[...]ing’ is an unintended consequence (like anything in earth) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="trms">narrative of attachment ='lgc'>=/= an scandal, end of the ="trms">world (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- apocalyptic ="trms">narrative of emancipation, ="trms">modernist myth of mastery)
pristine ="trms">nature ='lgc'>=/= our ="trms">nature ='lgc'>~= national park='lgc'>: a rural eco="trms">system complete with post offices, well-tended roads, highly subsidized cows, and handsome villages
(="ppl">="ppl">Latour giving the ='thdf'>example of theology='lgc'>:) ‘mastery ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> attachment’ ='lgc'>: “the christian God gets ="trms">folded into, involved with, implicated with, and incarnated into his creation.” ='lgc'>=/= a master who is freed from dependents
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">="ppl">Latour='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dominion means attachment
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Mi You
="trms">modernization process of European ="trms">societies ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> secularity ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> “="trms">religion='lgc'> = only one option among other ways of self-fulfilment and human flourishing”
='strcls'>*self-sufficient humanism has never existed on the same scale before in European ="trms">societies before the Enlightenment='strcls'>*
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='at'>#="trms">writing for mini-series ="trms">bestiaries
inspired by the https://www.in="trms">stagram.com/="nms">ajayebedidani/
="lstsrd">1. https://www.in="trms">stagram.com/p/CPYnbZnH2w3/ short episode at night in country X there is a talking apple that speeks in unknown ="trms">language. character acting, location garden, animation, play with mixed ="trms">CG architecture
="lstsrd">2.
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borderline ="trms">animals ='lgc'>--in='lgc'>='lgc'>--> medieval ="trms">bestiary
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='strcls'>*alegorical ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> eastern ="trms">fables ='lgc'>+ easter ='and'>& western ="trms">animal lore ='lgc'>+ christian Physiologus ='lgc'>[not ancient ="trms">sciences='qstn'>?!='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> ="trms">bestiary
Physiologus, ="trms">bestiary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> popular source for sermon ="trms">writers ='lgc'>[='lgc'><='lgc'>-- relevance for ="trms">lecture performance='lgc'>]
="brkr">
='lgc'>[email to ="frds scrmbld">Mona='lgc'>]
bebin man ye chizi cherto pert sareham kardam. in gharare bere tu catalog alan
='strcls'>*working title for the ="trms">lecture at ="frds scrmbld">Mona's project “Rat Race”='lgc'>:
The Pray and The Visible ='lgc'>-- An ="trms">animal escape case
='strcls'>*short description='lgc'>:
the ="trms">lecture-performance approaches ='thdf'>the idea of the ="trms">animals’ “friendship” in a ="trms">historical and speculative look at the ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic geography of ="trms">fables from middle-south Asian ="trms">bestiary till pettube.com uploads.
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...political satire
="ppl">Obeyd ="ppl">Zakani - mush o gorbe
some of us are woman, ="trms">child, ="trms">animal
(="trms">coded as a girl)
(man up! woman up! ="trms">child up! ="trms">animal up! etc.)
the ="trms">world that is claiming me, ="trms">recruiting me, ...
if you are an ="nms">iranian ="trms">child you would know some violences...
end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered being, end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered ="trms">animal, if you are then you know what is a violent care.
='strcls'>*leaving unprotected='strcls'>*
becoming attached, making friends, putting together a family
like other ="trms">anxious creatures, I can exhibit friendliness (='lgc'>=/= keeping my stubborn alterity intact. how much space for the utter strangeness we are allowed or able to hold='qstn'>?)
an ="nms">iranian default ="trms">position
داستانِ dastan-e
="trms">according to ="ppl">Heidegger='lgc'>:
thinking ='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>---> thanking
="trms">complaining ='lgc'>='lgc'><='lgc'>---> explaining
(to explain ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? to thank)
(to ="trms">complain ='lgc'>=/=='qstn'>? to think)
='lgc'>[explain ='lgc'>: from Latin explain='qstn'>? ='qstn'>?(“I flatten, sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read out, make plain or clear, explain”), from ex- ='qstn'>?(“out”) ='lgc'>+ plan='qstn'>? ='qstn'>?(“I flatten, make level”), from planus ='qstn'>?(“level, plain”); see plain and plane.='lgc'>]
afformations
sexual arousal, and its ="trms">presence in freindship,
normalcy ="trms">codes, and institutionalizations of friendship (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> friendship insures the modeling of all ="trms">sorts of vital ethical and political dis="trms">positions)
(='at'>#="nms">harem)
pro-ject, intro-ject, and ob-ject
the things we introject,
fb
good example, bad example, etc.
if you “understand” someone you are off friendship
understanding presuposses distance and ="trms">difference
friendship must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude disidentification
empathy replacing understanding='qstn'>? (do we really want an “empathic non-understanding”='qstn'>? to en="trms">fold the ="trms">spectator with..)
