Friday, 21 May 2021

Have Never Been 1

Baudrillard may be correct on jesuits. Not only do the (actually past) cities sometimes hold the ancestors - where Nature is commanded from, in the stars - but for at least one nation in Navajo world their God is Dead. They use sane nets. Sein nets, the nets they also always used?
Pre-modern, said Latour getting a seat with anthropologists.

In other words we have often gone premodern. Greaber and Wengrow bring on the democracy from Native Americans, via Jesuits, so later...

This is first comment. Latour is wrong to speculate from S&S on Boyle and Hobbes.
Bruno says there's no context. As if Arts were nowhere - and probably (I don't know) not much in Bacon's Utopia. That's another story, mechanics and consumers.
Though not quite.
The conflict was between Culpepper and the Oxford Surgeons. It's Methodological Presentism.
Latour's allegation that some anglo-saxon technology took Europe is interesting.

What premodern nativism can do is make a point of othering. How much of that was there before when? Patchy, localised weather, until C19th?
What is making the weather fluctuate? Violence. I haven't read Freud's T&T nor Civilis. Discontents for two decades (sorry,)  yet in the notion of ritual violence is the conclusion that rituals make violence. Violence is not a system run by unwittings. Not a system like the military strategy to flatten down any modernity for the enemy.
The ritual is othering. The systems are for rituals - Graeber fluffed it BSjobs, he often missed the schtick, stick, the nervous tick of the common. Wengrow gets it. It's where the violence is.

(it's Bersani territory, the violence. My actual direction is on the psychoanalytic obsession with architectural space. We'll see)

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