[...]racy will be progressively en="trms">coded in law
='lgc'>=/=
='strcls'>**anti-progress prophecy's ="trms">formulaic ="trms">tropes for encapsulating time='strcls'>**
="lsts lst1">•national genius of a chosen people will blossom
="lsts lst1">•human ="trms">nature will reestablish ="trms">historic gender roles and racial hierarchies
="lsts lst1">•the essence of ancient civilizations will rise again to vie and clash

='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> There is no room for ="trms">contingent connections in any of these pre="trms">dictions


="large lg2" stl="font-size:111%"> (most important ="trms">story of our time='lgc'>:) ='strcls'>*the ="trms">story of globalization='strcls'>*='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•the ="trms">world is entering a global era without political or economic rifts
="lsts lst1">•nation-states and cultures are increasingly irrelevant
="lsts lst1">•a global menu of ="trms">consumerdesires and entrepreneurial standards frames identity and sets individual and collective goals

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> since the end of the Cold War='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•global expansion of a few giant corporations
="lsts lst1">•the great flows of people from one continent to another
="lsts lst1">•forging of transnational standards for economics and politics
="lsts lst1">•development of widely sp="trms"nttrm="already,spread">read audiences for once parochial forms of popular culture

='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Global capitalism is not seamless='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•leapfrogging financial crises
="lsts lst1">•“antiglobalization” politics springing up
="lsts lst1">•deflating policymakers’ hopes for a smooth ="trms">transition to corporate empire


ultimate fantasy of an ='strcls'>*era without politics='strcls'>*
ultimate fantasy of a ='strcls'>*more complex evolutionary plan='strcls'>*
='lgc'>=/= ="trms">contingency ='and'>& ="trms">interconnection



principles of (="ppl">Tsing and Pollman's) Global Futures game='lgc'>:
you tell the ="trms">story of this coalescence, and if your fellow players accept the ="trms">story, it makes ="trms">history='lgc'>: it becomes a part of the ="trms">world of the game.
the goal is to develop a set of ='strcls'>*coalescences='strcls'>* that fulfills a preassigned ="trms">mission.
whoever tells the best ="trms">story while completing the ="trms">mission wins.

you (tell ="trms">stories in which you) are free to='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•make the ="trms">world a better place
="lsts lst1">•hatch a nefarious scheme
="lsts lst1">•="trms">narrate a true ="trms">story

='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]coalescence='lgc'>: the ="trms">historical force that arises from a transformative coming together of disparate groups, institutions, or things='lgc'>:
an unexpected connection ='lgc'>==> a “="trms">historical force"='lgc'>[= something that might change the ="trms">world='lgc'>]
(parties might be='lgc'>: groups, institutions, ideas, identities, things, or beings. chili peppers and Thai cuisine; African rice producers and the Carolina coast; astrolabes, compasses, and plane tables)

='lgc'>[contemplative mode of togetherness='lgc'>: (in Europe) coalescence انعقاد ='lgc'>=/= (in Middle East) confluence تلاقى ='lgc'>}='lgc'>='lgc'>--> transnationalism ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">internationalism ='lgc'>}='lgc'>~-> forms of alliance that are possible and needed that can be created ="trms">differentially with “trans-” ='lgc'>=/= “="trms">inter-“='lgc'>]='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*coalescence is not meaningful nor possible in Middle East='qstn'>?='strcls'>*

example='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•not coalescence ="trms">story='lgc'>: to say that a cat and a goldfinch are both ="trms">animals. or to ="trms">imagine a pet store that sells both
="lsts lst1">•coalescence ="trms">story='lgc'>: a cat-feeding fad that requires that cats eat nothing but goldfinches to give the cats a sleeker coat, while goldfinches become ="trms">seriously end="trms"nttrm="danger,stranger">angered because of the program ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- ='strcls'>*both cats and goldfinches are changed in the encounter='strcls'>*

coalescence can be unintentional, ="trms">seriously damage collaborator and the ="trms">world

="trms">missions could be='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•create a revolution
="lsts lst1">•corrupt a nation's government
="lsts lst1">•use a ="trms">natural resource to create havoc
="lsts lst1">•revitalize an ancient philosophy
="lsts lst1">•


future-making cards='lgc'>:
icons of ="trms">historical ="trms">agency
they re="trms">present the ="trms">world through stereotypes and ="trms">symbols
used as an ideology about X (='lgc'>=/= as the real thing)

eternal essences as ="trms">natural objects or cultural ="trms">codes prevent theories to require things to change ='lgc'>=/= Global Futures conceptualization of time and change ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>***forms of human and nonhuman possibility ="trms">imagined within current discussions of politics and culture='strcls'>***

