[...]iscovered
...painful ="trms">history of the ="trms">anthropologist's gaze
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]value='lgc'>: what one is ="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready to die for / what makes life not worth living if one is deprived of it
european ="trms">history tied to the elaboration of='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apo="trms">dictic truth, ="trms">social construction, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•law as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> power, ="trms">rhetoric, etc.)
="lsts lst1">•politics as value (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">social='lgc'>: the name of what is assembled='lgc'>--as="trms">sociated)
="lsts lst1">•
="lsts lst1">•
="trms">scientific ties
legal ties
political ties
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">social as="trms">sociates
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so difficult to ="trms">enunciate something ="trms">religiously because of ='strcls'>*the ease with which it is accounted for by other types of explanation='strcls'>* (especially ="trms">social explanation)
in ="nms">apass we need to practice saying='lgc'>: “I don't want to take that or this contrast into account any more” (because you want to do something else for a moment)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> you return to a project ='lgc'>--and='lgc'>='lgc'>--> i have been fighting so that (myself and) you ='strcls'>**don't become ="trms">modernist again='strcls'>** (='lgc'>~ that means you engage in the conflict of values that has characterized ="trms">modernist ="trms">history)
(with work on ="nms">ajayeb) i am engaged in the project of ='strcls'>***disentangling the entire set of values that constitutes my ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rightful in="trms">heritance='strcls'>***
(the ="trms">question of) “what treasure have we in="trms">herited='qstn'>? how can we claim it='qstn'>?” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> it is so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous to answer those ="trms">questions alone, without each other ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> selfish identities and o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">rigins
(eurocentrism, or the former ‘others’ answering it for everyone, without you)
="trms">ecologizing
="trms">ecological consciousness ='lgc'>=='qstn'>? your entire way of life must be modified or else you will disappear as a civilization
(not being the heir of) emancipatory tradition
(if) ="trms">modernism is Promethean, then green bio economy and clean ="trms">technology is Promethean even more
(the ='thdf'>bad idea of and hype of) ="trms">technological solution to ="trms">ecological crises
='strcls'>*renewing everything here and now='strcls'>* is first of all a ="trms">religious passion
='qstn'>?='at'>@="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo
="prgrph">-what ="trms">modernism did to ="trms">science is worse than what it did to ="trms">religion
it deprived it of its energy, restricting it, to ='strcls'>*mere furniture of the soul='strcls'>* ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Iron Man's idea of ="trms">technology-human ="trms">relation='lgc'>]
="trms">modernism's politicization of ="trms">science
speaking of ="trms">science ="trms">scientifically ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a ="trms">scientific ‘="trms">worldview’ is deployed
speaking of ="trms">religion ="trms">religiously ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a vague assemblage of pious moral vacuities is taken as an ‘alternative ="trms">worldview’
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> they both accept an='strcls'>* un="trms">scientific ="trms">science='strcls'>* and an ='strcls'>*ir="trms">religious ="trms">religion='strcls'>*
="ppl">="ppl">Latour (quickly dissolving nonsense that accrues as one opposes ‘knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge’ and ‘belief’)='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•="trms">science='lgc'> = reference chain (what allow access to the far away) ='lgc'>[nothing is out of the reach of reference chain='lgc'>]
="lsts lst1">•="trms">religion='lgc'> = ="trms">presence (what allow access to the near)
="trms">science ='lgc'>='lgc'>~/= concrete, ="trms">worldly, ="trms">matter-of-fact, ="trms">present-at-hand, domain of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- political activism has to work with that kind of knowl="trms"nttrm="knowledge,Knowledge">edge)
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what use is it to save your soul, if you forfeit the ="trms">world='qstn'>? ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> sci-fi's real frontier ='and'>& Noah's project
the transcendence and transubstantiation of ="trms">science
