[...]ics of the house)
migraine<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “black-furred creature beginning to stir”


lss="frds scrmbld">Foad's atmospheric attunements, lss="trms">responses to the environment
(fully sensory, at once abstract and concrete)ls clss='strcls'>*ls>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a labor
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a sentience to a lss="trms">world's work
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ways of being in noise and light and space
lsts>
intimacy with a lss="trms">world <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> lss="trms">world's imperative

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>an imperative can<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•catch you up
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•then deflate
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•pop
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•leave you standing, a fish out of water
lsts>
<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%">
“the sentience of a lss="trms">situation is filled with tracks of labor and attunement<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>a dwelling in the expressivity of something coming into existence” (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>)
lrg>
we take the lss="trms">world for what it's up to

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>atmospheric attunement<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> actual lss="trms">affects of modes of living being brought into being; labor-intensive process that stretches across lss="trms">imaginaries
lss="prgrph">-the lived spaces and temporalities of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•home
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•work
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•school
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•blame
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•adventure
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•illness
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•rumination
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•pleasure
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•down time
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•release
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•phantasmatic or unthinkable lss="trms">situations
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> rhythms of the lss="trms">present /ls clss='strcls'>*ls>/ls clss='strcls'>*ls>/ls clss='strcls'>*ls>/ls clss='strcls'>*ls>\


lss="nms">ajayeb reports of lss="trms">world<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">dense entanglement of lss="trms">affect, attention, the senses, and lss="trms">matter
(everything depends on these entanglements)

a condition
a pacing
a slss="trms">cene of absorption
a dream
a being abandoned by the lss="trms">world
a serial immersion in some little lss="trms">world you never knew was there until you got cancer
a dog
a lss="trms">child
a hankering
the next thing

(lss='qstn'>?how much lss="nms">ajayeb tells the lss="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 lss="trms">history
being in a predicament مخمصه
being lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready for something<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>anything


a life's lss="trms">trajectories lss="trms">traverse the lss="trms">materializations of slss="trms">cenes or pulsations
lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Foad

atmospheres have<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•gradients
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•valences
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•moods
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•sensations
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•tempos
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lifespans
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
an atmospheric fill resonates the lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge between the lss="trms">material and the potential

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>my recording lss="trms">symptom in 2009 was an atmospheric (not lss="trms">symptomatic) attunement; constant recording; take on the texture and lss="trms">density of a background hum; to produce a felt; barely felt sense of something happening in the house;<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="prgrph">-my father disappearing into violent, abandoning drinking


every person is a nexus of comlss="trms">positional moments
a lss="trms">worlding taking place in lss="trms">difference


!lss='heart'>♥ l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> talking about her stepson becoming a homeless
“People like to simplify the lss="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 lss="trms">matter of personal blame or failss="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure. But it is also an attunement to a singular lss="trms">world's texture and shine. The body has to learn to play itself like a musical lss="trms">instrument in this lss="trms">world's comlss="trms">positions.” <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Luisa, lss="frds scrmbld">Sven, lss="frds scrmbld">Foad<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

(i lack certain learnings in sensory labor of attuning as a zerang زرنگ person)


(do i also have) the habit of a lss="trms">worlding

trying to find the rhythm of a new bodily life

find lines of attachment

ls clss='strcls'>***ls>to become describable as a body (by learning how to lss="trms">affect and to be lss="trms">affected in this lss="trms">world such as it is)ls clss='strcls'>***ls>

(in lss='mywrk'>my work on lss="nms">ajayeb i am becoming more and more committed to learn ways of) having lss="trms">stories meant to pull me into the sentience of the lss="trms">world i am in <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> give it lss="trms">density, texturels clss='strcls'>*ls>


l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> (2010) is lss="trms">writing an lss="nms">lss="nms">ajayebnameh of her mother in cancer, stepson becoming a homeless, and her hometown

