Lee Braver on Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida
Derrida is an extremely rigorous thinker and an extremely thorough reader. He reads texts incredibly closely, more so than anyone else I’ve ever encountered, paying attention to everything on the […]
Adam Robbert on Merleau-Ponty
Originally posted on Knowledge Ecology:
In my last few posts, I’ve been working my way through the ideas set down by the late great Hubert Dreyfus. While I end up disagreeing…
Quick & Dirty Intro to Accelerationism
Relocating Global Assemblages
The remarkable success of methodological uses of the concept of ‘assemblage’ cannot be overstated. Empirical investigation discloses that everything is a composition and result of multiple confluences of force and materiality. Assemblage […]
How We Make Choices | Robert Sapolsky
“The purpose of science in understanding who we are as humans is not to rob us of our sense of mystery, not to cure us of our sense of mystery. […]
The Poememenon: Form as Occult Technology | Amy Ireland
“Hyperstition is the real truth of philosophy—if not the basic, horrific form of reality itself” – Amy Ireland The folks at Urbanomic regularly put out compelling essays that are both timely and […]
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 […]
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 The Dark Forest: 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……
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 The Dark Forest: 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…
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 […]
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