Luciana Parisi Recursive Colonialism and Speculative Computation

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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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• 00:00:00

  Good morning everyone. It's very nice to have you all here. This is the first TGI FHI event of the year. Normally we would be welcoming you into our space in Smith's Warehouse at Duke University and having time for casual conversation over breakfast before before a talk followed by questions to introduce Duke faculty…

• 00:10:57

  From this standpoint, it is important to question the argument about the ontic constitution of epistemology, for which technoscience can at best be said to offer an objective observation of actual facts in reality, but indeed can never tell us about the condition of reality itself. This argument belongs to Martin…

• 00:20:45

  Winter calls Western man this recursive epistemology that programs the symbolic logical difference in the body, branding the flesh and grounding a racial ontogenesis of the human. As first coined by Frantz Fanon, the socio genic principle is a concept that Winter further developed to account…

• 00:31:09

  But how to do so without following the claims of the ontological term against universal epistemologies, for which the debunking of the universal model of technology would coincide with a time before modernity, before racial capitalism, a return to poetics in order to uncover different epistemologies of different…

• 00:43:03

  It is as if algorithmic action become non-local assemblages that make space to artificial epistemologies expanding the non-linear relation between data aggregates and meaning beyond the recursive looping of programmed ontologies. Ludic logic can be an example of how cosmocomputations admit not one changing system…

• 00:57:01

  has already happened and and so there's no way that you can't look back you know you can only look you can only abolish retroactively what has happened what has already been happening but at the same time you can only do that from the standpoint of a future where you can no longer go back…

• 01:10:22

  Is where a process of enslavement starts first and expands so that at the same time, the master, the Promethean master Things that All can remain the same because you know the medium is just an instrumentality and and the way that also this idea of instrumentality is locked within the critical technology because We…

• 01:29:28

  person but um maybe we can uh think about the through the through the reactions um we can give give luciana a round of applause thank you very much thank you for thanking me and uh shading shading ideas thank you thanks so much luciana