______________


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>regionality دهاتی ,داهاتی
lss="prgrph">-an event that jumps from landscape to bodies and back (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>)
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>"here"<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>the blue law, the seasons, the color red, place names اسم خیابان <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the lss="trms">past snaps into the lss="trms">present with the recognition of the street names<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>, bodily resonances, lss="trms">materialities bundled together like a sac of leaves, sharp-lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edged collectivities like race, ethnicity, class, gender, generation and lss="trms">religion, <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “one ventures from home”
lss="prgrph">-a thing hollowed out by its labyrinth of lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges; incessant lss="trms">interlinking
lss="prgrph">-a contact lss="trms">aesthetics
lss="prgrph">-a virtual mapping of things in a state of potential (Thrift)
lss="prgrph">-a sheer recognition of a sheer recognition<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “we are from around here"<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>as ls clss='strcls'>*ls>active survivors of the unexpected encounter and knowing lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers of emergent lss="trms">situationsls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc> (Roazan)
lss="prgrph">-turns spaces into animate envelopes that produce lss="trms">worlds (Sloterdijk)
lss="prgrph">-a form of lss="trms">worlding<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>an intimate, comlss="trms">positional process of dwelling that bears, lss="trms">gestures, lss="trms">gestates آبستن, lss="trms">worlds (l clss="ppl">Heideggerl>)
lss="prgrph">-the labored lss="trms">viscerality احشايى of being ‘in’ whatever's happening renders choices, lss="trms">aesthetics, surfaces and lss="trms">materialities ls clss='strcls'>*ls>a part of somethingls clss='strcls'>*ls> (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>) <lgc clss='lgc'>~~lgc>lss="nms">apass<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the sentience, of a lss="trms">worlding (lightened by soft slss="trms">cenes of the human condition <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>played out in<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•forms of pleasure lss='at'>@lss="frds">Sina
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•weakness lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Maarten
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•fun lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Elen
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•humor lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Eszter
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•acquiescence رضايت ,تن در دادن lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld"nttrm="lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leonardo">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Leo
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•self-deprecation اظهاربيميلى lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lili
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the intimacy of قبيح دانستن deprecating others lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Xiri
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a bad but human habit lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Aela
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•some wicked little sorcery lss='at'>@קݙ
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>)
lsts> lss="prgrph">-
lss="prgrph">-an attunement that takes form
lss="prgrph">-a milieu in which the mouth relaxes into a town accent (نواحیlss='qstn'>?)
lss="prgrph">-a disorientation in the face of what lies beyond (lss="frds scrmbld">Janina)
lss="prgrph">-a lss="trms">love affair with light and color (lss="frds scrmbld">Foad)
lss="prgrph">-uncurtained windows (my mother)
lss="prgrph">-
lss="prgrph">-
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•one recognizable entity with qualities
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lived modalities
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a lss="trms">history of its lss="trms">social production and uses
lsts>  <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>elements, slss="trms">cenes, encounters, <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>they<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>sediment, accrue, circulate, unlss="trms">fold, go flat, <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>saturate a lss="trms">situation, fly under radar, pull into alignment, fall out of lss="trms">sync, <lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “a regional lss="trms">aesthetic harlss="trms">dens into iconic slss="trms">cenes of living”

<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:142%"> lrg>
calling to eachother in an intimacy of lss="trms">jokes about the things that can happen in their lss="trms">world

voice<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the tone
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the timing
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the accent
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the phrasing
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the level of force
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the purposefulness of the way that voice lives in light, with trees, in the potentiality of a lss="trms">laugh
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
consistency of a lss="trms">laugh or an lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

ls clss='strcls'>***ls>when the muteness of things lss="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metalss="trms">morphoses into an lss="trms">aesthetic lss="trms">phenomenonls clss='strcls'>***ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> singularities inlss="trms">cite it

(an actual physical shadow of a state of being)
sing of something amiss<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•depression
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•withdrawal
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•inlss="trms">difference
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•dysfunction
lsts>

