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Complexity-Probability-Posthumanism: Symposium (Framework by Sepideh Majidi)
Programmer and Organizer: Sepideh Majidi
Moderator: Moises Ramirez
Video edit: Shaum Mehra
Technological Anti-Holism and the Thinking of the Outside
Critical philosophy of technology presents us with a double bind whereby technology is interpreted as thought and thought as a kind of spiritualizing technology. On the one hand, thought has been theorized as a discursive artifice dialectically coupled to a negativity or contingency that is never truly ‘outside’ thought. On the other, ‘substantivist’ philosophies of technology and some contemporary rationalists and organologists conceive technology as a holistic system conceived as a quasi-subjective organizing principle.
The Outside is consequently idealized as fuel for the self-relation and development of thinking - implying the artificiality of all reasons and the practical freedom of the inhumanist subject.
In this paper I want to prise apart this double bind by considering the speculative implications of a position that I designate as ‘New Substantivism’ (NS). Like substantivism NS accepts that technology presents life with highly disruptive influences and milieux. However, it denies that technology exerts a controlling influence on the world. The philosophical grounds of this argument will be elaborated with reference to ‘dark phenomenology’, concepts of hyperagency and ‘semantic apocalypse, and NS as an account of how functionally indeterminate technology eludes any instituted system of uses.
Technology, thus conceived, is not ours but an organon of the Outside, alien both to the discursive rationality of socially distributed ‘world-making’ and the tertiary temporality (epiphylogenesis) of the organologists. Its aesthetic modality is not worlding but the multiple vectors of unworlding: meaning the avant-garde aesthetics of the Encounter rather than the logic of subjective self-relation becomes paradigmatic for thought’s relation to the real.
This predicament results in a posthumanist nihilism that disorients attempts to recuperate technology for posthumanity and, by the same token, complicates the philosophical project of thought’s own self-understanding.
About the Author:
David Roden's published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the metaphysics of sound and posthumanism. He contributed the essay "The Disconnection Thesis" to the Springer Frontiers volume The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment. His book Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge 2014) considers the metaphysical, epistemological and ethical implications of the existence of posthumans: powerful nonhuman agents produced by human-instigated technological processes. Other representative publications include: “Radical Quotation and Real Repetition” in Ratio: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy (2004); "Nature's Dark Domain: an argument for a naturalized phenomenology" in the Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Phenomenology and Naturalism (2013); “Sonic Arts and the Nature of Sonic Events”, Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2010).
Programmer and Organizer: Sepideh Majidi
Moderator: Moises Ramirez
Video edit: Shaum Mehra
Technological Anti-Holism and the Thinking of the Outside
Critical philosophy of technology presents us with a double bind whereby technology is interpreted as thought and thought as a kind of spiritualizing technology. On the one hand, thought has been theorized as a discursive artifice dialectically coupled to a negativity or contingency that is never truly ‘outside’ thought. On the other, ‘substantivist’ philosophies of technology and some contemporary rationalists and organologists conceive technology as a holistic system conceived as a quasi-subjective organizing principle.
The Outside is consequently idealized as fuel for the self-relation and development of thinking - implying the artificiality of all reasons and the practical freedom of the inhumanist subject.
In this paper I want to prise apart this double bind by considering the speculative implications of a position that I designate as ‘New Substantivism’ (NS). Like substantivism NS accepts that technology presents life with highly disruptive influences and milieux. However, it denies that technology exerts a controlling influence on the world. The philosophical grounds of this argument will be elaborated with reference to ‘dark phenomenology’, concepts of hyperagency and ‘semantic apocalypse, and NS as an account of how functionally indeterminate technology eludes any instituted system of uses.
Technology, thus conceived, is not ours but an organon of the Outside, alien both to the discursive rationality of socially distributed ‘world-making’ and the tertiary temporality (epiphylogenesis) of the organologists. Its aesthetic modality is not worlding but the multiple vectors of unworlding: meaning the avant-garde aesthetics of the Encounter rather than the logic of subjective self-relation becomes paradigmatic for thought’s relation to the real.
This predicament results in a posthumanist nihilism that disorients attempts to recuperate technology for posthumanity and, by the same token, complicates the philosophical project of thought’s own self-understanding.
About the Author:
David Roden's published work has addressed the relationship between deconstruction and analytic philosophy, philosophical naturalism, the metaphysics of sound and posthumanism. He contributed the essay "The Disconnection Thesis" to the Springer Frontiers volume The Singularity Hypothesis: A Scientific and Philosophical Assessment. His book Posthuman Life: Philosophy at the Edge of the Human (Routledge 2014) considers the metaphysical, epistemological and ethical implications of the existence of posthumans: powerful nonhuman agents produced by human-instigated technological processes. Other representative publications include: “Radical Quotation and Real Repetition” in Ratio: An International Journal of Analytic Philosophy (2004); "Nature's Dark Domain: an argument for a naturalized phenomenology" in the Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, Phenomenology and Naturalism (2013); “Sonic Arts and the Nature of Sonic Events”, Review of Philosophy and Psychology (2010).
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