[...] 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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:110%"> ="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'>*

inside and outide the mental map of the ="trms">historian (of ="trms">science)

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="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)


='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

(="ppl">Daston='lgc'>:) the stuck of hands-on knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge shoots up and then ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics plump it ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persue of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge becomes collective (with ="trms">different pressure points)

for many cultures ='lgc'>[in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding Persian='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the philology (grammer) is the queen of the ="trms">sciences
="lsts lst1">•the stricing prevalence of ='strcls'>*dispute='lgc'>: intellectual discourse ="trms">staged as agonistic duel ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (most of our) ='strcls'>***intellectual life is conducted as polemic='strcls'>***


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the more you study an environment the less your in="trms">heritiability of that environment will be (='qstn'>?)

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="trms">history='lgc'>: study of ="trms">past as it it com="trms">memorate in traces (textual, physical, etc.) ='lgc'>=/= ='lgc'>[="nms">ajayeb studies =='lgc'>] ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>: subjective com="trms">memoration of the ="trms">past, collective forms of com="trms">memorations (for example the name of streets, or monuments, or unconscious way of navigating in Tajrish square, etc.) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">present in oral ="trms">interviews
="lsts lst1">•how the ="trms">past has been en="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listed emotionally, politically, ="trms">communally,,, (in various causes='lgc'>: construction of autobiography to the construction of national myth) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>==> objectivity does not make sense in ="trms">memory studies='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•it in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes (not only that which cab be documented, it rather) in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cludes an element of the subjective ='lgc'>: how people feel about what happened in the ="trms">past, how they reconstruct events of the ="trms">past but also ="trms">narratives ='lgc'>=/= what happened in the ="trms">past ='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>--> objectivity (among ="trms">histories='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst2">◦cross-checking of sources
="lsts lst2">◦(19th century ="trms">technique of) “="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading against the grain”='lgc'>: try to discover, from the surviving sources, from what perspective they were ="trms">written (what ="trms">historical context they were embedded in)='lgc'> = “critical ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading” from the stand point of all of one might say “the illusions of ="trms">memory” which might cloud an objective impartial records of events (not accepting the ="trms">narrative that place value in the source) ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= ='mywrk'>my work on ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦securing evidence (='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to archive) ='lgc'>: ="trms">intersection of objectivity with study of ="trms">history

(since 17th century) ="trms">memory has been essential to our conceptualization of what does it mean to have a self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> why we are so concerned with ="trms">memory damage ceases (alzheimer, etc.)

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many time when we define (say “what X is”), what we are doing is to how to make a term more precise, to make something ='strcls'>*artificially operational='strcls'>*

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='strcls'>*="trms">sciences of the archive='strcls'>*
depend on longed lived collections

(since 16th century, as we know it) ="trms">modern ="trms">science's ="trms">epistemic goal='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*pre="trms">dictive accuracy='strcls'>* ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*to elevate certainty='strcls'>* (the case in medieval Latin Europe)

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> ="trms">books (="trms">past discoveries) ='and'>& ="trms">instruments (future discoveries) ="trms">interspersed ='lgc'>--when='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they both belong to the same practice ='lgc'>==> library



(="ppl">Goethe='lgc'>:) search nothing beyond the ="trms">phenomena

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="ppl">="ppl">Morris
movement of commerce's subject (='lgc'>=/= walking of the Parisian flaneur)
plaque's morbid sentimen ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evades the reduction of signs to mere reference

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]public art='lgc'>: the art of a ="trms">world bifurcated by capital ='lgc'>--tending='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*monumentality='lgc'>: an exaggerated ="trms">literality ='lgc'>+ ="trms">excess of scale (incapable of irony)

(of image ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) textuality='lgc'>: something ="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lurking off that bids us engage the ambiguity

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critique='lgc'>: (analogy of) a movement toward the outside

a grammatical negative can never efface what it attempts to contradict
a call for judgment hides in the defensive ="trms">gesture


criminality='lgc'>: departure from (or fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure) to recognize a law[...]