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Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres: Michel Serres and Material Futures

Autor Vera Bühlmann
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 25 aug 2021
This book introduces the reader to Serres' unique manner of 'doing philosophy' that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness.It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that commits itself to a form of reasoning which privileges the most direct path (simple method) in order to expend minimal efforts while pursuing maximal efficiency. In Serres' universal economy, value is considered as a function of rarity, not as a stock of resources. This book demonstrates how Michel Serres has developed an architectonics that is coefficient with nature.Mathematic and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres acquaints the reader with Serres' monist manner of addressing the universality and the power of knowledge - that is at once also the anonymous and empty faculty of incandescent, inventive thought.The chapters of the book demarcate, problematize and contextualize some of the epistemologically unsettling situations Serres addresses, whilst also examining the particular manner in which he responds to and converses with these situations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350251328
ISBN-10: 1350251321
Pagini: 264
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Michel Serres and Material Futures

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Places Serres in the context of such modern discourses as those surrounding the cultural role of science and technics; global urbanization; the anthropocene; and environmental philosophy and politics

Notă biografică

Vera Bühlmann is Professor for Architecture Theory and Director of the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP at Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

Cuprins

ForewordChapter one: IntroductionThe plan of this bookChapter two: Quantum literacyElementary indecisionCommunication versus production: Bearing witness, and literacyCultivating indecision: The quantum domain's domesticityCiphers, zeroness, equations: Architectonics of nothingChance-bound objectsTaking ignorance into account: Quantifying strangenessEntropy and negentropyThe price of information as a measure for an object's strangeness Quantum literacy: Towards a novel theory of the subject'La Langue est une Puissance'Chapter three: Chronopedia I: Counting timeMeteora: The wisdom of the weatherCode: A rosetta stone, a double staircaseTime modelled as contemporaneityCounting time: Equinox and solsticeThe turning points for modelled beginnings and endsOf tables and modelsSense means significance and directionMeteoraA logos genuine to the world - 'Le Logiciél Intra-Matériel'Software, hardwareEconomy of maxima and minima: An anarchic logosChapter four: Chronopedia II: Treasuring time Homothesis as the locus in quo of the universal's presence 1st iteration (acquiring a space of possibility) 2nd iteration (learning to speak a language in which no one is native) 3rd iteration (setting the stage for thought to comprehend itself) 4th iteration (intelligence that is immanent and coextensive with the universe) 5th iteration (inventing a scale of reproduction) 6th iteration (the formula, a double-articulating application) The amorous nature of intellectual conception 1st iteration (marking all that is assumed to be constant with a cipher) 2nd iteration (confluence of multiple geneses) 3rd iteration (the residence of that which is genuinely migrational) 4th iteration (universal genitality) 5th iteration (mathematics is the circuit of cunning reason's ruses) 6th iteration (the real as a black spectrum)Chapter five: Banking universality: The magnitudes of ageing Metaphysics The quickness of a magnanimous universe Invariance: Genericness in terms of entropy and negentropy Genuine and immanent to the all of time: Le 'logiciel intra-matériel' White metaphysics: How old does the world think it is? Freedom The neutral element: Materialism of identity (Pan's) glossematics: The economy that deals with 'purport' Quanta of contemporaneity: Heat to incandescence, storage to bank account Quantum writing: Substitutes step in to address things themselvesChapter six: The incandescent Paraclete: Tables of plenty Equatoriality generalized Coming of age, liking sunset and sunrise How to combine precision with finesse or: euphoria contained by instruments that behave like cornucopia The (mathematical) inverse of Pantopia is not a utopia: Law in the panonymy of the whole world The objective mentality and character of instruments The vicarious order of knowledge that is authentic to the world Pan: The excitable subject of universal knowledge Generational con-sequentiality Blessed curiosity Exodic discourseChapter seven: Sophistication and anamnesis: Retrograde movement of truth, remembering an abundant past The currency of knowledge The price of truth, and the price of information The convertibility of truth Classicism: Remembering contemporaneity Classical analysis, symbolical analysis Interlude: The Tower of Eiffel, archetypical symbol of existentialism? Building a cipher A corpus of intelligent forms The technical order of an object that is comfortable How to reason the sum total of all archetypes? Towards critique with regard to the symbolic alchemy of myth-making A realist classicism Familiarizing ourselves as strangers, native to the universe The domain of the quasi: Instructive analysis, character dispositions How can reason in general learn from singularities? Of genealogical and of tabular orders: Eating 'next to' (parasite) Heterogeneous scales, logistical uniformality (forms of operation) Indexical address: The referential of the centre Respecting order by challenging it Cunning ruses: The anarchic architectonic way of paying respect How to address the third-person singular? Augmentation, not authorship Anarchic civility, and the meanings of culturesChapter eight Coda: Quantum literacy and architectonic dispositioningArchitecture and philosophyChapter zero: Instead of a conclusion: The static tripodNotesBibliography

Recenzii

What happens when we take mathematics not as the elementary basis upon which science must bloom, but as an 'architectonics' that unfolds the world as it informs mass, space and time? With great rigor, in content and style, Bühlmann reads the concepts that Michel Serres produced in his oeuvre through his mathematics and information theory, revealing his highly original, inclusive and affirmative philosophy of the 21st century.
The importance of Serres' philosophy has mostly gone unrecognized in continental philosophy, even though this philosopher had a critical influence on many of its key figures, such as Deleuze and Foucault. The dearth of informed commentary is now reduced by this scholar whose knowledge of mathematics is able to bridge both the analytical and continental traditions.