[...]r what conditions we could arrive at a free ="trms">relation to ="trms">technology='qstn'>?”
="ppl">Heidegger problem with addicted ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*ad="trms">diction is content with what is merely available='strcls'>* (it never surpasses this limit) ='lgc'>=/= ="trms">anxiety
="ppl">Avital focus on the ='strcls'>*chemical prosthesis='strcls'>*
in war, ="trms">drugs become another piece of ="trms">="trms">equipment ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> taking the pill='lgc'>: ="trms">technologizing oneself into the war machine
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heroin comes from heroisch
="trms">technically calibrated culture
="trms">drug ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">hallucinated exteriority
electronic/="trms">drug culture ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (="ppl">Nancy ='lgc'>+ ="ppl">Blanchot's) désœuvrement='lgc'>: without an end or program, an unworking that nonetheless occurs
how the ='strcls'>*prosthetic subject='strcls'>* is constituted
(Junger's ="trms">drug, ="ppl">Heidegger's tech, ="ppl">Benjamin's hashish, de Quincey's opium, Duras's alcoholizations='lgc'>:) a saturated text, pushing beyond the ="trms">materiality of the ="trms">book though not into any ideality
the ="trms"nttrm="righ,rigo,riga,rigi,trig,rign">right to ="trms">drugs ='lgc'>+ the supplementary ="trms">interiority that they produce
there has never been a war on ="trms">drugs that is not carried by another type of ="trms">drug (="trms">religion, patriotism, oil, TV)
="trms">history of narcotica ='lgc'>~= ="trms">history of culture
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]intoxication='lgc'>: (names) a ="trms">method of mental labor that is ="trms">responsible for making phantoms appear ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> mnemonic ="trms">apparatus
“you have something in you that must be killed” ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> ambivalent stimulant/tranquilizer
body proper regains its corruptible organic status
self-medication and vitamins become the occupation of every singularity
="trms">drugs explore fractal ="trms">interiorities (='lgc'>=/= seeking an exterior transcendental dimension)
r="trms">enunciation چشم پوشی، ترک، کناره گیری، قطع علاقه
(addict='lgc'> = nonrenouncer)
virtual reality
cyberprojections
(Dasein's) dependency='lgc'>: a state in which ="trms">anxiety is still bound
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='strcls'>*="trms">mimetic poisoning='strcls'>* (of pharma="trms">codependency as="trms">sociated with ="trms">literature, as sedative, as cure, as escape, etc.) ='lgc'>--='qstn'>?='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">relationship to law
(our French ="trms">heritage ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Flaubert='lgc'>: “a thinker should have neither ="trms">religion nor fatherland nor even any ="trms">social conviction”) ='strcls'>*thinking='lgc'> = radically rupturing='strcls'>*
="trms">drugs forced decision upon the subject ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> de Quincey
opium='lgc'>: the transparency upon which one could review the ="trms">internal conflict of freedom (='lgc'>+ encounters the ="trms">abyss of destructive jouissance)
war against pain
higher forms of ="trms">drug
='strcls'>*(like any good parasite) ="trms">drugs ="trms">travel both inside and out of the boundaries of a ="trms">narcissistically defended politics='strcls'>* ='lgc'>==producing='lgc'>='lgc'>==> a lexicon of body control and a private property of self
="trms">drug's virtual and fugitive patterns
they have a secret ="trms">communications ="trms">network with the ="trms">internalized order
Madame Bovary='lgc'> = clinic of phantasms
everything said about ="trms">technology can be applied to ="trms">drugs='lgc'>: acceleration, speed, inertia, the third ="trms">interval
="trms">drug/medicine ='lgc'>='lgc'>==>
="lsts lst1">•deaden the pain
="lsts lst1">•separate from a poisonous maternal flux
...
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinated plenitude
="lsts lst1">•pure ="trms">communication ='lgc'>~= transcendental telepathy
(have in mind that) any substance can function as a ="trms">drug
“It wasn't clear then whether the body was private property or not, whether the ="trms">authorities could legislate zoning ordinances, or whether pleasure and liberty were values freely exercised upon a ="trms">coded body.”
="prgrph">-="ppl">Avital
='mywrk'>my work over the etymology of the signifier ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> moon index
(i shoot up trash ="trms">fiction)
(="ppl">Freud) ='strcls'>*pain is imperious='strcls'>* متکبر
(failing) to meet the requirements of an authentic alterity
(we are) into forgetting and the simulacrum (='lgc'>=/= truth)
="lsts lst1">•="trms">hallucinator='lgc'>: the creature of the simulacrum (par excellence)
(trafficking in) abstract forms of forgetting
the poor
the body-broken
the racially ="trms">hallucinated other
chemical prosthesis (mushroom or plant) ="trms">responds to a fundamental structure
="trms">drug addict ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mystical transport going nowhere
="trms">drug addict offers her body to the production of ="trms">hallucination, vision, or trance
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> going nowhere fast
being exposed to existence='lgc'> = placing one's body in the grips of a temporality that pains ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ad="trms">dictive='lgc'> = artificial, beside oneself
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="trms">drugs ='lgc'>--linked-to='lgc'>='lgc'>--> a mode of departing, to de="trms">socialization ='lgc'>[without the assurance of arriving anywhere='lgc'>] (='lgc'>~= activity of ="trms">writing) ='lgc'>=/= production of real value
...movement of the simulacrum without address (or, in another idiom, without purpose, point)
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="ppl">Nietzsche was the first philosopher who ='lgc'>--="ppl">Avital='lgc'>='lgc'>-->
="lstsrd">1. to think with his body
="lstsrd">2. to put out the call for a supramoral imperative
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we are implicated inscribed dis="trms">articulated and reresignifed by ="trms">technological prosthesis
there is no outside to ="trms">technology
there is no off switch to ="trms">technology
="trms">wonderological tracks of ="trms">technology
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how much ="trms">nature has to change before our descendants cease to be human='qstn'>?
about when in the course of evolution our ="trms">ancestors became human='qstn'>?
