Ekin Erkan

Ekin Erkan is a Turkish writer in science, technology and philosophy living in New York City, notable for researching with and developing Reza Negarestani's research on artificial general intelligence. Erkan's work originally concerned Bernard Stiegler's work on "psychopolitics," as well as secondary literature on François Laruelle's non-standard philosophy but has more recently (given their analytic return) been working on Catarina Dutilh Novaes' concept of de-semantification and Robert Brandom's inferentialism.

Background

Erkan's work examines the collective closure between neural networks, predictive processing, and perceptual faculties as they relate to machine intelligence and algorithmic governmentality. Erkan has a background in both analytic and continental philosophy, supplemented by graduate research in medialogy, media archaeology and film philosophy. Despite originally working within the continental tradition of philosophy of art, aesthetics and media, Erkan's more recent work has been associated with the post-continental school of thinkers, influenced by philosophers such as Carl Sachs, Ray Brassier, Reza Negarestani and Thomas Moynihan. Erkan is currently pursuing post-graduate study in Critical Philosophy at The New Centre for Research & Practice, researching under the tutelage of Iranian theory fiction pioneer Reza Negarestani while working on Bayesian neuro-inference and AGI. Erkan also is a columnist and critic at the art and literature journal AEQAI, publishing monthly contributions on contemporary art and intermedia. In addition to Erkan's work on Stiegler and Rouvroy, Erkan has published writing on Andy Clark and David Chalmers' extended mind, Ned Block's non-iconic memory and phenomenology of perception and mental paint, François Laruelle’s non-ethics and non-aesthetics, Robert Brandom's inferentialism, Negarestani's neo-rationalist turn, Catherine Malabou's "neuroplasticity" and "creative non-calculation," and post-Deleuzian film philosophy in publications including Theory & Event,Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture,Cosmos & History, Alphaville, Cultural Studies, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Chiasma, Rhizomes, Labyrinth, Cultural Logic: A Journal of Marxist Theory & Practice, Media Theory, Philosophy East and West, and The Cincinnati Romance Review.

Research

Erkan is also currently working with Giacomo Gilmozzi on Bernard Stiegler’s United Nations 2020 World Summit initiative “Internation.World.” With the support of the New Centre of Research & Practice, Erkan will be contributing to a book on the collective closure between non-anthropomorphic perceptual processes and neuro-inferential Bayesian cognitive architecture in the Summer of 2020.

Works

Articles

• "Against the Virtual: Kleinherenbrink’s Externality Thesis and Deleuze’s Machine Ontology, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 16:1 (2020), pp 492–559.
• "Apperceptive Patterning: Artefaction, Extensional Beliefs and Cognitive Scaffolding, Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 16:1 (2020), pp 225–278.
• "From organic subjectivity to internal reality, Radical Philosophy 2.7 (2020), pp 119–122.
• "The Depth Conditions of Possibility: The Data Episteme", Theory & Event 23.2 (2020), pp 496–500.
• "Jean-Louis Schefer's The Ordinary Man of Cinema, Comparative Cinema, 8:14 (2020), pp 82–85.
• "Animality, Metaethical Judgments and Predictive Justice", Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture (2020; online).
• "The Call of Being: On Pure Phenomenality and Radical Immanence", Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 21.2 (2020), pp 197–203.
• "On Action-Oriented Predictive Patterning", Plutonics: A Journal of Non-Standard Theory 13 (2020), pp 91–97.
• "Omnicide: Mania, Fatality, and Future-in-Delirium (review)", Philosophy East and West 69.4 (2020), pp 3–6.
• "Laruelle Qua Stiegler: On Non-Marxism and the Transindividual", Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 16.1-2 (Summer - Winter 2019), pp 48–66.
• "European Cinema and Continental Philosophy: Film as Thought Experiment", Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media 18 (2019), pp 232–238.
• "On Laruelle and the Radical Dyad: Katerina Kolozova's Materialist Non-Humanism", Cultural Logic: Marxist Theory & Practice 23 (2019), pp 72-82.
• "Technology as the God-Command", Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics 21:1 (2019), pp 201-206.
• "David Lapoujade’s Powers of Time", Media Theory (2019)
• "Psychopower and Ordinary Madness: Reticulated Dividuals in Cognitive Capitalism", Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 15:1 (2019), pp 214-241.
• "Unveiling Thomas Moynihan's Spinal Catastrophism: The Spine Considered as a Chronogenetic Media Artifact", Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 15:1 (2019), pp 564-571.
• "Review of Media heterotopias: digital effects and material labor in global film production", New Review of Film and Television Studies,(2019).
• "Control societies and machine ecology", Cultural Studies, 33:6 (2019).
• "Societies of Disindividuated Hyper-Control: On the Question of a New Pharmakon", Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, 35 (2019).
• "Cryptophasia and the Question of Database", Triple Ampersand, (2019).
• "The Generic Unmasked: Reproducibility and Profanation", Triple Ampersand, (2019).
• "Review of François Laruelle's A Biography of Ordinary Man: On Authorities and Minorities", Cincinnati Romance Review, 46 (2019).
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