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Isabelle Stengers

philosopher · 4 mentions across 1 reading

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Stengers appears in these readings primarily as a theorist of disorder, uncontrollability, and the political potential of resistance that operates outside rational systematization—what the excerpts frame as "noise" and the problem of desires that cannot be reduced to binary logic. The citations use her work to argue against naive applications of scientific description to political art, insisting instead that any liberatory thought must reckon with its own entanglement in desire rather than claiming detached objectivity. In this seminar's context, Stengers enables a critique of systems-thinking that imagines total control while recovering forms of sabotage and slowness as viable counter-strategies to capital and computational reason.

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