Isabelle Stengers

philosopher · 4 mentions across 1 reading

In this course

Stengers emerges in these readings as a theorist concerned with how desire, disorder, and resistance escape the binary logic of control systems—the "noise" that cannot be reduced to 0 or 1. Her work is invoked to challenge rationalist philosophy's claim to operate outside of desire itself, suggesting instead that thought must reckon with its own entanglement in the forces it seeks to describe. She enables the course's exploration of how political and aesthetic acts might work with rather than against the chaotic, non-linear temporalities that capital seeks to discipline.

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Tiqqun

The Cybernetic Hypothesis (2001)

behavior that escapes control while remaining indifferent to the system is called "noise," which consequently cannot be handled by a binary machine, reduced to a 0 or a 1. Such noises are the lines of flight, the wanderings of desires that …reacts to everything. So then there must be some kind of trigger or lever that will suddenly turn the course of this current of violence in another direction. Or rather in a parallel direction, but on another plane thanks to a sudden shift.…It would be naive to directly deduce, in this scientific description of the potential for disorder, a new political art. The error of the philosophers and of all thought that deploys itself without recognizing in itself, in its very pronou…

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