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The Anarchy of Objects I: Objects and Regimes of Attraction | Since the revolutionary work of Immanuel Kant, Continental philosophy has been dominated by the idealist or correlationist turn wherein it is argued that mind structures and constitutes reality. In 20th century Continental philosophy, this correlationist turn has been manifested in the thesis that it is language, signs... |
Hyperstition & The New Weird I: Entities and Worlds/Genres and Climates | The New Weird is a notoriously difficult literary genre to define, as it involves splicing together of fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres - but as Ann and Jeff Vandermeer suggest, The New Weird undermines those genres’ fixed cliches and overtly romanticized world views. Indeed, the genre remains difficult to d... |
Abducting the Future: Strategic Thought & the Logic of Military and Political Inquiry | This Seminar will look at the logic of inquiry in the history of strategic thought, exploring the role of abductive inference and anticipatory practices in key discourses of strategic rationality, with the aim of elucidating their significance for military-political logics of the present. From ancient warfare and Renai... |
Lethe: Impressions of forgetfulness & concealment | Through the works of Kant, Stiegler, Freud, and Lacan, this Seminar will embark on a philosophical trajectory through four discourses that take forgetting and forgetfulness as a theme in a transcendental context.
Session 1: Philosophical modernity and, in particular, the Enlightenment period can and should be read a... |
The Well-worn Knot: How Gilles Châtelet thinks about the Formal | The philosopher Gilles Châtelet is an unfairly unknown thinker and activist. A contemporary of Gilles Deleuze, Châtelet synthesized extensive research in physics, philosophy, politics, and economics in order to develop a philosophy emphasizing formalization as something emerging from the natural while at the same time ... |
Publishing Workshop: Methodologies for Writing & Dissemination | This Workshop presents publishing as a daily practice. Like memes, social media posts and conversations, publishing can take a meaningful role in the hyper circulation of information, if done reflectively, or just be a grain in a pile of sand, if just following the trends. This workshop looks to discern collectively be... |
Metaphysics of Pop: The aesthetic structure of recorded music | Pop music is probably the most impactful art form ever, even if only from a quantitative point of view. No other aesthetic category, movement, or object has ever reached that many people with such dominating force in a planetary scale. However, pop still lacks any serious effort to be understood in its own terms, that ... |
The Draw of the Desert | Nearly fifteen years after the publication of Cyclonopedia, twenty-one years after the English translation of Ibrahim al-Kuni’s Anubis: A Desert Novel, and fifty-eight years since the arrival of Frank Herbert’s Dune, this Seminar brings the logic of the desert in all its political, economic, technological, military and... |
Noise And Social Synthesis I: Reappraising Attali and the political economy of music | The concept of noise has been the subject of a number of recent approaches. One may count amongst them Cecile Malaspina’s An Epistemology of Noise, Mattin’s Social Dissonance, Inigo Wilkins’ forthcoming Irreversible Noise, among many others. Common to these recent approaches is criticality towards the concept of noise ... |
Illusion Chamber: Unreality Laboratory 1 | This Seminar will function as an immersive laboratory that studies 15 varying chambers of illusion: Dream, Nightmare, Mirage, Hallucination, Fantasy, Figment (ghost/shadow), Spell, Simulation, Story, Vision, Rumor, Superstition, Miracle, Game, and Lie.
