Decolonizing Mathematical Knowledge What happens after typing “sociology of mathematics” into the google search bar? The very first “suggested” result is mathematical sociology. A very curious outcome, considering the fact that mathematical sociology is in a way the exact opposite […]
Mathematics as a Social Practice
I recently came across an article that caught my attention. Written just last year. It draws a parallel between AI and psychoanalysis. Which seemed until now two completely divergent fields. It argues that we can psychoanalyze an AI. But how
The Algorithmic Unconscious: Psychoanalyzing Artificial Intelligence
Das Autorenteam Dyer-Witheford, Kjøsen und Steinhoff hat mit Inhuman Power ein verdienstvolles Buch zur Künstlichen Intelligenz (KI)[1] aus marxistischer Sicht vorgelegt. (Dyer-Witheford, Kjøsen, Steinhoff 2019) KI definieren die Autoren infolge des Theoretikers Kaplan recht allgemein als die Fähigkeit von Maschinen
Hyperrealität und Künstliche Intelligenz
Next, the mea culpa. It concerns Badiou’s position on the Continuum Hypothesis. In 1878 Georg Cantor offered a hypothesis about the continuum, essentially a hypothesis about the nature of continuous number. More specifically the hypothesis concerned Cantor’s famous two sizes
Badiou and The Continuum Hypothesis
Philosophy, in its longing to rationalize, formalize, define, delimit, to terminate enigma and uncertainty, to co-operate wholeheartedly with the police, is nihilistic in the ultimate sense that it strives for the immobile perfection of death.…….– Nick Land, Fanged Noumena: Collected Writings
The Neurocognitive Revolution: Triumph or Agony?
Dancing with the Waves:Deleuze’s Concept of Spinozistic Rhythm (Thanks wiki) What does Spinozistic rhythm got to do with you? Our lives are filled with our relations with the world and other people. We are continually responding and reacting to what
Dancing with the Waves: Deleuze’s Concept of Spinozistic Rhythm
2Ob die digitale Simulation und das Instantane (nach Marshall McLuhan ist Elektrizität Instantaneität, d. h. weltweiter Signalaustausch in Lichtgeschwindigkeit) einer Modulation bedarf, die dann einem fiktiven (Gleichgewichts)zustand entspricht, ist recht fraglich. Dieser in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften so verehrte »Augenblick« wäre wohl so
Notiz zum Supercomputer und Kittler und so weiter und so fort
Die meisten marxistischen Diskurse verstehen sowohl die Technologie, den logischen Diskurs um die Teleologie vollendeter Naturbeherrschung, der sich als die entscheidende Orientierung für die westlichen Naturwissenschaften erweist, als auch das technische Objekt, den praktischen Gegenstand der theoretischen Wissenschaften, als Teil
the universe is known i see it all at once but alas, i’m not alive Some online communities dedicated to visual arts, like Newgrounds, or the subReddit r/interestingasfuck, recently banned synthetic images generated by Machine Learning algorithms. It’s a significant
APATHETIC ALGORITHMS, ARTIFICIAL ARTISANS
… My version of materialism is “indeterminate materialism,” meaning that matter is indeterminate, just as the quote you read, and something indeterminate does not have an essence, so movement preceeds the essence for sure. Harman would say that I am
Interview with Thomas Nail in Mobility Humanities
Translated by: Dr. Marilyn Lambert-Drache Note: This is the text of a paper given at the Light Onwords / Light Onwards: Living Literacies Conference at York University, Toronto, Canada (November 14-18, 2002). taken from here Foto: Stefan Paulus
Violence of the Virtual and Integral Reality
PrefaceThrough my Prolegomenon, I am attempting to create a «transcendental method» which is arrived at from self-evident axiomatic truths (‹truth› with lowercase t) of mathematics and de-ontologized without a necessary background ontology (for examples of «background ontologies» see how the