, cloak, vortäuschen) ink as they withdraw into the <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logical shadow


figure of trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>milltrcls class='strcls'>*trcls> (the characters and <trms class="trms">techntrms>ologies and ideas of the ages mill around in a state of a mild, semiblissful confusion) =/= Eszter's vortex

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

<trms class="trms">situtrms>atedness is now a very uncanny place to be, like being the protagonist of a Wordsworth <trms class="trms">poetrms>m of a character in Blade Runner


trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>cool impersonality of the <trms class="trms">scietrms>ntific <trms class="trms">languagetrms>trcls class='strcls'>*trcls> (now is deprived of its ideological status)


the concept of the ‘<trms class="trms">worldtrms>’ is no longer operational
can we think environmentally without <thdf class='thdf'>the idea ofthdf> ‘the end of the <trms class="trms">worldtrms>’tn'>?

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

Morton: global warming =/= 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:
dialoc دیالوک --> decrease in appropriate levels of concern
tomas توماس --> terrain of media and the <trms class="trms">socitrms>opolitical realm
cohhatg کوهاج --> coincidence of human <trms class="trms">histotrms>ry and terrestrial geology
hhatg حج --> human <trms class="trms">histotrms>ry and terrestrial geology
pb پی بی --> philosophy's bandwidth
sdwa صدوا --> substances decorated with accidents -->
ldwa لدوا --> lumps decorated with accidents --> featureless lumps, and those things have accidental properties, like cupcakes decorated with colored sprinkles (arayesh آرایش) }--> this thinking still continues, despite the fact that ‘thought has al<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>y made it irrelevant’ --> thamii تامی, (<thdf class='thdf'>for examplethdf> <trms class="trms">birdtrms>s for Attar are merely decorative features of Attar's <trms class="trms">socitrms>al, psychic, and philosophical space)
soth صوث --> speculating outside of the human
sim سیم --> small island of meaning
etimom اتیموم --> everything is made of mind
hhbn هبن --> hand-holding benevolent <trms class="trms">narrattrms>or (-which is vanished)
(auto) cad کد --> (automatic) comforting <trms class="trms">aesthettrms>ic distances
iockat --> intentional objects commonly known as thoughts
atot آتو --> (you only ever perceive your particular) <trms class="trms">anthroptrms>o<trms class="trms">morphtrms>ic <trms class="trms">translattrms>ions of things
ejich جیش --> exhilarating jump into cognitive hyperspace --> displacement that Copernicus or Derrida does
foe --> fantasies of embeddedness [<-- <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>ology <== grounding of Kant (begining in 1900)]
avaa اوا --> a vertiginous anti<trms class="trms">literatrms>l <trms class="trms">abystrms>s
iwen --> intimacy with existing nonhumans
mok --> mathematization of knowing (--> Descartes, Newton) ==> hiding philosophical and ideological decisions made in acts of knowing =/= <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy (as a vital and contested political terrain)
icad --> ideology of “the <trms class="trms">consumtrms>er” and its “<trms class="trms">demandtrms>s” (that capital then “meets”) --> adventure of <trms class="trms">moderntrms>ity
fvod --> from the viewpoint of “objective” description (a bad way of explicating the objects that are al<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>y here)
toc --> troops of critique
towwk توک --> ‘<trms class="trms">techntrms>ology of what we know’ (<trms class="trms">techntrms>iques that decide the <trms class="trms">differentrms>ces between ‘what we know’ and ‘what is’. Morton's hyperobject is a towwk)
usoc --> uncanny strangeness of existence (work of Heidegger)
lawot --> (something is) ‘laying around in the workshop of thinking’ (let's reuse what appears to be broken lawot)

visist = visit + resist


tl="font-size:112%"> cor<trms class="trms">relationtrms>ism: <thdf class='thdf'>the notion thatthdf> philosophy can only talk within a narrow bandwidth, restricted to the human-<trms class="trms">worldtrms> correlate : meaning is only possible between a human mind and ‘what it thinks' = its “objects” (flimsy شل و ول and tenuous رفيق as they are) ~-> the light on in the fridge when you close the door
-Heidegger (towering through) is a cor<trms class="trms">relationtrms>ist who asserts that without Dasein, it makes no sense whatsoever to talk of the truth of things, which for him implies their very existence--for him idealism, not realism, holds the key to philosophy. (Heidegger's tool-analysis: when <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms">equiptrms>trms>ment--which for all intents and purposes could be anything at all--is functioning, or “executing” [Vollzug], it withdraws from access [Entzug]; that it is only when a tool is broken that it seems to become <trms class="trms">presentrms>t-at-hand [vorhanden] --> is this what Femke is proposing to apasstn'>?)

