Networkologies

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Some Thoughts on Network Ethics

• June 30, 2010 • 2 Comments

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Tags: networkology, object-oriented philosophy, politics, spinoza, the stoics

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“Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age” (Zer0 Books, Fall 2014)
Bio: Christopher Vitale
Dowload Supplemental Texts to “Networkologies: A Philosophy of Networks for a Hyperconnected Age – A Manifesto”
Precursor Article to “Networkologies”: “On The Metaphysics and Physics of the Networkological Endeavor” published in ‘Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Realism’
Original Networkologies Manifesto from 2009 (Ver 1.0)
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Welcome to Networkologies

Recent Blog Posts:

Month-long Zalamea Seminar starts this Week in NYC at Pratt Manhattan
What is Philosophy? A Networkological Spin On the Age Old Question “Why”?
Continental vs. Analytic Philosophy: Rethinking the Debate, Relativism, Objectivity, and Politics
Pictures from Book Talk “What Are Networkologies?” At Unnameable Books, in Brooklyn, NY.
On an Ungrounded Ooze: Dark Vitalism, Deleuze, and Ben Woodard’s Philosophy of Radical Disgust, Decay, and Dissolution

Mini-Essays: Networks and Networkologies

Nettime: The Philosophy, Science, and Culture of Networked Temporality
On the Gods in Google: What Artificial Intelligence Can Tell Us About Potential Rebirths of the Sacred in Today’s Networked Age
On Some Terms in Network Ethics: Robustness, Metaleptics, and Fundamental Maxim
On Descriptive Philosophy, Or Beyond the Linguistic Turn, and Philosophies of Certainty: A Networkological Relational Approach
Beyond Grasping: On Matrix, or a Networkologial Approach to the Context Beyond Context
What does it Mean to Exist? A Thought in One (Complex, Networkological) Paragraph
The Democracy of Matter, Part I: Emergence
The Democracy of Matter, Part II: Complexity
On Extimacy: A Recent Excerpt from the Manifesto Manuscript
Networks, Politics, and Fitness Landscapes: The Citizens United Supreme Court Decision
Networks, Crises, Political Change: The BP Oil Spill
Towards a Networked Unconscious: Lacan, Deleuze, and Fairbairn, from Film Theory to Contemporary Cognitive Science
More on Transvidual Subjectivity: Quasi-Life from ‘The Human Mic’ to Facebook
Parameters: A Networkological Glossary
Manifoldness: Spacetime as Hypernetwork with Leibniz, Whitehead, and Riemann
Resonance Machines: From Reflection to Refraction in Protest Movements, Carbon Credit Markets, and Radio Stations