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when ="trms">nature enters, ="trms">religion has to leave. in two equally fatal exit strategies='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•to limit itself to the inner sanctum of the soul
="lsts lst1">•to flee into the super="trms">natural ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that ="trms">religion will try in vain to imitate ="trms">scientific ="trms">instruments (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- The Magicians TV series) ='lgc'>+ mis="trms">interpreted ="trms">science ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>==> taking Bible as if it were geology ="trms">book (='lgc'><='lgc'>-- look at the rising Hollywood films that ="trms">scientifize the events of Bible) ='lgc'>-- projects of connecting ="trms">religion to the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
‘exit ="trms">religion’='lgc'>: it will have lost any pretence of influencing the course of events, its impact will only be decorative
(="ppl">Descola='lgc'>:) ‘="trms">naturalism’ is only one of four ways in which connections between humans and nonhumans can be established
contrasts='lgc'>:
='strcls'>*reference chain='strcls'>*
='strcls'>*reproduction='strcls'>*
(="ppl">="ppl">Latour use of the term) ='strcls'>*contrast='strcls'>*='lgc'> = mode of existence
immutable mobiles='lgc'>: to reach something far away through long arrays of ="trms">instruments, you need to make sure that ='strcls'>*necessities and constants are transported='strcls'>* with as little transformation as possible ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> to “reach” those entities
="trms">geometry, mathematical entities, inscriptions of all ="trms">sorts ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> carry heavy-duty immutable mobiles
(="frds scrmbld">Hoda's immutable mobiles are='lgc'>: ='lgc'>[='qstn'>?='lgc'>])
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]="trms">matter='lgc'> = highly elaborated, ="trms">historically dated, and ="trms">anthropologically ="trms">situated hybrids='strcls'>***
(='lgc'>=/= ‘transportation of indisputable necessities through chains of cause and effect’ ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a ="trms">category mistake)
(for physicist='lgc'>:) “the ways we know the ="trms">world='lgc'> = the ways in which the ="trms">world behaves”
(less for chemist)
(not at all for engineer)
(='lgc'>[in a way ='mywrk'>my work has been about investigating vectors and='lgc'>] ='strcls'>*directions='strcls'>*) from knower to what is to be known
the beings of ="nms">ajayeb face lots of causes and lots of effects
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="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysical consequences of evolutionary theory
='strcls'>***(="ppl">="ppl">Latour's ="trms">positive veiw on) to be a ="ppl">Darwinian='lgc'>: you have to abandon ='thdf'>the notion that all of those ‘organisms’ rest in ‘="trms">nature’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]organim='lgc'>: a hybrid production of re="trms">presentation ='and'>& reference
='strcls'>*the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ideology of the ='strcls'>*blind watch maker='strcls'>* ='lgc'>: a blind cause acting from behind and reaching the optimum haphazardly
(has substituted the ‘mere transportation of indisputable necessities’ for ='strcls'>*the risks taken by individual organisms to perpetuate, sustain, and reproduce themselves='strcls'>*)
&
='strcls'>*the widesp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read ideology of the ='strcls'>*intelligent designer='strcls'>* :an intelligence dragging organisms towards the optimum by some predefined plans
='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both are grounded in the ='strcls'>*ideology of making and mechanism='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•organisms are erased as individual actors
="lsts lst1">•organisms are transformed into the carriers if indisputable necessities
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> both tried to save individual organims from their apparent meaninglessness by adding to them an overarching ="trms">narrative re="trms">cited by an other="trms">worldly divinity
(‘necessities’ are often imported)
(Assmans's) ='strcls'>*mosaic division='strcls'>*
(='lgc'>=/= a ="trms">sort of relaxed attitude towards truth)
divisions ahad never beed asked before whether or not they were the “true” ones. they could be added to one another, ="trms">translated into one another, piled on top of one another for additional safety ='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*contesting the claims to existence of all divinities but one='strcls'>*
='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a connection between the ="trms">question (irrelevant until then) of worship and a ="trms">question of an absolute (='lgc'>=/= relative) ="trms">difference between true and false
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]iconoclast='lgc'>: “if they are made, then they cannot be real”
