[...]ionist 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'>?)
="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
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="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
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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’
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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'>]
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’)
="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
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="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
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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
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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.”
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
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