[...]n, 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


="large lg54" stl="font-size:133%"> (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.”


="large lg30" stl="font-size:110%"> 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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="large lg90" stl="font-size:105%"> 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)


="large lg90" stl="font-size:120%"> 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'>='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

="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.”



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



="large lg86" stl="font-size:112%"> ="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



(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


="large lg78" stl="font-size:134%"> ='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]

might suffer

="ppl">Freud's penis


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'>='lgc'>~-> farar az ejtema فرار از اجتماع

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

='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'>?



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'>='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


="large lg70" stl="font-size:126%"> 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


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

(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'>='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'>])

="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'>?


(='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'>?


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)

(Manning on p.16 5th paragraph is an ='thdf'>example of an) unaccountable un="trms">situated abstract claim of reality='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•unaccountable ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> where do you stand saying this='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•un="trms">situated ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for whom is this good='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•abstract ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how you are saying it='qstn'>?

='thdf'>the notion of “care for the event”
='lgc'>=/= perspectives
='lgc'>=/= subjects
='lgc'>=/= persons

“occasion itself creates its subjects” (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- you are a subject inside the occasion, how can you stand out and say that='qstn'>?)

(Manning) creating a concept of care ='lgc'>=/= care as actually practiced in ="trms">different parts of the ="trms">world by people
(what is the politics of not caring='qstn'>?)

Manning's ="trms">rhetoric of reasoning='lgc'>: ‘virtuous’
telling soft wisdom tale with an emotional twist at the end and how she did the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right thing and came out clean and cool ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rectitude

her text has become all about the achievements of senseLab with a cover of high philosophical abstract conceptualization (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= fortification)
='lgc'>=/= taking ='strcls'>*risk='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= adventure) of talking about the real problems that you face in doing/thinking
='lgc'>=/= abstraction as the challenge of bringing ="trms">specificity and ="trms">imaginative traction

“adventure” is not the name of the game for me, for two reasons='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. Manning brought her concept of ‘adventure’ to Belgium='lgc'>: the land of Tintin, poster of the moderinst adventure ="trms">agency sold by the image of the individual blond univerasal truth-seeker exporting company who always wins by de="trms">finition, Tintin is the one who doesn't have a culture and always others have culture in his ="trms">stories
="lstsrd">2. i have been researching europeans who came for an “adventure” to ="nms">iran in the last millennium (such as ="ppl">Olearius), and it doesn't look good. when europeans go out of their center to east it is adventure (or ="trms">anthropology), that means othering and feeling the ="trms">differences of the other in order to feel outside. but when, for example ="nms">iranians go to Europe, they never feel they are there for “adventure,” they are there to learn. the mode of adventure plays this role in the colonial dynamic of “going out there”

(my fundamental ="trms">difference with her is that) for Manning (and ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alex,Alert,Aleph,Alessi">Alex)='lgc'>: “philosophy is a ="trms">priori to ="trms">storytelling” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Serres='lgc'>]


="prgrph">-why did i behave the way i did in the workshop='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-was it my politeness, ="trms">routine, habit of respect='qstn'>? what are the consequences of my ="trms">specific way of (non)relating to her figure as a master, knower, seer, in ="trms">relation to that which she offers and re="trms">presents='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-why the scandalous was ="trms">responded to, assimilated, burried, swallowed in the way it did in the workshop='qstn'>?

rethinking emergence='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-with ='thdf'>the idea of “let it emerge,” was it herself that emerged because of us='qstn'>? (apply emergence-thinking to her figure in the workshop)
="prgrph">-how a collective resentment “emerged” in the participants='qstn'>? (apply emergence-thinking to the participants)
="prgrph">-how hierarchies “emerged” in the workshop='qstn'>? and what are they='qstn'>?

to be ungraspable for the ="trms">market ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>? (="trms">marketing the self)
to be unintelligible for the university ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='qstn'>? (devitalizing the university)


="trms">questions='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•decontextualization, as an artistic ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready-at-hand tool of concept-making, does it do good or bad to knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and ="trms">imagination (as it is practiced by the people who use it) and how='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•facing the challenge of bringing ="trms">specificity and ="trms">imaginative traction to our objects of attention, how do we build nontranscendental abstractions='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•and, why self-promoting is such a turn-off='qstn'>? (projecting a self-image of being cool and correct)
how do you (not, and why not) tell the tale of your adventures and achievements='qstn'>? or, how can we ="trms">respond to the ‘="trms">demand for the mobilization of desire’ in the economy of attention that Manning brought with herself='qstn'>? and how that economy is ="trms">different from that of ="nms">apass='qstn'>?



in the spectrum of ‘auto-ism’ (not the pathological term for developmental disorder) ='lgc'>['auto-’='lgc'>: from ="trms">Greek αὐτo-, “self"='lgc'>] ‘being ="trms">socially inept, being with oneself,’ we can also locate ‘allism’ ='lgc'>['allo’='lgc'>: from ="trms">Greek ἄλλος, állos, “other”, “else"='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> al="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic='lgc'>: ‘to be ="trms">skilled at being with the ="trms">different other (assumed human)’

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eurocentric ='lgc'>=/= european
="lsts lst1">•i actually ="trms">love “european.” i learn from it all the time. how does the ="trms">world looks like from here.
="lsts lst1">•but eurocentrism is horrible. they assume an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin and displace it to any place/time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it happens when a philosopher tries to be anti-western but assuming the same o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of thinking for everybody else and not taking the time to become ="trms">interested in the (non)thinking forms of no="trms">neuropeans


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='at'>#workshop on 3D animation all on Nude Descending a Staircase
inspired by minute 16 of “Pink Slime Caesar Shift” (2018)


“there is much more to you that meet the eye.” the motto of transformation in secular capitalism, sang by Jane Fonda and Transformer Optimus Prime

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rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer's ="trms">questions
in your obscure (elaborate and awkward) meditations, (='qstn'>?can we ask='lgc'>:) what is sacrificed, what is recooked, canibalized, chewed over, and eventually buried='qstn'>? in which economy of pleasure and pain is this mobilized='qstn'>? which harmful (or hedonistic) ="trms">sensualism is deployed='qstn'>? which ="trms">hallucinating enfant is ="trms">writing='qstn'>? which raw ="trms">material is being transformed into the gold of humanity='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-the ="trms">question of will='lgc'>: which ="trms">world is murdered and repopulated by the act of (your) will alone='qstn'>?

a research ="trms">method of starting a conversation, for ="nms">apass
='strcls'>*take me to you ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bring me to the subject who you think is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading you, receiving your work in some ="trms">sort,

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few things (that i hate hysterically) that i think i urgently need (and any artist) to have a very good grasp of (within ="trms">modern capital economy)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">marketing (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">integrated ="trms">storytelling)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fashion (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> manipulative regimes of time and place)
="lsts lst1">•journalism (explanatory ="trms">technologies of news and opinion, vox, kurzgesagt, corporate media, immersive journalism, forensic ="trms">aesthetics)
="lsts lst1">•politics (='lgc'>=/= political ="trms">science)='lgc'>: achieving and exercising ="trms">positions of governance that have control over ="trms">communities
="lsts lst1">•hollywood/comics (='strcls'>*corporate-produced ="trms">fiction='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> business-decisions connecting cross-overs; ideas of='lgc'>: customer and merchandise)


i can't shake off ='thdf'>the idea that behind every ="trms">marketing strategy there i a predatory behavior concealed


='strcls'>***there is nothing quite so humiliating and disempowering as trying to prove the truth='strcls'>***

‘trying to prove the truth’ is the worst ="trms">position you can find yourself in and it means you are fucked. because you are doing it to empower yourself in the face of a biger power that lies and claims you. the conditions that had let that happen are the ="trms">question, not the truth of the ="trms">matter ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>that is why i find journalism most of the time useless

impossibility of having an ="trms">interview with ="nms">iranians (myself in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded)='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>==='qstn'>? chaotic subjectivity='lgc'>]
deflection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dodging='lgc'>: not giving meaningful answers ='lgc'>: gradations of non-answers you are receiving
taking a keyword, repeating it, sounds like answering the ="trms">question, introducing a nonsequitur to trip up the host
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> more confused ='and'>& less informed

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='at'>#project Puchberg landscape Austria
shifting baseline syndrome='lgc'>: reshaping the landscape and forgetting what was before ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{ (new) reality='lgc'> = shaped and ruined landscapes
(Emirates was for me such reality of shaped ruin)
admiring one landscape and its biological entanglements (Puchberg Austrian meadows, with it cows and horses, place of beauty and leisure) ='lgc'>==entails='lgc'>='lgc'>==> forgetting many others ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘forgetting’ (='lgc'>~ privileging one assemblage over others) ='lgc'>==remakes='lgc'>='lgc'>==> landscapes
(yet) ghosts point to forgetting, show how living landscapes are imbued with earlier tracks and traces
( specters in grasslands...)


in ="nms">apass (i can't pose problems until) we must address these ="trms">question='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•European ="trms">heritage of creating conviviality شادمانی قابل آمیزش (and very good at it)
="lsts lst1">•='thdf'>the idea of democracy as a political project اکثريت نجيب (soft ways of being together)
="lsts lst2">◦secularism of artistic research دين ناوابستگى (registers of logos)

='lgc'>[most of the times our collaborative research artistic practices explicate ‘soft ways of being together’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a condition in which no one knows better than the other='lgc'>]

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="large lg110" stl="font-size:111%"> the accelerationist ="trms">fable of “running before walking”
ask any ="trms">scientist and it comes to this. any problem caused by progress is because it has been going too fast. but the direction of its movement remains intrinsic to ='thdf'>the idea of human
...

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='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>: to be very careful with the fetish of “refugee's suffering” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> turning a ="trms">serious political problem (geopolitics of western ="trms">intervention, europe's economic neocolonialism) into a (sentimental liberal) humanitarian concern ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> avoiding critical political analysis

='qstn'>?a ="trms">different program='lgc'>: not to be yourself
to bring our struggles together (not our so-called cultural ="trms">differences)

refusal to ="trms">integration is problematic as ="trms">integration (into host's pleasure principle)

authentic imperialism has always been multicultural

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on ="trms">affect
="trms">affective character practice of retrospection='lgc'>: a bit pensive and passive, a bit slow and solemn='qstn'>?

1970s and 1980s ="trms">anthropology of emotion='lgc'>: how feelings variously fix and stick through ="trms">different com="trms">positions of ="trms">language and discourse ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anthropology of ="trms">affect='lgc'>: how some feelings slip, evade, and overflow capture ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*creative ="trms">methods to collect evidence of environments making and shaping bodies in ways more complex than and ="trms">ontologically distinct from the ="trms">poetics on hand to describe it='strcls'>*

='strcls'>**="trms">poetics may quite possibly be all that we have, it certainly isn't all that we are='strcls'>**

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]politics='lgc'>: permutations of evolving power ="trms">relations and our reflexive attempts to negotiate and manage them

='strcls'>*="trms">affect theory='lgc'>: an effect of the ="trms">world as much as a frame for viewing it

industry working also on ="trms">affect, push confidently ahead, operationalizing their own idio="trms">syncratic theories of ="trms">affect toward the manufacturing of new regimes of ="trms">technological knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge on how bodies feel (Apple buying Emotient, SoftBank's emotional robot, collective AI cloud)

sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of popu="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list anti-establishment sentiments
feelings increasingly become the primary field for strategizing, ="trms">measuring, and experiencing politics with global precarity
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger on the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right
="lsts lst1">•fear on the left
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anxiety at large

="trms">affect='lgc'>: nonconscious intensities variously activating and deactivating bodies
emotion='lgc'>: those feelings that fix into place through a variety of discursive practices

="trms">methods of mining feeling
projects of knowing become projects of power ='lgc'>: ="trms">narratives seeking to close the ="trms">affect-emotion gap

The Flash TV series character's motivation are more experienced as a ="trms">story, for example, a goal, a personal pep talk, a collective call to arms='lgc'>--and not as momentum and force ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">affect's sheer momentum

...effect as ="trms">affect's long ="trms">history breaking on a shore

countervailing forces of sense and ="trms">story

to inspire a sense of critical urgency

="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> theory is of the ="trms">world it so describes

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contemporary tendencies in participatory art='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**ongoing struggle to find artistic equivalents for political ="trms">positions='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•tensions between quality and equality, singular and collective ="trms">authorship
="lsts lst1">•sub-themes of education and therapy

='strcls'>***invention of a popular mass audience (in Italian Futurist serate 1910 onwards)

the gaps between='lgc'>: theory, practice, cultural policy, audience reception

anarchic and ="trms">eroticised happening-art

“participation='lgc'> = collectivism ='lgc'>=/= capitalism”

='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter='lgc'>: (='qstn'>?the “ideological” in) participation in a welfare state ="trms">social democracy

the ‘project’ as a privileged vehicle of utopian experimentation at a time when a leftist project seemed to have vanished from the political ="trms">imaginary (in Europe)

='strcls'>*changing identity of the audience across the 20th century='strcls'>* (Bishop ='and'>& ="ppl">="ppl">Crary on this topic)

='strcls'>*artistic models of democracy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--tenuous='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> actual forms of democracy

to refute the commodity-object in favour of an elusive experience

(Bishop='lgc'>:) today's participatory art is often at pains to emphasise process over a de="trms">finitive image, concept or object. It tends to value what is invisible='lgc'>: a group dynamic, a ="trms">social ="trms">situation, a change of energy, a raised consciousness.

hit-and-miss field trips

="large lg114" stl="font-size:106%"> the more one becomes involved, the harder it is to be objective – especially when a central component of a project concerns the formation of personal ="trms">relationships

comfortable outsider status='lgc'>: impotent but secure in one's own critical superiority

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only working with (that seems to be) your idea

(the problem of) being always so deliberate and cautious

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="ppl">Hillman

like the conver of his ="trms">book (myth of analysis), an ="trms">internal drama externalized ="trms">materialized in the media, sci-fi ="trms">fabulations of violence and war (such as Game of Thrones) are perhaps projects that also ="trms">craft and give form to what is inside='lgc'>: dragon, torture, journey, landscape, getting caught, etc.

what are art's investments in psychology today='qstn'>?

all (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding artists) must envision suffering and illness as something “wrong” ='lgc'>=/= the fantasies, feelings, and behavior arising from the ="trms">imaginal part of ourselves are ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="search">archetypal='strcls'>* in their sickness and thus ='strcls'>*="trms">natural='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (those odd irrationalities) ='strcls'>***are required for life='strcls'>***
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> then what is there to analyze='qstn'>? (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- relevant ="trms">question for ="nms">apass)

“unconscious” and “psychodynamics” are ='strcls'>*fantasies that could be replaced with better ones='strcls'>*

(="ppl">Hillman's ="trms"nttrm="search">archetypal psychology) ='strcls'>**asks the psyche to move with its sickness into life='strcls'>**

(to discover) a sense of soul in the sufferings of Psychopathology ='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***something lives in me that is not of my own doing='strcls'>*** (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> demon, psychic force,,,) to take soul with one wherever one goes and to react to life in terms of this soul

="trms">symbolic meanings, insights, eros, body, craziness, the ='strcls'>*lower aspects of the gods='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the freedom to ="trms">imagine and to feel psychic reality

“inner reality” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> called up by ego ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> individuality='lgc'> = to be peculiar, to be peculiarly what one is, with one's own odd patterns of ="trms"nttrm="search">archetypal ="trms">responses

='heart'>♥='strcls'>***we are never only persons; we are always also Mothers and Giants and Victims and Heroes and Sleeping Beauties='strcls'>*** (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- what i am learning from psychoanalysis)

the mythic appears within the ="trms">language, observation, and theories even of ="trms">science

recent attempts to move out of analysis='lgc'>: (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela)
="lsts lst1">•group therapy
="lsts lst1">•sensitivity training (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">apass)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">love-ins
="lsts lst1">•blowing-the-mind with ="trms">drugs
="lsts lst1">•

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]analysis (is too potent) is too much a part of this century's self conception ='lgc'>--requirement='lgc'>='lgc'>--> of ego psychology
(='lgc'>[apollonic aim of enlightening consciousness ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] enlightened ='strcls'>*egoization='strcls'>* of the psyche ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*a darker and softer kind of life='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> end of ="trms">neurosis, end of analysis, end of consciousness...) analysis ='lgc'>--in-20th-century='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rediscovering the soul and reawakening its ="trms">imagination
(rethought ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]analysis='lgc'>: essentially as ="trms">imaginative activity (or an activity of the ="trms">imaginal realm) as it plays through all of life ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='thdf'>the idea of one's “="trms">fable” ='lgc'>~='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***what is the fantasy he has of what he does='qstn'>?='strcls'>***

analysis is an ='strcls'>*enactment='strcls'>*
enactment necessitates ='strcls'>*myth='strcls'>*='lgc'>: a tale about its ritual

mysogyny ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- manifestation of the western, protestant, ="trms">scientific, apollonic ego

='strcls'>****="ppl">Hillman (penetrating the analysis in ="trms">accordance with mythical perspective)='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*="trms">transference ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">erotic='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*unconscious ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">imaginal='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*="trms">neurosis ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dionysian='strcls'>*

="large lg26" stl="font-size:121%"> ="prgrph">-what are the manifestations of ego in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?

="large lg38" stl="font-size:120%"> ="prgrph">-please let's have a darker kind of light...



(="ppl">Keats='lgc'>:) ="trms">world='lgc'> = the vale of soul-making ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you'll find out the use of the ="trms">world

(="ppl">Hillman='lgc'>:) psychoanalysis='lgc'>: something one learns through “analysis” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> processes of the mind, heart, and soul (that were not in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded in the field of psychology in the ="trms">past century)

(Jung='lgc'>:) depth psychology='lgc'>: an ="trms">ontology of the soul based on ="trms"nttrm="search">archetypes

(a -logy that allows the) soul's speculative function


="ppl">Hillman proposing a deep uncertainty concerning the root ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, the true myth of the work (of analysis)

mystes
epoptes (an initiate in the Eleusinian mysteries; one who has attended the epopteia)
shaman
an initiator
guru of the body='strcls'>*

root ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor of psychology (='qstn'>?)

(until 1700='lgc'>: pattern='lgc'> = patron) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Hillman='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to discover this pattern ='lgc'>[the general myth of our field='lgc'>]='lgc'> = to search for our patron='lgc'>: the father who creates and is the creative principle in us

='lgc'>[because='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[we are uncertain of what we are:='lgc'>] we are uncertain of our ="trms">author, from whom would come both our ="trms">authority and our authenticity

tracing things back ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> preserves of the mother-="trms">childhood and family (dominanting psychology) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we come to her='lgc'>: ='strcls'>***="trms">materialism='lgc'> = maternalism (in acceptable disguise)='strcls'>***

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(with the critical ="trms">bestiaries magazine idea) is ='mywrk'>my work about defining a new mode of cultural discourse='qstn'>?

