[...] 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)


<lrg clss="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> (do i also have) the habit of a lss="trms">worlding

trying to find the rhythm of a new bodily life
lrg>
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 clss='lgc'>~lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>~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
lrg>
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 lg14" stl="font-size:131%"> 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>

<lrg clss="large lg22" stl="font-size:132%"> (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>


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>
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)

______________


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>


(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'><lgc clss='lgc'>~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>
<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>lrg>

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'>?)


“watching a spider negotiate its unlikely territory”

<lrg clss="large lg10" stl="font-size:102%">
(useless concentration)


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 stabilization of practices, capacities, tendencies and affordances in the form of a recursive patterning (Anderson <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> Harrison > l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•mixed-media comlss="trms">positions of lss="trms">matter and thought-feeling
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the lss="trms">world of lss="nms">ajayeb magnetizes lss="trms">materialities and forms of alertness for me to what's singular and prolific. i am circling through a lss="trms">heritage of (lss="nms">iranian) romanticism and lss="trms">pragmatism to arrive (with l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>) at “the precision of a lss="trms">worldly comlss="trms">position's lss="trms">mattering forms”
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst2">◦ls clss='strcls'>*ls>lss="trms">worlding<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> happens as lss="trms">matter lss="trms">poems lss="trms">composed of sensations, motion, bodies, and objects (<lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Luisa)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•an attachment to the forms and forces of emergence and concrescence itself <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>...<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc> in the actuality of this and that
lsts>
learning from my mother by moving in the manner of her

we become ls clss='strcls'>*ls>sentientls clss='strcls'>*ls> in making massages that courses in-between self and lss="trms">world
lrg>
<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">pragmatist (thought)<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a moment like the front lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of an advancing wave crest always becoming more than itself

<lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>ls clss='strcls'>*ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>lss="trms">writing<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> an experiment that can register years of living out the thing that is just then froming up the lss="trms">world as “...”


lss="trms">love folters and blows


lss="frds scrmbld">Janina, teaching me, being in lss="trms">love with the surface of the lss="trms">world

lss='at'>@lss="frds scrmbld">Elen, she shouts<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> drive! and see what happens to your senses.


Taussig's “I Swear I saw This” is the stuff of lss="nms">ajayeb. he wrote a lss="trms">book about a drawing he made in his notelss="trms">book when he saw what might have been a woman leaning over what looked like a man lying down at the enterence to a freeway tunnel in Medellin in 2006 <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="nms">ajayeb is also about lss="trms">writing about what ‘might’ be or have been.

ls clss='strcls'>**ls>a mediation on lss="trms">writing and drawing in a horrible lss="trms">worldls clss='strcls'>**ls>

lss='at'>#my drawings in my notelss="trms">book/papers in our lss="nms">apass meetings
lss="prgrph">-a hand that draws a scence also draws itself into its corporality, conjuring it in the manner of
lss="prgrph">-a line records as for what it leads the doodler to see
lss="prgrph">-“a autobiographical record of a discovery of an event” <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a trace and suspension of a wobbly emergence of alertness (to what my friend might have said) <lgc clss='lgc'>-<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>lgc> these are lived abstractions


possible paradigms for the convergence of emergence<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•aflss="trms">finity <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> 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">•complexity <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Eszter
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(auto)lss="trms">poiesis <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Hoda
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•perception as action <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Elen
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•speculative realism <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Zoumana
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•radical virtualization <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lss="frds scrmbld">Aela
lsts> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> we are all somehow busy (in lss="nms">apass) with reorienting to the creativity of thought-action crossings


life is germinaly جرثومه‌ای lss="trms">aesthetic, and the lss="trms">aesthetic anywhere is allss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready politicalls clss='strcls'>*ls> <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Kenneyl>l>

<lrg clss="large lg14" stl="font-size:108%"> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>title<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss="nms">ajayeb's lss="trms">stories of lss="trms">natural and dreamed up things
the imlss="trms">material lss="trms">matterings of supra-personal lss="trms">imaginal real of lss="nms">ajayeb forms


(lss="trms">different names for the same thing<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>)
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•forms of emergent in the conduct of life (l clss="ppl">Nietzschel>, l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Foucaultl>l> attending to the intimate lss="trms">relations between knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and power)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">worlding, the mirror play of lss="trms">materiality and its lss="trms">poetic comlss="trms">position (l clss="ppl">Heideggerl>)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•planes of expressivity reaching a point of recognition or force (l clss="ppl">Deleuzl>e and l clss="ppl">Guattaril>)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the shimmer (l clss="ppl">Barthesl>)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•rhythm in itself (lss='trgt hghlght 1'href='?q=L'>Lefebvre)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•structures of feeling into political theory (Raymond Williams)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•forms emergent in the conduct of life are imlss="trms">material lss="trms">matterings <lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>the contact lss="trms">aestheticsls clss='strcls'>*ls> of lss="trms">natural and dreamed up things throwing themselves together (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>)
lsts>

lss="nms">ajayeb is a lss="trms">literally unblievable image, a lss="trms">sociality, a muscle, a lss="trms">world thrown together in a sensory refrain witnessed by a lss="trms">present subject; collective dreamed up lss="trms">nature and lss="trms">historical lss="trms">presents ripe with rhythms and speeds, with streams of lss="trms">matter and thought; lss="nms">ajayeb is a capacious assemblage

lss="nms">ajayeb lss="trms">stories are<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•lss="trms">material-sensory arc of lss="trms">history
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•series of absent/lss="trms">present (moments) sensed through forms and events
lsts>lrg>

lostness or reslessness of drifters

fantasies of potential “home”

