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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 13h

on this week’s teaching agenda is this wonderful article by @radhikagovindrajan.bsky.social

ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 14h

vah!

"a melody is composed of notes, and a tone can become a note only in tying itself to other tone-notes with relations similar to those by which a verse constitutes a poem."

bernard stiegler, _technics and time_, 2:204

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

“contact with the thing has to be a murmur”

clarice

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

“we ourselves were the the unknown law that we obeyed”

clarice lispector

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

nils frahm

youtu.be/QqDuIwc68QA

Nils Frahm - A Place

YouTube video by Erased Tapes

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

how deeply impressive

"Endless Shores"

by Ebrahim Moosa

criticalmuslim.com/explore/issu...

Endless Shores

‘Kinds of water drown us. Kinds of water do not.’

criticalmuslim.com

ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

To put on reading list this new book by @klavezzo.bsky.social

fordhampress.com/bad-medieval...

Bad Medievalism and the Modernity Problem - Kathy Lavezzo

Challenges the assumptions made over the medieval/modern divide by examining the medieval roots of modern racism Humanists have long insisted on a chasm separating modernity and the Middle Ages. In Ba...

fordhampress.com

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 1d

a scene i witnessed on saturday outside my office and it got stuck in my soul

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The Warburg Institute @warburginstitute.bsky.social · 2d

In person attendance is sold out, but you can join us online!

Find out more and register: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Jeremy Stolow @jeremystolow.bsky.social · 3d

Join me and me and an amazing panel to discuss "Picturing Aura" at the Warburg Institute on 16/10, in person or streamed online. Register here: warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

Picturing Aura: A Visual Biography

warburg.sas.ac.uk

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 2d

“in the interstices of primordial matter is the line of mystery and fire that is the breathing of the world, and the continual breathing of the world is what we hear and call silence”

Clarice Lispector, _The Passion According to G.H._

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 4d

wonderful book

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 4d

أمور تكوينية

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Granta @grantamag.bsky.social · 5d

‘Ramadan starts at the beginning of March in Gaza, but it’s a different March and a different Ramadan to everyone else’s.’

A diary entry by Nahil Mohana from March 2025 in Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls.

granta.com/march-2025/

March 2025 | Nahil Mohana | Granta

‘Ramadan starts at the beginning of March in Gaza, but it’s a different March and a different Ramadan to everyone else’s.’ Nahil Mohana on March 2025 in Gaza, translated by Katharine Halls.

granta.com

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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 5d

the full series of seven discussions Horkheimer & Adorno had in January, 1939—focusing on the concept of the individual in Marx, Hegel, Freud, Kant, Hume, Heidegger, Caillois, the Oedipus myth, & more—that would lead to Dialectic of Enlightenment!

James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 5d

here it is!

open.substack.com/pub/jamescra...

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

today is world mental health day, and so sharing this article i wrote in grad school, which ends with a plea for compassion for embodied differences, bringing together the prophet muhammad and spinoza

www.jstor.org/stable/43049...

Mental Disability in Medieval Hanafī Legalism on JSTOR

ALI ALTAF MIAN, Mental Disability in Medieval Hanafī Legalism, Islamic Studies, Vol. 51, No. 3 (Autumn 2012), pp. 247-262

www.jstor.org

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Eric Alper @thatericalper.com · 29d

Steven Rings Explores the Sonic World of Bob Dylan in Forthcoming Book ‘What Did You Hear?’ zurl.co/gx4p8

Steven Rings Explores the Sonic World of Bob Dylan in Forthcoming Book 'What Did You Hear?' - That Eric Alper

Discover a new side of the songs of Bob Dylan by exploring the virtues of rough sounds, peculiar intonation, and a raspy voice. Folk troubadour, rock star, country crooner—for a musician who adopted so many personas, Bob Dylan always sounds like himself. While he’s written many of the most iconic and impactful lyrics of the past […]

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

“hasn’t thinking decided, at the most intimate point of its decision for decision, in favor of the ‘grace’ of existence, and not for the fury of essence?”

jean-luc nancy

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

décider contre l'inexistence

ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

"the non-innocence of freedom constitutes the existential condition of possibility of the decision, which makes the existent exist as 'resolute'."

jean-luc nancy

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The Quietus @thequietus.com · 5d

A new album from the pioneer of alternative Arab music tempers pain and disappointment with the experimental grooviness she’s known for

#YasmineHamdan - I remember I forget

buff.ly/oEy7Yjn

Yasmine Hamdan - I remember I forget album cover. Photograph of a young girl with painting added on top of the image, including a yellow background.

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

so this is not nonsovereign autonomy but nonsovereign perplexity and moral obligation at the same time

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

Neither Existent Nor Non-existent, Neither Created Nor Uncreated: Human Agency and Free Choice in Māturīdī Scholar Muḥammad b. Walī b. Rasūl al-Qīrshahrī al-Izmīrī’s (d. 1165/1751) Kitāb al-Masāʾil al-khilāfiyya bayna al-Māturīdiyya wa-l-Ashāʿira

Angelika Brodersen

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Neither Existent Nor Non-existent, Neither Created Nor Uncreated: Human Agency and Free Choice in Māturīdī Scholar Muḥammad b. Walī b. Rasūl al-Qīrshahrī al-Izmīrī’s (d. 1165/1751) Kitāb al-Masāʾil al...

Abstract. The Sunni theological school of Māturīdiyya emphasizes human freedom in making choices and performing acts, particularly in the context of debate

academic.oup.com

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

"The fugitive condition of flight: the refugee appears. ... Krasznahorkai both uneasily represents the psychological distortions of the end of history and concludes that the inside is all there is; the cage of consciousness is inescapable."
@jakeromm.bsky.social

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ali altaf mian @alialtafmian.bsky.social · 5d

"One must not seek out sheltered places, for precisely such sheltered places are the most dangerous, since—in addition to the fact that my pursuers will naturally look for me first and foremost in such places—sheltered spots tend to increase your fear, the fear of unknown perils outside..."

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