[...]ion gratings
(="trms">rhetoric of) re-="trms">veiling, which provokes the seeming need for a revealing of ="trms">nature
entanglement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> inseparability ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> spatially separated particles in an entangled state do not have separate identities
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there is no epmirical evidence of such a disjunction ="trms">ontologies at a particular scale, “micro-="trms">world” and “macro-="trms">world”
who insists on “quarantining quantum queerness”='qstn'>?
quarantining scale and time
quarantining ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra to “his” time, or ="nms">ajayeb to an older another temporality, and therefore irrelevant for us “today”
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]scale='lgc'>: ="trms">intra-actively (re)configured in the ongoing ="trms">intra-active becoming on space-time-="trms">mattering
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Khezr and San'an, the most repeated points of reference in ="nms">tasavof
like you, ="ppl">Hafez, full of struggle, sensation, ="trms">love,
our resistance and breakdance
(="ppl">Mehran Rad='lgc'>:) ="ppl">Hafez preferences on ="trms">Farsi over ="ppl">Arabic='lgc'>:
Deir دیر / Some'e صومعه
="nms">Pir پیر / Sheikh شیخ
Parsa پارسا / Zahed زاهد
Parishan پریشان / Tafraghe تفرقه
moshtaghe bandegi مشتاق بندگی
(='lgc'>~='qstn'>? the advanced level of) ‘wannabe slave’
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the d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous suffixial ="trms">worlders, prehensile adjective-builder, ="trms">natural-inhabitant-makers of “-ian” or “-i” or “-isch” to the name of a nation/country ='lgc'>==> ="nms">Iranian, Afgani, etc. ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> makes subjects
in the case of the podcast https://soundcloud.com/norient/afghanistan-sucht-seine-musikalische-identitat-podcast ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listen to the way the ="trms">story of the Afgani music is told by norient (“music in the globe”, “multi-modally”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">articulation of western human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights ='and'>& dis="trms">articulation of other ="trms">ecology of ="trms">stories
='lgc'>=/= Charles Amirkhanian radio programm Ode to Gravity
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the protector of spiders who dies by the bite of a spider
="prgrph">-susceptible bodies entagled in ="trms">networks of care, life and death, that are not always harmonious to popular ="trms">narratives of nonviolence
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="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: mythoepic ="trms">literature in ="trms">translation from a Middle Persian corpus
="prgrph">-when i say ‘Middle Persian corpus’ what i actually mean is a shared ="trms">world of ritual, ="trms">religion, and mythology between ="nms">Iranian, Urdu, Turkish, Zoroastrianism in ="nms">Iran and Vedic Hinduism in India, Indo-European in="trms">heritance in ancient ="nms">Iranian culture, South-Southeast Asian ="trms">literatures, ="trms">translations and transcreations (and trans="trms">literation) of ="trms">stories (prose, ="trms">poetry, drama, epic, ="trms">jokes, parables, figures ='lgc'>[that are not always part of the canon='lgc'>], the irreverent بى ادب, ) in Indian and Southeast Asian contexts,
my project is about learning the ‘how’ of cultivating the ability to fruitfully approach texts from ="trms">different cultures and ="trms">pasts
="prgrph">-(to study) the radical ="trms">poetic force of the Persian texts='lgc'>--in ="nms">ajayeb
="prgrph">-to become enhanced and enchanted in ="trms">skills of ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading wider ranges of ="trms">linguistic registers
="prgrph">-to open up an approach to a dauntingly complex region of islamicated thought (not the ideological enterprise of “Islam”, which is usually badly politicized in the ="trms">historical ="trms">memory of the West. we could get ="trms">interested in the economics of corruption and ="trms">technologies of rule, the evolution of government bureaucracies and classificatory schemes, anti-colonial critique,)
="nms">ajayeb is on the side of counter-classical traditions of standard Muslem-ness, and its less elite ="trms">histories and cultural forms,
(intellectual identity='lgc'>:)
cross-dresser of the order
autodidact odds
sufis, merchants, nomads, ="trms">poets, pilgrims, smugglers, laborers,
="trms">religious identity, ="trms">religious knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, ="trms">religious violence,
medieval persian mysticism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•oral, temporal ="trms">nature of speech
