[...]ty and so on) ='lgc'>+ a new ="trms">causal ="trms">category='lgc'>: artifice (to in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude fakes and ="trms">children mutilated by their parents to enhance their take as beggars)
shift in ='strcls'>*="trms">causal thinking='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (expanded the power of) maternal ="trms">imagination covering eventuality ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a new way of talking about ="trms">nature
='lgc'>{(from) in the prodigy ="trms">literature ="trms">nature was effectively transparent (a ="trms">veil through which God's purposes could be discerned)='lgc'>}='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">nature gained a new autonomy ( fertility of invention ='lgc'>=/= wrath) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">nature personified='strcls'>* (the artisan) ='lgc'>[Pare='lgc'>: “chambermaid to our great God"='lgc'>], ="trms">monsters were treated as ="trms">jokes or “sports” (lusus) of a personified ="trms">nature
transcorporeal fields of sensoriality ='lgc'>=/= boundedness of isolated bodies and things
non="trms">anthropocentric ="trms">zoological studies
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Bacon's (tripartite division of) ="trms">natural ="trms">history='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. ='strcls'>*="trms">natural='lgc'>: the study of ="trms">nature “in course”, or ="trms">natural ="trms">history
="lstsrd">2. ='strcls'>*preter="trms">natural='lgc'>: the study of ="trms">nature “erring”, or the “="trms">history of marvels” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a coherent ="trms">category (='lgc'>=/= miscellaneous collection of ="trms">phenomen)
="lstsrd">3. ='strcls'>*artificial='lgc'>: the study of ="trms">nature “wrought, or the ="trms">history of arts
="trms">nature's aberrations for the finest examples of her workmanship
="trms">nature imagery of the ="trms">wonder ="trms">book
renaissance thought ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{ (antithesis of) art ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">nature ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> art may aid, imitate, modify or surpass ="trms">nature
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Bacon='lgc'>: art (formal and final causes) should become more ="trms">natural ='and'>& ="trms">nature (="trms">material and efficient causes) should be made more artificial ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">monster='lgc'>: ="trms">nature's artificial work
="lsts lst1">•="trms">nature in extremis ='lgc'>=/= conventional wisdom
="lsts lst1">•="trms">monsters='lgc'>: models for the novelties of art
='lgc'>--Bacon='lgc'>='lgc'>--> enrichment of both speculative and operative ="trms">natural philosophy (='lgc'>=/= ="trms">books of ="trms">fabulous experiments and secrets)
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='strcls'>**="trms">wonder ="trms">literature sacrificed accuracy to admiration='strcls'>**
corroboration
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to take echoing abstractions (reason, ="trms">nature, etc.) and try to cash them out in concrete practices
(transformation of) extremely abstract ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extremely concrete
="prgrph">-why is it so irresistible to reach analogies between the moral and the ="trms">natural orders='qstn'>?
other orders of ="trms">nature ='lgc'>[='strcls'>**every order of ="trms">nature sustains a moral order='strcls'>**='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. local ="trms">nature (what happens when we scale up)
="lstsrd">2. ="trms">ontological identity card (what makes a squirrels)
="lstsrd">3. universal ="trms">natural laws
aggregation of these forms of orders ='lgc'>]='strcls'>**each provokes a characteristic cognitive passion='strcls'>** ='lgc'>: they involve judgment ='lgc'>+ emotional reaction to its transgressions='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. disequilibria (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> terror='lgc'>: fear saturated by guilt) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> local ="trms">nature
="lstsrd">2. ="trms">monsters (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">horror) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">specific ="trms">nature
="lstsrd">3. marvels and miracles (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">natural laws
='lgc'>[(a very recently) forceful kind of='lgc'>] argument to anchor moral or political order in a ="trms">natural foundation
='lgc'>--="ppl">Daston='lgc'>='lgc'>--> we are ="trms">species that re="trms">present (='strcls'>**we must model our orders='strcls'>** ='lgc'>: to make visible ='and'>& external) ='lgc'>--='lgc'>{with an appeal to a ="trms">natural analog='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="trms">nature='lgc'>: the richest source of models of all kind of orders
='lgc'>[!!!today task of artist:='lgc'>] ='strcls'>***to give back humanity its ="trms">childhood='strcls'>*** (that was lost in the age of objectivity) ='at'>@="frds">Sina, ="frds scrmbld">Sarah
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Schutz
="trms">social ="trms">nature of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
how people grasp the consciousness of others while living within their own streams of consciousness
absent friends='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•his brother whom he has described to me
="lsts lst1">•the professor whose ="trms">books i have ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read
="lsts lst1">•the postal clerk
="lsts lst1">•the Canadian Parliament
="lsts lst1">•abstract entities like Canada herself
="lsts lst1">•the rules of English grammar
="lsts lst1">•the basic principles of jurisprudence
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>--Schutz='lgc'>='lgc'>--> more one goes into the contemporary ="trms">world, the more anonymous the contemporary inhabitants become
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="trms">wonder
and its marvels
(Paris wall slogan from the student rebellion of 1968 ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) “every view of things that is not strange (bizarre, foreign) is false” ='lgc'>--="ppl">Bynum='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to jolt her ="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">listeners nad ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers into encounter with a ="trms">past that is unexpected and strange
="trms">past ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> answer ="trms">questions we haven't asked
="prgrph">-could “="trms">wonder” be the special characteristic of the ="trms">historian='qstn'>?
