Philosopher | The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers (EUP) | Integration and Difference (Routledge) | Deleuze and Polytheism (Bloomsbury, forthcoming)
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I’m happy to share that my new book, The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers, is out today. A paperback edition will follow.
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I just finished reading Guattari’s unproduced screenplay, A Love of UIQ. It’s a fairly amateurish text with some interesting philosophical moments. It’s a good reminder that just because someone is a genius in one domain, that doesn’t mean they’re particularly good in others.
“Listen, you’re super-intelligent right, so you should be able to compute that we are in a world of shit.” Guattari (A Love of UIQ)
“In the era of artificial intelligence, is it not finally time to rid oneself of the massive oppositions between mind and body once and for all, and to study the interface operators between these two modalities of existence?” Guattari, 1987
I’m happy to see that a reading group of academics in South Korea is making its way through my Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers. Here’s the first presentation by a professor there. I don’t read Korean, but it seems really good from a rough translation. philonatu.dothome.co.kr/revi…
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“If there is a text to be learned by heart, it’s Spinoza’s Ethics. Learning Kant by heart makes no sense! That would be useless. Learning Spinoza by heart will serve you throughout your life.”
(Deleuze, 6 January 1981)
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I have been simulating fluids for 15 years.
There is a widespread impression that the Navier Stokes equations have been now “solved”, thanks to OpenAI.
This suggests that they were “unsolved” so far and this was a major engineering breakthrough.
This is not true. This misunderstanding deeply bothers me as a computational physicist.
So I had to put this out.
I’ve been reading a lot of books about technology and politics lately, and this is one of my favorites. It persuasively argues that any viable postcapitalist future will require us to appropriate emerging technologies like AI and robotics as the means of production.
“It is time to re-examine machinic productions of images, signs of artificial intelligence, etc., as new materials of subjectivity.” Guattari, 1992
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Philosophy friends!
I wrote a new essay titled "Analytic Philosophy Is the Ideology of the Status Quo" - please share your thoughts
walterveit.substack.com/p/an…
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The Dig you have been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes a fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI thedigradio.com/podcast/sili…
“Accepting otherness is possible precisely on the condition of assuming the multiplicity within oneself.” Guattari
“One of the most pervasive and subtle aspects of hegemony is the limitations it imposes upon our collective imagination.” Srnicek and Williams