Aristotle
philosopher · 9 mentions across 9 readings
In this course
Aristotle appears here primarily as a historical marker of Western rationalism's break from mythological time—the readings cite him as having "straightened out" temporal thinking by demythologizing the Ouroboros, establishing linear causality that becomes foundational to later scientific and political frameworks. His presence is indirect and polemical rather than substantive to the course's concerns with AI and cybernetics; he serves the authors' argument that modern technical systems inherit this Aristotelian rationalization of time and space, which obscures the entanglement of knowledge, politics, and non-linear temporality that contemporary media cultures are now re-discovering.
Background
Aristotle was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
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