As we enter an age of virtuality, multiverses, inorganic life, a... |
Philosophy of Thermodynamics | Given the current climate crisis and its connection to energy extraction and consumption, philosophical reflections on scientific concepts such as energy, entropy, and information—each originating from the interrelated fields of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and information theory—have assumed increasing theor... |
Post-Medieval Derangements V3.0 | In this experimental Seminar, we explore a wide range of derangements through texts about mental and spatial practices, strongly influenced by re-consideration of the post-medieval mind and post-medieval spaces as reciprocating mechanisms. The figure of the cornucopia (horn of plenty) will recur axiomatically throughou... |
AI And the Cybernetic Lifeworld | This Seminar proposes that AI and networked technologies more generally are hastening the establishment of a new and greater form of Edmund Husserl's Lifeworld (Lebenswelt) allowing for a radical reformulation of the "we-subjectivity." Presently there is a pervasively false assumption that AIs are and will be discrete ... |
Topological And Metabolic Approaches to Ontogenesis | If asked what the world is made of, we can say it’s made of objects and categories, or we can say it’s made of stuff. This seminar takes the latter proposition, of stuff, substrate, field. But instead of asking what stuff the world is made of, we ask how stuff changes, how things, relations and sense resonate, emerge, ... |
The Unique: Individualism, Egoism, Anarchy | This Seminar will delve into philosophies of anarchism and individualism that transcend or depart from the political and escape both identitarianism and collectivism. What does being individualistic, egoistic, and anarchic mean beyond common parlance? We will explore the existential autonomy of the anarch living outsid... |
Towards A Spectral Realism | Death has always been a cosmo-politically charged, technically challenging, and philosophically salient issue. Concerns with overcoming it involve both taming its dynamics and minimizing its effects. The promise of some form of immortality – for example, through religious practice or trans-humanist projects – has been ... |
Documentary Practice Workshop: Between Verification & Construction | This Workshop introduces the participants to the investigative potential of audiovisual images. Through practical exercises such as spatially situated testimony collection, audiovisual reconstruction of places, and open-source intelligence (OSINT), participants will explore their personal research interests from a nove... |
Techne Beyond Monoculture III | This Seminar consists of a series of discussions with guests from the fields of philosophy, art, media theory and digital humanities, taking aim at the idea that capitalist techno-rationality is the only available paradigm for technology. The use of the Ancient Greek term tékhnē, in the title of this seminar, signals a... |
Prompt-Writing Workshop: Hybrid Intelligence, Generative AI & Human Creativity | In this eight-session workshop split into two modules and featuring Guests who have been experimenting with these AI tools, we work within the emerging field of AI-powered content creation and tap into its potential to augment and enhance human creativity. Oriented toward the hybrid intelligence of the human and the ma... |
Cybernetics in China, an Introduction | Cybernetics, or "control theory" as it is known in Chinese, rose to prominence in the middle of the 20th century as the syncretic philosophical, social, and technical language of feedback systems. While the background of its founding figures in the United States, from Norbert Wiener to Gregory Bateson, are well-studied... |
Open Worlds, Universal Design: Geopolitics of the Multiverse | Across eight lectures with guests, this Seminar invites leading thinkers and designers to present their current work engaging the impact of artificial intelligence and emerging infrastructures [blockchain/cryptocurrency] on 'worldmaking,' with a specific provocation asking what the role of open world and universal desi... |
Archaeology of the Final Decade: System Design in Research & Exhibition-Making | The ideas discussed across four Sessions of this Seminar cover the theoretical, methodological, and formal frameworks for a new form of exhibition-making while considering the ethics and politics of condemned, obscured, and precarious art histories. It grapples with issues pertaining to power, radical democracy, confli... |
The Age of Computational Desire: Towards a New History of Culture in the 2020s | By 2005 “postmodernism” had outlived its usefulness as a theoretical concept for understanding the present time. Instead, others suggested “network culture” and “metamodernism,” as new frameworks to understand a period in which the Internet became central to everyday life, culture, and economy. By 2010, it was clear to... |
Kants Critique of Judgment: Purposiveness, the Beautiful, and the Sublime | For this Seminar, we will read Kant's Critique of the Power of Judgment (1790), also known as the third Critique. Despite Kant's earlier claim to have enumerated, in the Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), all of the universal and necessary principles of the objectivity of objects, the later Critique of the Power of J... |
Learning How to Die: Socratic Discipline & the Philosophical Life | This Seminar further examines the systematic integrity of Socratic thought in its theoretical and practical aspects. After our excursion into the Last Days of Socrates, in which philosophy becomes explicitly defined as the art of learning how to die with ease, the second part of this Seminar confronts key middle and la... |
