[...] 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

<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> trying to find the rhythm of a new bodily life

find lines of attachment
lrg>
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

______________

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:108%"> lrg>
<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”


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

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:110%"> (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>

lrg>
<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

the elitism of the lss="trms">historical lss="trms">societies
lrg>
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 clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:133%"> 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

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>
<lrg clss="large lg1" stl="font-size:114%"> 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>lrg>
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)

______________


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)

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>


<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 lg10" stl="font-size:104%">
(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,<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> rather to lss="trms">fashion some lss="trms">sort of address that is adequate (and lss="trms">fabulous) to their form
lss="prgrph">-does the intensity and texture of my lss="trms">routines (talks, lss="trms">writings, etc.) make lss="nms">ajayeb habitable and animatelss='qstn'>?
lss="prgrph">-in the last year in lss="nms">apass i have been training myself to become attuned to what a particular slss="trms">cene might offer

lss='at'>#my lss="nms">apass lss="nms">ajayeb project<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
(learning) building an idiolss="trms">syncratic map of connections between a series of singularities <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> to create a contact zone for analysis ls clss='strcls'>****ls>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~lss='qstn'>?->lgc> lss="nms">ajayeb.net, pop-up lss="trms">book<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>that's why i have been against the popular idea of lss="trms">authorlessness in lss="nms">apass, i am invested in (our) singularities; identity is a zone of attunement<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> calls herself “she” to mark the lss="trms">difference between her lss="trms">writerly identity and the kind of subject that arises as a daydream of simple lss="trms">presence
lss="prgrph">-to touch details that establishes a direct contact

lss='qstn'>?in our group who
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•gazes
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">imagines
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•senses
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•takes on
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•performs
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•asserts (not a flat and finished truth)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•is in a hot persuit of something delss="trms">finitive lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lili
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a point of contract lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Esta
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•
lsts>
watching and waiting for an event to unlss="trms">fold
the still life that gives a pause <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the lss="trms">story of many of us

______________


“every achieved lss="trms">poem inscribes a perceptual siglss="trms">nature in the lss="trms">world” (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> > l clss="ppl">Dotyl>)

lss="trms">poems have to be achieved (in the lss="trms">social-lss="trms">material lss="trms">world)
(achieved <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> archived)

<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:135%"> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">poem<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•etching ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lines of actionls clss='strcls'>*ls> and mood across the sensations
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•comlss="trms">positions at work
lsts>

my lss="nms">ajayeb's
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•objects of analysis<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “comlss="trms">positional elements of thrown together lss="trms">worlds”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•objects of critique<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “aslss="trms">sociative account of the modification and reciprocity of bodies and actions, environs, senses, rhythms, tones, and proprioceptions"<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> sense of the lss="trms">position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•objects of lss="trms">database<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “are soicialy, lss="trms">poetically, lss="trms">materially comlss="trms">positional”
lsts>

the lss="trms">social, the subject, lss="trms">matter and event are comprised of<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">affects
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•potentialities
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•energetics
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•attunements
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•orientations
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•disorientations
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•atmospheres
lsts> <lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> finished actualitiesls clss='strcls'>*ls>


lss="nms">ajayeb is comlss="trms">positional, that means something reaches a point of expressivity, something throws itself together as lss="trms">matter allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready configured yet enigmatic and provocative
(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> helping me talk lss="nms">ajayeb)

(am i working to) bridge between more comlss="trms">positions (lss='qstn'>?)


<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:121%"> “watching a spider negotiate its unlikely territory”


(useless concentration)

<lrg clss="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> lrg>
lss="frds scrmbld">Foad, lss="frds">Sina, we were a slipstream of sensations made of all the ways that lss="trms">world impressed itself upon us


<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">world<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a partial stabil[...]