Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

philosopher · 52 mentions across 11 readings

In this course

The excerpts provided are too corrupted or fragmentary to establish Hegel's clear role in this course's arguments. Excerpt [1] appears to discuss the extension of the biological into technology via some dialectical process, which might invoke Hegelian synthesis, but the garbled text prevents confident attribution. Without readable passages, I cannot accurately explain how Hegel is being mobilized in "Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0"—whether as a framework for understanding machine-nature relations, historical development of computational systems, or concepts of negation and evil.

Mentioned in 11 readings

Reza Negarestani

from Intelligence and Spirit

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1. Between Conception and Transformation IT IS ONLY WHAT IT DOES This book argues, from a functionalist perspective, that mind is only what it does; and that what it does is first and foremost realized by the sociality of agents, which it…My aim in this book, however, is not to remain authentically faithful to the philosophy of Hegel, or that of German Idealism—or for that matter to any other philosophy or philosopher. Philosophy is ‘its own time apprehended in thoughts’,[^3…Before proceeding, it is crucial to add a brief note on the concept of suspension. Throughout this book, I have used the word ‘suspension’ or the verb ‘suspend’ as a common English equivalent for Hegel’s aufheben or aufhebung, instead of th…

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Ben Woodard

from Slime Dynamics

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Yuk Hui ChatGPT

or the Eschatology of Machines - Journal #137

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ChatGPT, or the Eschatology of Machines Yuk Hui Caption: The Turing Machine at Bletchley Park. Douglas Hoyt/Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0). Figure text: "was it for me to kill the heir-apparent?" Lubrication Manifold for 'one oiling to all bearin…The “intelligence” found in machines today is a reﬂective form of operation, as both Gotthard Günther and Gilbert Simondon rightly observed. For Günther, cybernetics is the realization of Hegel’s logic, while for Simondon, it was only in th…

Benjamin H. Bratton

Platform and Stack, Model and Machine

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The emergence of planetary computation as a global and intelligent system can be traced in broad strokes from perhaps Roman and Chinese military accounting, to the first Victorian calculators through to today, and it is marked by celebrated…

China Mieville

On Social Sadism

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Evil may indeed often be the most banal Eichmann. Perhaps sometimes it comes instead with Mephistophelean splendour. But very often it’s a party-goer; boisterous; braying; a frat alumnus; a bully who loves being a bully; a successful profe…

Claire Colebrook

A Globe of One’s Own, In Praise of the Flat Earth

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First, we can note the theological nature of this figure of the self-referring, self-creating living form that has no end or determination outside its own existence.[^3] Not only is this how the Christian God of monotheism was defined (as a…

Colin F. Camerer, Teck-Hua Ho, et al.

A Cognitive Hierarchy Theory of Games

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theme of this paper, the model can explain when Nash equilibrium is reached surprisingly quickly (in the substitutes treatment), and can also explain when behavior is far from equilibrium (in the complements treatment). More importantly, th…

Diedrich Diederichsen

from On (Surplus) Value In Art

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In the process of speculation, this rationalizing discourse becomes doubly false. Not only is it still based on the notion that prices can adequately express value, it now insists that the speculative price – far from having even less to do…

Karen Barad

Agential Realism, from Meeting the Universe Halfway

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bodies and subjects is in fact untenable, and I propose instead a posthumanist understanding of the “human.” Crucially, I will argue that the nature of the production of bodily boundaries is not merely experiential, or merely epistemologica…

Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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Theorycels v. Operators D&D to MUDs to MMORPGs, ARGs to dreampolitik; ong's hat; the beast, ilovebees, Year Zero, Synydyne, Cicada 3301, Cicada Mach 2, gamejacking, “occult memetics”; Bernard Suits, C. Thi Nguyen, Games, Agency as Art; Game…

Stephen Zepke

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

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Affirmation is the mechanism of immanence, the means by which to construct a joyful expression. No doubt Deleuze’s affirmation of affirmation also has a serious philosophical function as the antidote to that other notable philosophical doub…

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