I philosophically endorse computationalism and even more so I am an ardent proponent of functionalism. I think–and I am fully prepared to defend this controversial claim–that a philosopher cannot intellectually survive without endorsing functionalism, at least one of its many varieties (strongly normative [Hegel, Brandom], normative-materially constrained [Sellars] or strongly mechanistic [Bechtel]). To this extent, […]
Transcribed by James J. Miller I am going to talk today about the technological and infrastructural tendencies in contemporary capitalism. Particularly the shift to automation and computer meditation we see everywhere. Up on the screen now is sort of a schematic overview of different sectors of the economy and ongoing tendencies and technological changes that […]
I haven’t prepared anything because I intuited, and I think fairly correctly that this conference would unfold very nicely as much through accidents, error, glitch, and various forms of spontaneity, as through Mo Salemy’s superhuman, very ambitious planning efforts, so here we are! I also didn’t prepare anything, [be]’cause I suspected, again I think accurately […]
March 11, 2014 – 10:27 pm
Note: The following is the substance of my response to Nick Srnicek’s presentation at the Incredible Machines Conference in Vancouver, organized by Mohammed Salemy. A video recording of the session with Nick’s original presentation and my response can be found here. A video of Alexander Galloway’s presentation, which is referred to below, can be found […]
March 11, 2014 – 10:26 pm
Transcribed by Benjamin Woodard I just wanted to try and address something you wrote in your introduction the conference Mo, and that was this question of the effect of the digital in terms of how artists look at the world and perceive worlds and I want to try and get back to a question of […]
Following a live streaming at an ungodly hour, some late night notes for the Incredible Machines conference organized by Mohammed Salemy in Vancouver. Hoping to expand this in a proper text on the ‘locus classicus’ of accelerationism and Nietzsche’s evil quote. Having only few minutes, as a nodal point to condense many open questions, I’m going to […]
Remarks to the participants of the Incredible Machines 2014 Conference, March 8, 2014 1) The political problem is how to constitute ourselves into a collective agent capable of maximising our individual freedoms by way of its collective freedom. Plato on Justice. For artists: we must construct the state as a work of art. 2) The […]
Remarks to the participants of the Incredible Machines 2014 Conference, March 8, 2014 Transcription by Jason Adams Well, to be honest, I think the remarks I’ve got will probably seem to be crude and not very left-field – but, I’m punting from the sideline. There’s only really been one question, to be honest, that has […]