[...]g 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
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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
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
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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)
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شخصیت واقع بین shakhsiat vaghe bin='lgc'>: objectivity montabegh bar subjectivity ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> truth (in ="trms">science) ='lgc'>+ commitment based on (accepted) reality ='lgc'>[ta'ahod cannot be based on or created by mogheyiat, that means ="trms">situatedness cannot make us feel/care/hate/commit='lgc'>]
شخصیت موقع بین shakhsiat moghe’ bin='lgc'>: ="trms">situated subjectivity ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">situated objectivity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> commitment based on care='lgc'>]
موقعیت mogheyiat (="trms">situtation, circumstance, condition) ='lgc'>=/= واقعیت vagheyiat (reality)
(='qstn'>?one should) to live by vagheyiat, not mogheyiat
='lgc'>[i am educated to base research and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge both on mogheyiat and on vagheyiat ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> crisis of ="trms">situated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in ="trms">interpersonal ="trms">relations='lgc'>: to feel about others based on mogheyiat/="trms">situation is a bad idea(='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda='lgc'>: turning mogheyiat into vagheyiat
(="trms">verb ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> adjective)
do the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right thing (or take the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right side) جانب حق را گرفتن ='lgc'>[a form of closing off distance ='lgc'>=/= dis="trms">embodied seeing='lgc'>] ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">righteous حق به جانب ='lgc'>[a form of ="trms">embodiment, zero distanciation='lgc'>]
“your ="trms">joke is the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right of the other person”
you are hurt ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “the other was bad” (is not the con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion that is helpfull or capable of giving an opening, and it ends badly)
='lgc'>=/= people make mistakes
roshd رشد ='lgc'>=/= pishraft پیشرفت
roshd ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> shodan, becoming
pishraft ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to gain, progress,
selfishness ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> being nice
khod khahi خود خواهی ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> nagozashtan-e tasvir/tasavor bad dar digari ='lgc'>["this is me, not you!"='lgc'>]
selfish='lgc'> = good at ="trms">communication (do taraf-e miz khub harf zadan), bad at relating (nazdik shodan)
shakhsiat farasu-negar (cannot see themselves; ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? selfish personality) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">narcissistic pesonality (they have better chances for healing ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> small doses of ="trms">narcissism is necessity for self-="trms">interogation and ="trms">integrated ego formation='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger is cheating='strcls'>*
(behavior hal, negah be mozu-ha ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> bazi بازی, hoghe حقه ='lgc'>[transvaluated into innocence='lgc'>])
farar az ta'rif-haye ejtemayi فرار از تعریفهای اجتمایی ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> farar az ejtema فرار از اجتماع
paying attention to others doesn't mean that you are understanding them (in the case of lonliness)
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
thousend and one ="trms">questions
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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'>~-> behaiviour)
تعميم
="trms">generalization ta'mim ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sign of depression
or ='lgc'>--Borges='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a way of abstracttion by forgeting (certain) ="trms">differences='lgc'> = thinking
the ="trms">fable of “alem-e bi amal='lgc'> = zanbur-e bi asal” عالم بی عمل، زنبور بیعسل
="prgrph">-this kind of علم ‘knowing’ or knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge refer to a more personal or subjective understanding of a given problem برداشت
="prgrph">-has nothing to do with ="trms">scientific knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
rubah-palangi-e falak روبه پلنگی فلک
trick-rage of ="trms">nature
farib (فریب deep in the view of ="ppl">Nezami regarding ="trms">nature and his own work)
hendu (هندو most used insult word in ="ppl">Nezami)
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="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*="trms">neurotic='lgc'>: makes a house, doesn't show it to anyone, lives in it alone happy ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> disability to adapt to reality; (="trms">neurosis is a descriptive term for ‘hidden psychological mechanisms’ ='lgc'>=/= behavior); a form of dis="trms">sociation='lgc'>: ="trms">anxiety, hysteria, phobia, repetition, fantasizing, negativity, cynicism, perfectionism,='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦compulsive need ='lgc'>=/= genuine ="trms">interest in the ="trms">world
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">neurotic caretaker ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> ="trms">child develops basic ="trms">anxiety ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> (="trms">imagined) idealized self-image; solution of basic conflict='lgc'>:
