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="ppl">="ppl">Bowker > ="frds">Sina='lgc'>: every critical work (today) must in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude the centrality of ="trms">data (and calculation) in our lives
(from pre="trms">modern) ='strcls'>*describe the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[="trms">bestiaries='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="trms">modern necessity to) ='strcls'>*calculate the ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[recognizing a calculated ="trms">world ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my ="trms">interest in ="ppl">Olearius='lgc'>]
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(Cameron's image of) Terminator='lgc'>: relentless unidirectional progress ='lgc'>[that you can't negotiate with='lgc'>] (='lgc'>~= ="trms">modernity) ='lgc'>==> destruction of cultures and ="trms">communities ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> destroy ourselves
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how to live with Terminator='lgc'> = how to live with ="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> post="trms">modernity
(in the film the Terminator is finally terminated by a determined woman using rather old-="trms">fashioned ="trms">technology)
absolutely will not stop
inside='lgc'>: hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor controlled, fully armoured, very tough
outside='lgc'>: living human tissue, flesh, skin, hair, blood ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> controlled by a clinical logic='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*it cannot be reasoned with='strcls'>*, it cannot be bargained with
its ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metal skeleton rises from the ashes and carries on with its ="trms">mission. the skeleton too is chopped to bits, the individual bits come to life and continue with their goal
(for ="ppl">Sardar) ="trms">modernity is the conceptual equivalent of the Terminator (incepted in European Enlightenment='lgc'>: ="trms">modernize traditional cultures and relentlessly lead mankind, screaming and protesting, by the nose towards a progressive utopia)
="trms">modernity ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=> (witnessed, if not caused='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•death and elimination of numerous cultures
="lsts lst1">•destruction of countless ="trms">communities and ="trms">histories
="lsts lst1">•disappearance of hundreds of valuable ="trms">animal and plant ="trms">species
="lsts lst1">•transformed arable land into wastelands and deserts
="trms">modernity='lgc'>: the official culture of the ="trms">world
(="ppl">Nietzsche, ="ppl">Heidegger ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) it is not possible to think our way out of ="trms">modernity with the philosophical ="trms">system of thought and ="trms">language supplied by ="trms">modernity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Vattimo's (bad) philosophy of crisis='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">history
what was traditionally referred to as “="trms">history” is now perceived as having broken down into an in="trms">finity of “="trms">histories” that can no longer be (re)combined into a single ="trms">narrative governed by a central theme
(today='lgc'>:) ="trms">history='lgc'> = a kind of ="trms">writing
="lsts lst1">•progress='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*something qualitatively ="trms">different from what precedes it='strcls'>* (a forward movement in ="trms">history) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[now:='lgc'>] welf established ="trms">technique (of such masters as ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, ="ppl">Deleuze, ="ppl">Derrida, ="ppl">Lyotard and ="ppl">Baudrillard='lgc'>:) to deconstruct rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics in order to open it, to re="trms">write it and thus to lay the foundation, in terms of a ="ppl">Marxian-inspired ="trms">historicism, of new truths for a post="trms">modernist thought
="lsts lst1">•(Vattimo's use of) nihilism as weapon to attack notions of ‘truth’ and ‘reason’ (in western ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics) ='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst2">◦‘logic='lgc'> = (just another kind of) ="trms">rhetoric’
="lsts lst2">◦‘truth='lgc'> = will to power (by those who claim to be seeking truth over those who are being addressed by them)’
="lsts lst2">◦‘="trms">science and ="trms">technology='lgc'> = dominating ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical ="trms">systems’
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (eliminated any) possibility of a dialogue with cultures that are truly other as the rational ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of ="trms">science and ="trms">technology
(='thdf'>the idea of) p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurality of cultures and discourses must become a basic premise of post="trms">modernist thought ='lgc'>==> widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read and widely p="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic ="trms">religious revival ='lgc'>[='lgc'>+ ="trms">excessive indulgence in relativism='lgc'>]
(the meaning of) morality and principles of justice in a post="trms">modern ="trms">world='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[democracy's western ethos:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•recognition of human needs
="lsts lst1">•courage
="lsts lst1">•solidarity
="lsts lst1">•justice
="lsts lst1">•prudence
="lsts lst1">•(virtue of) participating in rational discourse
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(="ppl">Sardar's ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•stating the obvious with a sense of grand discovery is an essential post="trms">modern disease
="lsts lst1">•what ="trms">modern ="trms">science and ="trms">technology, free ="trms">market economy and multinational corporations are doing in the name of freedom, justice and fairness
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> despite ="trms">wonderful sentiments, and all the arguments for justice and equify, we end up with more of the same
(problem of the East with) ="trms">modernity='lgc'>: a European cultural construct based on ="trms">specific ="trms">historical legacy and condition, and its basic goal has always been to shape ="trms">science, politics, arts, morality and the ="trms">world ="trms">according to its own image and inner logic
='lgc'>+
much of post="trms">modernist thought is a sitnilar European construct and continues the old programme in a renewed attempt to justify neomarxism or new brands of liberal humanism
="prgrph">-what is a a genuine, radical departure from post="trms">modernism='qstn'>?
