[...]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

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”

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%"> ='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

(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)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> 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)

="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> 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

(='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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:130%"> 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[...]