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="prgrph">-philosophy (like mathematics) is a ="trms">priori disciplines (or has an a ="trms">priori ="trms">methodology) at its core
="prgrph">-the posibility of ='strcls'>*true answers='strcls'>* for “artistic ="trms">questions”(='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>? can anybody outside your field be made to care whether you're ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right='qstn'>?
a ="trms">priori ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">contingent
higher-order truths of...
self-supporting ="trms">community of experts (= ="trms">trap)
“philosophy is garbage, but the ="trms">history of garbage is scholarship” -Burton Dreben

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act of cultural and economic exchange
act of reciprocal exchange, of creative ="trms">mutuality (to benefit in a myriad of ways related to our professional status, our institutional ‘worth,’ the ="trms">social and cultural capital perceived to be attached to the ‘="trms">networks’ in which we operate)
='lgc'>[to ="trms">interrogate='lgc'>] concepts of artistic labor and value
time, labor, and the creative investment that was ="trms">embodied within ='lgc'>[the object that you make='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[you might start with='lgc'>] requiring a catalogue containing critical essays to institutionally ‘legitimate’ your exhibition ='lgc'>--yet='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sophisticated, playful and ="trms">interesting ways to comment on and engage
='strcls'>*numerous ways in which cultural forms (in this case contemporary art) are ="trms">simultaneously entangled in a number of spheres of meaning, value and mediation='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> activate ongoing dialogue
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">marketplace='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•people in both established and emerging ‘global’ economies forced to fulfill their everyday needs
="lsts lst1">•‘the ="trms">market’ is ="trms">naturalised and reified within ="trms">social ="trms">relations in ways we don't necessarily always recognise or acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> suffused and ="trms">sublimated within creative production, our lexicon and ="trms">gestures
(19th century ="trms">anthropology's) ='thdf'>the idea of ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]alterity='lgc'>: understanding how ‘other,’ ‘primitive’ ="trms">societies operated ‘outside’ of ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>--assumption='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘small scale’ ="trms">societies exchange (barter, gift exchange, and so on) would always, with evolution, give way to more ‘sophisticated’ means of trade
="lsts lst1">•Malinowski (study of the Kula ring) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> form of producing and reifying power ="trms">relations
="lsts lst1">•Mauss (gift economies) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gifts as stand alone ="trms">systems ='lgc'>+ other kinds of economic structures
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Strathern (Melanesian gift exchange) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how personhood is a malleable concept that is both implicated in, and created by, conceptions of individuality (tripartite views of people as constituted of a mind, body and spirit), or dividuality (persons as constituted from multiple essences and ="trms">social ="trms">relations, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding the giving and receiving of gifts) ='lgc'>+ how gender is both studied and understood in the acts leading up to the performance of gift exchange
="lsts lst1">•Appadurai () ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘things’ have ‘="trms">social lives'that can be studied in ="trms">relation to the ="trms">different spheres of use
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (our understanding of) the human capacity for unlimited modes of developing creative forms of exchange and economic ="trms">systems

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https://mapmagazine.co.uk/notes-contemporary-art-and-="trms">anthropology

operations of state="trms">craft='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•queuing in ="trms">social security offices
="lsts lst1">•filling in tax forms
="lsts lst1">•circulation and arrival of letters ="trms">demanding council tax payments
="lsts lst1">•census taking
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social organization that seems so habitual (mundane and ordinary) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> unreflexively experienced

state's ordinariness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> irresistible enchantment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> overwhelming power ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~> super="trms">natural trance-like experiences state seem to engender in populations ='lgc'>=/= state as a rational entity

='strcls'>*capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">market is a faith-based ="trms">system='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>== concealed practices of divination and the ‘conjuring’ of value and capital from what in many cases are im="trms">material voids

unmasking of its practices (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= faith ='lgc'>+ skepticism) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> state power

mutant forms of ="trms">technological self-subjugation

(Weber's) magic='lgc'>: coercive proceduralism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> managerial practices that characterise biopolitics

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]census taking='lgc'>: pre-determined ="trms">categories (like race, nationality, gender and political persuasion) are set out as objectively existing taxonomies (='lgc'>+ ‘="trms">data’ manually gathered from individuals to ‘fit’ those ="trms">categories) and thus summon ='lgc'>[a term with magical implications purposefully employed here='lgc'>] a population into being
="prgrph">-McClanahan

census ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> statistics='lgc'>: factish object='lgc'>: hybrid and unstable (possibly inaccurate) yet fetishised and faith-based ="trms">technologies that possess the ability to transform (the individual parts of ="trms">social and cultural groups into a sacred somatic whole ='lgc'>[='lgc'>~ people/nation='lgc'>])='lgc'>='lgc'>--> biopolitics
="prgrph">-can art succeed in transforming such a ‘whole’ into free and autonomous individual beings='qstn'>?

references to panopticon ="trms">society
(='qstn'>?which camera angles sug="trms">gest) ="trms">naturalization of sur="trms">veillance culture



="large lg1" stl="font-size:142%"> ='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*observational ="trms">aesthetic='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>== convergences of contemporary art and ="trms">anthropology

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='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] concept or theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a training in) absorption ='lgc'>+ attention ='lgc'>+ framing ='lgc'>=/= truth effect

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
Whatever Professor

='lgc'>[why ="nms">apass asked me to do their website's='lgc'>] indexing='lgc'>: (a shrewd and thoughtful creativity in) the first ="trms">interpretation of a content's body ='lgc'>=/= presuming a standard taxonomic form
='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•surprises
="lsts lst1">•styles of critical thought generates power in twists of voice and ="trms">craft
="lsts lst1">•
allows one please to de="trms">monstrate the ="trms">wonder
“We ask our ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers to perform the jamb when ="trms">language overruns the mental breathing that ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading entails.” (Lepselter)
="lsts lst1">•or, nothing disappears ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> You breathe the air you're given. (“I felt ripples from a rape in the seventeenth century, behind a barn somewhere in Romania, where generations later my bitter grandmother disparaged her ="trms">children without knowing why.”)
="lsts lst1">•or, words sediment next to something laid low
="lsts lst1">•or, (index as in) to point sideways ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shifter's only meaning is the object it happens to point to
="lsts lst1">•drawing figures, hooks, asterisks
="lsts lst1">•or, placing what's structural, ="trms">technical, ="trms">transferential, pulped, leaking, intense
='lgc'>{things='lgc'>: an ="trms">integrated thin layer to epitomize and abstract in new ways how people are hooked up with their ="trms">technologies; parsing and criss-crossing some of the built-in ="trms">categories and new needs of the people who are using it;='lgc'>}


things that do the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, editing, assembling

='strcls'>*every edit ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (set off a cascade of='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•word falls
="lsts lst1">•Rubik's Cubes
="lsts lst1">•="trms">tropes
="lsts lst1">•infrastructures
="lsts lst1">•genres
="lsts lst1">•rhymes
="lsts lst1">•off-rhymes
="lsts lst1">•tonal flips
="lsts lst1">•half-steps

='lgc'>[com="trms">positional ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening='lgc'>]
one ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reads aloud ='lgc'>+ the others ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening com="trms">positionally='strcls'>*

='at'>#="trms">writing exercise='lgc'>:
following out the impact of things (words, thoughts, people, objects, ideas, ="trms">worlds) in hundred-word units

theoretical reflections get ="trms">folded into the analytic, observational, and ="trms">transferential ways we move
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Berlant)

aftershocks of a shock you can't point out

(we shouldn't always ask) “where does the misery come from='qstn'>?”

designers ="trms">imagined a still life, not a life="trms">world where we show up to build things out

evaluative critique ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? (mental habit of) demagnetizing things (for the sake of clarity)

proliferation of little ="trms">worlds...

="trms">story='lgc'> = relay, weiterleiten, رله

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in fact i have never been working on ='thdf'>the notion of ="trms">nature, my topic of research, rather have been all along ="trms">zoology



score='lgc'>: creating disorder out of order
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">="frds scrmbld">Lilia



wry ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wryly کج معوج شده

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paleonymy (use of a preexisting word in a new context) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are stuck with old skeletons ="trms">neurotic words ='lgc'>[that are not mutating='lgc'>] (='thdf'>for example man, woman, ="trms">animal, black, etc.) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= hope for mutation, random emergence, sudden ="trms">epistemic newness='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Avital='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*="trms">language='lgc'> = the house of being='strcls'>*
(not to think emancipatory ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) we live in ="trms">language, we are structured and destructed by ="trms">language
we can struggle, move, shift meanings, but never can erase or repress meanings
(="ppl">Freud showed) that if you think you can be oblivious with things and do away with things and have erasure without remanence, it will go in the state of latency (underground) just to blow up in your face later (the ‘return’ of the repressed has bal="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic velocities) ='lgc'>--="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you have to work through with meaning and ="trms">language (otherwise the old meanings always come back, you are never ="trms">responsible enough with old meanings)

a word, becomes a thorn in our collective thigh
(what i am learning ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor='strcls'>* from ="ppl">Avital > ="ppl">Derrida) something looks wrong, (instead of jumping on it and tagging it out,) first say why it is ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right, what necessitated and motivated it, why it had to be there='lgc'> = ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor='lgc'>: locate the problem zone ='lgc'>+ say why it had to be there (why it rhymes with what)

(mistake or glitch ='lgc'>=/=) error='lgc'>: an exemplary error that teaches you, that had to be made to get where you are going, you had to get into this zone (and as traumatic as it might be) it was neccesory and necessitated by the ="trms">system that was pushing you forward, it pushed you toward a place of error and blindness and forgetting

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practice of ='strcls'>*="trms">worldly thinking='strcls'>* with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart
vivid ="trms">pragmatics
weird robust realism of deobjectified de="trms">literalized things ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">ajayeb
to cor="trms">respond with ='at'>#telegram media
constitutive differings

teenage='lgc'>: self-division between the move to surge out in a risky ="trms">worlding and the labor of return alone and weighted

festering ='lgc'>+ sheltering

“When everything else has gone from my brain—the President’s name, the state capitals, the neighborhoods where I lived, and then my own name and what it was on earth I sought, and then at length the faces of my friends, and finally the faces of my family—when all of this has dissolved, what will be left, I believe, is topology='lgc'>: the dreaming ="trms">memory of land as it lay this way and that.” Dillard > ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart

rock-solid otherness

sitting on the granite curb... ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sitting on a threshold of expressivity
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) ="trms">intercorporeal ="trms">intermundane ="trms">world ='lgc'>=/= dull ="trms">naturalism

(dead ="trms">matter ='lgc'>=/=) the capacity to cor="trms">respond with a multiplicity of continuous ="trms">worldings that are both plastic and ="trms">dense ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> grounds us

indeterminate lines of force ripple across the ="trms">phenomena of a field ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">materiality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘our thought='lgc'>: multidimensional ="trms">contingent overdetermined’

='strcls'>**we re="trms">member in ="trms">stories of accidents, sledding, and labors='strcls'>**


emerging in circulations (or)
resting in stone (or)
the facades of strip malls

com="trms">positional ="trms">writing='lgc'>: an as="trms">sociational register (of connections and ="trms">differences) that ="trms">worlds object-reals ='lgc'>[real='lgc'>: a tangle of elements thrown together in a radical com="trms">position='lgc'>]

="trms">social-="trms">material ="trms">world='lgc'> = com="trms">position='lgc'> = prismatic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> for people who are='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•attuned to them (or)
="lsts lst1">•identified with them (or)
="lsts lst1">•hostile to their existence (or)
="lsts lst1">•tired of them (or)
="lsts lst1">•ex="trms">cited to see their outline on the horizon (or)
="lsts lst1">•sharply ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded from them (or)
="lsts lst1">•

the way ="ppl">Attar (in the labor of a ="trms">worlding) ="trms">write in Tazkirat al-Awliya ='lgc'>: describing a saint's biograpphy, is a ="trms">world, is a com="trms">positional node
="trms">matter-form ="trms">worlding landscape and event ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the saint is is sent into a spin
a perspectival ="trms">agency ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> things jump into ="trms">relation ='lgc'>+ unglued
Tazkirat al-Awliya='lgc'>: energies distribute across a field of subjects-objects-bodies-="trms">trajectories-="trms">affects

accrual and loss

...realm of killed off things

perception, context and cause
located nowhere in particular (or)
in some ="trms">paranoid hyper-place

under what spell did things happen or half-happen or start to happen and fail='qstn'>?

="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>: theory (drawn through ="trms">writing)='lgc'> = com="trms">positional attunement

="trms">difference and repetition (='lgc'>+ potentiality and loss) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> reals

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knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>: view from nowhere ="trms">onto the ="trms">world ='lgc'>=/= knowing='lgc'>: participation in ongoing ="trms">mutually constitutive processes in the ="trms">world

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رواقى
stoicism='lgc'>: “detachment ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> clear thinking”
psychological independence ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ='strcls'>*stoicism='strcls'>* (='lgc'><='lgc'>~='lgc'>~)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">causality ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anxiety

philosophy shows many ‘theories about ="trms">causality='lgc'> = ways to reduce ="trms">anxiety’ ='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> our experience sometimes require us ='strcls'>*to go farther than the ="trms">instrumental (="trms">causal)='strcls'>* and to discover a place where disorder may be reestablished in the movement and contra="trms">diction

='strcls'>*anecdotic ="trms">causality='strcls'>*
(='lgc'>[in ="nms">apass we constantly do='lgc'>] the practice of using) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]anecdote='lgc'>: expressive ="trms">causalities='strcls'>*
anecdote='lgc'>: the ="trms">intersection between the artist (patient) and feedback (therapist) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> circular ="trms">causality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (helps the feedbacker or therapist) ='strcls'>*to understand and create another way of thinking about disorder and confusion='strcls'>*


="large lg86" stl="font-size:105%"> stoic distinction='lgc'>: event which are dependent on one's ='strcls'>*will='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= events which are in the realm of one's ='strcls'>*desires='strcls'>* (one which one has no control)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> closely related to the (Seligman's) ='strcls'>*="trms">causal attribution='lgc'>: a theory of ="trms">contingent ="trms">causality ="trms">affecting the subject in her or his ="trms">interpretation='strcls'>*

="lsts lst1">•نسبت دادن attribution ='lgc'>=/= explanation (behavior assigned to its cause) ='lgc'>=/= inference (quality/attribute assigned to the ="trms">agent's observed behavior)
="lsts lst2">◦can we do without ='strcls'>*explanatory style='strcls'>*='qstn'>? (a person's ="trms">causal dimensions of stability and globality) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">past dealing (optimism, pessimism, etc.)
="lsts lst2">◦can we do without ='strcls'>*locus of control='strcls'>*='qstn'>? (a person's locus conceptualized as ="trms">internal) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> future dealing (fate, hope, etc.)

stoic philosophy ='lgc'>==resulting='lgc'>='lgc'>==> therapy
(='lgc'>[Holakouee's='lgc'>] stoic conception of) ='strcls'>****therapy='lgc'>: it is not the events which make people suffer but rather the perception they have of the events='strcls'>****


="ppl">Aristotle ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> totality of ="trms">causal explanation of the event
his theory of four causes ='lgc'>[="trms">material, efficient, formal, final='lgc'>] is limited by the eternal ="trms">relation between the subject (the creator) and the object (the created)
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[(let's say) ="ppl">Aristotle is creating an='lgc'>] anecdotic ="trms">causality='lgc'>: the search for a remote event, apparently insignificant, which has as much impact as the ="trms">material event which is efficient, formal, or final

Antique law ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> effort to reduce the event to an equation ='lgc'>==permit='lgc'>='lgc'>==> determination of the ="trms">responsibility='lgc'>: the primary cause ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to reduce the overwhelming richness of reality in movement
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> in obsessional perspective of ="trms">scientific research='lgc'>: reduce the quantity of information to make the reality clearer (more coherent) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (a series of signs in hermeneutical perspective ='lgc'>==permit='lgc'>='lgc'>==>) “the image (the event) ='lgc'>=/= the background (the sum of the events)”

(anecdote ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=) myth='lgc'>: an illustrative and contradictory example ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the defense against ="trms">anxiety (in reality's confusion) ='lgc'>: the ="trms">categorizing of op="trms">posites in order to establish orderliness in the ="trms">world of a search for causes ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- which is a ="trms">fable='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*the event (at the absence of significance of the signs) would justify the ="trms">present reality='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? ="trms">integration)
='lgc'>==therapy='lgc'>='lgc'>==> arrange the reality ="trms">categorically ='and'>& chronologically ='lgc'>+ enlarge on the reality by adding information

myth brings into play a purely expressive modality (expressed in an ="trms">interpretative manner) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= explaining='lgc'>] ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (stoic) ="trms">perverted ="trms">causality


='lgc'>[="ppl">Deleuze:='lgc'>] when the ="trms">causality ="trms">relation one of the two elements (cause or effect) differs in ="trms">nature from the other (one is corporeal, physical and the other is incorporeal) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[they foster a ="trms">relationship of='lgc'>] quasi-="trms">causality ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">relationship of expression

‘necessity’ belongs to an official order called ='strcls'>*destiny='lgc'>: a ="trms">sort of teleology of the ="trms">system of causes='strcls'>*, a unity of the cor="trms">respondent quasi-="trms">causality (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">relation between cause and effect)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> independence is installed in the ="trms">presence of necessity


='lgc'>[="ppl">Leibniz:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*="trms">causality='lgc'> = con-possibility='strcls'>*
the event is in a monadic ="trms">world were everything is signs (analogies significant at several levels) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a fish pond in which each fish is itself a fish pond
="ppl">Leibniz's ="trms">world is created and destroyed by harmonic or discordant cor="trms">relations


“="trms">anxiety as cause”

='lgc'>[Holakouee's manner of ="trms">interpreting reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>] best therapy or remedy for ="trms">anxieties='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">causality
="lsts lst1">•="trms">system='lgc'>: a group of necessary laws and rules
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> no victim, no bully ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= opening the field of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>='qstn'>? erasing the sense of ="trms">responsibility='lgc'>]
='lgc'>{="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> our experiences sometimes require us (to go farther that Holakouee's ="trms">instrumentalism) ='strcls'>****to discover a place where disorder may be reestablished in the movement and contra="trms">diction='strcls'>**** ='lgc'>[that i believe is urgently needed in ="nms">Iran today ='lgc'>=/= enlightening='lgc'>]


a space regulated by laws of stoic ="trms">causality is the space where multiplicity can be reestablished ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*notional quasi-="trms">causality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[notional='lgc'>: gedanklich, تصور، انديشه='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[an stoic anecdote:='lgc'>]
“When, each evening, the guru sat down to proceed with the evening prayer the ashram's cat was in the way and distracted the monks so, he ordered that the cat should be attached during the evening prayers. A long time after the guru's death the cat continued to be attached during the evening prayer. Then, when the cat finished by dying, another cat was brought to the ashram so that it could be duly attached during the evening prayers. Centuries later the guru's disciples wrote wise treatises on the essential role of the cat in the good order of all prayers.” (DeMerlo)

='lgc'>--(in practice)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the anecdote becomes the essential element in a chain of expressive ="trms">causalities. it is the ="trms">intersection point between several ="trms">stories united for a time='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*familial/familiar time ='and'>& therapeutic time='strcls'>*


...you retreat behind a rampart which protects you
...the exterior scrutiny and criticism makes your fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lures heavier
...you refuse ='strcls'>*scholastic ="trms">integration='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[you choose a complete rejection of the values sug="trms">gested by the school, rules, or ="trms">demands for success='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you increase the attention paid to you by the institution concerned with your ="trms">sort of malfunctioning
...consultation dramatizes the contradition and ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigidity of your role assignments
...if an ="trms">intervenor approaches your problem, you play your idiot role
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ='strcls'>*merry-go-round of circular ="trms">causality='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">intervenor ='lgc'>[looks for the ticket which would allow him to clim on and go around:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•observe the ="trms">causal chains
="lsts lst1">•giving the ="trms">causal chains a ="trms">different accent علامت، با تکیه بر صدا نه معنی
="lsts lst1">•create a global field of observation from which he is necessarily ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--help='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anecdotic implication (='lgc'>=/= therapeutic ="trms">system's theory)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•anecdote becomes the frame of the conversation
="lsts lst1">•risk of becoming involved in the anecdote's ridiculous fleeting liveliness
="lsts lst1">•

the anecdote, which dramatized the dead end where the ="trms">intervenor's capacities are reduced to non-existence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> can also revitalize the relaional process (if introduced in a new quasi-="trms">causal chair)
='lgc'>[anecdote's='lgc'>] circular ="trms">causal hypothesis which reduce the ="trms">anxiety create a more accessible reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> constructing a myth='lgc'> = ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">story='lgc'>: lies which tell the truth='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•anecdote takes it place in a ="trms">causality chain where it lives for a fleeting moment carrying a ='strcls'>*parasitical='strcls'>* or a ='strcls'>*paratherapeutic='strcls'>* significance
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> construction of a ="trms">specific restricting environment in which the parties ='lgc'>[family and ="trms">intervenor, artist and feedbacker='lgc'>] are ="trms">trapped
='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Despret='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***the reduction ='lgc'>[of anecdote='lgc'>] becomes the starting point for a new release of the energy it liberates='strcls'>***(!='qstn'>?)

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="trms">Zoological Vandalism='lgc'>: ="trms">Chimeric ="trms">Pragmatism in ="trms">Animal-Filled Media
Zolmat and the Black Box as Media Beyond
Primordial House and Suffering Landscape
Changing Inside”, a multi-media performance and ="trms">intervention with ="frds scrmbld">Mia Habib and ="frds scrmbld">Jassem Hindi
Four Oriental Cartography of the East
About ="trms">Dense Properties

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shift in our idea of ="trms">nature not any more a source of ='strcls'>*fecundity='lgc'>: how we relate abundance in ="trms">nature to the way we live ourselves

we have to fight to keep things democratic (itself a privileged idea) and not autocratic when it comes to climate change

in Frozen II animated movie, Elsa build her way out of climate (magic='lgc'> = ="trms">technology)

to make a debate point ='lgc'>=/= trying to answer your ="trms">question

(="ppl">Hegel) negative values are much more clearer than affirmative values


="large lg34" stl="font-size:134%"> the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous and dominant belief that whatever problems we face in this ="trms">society the misfits (particular exceptional individual) can change it all

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(from being an artist to artist rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer)
to ="trms">articulate and de="trms">monstrate with brilliance ‘what you know’ ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to be able to exquisitely explain ‘how you know what you know’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metacognition='lgc'>: thinking about one's own thinking='lgc'> = reflection (thinking about
what we know) ='lgc'>+ self-regulation (managing how we go about learning)='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metacognitives kills='lgc'>: to get good at recognizing flaws or gaps in one's own thinking ='lgc'>+ ="trms">articulate thought processes ='lgc'>+ revise efforts
='strcls'>*classroom='lgc'> = mirror='strcls'>* (process of stepping back to see what you are doing)

(useful for artists) ="trms">sciences of understanding='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropology
="lsts lst1">•psychology



my whole work is about two things now='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to think cumulatively (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">epistemic breaks) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> more you know more your are ="trms">interested in
="lsts lst1">•to think by layering (='lgc'>=/= singleness of partisan meaning) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what you do is based on previous work



='mywrk'>my research in ="trms">storytelling:(from pre="trms">modern) ='strcls'>*describe the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">modern necessity to) ='strcls'>*calculate the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[recognizing a calculated ="trms">world ='lgc'>--how='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*secularization of ="trms">interest='strcls'>* (in ="trms">monsters, ="trms">religious iconography, etc.)



adventure time tv series
educational model for ="trms">children how to become post industrial liberal subjects ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adventure of imperia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list mentality
the choreography of flexibility and solidity
Finn is the body from nowhere by example, he goes to dimensions of fire, ice, dream, etc. and his ="trms">ontology of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and identity remains intact (he grows up like a good old cowboy) ='lgc'>=/= you look at the land from the ice and you don't see the same reality if you look at it from the fire realm. ice/gas/water, you are always looking at it from somewhere. Harraway named it “="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges”. and it seems these locations are not free floating and not available for everyone. some are more attached or stucked to particular ="trms">positions, some less, they are “marked” as Harraway put it.


anti-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge dis="trms">position of sex-education tv seriese
verybody is self-educating in the ="trms">story
all ="trms">positivity is created by ‘bravery,’ not their ‘knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’
nobody knows anything or can know anythingbravery has replaced faith ()
="lsts lst1">•Otis's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>: psychology is debunked
="lsts lst1">•Maeve's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>: existentialism is irrelevant


if in art we have af="trms">finities with unknowing and we are comfortable with misunderstanding and partial comprehensions ='lgc'>--then='lgc'>='lgc'>--> let's use that to direct our ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readerly activities to texts that are difficult and ="trms">different to us ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>this is why I don't accept it when artists in research environment withdraw from ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading certain ="trms">positions by saying “this text is too academic.”



what is the state of art after Goya='qstn'>?


