[...]s ='lgc'>:)
="prgrph">-contemporary Western thought (evident in ="ppl">Butler, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault, and many others) is seeking a politically efficacious concept of the collective ="trms">imaginary='strcls'>*** (a ="trms">positive conception of alterity, of an outside that inspires the ="trms">imagination to create)
="nms">ajayeb for me is an alterity (of an quasi outside='lgc'>--not quite inside) that inspires the ="trms">imagination to create (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">imagination is always creative)
="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>: alterity of a ="trms">world that inspired (and inspires) ="trms">storytelling and ="trms">imagination (to create beings)
since ="ppl">Sohrevardi the islamic philosophy has abandoned substantialism for process
="ppl">="ppl">Sadra's approach='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•process ="trms">ontology
="lsts lst1">•critique of abstraction
="lsts lst1">•celebration of singularity
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God='lgc'> = neccessary being واجب الوجود
(tashkhis-e vojud تشخیص وجود) modulation of being ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> individuation (تشخص tashakhos)
ذات مخصوص, فرد مشخص معین, وجود جزئی اشیاء ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> موجودی است که از نظر قانونی می تواند موضوع حق قرار بگیرد
='lgc'>=/= شخص ناپیدا ='lgc'>=/= ="nms">hayula
='lgc'>[tashkhis (everyday ="trms">gesture of recognition of something gheir-shakhsi) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>='qstn'>? tashakhos='lgc'>]
(="ppl">Simondon='lgc'>:) individuation is ="trms">prior to individuals, and individuals are simply ="trms">symptoms or effects of individuation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> very processual
harkat-e johari حرکت جوهریtranssubstantiation, trans-substantial movement
='strcls'>*harkat-e johari respects the potential for intensification ='lgc'>[= the capacity to know, act, and fully participate in the flow of being ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> continual intensification;='lgc'>] in all things (in="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding ="nms">hayula)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Miyazaki's faceless ="trms">monster's ‘act of beiong’ (is efficaciously real in a Sadrian way)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*="ppl">="ppl">Sadra's great re="trms">figuration is that he ="trms">formulates the ‘act of being’ itself as the most real
="prgrph">-="ppl">Miyazaki's ="trms">monster (and ="ppl">Attar's San'an) is moved by ="trms">love, it is the energy that ="trms">traverses and transforms them; it is the best thing to be moved by. before, they are, in themselves, illusory and perishing
="prgrph">-="ppl">Miyazaki's ="trms">monster episode animation expresses how substance yields to process ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> خونابه اى plasmaticness of the animated line='lgc'>: freedom from ossification استخوانى شدن (='at'>#="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">Rigs), the ability to dynamically assume any form (Gunning) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> change occurring واقع from within ='lgc'>+ propelled سوق from without
="ppl">="ppl">Sadra's ="trms">matter='lgc'>: place of nonexistence and absence (='lgc'>=='qstn'>? ="nms">hayula)
="nms">hayula='lgc'>: form of the ="trms">natural, elemental body
in ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the plant(‘s form) (= vegetal soul) is ="trms">animal
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">animal(‘s form ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? surat صورت) (= sensate substance) is human
="lsts lst1">•the human...
physical acts of perception
(a typical account='lgc'>:) the stronger the ="trms">imaginal soul, the less distracted it is by the body, the more manifestly ="trms">imaginal images will appear
fotuhat فتوحات or tazkirat تذکره is the ="trms">stories of the intensity of their being, actualization, and certainty of effect
(="ppl">Attar's stuff, ="trms">articulate ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra)
saryan-e vojud سریان وجود, ='strcls'>*flow of being='strcls'>* (across the perceptible entities we encounter='lgc'>:) ='lgc'>[the ="trms">imaginal power working through them:='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•hear a person's say
="lsts lst1">•notice a weed growing
="lsts lst1">•smelling a...
="lsts lst1">•cognizing an image...