Notes from Immediate Irreality | Written from a hospital bed on the outskirts of Romania, Max Blecher’s Adventures in Immediate Irreality is a note from another world – one that becomes ours. Although it has taken almost ninety years to reach us, the immediate irreality that the text emerges from and that is intensified through its descriptions remain... |
Money, Desire & the Body: Economic exchange & perversion | Pierre Klossowski’s Living Currency is a dense essay that denounces capitalism as a perverse regime of universal prostitution. As he explains, institutional norms are not substantially different from the rules governing the secret societies of crime described by Sade in his novels. In both cases, money is the condition... |
Hegelian Logic & Analytic Philosophy | It is trivial to say that the rejection of Hegel is foundational to analytic philosophy. According to standards introduced by Russell and Moore, Hegelianism, of which they were at one point acolytes, upheld a form of thoroughgoing Idealism that prevented the possibility of external relations, not only between thought a... |
The Impetus of the Soul: Hume’s Philosophy of Force & Vivacity | David Hume is not merely a footnote to Kant’s awakening from his dogmatic slumber, or for that matter, critical philosophy in its incandescent glory. He is first and foremost the trademark name for that unbridled worry and anxiety that philosophy subtly administers to the deepest recesses of any soul accustomed to its ... |
Techne beyond Monoculture Part Two | This Seminar addresses an aspect of the critique of technology that tends to conflate what is derogatively called techno-scientific rationality with the rationality of capitalism. Given the indispensable role of technology in addressing climate change, and its intrinsic relation to the natural and human sciences, this ... |
Exuberance & Extinction: On Why Anything Matters | Any account of value, or why we should live one way rather than another, must face the challenge posed by the possibility of extinction. Let us consider the possibility that at some point in the far future, the universe will come to an end, taking intelligent life and all its achievements with it, leaving nothing at al... |
The Child's Imagination: Studies of Cinematic Fantasy | This Seminar explores the strange contours of the child's imagination and its relation to the fantastical. How does childish fantasy entertain a mode of pretending that is neither pure dream nor nightmare but rather something more exotically dangerous than both? To answer this, we will track the spaces and characters w... |
Writing the Impossible Object | Writing the Impossible Object is a three-credit Workshop Seminar focusing on the creation and writing of theory, fiction, and theory-fiction. Aided by our Guest Speakers, we will chart a novel path through entangled canons of writing from and about ideas: bodies of writing in which theoretical and imaginative forms col... |
Groundless: An Introduction to Vilém Flusser | The Czech-Brazilian philosopher Vilém Flusser is now mostly known as a media theorist and techno-futurologist, due to a disproportionate academic interest by media theorists in his later works. However, these later works, originally written in German, in the 1980s, seldom capture essential aspects of Flusser's thought,... |
Variations on the Great Refusal | In this Seminar, we will put our finger on the pulse of the crepuscular aesthetics of our times. What are the vital stats of our imaginative powers of contestation in 2021? How do disenchantment and despair feed into contemporary variations on the theme of the Great Refusal? How does the speculative dimension of aesthe... |
Bernard Stiegler's Thought on Technics | The twentieth century witnessed an upsurge of European philosophical thought on technics, addressing the domains of skills, tools, instruments, and machines as the scientific meta-discourse on technology. Among the array of perspectives, the work of late French philosopher Bernard Stiegler stands out as one of the most... |
Documentary Practices: Between Verification & Reality Creation | We all carry cameras with us all the time, everywhere. This is why the way the narration of global events has changed radically in the last ten years. The documentation of events such as social outbursts in Colombia, Chile, Argentina, and Hong Kong, show us the impact that cell phone video and photography have had on d... |
Real Abstraction & The Myths of the Given: On Post-Sellarsian Marxism | There's been recently an interest in the possible connections between Wilfred Sellars and his heirs from the Pittsburgh school and Marx and the Marxist tradition. This Seminar contributes to this discussion by tackling the issue of real abstractions in the Marxian framework and the Sellarsian problem of the critique of... |
Technē beyond Monoculture | This Seminar offers multiple lines of inquiry, addressing a commonplace whereby the crafts are frequently presented as uniquely nurturing and preserving local and even national cultural individuality, in contrast with the monoculture brought about by the standardization of modern global capitalist technologies. It ques... |
Deleuze on Control & Resistance | In "Postscript on Control Societies," Deleuze announces the rise of a new social organization rooted in a mutation of capitalism. While the previous phase was characterized by the subjection of humans to motorized machines, the new one is marked by the appearance of a third type of machines: cybernetics and information... |