="large lg10" stl="font-size:134%">
sites where political meaning is produced (the impulse to resist or correct inequality, injustice, lack, damage, tension, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= attachment site (="trms">languages charged with power, inequality)
(i am ="trms">interested in women) not because of gender ='lgc'>[= identity politics, political correctness='lgc'>], but because of their practice and the ="trms">question they pursue
="prgrph">-the horrific and d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous idea that I hear under “I am now ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading only women ="trms">authors”


two visualized increases in the industry, ="trms">science, and popular culture='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. “how troubled we are” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world simulation (catastrophic planet)
="lstsrd">2. “how amazing we are” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> brain simulation (="trms">networks)


="trms">world is fubar ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> is ="trms">interesting and is work to be done ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">paranoia conspiracy

something I learnt from my KHM study ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that ="trms">technologies are ambiguous ='lgc'>=/= Black Mirror TV series


hollywood ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? hyperrealism
(art ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> idealism)

poor cognition ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> boring environment


another sign of il="trms">literacy='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•popping up of dialects or specialized ="trms">languages (you walk to the next village and there they speak an almost ="trms">different ="trms">language than here)


romantic ="trms">relationship='lgc'>:
dopamine ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">love ='lgc'>+ hot sex ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pleasure-related cognition='lgc'>]
anterior cingulate cortex ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> empathy ='lgc'>+ comfort ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> impulse control='lgc'>]



برون افکن بنه زین‌دار نه در مگر کایمن شوی زین مار نه سر
revisit sanaat tashbih simile
tashbih not as alude but as description (="trms">literal)
مار نه سر mar-e noh-sar ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= ="trms">world
mar-e noh-sar is not a simile for the ="trms">world (of the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader) but it describes a particular ="trms">world that is in the image of mar-e noh-sar

haft modaber هفت مدبر

jealousy as ="trms">affect ='lgc'>--underlying='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">Farsi ghazal 

ابومعشر بلخی Abu Ma'shar Balkhi
الهی - فلک نور
اثیری - ۸ فلک آسمانی
هیولانی - جزء زیر قمر

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='strcls'>***don't ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read (or make) theory as a means of empowerment='strcls'>*** (a tool to fight or flight oppression)

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='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
king real

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my problem with
="lsts lst1">•conceptual art='lgc'>: jumping (transcending) from ="trms">material to meaning
="lsts lst1">•="trms">viscerality='lgc'>: every expression ="trms">matters as long as it ="trms">affects the viewer in the stomach

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(call of) ="trms">phenomenology='lgc'>: to return to the appearing of that which appears



political philosophy
political ="trms">science
political art

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in ="nms">Tehran (='qstn'>?how are made) the boundaries of jorm (جرم ='lgc'>=/= law), gonah (گناه ='lgc'>=/= god), and ='qstn'>? (='lgc'>=/= norm)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> norm, law, sin, akhlagh اخلاق



="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[='thdf'>thanks to Gesellschaft ='lgc'>=/= Gemeinschaft ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>] jamee جامعه ="trms">society ='lgc'>=/= ejtema اجتماع ="trms">community='lgc'> = norm ='lgc'>+ place (='lgc'>+ identity)
="lsts lst2">◦ ejtemayi اجتماعی ="trms">social ='lgc'>=/= ejamyi اجماعی collective
="lsts lst1">•tars ترس fear ='lgc'>=/= ezterab اضطراب ="trms">anxiety
="lsts lst1">•sharm شرم shame ='lgc'>=/= khejalat خجالت shyness



آتش آب خشک را پر میکرد از آتش تر
ab-e khosht='lgc'> = piale
atash-e tar='lgc'> = sharab


tar تر='lgc'> = allude آلوده='lgc'> = sabok سبک


khosro shirin
tarof ghabl az bad o bira goftan

shenidan (niushidan) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= fahmidan فهمیدن

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='strcls'>*negative bias='lgc'> = the negative is more ture='strcls'>*
negative bias='lgc'>: negative stimuli elicit a larger brain ="trms">response than ="trms">positive ones
(can then negative bias explain racism='qstn'>? ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- we are shaped by negativity)
="trms">positive-negative a="trms">symmetry
(in trying to) make sense of the ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> focus more on the negative
bad ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> attention
negative news is more likely to be perceived as truthful
ambiguous stimuli rated as threatening ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> survive


(="trms">gestalt) law of closure='lgc'>: we perceive pieces of objects as part of a whole when grouped together


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to produce counter-knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= to contest a problem='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=/= (we need more) to ='strcls'>*seduce our evacuation from the terms that establish the problem='strcls'>*
(="ppl">Shapiro)



="lsts lst1">•stressor ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> emotion (short, intense)
="lsts lst1">•emotion ='lgc'>+ meaning (cognitively processed repeatedly)='lgc'> = feeling (lasting, less intense, combined)
="lsts lst1">•emotions هیجانی ='lgc'>+ feelings احساسی='lgc'> = ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">affect ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= mood



(in ="nms">apass)
="lsts lst1">•concept='lgc'>: a medium of conversation
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narcissistic research
="lsts lst2">◦understanding ="trms">narcissism is the key to understanding mental health ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*(the experience of) being in a cult='lgc'> = being in ="trms">relation with a ="trms">narcissist='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•mode of attention that is didactic and forensic
="lsts lst1">•(in artistic research environments) most of time we don't have ="trms">questions
we have games of ="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> il="trms">literacy
="lsts lst2">◦exam='lgc'>: pose your ="trms">questions ='lgc'>=/= answer to my ="trms">questions
answers don't show your level of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, but the ="trms">questions you have does
="lsts lst1">•generative ="trms">nature of melancholia ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*melancholia ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> teaching='strcls'>*='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•(artist's) ="trms">writing with pearls of wisdom ='lgc'>=/= referential ="trms">writing


three problematic loci in artistic research='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•garden
="lsts lst1">•archive
="lsts lst1">•map

='strcls'>*is every garden ="trms">zoological='qstn'>? ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> training for future (imperialism)
good gardener ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= good (feeling, caring) imperia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list
="prgrph">-enlightenment approach to captivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new sense of civilization (what is proper)
="prgrph">-removing any visible explicit means of captivity (="trms">animals appear move freeling, as if they wish to be there) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">affective engagement
="trms">animal ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= border figure allowing institution to move between human ="trms">world and ="trms">animal ="trms">world

="trms">science for empire ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mobilization of ="trms">wonder (human capacity for curiosity that makes us human are mobilized in the service of ="trms">questionable political goals)

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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]democracy='lgc'>: ‘farmandahi (commanding)='lgc'> = farmanbari (obeying)’

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...thoughts expire on contact with words as quickly as words expire on contact with thoughts
(Pavic's Khazars)



two examples of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">marketing
="lstsrd">1. Pleasantville (1998)
="lstsrd">2. The Devil Wears Prada (2006)



="large lg126" stl="font-size:102%"> (my flourishing in the scholl was always highly) teacher-dependent ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> being ="trms">social ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= genius='lgc'>]

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government (counting heads) ='lgc'>=/= complexity (how to make mixity work)



morality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘good ='lgc'>=/= bad’ (incarnated in ="trms">different things) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> philosophical ='lgc'>=/= value ="trms">system ترجیحات ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sociological='lgc'>]
ethics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assemblages

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='at'>#cat's cradle

="trms">nature='lgc'> = figures ='lgc'>+ ="trms">stories ='lgc'>+ images (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= topos, commonplace)

paying attention to ="trms">nature like a ="trms">child ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">trope='lgc'>: a verse ="trms">interpolated into a liturgical text عبادات to embellish or amplify its meaning

="trms">language ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic flesh

liturgical possibilities of ="trms">nature
="lsts lst1">•="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Christianson">Christian liturgical year
="lsts lst1">•Zaratusztrian nowruz
="lsts lst1">•star wars ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> practice of turning ="trms">tropes into ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> war of imagess='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•war of words
="lsts lst1">•

(agonistic fields='lgc'>:)
military combat
sexual domination
security maintenance
="trms">market strategy


="trms">technical environmental design )='lgc'><='lgc'>-- does all ="trms">sorts of boundary crossing)

culturally ="trms">specific ="trms">apparatuses of bodily production (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clean and dirt ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forms of ="trms">embodiment)

="trms">writing='lgc'>: to create ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors ='lgc'>[= reconstitue what counts as knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">materially implode (='lgc'>~ art, this is what we were practicing in my ="trms">fable workshop)

="trms">technology='lgc'>: a form of life
="trms">language='lgc'>: a form of life

create a critique
create a ="trms">difference (however small, partial, modest, without ="trms">narrative, without guarantee)

oneiros
oneiric


="trms">technical axis  |__
                        /   mythical axis
    textual axis


a ="trms">cosmos furnished in _ian style
="lsts lst1">•Aristotelian style='lgc'>: actors are self-moving modular single-substance subjects with adhering accidents ='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>==> all else is ground, resource, matrix, screen, secret to be revealed, fair game to be hunted by the hero (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our video games are designed in this style)
="lsts lst1">•

others with reduced powers of self-direction='lgc'>: women, people of color, the sick, nonhuman ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> need to be ='strcls'>*patient='strcls'>*

(="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical fatigue)

='strcls'>***patience ='lgc'>=/= passivity='strcls'>***

self-invisible transcendent subjects out on a noble journey to report on ="trms">embodied ="trms">nature

the problem of (pre-discursive='lgc'>:) believing that ="trms">nature and ="trms">society are really fundamentally there
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conjuring tricks of establishing ="trms">categorical purity (of ="trms">nature, of culture, of nonhuman, of human)


(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's three webs of discourse='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1. cultural studies='lgc'>: a set of discourses about the (irreducible ="trms">specificity of) ="trms">apparatus of bodily/cultural production (='lgc'>=/= comparative culture studies)
="lstsrd">2. feminist theory/project='lgc'>: view from the marked bodies (in ="trms">stories, discourses, practices), where ='strcls'>*the description of the ="trms">situation is never self-evident='strcls'>* ='lgc'>+ need for an elsewhere
="lstsrd">3. ="trms">science studies='lgc'>: ="trms">technologies for establishing ="trms">matters of facts, ‘="trms">techno="trms">science ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">science and ="trms">technology’, artifacts with politics, ="trms">science as practice ='lgc'>+ culture


can't cradle
one person can build up a large repertoire of string figures on a single pair of hands ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the figures can be passed back and forth on the hands of several players
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">embodied analytical ="trms">skils='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- my goal im ="nms">apass='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> making ='lgc'>+ passing on cultural ="trms">interesting patterns
='lgc'>=/= making a tangled mess
='lgc'>=/= theory of everything (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='thdf'>for example string theory, stc.)
='lgc'>=/= war game ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'>{models of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge building, ="trms">tropes for one's own practice='lgc'>}
='lgc'>=/= trials of strength passing as critical theory (='lgc'>~ heroic, agonistic encounters)

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Delamont ='and'>& Williams ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's) th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">method='strcls'>*

(from) ='lgc'>[analytical='lgc'>] tangled yarn ball ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[activist='lgc'>] can't cradle

="ppl">="ppl">Galison's ="trms">intercalation ='lgc'>[molecular ="trms">interweaving='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exposing an overt ="trms">technology (the radar wants to be seen as both winner of war ='lgc'>+ advancing pure physics)
='lgc'>='lgc'>~/=
="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's weaving ='lgc'>[textile dissection='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> exposing a covert ="trms">technology (patriarchy, eugenics, colonialism, racism embedded behind the public face of conservation, education, biopolitical establishment)

biology='lgc'> = politics (by other means)

cyborg
="lsts lst1">•has no o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal eden it was banished from
="lsts lst1">•has no dust it can return to
='lgc'>==="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">situated partial knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges


gendering the laboratory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•modest witness
="lsts lst1">•new forms of gender (male virility,)

="brkr">
touching the elephant and knowing
touching ="trms">different part of the ="trms">world
touching a human body and guessing at the riddle

by touching the ="trms">different parts ='lgc'>=> some are running, rotting, flickering, etc.

for doing anatomy you need a corpse (that means you al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready rule out things such as eating)

="trms"nttrm="search">archeological ="trms">anthropology
human-="trms">animal ="trms">stories
hunting each other / together
domestication

="ppl">Tsing

the greedy ="trms">beast within us

collaborative garden (feed together)

descriptive practices of ="trms">poetics and ="trms">natural ="trms">history


="trms">mission of all atlases to characterize (not simply inventory) ="trms">phenomena
(to characterize, not invent; mixed in ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب‌المخلوقات / عجایب نامه='qstn'>?!)

atlases habituate the eye, they are perforce visual
(what ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh habituates='qstn'>? not the eye='qstn'>?)

to explicate rival ="trms">cosmologies

one problem of atlases is that they have to decide what ="trms">nature is
they all have to solve the problem of choice


atlases of characteristic images ="trms">presented individual cases as exemplary and illustrative of broader classes and casual processes (but not ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب نامه, aj bring precise individual instances in its unique ="trms">stories)


atlas(es) of(/for) the eye

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='lgc'>[the identity of objects:='lgc'>]

="large lg142" stl="font-size:103%"> Manuel ="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>: Any ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list philosophy must take as its point of departure the existence of a ="trms">material ="trms">world that is independent of our minds. But then it confronts the problem of the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the enduring identity of the inhabitants of that ="trms">world='lgc'>: if the mind is not what gives identity to mountains and rivers, plants and ="trms">animals, then what does='qstn'>? An old answer is “essences,” the answer given by ="ppl">Aristotle. But if one rejects essentialism then there is no choice but to answer the ="trms">question like this='lgc'>: all objective entities are products of a ="trms">historical process, that is, their identity is synthesized or produced as part of ="trms">cosmological, geological, biological, or ="trms">social ="trms">history. This need for a concept of “synthesis” or of “production” is what attracted ="ppl">Marx to ="ppl">Hegelian dialectics since it provided him with a model of synthesis='lgc'>: a conflict of op="trms">posites or the negation of the negation. ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari, on the other hand, replace that model of synthesis with what they call a “double ="trms">articulation”='lgc'>: first, the raw ="trms">materials that will make up a new entity must be selected and pre-processed; second, they must be consolidated into a whole with properties of its own. A rock like limestone or sandstone, for example, is first ="trms">articulated though a process of sedimentation (the slow gathering and ="trms">sorting of the pebbles that are the component parts of the rock). Then it is ="trms">articulated a second time as the accumulated sediment is glued together by a process of cementation. They use Hjemslev's terms “content” and “expression” as the names for the two ="trms">articulations, but this is not meant to sug="trms">gest that the ="trms">articulations are in any way ="trms">linguistic in o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin. On the contrary='lgc'>: the sounds, words, and grammatical patterns of a ="trms">language are ="trms">materials that accumulate or sediment ="trms">historically, then they are consolidated by another process, like the standardization of a dialect by a Royal Academy and its official ="trms">dictionaries, grammars, and rules of pronunciation.

(synthetic ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? analytic; ='lgc'>[a problematic distinction!='lgc'>] the logical particle “un-” in “no unmarried man is married”) (analytic ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">contingent)
(="ppl">Kantian='qstn'>?!) ‘a ="trms">priori and synthetic’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ‘a posteriori analytic’

='lgc'>[singular entities:='lgc'>]

The ="trms">question of the “individuation of ="trms">trajectories” is about mathematical models (which to me are the secret of the success of ="trms">science) but you are correct that it goes beyond that. All entities synthesized ="trms">historically are individual entities='lgc'>: individual plants and ="trms">animals; individual ="trms">species and eco="trms">systems; individual mountains, planets, solar ="trms">systems, et cetera. Here “individual” means simply “singular or unique,” that is, not a particular ="trms">member of a general ="trms">category, but a unique entity that may ="trms">compose larger individual entities through a ="trms">relation of part-to-whole, like individual pebbles ="trms">composing a larger individual rock. A ="trms">materia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">ontology of individual entities is implicit in ="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari and Braudel, so we must give them credit for that, then move on and invent the rest.


..rethinking of the disciplinary boundaries (without using labels such as ="trms">interdisciplinarity, etc.)



we must take in mind that ="trms">materialism is good to be enriched, but, ="trms">materialism is not an ‘a ="trms">priori’!

in ='mywrk'>my research in ="nms">apass on ="nms">ajayeb عجایب‌, can be theoretical yet anti-="trms">methodological='qstn'>?



...="ppl">Marx is his ="trms">interest in the oppressed, that is, his anti-="ppl">Aristotlianism that allows us to conceptualize the self-organizing power of “="trms">matter” without the “meaning” that should over="trms">code it.

="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>: The political economy of ="ppl">Marx is entirely a ="trms">priori.
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">Laclau='lgc'>='lgc'>--> essentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list conception of both ="trms">society and ="trms">social ="trms">agency in ="ppl">Marxism ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic approache ='lgc'>: a “founding totality” (expressed at the surface of ="trms">social life) which ="trms">presents itself as an intelligible object of ‘knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ (in ="ppl">Marxism notion of ‘ideology’) ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>{="trms">relational character of any (="trms">social) identity ='lgc'>+ in="trms">finite play of ="trms">differences='lgc'>}= discourse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘the ="trms">social’ always exceeds the limits of the attempts to constitute ‘="trms">society’;
& (in advanced capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">societies='lgc'>:) identity='lgc'> = the unstable ="trms">articulation of constantly changing ="trms">positionalities, ‘="trms">social ="trms">agent='lgc'> = decentered subject’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can we, then, say the subjects misrecognize themselves in this kaleidoscopic movement of ="trms">differences='qstn'>? ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Marxism's notion of) ‘false consciousness’; can we do without (the concept of) ‘misrecognition’='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Laclau sug="trms">gests) the ideological='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? will to totality)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•misrecognition of a ="trms">positive essence='lgc'> = ultimate suture (بخيه bakhie)
="lsts lst1">•nonrecognition of any ="trms">positivity ='lgc'>=/= ultimate suture
(="trms">society institutes itself ='lgc'><='lgc'>==) closure='lgc'>: nonrecognition of the in="trms">finite play of ="trms">differences ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ‘ideological ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">social’ ='lgc'>~(the ="trms">social is impossible without some fixation of meaning) ='lgc'>: “utopia is the essence of any ="trms">communication and ="trms">social practice” ='lgc'>--!,='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the mode of ‘downward thinking’ when we think in terms of) ideology (='lgc'>~ the established ="trms">relations of a particular ="trms">society constitutes people's identities) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= intrinsic='lgc'>: the identity is created by ="trms">relations ='lgc'>{the fantasy of ‘seamless totality'='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Deleuzian) extrinsic='lgc'>: the ="trms">relations are real but don't determine identities='lgc'>]

what are artists (particular ='lgc'><-='lgc'>=> general) pro="trms">positions (Angebot)='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•pro="trms">position='lgc'>: a declarative that can be ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right or wrong ='lgc'>=/= a sentence, grammatical entities
="lsts lst1">•ex="trms">position='lgc'>: a ="trms">systematic ="trms">interpretation/explanation of a ="trms">specific topic
="lsts lst1">•dis="trms">position='lgc'>: an ="trms">affective orientation, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge attitude
='lgc'>[="ppl">Marx's ruthlessness='lgc'>: criticism must not be afraid of its own con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions='lgc'>]


what are the sources of “value” in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
(sun, photosynthetic, micro-organisms, etc.)
fermentation, photosynthesis, respiration

="nms">ajayeb is the (shared, individual, or experienced) “="trms">memory” of which organizational layer or process of which ="trms">communities of practice='qstn'>?


rethinking “invisible hand”
(dynamic between supply and ="trms">demand. “planning ="trms">system”='qstn'>?)

