Overview

This book introduces the reader to Serres’ unique manner of ‘doing philosophy’ that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness. It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that commits itself to a form of reasoning which privileges the most direct path (simple method) in order to expend minimal efforts while pursuing maximal efficiency. In Serres’ universal economy, value is considered as a function of rarity, not as a stock of resources. This book demonstrates how Michel Serres has developed an architectonics that is coefficient with nature. Mathematic and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres acquaints the reader with Serres’ monist manner of addressing the universality and the power of knowledge – that is at once also the anonymous and empty faculty of incandescent, inventive thought. The chapters of the book demarcate, problematize and contextualize some of the epistemologically unsettling situations Serres addresses, whilst also examining the particular manner in which he responds to and converses with these situations.

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Author:   Vera Bühlmann (senior researcher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9781350019768

ISBN 10:   1350019763
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   20 February 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword Chapter one: Introduction The plan of this book Chapter two: Quantum literacy Elementary indecision Communication versus production: Bearing witness, and literacy Cultivating indecision: The quantum domain’s domesticity Ciphers, zeroness, equations: Architectonics of nothing Chance-bound objects Taking ignorance into account: Quantifying strangeness Entropy and negentropy The price of information as a measure for an object’s strangeness Quantum literacy: Towards a novel theory of the subject ‘La Langue est une Puissance’ Chapter three: Chronopedia I: Counting time Meteora: The wisdom of the weather Code: A rosetta stone, a double staircase Time modelled as contemporaneity Counting time: Equinox and solstice The turning points for modelled beginnings and ends Of tables and models Sense means significance and direction Meteora A logos genuine to the world – ‘Le Logiciél Intra-Matériel’ Software, hardware Economy of maxima and minima: An anarchic logos Chapter four: Chronopedia II: Treasuring time Homothesis as the locus in quo of the universal’s presence 1st iteration (acquiring a space of possibility) 2nd iteration (learning to speak a language in which no one is native) 3rd iteration (setting the stage for thought to comprehend itself) 4th iteration (intelligence that is immanent and coextensive with the universe) 5th iteration (inventing a scale of reproduction) 6th iteration (the formula, a double-articulating application) The amorous nature of intellectual conception 1st iteration (marking all that is assumed to be constant with a cipher) 2nd iteration (confluence of multiple geneses) 3rd iteration (the residence of that which is genuinely migrational) 4th iteration (universal genitality) 5th iteration (mathematics is the circuit of cunning reason’s ruses) 6th iteration (the real as a black spectrum) Chapter five: Banking universality: The magnitudes of ageing Metaphysics The quickness of a magnanimous universe Invariance: Genericness in terms of entropy and negentropy Genuine and immanent to the all of time: Le ‘logiciel intra-matériel’ White metaphysics: How old does the world think it is? Freedom The neutral element: Materialism of identity (Pan’s) glossematics: The economy that deals with ‘purport’ Quanta of contemporaneity: Heat to incandescence, storage to bank account Quantum writing: Substitutes step in to address things themselves Chapter six: The incandescent Paraclete: Tables of plenty Equatoriality generalized Coming of age, liking sunset and sunrise How to combine precision with finesse or: euphoria contained by instruments that behave like cornucopia The (mathematical) inverse of Pantopia is not a utopia: Law in the panonymy of the whole world The objective mentality and character of instruments The vicarious order of knowledge that is authentic to the world Pan: The excitable subject of universal knowledge Generational con-sequentiality Blessed curiosity Exodic discourse Chapter seven: Sophistication and anamnesis: Retrograde movement of truth, remembering an abundant past The currency of knowledge The price of truth, and the price of information The convertibility of truth Classicism: Remembering contemporaneity Classical analysis, symbolical analysis Interlude: The Tower of Eiffel, archetypical symbol of existentialism? Building a cipher A corpus of intelligent forms The technical order of an object that is comfortable How to reason the sum total of all archetypes? Towards critique with regard to the symbolic alchemy of myth-making A realist classicism Familiarizing ourselves as strangers, native to the universe The domain of the quasi: Instructive analysis, character dispositions How can reason in general learn from singularities? Of genealogical and of tabular orders: Eating ‘next to’ (parasite) Heterogeneous scales, logistical uniformality (forms of operation) Indexical address: The referential of the centre Respecting order by challenging it Cunning ruses: The anarchic architectonic way of paying respect How to address the third-person singular? Augmentation, not authorship Anarchic civility, and the meanings of cultures Chapter eight Coda: Quantum literacy and architectonic dispositioning Architecture and philosophy Chapter zero: Instead of a conclusion: The static tripod Notes Bibliography

Reviews

What happens when we take mathematics not as the elementary basis upon which science must bloom, but as an 'architectonics' that unfolds the world as it informs mass, space and time? With great rigor, in content and style, Buhlmann reads the concepts that Michel Serres produced in his oeuvre through his mathematics and information theory, revealing his highly original, inclusive and affirmative philosophy of the 21st century. -- Rick Dolphijn, Associate Professor of Theories of Arts and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands

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Vera Bühlmann is Professor for Architecture Theory and Director of the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics ATTP at Vienna University of Technology, Austria.

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