Descartes uncritically importing the very scholasticism his work undermined

[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]<trms class="trms">epistemtrms>ology:
ts class="lsts lst1">•how can i know what there are (or are not) real thingstn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•what gives me (or denies me) access to the realtn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of accesstn'>?
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•what defines the possibility of possibilitytn'>?
ts>

ts class="lsts lst1">•Einstein discovered a rippling, flowing spacetime
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=T'>Tarkovsky discovered the ‘<trms class="trms">sensutrms>ous <trms class="trms">materitrms>al of film stock’ --> s<trms class="trms">socitrms>
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Husserl discovered something strange about the objects: no <trms class="trms">mattertrms> how many times you turned around a cion, you never saw the other side as the other side --> the t class='at'>#t>coin had a dark side that was seemingly irreducible
ts>

tl="font-size:109%"> Morton's (<trms class="trms">techntrms>ology of what we know) hyperobject is his sense of an a<trms class="trms">symtrms>metry between the in<trms class="trms">finittrms>e powers of cognition and the in<trms class="trms">finittrms>e bening of things, yet he doesn't evoke descriptive practices, which could be helpfull--he is missing something, here: “the gap between <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>on and thing yawns open, disturbing my sense of <trms class="trms">presentrms>ce and being in the <trms class="trms">worldtrms>.”
“[...] i cannot locate the gap between <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>on and thing anywhere in my given, <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>al, experiential, or indeed <trms class="trms">scietrms>ntific space” --> Xiri's problem
he disagrees with: (from Plato up until Hume and Kant) that there is some kind of dotted line somewhere on a thing, saying “cut here” --so he con<trms class="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clutrms>des: “things are themselves, but we can't point to them directly.” =/= nonre<trms class="trms">presentrms>tational theory, Stewart is much more useful. we can see Morton's taste for (a masculine) <trms class="trms">sublimtrms>e in modeling his hyperobjects

flat <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy: there is hardly any <trms class="trms">differentrms>ce between a person and a pincushion. and <trms class="trms">relationtrms>ships between them, in<trms class="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clutrms>ding <trms class="trms">causatrms>l ones, must be vicarious (نيابتى) and hence <trms class="trms">aesthettrms>ic in <trms class="trms">naturtrms>e


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

<trms class="trms">scietrms>ntific discoveries are necessarily based on a decision about what real things are

trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>disaster [<trms class="trms">ontotrms>logic] taking place against a stable background [ontic]trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>

<trms class="trms">causatrms>lity after Hume and Kant : <trms class="trms">causatrms>lity as a feature of <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>a, rather than things in themselves ==> humans are not totally in charge of assigning significance and value to events that can be statistically <trms class="trms">meastrms>ured
entities that become visible through post-Humean and post-Kantian statistical <trms class="trms">causatrms>lity --> <trms class="trms">anthroptrms>ogenic global warming

<trms class="trms">causatrms>l factoid


humiliators [there is no center and we don't inhabit it]:
ts class="lsts lst1">•Copernicus
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Darwin
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Freud (displacing the human from the very center of psychic activity)
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Marx (displacing human <trms class="trms">socitrms>al life with economic organization)
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Heidegger
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Derrida (displacing the human from the center of meaning-making)
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Nietzsche
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•Deleuze and Guattari
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•
ts> <tld>~tld>= there is no <trms class="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgetrms> =/= (film Lucy or Neil trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=T'>Tyson series sug<trms class="trms">gesttrms>ing that) there is an <trms class="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgetrms> (of time to see everything perfectly), in some (privilaged) transcendental sphere of pure freedom, Lucy's chair <trms class="trms">literatrms>lly sitting a VIP box beyond the <trms class="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgetrms> --> <trms class="trms">anthroptrms>ocentrism: <thdf class='thdf'>the idea ofthdf> a privilaged transcendental sphere
Kant --> (although we are limited in <trms class="trms">finittrms>ude) our transcendental faculties are at least <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metatrms>phortrms>ically floating in space beyond the <trms class="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgetrms> of the universe --> t class='at'>#t>milieu t class='at'>#t>tasavof t class='at'>#t>sufism


...هزار و یک hezaro yek
universe of trillions of <trms class="trms">finittrms>udes