(my mother in lss="nms">Tehran<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) a curtained house reduce the lss="trms">gestural economy of seeing and being seen to an oclss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded vision in which objects are dark, shadowy outlines with black cores, like a lss="trms">world seen through a ripe cataract آب مروارید <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--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 lss="trms">interiority; my allegiance was inward. watchful consciousness in which one witnesses the procession of inner events of light perception <lgc clss='lgc'><==lgc> a sense of lack. sensous grounding of the inner life)
window<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a lss="trms">method of lss="trms">worlding in itself, a node of lines of lss="trms">sociality and mood
curtained house <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> sign of something amiss (depression, withdrawal, inlss="trms">difference, dysfunction) but “the actual physical shadow of a state of being that broke the circuit of a ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">gestural economy of seeing and being seenls clss='strcls'>*ls>”
in the maner of my mother<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> you don't warm up to strlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger, you know who you are talking to, you watch what is going on, you help those in the circle
(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> describing how in her town) lamps were strongly favored over overhead lighting, lending texture and lss="trms">specifity to the slss="trms">cenes
a pause at a window <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> to check in with the unlss="trms">folding and pleating of a lss="trms">world pulled in and out through the glass <lgc clss='lgc'><<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lgc> this is not just a practice of looking but a moodls clss='strcls'>*ls>, ruminative or touched, for good or bad
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•impulse to venture into a place that pulls watchful bodies out of windows
lsts>

dlss="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger
hassle
inordinate distance


lss='at'>#on getting lost with lss="frds scrmbld">Janina<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “this is an adventure and I am not alone.” (lss="trms">anxious <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> hervorheben رهسپار شدن)
(with lss="frds scrmbld">Janina lss='heart'>♥ we experienced) disorientation, displacement, and the experience of getting lost (are foundational sensory modes of living out regionality)
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">wondering out<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> palpably unprelss="trms">dictable and seductive; a lss="trms">specific disorientation
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•half-deliberate exercise of getting yourself lost
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•direct link between intention and effect
lsts> ls clss='strcls'>*ls> dragging lss="trms">agency into a منشور prismatic lss="trms">affective structure ls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>prismatic<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> flickering, gathered into lines, angles of light or motion to attune to, <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> simply lss="trms">present and knowable<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lost in a loop
lsts> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>run<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> fueld by (performed) lss="trms">anxiety, our trip was peppered with moments of disorientation
lss="prgrph">-the enactment of disorientation poised on the lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the accidental
lss="prgrph">-with lss="frds scrmbld">Janina somehow we found ourselves in an exercise of orientation/disorientation as it is attaching me to place, lss="trms">childhood, some buttom line humanity (called Ungeschicktheit) that depends on giving up competencels clss='strcls'>***ls> (and often finding oursevels orienting with that rainbow caterpillar disoriented on your forehand)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>-lgc>our shared ‘should-have-been-obvious'es with lss="frds scrmbld">Janina
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>-lgc>lss="frds scrmbld">Janina's misshapen forcesls clss='strcls'>***ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>somehow<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> reach a plane of expressivity (for me<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>because i lss="trms">love herlss='qstn'>?)
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>-lgc>the event, its lss="trms">affective structure, is familiar from lss="trms">childhood and strangely satisfying, like a loop i had to make, ls clss='strcls'>*ls>an emotive-lss="trms">agentive place i had to check in withls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='qstn'>?<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Janina <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="frds">Sina forms of belonging
(sometimes that place is a fully-invested connection and weighted, like home)
ls clss='strcls'>***ls>forms of belonging<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> tactile <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> full of force <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> tentative <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> risky /<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>"<lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc>” <lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> are, and, yet<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> an lss="trms">ecology of paths that lss="trms">matter by means of the things that happen in a lss="trms">present in which we are ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lost yet attunedls clss='strcls'>*ls>

