5 documents
# 95
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 15, 2018
Category
Philosophy
Subjects
Temporality, The Cosmos, Outer Space
# 69
What Is Philosophy? Part Two: Programs and Realizabilities
Reza Negarestani
Continued from “ What Is Philosophy? Part One: Axioms and Programs ”
§4. Viewed from an Archimedean point in the future of thought’s unfolding, philosophy is seen as what has instructed thinking to become a systematic program, only as a way of organizing it into a project for the emancipation of intelligence. This is the unexpressed role of philosophy as a fulcrum through which aims and agendas of intelligence gain leverage on the world of thought. To assemble the…
e-flux Journal
Posted: January 1, 2016
Category
Philosophy
Subjects
Consciousness & Cognition
# 67
What Is Philosophy? Part One: Axioms and Programs
Reza Negarestani
The central thesis of this text is that philosophy is, at its deepest level, a program—a collection of action-principles and practices-or-operations which involve realizabilities, i.e., what can be possibly brought about by a specific category of properties or forms. And that to properly define philosophy and to highlight its significance, we should approach philosophy by first examining its programmatic nature. This means that rather than starting the inquiry into the nature of philosophy…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2015
Category
Philosophy, Nature & Ecology, Language & Linguistics
Subjects
Autonomy, Algorithms, Systems Theory, Logic, Mathematics
# 53
The Labor of the Inhuman, Part II: The Inhuman
Reza Negarestani
Continued from “The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human”
Enlightened humanism as a project of commitment to humanity , in the entangled sense of what it means to be human and what it means to make a commitment, is a rational project. It is rational not only because it locates the meaning of human 1 in the space of reasons as a specific horizon of practices, but also and more importantly, because the concept of commitment it adheres to cannot be thought or practiced as a…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2014
Category
Philosophy, Humanism
Subjects
Human - Nonhuman Relations, Autonomy
# 52
The Labor of the Inhuman, Part I: Human
Reza Negarestani
Inhumanism is the extended practical elaboration of humanism; it is born out of a diligent commitment to the project of enlightened humanism. As a universal wave that erases the self-portrait of man drawn in sand, inhumanism is a vector of revision. It relentlessly revises what it means to be human by removing its supposed evident characteristics and preserving certain invariances. At the same time, inhumanism registers itself as a demand for construction, to define what it means to be human…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2014
Category
Philosophy, Humanism, Marxism
Subjects
Kitsch