@nsrnicek RT @nsrnicek Two questions: (1) Are two galaxies colliding in the vast emptiness of space, political? (2) If yes, how?
re:Yes, because such an event was researched so to be known & experienced as a positive knowledge through the technology that is capable to do it, & through the people with the professional skills to determine it as a scientific truth & also as a fact, not only in the history of humanity but specially in the history of the discipline that holds such positive knowledge: technology & people, that are both actually payed with certain funds that would not exist if the colliding event would not be relevant to politics or if such an event would be not political. I am afraid that you are willing to see the event itself as a being that is not conditioned by the humans nor their history nor their politics, that is part of a reality that is natural & independent from them, which is like saying that you only want to see this event in terms of an isolated object. But this objectual reductio which is finally invented on the base of the factual existence of a being which natural reality we are not already sure to know, or that is meant not to be known with the knowledge we have so far, is something too comfortable to take as a human-political-independent reality, mostly if considered that the colliding of two galaxies in the vast emptiness of space is not merely an object but an event that has its own affirmativeness & that might even have its complex reasons to happen, what ever these reasons might be, & therefore because of these complex reasons, it might have lots of relevant relations empowering its own material reality.
The problem is 1) if we are willing to take the question as something eventual that happens in fact, & then when it happens & as we get to know it, it irremediably becomes a political question such as all facts are, or 2) if are we willing to see & to take what we think of such event as an object.The problem is 1) not if such an event exists independently from human reality, the problem is 2) if we are able & capable as researchers to reach the reality of that an object, & i mean not it if we even have the knowledge to understand such an event, but if we have the knowledge-of-the-political-implications of our own specialized knowledge, exercises, practices & disciplines, a) regarding to other kind or related knowledge, exercises, practices & disciplines b) regarding to our fields of action, & of course as well, c) regarding to the people & its social sensibility.
The problem is 1) if we have objectified our position & trajectory in the fields we are working on & have worked on through our careers, regarding to the position & trajectories of our collegues & adversaries who are working in the same fields that we are, even though they might be working in something else, & all this so to avoid e.g. to use & abuse of the knowledge of such an event, even in the exercise of our professional practice, & to make not that knowledge end as a weapon or as an ideological dominancy. All this 2) if it is the case that we have taken the correct routes of our knowledge to understand “objectively” such an event, because it might be the case as well the we might have taken the routes inside our own discipline that would not lead us to understand it, & rather also might have filled us with all kind of pre-notions & pre-sumptions regarding to the object we are referring to, either because of the vices & shortcuts that point to all what we have taken for granted about our knowledge & practice, to what makes the sense of such practice & gives us the scholastic view of it as self-evident & the natural way to do things inside our fields.
#addendum To make the proper objectivification of our position, exercises, & trajectory in our disciplinary fields, its needed to effectuate epistemological ruptures as part of the methodology that would make us approximate to our pretended object: this means that we need to drop out certain & concrete things that are settled in & related to our knowledge & to the knowledge of our practice & discipline, things that we presume useful to make such an approximation. Of course I am not only referring to establish a moral rupture regarding to our personal beliefs & atavisms, but mostly to the embodied skills & schemes that constitute our sense of practice which implies the blinded spots that we all have embodied because all of the obvious things that we have taken for granted while exercising our practice.
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