='strcls'>*="trms">world power ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">world time='strcls'>*

time ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> evolutionary ladder ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> progressive ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> supportive trellises of flowering liberalism ='lgc'>+ critical charts of intensifying capitalism

coercive ="trms">international development
civilizational paternalism
free-="trms">market bullying

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='at'>#my theory (='lgc'>=/= reductionist, or psychological identification) on ="trms">specification of='lgc'>:
spider ='lgc'>=/= linear temporality
whale ='lgc'>=/= distinction of organism and environment
(='qstn'>?) ='lgc'>=/= “single point of view ='lgc'>==> subjective ="trms">phenomena”

="ppl">Nagel='lgc'>: the fact that an organism has conscious experience='lgc'> = there is something it is like to be that organism ='lgc'>{='lgc'>='lgc'>--> subjective character of experience='lgc'>}='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> analyzable in terms of any explanatory ="trms">system of functional states, or intentional states

Blade Runner's notion of “soul”='lgc'>: ascribed to robots or automata that behave like people though they experience nothing

physicalism='lgc'>: ="trms">phenomenological features must themselves be given a physical account

...if one ="trms">travels too far down the phylogenetic tree, people gradually shed their faith that there is experience at all

anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited bat
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited whale
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited snake
anyone who has spent some time in an enclosed space with an ex="trms">cited jinn
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knows what it is to encounter a fundamentally alien form of life

="ppl">Nagel asking='lgc'>: we must consider whether any ="trms">method will permit us to ex="trms">trapolate استقراء to the inner life of the bat from our own case, and if not, what alternative ="trms">methods there may be for understanding the notion

“our own experience provides the basic ="trms">material for our ="trms">imagination, whose range is therefore limited” ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Nagel's view remains secular and in the bounds of his disciplinary field. (="trms">religious studies, theology, ="trms">animal subjectivity studies, art of description, they can be helpful to describe things not in terms of the impressions they make on our senses)
="prgrph">-="ppl">Nagel is trying with the wrong ="trms">language at bats='lgc'>: “does it make sense to ask what my experiences are ‘really’ like as opposed to how they appear to me='qstn'>? ='lgc'>[...='lgc'>] objective processes can have a subjective ="trms">nature.”

what it would be like for me to behave as a bat behaves ='lgc'>=/= what it is like for a bat to be a bat


schematic conceptions of ="frds scrmbld">Eszter


(old model of understanding='lgc'>:)
='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> stimulus (things sparkling) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> perception (hiting the senses) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apprehension (mind aware without judgement) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> comprehension (psychological judgement about the manner of ="trms">situation) ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> knowing ='lgc'>==> ="trms">world of doing, in which “action” is='lgc'>: expected (mother attending the ="trms">child, free liberating the prisoners), commanded (soldier's hierarchy, job's duty), solved (engineer puzzling out a problem)


the things apprehended from a particular point of view (particular visual ="trms">phenomenology) are not connected to that point


Neobeobachtungen
moshahedat مشاهدت
نگاه جدید


='strcls'>*essence of the ="trms">internal ="trms">world='strcls'>* ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> who is busy with this='qstn'>? (this will define the fate of ="trms">animal subjectivity)


='strcls'>*view from nowhere='strcls'>*='lgc'>: that their particular viewpoint is not part of the common reality (='lgc'>--='not'>✕='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">sociology of ="trms">science)


X is Y
“is”='lgc'>: converge, a ="trms">technique of modeling (='lgc'>~~> ="trms">sync)
X, Y='lgc'>: two referential paths
we know how X is ="trms">supposed to be true

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people are no told at an early age that ='strcls'>*all ="trms">matter is really energy='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> capita="trms"nttrm="listen,alist,ilist,llist,olist,ylist,ulist">list physicalism. then what you say abnout ‘energy’ is saying something about the ="trms">nature of reality)
physicalism='lgc'>: the hypothesis that a mental event is a physical event


someone with instinct ="trms"nttrm="metaph,metamorph,metabol,metal">meta="trms">morphosis

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(my feedbacks in ="nms">apass does not only apply to intentional mental events of each other)

(="ppl">Nagel asking for='lgc'>:) to devise a ="trms">method of expressing in objective terms much more than we can at ="trms">present ='lgc'>[but he is stuck in ='thdf'>the idea of='lgc'>] “a ="trms">phenomenology that is objective='strcls'>*

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="large lg5" stl="font-size:165%"> with ="frds scrmbld">Jassem and ="frds scrmbld">Mia

Norway ='lgc'>~= (a breakable) illusion ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> that somebody is living it
green competition and ="trms">techno="trms">positivist hubris

="trms">question of topology (in dream)
(topology='lgc'>: those qualities that remain invariant after transformation ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> persistent forms)

fantastic peasant

a piece of hanging cloth that sug="trms">gests ="trms">horrors to rece[...]