(a plce of) abjection of state neglect <lgc clss='lgc'>==>lgc> production of future


(l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>'s) the middle-class mobile citizenship and the proper lss="trms">traveling subject


lss="frds scrmbld">Janina's “i don't know” s
a lss="trms">material lss="trms">semiosis of choices


what are lss="nms">ajayeb promiseslss='qstn'>?
wtinessings, encounters, timeouts, fantasy, distraction,


a 19th century elite tradition of secular pilgrimage to the sacred

pursuit of see-it-yourselfness

a lss="trms">spectacular form of amnesia ls clss='strcls'>*ls>
lrg>

(the joints of my pop-up lss="trms">book) spin around fantastic axes


l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> “the state of public transportation in the U.S. is an event in the lss="trms">worlding of bodies in motion”
lss="prgrph">-a landscape abuzz with connectivity

lrg>
shape-shifter jumping between comlss="trms">position and concrete


my lss="nms">apass project<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
(sharing with you) the pleasure of recognizing a described lss="trms">world (in lss="nms">ajayeb)ls clss='strcls'>***ls>
(i can sense the lss="nms">ajayeb's) pleasure in describing the lss="trms">animacy of forms
lss="prgrph">-describing a lss="trms">world is the pleasure of sensing the incipiency of ls clss='strcls'>*ls>form in lss="trms">matterls clss='strcls'>*ls> and fantasy and the effort to draw the lines of form's traces. still palpable even it only lss="trms">imagined (l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l> ls clss='strcls'>***ls>)

<lrg clss="large lg6" stl="font-size:124%"> (lss="nms">ajayeb's) heady business of making sense out of what happens
lss="prgrph">-to venture out in the manner of
lss="prgrph">-lss="nms">ajayeb sings an autolss="trms">poetic refrain scoring and unlss="trms">folding
lss="prgrph">-lss="trms">gesturing into form, a magnet burdened with impressions

textures give way to qualities of form


ls clss='strcls'>*ls>before the blizzard<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> the sea lss="trms">monster

______________


Xh1IgPomwW8 l clss="ppl">l clss="ppl">Stewartl>l>'s experiments coming at the lss="trms">phenomena of lss="trms">worlding through a series of angles organized prismatically<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•precision
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•atmosphere
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•attunement
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•refrain ترجیع‌بند (lss="trms">poetic fixed form)
lsts>lrg>
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> the tune on which people and things venture out
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> a kind of mapping infrastructure
<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> lines and distributed biography


<lrg clss="large lg22" stl="font-size:125%"> <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc>pop-up lss="trms">book<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lss='at'>#description<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> (lss="trms">world is like a) pop-up map of possibilities <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> map hylolss="trms">morphically lss="trms">onto meaning<lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc><lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>
<lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(conlss="trms">densed) points of precision
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•fundamentally divergent lss="trms">nature of things that happen <lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>prompting<lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•the mode of lss="trms">social lss="trms">poiesis
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a path into continuous variation of lss="trms">matter and form, word and lss="trms">world
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•(pop-up lss="trms">book made of) mobile and immobile flickering
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a thing that can be physical if the eye is quick enough
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a crystalline image of the deforming of a form
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•bending itself (myselflss='qstn'>?) in refraction (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> intimate register of knowllss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and power)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a conceptual machinery of cutting lss="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a comlss="trms">positional jumping off point; a ‘lifted out of’; a ‘being-moved in’
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•...the lss="nms">ajayeb pop-up lss="trms">book two parallel splss="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading qualities and slss="trms">cenes across a cartography, registers lss="trms">differences in motion
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a comlss="trms">positional lss="trms">writing (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> relss="trms">presentational lss="trms">method) in the effort to keep up with the distributed lss="trms">agencies of ls clss='strcls'>*ls>what is throwing together and what is falling apartls clss='strcls'>*ls> (<lgc clss='lgc'>~lgc> lss="nms">ajayeb) <lgc clss='lgc'>[lgc><lgc clss='lgc'><lgc clss='lgc'>--lgc>>lgc> it is a practice of trying, in line with my lss="trms">lectures, to follow where things (might) go that habits of attunement become as aslss="trms">sociational logicls clss='strcls'>***ls><lgc clss='lgc'>]lgc>
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•particulars to become a hinge لولاى در (opening lss="trms">onto a lss="trms">world throwing together and falling apart)
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•mixing of shiny elements<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> ls clss='strcls'>*ls>flickering lss="trms">ontologiesls clss='strcls'>*ls> the expansive mapping of elements in paly
lsts> <lsts clss="lsts lst1">•a cartography of comlss="trms">positional elements, formal comlss="trms">positions and unmarked ways of being loop around each other
lsts>
(27.08.2017 lss='mywrk'>my work on lss="nms">ajayeb is an inquiry into description<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc>) ls clss='strcls'>***ls>it is about many lss="trms">different forms that something can take and does takels clss='strcls'>***ls> <lgc clss='lgc'>+lgc> the things that can be perceived and thought with those things

(attuning to) details in lss="nms">ajayeb loaded with intensities both strange and recognizable (<lgc clss='lgc'>=/=lgc> stable real)
a mode of perception that walks around an enigmatic object
an hour
a river
a walk
a deflating frog

far from being “after the fact,” my pop-up lss="trms">book involves multiplicity of bodies, characters and lss="trms">materialities to approach ‘description’ as “speculative theory in practice of how a lss="trms">world works” like lss="nms">ajayeb's work of “engendering a plane of prolific expressivity”

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firefly<lgc clss='lgc'>:lgc> a conlss="trms">densed point of precision one after another

lss="nms">ajayeb is made in citing repetitions and differ[...]