Bernard Stiegler – A glossary of terms
stupidity (bêtise), irresponsibility, the corruption of attention, the rise in incivility and boorishness. read here
Bernard Stiegler – A glossary of terms
stupidity (bêtise), irresponsibility, the corruption of attention, the rise in incivility and boorishness. read here
Bernard Stiegler – A glossary of terms
Conspiracy has roared back into American culture, although perhaps it never left. QAnon, “Epstein brain,” 9/11 truthers, Russiagate, True Detective S02E06. Fueled by paranoia, the conspiracy theorist finds meaning in every detail, forcing the unrepresentable into the light of day
There is no rebellion (there’s only me earning a paycheck)
They have helicopters and armored vehicles. They’re driving cars into crowds, firing teargas, and flash grenades. They’re beating people with batons and trampling them with horses. They’re murdering people in broad daylight. The brutality is flagrant and obscene. Yet “it’s
A brief follow up to the previous allusion to Kant… In the Critique of Pure Reason, Kant defined the analytic as containing a non-additive predicate, while the synthetic as having an additive predicate. While I still need to work out the details,
Prophylaxis is on everyone’s mind these days. Oh what a reversal from only a few months ago, when the decades long march of promiscuous ontologies seemed unstoppable. Are freedom and mobility unquestionable virtues? Should everything touch everything else? Until recently the
A provocation: theories of the digital have generated very little digital theory. What do I mean? And why is this the case? First, one must separate the form of digital theory from the kinds of objects it wants to study. Thus a
It began with a list. When addressing “the birth of a new medium,” Janet Murray responded with a list of properties. Digital environments have four essential properties, she argued. Digital environments are procedural, participatory, spatial, and encyclopedic. When tasked with
I wrote before about the anti-computer. Let me continue some of those themes, using instead an adjacent label, the uncomputer. In an initial sense, the uncomputer comes out of whatever is subordinated or excluded as a result of the standard
In researching the relation between weaving and computation, I ran across this astounding passage by Ellen Harlizius-Klück: What the Digital Humanities features, is rather the digital processing and representation of data. The concept of the digital itself is just as
I should have said this before, but the word itself is a monstrosity. Whosoever would attach a Greek prefix to a Latin root should be driven out of the city, egads. But let’s overlook this superficial fact, at least for
Metadata as a Problem for Thinking
In thinking about the problem of metadata, I was reminded of an old discussion — addressed already in Protocol but worth repeating — easily summed up by the expression “metadata = data.” What I mean by this formulation is that no media-infrastructural
I said before that no one has yet patented a Meaning Machine. While that’s true in the abstract, I want to talk about the two most common ways to hack around the problem. First is labor and second is scale. Meaning