monotheism ='lgc'>==allowed='lgc'>='lgc'>==> humans to escape from a too close adhesion چسبنده to the ="trms">natural ="trms">world
Moses's project ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> we have exctracted ourselves from the ="trms">world
(Assmans='lgc'>:) without the transcendence of monotheism we would be left with the mere immanence of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world ='strcls'>*** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>='lgc'>--> the problem of transcendence/immanence as only options of relatedness='lgc'>]
(a bad ="trms">story='lgc'>:) secular ="trms">narratives that='lgc'>: the stark immanence of the ="trms">natural ="trms">world will save us from an escapist adherence to the transcendent ="trms">world of beyond ='lgc'>[='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> my Zolmat text is was about the problematization of that view (transcendent ="trms">world of beyond) in Islamicated ="trms">ecological consciousness in ="nms">ajayeb='lgc'>]
='strcls'>****to move from ideology to recognition='strcls'>**** (of the many ="trms">different contrasts we have lived by without granting them enough room)
the drab and entirly mythical drama of light overcoming darkness
="trms">religious traditio operates by its abilities of two transformation='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. a radical transformation of the far away into the close and the proximate ='lgc'>[='at'>#Zolmat='lgc'>] (dead is alive)
="lstsrd">2. a ="trms">positive view of all artificial transformations (='lgc'>=/= tendencyo conserve what it is)
='strcls'>**what happens if ="trms">religion is allowed to weave its highly ="trms">specific form of transcendence (salvation='qstn'>?) into the fabric of the other two modes of existence='lgc'>: reproduction and reference='qstn'>?
="frds scrmbld"nttrm="Leonardo">Leo's dream (and also deep sin)='lgc'>: the urge radically to transform ='strcls'>*that which is given='strcls'>* into ='strcls'>*that which has to be fully renewed='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alternative, dream of a ="trms">different ="trms">world
='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= to grasp this ="trms">world (and only this ="trms">world) otherwise='lgc'>]
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look at spec over the ="trms">spectacular
(in ="nms">ajayeb)
i can't give you a dialectical con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion
maybe a mouth-full
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='lgc'>[Paul ="ppl">Shepard='lgc'>]
our perception of ="trms">animals as the ="trms">language of ="trms">nature in Thinking ="trms">Animals and The Others; the “="trms">natural” way of ="trms">childrearing in ="trms">Nature and Madness; and the bear as a dominant sacred ="trms">animal connecting people ceremonially to the earth in The Sacred Paw.
Octavio Paz reminds us='lgc'>: “The ="trms">past reappears because it is a hidden ="trms">present. I am speaking of the real ="trms">past, which is not the same as ‘what took place.’ . . . What took place is indeed the ="trms">past, yet there is something that . . . takes place but does not wholly recede into the ="trms">past, a constantly returning ="trms">present.”
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='lgc'>[="ppl">Corbin='lgc'>]
it is so d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angerous to say any thinker, ="trms">writer, artist, or phiosopher ‘was of his/her own time.’ nobody has ever been in their own time, never. we are constantly out of time.
things occur in Malakut, not in the time of this ="trms">world.
it is a ="trms">matter of ="trms">interior ="trms">history, exoteric in the etymological sense of the word, subtle ="trms">history whose events do not take place in the exterior ="trms">world of objects, but in the subtle ="trms">world of lived states, events in the Malakut, in the ="trms">world of the ‘Soul,’ in the ‘Heaven’ or the ‘Hell’ which man carries within himself.
(and this is precisely what is ‘changing someone's ="trms">story’ is about. ‘let me change the rhythm of your ="trms">story. let me change your ="trms">history.’ ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ="trms">storytelling)
this ="trms">history='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--="trms">interior ="trms">wild facts='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--="trms">intermingles with his wills, and objectives itself in the web of exterior facts. these are events of ="nms">="nms">ajayebnameh, Shahname شاهنامه, Qur'an قرآن, Grail Cycle and so on, the events of this ="trms">history (inspire parables='qstn'>? and) make up sacred ="trms">history (tarikh-e ghodsi تاریخ قدسی) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">historicity
='strcls'>*the ="trms">question always remains='lgc'>:
="prgrph">-what ='strcls'>*is of this ="trms">world='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-what is the organ of perception='qstn'>?