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


(Morton > Herman:) human consciousness wants trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>to preserve knowl<trms class="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgetrms> as a special kind of <trms class="trms">relationtrms> to the <trms class="trms">worldtrms> quite <trms class="trms">differentrms>t from the <trms class="trms">relationtrms>s that raindrops and lizards have to the <trms class="trms">worldtrms>trcls class='strcls'>*trcls> (<-- so d<trms class="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angertrms>ous and so difficult to resist [<-- next level of <trms class="trms">situtrms>ated knowl<trms class="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edgetrms>s] -->) also want to claim that the very status of [his] utterance is somehow special <== (human) ‘thought’ is given a unique ability to negate and transcend immediate experience
(claims that the human doesn't exist ==>) elevating the strucure of human ‘thought’ to the <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logical pinnacle سرمنزل

everything (such as <trms class="trms">moderntrms>ity) banks on a certain forms of <trms class="trms">ontotrms>logy and <trms class="trms">epistemtrms>ology to secure its coordinates


speculative realism, a rogue machinery

saving power:
ts class="lsts lst1">•expecting an eschatological solution from the sky
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•a revolution in consciousness
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•a people's army seizing control of the state
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•
ts>
obsessive robots (that hold open the sliding doors of <trms class="trms">histotrms>ry just as they appear to be snapping shut, imprisoning us in <trms class="trms">moderntrms>ity forever)


trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>distancetrcls class='strcls'>*trcls>: (the <trms class="trms">schizotrms>phrenic defense, “object in mirror,”) a psychic and ideological construct designed to protect me from the nearness of things
-the concept of ‘<trms class="trms">naturtrms>e’ is (such) an “object in mirror” (t class='at'>#t>amazon project)
بنداز دور mythical land away --> a dis-dimension called ‘away’ (door دور) in iran (door andakhtan دور انداختن)
(there is no away on this surface we are in) --> throw away: an optical effect : there is no loger distances our image from us in a nice, <trms class="trms">aesthettrms>ically manageable way, but sticks to us --> we are glued to our <trms class="trms">phenomentrms>ological <trms class="trms">situtrms>ation (--> entanglement of <trms class="trms"><trms class="trms">equiptrms>trms>ment and quanta =/= three pigs)

a threatening proximity

“i do not feel ‘at home’ in the biosphere” (yet it surrounds them and penetrates them) --> 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 --> آمدنم بهر چه بود : “i am not sure where i am anymore. i am at home in feeling not at home.”


tl="font-size:149%"> one's normal sense of time as a container


Ehsan's ghost/sheikh film --> demonic in that through them <trms class="trms">causatrms>lities 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: the most powerful thing


weather as <trms class="trms">monsttrms>er

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


(a <trms class="trms">socitrms>ety in which) growing <trms class="trms">scietrms>ntific trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>awareness of rishtrcls class='strcls'>*trcls> ==changes==> the <trms class="trms">naturtrms>e of democracy

back-to-<trms class="trms">naturtrms>e festivals

nihi<trms class="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listtrms>ic princes of darkness

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my work is trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>to mix <trms class="trms">storiestrms>trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>

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

<trms class="trms">cosmotrms><trms class="trms">ecologtrms>y: multiple beings (gods, jinns, <trms class="trms">animaltrms>s, humans, living, dead, etc.) each bearing the consequences of the others’ ways (of living and dying)

‘the <trms class="trms">ecologtrms>ical <trms class="trms">questiontrms>’ is about the needs that ought to be met in the ongoing creation of rapports and connections --> the <trms class="trms">questiontrms>s are how does this being achieve the task of holding <trms class="trms">ontotrms> its existence =/= “does this being really exist, or is it not a re<trms class="trms">presentrms>tation”
==> (Despret:) trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>we may never know (safely and re<trms class="trms">liabltrms>y, either ahead of time or a posteriori) which beings will bear/enjoy the consequences of the concrete attention we give to themtrcls class='strcls'>*trcls>

