35. How to Think the Global with Mark Jarzombek
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\u201cIsn\u2019t this desire for objectivity a modernist sentiment?\u201d - VP
\u201cWhere does one enter, and where does one exit out of the modern?\u201d - MJ
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In today's episode, we engage in a far-ranging and open-ended discussion on the question of the global with my longtime collaborator Mark Jarzombek. Circulating around the question of the larger agenda of the global, discussion topics include the modernity and its critiques, the nation-state and its limits, autobiography and its pitfalls, and what are the ways in which global thinking (dis)connects with deconstruction.
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2:31 Magdalenian culture and civilization: the caves. The Gravettians.
4:09 A Global History of Architecture textbook + GAHTC: what is this global project?
6:50 Modernism, Postmodernism, and the critical question of the \u201cafter the modern\u201d
11:23 Modernism as dualism: the good and the bad in equal doses, continuously, vs a Hegelian dialectic (destruction at the end)
13:30 \u201cHow to develop a critique that doesn\u2019t entrap you into being complicit in one side of the game or the other side of the game?\u201d -MJ
\u2018Isn\u2019t this desire for objectivity a modernist sentiment?\u2019 -VP
14:26 \u201cWhere does one enter, and where does one exit out of the modern?\u201d -MJ
17:43 Ethics, rights, powers, and personal agency
19:00 Give money to Greenpeace but not on the boat: individual agency and the social matrix
21:06 \u201cEthical in a particular way,\u201d haunting to one\u2019s subject-position \xa0
22:26 The shadowy terror of monotheism
23:35 The \u2018Global\u2019 as an ethics-opening term
25:04 Parallels and intersections of global histories with the craziness emerging with quantum theory in astrophysics
27:24 Uncertainty, possibility, and knowing (Meeting the Universe Halfway, Karen Barad)
28:04 What the people in Lascaux and Chauvet knew
28:14 \u201cThis sounds a little Hindu-ish to me, a little Vishnu,\u201d and the conflicted presence of singular Judaism
34:36 Modernism and a vortex of non-dualities
36:42 Derrida as a \u201crenegade rabbi\u201d: reading from the margins
37:38 Connection between new materialism, French poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, Jewish philosophy and Buddhist thinking?
39:06 No singular global can apply to everything
39:13 Biography as entry? Significance of personal epistemologies in critical thinking of the world.
43:58 \u201cVishnu-Modernism\u201d
45:35 the Post-Holocaust vs the Post-Colonial Global
1:00:20 Limitations of Derrida\u2019s critiques: ethics and Buddha\u2019s ear to the ground
1:03:19 \u201cOther oralities need to be known.\u201d: this is the global history project
1:05:33 \u201cWriting on writing. Writing on writing on writing.\u201d Iterations.
1:07:37 Writing corrodes oral-communicative structures
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