[...] 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'>='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 lg2" 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)

="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">•objects of ="trms">database='lgc'>: “are soicialy, ="trms">poetically, ="trms">materially com="trms">positional”


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


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

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


“watching a spider negotiate its unlikely territory”


(useless concentration)


="frds scrmbld">Foad, ="frds">Sina, we were a slipstream of sensations made of all the ways that ="trms">world impressed itself upon us


="large lg6" stl="font-size:117%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">world='lgc'>: a partial stabilization of practices, capacities, tendencies and affordances in the form of a recursive patterning (Anderson ='lgc'>+ Harrison > ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)
="lsts lst1">•mixed-media com="trms">positions of ="trms">matter and thought-feeling
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">world of ="nms">ajayeb magnetizes ="trms">materialities and forms of alertness for me to what's singular and prolific. i am circling through a ="trms">heritage of (="nms">iranian) romanticism and ="trms">pragmatism to arrive (with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart) at “the precision of a ="trms">worldly com="trms">position's ="trms">mattering forms”
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*="trms">worlding='lgc'>: happens as ="trms">matter ="trms">poems ="trms">composed of sensations, motion, bodies, and objects (='lgc'>--='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Luisa)
="lsts lst1">•an attachment to the forms and forces of emergence and concrescence itself ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] in the actuality of this and that

learning from my mother by moving in the manner of her

we become ='strcls'>*sentient='strcls'>* in making massages that courses in-between self and ="trms">world

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">pragmatist (thought)='lgc'>: a moment like the front ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of an advancing wave crest always becoming more than itself

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


="trms">love folters and blows


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

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


Taussig's “I Swear I saw This” is the stuff of ="nms">ajayeb. he wrote a ="trms">book about a drawing he made in his note="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'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb is also about ="trms">writing about what ‘might’ be or have been.

='strcls'>**a mediation on ="trms">writing and drawing in a horrible ="trms">world='strcls'>**

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


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


life is germinaly جرثومه‌ای ="trms">aesthetic, and the ="trms">aesthetic anywhere is al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready political='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney

='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">stories of ="trms">natural and dreamed up things
the im="trms">material ="trms">matterings of supra-personal ="trms">imaginal real of ="nms">ajayeb forms


(="trms">different names for the same thing='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•forms of emergent in the conduct of life (="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault attending to the intimate ="trms">relations between knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and power)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">worlding, the mirror play of ="trms">materiality and its ="trms">poetic com="trms">position (="ppl">Heidegger)
="lsts lst1">•planes of expressivity reaching a point of recognition or force (="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari)
="lsts lst1">•the shimmer (="ppl">Barthes)
="lsts lst1">•rhythm in itself (Lefebvre)
="lsts lst1">•structures of feeling into political theory (Raymond Williams)
="lsts lst1">•forms emergent in the conduct of life are im="trms">material ="trms">matterings ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the contact ="trms">aesthetics='strcls'>* of ="trms">natural and dreamed up things throwing themselves together (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)


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

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


lostness or reslessness of drifters

fantasies of potential “home”

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


="large lg6" stl="font-size:100%"> (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's) the middle-class mobile citizenship and the proper ="trms">traveling subject


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


="large lg14" stl="font-size:124%"> what are ="nms">ajayeb promises='qstn'>?
wtinessings, encounters, timeouts, fantasy, distraction,


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

="large lg6" stl="font-size:122%"> pursuit of see-it-yourselfness

="large lg1" stl="font-size:128%"> a ="trms">spectacular form of amnesia ='strcls'>*


="large lg10" stl="font-size:121%"> (the joints of my pop-up ="trms">book) spin around fantastic axes


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


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


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

(="nms">ajayeb's) heady business of making sense out of what happens
="prgrph">-to venture out in the manner of
="prgrph">-="nms">ajayeb sings an auto="trms">poetic refrain scoring and un="trms">folding
="prgrph">-="trms">gesturing into form, a magnet burdened with impressions

textures give way to qualities of form


='strcls'>*before the blizzard='lgc'>: the sea ="trms">monster

______________


Xh1IgPomwW8 ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's experiments coming at the ="trms">phenomena of ="trms">worlding through a series of angles organized prismatically='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•precision
="lsts lst1">•atmosphere
="lsts lst1">•attunement
="lsts lst1">•refrain ترجیع‌بند (="trms">poetic fixed form)

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the tune on which people and things venture out
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a kind of mapping infrastructure
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> lines and distributed biography


