#enframing

[zero-zoxx-international]

Das Un-Gestell im Frühling 2025 (The Un-Enframing in Spring 2025), 2025 by J.G.Wind

[eelhound]

"At the basis of the contemporary obsessions with so-called ‘Big Data’ lies the double ontological assumption that: (1) the language of information technology is capable of grasping the whole of the existent; (2) more extremely, the whole of the existent coincides with the reach of the language of information technology. The record-shattering investments in Big-Data systems and technology rest on the belief that there can’t possibly be anything ontologically relevant that couldn’t, at least potentially, be reduced (and reduced truthfully) to the serial units of the language of data.

Similarly, through substituting the terms ‘information technology’ with ‘finance’, we  can understand the contemporary role played by financial capitalism, not merely as a translator of the world into its own linguistic structure, but as the creator of a world that coincides exactly with such structure. Financial capital does not apply value to preexisting things, let alone merely translating them into its own linguistic system of evaluation; conversely, it is the world (or whatever is left of it, tolerated only in its most larval state) that is expected to mobilize itself according to the grid of finance, if it wishes to be allowed within the gates of presence that finance so closely guards.

And again, we find the same process at work if we observe a number of hegemonic strands of contemporary science, particularly in its ‘practical’ articulations such as those belonging to the field of neuroscience. Neuroscientific language presents itself as valid and trustworthy, because: (1) it can at least potentially grasp in an exhaustive fashion the whole of the object of its research; (2) more extremely, there is no emotion, feeling, thought-process and so on, apart from those that are already contained, however potentially, within the linguistic system of neuroscience itself.

Functioning as a form of scientific sentimentalism, neuroscientific metaphysics claims that mental processes that can’t even potentially fit within its language are nothing but mere fantasies or superstitions. Equally, this same process applies to the ontological discourse of citizenship: in the current post/anti-humanist age, citizenship isn’t predicated of a person, but rather personhood becomes an implicit benefit of citizenship status. Following Technic’s rejection of the very notions of life and death, as discussed above, the already abysmal ‘bare life’ that used to apply to stateless people, now resolves into a vanishing of presence towards absolute ontological nothingness.

As the recent debate on migration and asylum amply demonstrates, whatever falls out of citizenship’s linguistic series falls entirely out of the world. And again, the same is true of identity more generally, as suggested by the recent, obsessive proliferation of categories of identity, most noticeably in the fields of gender and sexuality. Whatever aspect of a living person refuses or is unable to be totally reduced to a set of serial units of language (a case of ontological refusal), or into the specific linguistic series that are at work in a particular society (a case of historical refusal), is instantly stripped of any legitimate claim to presence in the world.

While absolute existence lies beyond the grasp of any form of societal control, presence in the world in the age of Technic becomes the prime object of production and of policing."

- Federico Campagna, from Technic and Magic: The Reconstruction of Reality, 2018.

[ehj3]

DOING LAPS IN FREE SWIM

DOING LAPS IN FREE SWIM

“May we suggest that art is likely to be characterized by low stringency (i.e., high ambiguity and interpretability) where systems of conduct ideals are in doubt or social values are in the process of transition.” —Ernst Kris, psychoanalyst and art historian.1

No shit. No art, all politics. No politics, all economics. Happy 2020! Have a “nice” day and a  postmodern rest of your life!

So…

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[jamabushi]

[whentheynyan]

All coming to presence, not only modern technology, keeps itself everywhere concealed to the last.

[whenyouarenothing]

Daiku Hiroshi Sakaguchi 

from the film “Being in this World” by Tao Ruspoli, 2010

[whentheynyan]

Man can indeed conceive, fashion, and carry through this or that in one way or another. But man does not have control over un-concealment itself

[ilovekorn247-blog]

When we begin to see ourselves as technological products of our own rational calculative control and creation, we face a very real danger of being consumers of identity (to an even deeper extent than is already the case), and we stand to lose the orientation by which we discover the need to wrestle with our finite nature.

http://jetpress.org/v24/bailey.htm