[...]he ="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'>*
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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
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”
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“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'><== 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'>=> ...
جسمیتشناسی jesmiat-shenasi='qstn'>?
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.
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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.
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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.
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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)
='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
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='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'>*
experimenting inhabiting acts of promising (calculating or anticipation='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--acts by which the future can be nailed down)
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)
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(="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.
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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
="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'>?
="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.
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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)
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
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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
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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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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
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(="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'>?
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(="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'>]
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(="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.
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='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, ...
='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 conseque[...]