="prgrph">-does oneself need to ‘belong’ to this sacred ="trms">history in order to come to pass (in the Malakut ملکوت)='qstn'>? (being born in it, etc.)
='lgc'>[what was your fetish again='qstn'>? what was your Qibla قبله='qstn'>? what would be...='lgc'>]
platonic ideals, periodization of sacred ="trms">history
ملا صدرا Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra revolutionized the ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics of being, in reversing the order of ="trms">priority of essence (mahiat ماهیت). he gives ="trms">priority to existence (vojud وجود) ='lgc'>: that means, it is the act and mode of existing that determine the ="trms">nature of essence. the act of existing is in effect capable of multitude of degrees of intensification or of degradation.
(عجایبِ ="nms">ajayeb-e) man='lgc'>: human-faced demon (ajene ensan-nama اجنه انساننما) / ... / ... / ="trms">sublime state of perfect Man
="prgrph">-and body passing through a multitude of states ='lgc'>: Hayula هیولا='qstn'>? / ... / jesm (جسم corruptible ="trms">worldly body) / ... / divine body (jesm-e elahi جسم الهی)
Mullah ="ppl">="ppl">Sadra is the philosopher of ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphoses and ="trms">palingenesis (estehaleh-ha استحالهها ='and'>& rastakhiz-ha رستاخیزها)
='strcls'>*="trms">phenomenology of the act of existing='strcls'>*
there was a time (12th century='lgc'>--my favorite) when ="ppl">Avicenna ابن سینا was ="trms">translated into Latin (in Toledo,) a moment when our cultures in east and west cor="trms">responded to the same type, a moment when the concept of ="trms">science was inseparable from its spiritual context. ='lgc'>='lgc'>='lgc'>--='lgc'>--> think of the alchemists for whom the operation undertaken in the laboratory only attained its end if it was accompanied by an ="trms">interior transmutation of the man='lgc'>--that is to say only if it effected the ="trms">interior birth (of spiritual man)
Alchemist's chemistry
="ppl">="frds scrmbld">Nicolas ="ppl">="ppl">Oresme's ="trms">geometry
='lgc'>[out of ="trms">history='lgc'>]
="ppl">Descartes’ ="trms">geometry is also out of ="trms">history, discontinuous
(for ="ppl">Corbin) ="trms">Modern / Western venture='lgc'> = application of the intelligence to the ="trms">scientific investigation of a ="trms">nature that has been desacralised, which must be violated in order to find out its laws (and to subject its forces to the human will)
the dichotomies or dis="trms">sociation of thought/being, being/action
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حیدر آملی ="ppl">Haydar ="ppl">Amuli's delinkings (destroying precisely certain dialectics or dichotomies='lgc'>:)
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Holul حلول, Sodur صدور, Tajasod تجسد
(immanence, transcendence, incarnation)
(the eidos reflected in the mirror='lgc'>--divine in the prophet='lgc'>--remains untouched by the mirror, because the real is not ‘incarnated’ in the eidos, the reflected image)
="prgrph">-alame khiali عالم خیالی='lgc'>: ="trms">imaginaire/Hollywood
="prgrph">-khiale khallagh خیال خلاق (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> alame mesal عالم مثال ='lgc'>=/= alame ajsad عالم اجساد) ='lgc'>:
1-khiale mottasel خیال متصل='lgc'>: ="trms">imagining inherent in human
2-khiale monfasel خیال منفصل='lgc'>: ="trms">imaginal apart from human
="prgrph">-alame hess عالم حسس='lgc'>: molk ملک ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> universe of forgetfulness
Tonekaboni, is against='lgc'>: “mojudate moghayade vahmi faghede tagharor mibashand.” (موجودات مقید وهمی فاقد تقرر میباشند)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> vahdate vojud وحدت وجود ='lgc'>=/= vahdate mojud وحدت موجود
='strcls'>*d="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">anger='lgc'>: tarde amre mesali طرد امر مثالی ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ma'ad dar amre khiali معاد در امر خیالی
death, life, ="trms">past, and future are not properties of objects, rather of subjects (anha sefate nafs hastand آنها صفات نفس هستند) ='lgc'>[="ppl">Corbin='lgc'>]
and you bestow them to objects that you think they are “dead,” “alive,” “from ="trms">past,” or “of future”
“khorre” or “khorne” ="trms">according to zaratustra='lgc'>: a light o="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">riginated from the essence of the divine being and because of that some apparitions have gained hierarchy, and each human capable of a certain ="trms">techne.
