Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0

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David Roden is a philosopher of posthumanism concerned with speculative questions about what lies beyond or outside human nature and its presumed invariants. His work appears here as a foundational reference for thinking through posthuman life and the conceptual limits of humanism itself, particularly in conversations about whether future intelligences or transformed beings might escape the categories we currently use to define humanity. The course mobilizes Roden's thinking to challenge assumptions about embodiment, temporality, and experience that ground much contemporary philosophy and AI ethics.

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David Roden

Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia

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[^5]: Adrian Johnston, “Phantom of Consistency: Alain Badiou and Kantian Transcendental idealism,” Continental Philosophy Review, Vol. 41, No. 3 (2008), 352-54; Badiou, Being and Event, 28. [^6]: Ibid., 327-43. [^7]: David Roden, Posthuma…[^17]: See ibid., 338-9; Olivia Lucca Fraser, “Nothingness and Event” (unpublished manuscript), Academia (2009), https://www.academia.edu/858888/NothingnessandEvent. Meillassoux argues, along similar lines, that the absolute represented by …[^23]: Drucilla Cornell, The Philosophy of the Limit (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), 1; Katerina Kolozova, Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), 99; François Larue…

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Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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Swarm v. Slime Dynamics: Agent v. Swarm v. Protean Ooze; David Roden and Posthuman Life; Ian Buchanan, Assemblage theory, and the precession of assemblage; Karen Barad, Agential Realism; Roberta Breitmore, Lil Miquela, and the Brud; The Bro…12. December 1 Assymetrical Likewar to Autoassymetry Psyop to Mindwar to Likewar; hybrid war, asymmetry, and 5GW; Equation Group v. Shadow Brokers: DANDERSPIRITZ, EWOKFRENZY, WANNACRY; exfiltration doxware; TrapWire/Stratfor leak; Clearview…Readings: David Roden, Subtractive-Catastrophic Xenophilia Isabel Millar, from The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence Additional Reading/Primary Documents: Zero HP Lovecraft, The Gig Economy Claire Colebrook, A Globe of One’s Own, I…

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