="lsts lst1">•speaking I to the unknown and unknowable Other
="lsts lst1">•the discourse of ="trms">love
="lsts lst1">•apophatic discourse ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='qstn'>? politically subversive
="lsts lst1">•="trms">linguistic fragmentation, ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of meaning
="lsts lst1">•
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="trms">dense and textured ="trms">stories
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(generativity is fueled by) ="trms">densely felt textures
="trms">worlding of the place='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">material, sensory labor of attending to an emergent and enduring hum
="lsts lst1">•the force of things amassed of ="nms">phantom limbs
="lsts lst1">•actual residue of people “making something of things”
direct ="trms">materiality of people's shared sense='lgc'> = attending to what is happening
a racist violence in the dark
a space of con="trms">densed displacement
watching things arrive in the company of others
='strcls'>*nameable clarities='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•family
="lsts lst1">•friendship
="lsts lst1">•="trms">love
="lsts lst1">•collapse
="lsts lst1">•="trms">laughing
="lsts lst1">•telling ="trms">stories
="lsts lst1">•violence
="lsts lst1">•place
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all atmospherics='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>: forms of attending to what's happening, sensing out, accreting attachments and detachments, ="trms">differences and in="trms">differences, losses and proliferating possibilities. ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>]
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) curious pause to ="trms">wonder ='strcls'>*what analytic objects ="trms">matter='strcls'>* in the singularity of a ="trms">situation and what forms of ="trms">writing and thinking might approach them='strcls'>****
="prgrph">-experimenting with forms of theory and ="trms">writing that are ="trms">responsive to the moving objects they are trying to trace or highlight or escape, or whatever ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#number of legs in ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•trying to describe what is happening in little ="trms">animal moments, s="trms">cenes
="lsts lst1">•(the ="trms">writers of ="nms">ajayeb trying to) explore the intensity and plasticity of lived com="trms">positions='lgc'>--proliferating in their ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•the senses sharpen on the surfaces of things taking form
="lsts lst1">•a lived ="trms">affect ='lgc'>==> pushing a ="trms">present into a com="trms">position, an expressivity (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb's body)
="lsts lst1">•(a non-horizontal plane of) incommensurate elements hanging together in a com="trms">positional atmosphere ='lgc'>=/= holding objects in abeyance تعليق in order to evaluate them as good or bad, or, asserting op="trms">positions between ="trms">material and re="trms">presentational things
='lgc'>}
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]attunement='lgc'>: a generative, com="trms">positional ="trms">worlding
="prgrph">-particular attunements can become habitual
="prgrph">-(in the atmospheric of my ="nms">ajayeb) what is recognized as worthy and knowable object
="prgrph">-what are the links ='lgc'>[sensory ='and'>& ="trms">affective='lgc'>] between (my) ="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">worlding and other ="trms">worlding
='lgc'>{ migraine ='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> house ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (an acute) sensory attunement (to the atmospherics of the house)
migraine='lgc'>: “black-furred creature beginning to stir”
="frds scrmbld">Foad's atmospheric attunements, ="trms">responses to the environment
(fully sensory, at once abstract and concrete)='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•a labor
="lsts lst1">•a sentience to a ="trms">world's work
="lsts lst1">•ways of being in noise and light and space
intimacy with a ="trms">world ='lgc'><-='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">world's imperative
='strcls'>*an imperative can='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•catch you up
="lsts lst1">•then deflate
="lsts lst1">•pop
="lsts lst1">•leave you standing, a fish out of water
“the sentience of a ="trms">situation is filled with tracks of labor and attunement='lgc'>--a dwelling in the expressivity of something coming into existence” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
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we take the ="trms">world for what it's up to