="lsts lst1">•touching a pig's nose ='lgc'>[San'anian='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•
bodily senses can contact the divine ="trms">presence, make contact, make a call (in ="ppl">Hafez, San'an's miscall)
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">imaginal realm is populated by singularities, every changing and in="trms">finite
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">imaginal faculty is of extreme ="trms">presence, of intensification
(in this case ‘realm’ and ‘faculty’ bleed into each other's ="trms">categories)
(let's get) creatively ="trms">imaginal
accurate and attractive
='strcls'>***="trms">imagination is (de="trms">finitely) not closing your eyes and dreaming, but being completely ="trms">present to the ="trms">world, committed to it and ="trms">affected by it='strcls'>*** (to perceive something in its intense singularity)
مشاهده moshahede='lgc'> = contemplation
the infinate flux of visible ="trms">phenomena (Kracauer)
قلمکار calico-="trms">world
چلوار
kaleidoscopic mountains
what was ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra looking (moshahede) at='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•linear modeling of time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> clock time
="lsts lst1">•intensive model of time ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> movement across the “real” axis
effectively panpsychist='lgc'>: every entity is conscious, has a soul, and potential to intensify; minds in a ="trms">world of minds
="ppl">Whitehead's concept of transformative togetherness
="trms">ontological vitalism='lgc'>: exist ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> consciousness
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reality precedes abstraction ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
for ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra “point of view” is a distraction (for vojud وجود)
="lsts lst1">•perspectives
="lsts lst1">•names
="lsts lst1">•quiddity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> because the ="trms">positing of names and description is in cor="trms">respondence to concepts and universal meanings, not in cor="trms">respondence to existential identities and external/concrete forms (="ppl">="ppl">Sadra)
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Avital and ="ppl">Kohn ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> but they do in amazonian forest ="trms">semiotics
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my point of departure with ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra. i am tracing trans="trms">figurative signs of the flesh in practices of ="trms">storytelling ='lgc'>--(or not)='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra emphasizes that ="trms">imagination is better able to grasp Being='lgc'>: concepts are too static to capture/grasp the act of being (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> are they='qstn'>?! we have to deal with them anyway='lgc'>: ="trms">wild facts, ="trms">fables of practice, images are concepts, etc.)
ماهيت quiddity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which is understood (='lgc'>=/= being ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that which is experienced)
quiddity in ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra is like the habits that ="ppl">Peirce and ="ppl">Bergson grudgingly accept as necessary for thought, though they need to be swept away for creativity to emerge. hence the importance of intuition for ="ppl">Bergson and ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra, and of induction for ="ppl">Peirce. (="ppl">="ppl">Marks)
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (my departure='lgc'>:) a point of research branch for me='lgc'>: “to swept away quiddity”, is another ="trms">story possible='qstn'>?
images have the power to multiply ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and other “sticky” things='qstn'>?
(like ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra and ="ppl">="ppl">Marks) i also prefer images that do not simply confirm general ="trms">categories of what can be thought but undermine them with singularities that stimulate the ="trms">imagination (='lgc'>=/= The Black Mirror tv series)
(destructive delusions, ideological images,) true visions and ="trms">hallucinations ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the disappointment in hearing the deja vu
="prgrph">-deja vu is the dream of re="trms">membering
the divine outside
an immanentized ="trms">imaginal real to be the source of truthful visions
to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read Qur'an (or any text) as if it has been revealed to you
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the visions of the ="trms">imaginal are nonstatice images of things in their act of becoming
="prgrph">-is my ="nms">ajayeb a ="trms">modern ="trms">interpreter of the islamic ="trms">imaginal realm='qstn'>?
the ="nms">ajayeb is about the lesser elite stances of the islamicated ="trms">imagination ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ="trms">imaginal ="trms">ecological consciousness
='lgc'>[title='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*="trms">imagination in rational thought ='lgc'>[logocentrism='lgc'>]='lgc'>:
myth, ="trms">symbol, and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors used as part of rational dialogue
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> other ways of bringing the unthought ='lgc'>[beyond='lgc'>] into the thinkable ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">tasavof
='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> other ways of bringing the far into the wondrous (='lgc'>~ the active ="trms">imaginal) ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> as a basis for practical concepts ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="nms">ajayeb
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> beyond the official discourse
a time-="trms">specific (="trms">contingent) truth that intensifies as more people engage with it
='lgc'>[like all the concepts and ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors we are working and patterning in ="nms">apass='lgc'>]
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Malabou's plasticity (='lgc'><='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>-- différance)
the subject is plastic (='lgc'>='lgc'>~= malleable, ='lgc'>=/= elastic), it never springs back into its o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal form, it can explode
='lgc'>[we are now dealing with a (highly adaptable, flexible, and disciplined) rational autonomous subject in a post-industrial and global ="trms">world='lgc'>]
="trms">neuronal subject
mojud-e dahri-e ma'ghul
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='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] اسم اعظمِ
esme a'zam
reality has an autor ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">author always has a proper name
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Alice (in ="trms">wonderland)='lgc'>: words can have many meanings
="ppl">="ppl">Haraway='lgc'>: the ="trms">question is='lgc'>: which one (of many meanings) is to be ='lgc'>{the master (meaning)='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> problem of art criticism in ="nms">iran ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*let's resource ="trms">aesthetics='strcls'>* / in ="nms">iran we need more “making-with” and “make-kin” rather than “criticize” or “grounding” (of criticism) or...
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]master='lgc'>: one with power to dispose something, male head of house, conqueror, a man ="trms">skilled in something ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*one holding this title='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]to ="trms">author='lgc'>: to have the power to o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginate, to name ='lgc'>[='at'>#Beyzai seeking to produce ="trms">natural ="nms">iranian knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge='lgc'>] (="ppl">Sohrevardi who learned to ="trms">write and speak, also must decipher a text, the ="trms">book of ="trms">nature, ="trms">authored legitimately by islamicated in="trms">heritances...)