Human Nature & the Technical Object, Reading Simondon | The question of man’s place in nature today presents itself in the stark opposition between nature and technology. Locked in the end-game of an asymmetrical antagonism, technology is seen as threatening the viability of biodiversity on earth, raising dystopian visions of the obliteration of human life on earth and, con... |
The Phoenix: Reconfiguring Nature | For millennia now, humanity has been implicitly conceiving of nature as a phoenix, understanding its cyclical regeneration as a sign of its infinite capacity for rebirth from the ashes of its destruction. Hoping that such a dynamic would continue indefinitely, we keep literally burning the world down while awaiting its... |
The Vicious Transparency of Time | This 2-Credit Seminar is about a single tentative thesis: time-consciousness is the purest form of the unconscious. Building on the materials provided in Negarestani's previous SeminarThe Ape and the Sea: The Fragmented Legacy of Freud at the Dawn of Psychoanalysis,this Seminar examines time-consciousness as the basis ... |
The Great Game: Writings of a Lost Avant-Garde | From 1928-1932 in Reims, France, four obscure youth formed a secret society devoted to exploring the outer boundaries of the universal. Such was the genesis of an association later known as The Great Game (Le Grand Jeu), an inner circle whose experiments with drug visions, near-death experiences, and anesthesia include... |
Reintroduction to Metaphysics I: The Speculative Return | The end of metaphysics was a dominant theme in early 20th century philosophy. Even though the Western philosophical tradition sundered in two, one of the few things its analytic and continental halves seemed to agree upon was that the age of metaphysics was over, either because physics had finally usurped it or because... |
Anthropocene Design: Infrastructure, Imagination & Experimentation at the ‘End’ | The Anthropocene, our era of climatic and metaphysical upheaval, has outmodeed or rendered innefective most established modes of living, governing, and thinking. Exploring the Anthropocene as a time of both crisis and possibility, this Seminar examines the political, imaginal, and infrastructural dimensions of the expe... |
Geometry of Thought | This course examines the central role that the idea of geometry has played in Western philosophy with the intent of critically examining the legacy of that idea for our thinking today. Since the Greeks, philosophers have often seen geometry as the highest form of knowledge towards which all others should strive, with t... |
Studio Three: Cosmological Brain | This Research Studio approaches its mandate to create and cultivate a cosmological brain. We ask: what are the sociopolitical genetics, the pedagogies of the general economy, and the environmental controls necessary to build a cosmopolitically inclined brain? What are the infrastructural captures of attention currently... |
Signs, Designs and Sovereignty | This seminar considers the problem of political order as a matter of constitutional design, or as a question of the ordering of signs in time and space and across social difference. Special attention will be paid to the way that sovereignty, in the Western philosophical tradition, is understood as emerging as a symptom... |
Poetic & Cinematic Evil | This Seminar explores Evil as a complex poetic and cinematic force. Accordingly, we will trace the dark experiments of four specific poets—Arthur Rimbaud, Anna Akhmatova, Georg Trakl, and Ahmad Shamlu—alongside four selected films as they traverse the following conceptual territories: decadence, cruelty, derangement, a... |
Ruining the Vibe: Resonance and Its Discontents | In this Seminar we will pick up a thread that emerged during a recent international conference, Ecouter, Ecrire la Résonance: Entre Musique et Philosophie, Lyon (17-19 Nov 2021). During this conference, philosophers, composers, musicians, musicologists, and scientists discussed the concepts and phenomena related to the... |
From Music & Cosmicity to Sound & Interiority | On the 25th of February, 2019, Tom Goskar published the first article of a series asking this question: what is curating sound? The article tackled the practices and difficulties of curating sound today, addressing the scarcity of research on that specific topic. And scarce it is: the Sound Art Curating Conference took... |
The Ape & the Sea: The Fragmented Legacy of Freud at the Dawn of Psychoanalysis | Year 1920: Freud has published Beyond the Pleasure Principle and in the vein of Copernicus, Newton and Darwin before him, he has disturbed the peace of this world in yet another way. But this new perturbation seems to be even more troubling in that it has agitated the alleged perpetual peace of our given world at a dee... |
Rule-governed Games in Analytic & Continental Tradition | The analogy between language and the game of chess appears for the first time in the two initiators of the linguist turn: Ferdinand de Saussure and Ludwig Wittgenstein, who proposed it independently. However, the father of structuralism and the father of analytic philosophy expressed quite different views on the simila... |
From Blind Obedience to Normative Freedom | Wittgenstein remains an enigmatic figure for contemporary philosophy. For some, a radical debunker of its pretensions toward totality and closure; for others, a conservative caretaker of what is as it is. This opposition is not the only one to be motivated by the unusual pathways taken by his thinking.
