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01:08, 19 September 2019 Erkan Ekin 2019 Psychopower and Ordinary Madness- Reticulated Dividuals in Cognitive Capitalism.pdf (file) 289 KB Ekin Erkan uses Bernard Stiegler as a theoretical fulcrum with which to further engage in analysis re: cognitive capitalism. Despite the seemingly neutral vantage of using nature for widely-distributed computational purposes, neither post-biological nor post-humanist teleology simply concludes with the real "end of nature" as entailed in the loss of the specific ontological status embedded in the identifier "natural." As evinced by the ecological crises of the Anthropocene—of which the 2019 B... 1
09:21, 13 September 2019 Erkan Ekin 2019 Cryptophasia and The Question of Database.pdf (file) 180 KB Postmodernity’s cultural database logic and the consequent filmic characteristics of the digital age were fostered by Lev Manovich’s 1999 essay “The Database as Symbolic Form,” whereby Manovich furthered Roland Barthes’ adoption of Saussurrean sign-systems to describe cultural phenomena. In particular, Manovich applied Saussure’s description to postmodernity, delineating a juncture from modernism’s narrative-thralldom in the computer age, as “[i]nteractive interfaces foreground the paradigmat... 1
01:39, 23 August 2019 Erkan Ekin 2019 Societies of Disindividuated Hyper-Control On the Question of a New Pharmakon.docx (file) 30 KB A review of Bernard Stiegler's The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2019) with a particular focus on pharmacological technologies as they relate to neural networks/algorithmic governmentality. 1
12:09, 28 July 2019 Erkan Ekin 2019 The Biography of Ordinary Man.pdf (file) 94 KB A critical review of "non-standard philosopher" François Laruelle's non-ethics as articulated through a Marxist vantage. 1