[...] access to the near)

="trms">science ='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

="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> 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'>])

="large lg1" stl="font-size:126%"> ='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

(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'>]

="large lg3" stl="font-size:111%"> 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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="large lg4" stl="font-size:110%"> ='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'>~= ="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

="large lg5" stl="font-size:131%"> 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 ال[...]