... against ... the dualisms that have been transmitted to us in the ="trms">history of philosophy (="trms">matter vs. meaning, micro vs. macro, inorganic vs. organic vs. ="trms">social, realism vs. ="trms">social constructivism, etcetera.) and argue in favor of a new ="trms">ontology ="trms">according to which “mechanisms are largely ="trms">causal, but they do not necessarily involve linear ="trms">causality”



Neo-="trms">Materialism ='lgc'>=/= Creationism='lgc'>: ="trms">matter is an inert receptacle for forms that come from the outside imposed by an exterior psychic ="trms">agency='lgc'>: “Let there be light!”

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">matter has ="trms">morphogenetic capacities of its own and does not need to be commanded into generating form.

one of the idealisms that have been generated by post="trms">modernism='lgc'>: that we know al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready how all ="trms">past discourses have been generated, that we have the secret of all ="trms">past conceptual ="trms">systems, and that we can therefore engage in ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-theorizing based on that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge



="ppl">Delanda='lgc'>: I am not convinced that avoiding dualities is the key to a new way of thinking (particularly if one simply adds new ones='lgc'>: ="trms">modernism-post="trms">modernism, rhizome-tree, power-resistance).

reified generalities that do not really exist='lgc'>: The ="trms">Market, The State, and The People.

The duality emerges when one ignores the zone of overlap and reifies the averages.

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='lgc'>[in ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب نامه...='lgc'>] to map the ="trms">morphogenetic changes of the real



... be="trms">wildering heterogeneity of registers in ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh عجایب نامه

... treating entities trafficking in the futures

active capacities of description

this is not a project of repopulating the ="trms">social ="trms">sciences with nonhuman beings

the ="trms">symbolic function of ="trms">language is about detecting salient features of the ="trms">world that can be organized in contrastive sets
(can we think not in contrasts='qstn'>?)

this is not about trying to think like X, that would be trans="trms">position of a ="trms">relational experience at another scale

(non-="trms">religious ="trms">semiotic model)
bodily dis="trms">position ='lgc'>==(produces)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> perspective ='lgc'>==(produces)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> self

the beings in ="nms">ajayeb (عجایب‌) are ‘alive’ because of their ability to ‘do things’ in the ways they come to re="trms">present and ="trms">interpret through me

="trms">recruiting scores of new actants so as to render the theater of ="trms">worldly ="trms">interactions more complex and ="trms">interesting


what is the ="trms">sociocultural ="trms">world we construct='qstn'>?


dream images, vivid mythical s="trms">cenes,


form ="trms">travels/passes through us

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='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Latour modes of existence='lgc'>]

(to distinguish types of)
incompatible truths

“truth"='lgc'>--is the expression of an encounter with forms of existence

to understand the others in the absence of a description of ourselves
(what is rea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic='qstn'>?)

to direct attention towards the beings about which humans are ="trms">interrogating themselves



عجایب‌ ="nms">ajayeb is a ‘="trms">network’ more than anything else, in it “God” has no special privilege, is not located in addition to or beyond other beings

we are seeking to redefine the paths of beings that are unique to ="nms">ajayeb without giving them substance and without jumping immediately into transcendence. (using ="ppl">="ppl">Latour words) ='lgc'>[transcendence is never gradual, in the places i come from, it is always a shock, happening, a truth-event='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-each word (God, Angle, Jinn جن, fog, etc.) brought into its own ="trms">network,
="prgrph">-what are contrasts and of ="trms">category mistakes particular to each
="prgrph">-and their crossings='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----and what is the ="trms">vocabulary ="trms">specific to each crossing

the ="trms">network of as="trms">sociations necessary for the exercise of ="trms">religion without bracketing off its ="trms">ontological requirements.

explanatory rage (tavahoshe roshangari توحش روشنگری) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">networks necessary for ="trms">religious meaning

(the aim is) deploying the ="trms">network (of ="nms">ajayeb)
it is about grasping ="nms">ajayeb's beings not as substances but as ='strcls'>*="trms">trajectories='strcls'>*='lgc'>--and give them a more precise ='strcls'>*direction.='strcls'>*

what is important in working these modes what kinds of possibilities are “afforded” to the investigator, myself. what kind of actor am i='qstn'>?

(="trms">specifications of the type of beings that the mode leaves in its wake)

="large lg114" stl="font-size:127%"> ='strcls'>**other beings necessary for its existence='strcls'>**
(my personal/public ="trms">question, what other beings are necessary for my existence='qstn'>? and therefore for your existence as well.) ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the heterogeneity of the actors needed for the pursuit of any course of action


='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis (a mode of existence first detected in psychogenesis='qstn'>?) what we encounter whenever we address the manner in which existents are transformed or transform in order to subsist (zist زیست)
="prgrph">-defined by a certain kind of continuity and obtained by a certain type of discontinuity
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis is about crisis, possession, alienation,
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis sharply contrasts ='strcls'>*cure='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ritual)
="prgrph">-allowing for installing unconscious (states,) crush, posses, bewitch, kill,
="prgrph">-beings with ="trms">specific properties that are invisible, changeable, powerful, favorable, unfavorable
="prgrph">-exploration of transformations
="prgrph">-="trms">cosmological specialties
="prgrph">-seniority and extension of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosical beings (of elaborations carried out by all groups in met)

='lgc'>{that which addresses the “me,” the “ego” ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? that which allows one to resist the forces of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis='lgc'>}

the iconoclastic episode we are in now, which we must work to make it as short as possible

(to specify) dualisms that make it extraordinarily difficult to maintain ="trms">ontological p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luralism

it is the ="trms">moderns quasi-subjects (‘person’) who feel themselves to be ='strcls'>**directly addressed,='strcls'>** (redressed and saved) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to exist
(what art suffers now, that i should directly address the ="trms">modern subject, and other mode of subjectivity or other kinds of addressee and addressing is brutally criticized and irrelativized)
="prgrph">-(="trms">love's type of address='lgc'>:) addressed to us ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> make us exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a person
(existing as person is the only way='qstn'>? no no no!) ='lgc'>-- the emergence of persons is a local and ="trms">historical ="trms">phenomenon that we simply cannot extend to all collectives

(how to extricate ourselves properly from the) notions of ="trms">Nature, ="trms">Matter, Object, and Subject

to get around two major ='strcls'>*obstacles='lgc'>: (the prevailing notions of) ="trms">Society and (especially of) Economy (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? modes of existence's ="trms">system of coordinates)

the same beings that made the ="trms">author of ="nms">ajayeb speak, got my/our ="trms">ancestors ex="trms">cited,


='strcls'>*="trms">technology='lgc'>: that which we emphasize whenever we pay attention to the unexpected detours ='lgc'>{the hiatus of the detour, the zigzag of invention, ruse, ="trms">trajectory obtained by a certain type of discontinuity='lgc'>} by which existents have to pass in order to subsist. (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">technological domain ="trms">technical objects, ="trms">material ="trms">world, ="trms">socio-="trms">technical ="trms">networks,) (='lgc'>~ ="trms">technically)
="prgrph">-="trms">fictional beings adds additional variety to ="trms">technical beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">aestheticization of ="trms">techniques='lgc'>: obsolescence, ruin, adjustment, efficiency
="prgrph">-we must extend ‘="trms">fictional beings’ far beyond the narrow domain of art and culture, is to give a whole new meaning to the expression “="trms">material culture.”
="lstsrd">-1- ="trms">Technique's zigzagging motion assumes a know-how, a judgment, a constantly reprised evaluation of formidably ="trms">demanding ="trms">specifications;
="lstsrd">-2- ="trms">Technical beings leave behind them complex frameworks and combinations of as="trms">sociations which appear difficult to understand once left to themselves, without the ="trms">folding motion and the detours which enabled them;
="lstsrd">-3- relative fragility of ="trms">technical beings='lgc'>: it establishes combinations and bridges between completely heterogeneous types of beings

='strcls'>*="trms">fiction='lgc'>: ...beings be grasped ="trms">according to a particular ="trms">relationship between ="trms">materials and figures which cannot be detached without those two layers losing their ="trms">specific form of objectivity. ='lgc'>{="trms">fictionally ='lgc'>: ="trms">materials ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> figures='lgc'>}
="trms">fiction objects='lgc'>: everything that ="trms">folds ="trms">technical beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to derive from them a new type of ='strcls'>*alteration='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--(generates)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> another ="trms">world (a ="trms">world which has the particularity of not being able to be detached in any way from the ="trms">materials ='lgc'>[from which it appears to detach itself.='lgc'>])
='strcls'>*="trms">fictional beings='lgc'>:
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-they extract ="trms">materials from forms, figures or small ="trms">worlds that can neither be detached from these ="trms">materials nor reduced to them.
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-khosh-yomn خوش یمن and shoom شوم (felicity and infelicity) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pretense (vanemud وانمود); they depend on the always fragile maintenance of the ="trms">relation between ="trms">material and form
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-='strcls'>*="trms">specifications='strcls'>* of “="trms">fictional beings” (that leaves in its wake) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">worlds (unlike fic all other modes ="trms">fold for their own use by managing to extract from ="trms">materials)

All continuations of a “course of action” ="trms">suppose a discontinuity that must be overcome in order to define a ="trms">trajectory. ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> gap, break

the mini-transcendence required for any de="trms">finition of the being-as-other

(haven't we managed='qstn'>?) to allow several modes of existence to run, flow, pass, each one appearing indeed to possess its own conditions of truth and falsity and its own mode of subsistence

‘libido ="trms">sciendi’='lgc'>: to recognize the branching that allows us to stop confusing the chains of reference it has to establish in order to ensure knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge with the leaps that things have to make to maintain themselves in existence

='strcls'>*“beings of law,” ='lgc'>: those beings that wake a judge up at night and force him to ask himself “Did I make the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right decision='qstn'>?”


(feeling smashed by) ‘the task of mimicking the ="trms">world’


='strcls'>*="trms">articulation='strcls'>* is an ="trms">ontological property of the universe; a being is ="trms">articulated (rather than being a silent ="trms">presence, made immediate, persistent, given duration without existence).
="prgrph">-It is the ="trms">articulation of beings that enables us to talk about them and to judge, that is to say, to monitor the risks they take in being “permitted by” and “promised to”. (modes of existence)
="trms">translation, discrepancy, displacement, ="trms">interpolation,
(problem with “statement” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">articulation='lgc'>] is that it must cor="trms">respond to a ‘state of affairs’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? politics='lgc'>])
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to free ="trms">science from='lgc'>: completeness, comprehensiveness, formality, expressibility, inscriptibility. (Vollständigkeit, Verständlichkeit, Formalität, Ausdrücklichkeit, Unbeschreiblichkeit.) ='lgc'>[what is a ="trms">science that is not describable='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="ppl">Sohrevardi ='lgc'>{forms of ="trms">enunciation='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how to specify the ="ppl">Sohrevardi's felicity (sa'adat سعادت) conditions (of ="trms">enunciation)='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- (his) “="trms">="trms">equipped knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge), awkward distributions, etc.='lgc'>] ='at'>#(this is all about me trying to learn how to make room...)
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge moves around everywhere without our knowing how
“waiting to be known”


='strcls'>*="trms">translation ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>{transportation without deformation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= description='lgc'>}
every transfer is ="trms">translation
(political='lgc'>:) transfers of necessity
following the th="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read of modes
="trms">translation ='lgc'>=/= displacement='lgc'>: merely a change of place
="trms">translation refuses the choice between being and non-being and rejects the principle of non-contra="trms">diction by which a thing cannot be, in the same respect, both itself and another.
="trms">translation='lgc'>: to be at the same time and in the same respect one thing and another ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this is the condition of being ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> give place to mediators / “ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded middle”
(="trms">translation enjoys that) a being can be itself through the ="trms">intervention of a being other than itself
(monitoring ="trms">translations in ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and my treason/="trms">translation which brings about completely ="trms">different ="trms">trajectories, which allows itself to be grasped by surprise or action etc. / to trace a/its ="trms">network
="trms">translation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? occasion ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the essence of ="trms">situation
="prgrph">-no one can simply (ever) “remain the same,” “without doing anything” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> one needs to pass ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">translation


='strcls'>*="trms">interest='lgc'>: a mediator that arises between two entities that do not know, before it arises, that they could be attached to each other. ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
="prgrph">-‘object’='lgc'>: set of quasi subjects that are attached to it
="prgrph">-‘subject’='lgc'>: set of quasi objects that are attached to it='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what new ="trms">translation ="trms">interest makes the (quasi) subject of a (quasi) object grow. ='lgc'>--and vice versa='lgc'>--


radical ="trms">position of ='strcls'>*="trms">semiotics='strcls'>* on the issues of context, referent, and ="trms">enunciation (that ="trms">anthropology is able to escape)
(i am talking about a ="trms">semiotics that is not obsessed with the search for “structure”)
='lgc'>{ (="trms">fictional beings ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=>) ="trms">semiotic ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">ontology ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">science of “sense” (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">science of “signs”)
="prgrph">-the ="trms">world itself is ="trms">articulated
='lgc'>{ the study of sense ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> extrication from ="trms">language ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> this bifurcation (enshe'ab), as old as philosophy itself, used the discovery of “reference” as an opportunity to expel the referent to a ="trms">position outside ="trms">language.


(="ppl">Aristotle's ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>: “the imitation of an action” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="ppl">Ricoeur's three types of ='strcls'>*="trms">mimesis='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. pre="trms">figuration ()
="lstsrd">2. con="trms">figuration (kingdom of the “as if”)
="lstsrd">3. re="trms">figuration (="trms">integration of the ="trms">imaginative or “="trms">fictive” or “as if” into actual) of the field of action;

‘="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’ is con="trms">figuration (="ppl">Ricoeurian)

="lsts lst1">•use of ="trms">symbols ='lgc'>: being able to grasp one thing as standing for something else;
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narrative='lgc'>: competency in the temporal structures governing the syntagmatic order of “followability”


...="trms">="trms">empirical means to locate the boundaries of capitalism

(to enclose something ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ="trms">ontology of the Accounts ="trms">Book ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Attar's Tazkirat al-Awliya's ="trms">story of the boy, ="trms">bird, butcher, accounts ="trms">book, and the theme of repayment, quittance.
to place everything it does not take into account outside the enclosure and everything it does take into account and that properly belongs to him inside
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of property

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growing ="trms">interest in ='strcls'>*="trms">ecology='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> growing ="trms">interest in ='strcls'>*theology='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> granted a new relevant)

="large lg26" stl="font-size:107%"> (="ppl">="ppl">Latour's notion of) ecotheology ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]


(how not to consider your self secretly='lgc'>--even under the self-reflectivity='lgc'>--as) the chosen people

renegotiation of values and features='lgc'>:
(if) recently european stopped having been ="trms">modern ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the ‘others’ have also stopped having been ‘other’

='strcls'>*the planet will no longer be ="trms">modernized='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Latour shouting)

geopolitics of ="trms">difference

“europe"='lgc'> = the ="trms">modernist great ="trms">narrative ='lgc'>--or='lgc'>='lgc'>--> produce an alternative great ="trms">narrative of what european cultures (and ="trms">natures) have been
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*contrasting ='strcls'>*traits='strcls'>* (that have been elaborated in the course of european ="trms">history)


“here is my ='strcls'>*treasure='strcls'>*, here is my ='strcls'>*heart='strcls'>*, if you deprive us of one of these contrasts, we are no longer humans”

to be sensitive to ="trms">different o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins (='lgc'>=/= eurocentrism)
='lgc'>[="trms">different o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins that speak also truthfully='lgc'>]

(="ppl">Olearius drama='lgc'>:) dramatic encounter between the (early) ="trms">anthropologist's gaze and the various cultures (and ="trms">natures) he have discovered
...painful ="trms">history of the ="trms">anthropologist's gaze


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]value='lgc'>: what one is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to die for / what makes life not worth living if one is deprived of it

european ="trms">history tied to the elaboration of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apo="trms">dictic truth, ="trms">social construction, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•law as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power, ="trms">rhetoric, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•politics as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">social='lgc'>: the name of what is assembled='lgc'>--as="trms">sociated)
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•

="trms">scientific ties
legal ties
political ties
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social as="trms">sociates

so difficult to ="trms">enunciate something ="trms">religiously because of ='strcls'>*the ease with which it is accounted for by other types of explanation='strcls'>* (especially ="trms">social explanation)


in ="nms">apass we need to practice saying='lgc'>: “I don't want to take that or this contrast into account any more” (because you want to do something else for a moment)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you return to a project ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i have been fighting so that (myself and) you ='strcls'>**don't become ="trms">modernist again='strcls'>** (='lgc'>~ that means you engage in the conflict of values that has characterized ="trms">modernist ="trms">history)
(with work on ="nms">ajayeb) i am engaged in the project of ='strcls'>***disentangling the entire set of values that constitutes my ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightful in="trms">heritance='strcls'>***

(the ="trms">question of) “what treasure have we in="trms">herited='qstn'>? how can we claim it='qstn'>?” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous to answer those ="trms">questions alone, without each other ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> selfish identities and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins
(eurocentrism, or the former ‘others’ answering it for everyone, without you)


="trms">ecologizing

="trms">ecological consciousness ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? your entire way of life must be modified or else you will disappear as a civilization


(not being the heir of) emancipatory tradition

(if) ="trms">modernism is Promethean, then green bio economy and clean ="trms">technology is Promethean even more

(the ='thdf'>bad idea of and hype of) ="trms">technological solution to ="trms">ecological crises


='strcls'>*renewing everything here and now='strcls'>* is first of all a ="trms">religious passion
='qstn'>?='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo


="prgrph">-what ="trms">modernism did to ="trms">science is worse than what it did to ="trms">religion
it deprived it of its energy, restricting it, to ='strcls'>*mere furniture of the soul='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Iron Man's idea of ="trms">technology-human ="trms">relation='lgc'>]

="trms">modernism's politicization of ="trms">science


speaking of ="trms">science ="trms">scientifically ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">scientific ‘="trms">worldview’ is deployed
speaking of ="trms">religion ="trms">religiously ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a vague assemblage of pious moral vacuities is taken as an ‘alternative ="trms">worldview’
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they both accept an='strcls'>* un="trms">scientific ="trms">science='strcls'>* and an ='strcls'>*ir="trms">religious ="trms">religion='strcls'>*


="ppl">="ppl">Latour (quickly dissolving nonsense that accrues as one opposes ‘knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ and ‘belief’)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science='lgc'> = reference chain (what allow access to the far away) ='lgc'>[nothing is out of the reach of reference chain='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religion='lgc'> = ="trms">presence (what allow access to the near)

="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= concrete, ="trms">worldly, ="trms">matter-of-fact, ="trms">present-at-hand, domain of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- political activism has to work with that kind of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)


what use is it to save your soul, if you forfeit the ="trms">world='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sci-fi's real frontier ='and'>& Noah's project


the transcendence and transubstantiation of ="trms">science

when ="trms">nature enters, ="trms">religion has to leave. in two equally fatal exit strategies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to limit itself to the inner sanctum of the soul
="lsts lst1">•to flee into the super="trms">natural ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that ="trms">religion will try in vain to imitate ="trms">scientific ="trms">instruments (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- The Magicians TV series) ='lgc'>+ mis="trms">interpreted ="trms">science ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> taking Bible as if it were geology ="trms">book (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- look at the rising Hollywood films that ="trms">scientifize the events of Bible) ='lgc'>-- projects of connecting ="trms">religion to the ="trms">world='lgc'>]

‘exit ="trms">religion’='lgc'>: it will have lost any pretence of influencing the course of events, its impact will only be decorative

(="ppl">Descola='lgc'>:) ‘="trms">naturalism’ is only one of four ways in which connections between humans and nonhumans can be established


contrasts='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*reference chain='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*reproduction='strcls'>*

(="ppl">="ppl">Latour use of the term) ='strcls'>*contrast='strcls'>*='lgc'> = mode of existence

immutable mobiles='lgc'>: to reach something far away through long arrays of ="trms">instruments, you need to make sure that ='strcls'>*necessities and constants are transported='strcls'>* with as little transformation as possible ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to “reach” those entities

="trms">geometry, mathematical entities, inscriptions of all ="trms">sorts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> carry heavy-duty immutable mobiles

(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's immutable mobiles are='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">matter='lgc'> = highly elaborated, ="trms">historically dated, and ="trms">anthropologically ="trms">situated hybrids='strcls'>***
(='lgc'>=/= ‘transportation of indisputable necessities through chains of cause and effect’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a ="trms">category mistake)

(for physicist='lgc'>:) “the ways we know the ="trms">world='lgc'> = the ways in which the ="trms">world behaves”
(less for chemist)
(not at all for engineer)


