On the Concept of Creal: The Politico-Ethical Horizon of a Creative Absolute Luis de Miranda Published in The Dark Precursor: Deleuze and Artistic Research, edited by Paulo de Assis and Paolo Giudici, Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2017 Process philosophies tend to emphasise the value of continuous creation as the core of their discourse. For Bergson, Whitehead, Deleuze, and…

  The first stage is a disparate assemblage of heterogeneous elements, ready to be captured by the senses. Most of them will be lost, and the more our perspective is realistic, the more perhaps it will miss new information, or crealia. Crealia could be defined as qualia that have not yet been perceived by a…

    DIGITAL HERMENEUTICS: AN OUTLINE Rafael Capurro Published in AI & Society 2010, 35 (1), 35-42. Abstract The purpose of this paper is to give an outline of digital hermeneutics understood as the encounter between hermeneutics and digital technology, particularly the Internet. In the first part, I want to raise the attention of IT…

Every morning the Scenopoetes dentirostris, a bird of the Australian rain forests, cuts leaves, makes them fall to the ground, and turns them over so that the paler internal side contrasts with the earth. In this way it constructs a stage for itself like a ready-made; and directly above, on a creeper or branch, while…

It is said that “data” is the most universal and the emptiest concept. But what if the past is data? What can we do about it? What if every past second is a material bit, a semiotic sign, a symbol in a text that needs — or needs not — to be organized as a…

I have proposed to call anthrobotics the perspective according to which human-machine assemblages are collective bodies that have historically been prior to their parts (see the paper ‘We, Anthrobot’, de Miranda et al, 2016). We are a symbiotic species made of flesh and renewable algorithmic protocols, language being the privileged tool of this dialectic between…