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THE EMPIRE OF THE
INTELLECT AND ITS VICTIMS:
PICTURES AND PATTERNS OF KNOWLEDGE/POWER AND THE ROLE OF KNOWLEDGE AND POWER
IN ATROCITIES
by Mark Koslow
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1
1.
Some Pictures of Knowledge/Power
2.
Prefatory Overview
Chapter 2
Detached from
Atrocities: Transcendent Killing and the European World Invasion:
Columbus, The
Inquisition and the American Holocaust
1.
Transcendent Systems: The Road to
Auschwitz
2.
Questioning Mythic Enclosures and How they
Structure Goods and Evils
3.
Conflicting or Amalgamated Myths and Symbolisms and
their Involvement inAtrocities
4.
Exalted Symbolisms and Abstractions used to
Cannibalize and Conquer other Cultures
5.
Christ, Science and Conquest
6.
Columbus, Cortez: Patterns of Knowledge and Conquest
7.
Innocent III: The Inquisition as a Model for Conquest
and Atrocity: Well Rewarded Exterminations
8.
Philip II:
Exporting Atrocities From
Europe Abroad,
Transforming Victims into God and Gold
9.
Systems of
Apocalyptic Knowledge: Death for a Greater Glory
10.
History and
Glory
11.
Patterns of
Knowledge/Power: a Holistic Approach to History
12.
Shakespeare
and the Masters Need to Civilize his Victims
13.
Hieronomous
Bosch: Destroying the Garden to Redeem it
14.
El Greco
and Philip: The Transcendent Crystal that Rises out of the Blood
15.
The
Inquisition: Only a Part of a World Invasion
16.
Excusing
the Atrocities and Blaming the Victim
17.
Counting
the Dead: Denying the Native American Holocaust
18.
The
Mentality that Killed Indians and Replaced Them with Slaves
19.
An Example
of Triumphant Civilizationism and Multicultural Manifest Destiny
Chapter 3
Killing for Pure
Science, Pure Knowledge and History
1.
Inquiries,
Inquisitions and Inequities
2.
History as a
Religion and a Political Theology
3.
Kings,
Encyclopedias and Pantheons:The Limits of Economic and Political History
4.
Knowledge/Power in
China
5.
Descartes and the
Disembodied Intellect
6.
Dictating Space
and Time
7.
Newton and the
Immortalizing Power of Total Science
8.
John Locke:
Immortalizing Money and Turning Divine Right into Property Rights
9.
The March of
Commerce and Manifest Destiny
10.
Questioning the
Power of Intellectual Regimes: The Metaphysics of the University
11.
The Empire of the
Intellect
12.
A Brief History
of Value Neutrality
13.
A Little History
of History and its Role in Atrocities
14.
Darwin, Transcendent
Science and British Cruelty
15.
Foucault,
Nietzsche, Marx and Transcendent History
16.
Robert J. Lifton
and Howard Zinn: Resisting Transcendent Histories
17.
Identities,
Histories, Immortal Beings and Corporate Individuals
Chapter 4
Transcendent
Knowledge and the Factories of Death
1.
The Model the
Nazi's followed: From
Columbus to Himmler
2.
The Curse of
Greatness is to Step Over Dead Bodies
3.
Himmler and the
Hindu World Machine: Duty, Purity and "Disinterested" Imperialism
4.
Patterns of Racism
as an Effect of Knowledge Systems
5.
Objectivity and
Knowledge and Their Role in Atrocity
6.
Transcendental
Knowledge Systems: Power and Consciousness as Cruelty
7.
The Road to
Auschwitz
Leads Through Knowledge, Power and Detachment
8.
Detachment
Chapter 5
Lady Liberty in a
Mushroom Cloud:
Nagasaki,
Oppenheimer and von Neumann
1.
The Splendor of
the Mighty One: Robert Oppenheimer and the Gods of Science
2.
Hinduism, Himmler
and Oppenheimer
3.
Hinduism, Plato,
Caste and Technological Supremacy
4.
Thanking God for
the Bomb: Killing in the Name of Healing
5.
The Paradox of
Power: the Malice that Thinks Itself Beneficent
6.
Technical
Arrogance and the Power that Fuels the Stars
7.
Avoiding Ethics:
Infallibile Objectivity and the Religion of Science
8.
Human Rights: the
Flight from the "It" to the "I" and the "We"
9.
Globalizing
Mythology: Interpenetrating Knowledge Systems: Science, Hinduism and
Christianity
10.
The Most
Destructive Scientific Experiment in History
11.
Von Neumann,
Laurence and Atrocity Creating Abstractions
12.
Knowledge and
Violence: Mythologizing the Business of Math
13.
Game Theory:
Victims and Accomplices
14.
Extending the
Ego, through Technology, into the Universe
15.
"Cosmic Suicide"
16.
Lady Liberty in a
Mushroom Cloud: Imaging Atrocities as Female
17.
Einstein and the
Guilt of Scientific Knowledge
Conclusion
Bibliography
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