[...] with other ways of being in/with the apperceptive ="trms">world that don't use the ="trms">technology of ="trms">questioning, as it is ="trms">crafted ="trms">historically and ="trms">naturalized in the west for the univerasal ="trms">method of ‘knowing more’)
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='at'>#workshop, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading group
="lsts lst1">•="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading as passionate betrayal. (hunting for precious ="trms">="trms">empirical details, re="trms">figurative, reparative, poaching, ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading can be a betrayal of textual ="trms">authority and an act of survival)
="lsts lst1">•addressing /="trms">present='strcls'>* ="trms">differences, not al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready pre-figured ="trms">differences
="lsts lst1">•(condition of friendship, staying close to the text) staying close as a ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader, as someone who could hold the text of the Other, receiving it in the withdrawal / Entzug (="trms">drug rehabilitation)
="lsts lst1">•i am in no ="trms">position of ‘understanding’ or being clear about the text
="lsts lst1">•(i understand now that) it is not up to me to tell you how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read
="lsts lst1">•what makes you ="trms">write or scratch a text='qstn'>?
(aaaakh... our alphabetico-logical cultures...!)
="lsts lst1">•if everything is not fundamentally un="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable (snafu) we wouldn't be ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading
="lsts lst1">•it is about to ="trms">situate the place of a (un)learning
="lsts lst1">•throwing access to each other (not only in terms of ="trms">transferential intensity ='at'>#sss)
="lsts lst1">•which appetites and tastes are required to fulfill the ='strcls'>*ethics and ="trms">erotics of curiosity='strcls'>* (that I am cultivating and depending on)='qstn'>? flourishing (of my ="nms">ajayeb) depends on a ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading that is more like “="trms">mutual partial di="trms">gestion” (="ppl">Katie ="ppl">King, ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= “eating well"='lgc'>] the text
="lsts lst1">•“every time i ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read X, something new shows up”
my practice of ‘="trms">rhetorical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’ (='lgc'>=/= ‘close ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’; or more like close ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and letting go. “close” is itself a ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphor, a ="trms">rhetoric of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading;) doesn't work with ='thdf'>the idea that there is something ‘in’ the text per se (="trms">coded or en="trms">coded meaning or some ="trms">sort of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge made and installed by an ="trms">author), or that the ="trms">writer wants to say something to the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader, or that the text is ="trms">symptomatic with meaning and that its intentions needs to be ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listened to. rather, in a post-="ppl">Lacanian critique, i work the text like a pattern of ="trms">language, an organization of space, text as word-sequencer. it is like looking at an image, still starting from top-left to bottom-="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right of the page, a process of highlighting or ="trms">embodied attention that produces non-zero ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters of salient words that come to glow ="trms">different than others. but the way they become highlighted is not due to some idea of significance of the text but because of my='lgc'>--the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader's='lgc'>--="trms">interests, ="trms">past ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings and educated meaning-as="trms">sociations. this mode of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading is not at all sug="trms">gested to newbies in ="trms">literature, sorry but this requres some degree of advancement in one's abilities and ="trms">skills of ="trms">writing="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading, that means the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready enjoys an ongoing well-="trms">articulated ="trms">interest before coming to a particular sitting with a piece of ="trms">writing, and this means the ="trms">rhetorical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader's encounter with the text is highly ="trms">situated and is not a blind date. in this case ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading is a radical meaning-making practice full of adventures and preparations, drawings and graphs, diffractions and detours, connections and risks of (mis)understanding in certain ways. this ‘="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’ looks very much ‘="trms">writing’ alike.
="prgrph">-the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading becomes ='strcls'>*re="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="trms">past ="trms">writing='strcls'>*, re(="trms">past)ed(="trms">writ)ing, a ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading that has ="trms">writen itself in ="trms">palimpsestic lines. in a ="ppl">Derridean sense='lgc'>: (one is ="trms">="trms">equiped with the ="trms">question) “what is ="trms">writing itself (in this text)”='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-two speculative spheres meet in ="trms">rhetorical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>: one of the text and one of the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader, but they have to ‘stick’ to one another, the stickiness of your ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading ="trms">matters in consequential ways. this is against ='thdf'>the idea that we ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and each understand personally whatever.
="lsts lst1">•my second issue with ‘close ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading’='lgc'>: there is no cor="trms">relation between the speed of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and comprehension/apprehension
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='strcls'>*="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading practices='strcls'>*
="trms">ontology usually decides what ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading is ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">book-binding is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading. editorial com="trms">positional reformating and remodeling of the space of the text is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading.