(='lgc'>[in a way ='mywrk'>my work has been about investigating vectors and='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*directions='strcls'>*) from knower to what is to be known

the beings of ="nms">ajayeb face lots of causes and lots of effects


="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical consequences of evolutionary theory


='strcls'>***(="ppl">="ppl">Latour's ="trms">positive veiw on) to be a ="ppl">Darwinian='lgc'>: you have to abandon ='thdf'>the notion that all of those ‘organisms’ rest in ‘="trms">nature’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]organim='lgc'>: a hybrid production of re="trms">presentation ='and'>& reference


='strcls'>*the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ideology of the ='strcls'>*blind watch maker='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a blind cause acting from behind and reaching the optimum haphazardly
(has substituted the ‘mere transportation of indisputable necessities’ for ='strcls'>*the risks taken by individual organisms to perpetuate, sustain, and reproduce themselves='strcls'>*)
&
='strcls'>*the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ideology of the ='strcls'>*intelligent designer='strcls'>* :an intelligence dragging organisms towards the optimum by some predefined plans
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both are grounded in the ='strcls'>*ideology of making and mechanism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•organisms are erased as individual actors
="lsts lst1">•organisms are transformed into the carriers if indisputable necessities
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both tried to save individual organims from their apparent meaninglessness by adding to them an overarching ="trms">narrative re="trms">cited by an other="trms">worldly divinity

(‘necessities’ are often imported)


(Assmans's) ='strcls'>*mosaic division='strcls'>*
(='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">sort of relaxed attitude towards truth)
divisions ahad never beed asked before whether or not they were the “true” ones. they could be added to one another, ="trms">translated into one another, piled on top of one another for additional safety ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*contesting the claims to existence of all divinities but one='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a connection between the ="trms">question (irrelevant until then) of worship and a ="trms">question of an absolute (='lgc'>=/= relative) ="trms">difference between true and false

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]iconoclast='lgc'>: “if they are made, then they cannot be real”

monotheism ='lgc'>==allowed='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humans to escape from a too close adhesion چسبنده to the ="trms">natural ="trms">world
Moses's project ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> we have exctracted ourselves from the ="trms">world

(Assmans='lgc'>:) without the transcendence of monotheism we would be left with the mere immanence of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world ='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the problem of transcendence/immanence as only options of relatedness='lgc'>]
(a bad ="trms">story='lgc'>:) secular ="trms">narratives that='lgc'>: the stark immanence of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world will save us from an escapist adherence to the transcendent ="trms">world of beyond ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my Zolmat text is was about the problematization of that view (transcendent ="trms">world of beyond) in Islamicated ="trms">ecological consciousness in ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]


='strcls'>****to move from ideology to recognition='strcls'>**** (of the many ="trms">different contrasts we have lived by without granting them enough room)


the drab and entirly mythical drama of light overcoming darkness


="trms">religious traditio operates by its abilities of two transformation='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. a radical transformation of the far away into the close and the proximate ='lgc'>[='at'>#Zolmat='lgc'>] (dead is alive)
="lstsrd">2. a ="trms">positive view of all artificial transformations (='lgc'>=/= tendencyo conserve what it is)

='strcls'>**what happens if ="trms">religion is allowed to weave its highly ="trms">specific form of transcendence (salvation='qstn'>?) into the fabric of the other two modes of existence='lgc'>: reproduction and reference='qstn'>?

="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's dream (and also deep sin)='lgc'>: the urge radically to transform ='strcls'>*that which is given='strcls'>* into ='strcls'>*that which has to be fully renewed='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alternative, dream of a ="trms">different ="trms">world
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= to grasp this ="trms">world (and only this ="trms">world) otherwise='lgc'>]

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look at spec over the ="trms">spectacular
(in ="nms">ajayeb)

i can't give you a dialectical con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion

maybe a mouth-full

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='lgc'>[Paul ="ppl">Shepard='lgc'>]

our perception of ="trms">animals as the ="trms">language of ="trms">nature in Thinking ="trms">Animals and The Others; the “="trms">natural” way of ="trms">childrearing in ="trms">Nature and Madness; and the bear as a dominant sacred ="trms">animal connecting people ceremonially to the earth in The Sacred Paw.

Octavio Paz reminds us='lgc'>: “The ="trms">past reappears because it is a hidden ="trms">present. I am speaking of the real ="trms">past, which is not the same as ‘what took place.’ . . . What took place is indeed the ="trms">past, yet there is something that . . . takes place but does not wholly recede into the ="trms">past, a constantly returning ="trms">present.”

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Corbin='lgc'>]

it is so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous to say any thinker, ="trms">writer, artist, or phiosopher ‘was of his/her own time.’ nobody has ever been in their own time, never. we are constantly out of time.

things occur in Malakut, not in the time of this ="trms">world.
it is a ="trms">matter of ="trms">interior ="trms">history, exoteric in the etymological sense of the word, subtle ="trms">history whose events do not take place in the exterior ="trms">world of objects, but in the subtle ="trms">world of lived states, events in the Malakut, in the ="trms">world of the ‘Soul,’ in the ‘Heaven’ or the ‘Hell’ which man carries within himself.
(and this is precisely what is ‘changing someone's ="trms">story’ is about. ‘let me change the rhythm of your ="trms">story. let me change your ="trms">history.’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">storytelling)
this ="trms">history='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----="trms">interior ="trms">wild facts='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----="trms">intermingles with his wills, and objectives itself in the web of exterior facts. these are events of ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh, Shahname شاهنامه, Qur'an قرآن, Grail Cycle and so on, the events of this ="trms">history (inspire parables='qstn'>? and) make up sacred ="trms">history (tarikh-e ghodsi تاریخ قدسی‌) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">historicity
='strcls'>*the ="trms">question always remains='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-what ='strcls'>*is of this ="trms">world='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what is the organ of perception='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-does oneself need to ‘belong’ to this sacred ="trms">history in order to come to pass (in the Malakut ملکوت)='qstn'>? (being born in it, etc.)

='lgc'>[what was your fetish again='qstn'>? what was your Qibla قبله='qstn'>? what would be...='lgc'>]

platonic ideals, periodization of sacred ="trms">history

ملا صدرا Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra revolutionized the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of being, in reversing the order of ="trms">priority of essence (mahiat ماهیت). he gives ="trms">priority to existence (vojud وجود) ='lgc'>: that means, it is the act and mode of existing that determine the ="trms">nature of essence. the act of existing is in effect capable of multitude of degrees of intensification or of degradation.

(عجایبِ ="nms">ajayeb-e) man='lgc'>: human-faced demon (ajene ensan-nama اجنه انسان‌نما) / ... / ... / ="trms">sublime state of perfect Man
="prgrph">-and body passing through a multitude of states ='lgc'>: Hayula هیولا='qstn'>? / ... / jesm (جسم corruptible ="trms">worldly body) / ... / divine body (jesm-e elahi جسم الهی)

Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra is the philosopher of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses and ="trms">palingenesis (estehaleh-ha استحاله‌ها ='and'>& rastakhiz-ha رستاخیز‌ها)
='strcls'>*="trms">phenomenology of the act of existing='strcls'>*


there was a time (12th century='lgc'>--my favorite) when ="ppl">Avicenna ابن سینا was ="trms">translated into Latin (in Toledo,) a moment when our cultures in east and west cor="trms">responded to the same type, a moment when the concept of ="trms">science was inseparable from its spiritual context. ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> think of the alchemists for whom the operation undertaken in the laboratory only attained its end if it was accompanied by an ="trms">interior transmutation of the man='lgc'>--that is to say only if it effected the ="trms">interior birth (of spiritual man)

Alchemist's chemistry
="ppl">="frds scrmbld">Nicolas ="ppl">="ppl">Oresme's ="trms">geometry
='lgc'>[out of ="trms">history='lgc'>]
="ppl">Descartes’ ="trms">geometry is also out of ="trms">history, discontinuous

(for ="ppl">Corbin) ="trms">Modern / Western venture='lgc'> = application of the intelligence to the ="trms">scientific investigation of a ="trms">nature that has been desacralised, which must be violated in order to find out its laws (and to subject its forces to the human will)


the dichotomies or dis="trms">sociation of thought/being, being/action



حیدر آملی ="ppl">Haydar ="ppl">Amuli's delinkings (destroying precisely certain dialectics or dichotomies='lgc'>:)

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Holul حلول, Sodur صدور, Tajasod تجسد
(immanence, transcendence, incarnation)
(the eidos reflected in the mirror='lgc'>--divine in the prophet='lgc'>--remains untouched by the mirror, because the real is not ‘incarnated’ in the eidos, the reflected image)

="prgrph">-alame khiali عالم خیالی='lgc'>: ="trms">imaginaire/Hollywood
="prgrph">-khiale khallagh خیال خلاق (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alame mesal عالم مثال ='lgc'>=/= alame ajsad عالم اجساد) ='lgc'>:
1-khiale mottasel خیال متصل='lgc'>: ="trms">imagining inherent in human
2-khiale monfasel خیال منفصل='lgc'>: ="trms">imaginal apart from human
="prgrph">-alame hess عالم حسس='lgc'>: molk ملک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universe of forgetfulness

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Tonekaboni, is against='lgc'>: “mojudate moghayade vahmi faghede tagharor mibashand.” (موجودات مقید وهمی فاقد تقرر میباشند)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vahdate vojud وحدت وجود ='lgc'>=/= vahdate mojud وحدت موجود
='strcls'>*d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='lgc'>: tarde amre mesali طرد امر مثالی ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ma'ad dar amre khiali معاد در امر خیالی


death, life, ="trms">past, and future are not properties of objects, rather of subjects (anha sefate nafs hastand آنها صفات نفس هستند) ='lgc'>[="ppl">Corbin='lgc'>]
and you bestow them to objects that you think they are “dead,” “alive,” “from ="trms">past,” or “of future”


“khorre” or “khorne” ="trms">according to zaratustra='lgc'>: a light o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated from the essence of the divine being and because of that some apparitions have gained hierarchy, and each human capable of a certain ="trms">techne.


='thdf'>the idea of a divine ="trms">presence in ='strcls'>*heikal='strcls'>* هیکل

="trms">according to ="ppl">Socrates='lgc'>: bodies are frames and tools of the selves (nofus نفوس)
="trms">according to ="ppl">Plato, what the self (nafs نفس) does not had essentially that it had to descend into the ="trms">material ="trms">world='qstn'>? what the senses told the self that itself could not say='qstn'>?


an islamic-="nms">iranian ="trms">cosmology='lgc'>:
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-jabarut جبروت (alame oghule karubi عالم اقول کروبی) (Nous)
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-malakut ملکوت (alame nofus عالم نفوس) (Psyche) ='lgc'>--organ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> khiale fa'al خیال فعال (= jesme latife nafs جسم لطیف نفس. niruye khial نیروی خیال is trainded still in middle east. this ="trms">inter-monde is where mater ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> im="trms">material ='and'>& immater ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material; jesm ruhani جسم روحانی‌ ='and'>& ruh jesmani روح جسمانی ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> constant happenings of ="trms">historic ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Ma'ad معاد) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> amre mesali امر مثالی
 ="prgrph prgrph2">-molk ملک (omure mshhud امور مشهود) (Sarx)


='lgc'>[="ppl">Ashtiani, 2nd vol, p44, footnote='lgc'>]
ensane okhravie daraye badan (انسان اخروی دارای بدن) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nash'eye jesmanie alame akherat (نشئه جسمانی عالم آخرت)
(baghaye) badane okhravie alame made (بقای بدن اخروی عالم ماده) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hades zamanie (حادث زمانی)


لطیف latif ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= im="trms">material

actual/real ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a dream between earth and sky


asemanhaye napeydaye nojumi آسمانهای ناپیدای نجومی (celectial skies invisible)
dadehaye vahyi داده‌های وحی (="trms">data of revelation)


="ppl">Avicenna (selselemaratebe ebn-sinaie oghul سلسله‌ مراتب ابن سینایی عقول)='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[each aghl عقل or angle with its own sky and nafs نفس ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a whole universe for itself='lgc'>]
sending from one aghl to the other, till the 10th aghl='lgc'> = unlimited human nafs
10th aghl ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= philosopher's active aghl ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ruh al ghodos روح القدس

(سهروردی) in ="ppl">Sohrevardi='lgc'>: angle and nafs are in the same trip

aghle ="nms">hayulayi عقل هیولایی


='lgc'>[="ppl">Averroesian/ابن رشدی ='lgc'>=/= Avicennian/ishraghi/اشراقی='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destruction of the ="trms">intermediate ="trms">world of angles ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> secularization ='lgc'>:
="trms">sociology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- theology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- angelology
(divine ="trms">materiliazation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social ="trms">materialization)
totalitarianism ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ideology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- spirituality (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? intellectual im="trms">materialism)

(='qstn'>?signing in ="nms">iran='lgc'>:)
ghodsi shodane nahadha='lgc'> = orfi shodane maba'adotabi
قدسی‌ شدن نهادها='lgc'> = عرفی شدن مابعدالطبیعه
sacredization of institutions='lgc'> = secularization of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics


the tragedy is not the affirmation of individualism, it is rather the forgetting of the in="trms">finite entity ='lgc'>:
non-mystic monotheism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a personalized (incarnation of) God (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everything ‘personal’ is subject to death and negation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> entrance of God in collectivism


تغییر ماهیت عالم taghyire mahiate alam (change in the essence of the universe) is the subject of study for ="nms">iranian ancient philosophies and ="trms">cosmologies

contemplation (moshahede nazari مشاهده نظری) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= action
knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= creating (that insensible speculative ="trms">world) (the ="trms">world of ="nms">ajayeb and its siblings is created and stated in my inner vision)
='lgc'>[hush-e nazari هوش نظری, ability to abstract, is the ability to look from above='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[(jaleb budan-e) heja-e bimani هجای بیمعنی, ="trms">interest for meaningless ="trms">morpheme='lgc'>]

(human's function='lgc'>:) the trans="trms">figurative function of the transcendental machine (karkhaneye mojarad-sazi کارخانه مجرد‌سازی, by Sheikh Muhammad Tabatabayi)



='strcls'>*ta'vil bayad dar jahate axe harkate jami va moshtarek bashad تأویل باید در جهت عکس حرکت جمعی و مشترک باشد
(="trms">interpretation/hermeneutics ='lgc'>=/= commons/collectivism)
(="trms">according to ="ppl">Sohrevardi='lgc'>:) haghighate lafzi حقیقت لفظی (="trms">verbal/="trms">literal truth) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphorical entity
face/surate/صورت/apparition/majaz/مجاز/="trms">trope ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> truth/reality



(سهروردی ="ppl">Sohrevardi's ="trms">accord='lgc'>:) up in the highest point in the hierarchy of existence there is nur-al-anvar نور‌الانوار (light of lights) which its ="trms">material-removing (de="trms">materialising='qstn'>?) abstraction (tajarode made-zoda تجرد ماده‌زدا) constantly transcends, beyond any other abstraction. ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> first light is o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated from it='lgc'>: anvare ghahere انوار قاهره (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= anvare fereshtegani انوار فرشتگانی) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= first maleke mogharab ملک مقرب (or Bahman بهمن, Vahumane وهومنه, first of Zoroastrian Amshaspandan امشاسپندان) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (due to their ="trms">interactions='lgc'>:) second light, second maleke mogharab is created ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eshragh اشراق ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eshragh ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> eshragh ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ...

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رب النوع rab-ol-no ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? God of type, of abstract examples, (="ppl">Plato's universals='qstn'>? type, general concept ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is always beyond the horizon, the reality of the type lies beyond a related one that it sustains (‘token’) ='lgc'>["Beyond the horizon there lies a Lion, a Lion more Lion than any more lion. And beyond saying ‘lion,’ which calls forth that Lion, lies yet another, who might just look back. And beyond this eyeing one, lies an undying one, one we call ‘Lion’ because she is a kind.” (="ppl">Kohn, 2009)='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apply this idea to the fire)
ارباب الانواع arbab-ol-anva ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? angelology (="nms">iranians ="trms">loved angels and were good at angelologic thinking, it was a ="trms">technical term in knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge production regarding ='strcls'>*="trms">categories and types='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Platonic ='lgc'>+ Zoroastrian ='lgc'>+ (shiite) Islamicate ='lgc'>[via ="ppl">Sohrevardi='lgc'>] ="trms">cosmologies
="prgrph">-the angel/type that both emerges from and sustains the many lives of its many tokens (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= tashasho تشعشع).
="trms">according to ancient ="nms">iranians, rab-ol-no or the type-God decided its own destination (calculation of its own destiny), but there was no cor="trms">relation between the ‘type’ and its ‘token,’ there is no whole being created, there is no individuality being created. this general type has its own intellect/sense/reason (sho'ur شعور.) their ="trms">relationship is of rage and ="trms">love (ghahr قهر and mohebat محبت,) ="trms">according to ="ppl">Sohrevardi.
="prgrph">-what ="trms">question is posed from somewhere (slightly) beyond='qstn'>? a ="trms">question in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes the likeness of its answer (="ppl">Kohn, 2009)
="prgrph">-the angel of type is all about ‘being in futuro,’ which captures the logic of life's continuity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “over the horizon” houses this “living future”
="prgrph">-What is the ="trms">relationship between this angelic ="trms">world beyond us and the ="trms">sociocultural ="trms">worlds we construct='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-“mosol” مثل ='lgc'>: the realm of objective “stuff” that exists out there beyond us, on the other.


='strcls'>*Barzakh برزخ ='lgc'>=/= anvare pak انوار پاک (pure lights)
Barzakh='lgc'> = seperation, obstacle, ="nms">pardeh پرده, ="trms">veil, (shadow='qstn'>? mediation='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-everything ="trms">material that can be addressed ="trms">sensually, an evil negation.
="prgrph">-Barzakh is dark (that is a ="trms">different kind of Barzakh than what i talked about with Mi='qstn'>? not really, there it is theorized as ='strcls'>*shadow='strcls'>* and ="trms">inter-mediation)
="prgrph">-projections happen in Barzakh




='lgc'>[from MOP with Mi='lgc'>]
We both take ="trms">interests in ="trms">morphology of ="trms">historical forces and intensive thinking under the influence of ="trms">materiality. To traffic in the tropics of an isthmus between the sensible ="trms">world and the divine that was brought into our discussion, was proposed in my last letter those marvelous creatures living in the logic of precariousness, those who live in another temporality that is eyewitnessed in distanced ="trms">pasts.
...
We are here on this site in a landscape of ="trms">memory, in a progressive user-friendliness and a ="trms">technology that signals our arrival in an Alam-e Barzakh (عالم برزخ), an ="trms">ontological ="trms">intermediate realm of images and forms, the creatures that populate this ="trms">world have the incorporeality of “images,” much like the cyberspace we are born into and populate.
...
Not to remediate Barzakh (برزخ) but to propose a media theory, sketch it, and archive it for later. And there will be things that have to remain impossible to verify by us and in those records, the general-purpose ="trms">language of the ="trms">technologies that we choose to archive ourselves with, on the side of forgetting, the site of externalized ="trms">memories, will not verify ="trms">histories of ="trms">presence tattooed under the ear of the elephant of our ="trms">story, as you whispered somewhere in the dark.
='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
Yes, vocal works that informed and influenced Qahveh-="ppl">Khanehe (قهوه خانه) still can be found in some places of tea or cafe houses in ="nms">Iran. They are called ="nms">pardeh-="ppl">Khani (پرده خوانی), here someone who is a ="nms">pardeh-Dar پرده‌در (“-Dar” meaning that who tears apart the ="nms">pardeh پرده, and ="nms">pardeh meaning screen or ="trms">veil='lgc'>--the concept of ="nms">pardeh always contains “a perpetually hidden message”), ‘="ppl">Khandan’ (خواندن) meaning in ="trms">Farsi ‘to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read’ or to sing-off a plain of signifiers, is also the ="trms">verb ‘Darridan,’ (دریدن) ='lgc'>[='at'>#="ppl">Derridean acting='lgc'>] meaning to rip apart.
...
I am sorry; I am just entangled in the topologically impossible ="nms">pardeh, as an ="trms">interfacial space where the body and ="trms">instrument of music meet. I am touching with my fingers the ‘first three’ ="nms">pardehs of Setar ستار, and thinking about to jack into the vague ="trms">differences between another two magical canvases / magnetic disks='lgc'>: Plane of Destiny (lohe mahfuz لوح محفوظ) and Plane of ="trms">Memory (lohe hafez لوح حافظ), while ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listening to the virtual ="trms">narratives of Ghahveh-="ppl">Khane theater. Which creatures have you encountered, in your ="trms">travels, that bypass human installations (of ="trms">memory)='qstn'>?

