Category Archive: Science / Mathematics / Technology

24 Nov

Energy and Culture: Notes on “Postmodern” Science

Science, Information and Time There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Alfred North Whitehead It…
Saturday, November 24, 2007 at 9:19 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Comment
20 Nov

Simondon and the Machine: Technology, Individuation, Reality

Fractal Effervescence (2006), David April   Simondon and the Theory of Individuation There is something eternal in a technical scheme… and it is that which is always present, and can…
Tuesday, November 20, 2007 at 6:18 am By Joseph Weissman 4 Comments
17 Nov

Cyborg Nietzsche: Conscience, Affect, Transvaluation

Part One: Criticism and Untruth-Machines A. Neurosis and Transcendence: the Algebra of Bad Conscience We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.  Marcel Proust For Nietzsche,…
Saturday, November 17, 2007 at 3:10 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a comment
14 Nov

Science and Parasites: Michel Serres and the Unification of Human and Natural Sciences

Theorem: the history of science obeys the law of diminishing returns. The first attack on the narcissism of science… Second: if we examine the set made of the problem and…
Wednesday, November 14, 2007 at 12:05 am By Joseph Weissman 2 Comments
13 Nov

The Future of Information

In reality, goals are absent. Nietzsche Rivalry is only a spectacle; it is the state of appearance. Equilibrium is phenomenal, and the distance is real. The law of opposition belongs…
Tuesday, November 13, 2007 at 5:33 pm By Joseph Weissman 5 Comments
04 Nov

Symmetry within Chaos: On Science and Difference

Symmetric Relations A scientific theory classifies phenomena based on a universal set of structural relationships. Experiments and theories which deserve the name scientific thus share a coherent set of properties.…
Sunday, November 4, 2007 at 7:18 pm By Joseph Weissman 2 Comments
15 Oct

Nomads: Space, Solitude, Science

Royal science is inseparable from a “hylomorphic” model implying both a form that organizes matter, and a matter prepared for the form; it has often been shown that this schema…
Monday, October 15, 2007 at 4:32 am By Joseph Weissman 3 Comments
09 Oct

Empiricism and Power

The modern break with the authority of the past begins with critical history and the possibility of an empirical investigation into reality. A clinical eye belongs to the properly empirical,…
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at 5:13 pm By Joseph Weissman 1 Comment
04 Sep

A Question for Institutions

Establishment always occurs simultaneously with a change in focus, a reconstitution at a higher level of analysis. The origin of institution lies in an emergent super-organization, capable of responding to…
Tuesday, September 4, 2007 at 5:35 pm By Joseph Weissman Leave a comment
30 Aug

‘A Chain of Necessary Rings of Culture’: Nietzsche and the Ability of Science

In sections 4 and 5 of Human All Too Human, Nietzsche develops a non-linear train of thought that attempts to analyze and reconstruct the experiences and concepts of religion, art…
Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 8:51 am By Taylor Adkins Leave a comment
19 Aug

Irony and Science

0. Empiricism lives and studies in the future anterior; thus order and number appear, as though already in their most sublime perfection, and involve themsleves in the experiment as though…
Sunday, August 19, 2007 at 4:42 am By Joseph Weissman Leave a comment
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