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewartian) ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading that happens in the ="trms">writing='lgc'>: you can't do any kind of exegesis of the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading تفسير, rather='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*you have to become related to the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading in what you are ="trms">writing='strcls'>*
in research='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">skills of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading and ="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•(more abstract) ="trms">skills of conceptualizing and analysing
='at'>@="nms">apass='lgc'>: begin with the generation of research ="trms">question ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> importance of ="trms">language
(you flag the importance of ="trms">language whenever research is marked by ="trms">question. “='qstn'>?” is a ="trms">linguistic construct)
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">skill/="trms">craft is to select a research ="trms">question that works better for certain descriptive purposes (than does previous tools)
="lsts lst1">•(realism='lgc'>:) research ="trms">question ='lgc'><='lgc'>==outcome='lgc'>== ="trms">different concerns and emphases
="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigor of conceptualization ='lgc'>: quality of an access to part of a ="trms">world “out there”
research ="trms">method='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•“mapping into knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge” ='lgc'>: co-fabrication between the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer and the diverse others engaged in the process ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (problem of) ‘="trms">positionality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">data’ (='thdf'>the idea that the rese="trms"nttrm="search">archer produces knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge or “facts”)
="lsts lst2">◦="trms">positionality ='lgc'>==='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>==> politically correct jargon in artistic research environment ='lgc'>[has ="trms">positionality backfired into a ="trms">language of trying to change a public opinion in your favour='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
‘fantasy of the unproblematic mode’
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regarding biographical work ="trms">according to ="frds scrmbld">Pierre, ok i am working even on the border of solipsism
what i am doing is not auto="trms">poiesis (self-making, making a ="trms">poem out of yourself) rather ="trms">sym="trms">poiesis (with-making, with people from ="trms">different ="trms">worlds and ="trms">pasts)
trying to contain every available mode of ="trms">interpretation in ='mywrk'>my work
(collecting all the modes of ="trms">interpretation)
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(for the psychoanalyst as ="trms">writer,) the ='strcls'>*unconscious functions as a ='strcls'>*="trms">trope
unconscious ='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? ="trms">trope
='strcls'>*my actual ="trms">interest is in “the place of study”
which is ="trms">embodied by its participants, is shared and full of ="trms">stories that hold foster curiosity and learning. a place where hybrid ="trms">agents of ="trms">interpretation are alive and at work, partly ="trms">technological partly human partly ="trms">animal shared knowing processes.
="prgrph">-one of our stron="trms">gest ethical ="trms">obligations is curiosity
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='lgc'>[="ppl">Nietzsche='lgc'>]
(in ="trms">writing) if i could choose i would promote something that comes close to the texture of the softening that opens and glides, allowing for sudden shocks and slippages.
the personality needs to be able to flow in order to move ="trms">past anything that establishes itself firmly
Submitted to constant critique and revision
(="ppl">Nietzsche) “We can destroy only as creators='lgc'>--But let us not forget this either='lgc'>: it is enough to create new names and estimations and probabilities in order to create in the long run new ‘things’”
invention's power over new things
work on aphorism and irony
radical critique of reason and truth
will to X ='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>-- feeling of power, primitive form of the will (='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? play)
arguing that knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is ="trms">contingent and conditional
="ppl">Nietzsche's campaign against morality ='lgc'>:
(contrast between good and evil ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*master-morality ='lgc'>: charity, sub="trms">mission to the other, selflessness, etc. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you hate yourself
(denying the inherent inequality ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) ='strcls'>*slave-morality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> weakness is a ="trms">matter of choice ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> nihilism
='strcls'>*transvaluation
(="ppl">Nietzsche hated christianity for its non-affirmation of life. for him sex was a fundamental affirmation of life, christianity's elevation of chastity (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding, for example, the ="trms">story of Mary's virginal pregnancy) is counter to the ="trms">natural instincts of humanity, and therefore a contra="trms">diction of “="trms">natural values”.)
="lsts lst1">•promise of an illustrious afterlife
="lsts lst1">•desires would be the product of stimuli rather than the product of “will”
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to ='strcls'>*adjust (our/your) ="trms">question
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...to have no ="trms">positive knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge claim
appropriate ='lgc'>~= zabt o rabt ضبط و ربط
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(let me) fast forward to ‘nowhere’
chance-encounters in your/my efforts of ecriture (in San'an text)
(it is not possible to choreograph chance, we can only report our encounters with it)
like San'an, many of us are facing an ="trms">anxiety of withdrawal from the ="trms">world that claims us
i am ="trms">interested in to-link to that which (suddenly) ="trms">interupts my reveries
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to sharpen my capacity for incapa="trms">citation
not being afraid to look into many archives of mista[...]