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Past Seminars
2024
Philosophy of ThermodynamicsIllusion Chamber:
Unreality Laboratory 1
Noise And Social Synthesis I:
Reappraising Attali and the political economy of music
The Draw of the Desert
Metaphysics of Pop:
The aesthetic structure of recorded music
Publishing Workshop:
Methodologies for Writing & Dissemination
Sapient Cinema
Earthworks and Waterpower
On the Destruction of Life:
in the Epoch of the Fourth Industrial Revolution information, anti-production and the ecological crises
On the Scissiparity of Geist:
Reason & its Outside
GPT for Arts & Humanities
Information:
Individuation according to Simondon
Being There and Not There
Worldmaking between Prometheanism & Perspectivism
Secrecy:
Return of the mystery cults
Cartesian Conflagrations
200 Years of Life I
Modes of Transit in the Necropastoral
Self-writing, Autotheory and Autoethnography:
Paulin Hountoundji and the Critique of Realism
Short-form Criticism Workshop:
The conditions for judgment
Long-Form Writing Laboratory
The Flight of Ariel:
Universalism in Latin American Thought
Antonin Artaud and Journey to Mexico
Simondon:
Imagination and Invention
Catechism for Revolutionary Philosophy
Art Writing in Context
Feminism in the canon of philosophy:
A research lab
200 Years of Life Part II
Fear
The Geographers that Ate Themselves
Cognitive Mapping:
Althusser, Sellars & Giannotti
Abducting the Future:
Strategic Thought & the Logic of Military and Political Inquiry
From Inference to Intervention:
on the operative logics of machine learning
Variations on the Great Refusal II
2023
The Child’s Imagination:Studies of Cinematic Fantasy
Open Worlds, Universal Design:
Geopolitics of the Multiverse
Exuberance & Extinction:
On Why Anything Matters
The Age of Computational Desire:
Towards a New History of Culture in the 2020s
Techne beyond Monoculture Part Two
The Impetus of the Soul:
Hume’s Philosophy of Force & Vivacity
Hegelian Logic & Analytic Philosophy
Writing the Impossible Object
Money, Desire & the Body:
Economic exchange & perversion
Archaeology of the Final Decade:
System Design in Research & Exhibition-Making
Cybernetics in China, an Introduction
Notes from Immediate Irreality
Learning How to Die:
Socratic Discipline & the Philosophical Life – Part II
Kants Critique of Judgment:
Purposiveness, the Beautiful, and the Sublime
Prompt-Writing Workshop:
Hybrid Intelligence, Generative AI & Human Creativity
Techne Beyond Monoculture III
Documentary Practice Workshop:
Between Verification & Construction
Towards A Spectral Realism
The Unique:
Individualism, Egoism, Anarchy
Topological And Metabolic Approaches to Ontogenesis
AI And the Cybernetic Lifeworld
Post-Medieval Derangements V3.0
The Well-worn Knot:
How Gilles Châtelet thinks about the Formal
Lethe:
Impressions of forgetfulness & concealment
2022
Geometry of ThoughtFrom Music & Cosmicity to Sound & Interiority
Rule-governed Games in Analytic & Continental Tradition
Poetic & Cinematic Evil
Elemental Ethnography:
Encounters with Sensorial Analytics
Variations on the Great Refusal
The Ape & the Sea:
The Fragmented Legacy of Freud at the Dawn of Psychoanalysis
Signs, Designs and Sovereignty
Learning How to Die:
Socratic Discipline & the Philosophical Life
Analytic Marxism & the Pittsburgh School
Ruining the Vibe:
Resonance and Its Discontents
Anthropocene Design:
Infrastructure, Imagination & Experimentation at the ‘End’
Daemon & Discord:
Anatomy of the DAO
Acid Ecosophy for a Kaleidoscopic Machinic Phylum
From Blind Obedience to Normative Freedom
The Great Game:
Writings of a Lost Avant-Garde
The Vicious Transparency of Time
The Phoenix:
Reconfiguring Nature
Technē beyond Monoculture
Deleuze on Control & Resistance
Groundless:
An Introduction to Vilém Flusser
Human Nature & the Technical Object, Reading Simondon
Real Abstraction & The Myths of the Given:
On Post-Sellarsian Marxism
Studio Three:
Cosmological Brain
Documentary Practices:
Between Verification & Reality Creation
Bernard Stiegler’s Thought on Technics
2021
Bayesian Reasoning:A New Science of Knowledge
Neomadness, Studies of Dream and Derangement
Coemergence, Contemporary Criticism & Eastern Praxis
Programmed Ontologies, How to Code a World
Studio One:
World Post Planetary Universal Design
Charismatic Image
Restructuring Enlightenment:
From Carnap’s Aufbau to Conceptual Engineering
Abstraction, Paranoia, Transcendental Philosophy, and the Limits of Thought
Philosophical Topology & Planetary Politics
Cybernetics and Psychology in Sellars’ Scientific Image of Mind
Capital & Power
Myth of the Master:
Philosophy of the Unstoppable
Starting With Plants:
A Philosophy of Vegetal Life
Atmospheres:
From Gestural Ecologies to Non-Standard and Planetary Cognition
Humanism & Its Discontents
From Alienation from Above to Alienation from Below
On Kant’s Opus Postumum
Introduction to Future Theories of Intelligence
Material Interfaces:
Synthesizing Bodies Between Matter and Information
The Memeing of Mark Fisher:
Art Production as Acid Communist Strategy
The Reality of Structure:
Structural Realism and Structuralism in Contemporary Philosophy
Capital:
Form or Flow?