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on Kate Rich work
feral --> before or without a political state --tn'>?--> state of <trms class="trms">naturtrms>e [a lot of moral political philosophers of the state asking “What was life like before civil <trms class="trms">socitrms>etytn'>?"]--> in feral there are only freedoms ==> contracts (}--> what cultural <trms class="trms">anthroptrms>ology has to say about thattn'>?)
she is in the Rousseauian tradition of trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>how to establish a ‘political <trms class="trms">communtrms>ity’ in the face of the problems of ‘commercial <trms class="trms">socitrms>ety’trcls class='strcls'>*trcls> (---> trw'>go to Rousseau's trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=T'>The <trms class="trms">Socitrms>al Contract & Discourse on the O<trms class="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigtrms>in and Basis of Inequality Among Men)
fighting the <trms class="trms">systrms>tem --> feral <trms class="trms">tropetrms>s --> arsenal of the Enlightenment (Kant's motto: “Dare to think for yourself!” <tld>~tld>= “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 class="trms">authortrms>ity and legitimacy, ideals of individual liberty and progress --> Kate's thinking founded on philosophical <trms class="trms">ficttrms>ions of the 18th century (--Foucault--> problematic legacy of the Enlightenment)
ts class="lsts lst1">•the legecy of 20th century: (Kate's dialectical negativity) to define and work in negative way, an ‘exit,’ a ‘way out’ --> transcendental [---> trw'>go to Singh, Khan,]
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•<trms class="trms">questiontrms> of contemporary reality --> Kate does a totalizing elevation (like many other artists)
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•the realm of obedience --> artists’ <trms class="trms">childtrms>ish attitude of never accepting someone else's <trms class="trms">authortrms>ity (t class='at'>#t>fighting the <trms class="trms">systrms>tem; should we fight the <trms class="trms">systrms>tem <trms class="trms">systrms>tematicallytn'>? t class='at'>@t>Nicolas)
ts>

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basically everything i do is related to the <trms class="trms">questiontrms> of <trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ing --> make us better <trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ers

my <trms class="trms">excesstrms>ive use of footnote --> the most decisive indication of the concerns of a text are to be found in its margins & no ‘proper’ starting/ending point for <trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ing

each of my performances/projects reflect on their own status as examples of <trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ing/mis<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ing =/= achieving correct <trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ing

<trms class="trms">literatrms>ture: the problem of mis<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ing (=/= the <trms class="trms">languagetrms> it uses)
[with De Man]

i have become sensitive to the <trms class="trms">systrms>tematic avoidance of the problem of <trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ing, of the <trms class="trms">intertrms>pretative or hermeneutic moment, in <trms class="trms">literatrms>ry analysis and art

all <trms class="trms">languagetrms>-use is tropological (~ <trms class="trms">rhetortrms>ical)


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

<trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ability: the possibility of producing an essential/de<trms class="trms">finittrms>ive <trms class="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readtrms>ing --> closure =/= further <trms class="trms">intertrms>pretation

a <trms class="trms">languagetrms> which would perfectly fit my multiple identity--persian consciousness
<trms class="trms">embodtrms>ing (belonging to) two bordering cultures: western university and persian tradition of subjectivity
ts class="lsts lst1">•mixture of English and <trms class="trms">Farsitrms>
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•spontaneous shift of style
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•
ts> ts class="lsts lst1">•
ts>

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learning from academia: committed to <trms class="trms">excesstrms>ive <trms class="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigtrms>or + sriousness of purpose

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tl="font-size:111%"> (Erikson's) developmental <trms class="trms">stagtrms>es characterized by a psycho<trms class="trms">socitrms>al crisis of two conflicting forces: (each <trms class="trms">stagtrms>e that came before and that follows has its own ‘crisis’)
[conflictual psycho<trms class="trms">socitrms>al crisis --> virtue ~-> (answers to) existential <trms class="trms">questiontrms>s]

-(0-18 months) trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=T'>Trust / Mistrust --> Hope
[Can I trust the <trms class="trms">worldtrms>tn'>?]
==> what constitutes d<trms class="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angertrms>ous <trms class="trms">situtrms>ations (in life)
<trms class="trms">worldtrms> is undependable, unpre<trms class="trms">dictatrms>ble, and possibly a d<trms class="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angertrms>ous place
[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]trust: syntonic quotient
[trcls class='strcls'>*trcls>]mistrust: diatonic quotient
--> oral <trms class="trms">stagtrms>e

-(2-4 years) Autonomy / Shame-Doubt --> Will
[Is it okay to be metn'>?]
venture out to assert their will ==> learning about environment
lack/<trms class="trms">excesstrms>/ridiculed restriction ==> shame --> doubt (in dealing with, handling problems)
--> anal <trms class="trms">stagtrms>e

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

---till here we were in the realm of play---

tl="font-size:125%"> to master trust, autonomy, and industrious <trms class="trms">skiltrms>ls
(i have mastered ‘trust,’ failed at ‘autonomy,’ and overdosing ‘industrious [...]