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
How to spot an analog philosopher? First look at his attachments… What does he love the most? Analog philosophers value life and vitality, and thus have a special affection for nature. They talk about energy and aliveness, but also the
How to Spot an Analog Philosopher
The expression “Digital Philosophy” has a specific meaning. Recently I’ve tried to expand that meaning to include other thinkers and traditions from throughout history, not just those who claim, improbably, that “the world is a giant computer.” I’m thinking, for
How to Spot a Digital Philosopher
…measured against the conditions of the present, communism itself embodies the most alien of all possible futures. —Edmund Berger Edmund Berger author of Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (see my review) has for years done his
Edmund Berger: On Art and Revolutionary Transformation in the Age of Blockchain
Sachverhalte wie Satellitenüberwachung, enorme Rechnerkapazitäten auf Silizium Chips, Sensoren, Netzwerke und Predictive-Analytics sind die Bestandteile von digitalen Systemen (des Überwachungskapitals), die das Leben und Verhalten der Bevölkerungen gegenwärtig umfassend tracken, analysieren und kapitalisieren. Dabei sieht sich beispielsweise Google unter dem
Algorithmische Governance/ Das Überwachungskapital (1)
Euclid is remembered as a geometer, when he is remembered at all. But Euclid’s Elements was an omnibus compendium of all mathematical knowledge known to him at the time, beginning with the first mathematics, geometry, then addressing ratio and proportion–that
General Formula for the Digital and the Analog
…measured against the conditions of the present, communism itself embodies the most alien of all possible futures. —Edmund Berger Edmund Berger author of Uncertain Futures: An Assessment of the Conditions of the Present (see my review) has for years done his
Edmund Berger: On Art and Revolutionary Transformation in the Age of Blockchain – Part 1
It seems fitting, then, that with the “speed” and proliferation of music, artists, and new labels, as well as a “do-it-yourself” mode of production enabled by the new technologies, and the lack of an adequate rhetoric to explain, describe, and
CLICKY AESTHETICS: DELEUZE, HEADPHONICS, AND THE MINIMALIST ASSEMBLAGE OF “ABERRATIONS”
Channel that great saint of radical blackness, Toussaint Louverture, and return to the Haitian Constitution of 1804, which stated that all citizens will be called black regardless of color. Such blanket totality of black, such cataclysm of human color, renders
Laruelle – Against the Digital (pdf)
I’m told that Alain Badiou’s L’immanence des vérités has recently appeared in Parisian bookstores. I look forward to ordering a copy, and am reposting here my initial intuitions about the book, published last spring on e-flux, both as an invitation to think
This is caricature but we have left this idea of the actuarial reality behind for what I would call a ‘post-actuarial reality’ in which it is no longer about calculating probabilities but to account in advance for what escapes probability
The Digital Regime of Truth: From the Algorithmic Governmentality to a New Rule of Law
In continuing to explore the domains of the digital and the analog, I’ve come to an unexpected conclusion, one that will no doubt be obvious to others but which I nevertheless found surprising. I’ve finally realized the extent to which