Fine dell'uomo 02 Reza Negarestani

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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Adjudicated APPROVED 2026-07-11 (basis: owner ruling 2026-07-11: institutional recordings released except fee-charging course content; lane recent-institutional -> recent-institutional-released). Series: standalone. Source: audio original (.mp3).

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• 00:00:07

  First off, thank you very much to Reza Negarestani for being here, for giving us the chance to hear one of his infamous Skype talks. Adesso parlerò un attimino in italiano, cercando di introdurvi il lavoro di Reza Negarestani molto rapidamente, per poi passare direttamente la parola a Negarestani. Reza Negarestani è…

• 00:11:23

  We can imagine them as having explicit logical computational or probabilistic properties, such as, for example, a language built on Carnap's logical syntax and logical induction. Indeed, in the fourth chapter of Logical Foundations of Probability, Rodolphe Carnap, intimates the prospects of a computer built…

• 00:24:13

  Essentially you are in the business of artificialization as an explicit project. Section 2 How a life form can reinvent life Once the first humans us were shattered by time upon the wall of future a new human was born half an etching into the stone and half a computer. Its petrified remains lasted for some time…

• 00:38:19

  Because only machines, whether supported by synthetic, organic-inorganic or purely inorganic structures, retain an idea, or in this case the concept of the human, given the fact that they are constructable. Synthetic. not identify the idea of the machine unless you have a system of construction, just like human…

• 00:50:21

  It would be, I would say, absurd to think that we could, in fact, think about Darwinian deep time without the formal resources. Of our systematic theorizations in sciences. Does anyone want to ask a question? I had a pretty related question about the question that you made before. I find it problematic this discontent…

• 01:03:51

  or what he calls projectables essentially there is no such a thing as reality out there we project our predicates like green and blue onto the stuff out there and that's how we see a reality but then we can also think about creating different projections or projectables such as you know his famous example so usually…

• 01:14:33

  Redefine or build a new human concept as a conscious representative, in a certain sense, of intelligibility, of the forms of life, etc. So, the first question is, how can you say then that this is characterized by philosophy, with a look from nowhere and from no place? And I can also understand when you say, let's…

• 01:24:58

  But I just didn't take it as an explicit fact. The whole idea that construction is nothing but investigation and critique. And critique is nothing but construction. Okay. Perfect. Thank you very much. We're done. Thank you. Thank you so much. Have a great day. And thank you so much again for all your hospitality…