[...]ical='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Kenney
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="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)
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="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
(="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
what are ="nms">ajayeb promises='qstn'>?
wtinessings, encounters, timeouts, fantasy, distraction,
a 19th century elite tradition of secular pilgrimage to the sacred
pursuit of see-it-yourselfness
a ="trms">spectacular form of amnesia ='strcls'>*
(the joints of my pop-up ="trms">book) spin around fantastic axes
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="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
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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
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='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
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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
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='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)
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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)
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