Incredible Machines 4

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• 00:00:20

  Okay. All right. Well, I haven't prepared anything because I intuited, and I think fairly correctly, that this conference would unfold very nicely as much through accidents, error, glitch, and various forms of spontaneity as through Mo Salami's superhuman, very ambitious planning efforts. So here we are. I also didn't…

• 00:15:48

  And so I think the notion that one can't move from one linguistic or one contextual domain to another, and that when we move a term or a metaphor from one to another that there's some kind of travesty to the original use of the term and so on, well I respect that within a technical language of philosophy, of certain…

• 00:28:31

  But I think also, and perhaps this speaks to your rejoinder, I think that at least in the 20th century, we've had relatively different theories of metaphor, which do not ascribe primordially a reproductive function to metaphor, but a productive function. For example, to take the perhaps canonical example, Heidegger…

• 00:42:14

  Heidegger talks about it in two monolithic terms. He simply talks about a single reservoir of practical heuristics, which he calls the world. But it's clear that there can be different overlapping worlds belonging to social groups individuated by their slightly differing practices or lifestyles. Now, given this idea…

• 00:57:40

  And therefore adequate. And I think I'm wondering about this. Simply because I think the operation of the metaphor to use Eraser's formulation as carrying semantic load seems to be very different to the model of the model as a recursion. As a kind of lossy recursion. Yeah. It's a recursion of the system it's…

• 01:26:05

  economic modeling big data analysis and the most abstract cognitive models are all appropriated by worker subjects through education and science the use of mathematical models and algorithms by capital does not make them a feature of capital it is not a problem of mathematics it is a problem of power so for this…

• 01:40:51

  This was mentioned also by Nick Lamb, in his comment to the Accelerationist Manifesto recently. Curiously, Deleuze and Guattari, in this chapter, in the footnote, they mention, and they comment also, a machine from the Grundrisse, where Marx referred to the general intellect incarnated into a machine. Something that…

• 01:56:45

  so I guess we're done with the program thank you all for staying until the last minute of it whoever's left here and it was a wonderful experiment and I think we make some kind of a little history about what we did what we tried to do so at least I can claim that and one note, one note I want to say is that the videos…