There are some audiences that I wonder how they would "take" Reset Modernity! Perhpas they are already comming in. It would be nice to get something of their feedback on twitter or in the blog
1. Senior high school students. Why not visit Rest Modernity! , perhaps with their classmates? It is about their future. What would be their responses?
2. Recent Immigrants/refugees in Germany with good knowledge of English or French or German (I guess each is sufficient). What are these moderns up to? How do they-the immigrants/refugees- respond to it? Maybe the city of Karlshrue could provide their tickets or arrange for a visit (and some workshop?) for those interested
3. The modern poor. I mean moderns that are poor or that belong to the "margin". Is there something for them in this effort to Reset Modernity? Are they not carriers of the same partimony too or does poverty/marginality makes somebody culturally untouchable?
4. The upper class. The people who are raised in old wealth and learn to give orders with the milk of their mother (these that some say that are 10% of the total population and posess 86% of the total wealth). These must be the most difficult to lure, but how interesting an audience they are!
While writting these it became clearer to my mind a concern about the anthropology that produced AIME. Professions are heavily represented but what about a) the marginals in the moderns , are they not unique? Is it sure that they do not carry values that are not represented among the professionals? Modern values that need also to be housed somehow? b) the people of old wealth and power. These I guess are the most difficult to do anthropology with. Why would they care having lowly anthropologists among their feet when they are negotiating issues of power behind closed doors? Why inroduce anthropologists in their exclusive clubs or to their own "clasified" "mass media" -if we assume that there exist such-? How could they explain their lives to the middle-class anthropoligist who had a completely different trajectory in life? And yet is this category of people not important in defining modernity? We assume that modern life could run pretty much the same even if they did not exist, but is it so? Might they have special values?
And then I thought to myself: " poor guy, you are not even a pure modern, your great grandparents where peasants in the Anatolian plane and sheapheards in the mountains of Peloponese, and you want to have "a clear view of the moderns"! Even of the most accomplished -in terms of power- among them. How presumptuous! What you should go for at most is a view of your own class of people and look to keep decently your place in life". But I am Greek and I am Christian of a tradition that may put the lowly monk above the bishop at times. Maybe I do not know "my proper place in life" -in a well ordered world-
I was writting this and thinking the Parable of the Banquet (in its two versions: Matthew 22:1-14 and Luke 14:15-24) . Rethink Modernity! as a Banquet addressing firt the true sons and daughters (moderns themselves). But there are others as well that could be called: the "failed", the "foreign".
I was also thinking this comment, https://youtu.be/5UgBw_4SpP4?t=3382, in Engestrom's talk in Limassol
"learning for us is actual material changes in peoples' lives, not just changes of minds"
1. Senior high school students. Why not visit Rest Modernity! , perhaps with their classmates? It is about their future. What would be their responses?
2. Recent Immigrants/refugees in Germany with good knowledge of English or French or German (I guess each is sufficient). What are these moderns up to? How do they-the immigrants/refugees- respond to it? Maybe the city of Karlshrue could provide their tickets or arrange for a visit (and some workshop?) for those interested
3. The modern poor. I mean moderns that are poor or that belong to the "margin". Is there something for them in this effort to Reset Modernity? Are they not carriers of the same partimony too or does poverty/marginality makes somebody culturally untouchable?
4. The upper class. The people who are raised in old wealth and learn to give orders with the milk of their mother (these that some say that are 10% of the total population and posess 86% of the total wealth). These must be the most difficult to lure, but how interesting an audience they are!
While writting these it became clearer to my mind a concern about the anthropology that produced AIME. Professions are heavily represented but what about a) the marginals in the moderns , are they not unique? Is it sure that they do not carry values that are not represented among the professionals? Modern values that need also to be housed somehow? b) the people of old wealth and power. These I guess are the most difficult to do anthropology with. Why would they care having lowly anthropologists among their feet when they are negotiating issues of power behind closed doors? Why inroduce anthropologists in their exclusive clubs or to their own "clasified" "mass media" -if we assume that there exist such-? How could they explain their lives to the middle-class anthropoligist who had a completely different trajectory in life? And yet is this category of people not important in defining modernity? We assume that modern life could run pretty much the same even if they did not exist, but is it so? Might they have special values?
And then I thought to myself: " poor guy, you are not even a pure modern, your great grandparents where peasants in the Anatolian plane and sheapheards in the mountains of Peloponese, and you want to have "a clear view of the moderns"! Even of the most accomplished -in terms of power- among them. How presumptuous! What you should go for at most is a view of your own class of people and look to keep decently your place in life". But I am Greek and I am Christian of a tradition that may put the lowly monk above the bishop at times. Maybe I do not know "my proper place in life" -in a well ordered world-
I was writting this and thinking the Parable of the Banquet (in its two versions: Matthew 22:1-14 and Luke 14:15-24) . Rethink Modernity! as a Banquet addressing firt the true sons and daughters (moderns themselves). But there are others as well that could be called: the "failed", the "foreign".
I was also thinking this comment, https://youtu.be/5UgBw_4SpP4?t=3382, in Engestrom's talk in Limassol
"learning for us is actual material changes in peoples' lives, not just changes of minds"
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