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Immanuel Kant

philosopher · 39 mentions across 10 readings

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Kant appears in the course primarily through Badiou's engagement with Kantian transcendental idealism, which Johnston mobilizes to think through consistency and philosophical foundations in the context of contemporary AI and computation. His transcendental framework provides theoretical scaffolding for debates about the conditions of possibility for artificial intelligence and thought itself, though he operates here largely as a historical reference point rather than as a direct focus of the seminar's concerns.

Mentioned in 10 readings

Reza Negarestani

from Intelligence and Spirit

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Chapter 2 begins with an inquiry into the necessary conditions for the realization of geistig intelligence in the form of a program of artificial general intelligence, as if what we were really doing was attempting to construct an artifici…In this respect, in addition to determinate negation, aufhebung is associated with Hegel’s distinct concepts of speculation and reason. Speculation is to be contrasted with simple reflection, which is reflection through and on that which is…The account of function that is attributed to the mind (as regards what it does, its activities) should and will be elaborated carefully. For now, it suffices to say that this is a normative ‘rule-governed’ account of function rather than a…

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Luciano Floridi

The Method of Levels of Abstraction

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Minds & Machines (2008) 18:303–329 DOI 10.1007/s11023-008-9113-7 The Method of Levels of Abstraction Luciano Floridi Received: 17 May 2007 / Accepted: 28 July 2008 / Published online: 15 August 2008 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V.…In this paper, I agree with Heil and Schaffer that ontological levelism is probably untenable. However, I shall also argue that epistemological levelism should be retained as a fundamental and indispensable method of conceptual analysis, if…The Method of Abstraction Models are the outcome of an analysis of a system, developed at some LoA(s) for some purpose. An important contribution of these ideas is to make precise the commitment to a LoA/GoA before further elaborating a th…

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Isabel Millar

from The Psychoanalysis of Artificial Intelligence

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Auerbach, D (2014) The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time. Available (01.03.2020) at: https://slate.com/technology/2014/07/rokos-basilisk-the-most-terrifying-thought-experimentof-all-time.html Lacan, J. (2006a) ‘Logical Time and…Through the reconceptualization of Intelligence, the Artificial Object and the Sexual Abyss we conjure a figure who exists on the boundary of psychoanalysis and AI, straddling our fantasy worlds and our speculations about the possibilities …In 1973 Jacques-Alain Miller interviewed Jacques Lacan for a French television broadcast in which he challenged the renegade psychoanalyst about the nature and value of his psychoanalytic theory and practice. Lacan’s responses were typicall…

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Stephen Zepke

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

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What then, to ask the question of aesthetics, are the conditions of this experience? This question calls to account another of Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophical interlocutors: Kant. Unlike Nietzsche, Spinoza and Bergson however, Kant is …from which an abstract machine departs, following Spinoza’s “war cry” (the phrase is Deleuze’s) “we don’t even know what a body can do” (EPS, 255/234). This introduces another of our constant concerns, how can we create a new body, a new se…of the sublime—a rupture and rapture—they do so only by changing its Nature. A change that rejects the sublime’s Kantian conditions, removing art from any romantic analogy with the divine, and placing it back among the animals. All this wil…

Karen Barad

Agential Realism, from Meeting the Universe Halfway

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In what follows, I provide a detailed explication of this agential realist ontology. I begin with a detailed examination of the nature of the apparatus, including two significant analytical shifts that are important emendations to Bohr’s fo…ments are not the mere utterances of the originating consciousness of a unified subject; rather, statements and subjects emerge from a field of possibilities. This field of possibilities is not static or singular but rather is a dynamic and…

Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 syllabus Fall 2025

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TESCREAL, Libidinal Materialism, and AGI: Kant, Nietzche, Schopenhauer, Bataille, Deleuze and Guattari; Decoding, Deterritorialization, Capitalism, v. “traditional” culture and identity; Noumenal Materialism: feudal labor to wage-labor to a…What’s the Deal with Birds? v. Birds Aren’t Real– predatory journals, internet hoaxing “Birds are very strange. Some people are like “whoa they’re flying around and stuff, what’s the deal with that?” This sentiment is shared by people acros…

Yuk Hui ChatGPT

or the Eschatology of Machines - Journal #137

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Such a syntactical critique is based on a mechanistic epistemology that assumes linear causality—a cause followed by an effect. One can reverse this cause-and-effect process to reach the ultimate cause: the prime mover, the default of the f…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…

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Pandaemonium Architecture 6.0 — ATEK-639/439 — Fall 2025