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    Forms of Degradation and the Grotesque Body

    Sylvia Wynter’s Black Metamorphosis never developed further than the stage of manuscript. Part of a project with the Center of Afro-American Studies, for the Institute of Black World, Black Metamorphosis amounts to a long and multifaceted discussion and collection of references for what would become in the 80s Wynter’s “theory of the Human”. BM’s is […]
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    • by Sylvia Wynter
    • 18 May 2024

    The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology – Part 2

    Here for Part 1Original in The Art of Anthropology, A. Gell, E. Hirsch ed., Routledge, London, 1999 Alfred Gell (1945-1997) was a peculiar thinker, one who contributed toward the development of the recursive, or ontological, turn in anthropology. Gell’s anthropology of art refuses from the outset to be an aesthetic theory, while attempting rather to […]
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    • by Alfred Gell
    • 19 April 2024

    The Technology of Enchantment and the Enchantment of Technology – Part 1

    Here for Part 2Original in The Art of Anthropology, A. Gell, E. Hirsch ed., Routledge, London, 1999 Alfred Gell (1945-1997) was a peculiar thinker, one who contributed toward the development of the recursive, or ontological, turn in anthropology. Gell’s anthropology of art refuses from the outset to be an aesthetic theory, while attempting rather to […]
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    • by Alfred Gell
    • 29 March 2024

    Essay on Exoticism

    Excerpt from V. Segalen, Essay on Exoticism: an Aesthetics of Diversity, tr. eng. Y. R. Schlick, Duke University Press, 2002 [original copyright held by éditions Fata Morgana, whom we thank for their kind permission: V. Segalen, Essai sur l’exotisme: Une esthétique du divers, 1978] It was in the span of his short life, at the […]
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    • by Victor Segalen
    • 31 October 2023

    Viroid Life

    Excerpt from the article “Viroid Life. On machines, technics, and evoIution”, in Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition, K. Ansell-Pearson, Routledge, London, 1997, pp. 145-150 Philosophies of Difference, particularly through the efforts of Deleuze and Guattari, have offered new perspectives in respect to the question of technology, freeing it from the biol...
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    • by Keith Ansell-Pearson
    • 18 July 2023

    The Killing of a Sacred Whale

    An encounter takes place off the northern coast of Europe. It has as its subject the Grindadráp, the ancient and sacred Fær Øer Islands’ whaling, and it tells of the tension between modernity and tradition, between myth and efficiency, progress and identity. Chaosmotics continues to expand its analysis on mythopoiesis through this excerpt by Nicklas […]
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    • by Nicklas Quirós
    • 5 July 2023

    Machine Decision Is Not Final – III.

    “Spanning borders between different worlds, histories, futures, and foundational models, Machine Decision is Not Final is not only a timely reappraisal of the stakes of AI development, but a tool for constructing more global imaginaries for the future of AI.” This Fall, Urbanomic will release Machine Decision is Not Final, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection […]
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    • by Chaosmotics
    • 2 June 2023

    Machine Decision Is Not Final – II.

    “Spanning borders between different worlds, histories, futures, and foundational models, Machine Decision is Not Final is not only a timely reappraisal of the stakes of AI development, but a tool for constructing more global imaginaries for the future of AI.” This Fall, Urbanomic will release Machine Decision is Not Final, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection […]
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    • by Chaosmotics
    • 30 May 2023

    Machine Decision Is Not Final – I.

    “Spanning borders between different worlds, histories, futures, and foundational models, Machine Decision is Not Final is not only a timely reappraisal of the stakes of AI development, but a tool for constructing more global imaginaries for the future of AI.” This Fall, Urbanomic will release Machine Decision is Not Final, an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural collection […]
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    • In evidenza
    • by Chaosmotics
    • 27 May 2023

    The Impersonal Within Us

    Bogna Konior highlights the ways in which the human conceives of the inhuman; she writes about AI, the links between mysticism and the Internet, non-philosophy, animism, her own history, the future. We asked questions about technology; we were made to glimpse a broader - and, at the same time, more intimate - horizon.
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    • by Bogna Konior
    • 29 December 2022

    TECHNOMORPHOSES

    Interview by Filippo Scafi, Tommaso Garavaglia, Stefano Moioli In Kafka’s Metamorphosis there is no radical metamorphosis, but the installation of human consciousness in the body of an insect. In this way, Germán Sierra highlights the inability of contemporary thought to think adequately about change – an inability which, in the face of the mass and […]
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    • by Chaosmotics
    • 11 May 2022
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