="trms">religiosity='lgc'>: that which transcends the ="trms">world (can be expressed in Fascism, ="trms">Communism, Nationalism, ="trms">Scientism, ="trms">Aestheticism, Nuclearism, or in several other secular ="trms">religions)
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]secularism='lgc'>: a dishonest kind of ="trms">religiosity='strcls'>***
(mark of out time='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*necessity of recovering our sense of oneness with ="trms">nature='strcls'>* ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- our total alienation
='lgc'>[='qstn'>?my artistic research is the very expression of='lgc'>] (Griffin's) post="trms">modernism ='lgc'>: a new ="trms">relationship with the ="trms">past (and the future) ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- post="trms">modernism acknowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edges, appreciates and wants to learn from the wisdom of traditional ="trms">societies ='lgc'>~= neoconservative ="trms">religious fundamentalism ='lgc'>=/= constructive nihilism
='lgc'>[the strive for a new ‘enchanted ="trms">science’ (='lgc'>=/= sacred ="trms">science) that='lgc'>] overcomes the separation between truth and virtue, value and fact, ethics and practical necessity
(Falk's) Disneyland post="trms">modernism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•abstract affirmation of a ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic harmonious future
="lsts lst1">•homogenized uniformity (based on a colonizing logic and westernization of the globe)
="lsts lst1">•re="trms">interpret ="trms">science and ="trms">natural reality as confirmatory of a spiritual grounding for human
="lsts lst1">•ho="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listic possibilities of encompassing conflict
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>***post="trms">modernism as an expression of the privileged status of the West='strcls'>***
='strcls'>*="trms">greek gnosis is the Terminator in its guise of mystic='strcls'>* (which provided the Enlightenment with its springboard and ="trms">modernity with its ="trms">mission to subjugate non-western cultures)
arrogance and ="trms">authoritarianism are intrinsic in both ="trms">Greek rationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list and mystical thoughts='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Socrates ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped reason and was an arrogant and obnoxious man who enjoyed ridiculing ordinary folks
="lsts lst1">•Buddah ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> worshipped ="trms">nature and produced a totally ="trms">authoritarian ="trms">system of thought (as have most philosophers in western ="trms">history who have appealed to ="trms">nature for ethics)
new post="trms">modernism's value='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">ecological wisdom
="lsts lst1">•grassroots democracy
="lsts lst1">•personal and ="trms">social ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•non-violence
="lsts lst1">•decentralization
="lsts lst1">•="trms">community-based economics
="lsts lst1">•postpatriarchal values
="lsts lst1">•respect for diversity
="lsts lst1">•global ="trms">responsibility
="lsts lst1">•future focus
='strcls'>*="trms">modernity is based on a fundamental value-idea ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> secularism (a value whose op="trms">posite cannot be chosen as value)='strcls'>*
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importance of scale
archive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> scale of the in="trms">finite
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='strcls'>*="trms">history of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>[in ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]='lgc'> = dream of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (="trms">present in the mind) of the people who are not anglophone ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">history of ="trms">science='strcls'>*
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inside and outide the mental map of the ="trms">historian (of ="trms">science)
SDzVaBj492s
="ppl">Daston on ='strcls'>*disciplinary ="trms">neurosis='strcls'>* of the ="trms">history of ="trms">science
all timelines are maps (are chronologies, are provincial)
most drawings are maps (are charming)
='lgc'>[="frds">Sina:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>****can we have (="trms">imagine) ="trms">science without ="trms">modernity (not coming ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right after it)='qstn'>?='qstn'>?='strcls'>**** ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my research ="trms">question (to separate the bond between ="trms">science and ="trms">modernity='qstn'>? to flow the curiosity in that direction)
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='lgc'>{ ='thdf'>the idea of “="trms">science created the ="trms">modern ="trms">world ='lgc'>+ western global dominance” (='lgc'>=/= everyone else) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>==> “understanding of ="trms">modernity='lgc'> = understanding ="trms">history of ="trms">science”
(one of rare moments that) european middle ages is conflated with the whole of middle east civilization, as pre-="ppl">Newtonian (in the eyes of W. Rostow)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cold war (maneuvering for the alliances of the newly decolonized nations)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> all the ways of knowing that were not in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluded in the current Anglophone and Francophone de="trms">finition of “="trms">science='lgc'> = the ="trms">natural ="trms">sciences in English only in mid 19th century” ='lgc'>=/= elm علم, Wissenschaft
='strcls'>**there is no culture without (its own implicit ="trms">systematics of) knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•="trms">epistemological hierarchy (even without the display or existence of ='strcls'>*="trms">epistemic culture='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[dedicated to the persue of knoweldge='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> yet put pressure on ="trms">communities of learning ='lgc'>==> ideas ='and'>& practices, for example alchemy was court ="trms">science par excellence)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">social hierarchy
="lsts lst1">•rational who can practice them why[...]