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]atmospheric attunement='lgc'>: actual ="trms">affects of modes of living being brought into being; labor-intensive process that stretches across ="trms">imaginaries
="prgrph">-the lived spaces and temporalities of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•home
="lsts lst1">•work
="lsts lst1">•school
="lsts lst1">•blame
="lsts lst1">•adventure
="lsts lst1">•illness
="lsts lst1">•rumination
="lsts lst1">•pleasure
="lsts lst1">•down time
="lsts lst1">•release
="lsts lst1">•phantasmatic or unthinkable ="trms">situations
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> rhythms of the ="trms">present /='strcls'>*/='strcls'>*/='strcls'>*/='strcls'>*\
="nms">ajayeb reports of ="trms">world='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-="trms">dense entanglement of ="trms">affect, attention, the senses, and ="trms">matter
(everything depends on these entanglements)
a condition
a pacing
a s="trms">cene of absorption
a dream
a being abandoned by the ="trms">world
a serial immersion in some little ="trms">world you never knew was there until you got cancer
a dog
a ="trms">child
a hankering
the next thing
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(='qstn'>?how much ="nms">ajayeb tells the ="trms">stories of) unraveling of states of attending to what might be happening
not being able to sit still
being exhausted
being left behind
being ahead of the curve
being in ="trms">history
being in a predicament مخمصه
being ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready for something='lgc'>--anything
a life's ="trms">trajectories ="trms">traverse the ="trms">materializations of s="trms">cenes or pulsations
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Foad
atmospheres have='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•gradients
="lsts lst1">•valences
="lsts lst1">•moods
="lsts lst1">•sensations
="lsts lst1">•tempos
="lsts lst1">•lifespans
="lsts lst1">•
an atmospheric fill resonates the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge between the ="trms">material and the potential
='lgc'>[my recording ="trms">symptom in 2009 was an atmospheric (not ="trms">symptomatic) attunement; constant recording; take on the texture and ="trms">density of a background hum; to produce a felt; barely felt sense of something happening in the house;='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-my father disappearing into violent, abandoning drinking
every person is a nexus of com="trms">positional moments
a ="trms">worlding taking place in ="trms">difference
!='heart'>♥ ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart talking about her stepson becoming a homeless
“People like to simplify the ="trms">situation of homelessness as if it is a self-evident process of abject poverty without a safety net or as if it's just a ="trms">matter of personal blame or fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure. But it is also an attunement to a singular ="trms">world's texture and shine. The body has to learn to play itself like a musical ="trms">instrument in this ="trms">world's com="trms">positions.” ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa, ="frds scrmbld">Sven, ="frds scrmbld">Foad='lgc'>]
(i lack certain learnings in sensory labor of attuning as a zerang زرنگ person)
(do i also have) the habit of a ="trms">worlding
trying to find the rhythm of a new bodily life
find lines of attachment
='strcls'>***to become describable as a body (by learning how to ="trms">affect and to be ="trms">affected in this ="trms">world such as it is)='strcls'>***
(in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb i am becoming more and more committed to learn ways of) having ="trms">stories meant to pull me into the sentience of the ="trms">world i am in ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> give it ="trms">density, texture='strcls'>*
="ppl">="ppl">Stewart (2010) is ="trms">writing an ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh of her mother in cancer, stepson becoming a homeless, and her hometown
______________
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]regionality دهاتی ,داهاتی
="prgrph">-an event that jumps from landscape to bodies and back (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
='lgc'>--"here"='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{the blue law, the seasons, the color red, place names اسم خیابان ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*the ="trms">past snaps into the ="trms">present with the recognition of the street names='lgc'>], bodily resonances, ="trms">materialities bundled together like a sac of leaves, sharp-="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged collectivities like race, ethnicity, class, gender, generation and ="trms">religion, ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “one ventures from home”
="prgrph">-a thing hollowed out by its labyrinth of ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges; incessant ="trms">interlinking