<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> all the ways that people and things venture out into reals <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>my mother, lss="frds">Sina, lss="frds scrmbld">Janina, ...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>town<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> currents of lss="trms">difference, affiliation, lss="trms">history, ordinary dullness and comforts, characters and their lss="trms">stories


psyching out ethnicity


(my old attunement<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) the fear of cockroaches

the miracle mile of computer lss="trms">technology

<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:107%"> the elitism of the lss="trms">historical lss="trms">societies

localness nests in<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•tastes
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•bodies
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•neigborhoods
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a valley
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a state
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a geographical region
lsts>

“in each slss="trms">cene of the production of lss="trms">history there are events that are storied or otherwise pulled into play” (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>)

l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> on salem witch trials
the accusations spiraled through families, catching people up like magnetic strips
“wicked little sorceries” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>jumpy moments that suddenly lay the charge of a half-known intensity lss="trms">onto ordinary people and roads, regionality becomes a wicked little sorcery. a vortex that pulls possible forms into life into a moment's alignment<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>, <lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>the adjective ‘wicked’ marking ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">excessls clss='strcls'>*ls> of all kinds<lgc clss='lgc'>}lgc>
astrology
fortune-telling
ls clss='strcls'>*ls>an attunement to spectersls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lss="prgrph">-a farmer admitted getting into ‘the snare of the devil’ because he had a large family and ‘the lss="trms">world went hard with him.’


robustness in cold weather


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>title<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
making of lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges and slss="trms">cenes in lss="nms">ajayeb

character or texture of an lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge

(lss="nms">ajayeb is made of elements that were) a thing sensed with certainty (yet made up of a shifting, edgy comlss="trms">posite)
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>a sentient shadow called jinn, God, darkness of a pit, a cycle, etc.<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>or<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> made scenic ls clss='strcls'>*ls>as a site of a lss="trms">world's potentialls clss='strcls'>*ls> (= lss="nms">ajayeb)
<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>the slss="trms">cene of a thing's demise

an edgy irruptive event

rules and lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges are OK when separate, but together, a bad combination

(lss="frds scrmbld">Karin <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="frds">Sina <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Hanno) we were humans together

<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>we adjust ourselves to the done deal that things happen<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>

(we find ourselve being) “from here” in a lss="trms">world made intimate through forgiveness, denial, detachment flowing in after a surge of something bad<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>a close call <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lrg>

ls clss='strcls'>*ls>what are lss="nms">ajayeb's turns (and turn backs) to the inlss="trms">articulate reallss='qstn'>?


lss="trms">hallucinogenically down-to-earth (lss="frds scrmbld">Aela)


what are lss="nms">ajayeb's state of emergent expressivity <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>today<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss='qstn'>? (that tries to guess and describe ‘what is happening’) ls clss='strcls'>****ls> things that happen are inlss="trms">citements to form ls clss='strcls'>****ls>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> intensities become expressive <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> an خونسرد impassive corporeality <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> intensities pass from body to body <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>{lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•human bodies
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">animal bodies
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•machine bodies
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•bodies of thought
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•ecolss="trms">systems
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">visceralities and noumena <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>a thing in itself, as distinguished from a lss="trms">phenomenon<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> splss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read out across a vast atmospheric field
lsts>
sediments of lss="nms">ajayeb<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•obvious
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•much remarked
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•cryptic <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> favored
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">situationally precise
lsts>
how lss="nms">ajayeb is an improvisatory conceptualitylss='qstn'>?
does lss="nms">ajayeb-lss="trms">writing takes place in singularitylss='qstn'>? (because every lss="trms">worlding is singular and precise <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc> the pleasure of its recognition)

lss='at'>#my project in lss="nms">apass has been a practice of lss="trms">writing that is an experiment in attuning to lss="nms">ajayeb's tune