A different ... |
Daemon & Discord: Anatomy of the DAO | This two-credit theoretical and practical Seminar will consider Decentralized Autonomous Organizations from many angles. Beginning with their science fiction-influenced prehistory before focusing on what DAOs are today - both technically and imaginatively - the Seminar will result in speculative group projects to desig... |
Learning How to Die: Socratic Discipline & the Philosophical Life | Alfred North Whitehead famously claimed that the whole of Western philosophy consisted of “footnotes to Plato.” This seminar takes this suggestion seriously, proposing an approximation to central exemplars from Plato’s dialogs to crystallize the birth of philosophical questioning across its metaphysical, epistemologica... |
Analytic Marxism & the Pittsburgh School | The neo-Hegelianism of Robert Brandom, John McDowell, and others invites the question of how we might re-imagine Marx and Marxism in light of analytic neo-Hegelianism. Do these new readings of Hegel as a philosopher of mind and of language make contact with the dimensions of Hegel that Marx appropriated, revised, and c... |
Acid Ecosophy for a Kaleidoscopic Machinic Phylum | This seminar will intertwine and proliferate certain aspects of unnatural nature, cinematic modes of living, and the wider spatial arts so as to spore new speculative modes of thinking the bio-mechanical lifestyles. From Bosch to bio-art, we will track and scan components of a dynamic ecosophy (as lucid vision and sens... |
Elemental Ethnography: Encounters with Sensorial Analytics | Ethnography has traditionally been understood at the study and documentation of “ethnos” —a group of persons defined in some coherent (or not so coherent) way by the ethnographer themselves, often predicated upon subjectivities and identifications with place, practices, values, or experiential criteria. In the present,... |
Atmospheres: From Gestural Ecologies to Non-Standard and Planetary Cognition | "Life improves the capacity of the environment to sustain life... it binds more energy into the system through the tremendous chemical interplay from organism to organism… We must do a thing on Arrakis never before attempted for an entire planet… We must use man as a constructive ecological force… to transform the wate... |
Studio Two: Cosmos | This seminar considers the surface of our planet and the world-buildings we have conducted across past centuries, and continues by leaping off earth to extra-planetary networks as an extension of design. We ask: what is an operational new nature, and when does architecture transform into landscape, extend beyond a hori... |
The Meaning of the Subject | Since the vaunted "death of the subject" in the 1960s and 1970s, much critical discourse has fixated upon what comes after the petrified, metaphysical subject of Descartes and Kant. Should we, in the vein of Deleuze, pursue an essentially psychoanalytic de-centreing of the subject, so that it becomes a multiplicitous e... |
The Memeing of Mark Fisher: Art Production as Acid Communist Strategy | Today, Mark Fisher’s first book, "Capitalist Realism," is as relevant as ever. In the last two years, even Fisher himself has become a commodity, featured in memes whose circulation provides income for social media giants. This Seminar looks at the trajectory from the publication of "Capitalist Realism" and the theory-... |
Humanism & Its Discontents | From intellectuals who proudly identify themselves as Kitsch Marxists, to critical theorists who are willing to endorse an uncritical materialist thesis in order to distance themselves from all strains of humanism, conservative or not, to scientists who find reprieve for their questionable political alliances in their ... |
What Now? Contemporary Art & the Post-Pandemic Conditions | The Covid-19 pandemic is altering many aspects of not only our lives but also our perception of the world, reshaping the individual and collective minds in still unmapped ways. Hard isolation during the lockdowns gave us a taste for schizophrenia: the modulation of routine in an infinite loop normalized silence, exhaus... |
From Alienation from Above to Alienation from Below | Alienation is back! From Xenofeminism to Afropessimism, and from Decolonial Studies to discussions around Artificial Intelligence, alienation is at the centre of critical discussions about capitalism, subjectivity, and agency. Whether it is to criticise essentialist notions of gender, to investigate the potential for r... |
The Great Unlearning: From Inferential Art to Aesthetic Inferentialism | The critique of indeterminacy in aesthetics has been on the rise for some time in neorationalist-adjacent circles. Its targets are well known: from John Cage to relational aesthetics, the supposition of either a “noisy” or unbounded indeterminacy, or of an unconstrained openness of the work to its signifying outside wo... |
