[...]

the miracle mile of computer ="trms">technology

the elitism of the ="trms">historical ="trms">societies

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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:112%">
“in each s="trms">cene of the production of ="trms">history there are events that are storied or otherwise pulled into play” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)

="ppl">="ppl">Stewart on salem witch trials
the accusations spiraled through families, catching people up like magnetic strips
“wicked little sorceries” ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{jumpy moments that suddenly lay the charge of a half-known intensity ="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'>}, ='lgc'>{the adjective ‘wicked’ marking ='strcls'>*="trms">excess='strcls'>* of all kinds='lgc'>}
astrology
fortune-telling
='strcls'>*an attunement to specters='strcls'>*
="prgrph">-a farmer admitted getting into ‘the snare of the devil’ because he had a large family and ‘the ="trms">world went hard with him.’


robustness in cold weather


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

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

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

an edgy irruptive event

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

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

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

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


='strcls'>*what are ="nms">ajayeb's turns (and turn backs) to the in="trms">articulate real='qstn'>?


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


what are ="nms">ajayeb's state of emergent expressivity ='lgc'>[today='lgc'>]='qstn'>? (that tries to guess and describe ‘what is happening’) ='strcls'>**** things that happen are in="trms">citements to form ='strcls'>****
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intensities become expressive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> an خونسرد impassive corporeality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intensities pass from body to body ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{
="lsts lst1">•human bodies
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animal bodies
="lsts lst1">•machine bodies
="lsts lst1">•bodies of thought
="lsts lst1">•eco="trms">systems
="lsts lst1">•="trms">visceralities and noumena ='lgc'>[a thing in itself, as distinguished from a ="trms">phenomenon='lgc'>] sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read out across a vast atmospheric field

sediments of ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•obvious
="lsts lst1">•much remarked
="lsts lst1">•cryptic ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> favored
="lsts lst1">•="trms">situationally precise

how ="nms">ajayeb is an improvisatory conceptuality='qstn'>?
does ="nms">ajayeb-="trms">writing takes place in singularity='qstn'>? (because every ="trms">worlding is singular and precise ='lgc'>==> the pleasure of its recognition)

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

="nms">ajayeb reports of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">affect that has become native='strcls'>***, attaching to bodies and ="trms">socialities, to an ethos='strcls'>***

with ="nms">ajayeb (with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) i am learning='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to approach the tactile com="trms">positionality of things
="lsts lst1">•de-dramatization of academic thought
="lsts lst1">•to approach the thing that throws itself together ='strcls'>*slowly and enigmatically='strcls'>*='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='at'>#andakhtan, andaze
="lsts lst1">•a descriptive detour (with ="ppl">="ppl">Latour)
="lsts lst1">•a lyrical evocation (with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">method of awkwardly approaching an object by attuning to it as a thing of ='strcls'>*promise and contact='strcls'>* (with ="ppl">Berlant)
="lsts lst1">•

concept='lgc'>: that which attunes itself to things coming into form; is both abstract ='and'>& concrete; actual ='and'>& un="trms">folding

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

="large lg1" stl="font-size:143%"> ______________


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

='strcls'>*a something both animated and inhabitable

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

(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > ="ppl">Berlant='lgc'>:) objects and s="trms">cenes of desire hold promise, keeping whole ="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusters of ="trms">affects magnetized to them
="prgrph">-an individual's abstract yet ="trms">contingent desire to feel like he or she is “in” something or can recognize something ='lgc'>[='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili, ="frds scrmbld">Aela='lgc'>]

='strcls'>***promise is always promise to be ="trms">present to the s="trms">cene


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


(="trms">according to ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) ordinary ="trms">affects are more directly compelling than ideologies, as well as more fractious, multiplicitous, and unpre="trms">dictable than ="trms">symbolic meaning='strcls'>*** (in short='lgc'>: canon of “Thinking”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “bigger” structures and underlying causes obscure the ways in which a reeling ="trms">present is ="trms">composed out of heterogeneous and noncoherent singularities
="prgrph">-="frds scrmbld">Sven's ordinary ="trms">affects and DJings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> his noncoherent singularity ='lgc'>==> a nonre="trms">presentational theory is needed to address them
asking ="frds scrmbld">Sven='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•what needs attending to (for you)='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what/who are you in conversation with='qstn'>?



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



="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (paying attention to pressure points of ="nms">ajayeb ='lgc'>==>)
in ="nms">ajayeb, what is
="lsts lst1">•maintained as a prized possession
="lsts lst1">•left to rot
="lsts lst1">•hardened into little mythic kernal
="lsts lst1">•="trms">morphed into a cold dark ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst1">•hopeful
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> things take place as ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]precisions='lgc'>: the pressure points that open ="trms">onto potentialities are taken up as apparitional things (surat صورت) and then sharpened and repeated in com="trms">positions that labor to describe but also flourish on their own terms


my efforts have not been to finally “know” ="nms">ajayeb, ="frds scrmbld">Sven, or ="frds scrmbld">Sana, ='lgc'>[i have been reluctant to collect them into a good enough ="trms">story of what's going on with them,='lgc'>] rather to ="trms">fashion some ="trms">sort of address that is adequate (and ="trms">fabulous) to their form
="prgrph">-does the intensity and texture of my ="trms">routines (talks, ="trms">writings, etc.) make ="nms">ajayeb habitable and animate='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-in the last year in ="nms">apass i have been training myself to become attuned to what a particular s="trms">cene might offer

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

="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> ='qstn'>?in our group who
="lsts lst1">•gazes
="lsts lst1">•="trms">imagines
="lsts lst1">•senses
="lsts lst1">•takes on
="lsts lst1">•performs
="lsts lst1">•asserts (not a flat and finished truth)
="lsts lst1">•is in a hot persuit of something de="trms">finitive ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Lili
="lsts lst1">•a point of contract ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Esta
="lsts lst1">•

watching and waiting for an event to un="trms">fold
the still life that gives a pause ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">story of many of us

______________


“every achieved ="trms">poem inscribes a perceptual sig="trms">nature in the ="trms">world” (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > ="ppl">Doty)

="large lg5" stl="font-size:128%"> ="trms">poems have to be achieved (in the ="trms">social-="trms">material ="trms">world)
(achieved ='lgc'>=/= archived)

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">poem='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•etching ='strcls'>*lines of action='strcls'>* and mood across the sensations
="lsts lst1">•com="trms">positions at work


my ="nms">ajayeb's
="lsts lst1">•objects of analysis='lgc'>: “com="trms">positional elements of thrown together ="trms">worlds”
="lsts lst1">•objects of critique='lgc'>: “as="trms">sociative account of the modification and reciprocity of bodies and actions, environs, senses, rhythms, tones, and proprioceptions"='lgc'>[='lgc'>: sense of the ="trms">position of parts of the body, relative to other neighbouring parts of the body='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•ob[...]