(unanswerable good ="trms">questions)
if the human is not the one ="trms">consuming, who is='qstn'>?
="trms">animals ="trms">consume
(numinous ="trms">agentic status of) dead ="trms">consumer
human aspects of ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: learning, decision making, reason, perception, ethics, ="trms">agency, desire and choice ='lgc'>--arise='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ='strcls'>*between humans and intelligent machines='strcls'>*
='lgc'>[='strcls'>*='lgc'>]posthuman='lgc'>: a move that seeks to locate being, or aliveness, or meaning in the not-quite-human-as-we-know-it
(humanist) ="trms">epistemology='lgc'>: how we investigate and describe the ="trms">world
(humanist) ="trms">ontology='lgc'>: how we understand what constitutes life and objecthood
='lgc'>==="ppl">Campbell='lgc'>='lgc'>==> help ="trms">consumer research='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1. expand the range of temporal reference (look into the future of how ="trms">consumption will look like)
='strcls'>**='thdf'>assumption of the future='lgc'>: the future will be a post-="trms">consumption existence='strcls'>**
="lstsrd">2. expand the range of physical reference (ex="trms">traplanetary ="trms">consumption='lgc'>: what the ='strcls'>***="trms">consumption of place='strcls'>*** means; embryonic ="trms">consumption sites='lgc'>: store your ="trms">child's cord blood stem cells)
="lstsrd">3. ="trms">interrogation of the roots of humanism (="trms">social ="trms">sciences)
today='lgc'>:
robotic revolution
bio="trms">technology revolution
='strcls'>*posthuman='lgc'>: ideological account of the future of the human ="trms">species in annexation with info-bio-="trms">technologies ='lgc'>=/= ='strcls'>*posthumanism='lgc'>: (speculative philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material reality) critique of the discourse and ="trms">epistemologies of ='strcls'>*humanism='lgc'>:
="lsts lst1">•belief in progress
="lsts lst1">•="trms">technological mastery over ="trms">nature,
="lsts lst1">•separation of human and ="trms">animal kingdom
="lsts lst1">•therapeutic approach to human behavior
="lsts lst1">•secular approach to ="trms">scientific inquiry
='strcls'>*humanism='lgc'> = ="trms">epistemology='lgc'>: a way of investigating the ="trms">world that is consonant with our human intuition='lgc'>--understand='lgc'>='lgc'>--> life as comprising essentially animate or inanimate, self or other, human or nonhuman='strcls'>** ='lgc'>[='lgc'>=/= set of diverse beliefs='lgc'>]
="trms">horror of surgically implanted biomedical enhancement ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> (persistence of the) inviolability of the body as the seat of identity ='lgc'><='lgc'>-- a classic humanist assumption
posthumanism
="lsts lst1">•speculative philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">material reality
="lsts lst1">•abstract philosophy ='lgc'>+ ="trms">="trms">empirical ="trms">science
="lsts lst1">•ancient ='lgc'>+ futuristic
="lsts lst1">•exotic ='lgc'>+ specialized (telesurgery, a="trms">morphous computing) ='lgc'>+ banal ='lgc'>+ ubiquitous (automobility, eyeglasses)
="lsts lst1">•
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> apocalyptic era (intelligent machine takeover)
='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="trms">ecological ethics (human not the most important form of life on earth)
='strcls'>***attempt to overcome humanness is an age-old human tendency='strcls'>***
what constitutes life
="lsts lst1">•women ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Schiebinger
="lsts lst1">•slaves ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Douzinas
="lsts lst1">•computer viruses ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> Parikka
="lsts lst1">•cellular automata ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">Delanda
="lsts lst1">•bacteria ='lgc'>='lgc'>--> ="ppl">="ppl">Haraway
="lsts lst1">•swarms ='lgc'>='lgc'>-->Thacker
="lsts lst1">•
='strcls'>*brand='lgc'> = living ="trms">system='strcls'>* (='lgc'>='lgc'>--> distinguish themselves from environment, ex="trms"nttrm="cluster,club">clude from it what is not, feedback ="trms">communication with environment, self replicate, evolve, ) ='lgc'>=/= cultural product
='at'>@="frds scrmbld">Femke
(="ppl">Campbell arguing that) the human and the posthuman are (ways to describe the forces that are) al="trms"nttrm="already,spread">ready ="trms">present in the human condition='lgc'>:
="lstsrd">1.
computation of life
mid 19th century weaving ="trms">technologies ='lgc'>='lgc'>==> logic of computation ='lgc'>==="trms">ontology='lgc'>='lgc'>==> “universe='lgc'> = giant computer” ='lgc'>: attempting to uncover what life itself is th[...]