Capital: Form or Flow? | Marx calls "production in general" a rational abstraction. While production is always production by social individuals at a definite stage of social development, the concept of ‘production in general’ allows us to distinguish those elements common to every stage of production from those specific to some. As a rational ... |
The Reality of Structure: Structural Realism and Structuralism in Contemporary Philosophy | This seminar proposes to explore different iterations of the structuralist and structural realist thesis in contemporary philosophy. It will integrate this understanding into a comprehensive view concerning the role of the concept of “structure” within philosophical history. While the term “structural realism” is first... |
Material Interfaces: Synthesizing Bodies Between Matter and Information | This four-session Seminar introduces the core concepts and practices of contemporary nanotechnology and materials science from a transdisciplinary perspective, providing a general conceptual toolbox for both scientists and philosophers. Although our material culture has privileged a view of technological bodies as iner... |
Introduction to Future Theories of Intelligence | To study intelligence is to study the power and potential of thought itself. This course will examine this most difficult of topics from a scientific and philosophical perspective. It is a research seminar that proposes a four-fold taxonomy of theories of intelligence with the goal of extending our conception of the li... |
On Kant's Opus Postumum | In this seminar, we will read Kant’s last, unfinished work, the Opus Postumum (Nachlasswerk), a collection of 527 handwritten pages of manuscript that Kant worked on during the last decade of his life. Most of Kant’s writings went through a meticulous editing process that consisted of several stages, creating the solid... |
Myth of the Master: Philosophy of the Unstoppable | This seminar explores the figure of the Master as a will to chaos: namely, one combining elements of the unparalleled, the visionary, and the unstoppable. We will look to those strange, iconic personalities who led underground movements, secret societies, forbidden associations, cult gatherings, urban gangs, martial ar... |
Starting With Plants: A Philosophy of Vegetal Life | Despite their conceptual allergy to vegetal life, philosophers have used germination, growth, blossoming, fruition, reproduction, and decay as illustrations of abstract concepts; mentioned plants in passing as the natural backdrops for dialogues, letters, and other compositions; spun elaborate allegories out of flowers... |
Abstraction, Paranoia, Transcendental Philosophy, and the Limits of Thought | This seminar traces key moments in the history of transcendental philosophy, departing from its overt elaboration in Kant’s critical method. At the most general level, transcendental explanations or argumentation can be understood in terms of two central postulates: i) that it is the job of philosophy to analyze the co... |
Programmed Ontologies, How to Code a World | Our world is the manifestation of complex, adaptive and intelligent systems. This workshop draws parallels between existing models of complexity in material, biological and physical systems and extends further than the mere replication of ‘matter’ and ‘nature’ . Algorithmic design research blurs traditional disciplinar... |
Studio One: World Post Planetary Universal Design | The research/design studio: WORLD operates as a probe to take stock of the current situation, consider the disequilibrium of multiple systems in spirals, and compile an index of research/design possibilities. As architects, urbanists, infrastructural designers, systems thinkers, economists, ecologists, we navigate and ... |
Artistic Methodology, The Parasitical Turn | This Seminar is inspired by the French philosopher Michel Serres’s book The Parasite, which defines the parasite through three commonly held perspectives of the term, as biological, social, and communicative (since “parasite” is also the French word for noise). Serres discusses the parasite as a vehicle for introducing... |
Cybernetics and Psychology in Sellars’ Scientific Image of Mind | The long-neglected Wilfrid Sellars has been rediscovered thanks to the warm reception that his epigones, especially Robert Brandom and John McDowell, have received in both ‘analytic’ and “Continental’ philosophical audiences. Yet the recent Sellars renaissance neglects his profound debt to the “sciences of the mental” ... |