="lsts lst3">◾تسليم compliance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> goodness, ="trms">love
="lsts lst3">◾سلطه aggressiveness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> strength, leadership
="lsts lst3">◾کناره گیر aloofness ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> wisdom, independence
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*psychotic='lgc'>: makes a house, take it ="trms">seriously, invites everyone to come (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> loss of touch with reality)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= richer, more complex, more satisfying personality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> person ="trms">responds to the ="trms">world with the full depth of his or her spontaneous feelings
="lsts lst1">•old ="trms">world of patience ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>== lack of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, sabr konim bebinim chi mishe='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•new ='lgc'>[industrial capital='lgc'>] ="trms">world of opportunity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> proactive (even before action; causing something to happen; ="trms">world, you set it out;)
my problem with celebrity is problem with the victorious cause, when an other has hardened into an iconic ="trms">position, and has become inauthentic with oneself
IHOTcgKYWXg 21:25
hoghe bazi حقه بازی babel
eye='lgc'> = pit of babel چاه بابل, because Harut and Marut, two great magicians where thrown down in a pit under the tower of babel, and the eye have the two in them ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the capacity to bewitch you if you look into them too long
vafa وفا='lgc'> = mardi مردی
three things doesn't do vafa (loyal)='lgc'>: horse, sword, women
asb, shamshir, zan (اسب، شمشیر، زن)
death='lgc'>:
جان jan ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> father (aflak افلاک)
کالبد تیره kalbod tire corpse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mother (like earth, every hand can make her fruit, and bi-vafa بیوفا, ="trms">liabl)
put into words='lgc'>: have I been destroyed='qstn'>?
='at'>#workshop on ="nms">Iranian elementary and post-elementary school ="trms">books with adult artists
parde پرده ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= tasvir تصویر
damagh-sh دماغش
dar akhar -sh
حکمت مبتنی بر امور بینالذهانی
(hekmat mobtani bar omur-e) beyn-ol-azhajni='lgc'> = common sense
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
کاتب وحی kateb-e vahy
کاتب وحش kateb-e vahsh
کتاب وحی
کتاب وحش
="trms">pragmatism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> مصلحت maslahat (chi bayad goft) ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> alternative truth
less concerned with “reality” or good and bad
='at'>#project='lgc'>: an experiential field inquiry on how people think about randomness in ="nms">Tehran.
what was the last little thing or a ="trms">historical epoch-shaping event that they concider as random='qstn'>?
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(in ="nms">apass we use constantly) ghias قیاس, and not esteghra استقرا (inductive reasoning)
="lsts lst1">•استقرا inductive reasoning='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>=> Y (can be strong or weak) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">epistemic uncertainty (="trms">generalizing or ex="trms">trapolating from ="trms">specific cases to general rules) ='lgc'>[this is related to ‘hypothesis formation'='lgc'> = use of ="trms">specific observations to make ="trms">generalizations ='lgc'>--(='qstn'>?being replaced by)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> discovery-based ="trms">sciences, in which ‘hypothesis formation'='lgc'> = ="trms">data-mining, analysis of (large volumes of) experimental ="trms">data with the goal of finding new patterns or cor="trms">relations, and further='lgc'>: machine learning and automated theorem proving ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--replacing='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="nms">ajayeb's kind of) “="trms">natural ="trms">history” emerged in 16th century (='lgc'><='lgc'>== describing and classifying plants, ="trms">animals, minerals) which is becoming more about popular audiences='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•deductive reasoning='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> Y (is valid or invalid) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> کل به جزء (applying reductively general rules that hold over a closed domain of discourse)
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>[artist's most used process of reasoning:='lgc'>] صغرى کبرى syllogistic reasoning (قیاس)='lgc'>: X ='lgc'>=/= Y ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> Z (or='lgc'>: some A are B, some B are C ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> some A are C ='lgc'>[which is often wrong='lgc'>], nesbat dadan chizi az yek nafar be deigari نسبت دادن چیزی به دیگری) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> premise's pattern of distribution is the key (='lgc'>~ case)
="lsts lst1">•abductive con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions='lgc'>: finding the simplest or most likely explanation for the observations ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> many forms of con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions are due to the lack of time in the process of reasoning. when we give feedback (‘fast diagnosis’ ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is that why ="ppl">Lacan is useful='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) in ="nms">apass we have initially 2 minutes to make con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusions from observations, which later is deepened in the duration of block ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> کلی گویی='lgc'> = making sense of what is going here in order to guess what is going on elsewhere='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•
