felix stalder on Nostr: Bifo offers, as usual, a very dark reading. And there are reasons for that. But, I ...
Bifo offers, as usual, a very dark reading. And there are reasons for that. But, I think, within the text, there are forks that could lead to a different perspective.
The first is the notion of "the end of the world" is a sign that a culture can no longer comprehend the world around it. This leaves open that, for other cultures, the current situation doesn't feel like this. So, perhaps the question is, what do these other perspectives comprehend that "we" (the liberal West) does not?
The other fork would be Yuk Hui's observation that cognitive technology represents genealogically an enlightenment utopia, but practically operates transculturally and within different cosmological frames. Again, this would to question what these other cosmologies have to offer that might put technology in the service of a project other than extractivism.
The first is the notion of "the end of the world" is a sign that a culture can no longer comprehend the world around it. This leaves open that, for other cultures, the current situation doesn't feel like this. So, perhaps the question is, what do these other perspectives comprehend that "we" (the liberal West) does not?
The other fork would be Yuk Hui's observation that cognitive technology represents genealogically an enlightenment utopia, but practically operates transculturally and within different cosmological frames. Again, this would to question what these other cosmologies have to offer that might put technology in the service of a project other than extractivism.