Restructuring Enlightenment: From Carnap’s Aufbau to Conceptual Engineering | As a direct continuation of The Enigma of Carnap’s Aufbau, this eight-session course will continue to chart the development of Rudolf Carnap’s thought, from the problems arising in Aufbau to their solutions in light of Carnap’s subsequent works starting from The Logical Syntax of Language to Logical Foundations of Prob... |
Thinking Between Worlds and Forms of Life: On Orientations of Thought and their Consequences | Extending our research on worldmaking as symbolizing activities, the Seminar will tackle the issue of the embeddedness of worldmaking as understood by Nelson Goodman within forms of life that themselves get caught in the transformative web of language use and the ensuing revision of thought and sensible categories. In ... |
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Dataset Description
Scraped titles and summarized descriptions of the "non-members available" data of the Seminars of The New Centre for Research & Practice, took this from our website where i have a status of god of FireStoreStoNe (FSSN). Regarding the latter, should i not scrap the data with an access to the direct descriptions links? 100% Human-made, and not "just" humans, but each of the descriptions is made by Instructor, a person that was responsible for and delivered the materials themselves or curated the sessions for the guest lecturers. In plans only expansion, I want to persevere with transcripts of video sessions, after all, TNC plans training a model of their own. Small? Yes, but academic language quality steps up where quantity fails...!
Sources
Actual Seminars: https://tnc-platform.web.app/archive/
Dataset Card Contact
Curated by: mstyslav MSTYSLAVITY kazakov, Ph.D. (Dialectics & Methodology of Cognition),
Associate Professor (Docent, Department of Philosophy, Ihor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute),
Instructor/Metamoderator (The New Centre for Research & Practice)
https://tnc-platform.web.app/people/?person=mstislav.kazakov
Uses
Direct Use
Downstream tasks include and are not limited to:
*training librarian from archives department-assistent or agent;
*generating syllabuses and other educational metadata generations;
*references for RAG and/or some figures of the leading avantgarde in SoTA thought, including the experimental genres of thought such as theory-fiction;
*few-shot learning (or should i say although-not-as-many-as-one-would-like-them-to-be-it-is-not-so-few-shot?);
*usable for training for analogous cases when you need to create a database for niche or NietzSHe subject, or if you are part of that future which xenofeminists want us to have!
*may be used for references in deep research agent by the virtue of the descriptions sometimes including references to the readings. Caveats: niche topics only!
HINT!
One can also build a benchmark Match the titles with descriptions Intentionally place them out of order!
Dataset Structure
Baroque Titles & 100% human-written Descriptions. Sizes vary, most of them introduce the topics, abstracts of each Seminar's Session, sometimes include Readings.
Curation Rationale
Spreading the high quality non-AI-generated data compiled by the brightest minds of philosophical underground raves and (sometimes) mainstream festivals.
Source Data
It is literally what the name of the dataset says: the descriptions and titles of the Seminars section of Archives of The New Centre for Research & Practice:
https://tnc-platform.web.app/archive/
Data Collection and Processing
I also added the code which was used for automated scraping of the texts, must work with the websites that are built on fs and if you have a godlike status or at least angelic auth-tokens
Source data producers
You will find them here:
https://tnc-platform.web.app/people/
The List of CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS of The New Centre for Research & Practice
https://tnc-platform.web.app/programs/
Bias, Risks, and Limitations
Main limitation is the niche topic and the gated access to the actual content of the seminar, which is a work in progress, an STT-based work with proprietary materials which excludes cloud compute mostly.
Some topics may be felt as offensive for pokvaches, fideists and other persons who believe that ethical categories and qualities exist beyond intersubjectivity, as 'objective qualities'!
DO NOT USE IT IF YOU ARE
Rudolf Carnap or Early Ludwig Wittgenstein; technosolutionist; correlationist;late 'dark enlightened' Nick Land; rusian (:= the Clause No. 426/F-442 "Піди відсмокчи Українського прутня" is applied without exceptions); Pete Thiel's Puppet (UK's See Thiel's Bill a.k.a. "Only Wolfendale is welcome at TNC as Pete...")
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