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︎ Complete list and YouTube links to all previous Open Seminar lectures
Spring 2021
Paul Cockshott:
Materialism, Turing, and Math
Greg Michaelson:
Mesolithic Capitalism: Language Games, Meaning and State Machines
John Ó Maoilearca
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Matter, the Meta-spiritual, and the Forgotten Bergson
Anne-Françoise Schmid
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Is There a Field for Philosophy?
Ray Brassier
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The Antinomies of Progress: Adorno and Marcuse
Agon Hamza
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Reading Hegel
Katarina Kolozova
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Marx vs. Hegel
Summer 2021
Reid Kotlas
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Why was Marx’s Materialism ‘Dialectical’ ?
Jonathan Fardy
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From Estrangement to the Stranger: Marx after Laruelle
Giuseppe Longo
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A World of “Instructions”: The Computational Myths in Cognition and Life vs. Alternative Paths for Invention and Understanding
Alexander Wilson
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Real Non-Patterns and the Automation of Science
Jan Overwijk
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‘Simple Rules, Complex Behavior’: Paradoxes of Cybernetic Rationalization
Davor Löffler
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The Meaning of Life: A Journey to the Origins of Worlds
David Roden
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The Aesthesis of Unworlding: Against Aesthetic Inferentialism
Ben Woodard
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Lancelot Hogben and the Bio-Aesthetics of Utopia
Fall 2021
Vera Bühlmann
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Materialism and the Public Nature of Knowledge: Michel Serres Circumstantial Universalism
Jean-Pierre Caron
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Real Abstraction and the Given: On Post-Sellarsian Marxism
Tzuchien Tho
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From More Geometrico to Mathematical Ontology: Abstraction, Purification, Subtraction
Tony Yanick
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Limits of CTRL: Abductive Reasoning and Augmenting Creative Intelligence
Jeremy R. Smith
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The ABCs of Oraxiom: Towards a Research Programme of Future Metaphysics
Thomas Nail
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The Philosophy of Movement
Chantelle Gray and Aragorn Eloff
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The Fourth Ecology: Hikikomori, Depressive Hedonia and Algorithmic Ubiquity
Keti Chukhrov
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Deleuze without Guattari
Willow Verkerk
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Mimetic Inclination and the Limits of the Enlightened Subject
January 2022
Rick Elmore
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Deconstructive Realism and the Naturalization of Bourgeois Metaphysics
Hanno Pahl
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Money and the “Metrization” of the World: On the Co-Evolution of Money, Writing, and Cognition
Paul Reynolds
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Can we have a Marxist Erotics?
Jordanco Sekulovski
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The Immanent, the Generic and the Transhuman: A Non-standard Approach
Nina Power
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Gnosticism and Materialism
Rick Dolphijn
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Cracks, Wounds and Becoming a Target: on the Philosophy of Matter
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
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In-, On-, or Out-of the Loop? Genders, Posthumanisms, and Technesis
August-September 2022-3
AbdouMaliq Simone
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Black Urbanism: Life at the Extensions
Thomas Nail
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Life and Death in the Kinocene
Douglas Lain and Alfie Bown
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Sublation and the Death of Neoliberalism
Matthew Fuller
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A Society of the Filter?
Miglena Nikolchina
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God with Machine: Subtracting the Human
Anne-Françoise Schmid
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The Author and the Philosopher: The Concreteness of Philosophical Writing
Patricia MacCormack
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Death Activism: A Joyful Apocalypse
Ewa Ziarek
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A New Logic of Digital/Racial Capitalism: An Intersectional Approach
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