="prgrph">-="ppl">="ppl">Haraway discussing women's travail to construct a voice, to have ="trms">authority, to ="trms">author a text, to tell a ="trms">story
="prgrph">-modes of telling (that we adopt in our attempt to produce ="trms">authority)
(اسم اعظم esme a'zam ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->) knowers='lgc'>--on top ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (usual tricks) to recede while substituting a fetish (of self) ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subject and object can cohabit without the master-slave domination
sexist ="trms">science
='qstn'>?am i laying='lgc'>: a foundation for an ="trms">epistemological ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>]
='qstn'>?do ="nms">iranians need this='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•theories which are the ="trms">heritage of ="trms">Greek ="trms">science (and of the ="trms">scientific revolution of the 17th century)
="lsts lst1">•an ="trms">epistemology (informing our inquiries) be a family ="trms">member to existing theories (of re="trms">presentation and philosophical-realism ='lgc'>[that which Holakouee promotes for “="trms">modern” ="nms">iranian='lgc'>]) (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to avoid the problem of ="trms">epistemological anarchism='lgc'>: an ="trms">epistemology that justifies not taking a stand on the ="trms">nature of things is of little use to women trying ='strcls'>**to build a shared politics='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[="frds scrmbld">Mehdi is angry at the sculpture ="trms">community because they ="trms">embody that fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure='lgc'>])
="lsts lst1">•(to adopt) a radical form of ="trms">epistemology that denies the possibility of access to a real ="trms">world and an objective standpoint
="lsts lst1">•noninvasive knowing (such as ="ppl">Sa'di) and pre="trms">diction and control (='at'>#="ppl">Olearius)
="lsts lst1">•(="trms">authority and power, as Beyzai is after,) to name/give the ="trms">world a new identity, a new ="trms">story
="lsts lst1">•accurate rendering of an idio="trms">syncratic process of sensory overlap and as="trms">sociation
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]biology='lgc'>: ="trms">modern o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story
biology tell tales about o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins, about genesis, and about ="trms">nature
biologizing
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='lgc'>[what is the word made of, what is the flesh made of='lgc'>]
='strcls'>***(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway highlights) an in="trms">herited knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge through the paternal line='lgc'>: the ='strcls'>*word='strcls'>* was ="ppl">Aristotle's Galileo's Bacon's ="ppl">Newton's Linnaeus's ="ppl">Darwin's; the ='strcls'>*flesh='strcls'>* was woman's ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> and the word was made flesh, ="trms">naturally
(in Europe, from 15th to 18th century, transformations of ='lgc'>[both='lgc'>] ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphors ='lgc'>[and ="trms">social ="trms">systems='lgc'>]='lgc'>:) female ="trms">nature ='lgc'>--from='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nurturing mother ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> patient-resournce
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list forms of patriarchy='lgc'>: ='strcls'>*merchant تاجر seeing dialectic of apocalypse='strcls'>* (TV series such as West ="trms">World, etc.)
='lgc'>[the ="trms">book of ="trms">nature='lgc'>]
="trms">nature is ="trms">authored (by somebody)
(power ='lgc'>+) autorship ='lgc'>==(fabricates)='lgc'>='lgc'>==> reality
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Milton's justification of the ways of God, ='lgc'>[to tell ="trms">stories='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*(how many times we='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>] are) forced to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read a ="trms">book in a ="trms">language that signifies our lack, our ="trms">difference='strcls'>*
two ="trms">rhetorical strategies for contesting (جنگیدن برای) a voice (-to set the terms of speech that define good knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- re="trms">interpreted the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigin ="trms">story to get it ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right the second time
="lstsrd">2- rebelliously proclaimed a totally new ="trms">story
(="ppl">Olearius does the same with ="nms">iran and his european audience,) ='lgc'>[="ppl">="ppl">Haraway on='lgc'>] Barash “reveal to the popular audience the inner voice of biology, the cake of ="trms">nature under the icing of culture, the biogrammer of genes structuring the message of the organism='lgc'>--all that ="trms">modern people structuring the message of the organism='lgc'>--all so that ="trms">modern people might come to know themselves and fulfill their potential. Barash maintains that biology is the most powerful tool in the humanist project to know and achieve the self.”
