Research Seminar VIII Luciana Parisi Instrumentality and Possibility (27 Apr 2022)

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• 00:00:00

  Hello everyone, so my name is Yuhoi. Thank you for being here. I know it's quite late for some of you and quite early for some of you as well. So welcome to the eighth edition of the research seminar, Dialogues on Philosophy and Technology. So today I have the great pleasure to welcome Luciana Parisi to be our guest…

• 00:17:35

  The integrated circuit of this infinite usability, this infinite capacity of use of the enslaved population, is what connects the Promethean myth to the colonial archive and constitutes the most important element of the modern human civilization. The Promethean myth is a ! The Promethean myth is a ! The Promethean…

• 00:36:57

  The common sense you might a life form or simply what it means to be people in a word or even to ever word. And this is what I mean by the manifest image. She said, yeah, that I drew from John Sellers is already predicted on the cosmogony of men for which there is only one people, only one word. Only one. Techno…

• 00:56:42

  So, I think that's a very important point. I think that's a very important point. I think that's a very important point. reasons and in order to understand technology. So, as a first response on the question of instrumentality and I think that opened up a very interesting way for us to think about the role of machine…

• 01:13:07

  But that's different from incompleteness, which I wanna talk about later. Incomplete subject of the colonized, right? And that reflects the incomplete subject of the crisis of the modern subject, which is the kind of post-colonial moment of complete kind of weakness, right? To stay with the weakness of the subject…

• 01:30:09

  But it's actually something else. It's a call to something else, a call for all of us, rather than just for an individual. You see, I don't know if that makes sense, but yeah, that's what, it's an ethical question I'm working on. But let's think the question is, yeah, there are many questions. Yeah. So let's…

• 01:46:30

  That'd be super interesting as well. Um, in a way, you know, it seems to me that the reengineering of social relation is, is a very old, you know, practice that started way before, you know, cybernetic capitalism, you know, walking just refer to eugenics, right, which is both social and bio social relations. And…

• 02:00:41

  And I hope that, um, I can be in contact. Thanks so much for everyone to stay for the wonderful questions. Um, uh, and, uh, for Ashley, uh, for being so, uh, yeah, uh, accommodating and you, you can, I hope that we can continue, continue this together soon.