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The Center for Transformative Media (CTM) at Parsons: The New School for Design presents “Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks” a day-long symposium (10am to 6pm) on the relation of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophy to Media Studies, Cybernetics, and the so-called “Digital Humanities” (Human, All too Human?).

“Cyber-Nietzsche: Tunnels, Tightropes, Net-&-Meshworks,” with Joseph NECHVATAL, Eugene THACKER, Babette BABICH, Gary SHAPIRO, Shannon BELL, Dominic PETTMANN, & more.
Saturday, 04/13
10.00am-6.00pm / Room 404
Parsons: The New School for Design
66 West 12th Street, New York, NEW YORK

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Architects, from Gaudi to Frei Otto, have used physical processes as an aid to find forms. Because simulations of evolution are classified as search algorithms in computer science, they have become the latest find-forming device. Renown Deleuzian scholar and philosopher of technology Manuel DeLanda presents his second lecture expanding on ideas from his book Philosophy and Simulation: The Emergence of Synthetic Reason (Continuum / Bloomsbury Publishing). Copies of the book will be available.

Manuel DE LANDA, “Genetic Algorithms in Architecture”
Friday, 12/21
6.00-8.00 pm / Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
540 W 21st St.
New York, NY 10011

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A lecture by Reza Negarestani focused on the possibility of a genuinely modern philosophy of the inhuman in the wake of a disenthralled system of knowledge as an accelerated navigation of concept-spaces. The lecture is drawn on the works of Giuseppe Longo, Lorenzo Magnani, Gilles Chatelet and Alain Berthoz in cognitive sciences, mathematics especially the recent geometrical turn and physics accompanied with introductory commentaries on the exciting works of Gabriel Catren on anarchic constructivism and Benedict Singleton on metis intelligence and a cunning understanding of reason.

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“Abducting the Outside: Modernity and The Culture of Acceleration”
Sunday, 11/18
7.30 pm / Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
New York, New York 10002

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Chimeras are integrated bodies that synthesize incompatible modalities, surpassing their respective particularities without fusing them, finding a common ground, or reducing one to the other. Chimerization, a recent work by Florian Hecker, uses psychoacoustics to compose such creatures from readings of a libretto penned by philosopher and novelist, Reza Negarestani. Expanding on this work, Hecker and Negarestani come together in a live experiment—less a collaboration between philosophy and sound than a synthesis of the two.

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“The Non-Trivial Goat and the Cliffs of the Universal: A Topological Fable on Navigation and Synthesis”
Thursday, 11/15
7.30 pm /Abrons’ Playhouse
466 Grand Street (at Pitt Street)
New York, New York

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Sequence Press and Urbanomic host a lecture by Quentin Meillassoux exploring the thesis of his new book THE NUMBER AND THE SIREN: A DECIPHERMENT OF MALLARMÉ’S COUP DE DÉS. Translated from the French by Robin Mackay, The Number and the Siren is Quentin Meillassoux’s much anticipated second published book. A meticulous literary study, a detective story à la Edgar Allen Poe, a treasure hunt worthy of an adventure novel—such are the registers in which will be deciphered the hidden secrets of a poem like no other. Meillassoux continues his innovative philosophical interrogation of the concepts of chance, contingency, infinity and eternity . . .

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“The Coup de dés, or the Divinization of the Hypothesis”
Sunday, 05/06
11.00 am-6.00 pm / Miguel Abreu Gallery
36 Orchard Street
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