Mini-Essays: Western Philosophy

On Description, Or Beyond the Linguistic Turn, and Philosophies of Certainty: A Networkological, Relational Approach
Reading ‘The History of Philosophy’ Symptomatically, Or, Thoughts on a Networkological Historiography of Philosophy
Post-Foundational Mathematics as (Meta)Gaming
Deleuze as Networkologist: ‘The Logic of Sense’ and the Networkology of Events
Nettime: The Philosophy, Science, and Culture of Networked Temporality
Manifoldness: Spacetime as Hypernetwork with Leibniz, Whitehead, and Riemann
The Philosophy of the Future: Plotinus as Dynamic Set Theorist of the Virtual?!
Object-Oriented Philosophy and Networkological Relationalism
Continental vs. Analytic Philosophy: Rethinking the Debate, Relativism, Objectivity, and Politics
Philosopher as Spiritual Physician? Pierre Hadot, Ancient Greek Philosophy, and Relational Psychotherapy
Philosophical Therapeautics: Pierre Hadot and Ancient Philosophy as Way of Life in Stoicism and Epicureanism
Relations or Terms? Yes, Please! Fuzzy Set Theory and Manuel DeLanda’s A New Theory of Society
Philosophy as/beyond Cinema: Beyond ‘Picture-Thinking’ in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’
On Decisions: Whitehead, Privacy, Complexity
Math as Semiotic: Mediation, Mathemes, and Politics
On an Ungrounded Ooze: Dark Vitalism, Deleuze, and Ben Woodard’s Philosophy of Radical Disgust, Decay, and Dissolution
Curving Spacetime Inside the Human Brain: Holographs, Spacetime Curvature, and Quantum Intensivity
World as Medium: Or, How Self-Differing Substance makes strange bedfellows of Whitehead, Hegel, and Deleuze
Fractals and Time: Not as Fluffy As You Think . . ., Part 1
Fractals and Time, Part 2: Spacetime Smearing and Crystalline Time
Fractals and Time, Part 3: Unfolding, Timeless Time, and Holography
Fractals and Time, Part 4: Light, Matter, and Memory
Mediology at the Quantum Scale: Quantum Physics and Object-Oriented Onticology
On Symbolic Efficacy and Algorithmic Capture
More on Apparatus of Capture: Carving the World at the Seams with the Semiotics of Hjelmslev and Uexkuell
Thoughts on the Ethics of Micro and Macro Subjectivity
Understanding the History of Post-Structuralism via Vanishing Mediators and Anxieties of Influence, Part I: From Brunschvicg to Bachelard, and a detour via the Jazz Age
How Hermes Trismegistus Warped the History of Philosophy, Or Why Nobody Reads Plotinus Today
Algorithmicity, Islamic Art, and Virtual Philosophy: Thoughts on Laura Marks’ ‘Enfoldment and Infinity”
Peeling the Fuzzy Onion: On Philosophizing, Denial, and Anosognosia
Learning From Egypt: Twelve Theses towards a Theory of Political Change
Nondualism and Semiotics: Philosophy of Language Between East and West
Philosophy and Education: Thoughts on Teaching Learning

Mini-Essays: Full Online Guide to Reading Deleuze’s Cinema Books

Guide to The Movement-Image, Part I: Worldslicing, or from the Movement-Image to the Affection-Image
Guide to The Movement-Image, Part II: From the Affect-Image to the Relation-Image
Guide to The Time-Image, Part I: From Time-Images to Image Crystals
Guide to The Time-Image, Part II: From Image Crystals to the Powers of the False
Guide to the Time-Image, Part III: Cinema of Thought, Reading, and Political Worldmaking
Final Thoughts on the Cinema Books: Reareading the World (and Film) as a Layered Network of Images and Signs
Deleuze as Logician of the Virtual: Reading the Cinema Books off Hegel’s ‘Logic’
Applying Deleuze’s Cinema Books: On Hyalo-Signs and Crystal Images

Mini-Essays: Hegel

Why Hegel Should Matter for Speculative Realists (Despite What Deleuze Thinks!)
Deleuzo-Hegelianism?!: A Conceptual Experiment, via Jean Hyppolite
Why Do We Fear Hegel So Much? Thinking Praxis in the Age of the World-System, or Hegel’s Vanishing Ladder
The Great Anxiety of Influence of Post-Structuralism: Jean Hyppolite’s Book on Hegel “Logic and Existence” (1952) as Vanishing Mediator
Philosophy as Cinema: Beyond Picture-Thinking in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’
Ars Combinatoria: Or, Hegel’s Logic as Chronotope for the Digital Age
Deleuze as Logician of the Virtual: Reading the Cinema Books off Hegel’s ‘Logic’
Pinkard’s biography of Hegel: Bourgeosie Functionary or Revolutionary?