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a Zoroastrian ="trms">data='lgc'>: pre-existential ='lgc'>~ azali ازلی, sabegh-ol-vojud سابق الوجود

atefiate mahsus ='lgc'>[عاطفیت محسوس='lgc'>] (queer='qstn'>? a queerness not familiar with mysticism='qstn'>?)
queer is about ‘marahele johare atefi’ (مراحل جوهر عاطفی), mohabat محبت (kindness or ="trms">love,) without leading to ‘faghre erfani’ (فقر عرفانی)

="large lg90" stl="font-size:110%"> ='lgc'>[i have problem with='lgc'>] (escaping) the ‘pit of ="trms">nature’ (chahe tabiat چاه طبیعت) in ="ppl">Sohrevardi's thought
="prgrph">-(he inverses the earth from ="trms">positive to negative geology, sphere becomes pit)
="prgrph">-the project of post-Babylonian autopoietic-self, a self that is defined by the ‘="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-fall’ into the “pit of ="trms">nature.”

‘andam-shenasi peikare latif’ (اندام‌شناسی‌ پیکر لطیف)

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital='lgc'>]

what are the ways in which ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh relates to itself as its own future, its own labor and announced commitments='qstn'>?
(our ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of ="nms">ajayeb is not a time quiz involving applicability and whether or not one “buys it.”)


i am “drifting” without ="trms">anxiety into a new territory (in the philosophical work of ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh,) drifting involves randomization, fuzziness, and ="trms">interference. there is no coherent programming nor concerted ="trms">demand for ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor
(="ppl">Avital='lgc'>: The o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of the ="trms">demand for ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor, which has conditioned 20th century Anglo philosophy, “is the ="trms">positivist's requirement that theories be testable. At the very least, a re="trms">spectable philosophical theory should be stated with sufficient precision that one can tell what it says about something and whether its pre="trms">dictions about that subject ="trms">matter are borne out” ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- to be capable of being ="trms">articulated in the formalism of logic)

Testability furnishes the un="trms">interrogated core of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> linked to a notion of computational realizability='qstn'>?

how “="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor” enables the displacement of truth by testability='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----as if the test could provide an un="trms">questionably solid ground for overtaking reflection and other philosophically t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggered ="trms">interferences.

What kind of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor is “a certain kind of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor”='qstn'>?

what is being guaranteed if not the ability itself to guarantee

Everything rests on the ='strcls'>*promise='strcls'>* of a certain kind of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor.

the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical fantasy of completion.

colonization of discourse with ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor

The discipline of programming leads to a shift in perspective on traditional issues. It invites='lgc'>--or rather requires='lgc'>--one to adopt what ='lgc'>[Daniel='lgc'>] Dennett (1968) calls the design stance toward the mind

='lgc'>{ ="trms">instrumental ="trms">epistemology of how something works ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? discovery ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can we suspend this “='lgc'>=/=”

trials and tryouts

='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital's='lgc'>] phantasm of testing(‘s groundedness and un="trms">questioned solidity)

...time-zone paradox of freezing the future in order to plan, in another register, the time for working through computations.

what are the conditions for thinking ‘through a problem’='qstn'>?

='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****“To offset the competitive quality of the research that is being clocked, more philosophy must be allowed to drift in, if only to demystify those ideologies of acceleration that relentlessly run down the slower-paced thinking and an ethics of hesitation.”='strcls'>****

='lgc'>[o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> temporal hysteria ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[effect='lgc'>]

what tensional drama is occurs in the noncoincidence of planning...='qstn'>?
(planning='lgc'> = modeling, testing, constructing prototypes, development)
regardless of whether the future is foreseeable or not, something has to be maintained as a stable factor
test ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> stability
='strcls'>***If the test cannot o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, it at least confirms that there is knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge. (confirming that cognition occurs)

...tests have to be taken over and over again, if only to fill the ='strcls'>**="trms">fictional time of the absolute ="trms">present='strcls'>**

knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and test ='lgc'>: it is not clear even that something is known until there is a test for it.

(test) is a certain type of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysically secured knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge that needs only to ‘find’ itself

The normatively secured test does not o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge but confirms what al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready exists as “knowable.”

...generous fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure, productive of disclosure

...treaties suspend violence only momentarily, artificially

='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----only with the help of a discussion of ="trms">rhetorical ="trms">codes strong enough to scan the paradoxical logic of testing can we begin to analyze the problem of its unstoppability

...="ppl">Platonic shredders, what allows us to know whether something is “good” if it has not been put to the test.
Can there be a human being without a test='qstn'>?

If Mary Shelley had seen the discovery of America as an event that occurred too suddenly, without the stops and protections of gradual inquiry='lgc'>--in sum, as a ="trms">world-="trms">historical shock of intrusive violence that disrupted all ="trms">sorts of ="trms">ecologies, ="trms">material and im="trms">material, conscious and unconscious='lgc'>--="ppl">Nietzsche studies the profound disruption to thought that the experimental theater of America directed. (="ppl">Ronell)

un="trms">interrogated durability (as a first-rate value on earth)

(American) athleticism of identity switching='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----it means that anyone can in principle try anything out

Dr. Frankenstein's new ='strcls'>*experimental jouissance='strcls'>*

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It is thus that the maddest and most ="trms">interesting ages of ="trms">history always emerge, when the “actors,” all kinds of actors, become the real masters. As this happens, another human type is disadvantaged more and more and finally made impossible; (="ppl">Nietzsche)

flora and fauna

this is not the ="trms">scientist obsessed with an idée fixe='lgc'>--but one capable of uprooting and going

...invites ambivalence
...dreaming of immense edifices and the permanence promised by contracts ="trms">written in stone

register(s) of understanding


A new ="trms">fold in ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics, testing='lgc'>--that is, the types of relatedness that fall under this term='lgc'>--asserts another logic of truth.

A kind of ="trms">questioning, a structure of incessant research, perhaps a modality of being, testing scans the walls of experience, ="trms">measuring, probing, determining the “what is” of the lived ="trms">world.

i marvel at...


="trms">wonders of...
marvels of...
unheards of...
mazhar ol-="nms">ajayeb مظهر العجایب
Motehayeran-e متحیران, Tahayor تحیر ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? to ="trms">wonder
dar ahval-e... در احوال
dar khavas-e... در خواص
navader-e... نوادر
sefat-e... صفات


ta'ajob تعجب ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? heyrat حیرت
the mode of attention in ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh is tuned by ta'ajob (="trms">wonder) away from ="nms">Iranian mystic preferences over transfixation and rapture (heyrat)
which ="trms">literary or (not)knowing ="trms">positions are installed in these two (observational='qstn'>?) stations='qstn'>?
the subject of ta'ajob is moved otherwise
تعجب در باب امر قدسی‌ ta'ajob dar bab-e amr-e ghodsi, ="trms">wonder in the ="trms">matters of divine

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="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: die Wissenschaft denkt nicht
="ppl">Derrida='lgc'>: links ="trms">science to mourning and ="trms">memory
="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>: ="trms">science is always there, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to erupt, amaze or blow you away.


="ppl">Husserl was perhaps the one most freaked out by the ="trms">historical split (between ="trms">science and philosophy='lgc'>--and art='qstn'>?)


...a ="trms">matter of ="trms">technological selfunderstanding,

...nor do I insist on sustaining the pathos that propels the images...

ethical and political issues are increasingly seem to have more to do with testing than ="trms">questioning, hesitation, certainty

There is a test ... it claims and so it stands. There is the other test that crashes against walls, collapses certitudes, and lives by fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure-lives by dying or, at least destroying.


The one register of testing offers results-certitudes-by which to calculate and count on the ='strcls'>*other.='strcls'>*

the culture of Versuch, test or trial
(farhange kushesh, ghasd, sue ghasd, va emtehan)

(="trms">measuring and) testing that support, among so many others, political, ="trms">religious, and educational institutions

testing has everything to do with the way the policing of political sites and bodies takes place, in ="trms">modernity and with our experience of reality in general.

testing ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=/='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the real
(elliptical circuit established between test ='and'>& real)


="ppl">Freud was working on to tests which are lost now='lgc'>: Aktualitätsprüfung to distinguish between reality and immediacy

="large lg146" stl="font-size:127%"> ="ppl">Lacan has linked testing to the subject's creation of a first “outside"='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----a space that is no longer the same as “reality”

the way the state takes possession of the body presumptively on ="trms">drugs.
="prgrph">-in this way, ="trms">drugs are seen as eccentric='lgc'>: what is outside, or moves outside the center, can center it, they are animated by an outside al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready inside
="prgrph">-how ="trms">drugs are isolating or how they establish ="trms">community (of those who are somehow together or with non="trms">presence.) anything that refigures individuality or collectivity that brings you together with the other and absolutly keeps you apart from the other
="trms">drug='lgc'>: Dionysian frenzy, aspirin, ="trms">religion, dirty ="trms">language,
="prgrph">-I am sorry I have no ="trms">drugs to offer you today!
="prgrph">-not everyone in civic ="trms">societies has the privilege of getting high and mind-altering (that which ="trms">supposedly sug="trms">gests vulnerability,) running arround drunk ="trms">staggering and out-of-it, they will be beaten the hell out of it, they have to be sober, on alert and self-protective

your pee belongs to the state='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----new civic ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readability

='lgc'>{four bodies don't belong to themselves='lgc'>: ="trms">children, addicts, outlaws, and ghosts, are all busted by the state or certain legislated majority='lgc'>}


destructive (and artistic) modes of production.

test, does it have an essence='qstn'>? Is it pure ="trms">relationality='qstn'>?



="large lg122" stl="font-size:128%"> ="ppl">Avital's “speculative telephonics”

="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>: sign='lgc'> = cutting ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, Zeichen ='lgc'>--="ppl">Holderlin='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “we're cutting out” ='lgc'>=/= (="ppl">Avital='lgc'>:) ="trms">schizo knows how to disconnect, how to depart, how to cut the shit

the place where a call can break into a body='lgc'>[='lgc'>=='qstn'>? orificial openings of a subject='lgc'>]

emergency verification='lgc'>: we are still trying to cut into the emergency line (that we are on) after the crashing down of the transcendental signifier


in the (="trms">technologically enabled) disappearance of long-distance what happens to the ‘elsewhere’ calling to the ="trms">schizobody='qstn'>?

how our pre="trms">technological ears were (trained) before the telephone='qstn'>?

the “call” comes from me and from beyond and over me.

Telephonics coils itself around a concept of “being there” supported by the recognition that contact has been broken. Still, the break is never clean, just as contact was never continuous. The entire ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of identity, ="trms">presence and locality is scrambled, bringing with it a certain ="trms">historical mutation in the ="trms">relationship of the “self’ to other, to the irreducible precedence, as ="ppl">Derrida puts it in ‘="trms">Memoires,’ of the other. The other calls; you answer. But “you” have not yet been constituted, gathered or pulled together ="trms">prior to the call.

Wortsalad ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- Opheilia's kind of mouth that shoots ="trms">poesy, one has the feeling that no one is there.
/ precisely when ophelia is about to become the ="trms">poet ="ppl">Shakespeare strangles her in water to make place for hamlet's tragic auto="trms">poiesis /

it is (generally) very difficult to know “who” is talking ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “whom” is being addressed

endure the agony of the being called (a being-on-call, an answering device)

modeling ="trms">different styles of irony

(what are we) telehearing (='qstn'>?)


="trms">language is the ="trms">history of index finger (“...even when it is placed on the mouth to silence a speaking. The teacher points, the God and the ="trms">schizophrenic speak through or to the spiritual forefinger ='lgc'>[sababe سبابه, angoshte shahadat انگشت شهادت='lgc'>].”)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger traces the route of saying from ="trms">rumor to the spiritualized digitals. The ="trms">semiotically invested finger comes to manipulate the alphabetico-numerical ordering of ‘Geschick.’ (="ppl">Avital)
="prgrph">-The spiritual forefinger presses towards ="trms">schizophrenic partial ="trms">systematizing.
="prgrph">-Also, it is the bewitching finger, which makes it rude to point or to press red buttons, for the power of pointing used to be as="trms">sociated with ='strcls'>*magical arrests='strcls'>* (thus in Jewish Orthodox marriage ceremonies the wedding ring is said to be placed on this spiritual finger of the woman, to block her potency).
="prgrph">-making the marionette come alive
="prgrph">-="trms">history of index finger points to the essential being of ="trms">language, which is “Saying as Showing.” (="ppl">Avital ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="ppl">Heidegger)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Heidegger shows, “Speaking must have speakers” (not merely in the same way as an effect must have a cause)
(...what must remain unspoken in the sense that it is beyond the reach of speaking)
...decisive disconnectedness in all ="trms">language tracings.
="trms">schizophrenogenic understanding of ="trms">language (and of anything)
='lgc'>[this is related to the ="trms">story of the fox and sound, accidental essencing of the index...='lgc'>]


“We are hypnotized things suffering from ="trms">positive and from negative ="trms">hallucinations, that is, we see what is not there and often we do not see what is there. In the first place because what it is to be there has no clarity of being. It is as if we cannot see a thing.” (="ppl">Avital)
(focus the lense on being)


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the mode of awesomeness and dissolvement with awe is the prescriptive utterance in the case of ="nms">ajayeb, the ‘="trms">wonders of...’ ="trms">translated from “="nms">ajayeb-e...” t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggering the ="trms">verb “ta'ajob” تعجب
(using ="ppl">Avital's words) But if we were to remain in this mood, then, despite appearances, we would not be awestruck, or even struck, by the ='lgc'>[text='lgc'>]='lgc'>: we would have missed the encounter with it. In fact, our astonishment would mean that we took the entity of the ="nms">ajayeb for an object, one created by an ="trms">author ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] admire a product ='lgc'>[by God='lgc'>] and be pleased by a cultural achievement.='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----Gazwini is making this mistake with God.
="prgrph">-how can we resist the “ta'ajob” or ="trms">wonderment in ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-we would not have allowed ourselves to be ="trms">greeted by the en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed creatures of ="nms">ajayeb, be met by its ="trms">poetic ="trms">Greeting.
="prgrph">-="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading the promises of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----(and keep in mind that) everything in the ="trms">Greeting is offered to the ="trms">greeted as a ="trms">sort of promise

Ungleiche is a figure

by getting on top of the ="trms">material, we have not let it speak its word

(not to master or master over the ="trms">material of ="nms">ajayeb)
“If we allow ourselves to be ="trms">greeted by the ="trms">poem instead of overwhelming it with our knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and facility for reformatting ="trms">poetry ="trms">according to cultural or philological ="trms">codes, then we are faced with the enigma from which the ="trms">poem cannot be wrested by our acquired habits of mastery.” (="ppl">Avital on ="ppl">Heidegger's ="ppl">Holderlin's Andenken)
='strcls'>***Mastery is not a content but a habit.='strcls'>***
dis="trms">position from knowing is required if we are to let the word of ="nms">ajayeb speak to us (in the form of ="trms">greeting)
='lgc'>[as ="ppl">Holderlin announces that the “remains” for which ="trms">poets are ="trms">responsible.='lgc'>]='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">memory (don't let engineers build you archives! (making it about grounding and ="trms">historicity, instead='lgc'>:) let the ="trms">poet be ="trms">responsible for whatever has “remained.”) ='lgc'>[this would be ="ppl">Holderlinian advice='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-inappropriable remainder(s)

="trms">memory/re="trms">member is sojourn
="trms">memory and its (peculiar) temporal climate
="prgrph">-how can we not ="trms">situate re="trms">membrance as mourning='qstn'>? (as ="ppl">Holderlin teaches everyone)
re="trms">membrance ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? joyous festivity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----the issue and point in project Persische Abend PARS VIDEO 2014='lgc'>]

the minute you see in a text (='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda, ="frds scrmbld">Sana, ="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali having even) one ="trms">memory that is clear and guaranteed ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> your signals should go on='lgc'>: there is one unrevised (in an o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal form), no secondary revision, ='strcls'>*pure ="trms">memory='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is a ="trms">memory that is unnegotiable for them

='strcls'>*on Wind
wind, is a coming that arrives from the future
(compare “going” ='lgc'>[staying behind='lgc'>] in ="ppl">Attar, ="ppl">Hafez, and ="ppl">Holderlin) ='lgc'>[in San'an nobody is ="trms">greeting, there is no ="trms">greet-event. ="ppl">Attar misses='lgc'>: ="trms">Greeting as pure letting go='strcls'>**='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Avital on ="ppl">Holderlin='lgc'>:) “='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] in going, comes. Parting is not a mere leave-taking and empty staying behind. Parting is also not a mere going away and disappearing. The ="trms">poet remains in the rustling wind. to the extent that he goes with its going. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] Nonetheless. the ="trms">poet stays with the wind. Accompaniment now shapes the ="trms">Greeting. As the gusting wind is alternately a coming and a going. so is the ="trms">Greeting a staying behind that nonetheless flutters away. becoming a going with. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] The ="trms">poet's staying behind is crucial. Staying behind is not meant to mark the isolation or even desolation of the ="trms">poetic act. ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] Neither passive nor active, remaining behind indicates a way of going back, a returning to the source.”
="prgrph">-="trms">traveling to the impossible place of the other
="prgrph">-(wind) come and go without touching down or dropping anchor
="prgrph">-the ="trms">agency, ="trms">animacy and sentience of the wind is described by ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">sensuous subjects within the wind. one feels enwrapped, enveloped in a sentient being that moves across vast distances, it comes and goes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">materially textured ="trms">poetics of description in the ="nms">ajayeb-e bad باد

the ="trms">poesy (='lgc'>~ ="trms">fictional ='lgc'>=/= truth, real) (Wahrheit und Dichtung) of ="nms">ajayeb (are no longer distinguished from each other)

(="trms">greeting is the ="trms">poet/artist's most essential mode of being)

a designed closure or reappropriation that locks the Other into a schema of subjectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- at once promoted and subjected
='strcls'>*(re)fastened to the ="trms">Greek o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin
promoting the ousider to insider (who now holds an Ursprung and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin)

re-appropriation ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>?! an end to alienation ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> the condition of possibility for totalitarianism='lgc'>} ='lgc'>[="ppl">Fynsk='lgc'>]

the illusion (and comfort) of noncastration

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duty of deconstruction='lgc'>: the practice of non-avoidance
(duty ='lgc'>=/= your ="trms">nature)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the duty of being unwelcomed

vomiting ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= healing



='strcls'>*after the 18th century (seems) all art (artists) wants to be='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in the privileged place of nonre="trms">presentational work. trying its self with the ="trms">sublime, that which disturbs and devastates being
="lsts lst1">•performative='lgc'> = being ='lgc'>+ doing ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= becoming what it is

() parentheses='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•parental parenthetical remarks
="lsts lst1">•grammatically set to emphasize ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> belonging to the secondary
="lsts lst1">•whispering ='lgc'>~ “this isn't much, but let me insert, inject”
="lsts lst1">•disavowal of the text
="lsts lst1">•denial
="lsts lst1">•confession
="lsts lst1">•pumping the text to its op="trms">posite meaning
="lsts lst1">•turns everything around ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a noble feeling
="lsts lst1">•

(="ppl">Avital > ="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>:) destruction='lgc'>: commitment to futurity
affirms life, clears out the nonsense
='lgc'>=/= devastation='lgc'>: destruction without future
="prgrph">-if you are stuck with monumental ="trms">history, and if you are burdened, carrying too much baggage (="trms">historically, ="trms">aesthetically) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you are weighted down and cannot move forward




the image of hybrid being in ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh, half ="trms">animal half human, is being both ="trms">wild and tamed, vahshi-ram وحشی رام

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(the word) ="trms">wonder, it ="trms">worlds.

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="large lg22" stl="font-size:122%"> work in ="nms">ajayeb is about the ="trms">phenomenon of understanding that is to be found in modes of experience that lie outside the universal claims of ="trms">modern ="trms">scientific ="trms">method (='lgc'>--the experiences of art, of philosophy, and of ="trms">history itself.)

in the hermeneutic universe i am building, ="nms">Iran is made of China is made of India is made of Afghanistan is made of Iraq is made of Greece is made of ...

