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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Algorithmic governmentality, by its perfect ‘real time’ adaptation, its ‘virality’and its plasticity, makes the very notion of ‘failure’ meaningless……
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 […]
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 […]
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.…
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. […]
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: 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 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 […]
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
The creation of the Universe is attributed to the five-stage action taken by the Absolute One to defend itself…
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…
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 […]
Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
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Originally posted on Deterritorial Investigations :
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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…
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 […]
Originally posted on The Dark Fantastic: Literature, Philosophy, and Digital Arts:
Real abstraction is the transcendental conception of Spinozistic substance. —Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings 1987 – 2007 Certain…
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 […]
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