Abstract: This essay proposes a cybernetic conception of the human body and uses the System Theory to offer a perspective of the body as a sympoietic system. A sympoietic system develops itself through interactions with other systems. The body is […]
A Cybernetic Conception of Intelligence
Die Isolation der Individuen ist konstitutiv für die bürgerliche Gesellschaft. Die Vereinigung der Gattung durch die unsichtbare Hand, dann den Staat und durch das große Kapital, all diese Techniken der Macht setzen die radikale Isolation der Menschen bereits voraus. Ins
… Our current economic model is centred on physical and symbolic hyper-communication between almost every place throughout the world, and this considerably increases the danger. This model, which is also that of the ‘data economy’, is very dangerous because it
Covid-19: Philosopher Bernard Stiegler’s Insight from the Angle of Memory
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
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
In antiquity, the word “Dia-graphein” referred to the inscription of a line, namely in geometric tables, lists, musical notations, etc. Not only were plans and figures designed with the help of lines, but there were also numerous markings and even
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
In his current essay “Europa Fata Morgana” Georg Seeßlen speaks of post-democracy as a permanent state of emergency, in which the multiple crises (war against terror, financial crisis, Greek crisis, refugee crisis, etc.) fulfilled the function of maintaining it. Seeßlen
Baudrillard: When human rights and democracy began to circulate like oil and capital
In her book Das Zeitalter des Überwachungskapitalismus Shosana Zuboff describes Facebook & Co as the masters of radical indifference. A new accumulation logic emerges in which the surveillance capital extracts human behavior and its seemingly useless surpluses, that is, absorbs
The radical indifference of Facebook & Co is deeply inscribed in capital
Money robots are actually nothing more than complex algorithms that analyze and process data and are also able to learn from feedback and results. Former MEP Martin Ehrenhauser has published an informative book on this subject. The book “Die Geldroboter”,
Androids, if they were to come into existence, would be the outcome of scientific and engineering ingenuity and thus be products of past living labour. Although the androids might be Turing-compatible, Voight-Kammpf cheating and Asimov-law abiding, they would be dead
Do Androids Dream of Surplus Value?