Leviathan Rots | Vincent Garton
Vincent Garton PhD studies history and political theory at Cambridge, and advocates what he and some of the fun people on the internets are calling “Unconditional Accelerationism“. In a recent […]
Monthly Archives: April 2017
The A.I Cargo Cult | Kevin Kelly
The Myth of a Superhuman A.I By Kevin Kelly I’ve heard that in the future computerized AIs will become so much smarter than us that they will take all our […]
Fuck Work!
James Livingston says “fuck work”! That was the original title of the book that now appears as No More Work: Why Full Employment Is A Bad Idea (2016). For centuries […]
Mutant Culture: Metamorphosis and the Dividual
Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet:
Algorithmic governmentality, by its perfect ‘real time’ adaptation, its ‘virality’and its plasticity, makes the very notion of ‘failure’ meaningless… —Desrosières, The Politics…
S.C Hickman on Neohuman transition
So this hypercapitalist era or technics and technology in creating a Global Technocommercium is reformatting the very prospects of what it means to be human ridding it of the waste […]
Capital’s Art of War
Event Date: 6 April 2017 Chelsea Lecture Theatre University of the Arts London John Islip Street London, SW1P 4JU The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) presents: Professor […]
Do Not Normalize What Should Not Be Normalized
Originally posted on environmental critique:
By Jeff VanderMeer ? This Earth Day it may be of use to think about how elements of weird fiction relate to the political sphere.…
Adam Kotsko on Social Constructs
Without the notion of ‘social constructs’ as “real” affective assemblages in the world our cognitive navigational mappings will remain just so many unreflexive reactions to banal perceptions of mere objects. […]
From Aggregation to Navigation | Bruno Latour
Abstract: The vast amount of data available on singularizing networks (what could be called ‘monads’) raise a new problem for social theorists, statisticians, designers, computer scientists and end users: how to […]
The Myth of Cognitive Agency |Thomas Metzinger
“The myth of cognitive agency: subpersonal thinking as a cyclically recurring loss of mental autonomy” | Thomas Metzinger EXCERPTS: “[G]iven empirical constraints, most of what we call “conscious thought” is […]
Niki de Saint Phalle: The Art of Corporeal Vulnerability
Niki de Saint Phalle was a French sculptor, performance artist, painter, poster maker, writer, film-maker and feminist. A producer of voluptuous sculptures of female bodies that alternate between Goddess worship […]
Lemurian Time Sorcery: Ccru and the Reality Studio
Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet:
The creation of the Universe is attributed to the five-stage action taken by the Absolute One to defend itself against “the many…
Infrastructural Co-implications?
Originally posted on Installing (Social) Order:
Introduction: Infrastructural Complications Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen & Atsuro Morita Over the past decade, infrastructures have emerged as compelling sites for qualitative social…
‘Crash Space’, by R.S. Bakker (pdf)
Postscript Reverse engineering brains is a prelude to engineering brains, plain and simple. Since we are our brains, and since we all want to be better than what we […]
Uncertain Futures / Zero Squared
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmAF2ky3oTc http://media.blubrry.com/zerosquared/p/content.blubrry.com/zerosquared/zeropodcast104.mp3 http://zero-books.net/blogs/zero/zero-squared-104-uncertain-futures/
Noötechnics: Deleuze, Guattari, Foucault & Stiegler
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb6W_Pxosyg
No results found for “cognitive psychology of philosophy”.
Originally posted on Three Pound Brain:
That is, until today. The one thing I try to continuously remind people is that philosophy is itself a data point, a telling demonstration…
Andrew Pickering – Engaging Emergence: From Cellular Automata to the Occupy Movement
It’s come to my attention that this may have gotten buried in the powers of the horde here and that would be unfortunate as I think it is central to […]
Abstract Horror: The Domestication of the Human Species
Originally posted on Dr. Rinaldi's Horror Cabinet:
Real abstraction is the transcendental conception of Spinozistic substance. —Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987 – 2007 Certain figures, nodal points…
The Anthropocene and the End of Postmodernism
In his 1979 book The Postmodern Condition, Jean Francois Lyotard famously described the coming age of postmodernism as a the dissolution of grand narratives, that is, overarching schemes or horizons […]