='lgc'>[empathic non-understanding='lgc'>: a ="trms">relationship that gives up the self's need for constant affirmation (="ppl">="frds scrmbld">Laura ="ppl">="ppl">Marks) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> pulls us instead into a “meterial understanding” of our connection with other ="trms">animals='lgc'>] ='lgc'>=='lgc'>=> challenging the ="trms">ontological primacy of centers (in general and not only human center ="trms">stage)
“you are thrown off by this narcisistic extension that the other appropriated by your identification has become” (="ppl">Avital)
="prgrph">-disproportion is always ="trms">present and operating
i am not sure if there is an ="nms">iranian pop song we can agree to like (or to hit ‘like’)
="trms">symbolic ="trms">language
attaching sounds to things/="trms">animals/="trms">species when they were not visible
(“Never ignore a sound!”)
The jungle is a ="trms">social space. ='lgc'>{biological real, disciplinary boundary making ="trms">stories='lgc'>}
="trms">Children at age six are typically ="trms">anthropo="trms">morphic
...youth “hanging out” in age-="trms">specific gangs they are “growing themselves up,” often in a milieu of violence and power
deprivation of (avuncular and) grandparental care ='lgc'>=='qstn'>?='lgc'>=> lifelong hostility to one's parents
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elderly functions have been lost in dis="trms">integration
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ok. let's put the whip down. the point is just to mention the word whip, and since you are all well trained, it does its job. we are all trained ="trms">animals, gathered here, calm and curious, want to investigate what or who is training us, whipping our asses, as="trms">sociating our senses with signals he or she or it sends to our bodies, being petted or molested by it...
="lsts lst1">•strong strangle-holds and deadlines
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Tintin and Milou companionship (Milou is the name of Hergé's first girlfriend)
Milou's his ="trms">internal monologue (addressed to the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reader) until Haddock came in the series in The Crab with the Golden Claws.
Hergé always draws Snowy at particular angles
(Tintin in the Land of the Soviets)
='lgc'>[i am relating to my stay at Belgium='lgc'>]
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which orifices are opening up to which kind of phallus='qstn'>?
(the phallus of confession; I open up to you, you are ="trms">prior to me, you impregnate me,)
my repetition compultions
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what offers me hospitality and shelter='qstn'>?
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i am sorry to have to perform some ="nms">iranian ="nms">Tarof maneuvers in order to move or move on ironically ="nms">Tarof temporarily blocks the movement
="prgrph">-="nms">Tarof belongs to the ="trms">tropes of (less violently appropriative or even nonappropriative='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>]) ="trms">greeting (in strictly ="nms">iranian sense,) “="trms">Greeting rellects the double movement of approach and withdrawal that issues in a passage tracking the movement in ="trms">history that defines the conditions of ="trms">historical existence.” (="ppl">Avital)
='lgc'>[if you don't ="trms">greet me i vanish in thin air! i am not kidding! i am also freaked out by those who pretend cool and that their arrival and existence dosn't depend on the other ="trms">greeting them. or, are the al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ="trms">greeted by some other mechanisms that are not immediately visible to me='qstn'>?='lgc'>]
="prgrph">-postponing the encounter
="prgrph">-as a ="trms">greeting ritual, ="nms">Tarof at once performs and tests the reliability of ="trms">social links
="prgrph">-="nms">Tarof has everything to do with the ="trms">poetic act
="prgrph">-i like to open another trackline of research='lgc'>: does ="nms">Tarof appropriates the Other='qstn'>? (its ="trms">relations to violence='qstn'>?)
="prgrph">-="nms">Tarof-="trms">greeting establishes a ="trms">relationality between... texts and ="trms">historicity='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-can we understand ="nms">Tarof that it o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginates the ="trms">relation between man and the divine='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>---"in="trms">finity after you!” (unendlich nach dir!)='lgc'>--intense intimacy of in="trms">finite belonging.
="prgrph">-merger of the sacred with terrestrial destinies. you are made a demigod at the moment of ="nms">Tarof
="prgrph">-a temporary co-belonging, in possession of the Other
="prgrph">-in which sense ="nms">Tarof offers trace of a ="trms">relation to an ungraspable alterity='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-between what and how it holds separation='qstn'>? (="nms">Tarof's very task is to hold together the separation)
="prgrph">-its ="trms">relations to the sacred='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what kind of encounter takes place under the sway of the ="nms">Tarof='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-repeatability of the ="nms">Tarof is built into its singular occurrence
="prgrph">-="nms">Tarof, a ='strcls'>*reciprocal promise='strcls'>* that aims to cor="trms">respond to the most essential level of the other.
="prgrph">-the ="trms">greeted is first and newly returned to his essence
="prgrph">-="nms">Tarof corrupts ="trms">greeting
="prgrph">-the ="trms">story of turtle and two storks in Kelile Demne (کلیله و دمنه)='lgc'>: friedship due to adjacency and terms of nearness or farness to the other. (="nms">Tarof is activated by and sustains adjacency) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--- delicate ="trms">trajectories of ="trms">greeting
="prgrph">-how do [...]