="trms">wonder ='and'>& marvels ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a medieva="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list's topic
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="ppl">Bynum re="trms">present a rearguard action to claim back from early ="trms">modernists the irrational and grotesque and to “re-enchant” (if not the ="trms">world, at least) the ="trms">historical professional
="lstsrd">1180-1320
a great increase in ="trms">stories of marvels, ="trms">monsters, miracles, ghosts
medieval europe awash in ="trms">wonders
='strcls'>*the circumstances under which medieval men and women felt ="trms">wonder='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•="trms">wonder-talk
="lsts lst1">•="trms">wonder-behavior ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? empowering them='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•the ='strcls'>*web of actual ="trms">horror ='and'>& delight='strcls'>* we can decipher in medieval texts (and on in="trms">stagram, telegram, whatsapp) (='lgc'>=/= ='thdf'>the idea of “knowing='lgc'> = appropriating” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> knowing is impossible)
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medieval theorist ='lgc'>[& my ="trms">bestiary research='lgc'>] ='lgc'>--="ppl">Bynum='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder='lgc'>: (admiratio) cognitive, nonappropriative, perspectival, particular, (not merely a) physiological ="trms">response
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">wonder='lgc'>: recognition of the singularity and significance of the thing encountered
‘thing ='lgc'>=/= knower’ (in a context ='lgc'>+ from a particular point of view) ='lgc'>==t="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigger='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">wonder
telegram ="trms">bestiary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capacity to be shocked by the singularity of the event (='lgc'>==="frds">Sina='lgc'>='lgc'>==> search for significance ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= cause, explanation)
scholarship on (early ="trms">modern age of) ="trms">wonder
="lstsrd">1- enthusiasm for ="trms">wonders='lgc'> = ='strcls'>*expropriative ='and'>& appropriative='strcls'>* (ضبط و سلب) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*orientalism='lgc'>: projection of self or construction of “other” as self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the rape of the New ="trms">World seems implicit in ="trms">wonder at it
(early ="trms">modern europe) impulse to ='strcls'>*collect ='and'>& explore='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst2">◦collection of narwal horns and jewels, deformed fetuses and human captives (made by rulers, ="trms">missionaries, and ="trms">natura="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list)
="lsts lst2">◦o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins of museums in the wunderkammer (="trms">wonder cabinet)
="lsts lst2">◦voyages to the New ="trms">World with their attendant goals of ='strcls'>*conquering ='and'>& ="trms">missionizing='strcls'>* (='lgc'>=/= ="nms">Sinbad)
="lsts lst2">◦use of inquisitors and ="trms">questionnaires by government to assemble information for juridical ='strcls'>*processings ='and'>& taxation='strcls'>*
="lsts lst2">◦Columbus's “desire to know the secrets of the ="trms">world” (glossed with) Jode de Acosta's praise of proselytizing curiosity
="lstsrd">2- ="ppl">Aristotle's ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">Metaphysics='lgc'>: “="trms">wonder='lgc'> = ignorance and doubt” ='lgc'>{ desire to seek causes (it did not understand) ='lgc'>==arose='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">wonder (admiratio) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> replacement by knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (="trms">scientia or philosophia) ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> miracula (marvel='lgc'>: ="trms">natural effects we fail to understand) ='lgc'>=/= mirabilia (unusual and difficult events ='lgc'>[produced by God='lgc'>])
="lstsrd">3- ="ppl">Descartes’ ="trms">wonder='lgc'>: (first of all passions) a sudden surprise of the soul ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> tend to consider attentively those objects (which seem to it rare and extraordinary)
="lsts lst2">◦='strcls'>*begining of the tendency to reduce emotion to physiology='strcls'>*
="lsts lst2">◦Charles Le Brun's drawings of the passions
="lsts lst2">◦="ppl">Darwin's ="trms">wonder='lgc'>: a reaction ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> making the ="trms">animal see and breathe better in crisis ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> increased its chances of survival (...raised eyebrows, opened and protruding lips, a hand held up, palm out with fingers open)
="lsts lst2">◦early ="trms">modern physiology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">wonder='lgc'>: (='lgc'>~ startled ="trms">response,) paradigmatic emotion
="lstsrd">4- (the horrible) philosophical understanding of ="trms">wonder='lgc'>: ignorance rationalized or erased by knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
a ="trms">wondering desire that collects and appropriates what it endeavors to know or project its self ="trms">onto an ="trms">imagined other ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a passion that reduces to a startle ="trms">response at the unfamiliar
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='lgc'>}='lgc'>=/= ="trms">historian (and teacher ='lgc'>[and performance-="trms">lecturer='lgc'>]) vacation (or ="trms">responsibility) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (we must aspire to) ="trms">imagine the kind of nonappropriative perspectival ='strcls'>*intensely cognitive='strcls'>* ="trms">response
middle ages (how they characterize their ="trms">difference='lgc'>:)
="lstsrd">1. theological-philosophical understanding of ="trms">wonder ='lgc'><='lgc'>== university intellectuals ='lgc'>{
="lsts lst2">◦admiratio ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">scientia ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
="lsts lst2">◦admiratio ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= diversitas (diversity) ='lgc'>=/= solitum (the usual, the general)
="lstsrd">2. ="trms">religious discourse about ="trms">wonder ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- sermons, hagiography, devotional ="trms">writing, enormously popular genre of ='strcls'>*saint's lives='strcls'>* (tazkirat تذکره نویسی) ='lgc'>{
="lsts lst2">◦admiratio ='lgc'>=/= imitatio (imitation جعلى) ='lgc'>[the ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readers were urged to ="trms">wonder at and not immitate the power and extravagant asceticism of holy men and women (in ="ppl">Attar='qstn'>?)='lgc'>]
="lsts lst3">◾admiratio ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= paradox (coincidence of op="trms">posites) ='lgc'>[one finds mira (wondrous) again and again in the texts alongside mixta (mixed, com="trms">posite things, ="trms">chimera)='lgc'>]
="lsts lst2">◦admiratio ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= curiositas (curiosity کنجکاوی)
="lsts lst2">◦admiratio ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= disputat[...]