phallic ="trms">language
="trms">sociobiologica reasoning (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- so dominant)
="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sociobiology promises more than knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of the self; it also promises, like all humanisms, human unity, a real togetherness of ="trms">nature beneath the merely ="trms">verbal icing of culture
in the (="trms">rhetoric of persuasion by) patriline ='lgc'>[/ patrilineal naming='lgc'>] of ="trms">sociobiology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[the “ultimate message” of ="trms">sociobiology in='lgc'>] (Planet of The Apes, Terminator,) ="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•a doctrine of necessary biological determinism of all the chief forms of domination which are especially driven by the motors of ruthless competition and dominance
="lsts lst1">•(the identification of) the proper expert
="lsts lst1">•cracking the ="trms">code of ="trms">nature's secret voice
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*knowing how to ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read the word, how to access the value of the coin ='lgc'>==gives='lgc'>='lgc'>==> the power of determination to those who use those tools='strcls'>*
='strcls'>***(='qstn'>?how and which objects of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge become/are) a tool in the search for the self ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ending regularly in the discovery of the totalitarian object='lgc'>: ="trms">nature, gene, word
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Nicolas ='lgc'>{(the ="trms">question of) sulf-fulfillment made possible by revealing the common coin, the medium of exchange, the equivalent that defines reality, the generator of meaning='lgc'>}
skin-encapsulated egos
(epidermis)
="trms">code-gene-coin-word
(in Barash's evolutionary biology='lgc'>:) parental investment ='lgc'><='lgc'>='lgc'>--> cost-benefit analysis
(capillarity of power ="trms">relations)
the import of the ="trms">questions
='strcls'>****
the ="trms">rhetoric of expert ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the expert touching the elephant ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->='lgc'>{"the experts, then, were assembled to mediate and ="trms">interpret the marital squabble between scince and humanism and to show their higher unity. and they spoke='lgc'>--individually, ="trms">authoratively, joined in debate by the power of editors and panel moderators='lgc'>--in the ="trms">rhetoric to which we have his version of the ="trms">history of ="trms">science adopted, so that the legitimate lineage could be established.”
logic of __='lgc'>[domination, determinism, , ,='lgc'>] embeded in (="trms">fashioning) the tool of __='lgc'>[word, , ,='lgc'>]
red-baiting='lgc'>: those who oppose the truth of a selfish ="trms">world are self-deceiving MArxists
setting the o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginal terms of discourse ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- dont't!
="trms">rhetorical in="trms">heritance (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='mywrk'>my research)
somatize our oppression. ='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Hoda
“what we must begin to give voice to as ="trms">scientists and feminists is that there is no such thing, or place, as underneath it all.” (="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)
(='at'>@="nms">apass) locus for research='lgc'>: us who speak to each other is the changing, moving, complex web of our ="trms">interactions, in light of the ="trms">language, power structures, ="trms">natural environments (="trms">internal and external), and beliefs that weave it in time
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Marialena, (strategies emerging from/for) ...feminists to begin with the ="trms">heritage of names in a patriarchal voice
Museum of Comparative ="trms">Zoology
='strcls'>* facts are theory laden ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> theories are value laden ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> values are ="trms">history laden ='strcls'>*
="lsts lst1">•="trms">animal model research is full of illogical shoddy evidence and special pleading (Lila Leibowitz ='and'>& Ruth Bleier)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">relations of aggression and gender (Freda Salzman)
="lsts lst1">•similarities in ="trms">sociobiology and bio="trms">sociology (Marian Lowe ='and'>& Ruth Habbard)
="lsts lst1">•lateralization in ="trms">neurophysiology (="ppl">Leigh ="ppl">="ppl">Star)
="lsts lst1">•medicalization of moral-political issues through transsexual surgery (Janice Raymond)
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="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>**everything is a cultural institution='strcls'>** (="trms">animal studies applied to humans, ="trms">science is a cultural institution)
="lsts lst1">•up="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right stance and times of divergence between ape and hominid lines have been arenas of mortal combat in evolutionary theory more than once
how ="trms">science becomes official
“evidence becomes a hero of mine”
the heavy hero's burden of telling the hard truth ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a ="trms">story sold well in ="nms">iran's intellectualism
(i have become ="trms">interested instead in extended bibliographies, ='strcls'>*to see our alternatives='strcls'>*)
خیس خیس
="trms">language plays a major role in generating reality ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> what plays major role in generating reality and legitimator of new realities in ="nms">iran='qstn'>?
research ="trms">question of ="trms">storytelling='lgc'>:
='strcls'>***what are the rules of ="trms">interpretation that make any ="trms">story unequivocally ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readable='qstn'>?
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(="ppl">="ppl">Haraway shows) the ="trms">epistemological and political problems of humanism and realism latent (or patent) in feminism
two things i am teaching myself (since 3 or 4 years)='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1- how to hold someone else's speech ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> دیگری چه گفت؟
="lstsrd">2- how to sustain a discussion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> چطور بحث را عوض نکردن؟
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='strcls'>*bad geography='lgc'>: insult, tohin, similar to trauma, they don't have an concret external object (yet they create them), it is a register of an event, ="trms">affectual implosion of a percept
insult dones't exist out there, (tohin kardan vojud khareji nadarad), it is in the inside ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> is that why ="nms">tasavof works and labors with insult='qstn'>?
