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Friedrich Nietzsche

philosopher · 26 mentions across 8 readings

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Nietzsche matters here chiefly as a thinker of power relations and their moral inversion—particularly how domination gets aestheticized and obscured through narrative claims. The readings cite his genealogical method (especially on debt and sadism in *Genealogy of Morals*) to expose how systems of control operate through pleasure and knowledge-games where parties recognize their complicity, and invoke his diagnosis of God's "death" (rather than mere non-existence) to frame how images and systems of representation colonize consciousness after traditional authority collapses. He enables the course's critical apparatus for unmasking how AI and algorithmic power don't just constrain but seduce—they make domination feel chosen, even enjoyed.

Mentioned in 8 readings

Stephen Zepke

Introduction, Art as Abstract Machine: Ontology and Aesthetics in Deleuze and Guattari

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Introduction Art as Abstract Machine And the question is still what it was then, how to view scholarship from the vantage point of the artist and art from the vantage of life. —Friedrich Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy. “Art as abstract m…The abstract machine creates a new reality, constructs new ways of being, but although inseparable from this innovation of existence, it has no being. The abstract machine is the entirely immanent condition of the new, and thereby receives …“probe-heads” (têtes chercheuses, ATP, 190/232)—steering the world on its “creative flight” (ATP, 190/233). The abstract machine is therefore both vital and material, it exists, Deleuze and Guattari write, as the “life proper to matter as s…

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Jean Baudrillard

The Evil Demon of Images

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Translated by Philippe Tanguy <!-- blank page --> A.C.: In your Kuttna Lecture, The Evil Demon of Images, you invoke the notion of the immorality of images, at one point declaring that "the image has taken over and imposed its own immanen…Take Nietzsche's treatment of God, for instance. What Nietzsche says is that God is dead. This is a far more interesting situation than if Nietzsche were to simply say "there is no God" or "God has never existed", etc. -- that would be mere…through the universe, simply reproducing itself, constantly and forever. In the representational system, one cannot do this. One cannot go from one sign to another directly; one must mediate from one sign to another through meaning, through…

China Mieville

On Social Sadism

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Nietzsche, in On the Genealogy of Morals, saw social sadism as inextricable from debt. [T]he creditor is given a kind of pleasure as repayment and compensation – the pleasure of being allowed to discharge his power on a powerless person … t…At some level O’Leary knows, whatever flimsy Horatio-Alger lie he might recite to himself, why he likes that statistic so much, and we know why, and he knows we know why, and that we know he knows it, and so on. The imposition of their own …

Joseph Matheny

Incunabula Papers

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An in-house document from the Institute where the first Breakthrough was attained (probably in the late winter or early spring of 1979) — therefore, although it makes no overt mention of Travel or the Egg, the Catalogue is of prime importan…2) The World Congress of Free Religions, a brochure-manifesto arguing for a “fourth way”, a non-authoritarian spiritual movement in opposition to mainstream, fundamentalist and New Age religion. The WCFR is said to include various sects of …

Luciano Floridi

The Method of Levels of Abstraction

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cottage, a flat in a single-storey building, and a Tuscan villa? The question cannot be sensibly answered unless one specifies the LoA at which the comparison is to be conducted. Likewise, my answer concerning the reading of the history of …Floridi, L. (2004b). The informational approach to structural realism. final draft available as IEG—Research Report 22.11.04, http://www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/floridi/pdf/latmoa.pdf. Floridi, L. (2004c). On the logical unsolvability of the gett…

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Gilles Deleuze 8Felix Guattari 6Baruch Spinoza 6Henri Bergson 5Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 5Francis Bacon 3Immanuel Kant 2Marcel Duchamp 2Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz 2Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 2Max Stirner 2Rex Welshon 2Steven D. Hales 2Arthur Schopenhauer 1Georges Bataille 1Gregory Bateson 1Gustav Metzger 1Illia Polosukin 1Jasia Reichardt 1John Horton Conway 1John von Neumann 1Klára Dán von Neumann 1Norbert Wiener 1Stanisław Ulam 1Whitney brothers 1Michel de Certeau 1Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1Zarathustra 1Andy Warhol 1Jackson Pollock 1

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