='lgc'>[pop-up ="trms">book='lgc'>]
='at'>#description='lgc'>: (="trms">world is like a) pop-up map of possibilities ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= map hylo="trms">morphically ="trms">onto meaning='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•(con="trms">densed) points of precision
="lsts lst1">•fundamentally divergent ="trms">nature of things that happen ='lgc'>--prompting='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lsts lst1">•the mode of ="trms">social ="trms">poiesis
="lsts lst1">•a path into continuous variation of ="trms">matter and form, word and ="trms">world
="lsts lst1">•(pop-up ="trms">book made of) mobile and immobile flickering
="lsts lst1">•a thing that can be physical if the eye is quick enough
="lsts lst1">•a crystalline image of the deforming of a form
="lsts lst1">•bending itself (myself='qstn'>?) in refraction (='lgc'>=/= intimate register of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and power)
="lsts lst1">•a conceptual machinery of cutting ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges
="lsts lst1">•a com="trms">positional jumping off point; a ‘lifted out of’; a ‘being-moved in’
="lsts lst1">•...the ="nms">ajayeb pop-up ="trms">book two parallel sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading qualities and s="trms">cenes across a cartography, registers ="trms">differences in motion
="lsts lst1">•a com="trms">positional ="trms">writing (='lgc'>=/= re="trms">presentational ="trms">method) in the effort to keep up with the distributed ="trms">agencies of ='strcls'>*what is throwing together and what is falling apart='strcls'>* (='lgc'>~ ="nms">ajayeb) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is a practice of trying, in line with my ="trms">lectures, to follow where things (might) go that habits of attunement become as as="trms">sociational logic='strcls'>***='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•particulars to become a hinge لولاى در (opening ="trms">onto a ="trms">world throwing together and falling apart)
="lsts lst1">•mixing of shiny elements='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*flickering ="trms">ontologies='strcls'>* the expansive mapping of elements in paly
="lsts lst1">•a cartography of com="trms">positional elements, formal com="trms">positions and unmarked ways of being loop around each other

(27.08.2017 ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb is an inquiry into description='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>***it is about many ="trms">different forms that something can take and does take='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>+ the things that can be perceived and thought with those things

(attuning to) details in ="nms">ajayeb loaded with intensities both strange and recognizable (='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 ="trms">book involves multiplicity of bodies, characters and ="trms">materialities to approach ‘description’ as “speculative theory in practice of how a ="trms">world works” like ="nms">ajayeb's work of “engendering a plane of prolific expressivity”

(عجایب المخلوقات / عجایب نامه) ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: a once percepted thing on the threshold of sense in the prisma of ="trms">social ="trms">poiesis producing a cartography of what might be happening in a ="trms">world as an object of com="trms">position

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

="nms">ajayeb is made in citing repetitions and ="trms">differences

(with ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart='lgc'>:) ="nms">ajayeb was once “the cutting ="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges of a harsh ="trms">world in a state of uneven emergence, an ambient mapping of the not-yet or as-if of things becoming ="trms">phenomenon” which itself became a repetitive impulse to ="trms">story

i can't find a better kind of description of what ="nms">ajayeb does than ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart describing ‘description’ that ="trms">literally puts a point things='lgc'>: “the expressivity of what happens to things throwing together in words is a kind of description attuned to what does not completely un="trms">fold but instead melds together with other unnamed but palpable things collected like a field of mineable resources and shiny afterthoughts.”

things throwing together in words ='lgc'>==> expressivity
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: collected (unnamed but palpable) things like mineable resources and shiny afterthoughts

پس انديشه

______________


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]perspective='lgc'>: (an attending, enduring ="trms">presence, a com="trms">positional node,) perspectival ="trms">agency in which things jump into ="trms">relation but remain unglued='strcls'>*** (="ppl">="ppl">Stewart)

...across a field of subjects-objects-bodies-="trms">trajectories-="trms">affects


realm of killed off things


new figures i am learning from ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart's
="lsts lst1">•“throwing together”
="lsts lst1">•“manner of”
="lsts lst1">•


(in ="nms">ajayeb) the whale='lgc'>: throwing together of the ="trms">phenomena of fish and water, sailing, mood, atmosphere, and sensory charge

='strcls'>*="nms">ajayeb's descriptive apparauses='lgc'>: a mutating realism of a certain vision of light meeting movement

