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Luciana Parisi - Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines by Luciana Parisi - libgen.li
"Luciana Parisi - Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines by Luciana Parisi - libgen.li" focuses on modulation, affect, or automation to show how control operates through distributed adjustment rather than fixed command.
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Core idea
These texts treat control as environmental tuning rather than sovereign command. Affect, automation, and recursive adjustment describe how systems steer behavior without relying on rigid boundaries.
The pages work by connecting cybernetic feedback to image systems, automated environments, or nano-scale intervention. Modulation becomes a way of governing by continuously recalibrating a field.
That matters because the archive's viral metaphors need an account of how environments are actively tuned. Control is not only repressive; it is adaptive, affective, and distributed.
How to read this text
Read for the vocabulary of modulation, affect, or recursion before following the broader philosophical claims.
Track where automation becomes environmental rather than merely mechanical. That is usually the strongest conceptual turn.
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Definition · paragraph 1
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines Luciana Parisi As artificial intelligence gives us the illusion of extending the limits of the human by learning and predicting our behaviors, a growing anxiety about automated decision-making is spreading everywhere.
Definition · paragraph 1
Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines Luciana Parisi As artificial intelligence gives us the illusion of extending the limits of the human by learning and predicting our behaviors, a growing anxiety about automated decision-making is spreading everywhere. Critical debates about what counts as intelligence, reason, and thinking have urged us to focus on the question of technology today and ask: What has philosophy become af- ter computation?
Definition · paragraph 6
This argument for negative machines, however, necessitates first that we approach automation beyond the Heideggerian critique of the modern question of technology. Techne Ontology In the aftermath of World War II, Martin Heidegger issued a warning against the demise of philosophy at the hands of cybernetics.
Definition · paragraph 10
If the practice of critique has worked to lift the curtain of philosophy as a form of a priori decision-making always already operating through exclu- sion, this article envisions the need for both philosophy and automation to flex their axiomatics toward the exteriority of negative propositions, or heretic thinking in machines.
History · paragraph 4
See Jean-Yves Girard, “Locus Solum: From the Rules of Logic to the Logic of Rules,” Mathematical Structures in Computer Science 11 (June 2001): 301–506. 316 Luciana Parisi / Recursive Philosophy and Negative Machines
Appears in sections
Control, Virotechnics, and Swarm Systems Primary section
Control processes, viral language, swarms, and abstract dynamics as a media-theoretical cluster.