="prgrph">-a contact ="trms">aesthetics
="prgrph">-a virtual mapping of things in a state of potential (Thrift)
="prgrph">-a sheer recognition of a sheer recognition='lgc'>: “we are from around here"='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{as ='strcls'>*active survivors of the unexpected encounter and knowing ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers of emergent ="trms">situations='strcls'>*='lgc'>} (Roazan)
="prgrph">-turns spaces into animate envelopes that produce ="trms">worlds (Sloterdijk)
="prgrph">-a form of ="trms">worlding='lgc'>--an intimate, com="trms">positional process of dwelling that bears, ="trms">gestures, ="trms">gestates آبستن, ="trms">worlds (="ppl">Heidegger)
="prgrph">-the labored ="trms">viscerality احشايى of being ‘in’ whatever's happening renders choices, ="trms">aesthetics, surfaces and ="trms">materialities ='strcls'>*a part of something='strcls'>* (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~='lgc'>~="nms">apass='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the sentience, of a ="trms">worlding (lightened by soft s="trms">cenes of the human condition ='lgc'>[played out in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•forms of pleasure ='at'>@="frds">Sina
="lsts lst1">•weakness ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Maarten
="lsts lst1">•fun ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Elen
="lsts lst1">•humor ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Eszter
="lsts lst1">•acquiescence رضايت ,تن در دادن ='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
="lsts lst1">•self-deprecation اظهاربيميلى ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili
="lsts lst1">•the intimacy of قبيح دانستن deprecating others ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Xiri
="lsts lst1">•a bad but human habit ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Aela
="lsts lst1">•some wicked little sorcery ='at'>@קݙ
="lsts lst1">•='lgc'>])
="prgrph">-
="prgrph">-an attunement that takes form
="prgrph">-a milieu in which the mouth relaxes into a town accent (نواحی='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-a disorientation in the face of what lies beyond (="frds scrmbld">Janina)
="prgrph">-a ="trms">love affair with light and color (="frds scrmbld">Foad)
="prgrph">-uncurtained windows (my mother)
="prgrph">-
="prgrph">-
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•one recognizable entity with qualities
="lsts lst1">•lived modalities
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">history of its ="trms">social production and uses
='lgc'>{elements, s="trms">cenes, encounters, ='lgc'>}='lgc'>--they='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{sediment, accrue, circulate, un="trms">fold, go flat, ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{saturate a ="trms">situation, fly under radar, pull into alignment, fall out of ="trms">sync, ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “a regional ="trms">aesthetic har="trms">dens into iconic s="trms">cenes of living”
calling to eachother in an intimacy of ="trms">jokes about the things that can happen in their ="trms">world
voice='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the tone
="lsts lst1">•the timing
="lsts lst1">•the accent
="lsts lst1">•the phrasing
="lsts lst1">•the level of force
="lsts lst1">•the purposefulness of the way that voice lives in light, with trees, in the potentiality of a ="trms">laugh
="lsts lst1">•
consistency of a ="trms">laugh or an ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
='strcls'>***when the muteness of things ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses into an ="trms">aesthetic ="trms">phenomenon='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> singularities in="trms">cite it
(an actual physical shadow of a state of being)
sing of something amiss='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•depression
="lsts lst1">•withdrawal
="lsts lst1">•in="trms">difference
="lsts lst1">•dysfunction
(my mother in ="nms">Tehran='lgc'>:) a curtained house reduce the ="trms">gestural economy of seeing and being seen to an oc="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded vision in which objects are dark, shadowy outlines with black cores, like a ="trms">world seen through a ripe cataract آب مروارید ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->(the house video project i did ‘city of domes’ 2008 http://www.sinaseifee.com/Cathedral.html was actually about that kind of attunement in my mother's house. i was committed to the description of ="trms">interiority; my allegiance was inward. watchful consciousness in which one witnesses the procession of inner events of light perception ='lgc'><== a sense of lack. sensous grounding of the inner life)