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(also in ="nms">apass, dancers and choreographers, are the ="trms">children of ="trms">modernism art of De Kooning) reaching inward to find within the body that ="trms">sublime thing (="ppl">Deleuze calls) the ='strcls'>*figural='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= (="nms">iranian miniature's) ="trms">sublimity of the in="trms">finite (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ="frds scrmbld">Aela testing this, under ‘mysticism'='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> state of constant openness ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> transformative ="trms">relation between self and other)='lgc'>]
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we can trace the (seductive power of) fana فنا in contemporary media art (="frds scrmbld">Hoda's ="trms">sublime digital-rhythmic ="trms">embodiments='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transcendental desires remain ="trms">questionable)
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doctrine of the minimal='lgc'>: smallest unit is the atom or point ='lgc'>=/=
doctrine of Zaher/Baten='lgc'>: smallest unit is the ="trms">fold='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">zoo="trms">morphic ="trms">writing, in="trms">finitesimal
(mysticism='lgc'>:) a ="trms">system of ="trms">measurement based (not on the point, rather) on the ="trms">fold
="ppl">="ppl">Star Trek ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> extensive universe of the in="trms">finite ='lgc'>=/=
="nms">tasavof ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> intensive universe of the in="trms">finitesimal
apotropaic, turning away evil ='lgc'>='lgc'>~=
="trms">memory sticks, ward off the fear of ="trms">data loss
...the letter ceases to be a ='strcls'>*figure='strcls'>* and becomes a ='strcls'>*field='strcls'>*
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='at'>#comparative ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">reading of Hedayat's The Bene="trms">dictions (Afringan آفرینگان) and ="ppl">Sohrevardi's ghorbat gharbia (رساله غربةالغربیة)
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='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali's knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge is like ‘face recognition’ (='lgc'>~ cannot say how he cognizes a “know” yet he does)
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Alice,Shariati">Ali='lgc'>: daneshe hozuri ='lgc'>+ politics (which is a secular know="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, Sachlich, based on scales, ="trms">measures, and divisions)
='strcls'>*intellect (='qstn'>? can never be merely='lgc'>:)
non-pro="trms">positional knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= daneshe hozuri دانش حضوری
='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ='thdf'>the idea of non-mediation and direct awareness ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> ="trms">internal ="trms">memory (='lgc'>='lgc'>~->='qstn'>? belief)
='lgc'>=/= descriptive knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, pro="trms">positional knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of pro="trms">positions (“know-that”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>~-> explicit knowing ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- why am i practicing this='qstn'>? (i say things like “this is this...”) and yet not transfering without the ‘knowing subject’ (depending on close ="trms">interaction, shared understanding, trust, and even ="trms">love. in combination with my performances that are like that, thinking on the fly ='lgc'>=/= storage and retrieval of conceptual knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge) ='lgc'>[in ="nms">ajayeb.net i pretend i am ="trms">coding ="trms">articulated knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge in explicit aggregation and appropriable without the ‘knowing subject’ but it is not. it is also part of something personal, distributive, and contextual='lgc'>], ='lgc'>[my education in setar was tacit and cognitive apprenticeship, ="trms">situated cognition,='lgc'>]
='lgc'>=/= “know-how”, procedural knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, tacit ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">embodied characteristic of the expert who acts without explicitly reflecting on conditions of its involvement (body's nervous ="trms">system ='lgc'>+ endocrine ="trms">system دستگاه درونریز)
“know-who” (knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of ="trms">networks)
(="ppl">="ppl">Gibson's) affordance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relational account of perception (='lgc'>=/= en="trms">coding of environmental features into the perceiver's mind), preconditions for activity
(effects ='lgc'>=/=) effectivity='lgc'>: abilities that determines what one could do and the ="trms">interactions that could take place
‘perceived affordance’='lgc'>: perception of an object's utility ='lgc'>=/= object's itself
affordance ='lgc'><='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mental re="trms">presentations (models, schemata, etc.)
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='at'>#idea for a performance for ghorbat gharbia
one performer eyes closed in a room or laboratory research lab speaking the text while engaging through touch (throwing, fixing, putting, dropping) with the ="trms">different optics and ="trms">technologies, objects and ="trms">positioned tools in the room (color, catapult, optical ="trms">systems, laser, array of transparencies and opacities, etc.)
