‘The Gordian Knot’
‘The Gordian Knot’ is figurative of the multifaceted modules of the modern culture that are contradictory. For example, it there is no solitary term that can be used to jointly denote “sociologists, historians, economists, political scientists, philosophers or anthropologists” for their stances are indisputably differing. The course of retying the knot entails shepherding a consolidation which unifies the concord of purposes for the fields delineated above.
‘Body Politic’
Bruno Latour explicates, “Hobbes too wanted to bring an end to the civil war; he too wanted to abandon free interpretation of the Bible on the part of clerics and the people alike. But he meant to reach his goal by a unification of the Body Politic. The Sovereign created by the contract, 'that Mortall God, to which we owe, under the Immortal God, our peace and defence' (Hobbes, [165 1] 1947, p. 89), is only the representative of the multitude. 'For it is the Unity of the Representer, not the Unity of the Represented, that maketh the Person One' (p. 85).” Hobbes’ figurative ‘Body Politic’ relates to the ‘unanimity of purpose’ that would be catalyzed through religion. Revamping the Biblical elucidations would aid individuals to diagnose the dominance of the body. The acknowledgment would be contributory in disheartening war for it deteriorates the body’s sovereignty. Moreover, underscoring harmony would endorse amity between individuals and condense encounters which would galvanize war.
‘Double Artifact’
The cataloguing of hybrids , which the ‘double artefact’ embodies could be complex: “If science is based on forms of life, practices, laboratories and networks, then where is it to be situated? Certainly not on the side of things-in-themselves, since the facts are fabricated. But it cannot be situated, either, on the side of the subject - or whatever name one wants to give this side: society, brain, spirit, language game, epistemes or culture. The suffocating bird, the marble cylinders, the descending mercury are not our own creations, they are not made out of thin air, not of social relations, not of human categories.” The ubiquity of hybrids in modernism confounds the taxonomy course because such hybrids are not categorically concrete. The hybrids exemplify the intersection between political affairs and scholarship - and independence and partisanship.