='thdf'>the idea of a divine ="trms">presence in ='strcls'>*heikal='strcls'>* هیکل
="trms">according to ="ppl">Socrates='lgc'>: bodies are frames and tools of the selves (nofus نفوس)
="trms">according to ="ppl">Plato, what the self (nafs نفس) does not had essentially that it had to descend into the ="trms">material ="trms">world='qstn'>? what the senses told the self that itself could not say='qstn'>?
an islamic-="nms">iranian ="trms">cosmology='lgc'>:
="prgrph prgrph2">-jabarut جبروت (alame oghule karubi عالم اقول کروبی) (Nous)
="prgrph prgrph2">-malakut ملکوت (alame nofus عالم نفوس) (Psyche) ='lgc'>--organ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> khiale fa'al خیال فعال (= jesme latife nafs جسم لطیف نفس. niruye khial نیروی خیال is trainded still in middle east. this ="trms">inter-monde is where mater ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> im="trms">material ='and'>& immater ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">material; jesm ruhani جسم روحانی ='and'>& ruh jesmani روح جسمانی ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> constant happenings of ="trms">historic ="trms">nature ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> Ma'ad معاد) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> amre mesali امر مثالی
="prgrph prgrph2">-molk ملک (omure mshhud امور مشهود) (Sarx)
='lgc'>[="ppl">Ashtiani, 2nd vol, p44, footnote='lgc'>]
ensane okhravie daraye badan (انسان اخروی دارای بدن) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> nash'eye jesmanie alame akherat (نشئه جسمانی عالم آخرت)
(baghaye) badane okhravie alame made (بقای بدن اخروی عالم ماده) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> hades zamanie (حادث زمانی)
لطیف latif ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= im="trms">material
actual/real ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= a dream between earth and sky
asemanhaye napeydaye nojumi آسمانهای ناپیدای نجومی (celectial skies invisible)
dadehaye vahyi دادههای وحی (="trms">data of revelation)
="ppl">Avicenna (selselemaratebe ebn-sinaie oghul سلسله مراتب ابن سینایی عقول)='lgc'>:
='lgc'>[each aghl عقل or angle with its own sky and nafs نفس ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a whole universe for itself='lgc'>]
sending from one aghl to the other, till the 10th aghl='lgc'> = unlimited human nafs
10th aghl ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= philosopher's active aghl ='lgc'>='lgc'>~= ruh al ghodos روح القدس
(سهروردی) in ="ppl">Sohrevardi='lgc'>: angle and nafs are in the same trip
aghle ="nms">hayulayi عقل هیولایی
='lgc'>[="ppl">Averroesian/ابن رشدی ='lgc'>=/= Avicennian/ishraghi/اشراقی='lgc'>] ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> destruction of the ="trms">intermediate ="trms">world of angles ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> secularization ='lgc'>:
="trms">sociology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- theology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- angelology
(divine ="trms">materiliazation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">social ="trms">materialization)
totalitarianism ='lgc'><='lgc'>== ideology ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- spirituality (='lgc'>='lgc'>~=='qstn'>? intellectual im="trms">materialism)
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(='qstn'>?signing in ="nms">iran='lgc'>:)
ghodsi shodane nahadha='lgc'> = orfi shodane maba'adotabi
قدسی شدن نهادها='lgc'> = عرفی شدن مابعدالطبیعه
sacredization of institutions='lgc'> = secularization of ="trms">="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">metaphysics
the tragedy is not the affirmation of individualism, it is rather the forgetting of the in="trms">finite entity ='lgc'>:
non-mystic monotheism ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a personalized (incarnation of) God (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> everything ‘personal’ is subject to de[...]