(can I say that ='mywrk'>my work has been all about ="nms">Iran-centrism='qstn'>?)

gaps in cultural space that ="trms">epistemology has not filled

hermeneutics ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? ="trms">epistemology

="trms">history of truth


='strcls'>*making an ="trms">ecological landscape of ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">cosmology, that means making visible the connection between beings and contact zones among animate and inanimate and nonhuman='lgc'>:
diamond ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> snake
fire ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> speech
fire ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">animals
wind ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> future
cow ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> angel
water ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> light
darvishi درویشی ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Div دیو
earth ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Bahman بهمن
mars ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wolf, pig
moon ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> effect of Gabriel's wings
earth ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> woman/enmity/illusio
mountain ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ganj گنج
jinn جن ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> climate
Div ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stone
climate ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghiamat قیامت
khidr خضر ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life/death giving


(="nms">ajayeb-e chah) عجایب چاه
="trms">wonders of pits ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonders of moon (="ppl">Moghana مقنع, bringing a moon out of a pit, mah-e nakhshab ماه نخشب) ='lgc'>[="ppl">Moghana's work on mirror='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[ne="nms">iranjat نیرنجات and telesmat طلسمات (of ="ppl">Moghana’) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ruse, tech='lgc'>],
='lgc'>[signifier of ="trms">wonder:='lgc'>] mahi (ماهی‌ fish) ='lgc'>[reflection of the moon in water='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mah (ماه‌ moon) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pointing at helal-e mah (هلال ماه half-moon) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mouth of the be="trms">loved (یار yar) ='lgc'>[registered in ="trms">poetry of ="ppl">Sa'di سعدی='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder finger on the open mouth
="prgrph">-also, Galileo's new telescope pointing at the moon (and sun-spots 900 years later than the chinese did,) and his ="trms">pervasive approach to the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge milieu that he lived in, set the secular registers of truth
گفتم اگر از تو در خواهم شکافته شوی چه کنی؟ گفت شکافته شوم. بدو اشارت کرد و ماه به دو پاره شد

(="nms">ajayeb-e aab) عجایب آب
آشنا ashena (='lgc'>=/= str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger) in ="trms">Farsi comes from the ="trms">relationship with water and swimming, somehow knowing the water
cognition (in ="trms">Greek cogn, ‘having learned’), in ="trms">Farsi shenakht (شناخت) is rooted in water, ashena='lgc'>: shenavar dar bahr budan شناور در بهر بودن, floating body, -shenasi شناسی‌-

(="nms">ajayeb-e donya) عجایب دنیا
="trms">wonders of earth(='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ghul (غول), serial killer, house full of bones (="trms">horror ="trms">story)
(after donya/earth comes immidiatly, ghiamat قیامت)
donya='lgc'>: the temporal ="trms">world (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? cthulu) (='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material-="trms">semiotic time-space of donya)
="prgrph">-search ‘donya’ and its ="trms">semiotic ="trms">network in ="ppl">Ferdosi and others
="prgrph">-search ‘alam’ (in ="ppl">Nezami='lgc'>: dar alam alam afaridan در عالم عالم آفریدن)
="prgrph">-‘zamin’ or zamini (زمین، زمینی‌), what is meant when we say one thinks zamini in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>? which zamin='qstn'>?

(="nms">ajayeb-e mardom) عجایب مردم
look at the word ‘mardom’ in Shahname and how it (dis)="trms">articulates Div (دیو), ="trms">animal, demon, dad (دد), janevar (جانور), etc.
‘mardom o janevar’ مردم و جانور (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Shahname)
other name of mardom='lgc'>: folan فلان (unkown), yaru یارو (known),

(="nms">ajayeb-e jan) عجایب جان
jan-parvar جان پرور (="ppl">Nezami)

(="ppl">Mehran Rad)
andakhtan (انداختن) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> andaze (اندازه) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hendese (هندسه) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mohandes (مهندس) ='lgc'>=/= engineer (in english from engine)
andakhtan='lgc'>: to throw two things close to each other (two ="trms">lovers in the bed)
='lgc'>=/= (catapult) manjenigh منجنیق ='lgc'>~ mechanic ='lgc'>[two ="trms">different ="trms">ontologies of ="trms">geometry and ="trms">measurement='lgc'>]

(="nms">ajayeb-e khasf) عجایب خسف
="trms">ecological disasters
فرورفتگی و پستی و مغاکی ظاهر زمین
فرورفتن در زمین
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> page 150, Haman ="trms">story, fire not burning Haman's heart, an example that God has no special privilege, is not located in addition to or beyond other beings

(="nms">ajayeb-e gur) عجایب گور
graves ='lgc'>-- ="trms">material and ="trms">ecological deaths, earth related passings
main actor='lgc'>: Malek al-mot (ملک الموت Angel of death)
ashabe kahf (اصحاب کهف), ashabe raghim (اصحاب رقیم) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> immortality

(="nms">ajayeb-e kuh) عجایب کوه
om-ol-jebal (ام الجبال), ghaf (قاف)='lgc'>: mother of mountains, all mountains link to her, earth
="trms">ecologically significant ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> holders of water and Ganj (گنج), nailed the earth, they are your cradles
az ganj be ganj (فرستم به گنج تو از گنج خویش, ="ppl">Ferdosi)


='strcls'>*Ghiamat and Climate

='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>]
the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical problem of (our) scale
(what are the scales in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>? what is people in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>? what it means to be ="trms">animal='qstn'>? and what is their scale='qstn'>?)
="trms">ecologies that have many scales (in temporality and physicality)='lgc'>: river scale, mountain scale, molecular times, Jinn's time, Ghiamat times, sense scale, ...

the ="nms">ajayeb's model is (always='qstn'>?) the global scale='qstn'>?
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can i seek and describe multiple ="trms">situated ="trms">worldings and multiple ="trms">sorts of ="trms">translations to engage ="nms">ajayeb's globalism='qstn'>? (using ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's word on ="ppl">Tsing)
="prgrph">-attention to friction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> (ethnographic accounts of) global ="trms">interconnection

(some ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors='lgc'>:) ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolisms, ="trms">articulations, coproductions (='strcls'>*='qstn'>? of ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">histories)
="trms">relational, ="trms">sympoietic, consequential,
in ="nms">ajayeb, what is cosmic, what is terran, what is cursed, ='strcls'>*='qstn'>?

in ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what are the figures of ="trms">finitude, destruction, astralized hearing, enactments of generation, the figures that take action, take heart='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what are the chthonic entities='qstn'>? ='lgc'>{the ="trms">finite complex ="trms">material ="trms">systems that can break down ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">stories that personify (Mother Earth) are ='strcls'>*misplaced concreteness='strcls'>*. ='lgc'>[(i am against) personified ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">figurative (which i ="trms">love. figures can be tentacular, patterns, processes, ="trms">stories.) what ="frds scrmbld">Foad would say='qstn'>?='lgc'>]='lgc'>}
="lsts lst1">•what are the gorgeous, ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">luring, d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous precarities (of the terra)='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what are (its ="trms">specific) art ="trms">science ="trms">worldings='qstn'>?

='strcls'>*those creatures across taxa (taxon, ="trms">categorical classification, taxonomic group)
taxonomic conveniences


='lgc'>[with ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>]

what is the optics of ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[that is entertaining being reductive for a moment, but that is productive='lgc'>]
(to help with that, the optics of the ="trms">anthropo="trms">cene is the image of the earth from space, Gaia='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-a cybernetic, ="trms">systems-theoretic entity, studied in ="trms">different scales
="prgrph">-various reports (on the state, ="trms">fictioning the state of the earth='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-a global kind of ="trms">system knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="prgrph">-a giant ="trms">database ='lgc'>-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> do i need to ="trms">formulate my project into a ="trms">technological practice='qstn'>?

what is the smallest unit of ="trms">interest in the ="nms">ajayeb ="trms">cosmology='qstn'>?

the practices of relocating germplasms, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding people in form of slaves, all over the earth in order to produce surplus that is transported elsewhere for capital accumulation... (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway)

industrial agriculture and plantation


to be storied and studied

the holobiont='lgc'>: host plus of all its microbial ="trms">symbionts that form ="trms">ecological units
="prgrph">-recasting the individual as a holobiont; the collective genomes
(Lynn ="ppl">="ppl">Margulis)
holobionts='lgc'>: “multicellular eukaryotes plus their colonies of persistent ="trms">symbionts”
(="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert, Sapp, and Tauber 326; ="trms">cited by ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)
(thinking with holobionts) the immune ="trms">system is re-cast not as “defensive weaponry” but as a “="trms">socializing and unifying force” ='lgc'>[via ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “to obey the immune ="trms">system is to become a citizen of the holobiont”
='lgc'>[this new developement of biological individuality (entangled identities at the heart of life mechanisms) in biological ="trms">sciences of 21st century requires a new ="trms">imaginative framework and new forms of curiosity equally relevant to ="trms">natural ="trms">sciences and artists='lgc'>]


(="nms">ajayeb-e gaz) عجایب گاز
co-existence of gasses


planet ='lgc'>=/= terrestrial planet


(="nms">ajayeb-e graphs) psychotic tree-structure of giant ="trms">databases, in trans-ing and lines of trans-="trms">affecting
="prgrph">-my ="nms">ajayeb art is going to be the kind that depend on the machine='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----competent digital
="prgrph">-exploring the iterative and fractal quality of sentences in my digital graph-makings
="prgrph">-attending to the ="trms">interruptions of syntactical commitments
partial connections (of distinct entities) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= analogy ='lgc'>[analogy allows one part contaminate ="trms">systematically another part, and vice versa='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-coerced belief


the ="trms">question of binaries='lgc'>: how we are who we are in relentless ="trms">relationalities with other entities. in shaping and being shaped by objects, and subject/object is only convenient partial-good-enough for the moment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>**="trms">sorting operations='strcls'>** (kPRA0W1kECg), but they are not good descriptions beyond that.



='at'>#on Companion Manifesto
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway's) ='strcls'>*cyborg='strcls'>*='lgc'>: the “lived ="trms">social and bodily realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with ="trms">animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints.” ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a much bigger queer family of ='strcls'>*companion ="trms">species='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: becoming-with ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the co-constitutive ="trms">interpenetration of humans and their others (machines, ="trms">animals, and the environment).
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Haraway is going from ‘rage’ to ‘="trms">love’

“="trms">historically challenged people” (Schimpfwort='qstn'>? فحش)
half-trained arguments
="trms">embodied cross-="trms">species ="trms">sociality

I am trying to inhabit ="nms">ajayeb critically; neither in celebration nor condemnation (like my sister asked)
what is my context='qstn'>? isis, tech-sci, art, ="trms">world-wars, ="trms">stories, terror,
the figures of ="nms">ajayeb that i am cultivating, do they “more fruitfully inform livable politics and ="trms">ontologies in current life ="trms">worlds”='qstn'>?
="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">species bring together human and nonhuman, organic and ="trms">technological, ="trms">history and myth, freedom and structure, state and subject, ...

="large lg130" stl="font-size:100%"> ='strcls'>*concrete='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦a concrescence (growth by assimilation, nemov moshtarek نمو مشترک) of prehensions (seizing, perception but not necessarily cognition) of prehensions (graspings, chang zadan چنگ زدن)
="lsts lst2">◦an actual occasion
='lgc'>=> beings do not preexist their relatings

the ="trms">verb of reality is full of nouns with appendages

="trms">nature/culture='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*local ="trms">category abstractions='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= universal='lgc'>: misplaced concreteness)
subject/object='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*potent consequences='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= preexisting foundations)

foundation is always ="trms">contingent (="ppl">="ppl">Haraway > ="ppl">Butler)
="lsts lst1">•scale is ="trms">contingent
="lsts lst1">•mutability is ="trms">contingent

="trms">bestiary of ="trms">agencies
kinds of relatings

in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb i am trying to carefully approach the notions of='lgc'>:
emergence, process, ="trms">historicity, ="trms">difference, ="trms">specificity
="prgrph">-and by that teach myself an artful practice rich with='lgc'>:
co-habitation, co-constitution, ="trms">contingency

="large lg62" stl="font-size:128%"> on-the-ground work='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="ppl">Verran ='at'># Nigeria Yoruba ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “emergent ="trms">ontologies,” “get on together” (...how can ='strcls'>*general='strcls'>* knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge be nurtured in postcolonial ="trms">worlds committed to taking ='strcls'>*="trms">difference='strcls'>* ="trms">seriously='qstn'>?”)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Thompson ='at'># Kenya ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “="trms">ontological choreographies” (...bodies, human and nonhuman, are taken apart and put together in processes)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Strathern ='at'># Papua New Guinean ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “partial connections” (...patterns within which the players are neither wholes nor parts ... necessary counter-intuitive ="trms">geometries and incongruent ="trms">translations)

what kind of re="trms">figurations i need for the tropic work that feel is required for the for ="trms">ontological choreography of ="nms">ajayeb (in ="trms">techno="trms">science or elsewhere='qstn'>? other ="trms">societies with liberal or non-liberal individual or state, with other ="trms">techno-="trms">monsters, automated warriors, terrorists, and all the waste, cruelty, in="trms">difference, ignorance, and loss that comes with, as well as joy, play, labor, and invention='lgc'>--)='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how do i ="trms">narrate this (="nms">ajayeb and non-="nms">ajayeb, the wondrous and the mundane) co-="trms">history='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-how do i ="trms">embody an art of relating (as is never done once and for all)='qstn'>?

='strcls'>*="trms">species ='lgc'>: biological kind of reality ='lgc'>+ ="trms">scientific expertise necessary to that kind of reality
(what would or could trouble ‘biological kind,’ ‘="trms">categories of organism’='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>{ machinic ='lgc'>+ textual ='lgc'>+ organic ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-='lgc'>=> ="trms">species ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">causality-="trms">story, o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin-="trms">story, Real-="trms">Presence-="trms">story (='lgc'>~transubstantiated signs of the flesh),
="lsts lst1">•="trms">species is about defining ="trms">difference, rooted in polyvocal fugues of ='strcls'>**doctrines of cause='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•one thinks of ="trms">species as logical ="trms">category, logical type, visual impression, ="trms">members of a ="trms">category that have the same characteristics. but you also say “be ="trms">specific!” you want the op="trms">posite. you want a ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list of relentless particularities.
="lsts lst1">•(for ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway ="trms">species is about) a particular kind of ="trms">semiotics where sign and flesh are tangled

="ppl">Marx and ="ppl">Freud in shit and gold, primitive scat and civilized ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal, in ="trms">specie

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">technologies of (Persian) subject/object-making='strcls'>**

="trms">nature and culture implode into one another (in the relentlessly ="trms">historically ="trms">specific ways)

(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway > ="ppl">Althusser) ='strcls'>**="trms">interpellation='strcls'>** (estizah استیضاح) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> concrete individuals (in the ="trms">modern state)
='strcls'>*the ideologically loaded ="trms">narratives ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> life and death, health and illness, longevity and extinction, etc.
='lgc'>{how not to do estizah (our objects, peers)='qstn'>? latent individualization in ="nms">apass's requirement of ‘intentionality’ from its participants='lgc'>: “no sleep-walking!” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> art as “explicit intentional act.” ="ppl">Merleau-Ponty's account the body-schema.='lgc'>] ='lgc'>[estizah is the site of encounter with the ‘man of law’ in which one becomes a man of law='lgc'>: by asking what is your “name and business,” ="trms">demanding “proof” of me. one way of ="trms">responding to that ="trms">demand of name is to give your name as a performance in an amerindian mode='lgc'>: “three were dead before they knew.” that's my name.='lgc'>] The ="trms">material ritual practice of ‘recognition’ ='lgc'>: “Who is there='qstn'>?” and “It's me!” of the everyday life ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> makes us concrete subject (in the ideology in democracy and law) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> independent ="trms">agents with self-produced identities. (in capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">societies) ='strcls'>**subject='lgc'>: a self-conscious “="trms">responsible” ="trms">agent whose actions can be explained by his or her beliefs and thoughts.='strcls'>** subject formation defines the limits of each individual; values, desires, and preferences. ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- in a way that I realize that a ‘hailing’ was addressed at me, thinking ‘that means me,’ and the answer is what transforms me into a subject ='lgc'>: a “mis-recognition” ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we can open a dossier on prophet and ‘answering’ the call='lgc'>]; ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> what ="nms">Tarof hails='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- for ="ppl">Althusser being aware of the other is a form of ideology. (how to recognize ourselves outside of ideology='qstn'>?)='lgc'>} (="ppl">Foucauldian/="ppl">Althusserian='lgc'>: passively defined by identity ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> mobilizing around these identities ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potential for resistance)
(="ppl">Althusser's) police officer ='lgc'>[محتسب mohtaseb='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--hails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> concrete subject
(="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's) expert discourses ='lgc'>--hails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sexuality
(="ppl">Adorno's) mass media ='lgc'>--hails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> passive ="trms">consumer
(Gauntlett's) uncritical ="trms">consumption ='lgc'>--hails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> assumption ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bad ="trms">worlding
(="ppl">Mulvey's) cinema ='lgc'>--hails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> male protagonist
(="ppl">Butler's) boy/girl ='lgc'>--hails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> gender identity
(="frds">Sina's) تعارف ="nms">Tarof ='lgc'>--hails='lgc'>='lgc'>--> divnity ='qstn'>?='qstn'>?

='strcls'>***(="trms">crafted faithfully='qstn'>?) more potent the ="trms">tropes, the truer the ="trms">story='strcls'>***
(without being distracted by scandals and ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta-="trms">stories='qstn'>?!)

="trms">stories traffic in ="trms">tropes, figures of speech
(the dogmatic and bizzar idea of) “="trms">trope-free ="trms">communication”

='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaplasm, remodeling, remolding,,, inverting meanings, transposing the body of ="trms">communication,
(in my graphs, or ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigs, what a substitution in a string might change the meaning='qstn'>?)

what is the “troping that makes a fleshly ="trms">difference”='qstn'>?

o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story (='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> establishing o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin) ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> sober ="trms">scientific report ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> scales of intelligence ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> human as master

the “mere” village dog='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-canine Eves surviving in their mitochondrial DNA
="prgrph">-canine Adam through his Y-chromosome legacies

which ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaplasmic, remodeled versions of ‘name’ could give ="nms">ajayeb's being

(in ="nms">apass I have been against the “what do I want as an artist='qstn'>?” ="trms">question='lgc'>:)
pay attention to significant otherness ='lgc'>=/= reflection of one's intentions

what is the name of the game='qstn'>? complexity, flexibility, opportunism, (="trms">finite ="trms">worlds called='lgc'>:) domestic, ="trms">wild, feral,
='lgc'>[who is naming the ="trms">world what='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•accelerationism='lgc'>: “game-over”
="lsts lst1">•capitalism='lgc'>: “resource”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technophobia='lgc'>: “obsolescence”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technophilia='lgc'>: “information”
="lsts lst1">•monotheism='lgc'>: “="trms">transition”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science='lgc'>: “taxa”
="lsts lst1">•multinationalism='lgc'>: “="trms">system”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">modernism='lgc'>: “globe"='lgc'>]

immune ="trms">systems (in ="trms">natureculture) determine where organisms, in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding people, can live and with whom.

“There is no time or place at which genetics ends and environment begins” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway > ="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert)

“All ="trms">stages of the life ="trms">histories of evolving ="trms">animals had to adapt to eager bacteria colonizing them inside and out.”
To be ="trms">animal is to become-with bacteria


to inhabit an ="trms">inter-subjective ="trms">world, to ="trms">love is about meeting the other in all the fleshly detail of a mortal ="trms">relationship (to wit, first, somehow to learn what this other needs and desires)='lgc'>='lgc'>---permanent search for knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the intimate other, with inevitable comic and tragic mistakes in that quest


thinking about ="trms">animals as “other ="trms">worlds” in a ="trms">science ="trms">fictional sense


="trms">scientifically informed, ="trms">="trms">empirically grounded practice

theory ...still a limited discourse and a rough ="trms">instrument

“who is at home='qstn'>?” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ask in respect for all of time who and what are emerging in ="trms">relationship ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the ="trms">obligation to ask) who are ="trms">present and who are emergent='qstn'>? ='strcls'>***

="large lg78" stl="font-size:109%"> (what are our) ="trms">categorical labor
labor of training ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> somehow all the participants of training are remodeled by it
labor of scale-making
(these are ="trms">world-making practices, ="trms">storytellings)

significant otherness-in-connection ='lgc'>=/= intention-ascribing idioms of ="trms">litera="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphism that sees furry humans in ="trms">animal bodies and ="trms">measures their worth in scales of similarity to the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights-bearing, humanist subjects of Western philosophy and political theory ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> assign privileges or guardianship (in place of ownership) in a ="trms">modernist great chain of being

='strcls'>*action='lgc'>: beautiful, hard, ="trms">specific, personal;
='lgc'>=/= abstract scales

="trms">differential sensibility ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> ="trms">situated emergence ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> more livable ="trms">worlds ='lgc'>~ ="trms">ontological choreography

="trms">category of “="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights” don't just exist (preformed to be uncovered,) rather we enter into a ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights ="trms">relationship with an other (="trms">animal or human)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Hearne's “reciprocal possession”
="prgrph">-morality is a ="trms">species-="trms">specific capacity
='lgc'>~ if i have X, my X has a human (which is me)


off-leash and cliff-enclosed ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Varinia


(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>:) time-space scales co-constituted by human, ="trms">animal, and inanimate ="trms">agencies
="lstsrd">1. evolutionary time (at the level of the planet earth) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">naturalcultural ="trms">species
="lstsrd">2. face-to-face time (at the scale of individual lifetimes) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mortal bodies
="lstsrd">3. ="trms">historical time (at the scale of decades, populations, nations)

to tell (detailed ="trms">love and training) ="trms">stories at these levels

this is about distributed ="trms">agencies in “layers of locals and globals,”

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my ="trms">interests lies really with the ="trms">ecological ="trms">cosmologies in my neighborhood (="nms">iran, old, middle east, far east, ="trms">past, ="trms">present,)
='thdf'>that is why i was ="trms">interested in the ="trms">birds of ="ppl">Attar, pig of san'an, wolf of the pigs, crow of the partridge, and so on.
so things take ="trms">positions in our bigger ="trms">semiotic ="trms">material ="trms">world, there is never just a life ="trms">animal on the plate, the chicken has become killable first through ="trms">linguistic ="trms">interpretive re="trms">presentation ="trms">network of ="trms">semiotic ="trms">relations. so my ="trms">question in the ="trms">birds performance was that how the ="trms">excess of meaning is related in actuality to the removal of corporeality in ="ppl">Attar's non-="trms">birdness Simurgh (سیمرغ) till the chicken in khoresh-e morgh (خورشت مرغ).