(='qstn'>?am i learning about and moving my art into) formal ="trms">sciences='lgc'>: ="trms">language tools concerned with characterizing abstract structures described by sign ="trms">systems ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> providing information/knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge about the structures used to describe the ="trms">world
="prgrph">-a formal logical ="trms">system with its content targeted at the real things
="prgrph">-all their statements are analytic
='lgc'>=/= synthetic statements (pro="trms">positions are true by how their meaning relates to the ="trms">world)
‘="trms">natural ="trms">sciences’ using tools from formal ="trms">sciences and validated by ‘peer review'='lgc'> = refereeing='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*the process of subjecting somebody else's work='strcls'>*
issues with artistic feedback that i have directly encountered='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for observation are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apprehend what you notice)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for induction are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> movement from observation)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for inference are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> connecting with something other and elsewhere)
="lsts lst1">•our abilities for ="trms">questioning are ="trms">questionable (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> risking what you know ='lgc'>+ constructing ="trms">interest)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> feedbacks are performative, perspectival, descriptive, discoursive, ="trms">affective, ="trms">fabulous, ="trms">rhetorical, allegorical, experimental, speculative, agonistic, antagonist, sadistic, funny, rude, brute, masochistic, direct, ="trms">sympathetic,
='lgc'>[two (organic='qstn'>?) ways of learning:='lgc'>]
='strcls'>**learing through ="trms">networked syntax='lgc'>: meaning emerges as ="trms">network, something new must be ="trms">interconnected to others, cognition works in the ="trms">network='lgc'>: a subject ="trms">matter must be linked to dozen other things in order to be congnized ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> something disconnected from their ="trms">network is something meaningless موضوعها به صورت ارتباطات ذهنی مرتبط با هم ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mental intelligence='lgc'>: cannot learn something random='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>**learing through syllable, unconnected unit of something new (an arbitrary syllables هجاهای بیمعنی) can be cognized without previous links ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">linguistic intelligence هوش زبانی, can learn new ="trms">language easy='lgc'>]
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[although i am against and strongly hate arbitrary syllables='lgc'>] perhaps we need both, because sometimes ="trms">internalizing an alien syllable (via ="trms">linguistic intelligence) might nest and flower their own random meaning ="trms">networks, in a way that is not possible in mental intelligence
="trms">according to behavioral ="trms">neuro="trms">science, psychology soon will have been a myth
the move to the “hard” and biologically inspired ="trms">science about consciousness-related processes ='lgc'>{constitutive reductionism='lgc'>: ‘brain activity ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> mental processes'='lgc'>} ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? end of psychology (and therefore='lgc'>: end of art='qstn'>? -because both always create ='strcls'>*speculative molds='strcls'>*) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> which discipline will install an ='strcls'>*understanding the psyche='strcls'>*
economically='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">neuro="trms">science will grow while psychology shrinks
='lgc'>[everything will depend on which reductionism you ascribe to them='lgc'>]
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ideology='lgc'>: wrong ="trms">questions
='lgc'>[parable of two side of a coin='lgc'>] tolerance='lgc'> = other side of harassment
(='lgc'>--Zizek='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the pseudo concept of) tolerance actually means “don't harassment me”
when you lack concrete politics ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> moralizations
we are no longer ="trms">interpolated or addressed by power
politics of self-realization ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> anti-bureaucratic creativity of artist ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modern capitalism='lgc'>: (='lgc'>[pretends to be='lgc'>] no longer hierarchical bureaucratic but) creative ="trms">interactive auto="trms">poetic
(='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo='lgc'>:) ethics ='lgc'>=/= morals
='strcls'>*ethics ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my consistency with myself, fidelity to my own desires (which is transvaluated as external and part of ="trms">social ="trms">system)
='strcls'>*moral ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">symmetry of my ="trms">relation to other humans (which is transvaluated as individual and ="trms">internal, “don't do to me what you don't want me do to you”)
being immoral out of principle, to act in a certain way as part of a fundamental existential choice.
