is the image of the globe that lies at the center of an anthropocentric imaginary that is intrinsically suicidal. Of course, extinction and annihilation lie at the heart of all life. But accelerated and self-witnessing extinction can only b…Agamben, Giorgio. Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998.
Derrida, Jacques. Edmund Husserl’s Origin of Geometry: An Introduction. Trans. John P. Leavey, Jr. Lincoln,…
Evan Thompson
philosopher · 3 mentions across 2 readings
In this course
Evan Thompson is a cognitive scientist and philosopher known for work on neurophenomenology and embodied cognition, bridging neuroscience with phenomenology. Thompson appears in the course readings alongside references to phenomenological philosophy (Husserl, Derrida) and discussions of life, extinction, and the anthropocentric imaginary, suggesting his theories of embodied mind and autonomous systems are being mobilized to think through how consciousness and biological agency complicate the supposed boundary between human and machine. His work likely supports arguments about the entanglement of perception, life, and world-making that underpin the course's examination of cybernetics and AI as extensions (or alternatives) to human cognition.
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