window='lgc'>: a ="trms">method of ="trms">worlding in itself, a node of lines of ="trms">sociality and mood
curtained house ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sign of something amiss (depression, withdrawal, in="trms">difference, dysfunction) but “the actual physical shadow of a state of being that broke the circuit of a ='strcls'>*="trms">gestural economy of seeing and being seen='strcls'>*”
in the maner of my mother='lgc'>: you don't warm up to str="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, you know who you are talking to, you watch what is going on, you help those in the circle
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart describing how in her town) lamps were strongly favored over overhead lighting, lending texture and ="trms">specifity to the s="trms">cenes
a pause at a window ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to check in with the un="trms">folding and pleating of a ="trms">world pulled in and out through the glass ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- this is not just a practice of looking but a mood='strcls'>*, ruminative or touched, for good or bad
="lsts lst1">•impulse to venture into a place that pulls watchful bodies out of windows
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d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger
hassle
inordinate distance
='at'>#on getting lost with ="frds scrmbld">Janina='lgc'>: “this is an adventure and I am not alone.” (="trms">anxious ='lgc'>+ hervorheben رهسپار شدن)
(with ="frds scrmbld">Janina ='heart'>♥ we experienced) disorientation, displacement, and the experience of getting lost (are foundational sensory modes of living out regionality)
='strcls'>*="trms">wondering out='lgc'>: palpably unpre="trms">dictable and seductive; a ="trms">specific disorientation
="lsts lst1">•half-deliberate exercise of getting yourself lost
="lsts lst1">•direct link between intention and effect
='strcls'>* dragging ="trms">agency into a منشور prismatic ="trms">affective structure ='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[prismatic='lgc'>: flickering, gathered into lines, angles of light or motion to attune to, ='lgc'>=/= simply ="trms">present and knowable='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•lost in a loop
='strcls'>*run='lgc'>: fueld by (performed) ="trms">anxiety, our trip was peppered with moments of disorientation
="prgrph">-the enactment of disorientation poised on the ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the accidental
="prgrph">-with ="frds scrmbld">Janina somehow we found ourselves in an exercise of orientation/disorientation as it is attaching me to place, ="trms">childhood, some buttom line humanity (called Ungeschicktheit) that depends on giving up competence='strcls'>*** (and often finding oursevels orienting with that rainbow caterpillar disoriented on your forehand)
='lgc'>='lgc'>---our shared ‘should-have-been-obvious'es with ="frds scrmbld">Janina
='lgc'>='lgc'>---="frds scrmbld">Janina's misshapen forces='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>--somehow='lgc'>='lgc'>--> reach a plane of expressivity (for me='lgc'>--because i ="trms">love her='qstn'>?)
='lgc'>='lgc'>---the event, its ="trms">affective structure, is familiar from ="trms">childhood and strangely satisfying, like a loop i had to make, ='strcls'>*an emotive-="trms">agentive place i had to check in with='strcls'>* ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="frds scrmbld">Janina ='lgc'>+ ="frds">Sina forms of belonging
(sometimes that place is a fully-invested connection and weighted, like home)
='strcls'>***forms of belonging='lgc'>: tactile ='lgc'>+ full of force ='lgc'>+ tentative ='lgc'>+ risky /='lgc'>--='lgc'>{"='lgc'>+” ='lgc'>: are, and, yet='lgc'>}
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an ="trms">ecology of paths that ="trms">matter by means of the things that happen in a ="trms">present in which we are ='strcls'>*lost yet attuned='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all the ways that people and things venture out into reals ='lgc'>[my mother, ="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Janina, ...='lgc'>]
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]town='lgc'>: currents of ="trms">difference, affiliation, ="trms">history, ordinary dullness and comforts, characters and their ="trms">stories
psyching out ethnicity
(my old attunement='lgc'>:) the fear of cockroaches
the miracle mile of computer ="trms">technology
the elitism of the ="trms">historical ="trms">societies
localness nests in='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•tastes
="lsts lst1">•bodies
="lsts lst1">•neigborhoods
="lsts lst1">•a valley
="lsts lst1">•a state
="lsts lst1">•a geographical region
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“in each s="trms">cene of the product[...]