I haven't read this writer but I'll respond to a couple notions you attribute to him anyway.
"Galileo who sought the ‘mathesis universalis’, and knowledge of the object, outside of our grasping of it through subjectivity" I'd just add that early western mechanists (those who believe the universe is mechanical) usually assert that subjective experience does exist, but the mechanical rules (mathmatics, geometry, algebra, etc.) which describe patterns in nature are "more real" than the narratives/notions humans invent (identity, mythology, etc.). This isn't so different from plato and his ideal forms. As far as "awarness" is concerned, they would say that it is contengent on and generated by mechanical rules.
"When did we start denying the knowledge of life? For Henry, this started with Galileo". This type of thinking started long before Galileo or the mechanist, Galileo's "mathesis universalis" is the way nature manipulates patterns like a tool and as humans have always done this. It is what can be called "left hemosphere thinking". Now as we fixate on this way of thinking, all of reality becomes tools to our awareness, dis-embodying us from reality. It's like we've lost feeling in our left hand, it's frieghtening and confusing to suddenly loose such a close understanding.
This confusion is why I dissagree the notion that "life" is turning in on it'self. Or that barbarism is trying to destroy life, I think we are destroying a way of thinking. Analytical thinking brings awareness to our dissembodiment from reality which leads to psychological confusion, psychological confusion that alone results in emmense distruction to psycho-technologies critical for generating the generalized (non-computaitonal) thinking our ancient ancestors took for granted (organized culture, religion, etc.)
Good peice btw.
I haven't read this writer but I'll respond to a couple notions you attribute to him anyway.
"Galileo who sought the ‘mathesis universalis’, and knowledge of the object, outside of our grasping of it through subjectivity" I'd just add that early western mechanists (those who believe the universe is mechanical) usually assert that subjective experience does exist, but the mechanical rules (mathmatics, geometry, algebra, etc.) which describe patterns in nature are "more real" than the narratives/notions humans invent (identity, mythology, etc.). This isn't so different from plato and his ideal forms. As far as "awarness" is concerned, they would say that it is contengent on and generated by mechanical rules.
"When did we start denying the knowledge of life? For Henry, this started with Galileo". This type of thinking started long before Galileo or the mechanist, Galileo's "mathesis universalis" is the way nature manipulates patterns like a tool and as humans have always done this. It is what can be called "left hemosphere thinking". Now as we fixate on this way of thinking, all of reality becomes tools to our awareness, dis-embodying us from reality. It's like we've lost feeling in our left hand, it's frieghtening and confusing to suddenly loose such a close understanding.
This confusion is why I dissagree the notion that "life" is turning in on it'self. Or that barbarism is trying to destroy life, I think we are destroying a way of thinking. Analytical thinking brings awareness to our dissembodiment from reality which leads to psychological confusion, psychological confusion that alone results in emmense distruction to psycho-technologies critical for generating the generalized (non-computaitonal) thinking our ancient ancestors took for granted (organized culture, religion, etc.)