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# 77
The Incomputable and Instrumental Possibility
Antonia Majaca and Luciana Parisi
If it is true that the individual is caught in a circle of continuous undulation between enslavement and liberation, trapped in the paradox of simultaneously being her own master and slave, can learning from the logic of the machine provide a path for a new, alien beginning? And if it is true that instrumentality as such has developed its own logic through the evolution of machine complexity, shouldn’t we attempt to think the instrumentality of the post-cybernetic individual beyond the dualities of means and ends?
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 3, 2016
Category
Data & Information, Technology
Subjects
Afrofuturism , Science Fiction, Logic
# 75
Little Daniel Before the Law: Algorithmic Extimacy and the Rise of the Paranoid Apparatus
Antonia Majaca
1. Nervous Systems
In 1882 Doctor Paul Emil Flechsig, a brain anatomist with no experience in clinical psychiatry, took up the directorship of the psychiatric clinic of the University Hospital in Leipzig. For German institutional psychiatry, the appointment decisively inaugurated a new episteme. In one move, the era of the soul ended and the era of the brain began. 1 Dr. Flechsig’s project linked neural activity to all of human behavior and thought, a reduction that persists in…
e-flux Journal
Posted: September 1, 2016
Category
Psychology & Psychoanalysis, Humanism, Surveillance & Privacy
Subjects
Biology, Subjectivity, Artificial intelligence, Algorithms