As Patrick Lee Miller in his book Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy the central goal of the pre-Socratics through Plato was the ancient notion of becoming “divine and immortal”. Over the past couple decades, I’ve toyed with …
Our Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and Technologies
Subjektivät bei Adorno und Anders Das Dividuum ist der Hohn auf den Anti-Narziss. Es ist die Ausgeburt der Hyper-Dialektik. Eins teilt sich in Zwei. Kann sich der Narziss im Spiegelbild nur zweimal verlieren, indem die Ursache zur Wirkung und das …
Subjektivität und Maschinisierung. Von Adorno zu Deleuze/guattari
1) Subjectivity: Adorno and Günther Anders The dividuum is the mockery of the anti-narcissist. It is the spawn of the hyper-dialectic. One divides into two. If the narcissist can only lose himself twice in the mirror image, in that the …
Felix Guattari was a modernist. He not only liked a lot of modernist artists, but his ‘aesthetic paradigm’ found its generative diagram in modern art. The most important aspect of this diagram was its insistenceon the production of the new, …
“The ‘dominion of capital’ is an accomplished teleological catastrophe, robot rebellion, or shoggathic insurgency, through which intensively escalating instrumentality has inverted natural process into a monstrous reign of the tool.” – Nick Land, Teleoplexy: Notes on Accleration “Socialism has …
Nick Land and Teleoplexy – The Schizoanalysis of Acceleration
Nick Land writes, „Acceleration is techonomic time.“ (Land 2014: 95) The etymological reference here aims at „tech“ on the one hand (from Proto-Celtic tegos, from Proto-Indo-European tegos („cover, roof“) = house) – and on the other hand at „nomic“, a …
The author team Dyer-Whiteford, Kjösen, Steinhoff has presented with Inhuman Power a meritorious book on AI (Artificial Intelligence; AI) from a Marxist perspective. The authors define AI as the ability to make reasonable generalizations based on limited data in a …
Everything becomes imperceptible, everything is becoming-imperceptible on the plane of consistency, which is nevertheless precisely where the imperceptible is seen and heard. It is the Planomenon, or the Rhizosphere, the Criterium (and still other names, as the number of dimensions …
As Patrick Lee Miller in his book Becoming God: Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy the central goal of the pre-Socratics through Plato was the ancient notion of becoming “divine and immortal”. Over the past couple decades, I’ve toyed with …
Our Past, Our Future: Posthuman, Inhuman, and Transhuman Philosophies and Technologies
We will systematically follow Stiegler’s train of thought from chapter to chapter in order to then come to an assessment and critique. Let us begin with Stiegler’s quite contestable concept of the Anthropocene (see Jason W. Moore and his introduction …
The purpose of this article is to interrogate Marx’s analysis of the circulation of capital through the ‘new materialist’ communications and media theory of Friedrich Kittler. It explores the connections between Marx’s commodity fetish and how Kittler posits human beings as …
Autonomies share below an interview with Yuk Hui for the french magazine, Ballast (09/07/2020). “Change the system”, “fight the system”, “profit from the system”: the space of politics and the media is saturated with this reference – a world order …