Mini-Essays: Buddhist and Non-Western Philosophy

Buddhism Beyond Buddhism: Tibetan Buddhism as Virtual Praxis for the Networked Age
Non-Dualism and Semiotics: Philosophy of Language Between East and West
Wrestling with the World in Virtual Reality: A Deleuzian, Anti-Essentialist, Relational Reading of Classical Buddhism as the Radical Practice of Freedom and Desire
Buddhism as Practice of Desire: On Non-Dualism and Nirvana
The Golden Lion and Indra’s Net: Huayen Buddhism and the Refractive Embryo of Liberation Within the Fabric of the World
Emerging: Or, Why Buddhist Dharma is Like Identification With the Deleuzian Virtual In and Through the Lacanian Object a . . .
Knowing your Buddhisms: Distinguishing the Vehicles of Therevada, Mahayana, Vajrayana, and Beyond…
A Primer on Advaita Vedanta, or Non-Dualist Hinduism: Or, Why Atman is Brahman, And Why We Should Care
A Brief Map of Indic Thought: Knowing Tantra from Krishna and Vedanta and Beyond
Fana’: Sufism’s Notion of Self-Annihilation, or Or How Rumi Can Explain Why Nirvana is Samsara in Mahayana Buddhism
The Metaphysics of Refraction in Sufi Philosophy: Ibn Arabi, Suhrawadri, and Mulla Sadra Shirazi
Algorithmicity, Islamic Art, and Virtual Philosophy: Thoughts on Laura Marks’ ‘Enfoldment and Infinity’
The Classical Islamic World as Vanishing Mediator of ‘the West’
Towards a Networkological History of Philosophy: Spinoza and Leibniz, and their Roots in the Islamic Philosophical Tradition

Mini-Essays: Media Studies, Film, and Visual Culture

Surfing the Crystal: Visual Democracy and New Media
Ars Combinatoria: Hegel’s Logic as a Chronotope for the Digital Age, Or, the Video-Gamed Image of Time
“Pandorum” (2009): Space-Horror Film Capitalism and the Fear of a Cannibal Planet
Book Review: “Post-Cinematic Affect,” by Steven Shaviro, Zer0 Books, 2010.
“Battlestar Galactica” (Season 1, 2005): Refractive Cloning and Branching Temporal Networks, Part One
Collapsing the Fuzzy Wave: Rian Johnson’s “Looper” (2012), Quantum Logics, and the Structure of Time Travel Films
The Neo-Phallic Mother, Capitalism, and Takashi Miike’s “Audition” (1999)
My List of 200 Great Films You Need to See, and Why
A New Queered Gaze?: Reading “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” as Symptom of a Shift in the Male Gaze
Philosophy as Cinema: Beyond Picture-Thinking in Hegel’s ‘Phenomenology of Spirit’
Towards a Cinema of Affects: A Manifesto, Part I – From Film-World to Film-Art
Towards a Cinema of Affects: A Manifesto, Part II – Characters, Objects, Plots, Settings
Algorithmicity, Islamic Art, and Virtual Philosophy: Thoughts on Laura Marks’ ‘Enfoldment and Infinity”:
Guilty Pleasure: Meta-Thoughts on Genre and HBO’s ‘Game of Thrones’

Mini-Essays: Gender, Sexuality, Race, Politics

Porn Studies, Kink Studies, and the Politics of the Erotic Imaginary, Part I: From Linda Williams to Kink.com
A Mutation of the ‘Human Mic’ as a Radical New Type of Political Subjectivity
A New Queered Gaze?: Reading “Spartacus: Blood and Sand” as Symptom of a Shift in the Male Gaze
Cross-Activism: Occupy Wall Street Becomes Occupy our Homes, Addresses the Racialization of Poverty, and Ressurects the Legacy of May ’68
The ‘Economy Gods’ Don’t Exist: Reflections on Spain, why “America Is Not Broke”, and our Manufactured Economic Crisis of the Imaginary
The Slope of Violence and the Implied Gaze: UC Davis Pepper Spray Incident, Army Killings of Protesters in Egypt, and Recognizing Systems that Encourage Violence
Learning from Egypt: Twelve Theses towards a Theory of Political Change
Thoughts on Gay Pride, Or Why Lady Gaga is Ruining ‘Us’
Sexuality: A Euro-American Export
Guatemala and Media Theory/Strategy
Queer Mediations: Thoughts on Queer Media Theory
White Privilege and the Politics of the Midnight Snack

Mini-Essays: Personal, Misc.

My List of 200 Great Films You Need to See, and Why
Philosophy and Education: Thoughts on Teaching Learning
My List of Great of Non-Fiction Books: Learn About Everything . . .
Teach Yourself to Read Advanced Math and Science Like a Foreign Language
Some Advice on Getting a Lot of Academic/Dissertation Writing Done
How Do I Improve My Paper Writing? A Guide to Writing for Students
To my Students: On that annoying year after you graduate college . . .
My Philosophical Autobiography
On Being in Several Rush and Pink Floyd Cover Bands

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