Terms of Media II Actions Conference - Forecast - Mediate - Luciana Parisi

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• 00:00:00

  Hi guys, just wanted to thank, as everyone has done, Wendy for this opportunity and everyone here, being here still on the third day after lunch, I guess that's quite good. So I'm just going to start, I have no other entertainment than myself, so you need to bear with me, I'm going to speak slowly and read slowly. And…

• 00:04:50

  This field is the generative source, the source of the world, the source of being, or the intermezzo, as he calls it, or the self-differentiation, where the sensible unfolds and forces thought to think. In difference and repetition, Deleuze offers us a radical critique of mediation. Whilst common sense has it that…

• 00:11:04

  Hence, mediation entails the operation of information compression, data encoding, the logical procedures, the algebraic operations, defining the discrete nature of technique. And by technique, the technical being, that's what is meant. Importantly, Hitler calls for the withdrawal, not of philosophy or theoretical…

• 00:15:52

  By reversing, theoretical into practical thinking, that's the philosophical operation that I'm trying to understand what it does. By reversing theoretical into practical thinking, Hitler reveals that the material storage, transmission and command of information has produced an autonomous system of knowledge, derived…

• 00:22:24

  So my point is that there is a challenge that computational automation, by developing certain methods of reasoning, has already posed to the classical understanding of formal reasoning in classic philosophy, i.e. based on formal reasoning. And, theoretical reasoning only. But it will become clear, I hope…

• 00:28:10

  Here postulates axiomatic truths are a result of the algorithmic compression of incomputables into patterns. Mediation here involves an algorithmic form of intelligibility, which grows patterns from within information environments, undermining, or confirming existing axiom rules and truths. So it's an experimental…

• 00:33:49

  In short, Peirce develops a materialist account of logic, the process by which hypothetical reasoning moves from non-inferential materialities to the articulation of discursive practice and to truths. Prediction is not simply a translation between objects and concepts, involving some kind of energetic transduction…

• 00:39:24

  And that's the project of extended Kantian model of logic through Peirce, for which practical knowledge incorporates a conceptual infrastructure that algorithmic mediation is contributing to unpack and to evolve. So mediation here involves a speculative forecasting of unknowns, insofar as the hypothetical causality…