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Evolution and computing can be described as counter-poles in contemporary American culture, as though that which transforms very fast required, to maintain some cosmic balance, a partner that changed correspondingly slowly. This is not just a felicitous figure: there are deeper grounds. Homo faber, in realizing the power to shape the experience of fellow producers [ READ MORE ]
The self-serving character of this appropriation should not be underestimated. Third culture, a name given to a principle for a new relationship between the human and the natural sciences. A new principle, implicitly to be compared to an old principle, that, they argue, never worked very well, ergo the division between the two disciplines that [ READ MORE ]
It is the serial killer’s responsibility to exceed in beauty every attempt by the cops or the psychologists to apprehend him, and it is always a him. He is an aesthete who, whether his victims are skinned, decapitated, defenestrated, dismembered, skewered, raped, or stewed, always admires them for their appearance, with an utterly uncultured, almost [ READ MORE ]
Social and political differences that have installed themselves between the 1970s and today can be ascribed to a transformation in children’s activity. Let us say that toys have been exchanged for games. With this change-over in the object of desire, a shift in the meaning of play has occurred, which, as a consequence, has re-determined [ READ MORE ]
For current left political theories, there seem to be two possible foundations, two basic structures out of which develop distinct justifications for what at first appears to be a similar politics. One structure takes mathematics as its basis, the other hermeneutics. One bases its politics in an ontology in turn based on multiplicity. The other [ READ MORE ]
ET no longer needs to phone home. He can call his friends in-network. A commodity-centered political economy, rather than a labor-centered one, would have to abandon one facet of a theory of capital: its tendency to generalize. Instead, it would start from the commodities themselves. From them it would produce a variegated map of their [ READ MORE ]
For Friedrich Schlegel, the aim of Kritik is to actualize Kritisierbarkeit — a potential for infinite, yet immanent and immediate, reflection (indeed: a potential for potential) — that not only belongs to the artwork as a work but is of its very essence. Yet perhaps we at wozu have been remiss: though we have pompously [ READ MORE ]