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: things that were once named, perhaps ="trms">written down, (="trms">differently than now,) through some kind of trickery (called ="trms">citation,) and then ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metastasized (sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read throughout a body) into circulation (="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readings, ="trms">translations, etc.) are raised, incised, made singular and charged
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">stories/reports ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= forms of co-recognition, something witnessed that gets cooked down into something saucy='strcls'>***
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">writing='lgc'>: a more-than-re="trms">presentational ="trms">method of ="trms">writing attuned to the qualities of ="trms">phenomena
="lsts lst1">•="nms">ajayeb's ="trms">fabulations (appear as='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst2">◦(atmospheric) traces
="lsts lst2">◦(momentary) might-have-beens

="nms">ajayeb='lgc'> = people ='lgc'>+ ="trms">matter ='lgc'>+ real ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*point of figuring com="trms">positional reals='strcls'>*


fast-forwarded throught great arcs of ='strcls'>*="trms">history-in-itelf='strcls'>* or ='strcls'>*place-in-itself='strcls'>* in The Time Machine (2002 film)

="large lg6" stl="font-size:127%">
what are the river and field doing now='qstn'>?


='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]theory='lgc'>: drawn through ="trms">writing into the ways that people and things venture out into ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]reals='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a recursive haeccity (="ppl">Deleuze and ="ppl">Guattari)
="lsts lst1">•transversal arrays of qualities or activities which, like musical refrains, give order to ="trms">materials and ="trms">situations, human bodies and brains in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded, as actions undertaken act-back to shape muscles and bone senses (Anderson ='lgc'>+ Harrison)
="lsts lst1">•a ="trms">mattering that is about the (="trms">contingent and temporary) becoming-determinate (and becoming-indeterminate) of ="trms">matter and meaning (="ppl">="ppl">Barad)
="lsts lst1">•built out of ="trms">difference and repetition (="ppl">Deleuze)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">composed of potentiality and loss (="ppl">Berlant)
="lsts lst1">•lean toward that which exists singularly as event, or as a gap, without ground or against the background of nothing (Dewsbury)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:112%"> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]reality='lgc'>: a rhythmic alteration between objects, events, and words='lgc'>='lgc'>---an uncreated ="trms">world='lgc'>='lgc'>---='lgc'>{re="trms">verb between word and ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]worling='lgc'>: a trans="trms">position of the existing knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready possible in a ="trms">joke or a ="trms">gesture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> singularities gathering and dissolving, ='at'>#tools='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•snapshots (shoot of an ="trms">affect)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">fictocriticism (="trms">fiction ='lgc'>+ theory ='lgc'>+ criticism; a name for those “critical” inventions which belong to ="trms">literature while deforming its limits)
="lsts lst1">•sensory ethnography (ethnographic engagement based on curiosity and attachment) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> drawing
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> paths lit up in a rhythm ="trms">interrupted
(as an aritist) you can make anything of anything, the ="trms">questions is, what is it, what is it doing, what is in this consistency of rhythm='qstn'>?='lgc'>}

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">social='lgc'>: comprised of entities that are both ="trms">present and absent (='lgc'>==> ="nms">ajayeb), atmospheres, ="trms">affects, virtual ="trms">memories, hauntings, and that these are themselves moments of endurance (or not='qstn'>?), instants of the holding together of the disparate itself
(="ppl">="ppl">Stewart > Doel)

="large lg14" stl="font-size:130%">
='lgc'>[!='strcls'>* ="ppl">="ppl">Stewart describing the color='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*red='lgc'>: “it moves through streams and tendrils into an as="trms">sociational register of connections and ="trms">differences, ="trms">materials and noumena وجود مجرد, the coagulation دلمه شدن and diffusions of lines of influence and bits of ="trms">matter.”
(in my visual art studies we were given redness as a ="trms">symbolic element in a re="trms">presentational order and a ="trms">matter-of-fact) ='lgc'>=/= state-of-sensory-alert, redness as an actual com="trms">position spun into re="trms">presentations, objects, and states of sensory alert
“='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] a germinal ="trms">aesthetic. a tendril of practices and sensibilities gathered into an energetics of form
="lsts lst1">•black sky and ocean ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> limit, outline, elemental flux, ="trms">matter waiting formlessly
="lsts lst1">•white ice and snow ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stasis, shape and form, a blankness that challenges com="trms">position, the ="trms">transitoriness
="lsts lst1">•red ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the feebly real, the long, low-frequency wave-lenght of the dying stars, the ="trms">past, the effort to fix dead reality in a cast ='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•green ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> plants that glare with a harsh reality, the violence at the heart of the ="trms">world we inhabite
="lsts lst1">•blue ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a limited, temporary success in fixing experience in a pattern
="lsts lst1">•


="large lg4" stl="font-size:111%"> a landscape animated by the primariness of color ='lgc'>=/= Molenbeek
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