performer='lgc'>: ="frds">Sina
director='lgc'>: ="frds scrmbld">Foad
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(pre="trms">historic)
your mother='lgc'>: violence
your father='lgc'>: tool
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> human
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="ppl">Geroulanos on emergence of an atheism disengaged from humanism during the second quarter of the 20th century
1925 to 1950
...in nonsecular horizon of existence and thought
conceptual reorganization of human in atheism
(19th century was marked by) “death of god” = man after the era of catastrophe ='lgc'>: the age of ="trms">World War I, the rise of Nazism, Stalinism, ="trms">World War II, and the immediate postwar period
(philosophical and political) centrality of man='lgc'> = a conception dating to ="ppl">Descartes and proceeding through the tradition of ="trms">natural law, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and nineteenth-century liberalism and ="ppl">Marxism
rejection of central premises of post-Enlightenment, liberal, and ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list European thought
(how='qstn'>?) approach anew the ="trms">codes addressing human life and significance
new nonhumanist atheism came to be expressed at ="trms">different times in existentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, hyper-ethical, or cynical terms, in nondoctrinaire ="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, reactionary, ultra="trms">modernist, or even down="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right antipolitical principles
(shift away from classical atheism and humanism ='lgc'><='lgc'>==) three movements='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. an ='strcls'>*atheism that would not be humanist='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: an atheism mistrustful of secular دنيوى, egalitarian تساوى, and transformative commitments
="lstsrd">2. a ='strcls'>*negative philosophical ="trms">anthropology='strcls'>*
="lstsrd">3. ='strcls'>*critiques of humanism='strcls'>*
(1)
(traditionally) atheism='lgc'> = secularism ='lgc'>+ humanism
absence of god in 19th century thinkers ="ppl">Feuerbach, Comte, ="ppl">Marx, Proudhon='lgc'>:
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> possibility of a good life and proper ="trms">society
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Feuerbach's ="trms">anthropotheism='lgc'>: “god='lgc'> = projection of human ="trms">nature ="trms">onto the heavens,” nothing more than man's re="trms">presentation of his own essence ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the task of the ="trms">modern era was the realization and humanization of god ='lgc'>: (transformation and dissolution of) theology ='lgc'>--into='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">anthropology
="lsts lst1">•Comte='lgc'>: ="trms">positivist project for ="trms">science and knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">religion of humanity, explicitly ="trms">religious atheism
="lsts lst1">•Proudhon='lgc'>: humanisme
='lgc'>{liberalism='lgc'>: humanism, and idealism had become moral and political expectations of the secular education projects='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]humanism='lgc'>: what could reach, reveal, and cultivate the ='strcls'>*proper and ethical='strcls'>* humanum of man ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]man='lgc'>: irreducible, perfectible bearer and guarantor of dignity, equality, and freedom
="ppl">Levinas's ‘an atheism that is not humanist’='lgc'>: the exaltation of an obedience and a faithfulness that are not obedience or faithfulness to anyone
opening up an apocalyptic ="trms">imagination
destroying the cultural optimism that had marked the turn of the twentieth century
ground for ethics, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, and hope
(Kojeve, ="ppl">Bataille, reconceiving) atheism='lgc'>: a way out of any and all ideological ="trms">systems
theological ="trms">questions ='lgc'>+ mistrust of political hopes
to replace god with a political messianism, nation or state,
“disenchantment of the ="trms">world='lgc'> = death knell for man” (='qstn'>?)
nonhumanist atheism='lgc'>: determined op="trms">position to foundational concepts of man, knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge, and truth (='lgc'>=/= critically rethinking problems of ="trms">anthropotheism, of transcendence, of ="trms">finitude)
critique of idealism='lgc'> = critique of transcendence
1920s='lgc'>: atheist humanism='lgc'> = idea="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list arguments about the capacity of the human mind (to transcend and objectively pattern the things that ="trms">compose the ="trms">world around it)
might and violence of ideologies relied on de="trms">finitions of humanity (that made this violence not only plausible and rational, but almost necessary ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">communism and colonialism)
="ppl">Sartre's postwar minimal humanist commitment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “existentialism='lgc'> = humanism”
="prgrph">-call or claim to fai="trms"nttrm="failure,blur,plur,lurk,tallur,slur">lure of foundations and of man's status in the universe ultimately called up a new ethical command ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> call for man to decide and to commit politically (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> atheism ='lgc'>+ political humanisms ='lgc'>+ old ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical commitment)
atheist political theology
Kojeve, ="ppl">Bataille, ="ppl">Sartre, Koyre, ="ppl">Heidegger, ="ppl">Adorno
mysticism of progress, self-perfection, and ="trms">history
their anti-utopian and antiprogressivist claims and that found expression in='lgc'>: ="ppl">Blanchot (The Most High), ="ppl">Bataille (Summa Atheologica), Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus), Beckett (Endgame)
="trms">figuration of ="trms">finitude
critique of dreams of transparency
replace transcendence with ="trms">excess or escape (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- mystical background...)
