{"id":1590,"date":"2026-02-08T13:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T10:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drhamidyousefi.com\/resistance-is-life-live\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T13:04:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T09:34:30","slug":"resistance-is-life-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drhamidyousefi.com\/en\/resistance-is-life-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Resistance is life; live."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"q-infinite-scroll\" data-v-46848d52=\"\">\n<div id=\"message-a040d900-df4f-4790-aedf-b00ac305f7dd\" data-v-3b185968=\"\" data-v-46848d52=\"\">\n<div class=\"row bot-chat-box\" data-v-3b185968=\"\">\n<div class=\"message-container\" data-v-3b185968=\"\">\n<div class=\"bot-message\" data-v-3b185968=\"\">\n<div data-v-3b185968=\"\">\n<div class=\"markdown-container\" dir=\"ltr\" data-v-36800c70=\"\" data-v-3b185968=\"\" data-block-id=\"65ef03ff-a7cf-4de7-afb4-f92ff0379882\">\n<div>\n<p lang=\"en\">Today I saw that some people, in a new attempt to silence the interpretation and analysis of what has happened, referred to Adorno\u2019s statement that \u201cto write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.\u201d The fact that the far right is clinging to a quote from Adorno to justify itself is, of course, an interesting level of irony\u2014but that is not the main point.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">In his book <em>After Barbarism<\/em>, #Dabashi\u2014whose translation I completed some time ago, though unfortunately the professor has not permitted its free publication\u2014offers a very strong argument against this claim.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Dabashi says that \u201cpoetry after Auschwitz is barbarism\u201d expresses the Western white man\u2019s understanding of catastrophe. The Eastern, and especially the Iranian, understanding of catastrophe is in fact entirely the opposite. Look at our finest literary and musical works and see in what periods they were composed. We, in reaction to catastrophe, actually take refuge in verbal expression.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">After Alexander\u2019s invasion in the 4th century BCE, a wave of <em>Khoday-Nameh<\/em> writing arose in Iran. After the Arab invasion, we saw the emergence of historiography, commentary writing, and in poetry came Rudaki, Daqiqi, Unsuri, and Manuchehri. After the Mongol invasion in the 7th century AH, we have Rumi, Attar, Saadi, and Hafez.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Contrary to what is claimed, the Iranian spirit has not responded to catastrophe by halting intellectual production. The Iranian spirit has not been one of creating an unresolved, paralyzing \u201ctrauma\u201d from disaster and then clinging to that disaster to justify halting life.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">It is not intellectual production that is barbaric. Barbarism is letting catastrophe dominate life\u2014and stopping life.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Resistance is life.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">Live.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\">@anexegesis<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"feedback-section\" data-v-3b185968=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"bottom-spacer\" data-v-46848d52=\"\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I saw that some people, in a new attempt to silence the interpretation and analysis of what has happened, &#8230; <a class=\"cz_readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/drhamidyousefi.com\/en\/resistance-is-life-live\/\"><i class=\"fa fa-angle-left\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><span>\u0627\u062f\u0627\u0645\u0647 \u0645\u0637\u0644\u0628<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thought"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Resistance is life; 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