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

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