being immoral (destroying men's lives) while being truly ethical (faithfull to her chosen path)
(="ppl">Nietzsche, the philosopher of) ='strcls'>*immoral ethics='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= unethical morality)
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='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]death drive (inerested in fucking, cannot being-with)='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*to lead organic life back into the inanimate state='strcls'>*, to return to an inorganic state (-we are talking ="trms">symbolically not biologically) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= eros (="trms">interested in ="trms">love, life, sex, and being-with, the ="trms">world is very vivid to eros)='lgc'>]
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{image of the eskimo piercing through the ice and snow='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*Destruction as the Cause of Coming Into Being='strcls'>* (for the subject for whom the ="trms">world is prosaic ="trms">matter-of-fact ='lgc'>=/= vivid)
="prgrph">-(we live in a ="trms">society that we are no longer ="trms">interpellated ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) does death drive and archive drive have to do with one another='qstn'>? destruction and archiving...
="prgrph">-girl with the red dancing shoes, undeadness of ="frds scrmbld">Laurent, wanting to see himself in the image of that which cannot be destroyed (!!), his unbearable ='strcls'>*nostalgia for a lost harmony='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[followed by ="frds scrmbld">Hoda and ="frds scrmbld">Arjang='lgc'>] (-is that why they negate ="trms">love='qstn'>? because they cannot ="trms">love but still want to be alive='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[the drive='lgc'>] to remain alive after they are dead)
(their ="trms">relation to the city night='lgc'>:) they drive, Trieb, ='lgc'>[in a ="ppl">Lacanian sense='lgc'>: all drives are partial to the death drive (because='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1- every drive pursues its own extinction
="lstsrd">2- every drive involves the subject in repetition
="lstsrd">3- every drive is an attempt to go beyond the pleasure principle, to the realm of ="trms">excess ='strcls'>*jouissance='strcls'>*(='lgc'>: enjoyment experienced as suffering ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Sana)='lgc'>]
(death drive ='lgc'>=/= dying)='strcls'>*
with death drive we are at the dimension of the undead (spectral undeadness is the domain of the drive) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “horrible fate of being caught in the endless repetitive cycle of wandering around in guilt and pain”
(="ppl">Lacan='lgc'>:) deep inside they desire to return to the preoedipal fusion with the mother's breast (='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to ‘touch’ without ="trms">love, ‘will’ without desire)
‘death drive’ belongs to the suicidal tendency of (="trms">symbolic order of) ="trms">narcissism ='lgc'>: (turning ‘libido’ into a) re="trms">presentation of indestructible life
(in the ="trms">neurotic's fantasy of the subject with death drive) there is no connection with object ='lgc'><='lgc'>== object is defined as the Other's ="trms">demand ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they have to ‘fuck’ them
="prgrph">-accourding to Zizek='lgc'>: there is only one drive='lgc'>: death drive, which is such sexualized
="ppl">Freud='lgc'>: “civilization='lgc'> = a reaction formation” (an effort to counter death drive)
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pedagogies of ="trms">affect and/or feeling ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
understanding, curating, and fomenting public feelings
political/="trms">aesthetic ="trms">imaginaries
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.”
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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'>~->='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...)
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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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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
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'>~-> 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'>*
="prgrph">-what are the manifestations of ego in ="nms">ajayeb='qstn'>?
="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">•Maus[...]