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:100%"> lss="nms">ajayeb reports of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">affect that has become nativels clss='strcls'>***ls>, attaching to bodies and lss="trms">socialities, to an ethosls clss='strcls'>***ls>
lsts>
with lss="nms">ajayeb (with l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>) i am learning<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•to approach the tactile comlss="trms">positionality of things
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•de-dramatization of academic thought
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•to approach the thing that throws itself together ls clss='strcls'>*ls>slowly and enigmaticallyls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss='at'>#andakhtan, andaze
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a descriptive detour (with l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Latourl>l>)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a lyrical evocation (with l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a lss="trms">method of awkwardly approaching an object by attuning to it as a thing of ls clss='strcls'>*ls>promise and contactls clss='strcls'>*ls> (with l clss="ppl">Berlantl>)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
concept<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> that which attunes itself to things coming into form; is both abstract lss='and'>& concrete; actual lss='and'>& unlss="trms">folding

highly fractured stone of a collective intensity (<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="nms">Iran, and most other places)

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lss="nms">ajayeb was/is very much committed to the concrete<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> that means committed to speculation and curiosity (and not the demystification and uncovering truths that support a well-known picture of the lss="trms">world) (it was only to a certain degree in support of the middle age islamic picture)

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:116%"> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>a something both animated and inhabitable

how to approach a weighted and reeling <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>walk as if unable to control one's movements<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> lss="trms">presentlss='qstn'>?
(to name)

(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> > l clss="ppl">Berlantl><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) objects and slss="trms">cenes of desire hold promise, keeping whole lss="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters of lss="trms">affects magnetized to them
lss="prgrph">-an individual's abstract yet lss="trms">contingent desire to feel like he or she is “in” something or can recognize something <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lili, lss="frds scrmbld">Aela<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>

ls clss='strcls'>***ls>promise is always promise to be lss="trms">present to the slss="trms">cene


i am lss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading in lss="nms">ajayeb the actual lines of potential that a something coming together calls to mind an sets in motion

exert palpable pressures

(working with ajayen lss="trms">lss="trms">equip me with recognizing the) immanent نافذ, obtuse پخ, erratic ويلان (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> “obvious meaning” of semantic message and lss="trms">symbolic signification;) to pick up lss="trms">density and texture
(in lss="nms">tasavof, in lss="nms">iranian lss="trms">poetry, in lss="nms">ajayeb, in my peer's works, )
lss="prgrph">-asking<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> what potential modes of knowing, relating, and attending to things are allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready somehow persent in them <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> potentiality lss='and'>& resonance


(lss="trms">according to l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>) ordinary lss="trms">affects are more directly compelling than ideologies, as well as more fractious, multiplicitous, and unprelss="trms">dictable than lss="trms">symbolic meaningls clss='strcls'>***ls> (in short<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> canon of “Thinking”) <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> “bigger” structures and underlying causes obscure the ways in which a reeling lss="trms">present is lss="trms">composed out of heterogeneous and noncoherent singularities
lss="prgrph">-lss="frds scrmbld">Sven's ordinary lss="trms">affects and DJings <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> his noncoherent singularity <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc> a nonrelss="trms">presentational theory is needed to address them
asking lss="frds scrmbld">Sven<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what needs attending to (for you)lss='qstn'>?
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•what/who are you in conversation withlss='qstn'>?
lsts>
<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> lrg>

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>slss="trms">cenes and selves<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>ls clss='strcls'>***ls>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•layered textures of a slss="trms">cene
lsts>

<lrg clss="large lg4" stl="font-size:112%"> lrg>
(paying attention to pressure points of lss="nms">ajayeb <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc>)
in lss="nms">ajayeb, what is
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•maintained as a prized possession
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•left to rot
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•hardened into little mythic kernal
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">morphed into a cold dark lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•hopeful
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> things take place as <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>precisions<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the pressure points that open lss="trms">onto potentialities are taken up as apparitional things (surat صورت) and then sharpened and repeated in comlss="trms">positions that labor to describe but also flourish on their own terms


my efforts have not been to finally “know” lss="nms">ajayeb, lss="frds scrmbld">Sven, or lss="frds scrmbld">Sana, <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>i have been reluctant to collect them into a good enough lss="trms">story of what's going on with them,[...]