What Now? Contemporary Art & the Post-Pandemic Conditions
The Great Unlearning:
From Inferential Art to Aesthetic Inferentialism
The Meaning of the Subject
Studio Two:
Cosmos
2020
Artistic Methodology:from Research to Praxis
Deception Theory:
Movements of the Liar
Ghost in the War Machine:
Martial Life in the Informational Episteme
Transformations of Dialectic:
Idealism, Materialism, Recursivity
The Problem of Narrative:
Visual Arts
Modern Monetary Theory:
The Sixteenth Century Challenge
Essay Events
Objects in the Realm of Shadows
Guarding the Border:
On the technological threshold of human and unhuman
On the Practical Necessity of Having Demons
Machines Before the Machines:
A Prehistory of Cybernetics
Analytics & Continentals:
Historical Fragments of a War
O MAPa e a desterritorialidade:
do CCRU ao Xenofeminismo
A Paradigm Shift:
Curating & Exhibition Making in the Age of Continuous Mediation
Night, Movements of the After Dark
Pedagogy of Captivating Technologies
The Commons = X:
Inventing The Non-Given Commons
Introduction to Algorithmic Literacy
On Sound:
Unsound
The Nature of the Subject & the Subject of Nature
The Enigma of Carnap’s Aufbau:
Logical intertwinement of experience and knowledge
From Worldmaking to Lifeforming I
Navigating the Lost Scales
Studio One:
World Post Planetary Universal Design
Restructuring Enlightenment:
From Carnap’s Aufbau to Conceptual Engineering
Cybernetics and Psychology in Sellars’ Scientific Image of Mind
Thinking Between Worlds and Forms of Life:
On Orientations of Thought and their Consequences
Turbid Media:
Fog, Froth and Foam in the Age of the Device
AI as Disinformation Engine:
Exploring the Deep Fake/State
2019
The Return to the Abyss & The Revenge of ReasonGenerative Structures:
Reasons of Being & Reasons of Knowing
Curatorial Expediency & Algorithmic Organization of Exhibitions
On the Riddles of Ontology:
The intersections of art & experience
One Thousand & One Nights and A Handful of Plateaus
Pattern Recollection:
Modalities of Contemporary Thought Processes
Responsibility & Existential Risk
Architecture After the Internet
Formalizing the Subject:
Dialectics & Cybernetics in Cahiers Pour L’Analyse & CCRU
Computation & The Real
Introduction to Narratology:
Narratives & the Question of Subjectivities
Towards a Panoptic View of Art History
Postcolonial Theory as Cinematic Fantasy
The Man Who Knew Nothing:
Between Neurodiversity & Practical Schizophrenia
Queerness & Labor
Future of Intelligence in the Age of Intellectual Scarcity
Images of Reason:
Scientific Method in Contemporary Culture
Methodologies of Artistic Practice Now
From Leibniz to Google:
Five Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence
2018
Introduction to Forensic AudioPhenomenological Intersections in Aesthetics
Of the Tautological Universe of Value Production
Disassembling the Trust Machine:
An introduction to a political economy of blockchain
Methodologies of Artistic Practice Today
Theories of Knowledge in the Age of Planetary Computation
The Reality of the Derivatives Market
Worldmakings & Worldendings:
An Alternative Geology of The World
Layers of Generativity:
Axial Age, Modernity, Technological Civilization, (Reconstructing Futures II)
Philosophical Invention & the Silence of the Future
For and Against the Avant-Garde:
The Genealogy of an Argument
Artificial Neurosis:
AI & Psychopathology
Thinking, Sensing, Being:
Epistemology & Ontology in the 21st Century
Social Networks:
From Metaphor to Diagram to Machine
Improbable Noise:
A Multilevel Account of Randomness and Unpredictability
Simondon & Technology
Art & Meaning I:
Mood, Vibe, System, and Data Geometry
Marx & Philosophy I & II
Theory & Object:
Philosophy of Science in the twentieth century, from Carnap to Grünbaum
Compression:
A philosophical and technical Introduction
Simulating the World & Remodeling Philosophy:
Models, Diagrams and Toys
Introduction to African Political & Aesthetic Philosophies
2017
Beyond Price & Profit:Art, Finance & the Question of Value
Archeology of Abstraction (Reconstructing Futures I)
Kant’s Circle of Revenge:
A close encounter with Critique of Pure Reason
Collapse & Reconfiguration I & II:
Introduction to Alt-Woke Praxis
Uncurated:
Theory & method for a non-curatorial exhibition practice
Structuralism, Poststructuralism & the Pure Form of the Subject
Ontologies of the Fold:
Leibniz, Simondon & Deleuze
Difference & Repetition for the 21st Century
Infrastructural Intelligence:
Cryptology & the History of Technology
Mathematics of Inhuman Existentialism
Integrative Objects II:
Art Practice & Philo-Fiction under Collective Intimacy
Plato, a Reality Game in Four Levels
Post-Philosophy II:
Marx, Laruelle, Irigaray and Braidotti
Project for a Post-Monetary Economy
The Concept of Acceleration:
The 21st Century Critique of Political Economy
The Future Is Unmanned:
Technologies for Corrupt Feminisms
Promethean Democracy:
Speculative Governance on a Planetary Scale
2016
Contemporary Readings of HegelThe Stack to Come:
Synthetic Sensing/ Intelligence (and The New Normal)
Maths & Ideas:
From Antiquity to Renaissance
Complexity and Computation:
An Introduction to Measures, Paradigms and Programs
Anti-Oedipus:
Deleuze & Guattari Beyond the State
Outer Edges:
21st Century Spatial Metapolitics
Qwernomics:
Path Dependency & Semiotic Fatality
Integrative Objects:
The invention of Philo-Fiction
Curatorial Practice III:
Curating the Future Now!
Thinking Fictions I:
Topias & Invention
Temperature Check:
The Making of a Biennial Where Art is Centre-Stage
Post-Philosophy:
Marx, Laruelle & the Possibility of New Metaphysics
Mediating Freedom:
From Human Rights to Contemporary Art
The Limits of 21st Century Capitalism
Remediating Political Theory / Repoliticizing Media Theory
2015
New Rationalism:The Shape of Systems to Come | Reason & Time
Curatorial Practice II:
Curating the Future
Building the Commune:
Insurgent Government, Communal State
Anthropol:
The Future of Human Insecurity
Artifice & Alienation:
SF Cinema as Critical Political Thought
Global Politics of the Anthropocene
Entangled Legacies:
Institutional Collections and Curatorial-Editorial Agency
Capital as Computation & Cognition:
From Babbage’s Factory to Google’s Algorithmic Governance
Grothendieck & A Theory of Contemporary Transgression
Reintroduction to Metaphysics II:
Method & Practice
The Horror of Security:
Contemporary Geopolitics in a Permanent Beta Phase
Bitcoin and Philosophy
Plateau Infini:
Capitalism & Schizophrenia in the 21st Century
Philosophy as System:
An Introduction to German Idealism
Hyperstition & The New Weird II:
Fictional Worlds & Possible Futures
Internet as a Platform, Programming as a Medium
Aesthetics of the Generic & Non-Event
The Anarchy of Objects II:
Onto-Cartography
Art and its Reason(s):
Retooling the Horizons of Practice
Posthuman Life I:
Humanism Unbound
Cut of the Real:
Non-Philosophy & the Question of Subjectivity
Artist Writing / Artistic Production:
The Perspective of Perspective (A World Mediated by a Faulty Image of the World)
Marx & Technology
2014
#Accelerate I:The Accelerationist Reader
Emergency Government:
The Political Theory of Decisionism
Reintroduction to Metaphysics I:
The Speculative Return
Philosophy and Mathematics I:
Consequences of Diagonalization
The Anarchy of Objects I:
Objects and Regimes of Attraction
Hyperstition & The New Weird I:
Entities and Worlds/Genres and Climates
Towards Xenofeminism:
Gender, Technology, and Reason in the 21st Century
#Accelerate II:
The Accelerationist Reader
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