[...]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

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

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)


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

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


="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

="large lg3" stl="font-size:110%"> (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)


="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> 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'>]

="large lg5" stl="font-size:144%"> ="display:block;white-space:nowrap;margin-bottom:-1em;overflow:hidden;">...................................

look at spec over the ="trms">spectacular
(in ="nms">ajayeb)

i can't give you a dialectical con="trms">="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clusion

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