Emergence is a fake problem
The best takeaways from A Thousand Plateaus are those that happen to you subconsciously before you can articulate them in relation to the book. This passage had puzzled me for a long time: “There is no ‘like’ here, we are not saying ‘like an electron,’ ‘like an interaction,’ etc. The plane of consistency is the…
On Mechanology
In 1958, Gilbert Simondon created mechanology, an empirical philosophy of technology. Simondon framed mechanology as a response to a problem. Culture relates to technology in one of two inadequate forms. On the one hand, partial humanism sees the technical object as the ugly sibling of the aesthetic object and vilifies it as the source of…