='lgc'>=/= un-self-conscious humanist mysticism
secular ="trms">interwar Europe's raising the human subject to all-powerful status ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ="trms">techno-="trms">scientific apocalypse ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> waste of hope in the self and in the ="trms">rhetoric of equality and humanism
(2)
philosophical antihumanism
human in suspension and deny that it owns or controls his own ="trms">specificity and particularity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> negative theology
denial to man of ="trms">positive knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of divine ="trms">nature
withdrawal from the possibility of first defining what is ="trms">specifically human
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world deemed ="trms">anthropocentric and subjectivist
="lsts lst1">•='strcls'>*re="trms">formulates the ="trms">question of man, locating him in conceptual ="trms">systems led by notions, such as Being, reality, ="trms">society, or ="trms">language='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> to define him “negatively”)
="lsts lst1">•problematization of human subjectivity
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">modern determinations of “the human”
(Did="trms">erot in Encyclopedie='lgc'>:) “man='lgc'>: a sensing, reflecting, thinking being, which freely ="trms">traverses the surface of the earth, which appears at the head of all other ="trms">animals over which it reigns, which lives in ="trms">society, which has invented the ="trms">sciences and the arts, which has its own notions of good and evil, which gives itself masters, which makes its own laws, etc.”
="lsts lst1">•="trms">anthropocentrism of ="trms">modern thought (Did="trms">erot ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> “why do we not introduce man into our work the way he is placed in the universe='qstn'>? why do we not make him a common center='qstn'>?”)
="lsts lst1">•(18th and 19th century) offering a hierarchy and linking the human to a privileged one among them='lgc'>--to reason, understanding, sensation, the passions, consciousness, the intellect
he can no longer claim to be capable of ="trms">scientifically understanding the entire ="trms">world
(="ppl">Kant in Logic, ='at'>@="nms">apass, three core ="trms">questions guiding his critical project='lgc'>:)
="lsts lst1">•what do i know='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what may i hope for='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what ought i do='qstn'>?
="lsts lst1">•what is man='qstn'>?
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]humanism='lgc'>: mobilization of a foundationa="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list concept of man
='lgc'>=/= tradition of identifying man with a certain feature, aspect, or property that ="trms">embodies or expresses his ="trms">nature
='lgc'>=/= the ="ppl">Platonic-christian idea that man possesses an eternal soul
='lgc'>=/= ="ppl">Feuerbachian-="ppl">Marxist approach that sees Man as his own goal
='lgc'>=/= ='thdf'>the idea of a human ="trms">nature that is given, foundational, single, or ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">readily available
“death of man”
="ppl">Heidegger's Letter on Humanism
Kojeve's second note on “the end of ="trms">history”
="ppl">Althusser
="ppl">="ppl">Foucault's con="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">cluding chapter to The Order of Things
="ppl">Derrida's The Ends of Man
(existentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list en="trms">trapment of man in his ="trms">world, ='at'>#alienation)
(in Being and Time) ="ppl">Heidegger's Dasein ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•stripping man's shared element down to its being-there
="lsts lst1">•subsumes and displaces the humanity of man
="lsts lst1">•rejection of the I as an absolute, independent subject that approaches a ="trms">world largely separate from it
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> from ontic determination ='lgc'>--to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ontico-="trms">ontological determination ='lgc'>[of human='lgc'>]
='strcls'>*the humanity of Dasein remains and must be understood as derivative of both its ontic and ="trms">ontological status
="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical pre="trms">supposition (that he cannot claim to be capable of fully describing or understanding ="trms">natur) ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
(human approached and understood only in terms of) ='strcls'>*results='strcls'>* or ='strcls'>*side-effects='strcls'>* (of ="trms">language, existence, ="trms">history, ="trms">phenomena)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">phenomena='lgc'>: man finds himself thrown in the ="trms">world of ="trms">phenomena and life; he is not grounded in some transcendental ="trms">fashion (="ppl">Heidegger, Kojeve, Malraux, ="ppl">Sartre, Beaufret)
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">language='lgc'>: he is an ="trms">interpreter of signs and ="trms">symbols that form part of greater ="trms">systems independent of his individual will
="lsts lst1">•in ="trms">history='lgc'>: he is constructed and operates within cultural, ="trms">religious, and philosophical limits imposed on him
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>[and='lgc'>] these ="trms">systems are not consequences of man's creative activity, desire, or will
they are domains in which he finds himself
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*the human in man comes to mean less and less='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ='strcls'>*we can only know what his approach to others (and other things) can reveal='strcls'>*
emergence of the new nonhumanist atheism ='lgc'>+ the negative philosophical ="trms">anthropology ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> French antihumanism's assault on='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•contemporary humanisms
="lsts lst1">•the legacies and utopian hopes of the Enlightenment
="lsts lst1">•liberal-bourgeois thinking grounded in human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights and individual autonomy
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Marxist humanism with its critique of liberalism and its expectations of a superior
humanity
="lsts lst1">•(human perfection ='and'>& ="trms">social harmony)
