Abstract Traditional modes of system representation as dynamical systems, involving fixed sets of states together with imposed dynamical laws, pertain only to a meagre subclass of natural systems. This reductionistic paradigm leaves no room for final causes; constrained thus are the simple systems. Members of their complementary collection, natural systems having mathematical models that are not dynamical systems, are the…

Originally posted on Questing for the Mindnut: In his interrogation of disciplinary society in Discipline & Punish, Michel Foucault comments on the common Western belief that, “Every detail is important since, in the sight of God, no immensity is greater than a detail” (Foucault, 1977, 140). This notion of the eye of God, the eye…

Listen to the show here “On today’s show, guest host Chali Pittman examines the magical world of neon signs, with three guests. Luis de Miranda is a philosopher and author of Being and Neonness, a new cultural history of neon that will be published by MIT Press next month. He’s an international philosopher whose thinking centers…

Luis de Miranda  Emile Chabal, Global Intellectual History ABSTRACT In this essay, we sketch out a method, histosophy, which makes possible the study of intellectual history and conceptual genealogy both in depth and over long periods of time. Histosophy uses digital tools to survey ‘large issues within small compasses.’ A genealogy of signifiers, it considers metonymic parts of a problem…

Abstract International Society of Psychoanalysis & Philosophy Conference Stockholm May 2-4 2019 Luis de Miranda, Ph.D., Örebro University Anna Cabak Rédei, Ph.D., Lund University   Lacan and The Truth of Capitalism   Analyses of social phenomena such as capitalism are often connected to Marx directly, but in order to question the “truth of capitalism”, we…

Luis de Miranda, PhD (University of Edinburgh), is a philosopher and historian of ideas who has carried out research into anthrobotics, digital cultures and how technology is enmeshed with our everyday life. He is the author of several fiction as well as non-fiction books, for example L’Art d’être libres au temps des automates (‘The Art of Freedom in the…

Anticipatory AI, a talk by Dr Michael Rovatsos, Director of the Bayes Center at the University of Edinburgh 23 May 2019, 13h – Bio – Forum – Örebro University – CREA Seminar, funded by RJ CREA is a part of Örebro University’s larger effort to promote multidisciplinary research in AI   “As AI strives to…

What is the future when anticipated? Massumi (2007) calls it an “indeterminate potentiality”. We might add, in line with the spirit of process philosophies (Bergson, 1911; Whitehead, 1929) that the Real that is not yet real is a Creal, a creative process of potential actualizations (de Miranda, 2017). Usually, when accounts of the future are…