[...] (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
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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'>==> ma'ad dar amre khiali معاد در امر خیالی
death, life, ="trms">past, and future are not properties of objects, rather of subjects (anha sefate nafs hastand آنها صفات نفس هستند) ='lgc'>[="ppl">Corbin='lgc'>]
and you bestow them to objects that you think they are “dead,” “alive,” “from ="trms">past,” or “of future”
“khorre” or “khorne” ="trms">according to zaratustra='lgc'>: a light o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated from the essence of the divine being and because of that some apparitions have gained hierarchy, and each human capable of a certain ="trms">techne.
='thdf'>the idea of a divine ="trms">presence in ='strcls'>*heikal='strcls'>* هیکل
="trms">according to ="ppl">Socrates='lgc'>: bodies are frames and tools of the selves (nofus نفوس)
="trms">according to ="ppl">Plato, what the self (nafs نفس) does not had essentially that it had to descend into the ="trms">material ="trms">world='qstn'>? what the senses told the self that itself could not say='qstn'>?
an islamic-="nms">iranian ="trms">cosmology='lgc'>:
="prgrph prgrph2">-jabarut جبروت (alame oghule karubi عالم اقول کروبی) (Nous)
="prgrph prgrph2">-malakut ملکوت (alame nofus عالم نفوس) (Psyche) ='lgc'>--organ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> khiale fa'al خیال فعال (= jesme latife nafs جسم لطیف نفس. niruye khial نیروی خیال is trainded still in middle east. this ="trms">inter-monde is where mater ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> im="trms">material ='and'>& immater ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material; jesm ruhani جسم روحانی ='and'>& ruh jesmani روح جسمانی ='lgc'>==> constant happenings of ="trms">historic ="trms">nature ='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)
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لطیف latif ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= im="trms">material
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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'>==> 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
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(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'>==> destruction of the ="trms">intermediate ="trms">world of angles ='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
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the tragedy is not the affirmation of individualism, it is rather the forgetting of the in="trms">finite entity ='lgc'>:
non-mystic monotheism ='lgc'>==> a personalized (incarnation of) God (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everything ‘personal’ is subject to death and negation) ='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
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(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'>==> 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'>==> (due to their ="trms">interactions='lgc'>:) second light, second maleke mogharab is created ='lgc'>==> eshragh اشراق ='lgc'>==> eshragh ='lgc'>==> eshragh ='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'>?
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how “="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor” enables the displacement of truth by testability='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--as if the test could provide an un="trms">questionably solid ground for overtaking reflection and other philosophically t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riggered ="trms">interferences.
What kind of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor is “a certain kind of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor”='qstn'>?
what is being guaranteed if not the ability itself to guarantee
Everything rests on the ='strcls'>*promise='strcls'>* of a certain kind of ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor.
the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical fantasy of completion.
colonization of discourse with ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor
The discipline of programming leads to a shift in perspective on traditional issues. It invites='lgc'>--or rather requires='lgc'>--one to adopt what ='lgc'>[Daniel='lgc'>] Dennett (1968) calls the design stance toward the mind
='lgc'>{ ="trms">instrumental ="trms">epistemology of how something works ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? discovery ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> how can we suspend this “='lgc'>=/=”
trials and tryouts
='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital's='lgc'>] phantasm of testing(‘s groundedness and un="trms">questioned solidity)
...time-zone paradox of freezing the future in order to plan, in another register, the time for working through computations.
what are the conditions for thinking ‘through a problem’='qstn'>?
='lgc'>[="ppl">Avital:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****“To offset the competitive quality of the research that is being clocked, more philosophy must be allowed to drift in, if only to demystify those ideologies of acceleration that relentlessly run down the slower-paced thinking and an ethics of hesitation.”='strcls'>****
='lgc'>[o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin='lgc'>] ='lgc'>==> temporal hysteria ='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
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...="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. ([...]