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Scott ="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert='lgc'>]

(all organic beings have been formed on two general laws, ="trms">according to ="ppl">Darwin='lgc'>:)
(1) unity of type and (2) conditions of existence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inorganic='qstn'>? fire='qstn'>?
="trms">natural selection ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adaptation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> conditions of existence
embryonic homologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> unity of type
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “descent with modification” (or decent modifications)
='lgc'>[(embryology ='lgc'>=/=) ‘fire’ could transform ="trms">matters, “change” their class, their type and its unity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “parvaneh sho!” (پروانه شو) ="ppl">Rumi مولوی wants embryology undermined='qstn'>?='lgc'>]

construct phylogenies
(phylogeny ='lgc'>: branching out evolutionarily)


‘Haeckel claimed that ="ppl">Darwin's ideas in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded the progressive development of ="trms">species. “Development and progress” was what characterized evolution. The explicit as="trms">sociation of evolution with particular political, ="trms">religious, and racial views became the hallmark of Haeckel's career. Haeckel proposed a ="trms">causal parallelism between the embryological development and phylogeny. His “Biogenetic Law” that “="trms">Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny” was based on ='thdf'>the idea that the successive (and to him, progressive) o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of new ="trms">species was based on the same laws as the successive and progressive o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin of new embryonic structures. Just as the earlier ="trms">stages of human development developed into the later ="trms">stages, so earlier ="trms">species evolved into the later ones. ="trms">Natural selection would eventually get rid of the earlier ="trms">species. (In the Welträtsel, Haeckel ='lgc'>[1899='lgc'>] would also proclaim that the more evolved humans ='lgc'>[i.e., the Aryans='lgc'>] would out-compete and eliminate the more primitive races.) To Haeckel, the evolution of the ="trms">animal kingdom was the same as individual development not only because the laws behind each were the same but also because the entire ="trms">animal kingdom was an individual. Here, he was harking back to the views of the ="trms">Naturphilosophen of the previous century. In other words, the development of advanced ="trms">species was seen to pass through ="trms">stages re="trms">presented by adult organisms of more primitive ="trms">species.’ (The ="trms">morphogenesis of evolutionary developmental biology)

="trms">inter-cellular di="trms">gestion
="lsts lst1">•the evolution of new features was based on changes in developmental ="trms">stages, not in adult a="trms">stages (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that's why the developmental ="trms">stage is so important, because mutations happen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> work with ="trms">children)

="trms">Ontogeny or ="trms">morphogenesis='lgc'>: organism's developmental lifespan
Phylogeny='lgc'>: evolutionary ="trms">historical ="trms">heritable traits

="trms">ontogeny ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> phylogeny
“="trms">ontogeny does not recapitulate phylogeny='lgc'>: it creates it” (Garstang, 1922; p. 724)


evolution was not so much a branched chain as a ladder

molecular ="trms">systematics

evo-devo (evolutionary developmental biology)

each discipline has='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-its own rules of evidence
="prgrph">-its own professors
="prgrph">-its own journals
="prgrph">-its own ="trms">vocabulary


small genetic changes was not sufficient to generate evolutionary novel structures such as teeth, feathers, cnidocysts or mollusk shells (="ppl">Goldschmidt, 1940) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lizards had ="trms">birdness in it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> potentiality)

(new ="trms">species o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate as) ='strcls'>***hopeful ="trms">monsters='strcls'>***
that result from mutations in developmentally important loci (-macromutations)

="ppl">Goldschmidt='lgc'>: the gene wasn't a locus or an allele. Rather, it was a unit of development

“to convince evolutionists that evolution is not only a statistical genetical problem but also one of the developmental potentialities of organism”

="large lg14" stl="font-size:106%"> (="ppl">Waddington 1953 claimed='lgc'>:) ...in conventional studies of evolution, the ="trms">animal is considered either as genotype (and studied by geneticists) or as phenotype ='lgc'>[Erscheingungsbild ='lgc'>] (and is studied by taxonomists)
(="ppl">Waddington then kaunched into a) critique of ='thdf'>the notion of “random mutation,” noting that there are developmental constraints placed on what changes are possible.
="lsts lst1">•“we think of development as a cybernetic process, involving stablization through feed-back and other mechanisms.”


(Francois Jacob) “Evolution by tinkering” (sare-ham-bandi سرهم بندی)

(Leigh van Valen 1973) “evolution is the control of development by ="trms">ecology”

phenotypic plasticity
developmental plasticity


="large lg98" stl="font-size:114%"> organism='lgc'>: an epigenetic ="trms">materialism='strcls'>****** (Hertwig 1894)
(Hertwig con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes='lgc'>: it has been shown ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] that much of what Weismann would explain by) determinants within the egg must have cause outside the egg.
='lgc'>[='strcls'>***egg and its outside='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[the ="trms">causality drama is not that which came first, the chicken or the egg, but what inside the egg that has cause outside the egg='lgc'>]


context-dependent sex

genetic assimilation

life ="trms">history strategies

teratology (kaj-rikht-shenasi کج ریخت شناسی‌, naghes-al-khelghe-shenasi ناقص الخلقه شناسی‌)

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re="trms">writing ="trms">technique criteria (of the gene) ='lgc'>[from new biological headquarters='lgc'>]

retro-transposon='lgc'>: a DNA sequence that can change its ="trms">position within a genome, sometimes creating or reversing mutations and altering the cell's genetic identity and genome size
(we have uterus because of bacterial transposons)

intestinal

="large lg126" stl="font-size:130%"> enzyme, macromolecular biological catalysts, accelerating chemical reaction

using ="trms">hallucinogenic to cure autism (!='qstn'>?)
bacterial ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social

“individual"='lgc'> = an island to be colonized (by bacteria), ='lgc'>[we are='lgc'>] a niche (upon niche (upon niche)) for bacteria

immunall ="trms">agencise are not (has never been) defensive, they selectively in="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusive, they facilitate ="trms">symbiosis, allowing the possibility of microbes become part of the body

co-="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metabolism
host-diet

four major ="trms">symbiosis (="trms">symbiotic things) that ruled the planet='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. rhizobacteria/legumes for nitrogen fixation
="lstsrd">2. mycorrhizal ="trms">interaction with plant roots and seeds
="lstsrd">3. endophytic fungal protection against dessication
="lstsrd">4. coral reefs and tidal seagrass eco="trms">systems sustain oceanic biodiversity
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--containing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> smaller ="trms">symbiotic webs we call “organism” ='lgc'><='lgc'>==='lgc'>[product of='lgc'>]='lgc'>== (ancient ="trms">symbiosis we call) “cells ='lgc'>+ (ancient ="trms">symbiosis we call) “genomes”


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ritual defense of a dissertation, ="trms">matter of opponent

a medical theater of dissection, laid out on table with the working-class barber-surgeons laying bare structures for the disquisition (tafahos تفحص) of the professor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (the ways we are in this) ='strcls'>*multi-="trms">imaginative theater='strcls'>* (='lgc'>~ congnitive emotional ="trms">apparatus) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> infectious joy, the ="trms">situatedness of the joy is infectious

we (should always) work in the context of joy
lost for details (for the fleshiness of ‘this’), not as a general principal or an example for something else

='strcls'>*the tale of detail='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a small detail that wrenches the self into something that was not before
(the tale of understanding)

="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert's bio-="trms">sym-="trms">poetic joy ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-making

(="ppl">="ppl">Gilbert's) genomic fragment in the picture of ="trms">mutual-benefit life ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> metropolitan life insurance company
='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">apparatuses of thinking='strcls'>* have ="trms">thick trading zones between ="trms">ecology and economics up to and in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding today, that is the mutal adaptation in real ="trms">world, producing problems for us='lgc'>]

(how we go='qstn'>?) from one life-table to another life-table
(='thdf'>for example from mathematics of life insurance to population biology ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> co-developement of disciplines; 19th century laboratories ='lgc'>+ practices of political economy;)
='lgc'>[="trms">matters of ="trms">historical, economical, manegerial, capital, ='lgc'>]


(protestants that were never burnt enough)


we (always) remain in contamination ='lgc'>[never in innocence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> be attentive to the ="trms">tropes and will to innocence in each other act text='lgc'>]


in our ="trms">questioning and studies we (must) remain enmeshed, in a ="trms">historical conjunction, in a ="trms">situated way of being “this way” and not “that way”

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='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stengers='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[a kind of='lgc'>] ="trms">writing (not ="trms">writing down)

="trms">writing is an experience of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphic transformation

to discover how to be compromised by ="nms">ajayeb Nameh
the ways we can be ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lured into desiring and trusting it

how the assemblages of ="nms">ajayeb generate ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphic transformations in our capacity to ="trms">affect and be ="trms">affected='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to feel, think, and ="trms">imagine

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Serres='lgc'>]

="nms">ajayeb, a time when transport and itinerary were only myth

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='lgc'>[="ppl">Anand='lgc'>]

the sanctity and blessing of Muslim saints was ="trms">integrally linked to local ="trms">ecology and topography

that sanctification of ="trms">birds and stones alerts us to an Indic and Islamic vision of humans in which we are not separated from and hierarchically superior to ="trms">nature. Rather, the boundaries that separate stones, ="trms">animals, humans and gods are porous as well as being non-hierarchical='lgc'>--making possible a “lateral” moral aspiration, where ="trms">birds and stones can be moral exemplars for humans.

The ="trms">interlinked sacrality of both ="trms">ecology and ="trms">cosmology, of ‘kudrat’ (='lgc'>~ power of ="trms">nature='qstn'>?) is common to both Hindus and Muslims. ‘Kudrat’ is thus the ="trms">cosmological aspect of north India's Invisible ="trms">Religion.

There is a long Islamic tradition of seeing ="trms">Nature as full of the signs (ayat آیات) of the work and ="trms">presence of God. The Qur'anic verse “Withersoever you turn, there is the Face of God ( Qur'an 2='lgc'>: 115)” has traditionally been ="trms">interpreted by the Sufis as meaning that the “order of ="trms">nature is nothing but the Divine Reality manifesting itself on the plane of ="trms">phenomenal existence (Nasr 1996, 62).”

description of the garden ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>---- ='lgc'>[accounts of the heaven are filled with descriptions of springs and wells, tanks and streams, gar="trms">dens and trees and flowers='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> recreating of heaven on earth was tight with ="trms">natural and ="trms">animal life forms


where a text or these texts (="nms">ajayeb's text and ="trms">world) is ='strcls'>*acclaimed='strcls'>*='qstn'>? today and before, by who='qstn'>? Indo-Pakistan sub-continent='qstn'>? South-Asia='qstn'>? Indo-="nms">Iranian regions='qstn'>?
='strcls'>***(='lgc'>[who were the='lgc'>] ="trms">agents through which ‘="trms">natural’ ="trms">responses ='lgc'>[to its impulses='lgc'>] are said to operate='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])

the hierarchy of created things ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
apex in the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteous man, reaches down into the ="trms">abyss of the inanimate by many gradations (="ppl">Benjamin 1969b, 104)

“undiminished contact with the creatural, even with its petrified, inanimate, lowliest stratum, that of the stone… (Hannsen 2000, 150)”. The ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteous man's justice consists of his attentiveness to ="trms">nature, of his giving a hearing to all created things, of understanding the ="trms">language of even of inert, petrified stones. But the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteous man, in ="ppl">Benjamin's ="trms">imagination, remains a man. What would he make of Patthar Baba, the stone turned to saint='qstn'>? (="ppl">Anand)

(our sense of) our own ="trms">ecological peril and fragility='lgc'>--our shared fate with our neighbors.

='lgc'>[The ="nms">ajayeb's beings and their neighbors='lgc'>]

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='lgc'>[instead of the struggle against sin (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? christianity) or the struggle against suffering (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? Buddhism),='lgc'>] the struggle between (="trms">different) sins

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(the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of ="nms">ajayeb portraits) the global ='lgc'>[and therefore ='strcls'>*ethical='lgc'>] consciousness (at the end of 12th century middle-south asia, “the east”)

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="large lg26" stl="font-size:129%"> ='lgc'>[="ppl">Martha ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney='lgc'>]

(how not) render ‘="trms">wonder’ a strictly ="trms">historical object(='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>[as basis for building a contemporary ethics='lgc'>]
(="trms">wonder is ="nms">ajib عجیب)


just-so ="trms">story
in ="trms">science and philosophy, a just-so ="trms">story, also called an ad hoc fallacy, is an unverifiable and unfalsifiable ="trms">narrative explanation for a cultural practice, a biological trait, or behavior of humans or other ="trms">animals. (wikipedia)
etiological myths
etiology='lgc'>: the study of ="trms">causation, or o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigination


the politics ="trms">technology and the politics of ="trms">storytelling.


='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] ="trms">Narratives, along with ="trms">literary devices, ="trms">tropes, figures, images and the ="trms">aesthetics of ="trms">language, inhabit and inform even our most re="trms">liable knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-making practices.

="trms">storytelling as one of the consequential ="trms">material practices
='lgc'>[="trms">storytelling is ="trms">material practice='lgc'>]

='lgc'>[where there is a ="trms">situated perspectives there is ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>]

it is “practicing generous ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading”

and “="trms">technique of re="trms">figuration” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> create alternative forms of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
='lgc'>[="trms">figuration ='lgc'>~ ="trms">storytelling ="trms">apparatuses='lgc'>]


(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway, Primate Vision)
="lsts lst1">•“Attention to ="trms">narrative is not instead of attention to ="trms">science, ...”
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[there is no way that we can='lgc'>] escape the particular pleasures and d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angers embedded in the ="trms">story-laden ="trms">sciences.
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[what are the things that='lgc'>] could only be explained by cultural, not ="trms">scientific, genealogies ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ideological apparition='lgc'>[s='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•Something new was required to account for change; the logic informed a kind of paternal creation myth ='lgc'>[........='lgc'>] unchanging “matrix” for the generative principle of change. (In Zihlman's ="trms">story logic, both gathering and hunting emerged as repatternings, not op="trms">posites, in changed conditions of constraint and opportunity. ="trms">Narratives of both gathering and hunting ways of life produced genders and citizens.)
="lsts lst1">•tool-weapon equation in masculinist ="trms">scientific ="trms">narratives


as careful scrutiny of ="trms">wonders and marvels becomes a mainstay in European intellectual life, 17th century ="trms">natural philosophers began to understand ='strcls'>*="trms">wonder, ='strcls'>*curiosity, and ='strcls'>*attention as cloesly aligned and ="trms">mutually defining.

="trms">epistemological ="trms">beast ="trms">fable

un="trms">natural ="trms">history

knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge-making practices of other times and places

tracing the web of ="trms">horror and delight

="ppl">Serres reminds us the ="trms">beast ="trms">fable tradition is as much about biomimicry as ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphizing.

finding ways of “going-on together” (="ppl">Verran)

“by experience and by af="trms">finity, some of us begin not with ="trms">Pasteur, but with the ="trms">monster, the outcast” (S. ="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)

(="nms">ajayeb's) (politics of) administering discrete objects ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>----(number ="trms">sys)

(why should we engage in re="trms">figuration='qstn'>?)
(there are always a) multitude of ="trms">agencies un="trms">folding as the ="trms">world is continuously reconfigured (='lgc'>=/= to explain away='lgc'>: when multiple objects are collapsed into one.)
="prgrph">-“Within this dynamic ="trms">world it is impossible to ="trms">imagine that one single ="trms">story or one ="trms">narrative style can capture all of the liveliness and exuberance; ='strcls'>***we need to deploy multiple ="trms">stories about ="trms">agency. Some meticulously ="trms">="trms">empirical, some ="trms">imaginative. Some on the quantum scale, some on the people scale. ="trms">Different ="trms">agential ="trms">narratives enable ="trms">different ways of ="trms">responding and relating.” (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)

postcolonial moments='lgc'>: “occasions for theorizing, for telling ="trms">differences and samenesses in new ways” (="ppl">Verran)


='at'>#to create ‘aerating’ (tahviyeh تهویه) in ="nms">ajayeb, this in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes='lgc'>:
/ ="trms">crafting ="trms">translations with ="trms">ontological traction (enghebaz انقباض)
/ building ="trms">="trms">empirical tools that make ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">translation-work visible ='lgc'>{='at'>#pop-up ="trms">book='lgc'>}
/ ="trms">translation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*reconfigure sameness and ="trms">difference='strcls'>*
/ staying with ="trms">linguistic ="trms">differences (in ="nms">ajayeb) is a way of investigating the ="trms">ontological commitments embedded in ="trms">language.
="lsts lst4">◽="trms">ontological ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">worlding ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how ="trms">language participates in shaping our lived ="trms">worlds in some ways and not others.='strcls'>*** “it is not common for speakers of a ="trms">language to examine what type of ="trms">material objects their ="trms">language commits them to. ='lgc'>[this also my ="trms">question in ="nms">iranian mystic mix,='lgc'>] rather the ="trms">difference will be to notice as difficulty in ="trms">translation.” (="ppl">Verran)

(for me working on ="nms">ajayeb is) ='strcls'>**lingering in the space of difficult ="trms">translations='strcls'>**
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> making recourse (motevasel shodan be متوسل شدن به) to a ='strcls'>*="trms">world of common referents='strcls'>* (space, time, and ="trms">matter)

='lgc'>[to continue thinking with ="ppl">Verran='lgc'>] on ='strcls'>*durations='strcls'>*, ='strcls'>*extensions='strcls'>*, and ='strcls'>*resistances='strcls'>* (in ="nms">ajayeb's case)
these three foundation objects need not to be saddled with the ="trms">history of Western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics and do noy require that common ground be located only in Western territory. “Therefore they offer more promise for cross-cultural ="trms">translation than the more conceptually nimble ='lgc'>[tardast تردست, zerang زرنگ ='lgc'>-- like the CEN or google='lgc'>] space, time, and ="trms">matter. Newborn and awkward to our ears, these strange terms announce themselves as ="trms">translation tools.” (="ppl">="ppl">Kenney)


(thinking with ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney / ="ppl">Verran='lgc'>:)
workflow on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- tracing ="trms">social connections (for which subjects is this useful='qstn'>? which ="trms">ecology of practices='qstn'>?)
="lstsrd">2- making ="trms">="trms">equipment ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list (="trms">materials and ="trms">methods, an expanded and complicated version of ="trms">="trms">equipment-="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, providing accounts of the ="trms">material-discursive ="trms">apparatuses that are ="trms">materializing my ="trms">="trms">empirical objects, ='lgc'>=/= exercise in re="trms">presentation or audit hesab-rasi حساب رسی)
3- ="trms">narrating the ="trms">relation (re-="trms">materializing my found ="trms">="trms">empirical objects, re-enacting the objects)


="trms">interpretive ="trms">cosmology

(="nms">ajayeb's objects,) “They re="trms">present ="trms">different ="trms">storytelling practices that contribute to ="trms">different kinds of ="trms">worldings.” ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] (through my engagement,) “They stimulate more com="trms">positions and decom="trms">positions='lgc'>--="trms">stories that ="trms">narrate ="trms">different beings and ="trms">different doings, none of which can claim final ="trms">ontological ="trms">authority, but that each to ="trms">different (ontic) work” (hopefully!)
="prgrph">-="trms">worlding='lgc'>: a choreography that generates ="trms">ontologies (="ppl">Thompson) ='lgc'>--&='lgc'>='lgc'>--> there is no self without a ="trms">world (="ppl">Carson)
="prgrph">-not as a voyeur or ="trms">anthropologist, but breathe in the ="trms">density and com="trms">position of their atmospheres
(people='lgc'> = ="trms">worlds)

ontic (hasti mojud-shenakhti هستی‌ موجود شناختی‌)='lgc'>: “factual” existence as ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">ontologic existence)

='lgc'>[="trms">ontological ="trms">interferences in ontic='lgc'>--='lgc'>{regular existence, ="trms">difference in little beings='lgc'>} for example, ontic is when we ask what time it is, and the answer is on the clock. (snafu is ontic, aporia ="trms">ontological='strcls'>*) when the ontic is disrupted ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> you have a “day off,” all ="trms">sort of things can invade and open up, demons come out, there is a suspension of ontic time, a (="ppl">Heideggerian) holiday='lgc'>]

(="ppl">Verran) ='lgc'>[number are='lgc'>] “always ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to actively re-exist when we do the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right actions and say the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right words.” (can i do that with ="nms">ajayeb's objects='qstn'>? how='qstn'>?)
“The moon rose above the river” (en) ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “upward behind the onstreaming it mooned” (Tlon, a ="trms">language by Borges with no nouns, onl[...]