(="ppl">Geroulanos's account of primary constellations of) humanism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•christian humanism
="lsts lst1">•Renaissance educational humanism (founded on a return to ancient ="trms">Greek models)
="lsts lst1">•="ppl">Humboldt's reconceptualization of Renaissance humanism (in 19th century Germany)
="lsts lst1">•Enlightenment humanism (from Montesquieu through ="ppl">Rousseau and Condorcet)
="lsts lst1">•19th century liberal humanism (frequently based on ="trms">natural law, autonomy over one's own body and mind, and human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">socia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list humanisms (with its commitment to contractarian ="trms">social theory)
Encyclopedie's attack on theological knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge
19th century construction of ="trms">modern humanism (="trms">sociopolitical goals of a “human ="trms">nature”) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> left-leaning, often democratic, (but certainly) utopian ="trms">sociopolitical mentality
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]ideology='lgc'>: a thinking that does not critique, nor even think its provenance from and proper ="trms">relation to reality ='lgc'>--="ppl">Nancy='lgc'>='lgc'>--> humanism='lgc'> = the machine par excellence through which a ="trms">community produces meaning for itself, “the ="trms">system that produces meaning” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “we” (="trms">community's raison d'etre)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[humanism is='lgc'>] arbitrary, auto-productive, and all but tautological
='lgc'>{every political/philosophical movement='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. rejected bourgeois humanism as insufficient, egotistical, and corrupt
="lstsrd">2. claimed for itself a privileged access to the dignity of man
='lgc'>}='lgc'>--="ppl">Geroulanos='lgc'>='lgc'>--> structure of a ='strcls'>*rejection of mainstream thought and policy='strcls'>* for not taking into account (and hence devaluing) the goals of one's ="trms">anthropo-theologico-political commitment
wreckage of WWII ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> man could not find meaning either in faith or in his own knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge and construction of the ="trms">world
_...dive into the depths of human solitude and suffering
(like existentialism and the Western ="ppl">Marxist tradition,) human ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rights came to operate as a “humanism from below” ='lgc'>=/= generic and top-down humanisms (='lgc'>~ monopoly of violence that states held over their individual subjects)
(="ppl">Geroulanos not arguing that antihumanism was the driving force or the secret heart of intellectual movements and philosophies, nor claiming that it was a single movement, concept, idea, or trend; rather) antihumanism is what emerged from, shaped, and configured a major matrix of concerns
problem with secular humanist utopias ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> forging of a ‘new man’ through the mobilization of a ="trms">specific a ="trms">priori de="trms">finition of man required (both)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•man's divinization خداسازى
="lsts lst1">•man's purge پاکسازى
essentia="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list de="trms">finitions of man ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> biologistic, ="trms">scientistic, political, ="trms">religious, mora="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list projects ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•lay claim on universality
="lsts lst1">•="trms">prioritize themselves over any such universality
ideologies continue to disguise a ='strcls'>*politics of the will='strcls'>* as a universalism
antihumanism='lgc'> = antiredemptive, antimora="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list, antimessianist ="trms">worldview
='lgc'>+ proliferation of ="trms">tropes ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> dooming contemporary man to an existence without meaning or future='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•last man (="ppl">Nietzsche, Camus, ="ppl">Blanchot)
="lsts lst1">•death of Man (Malraux, Kojeve, ="ppl">Blanchot, ="ppl">="ppl">Foucault)
="lsts lst1">•devirilization of man (Kojeve, ="ppl">Bataille, Queneau)
="lsts lst1">•terror (Marlaux, ="ppl">Bataille, Kojeve, ="ppl">Merleau-Ponty)
="lsts lst1">•
Kojeve and Jean Wahl ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> antifoundational realism ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> new ="trms">anthropology
antihumanism
a precondition of thought
a fluid matrix of ideas
a philosophical attitude
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Malraux's (="trms">literary-="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical pursuits ='lgc'>[echoes ="ppl">Nietzsche ='lgc'>+ intellectual Left='lgc'>]) ="trms">heritage to us (to artists)='lgc'>: the alternative to bourgeois individualism ='lgc'>[can be achieved='lgc'>] through commitment to a justice based on a quasi-="ppl">Marxist notion of human dignity ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the ='strcls'>*uprooted, cultured, and powerless individual='strcls'>* who struggled against the nation-driven, ="trms">science-executed destruction wrought by (arid and morally bankrupt) ="trms">modern warfare ='lgc'>[='lgc'>-='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='gtrw'>go to forensic architecture, ="nms">apass='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (='thdf'>the idea that death of man can be averted through) ='strcls'>***a recognition of the heroism of the resistance='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>+ turn to human creativity
how i have used a non-western voice (“i am from outside the west”) to provide for myself an escape from political ="trms">categorization ='lgc'>+ claiming the knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge of an insider and enjoying the analytical clarity of distance ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i make claims both ='strcls'>*expertise in='strcls'>* and cool-headed ='strcls'>*distance from='strcls'>* the essence of europe
(="trms">technique of) epistolary exchange
(to think of ="ppl">Kantian ="trms">cosmopolitanism a) a genuine model for commitment ='lgc'>=/= outdated illusion
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