Recursivity and Contingency (Media Philosophy) by Hui, Yuk -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Half-Title Series Title Copyright Dedication Epigraph Contents Acknowledgments Preface, by Howard Caygill Introduction: A Psychedelic Becoming

§1. Adventure of Reason §2. Invisible Nature, Visible Mind §3. Contingency and Finality §4. Beyond Mechanism and Vitalism §5. The Great Completion §6. The Conflict of Organs §7. After Ecology, before Solar Catastrophe §8. The Future Cosmologists

1 Nature and Recursivity

§9. Kant and the Model of System §10. The Organic Condition of Philosophy §11. Recursivity in Fichte’s Ich §12. Circularity in Soul and Nature §13. Recursivity in Naturphilosophie §14. Organicist and Ecological Paradigm §15. General Organism, Gaia, or Artificial Earth

2 Logic and Contingency

§16. Recursivity in the Phenomenology of Spirit §17. Organicist and Reflective Logic §18. “Feebleness of the Notion in Nature” §19. Death of Nature as Affirmation of Logic §20. General Recursivity and Turing Machine §21. Wiener’s Leibnizianism §22. Cybernetics of Cybernetics §23. Information of Dialectics §24. Incomputability and Algorithmic Contingency

3 Organized Inorganic

§ 25. From Organicism to Organology §26. Form and Fire, or Life §27. Descartes and the Mechanical Organs §28. Kant as Philosopher of Technology §29. Organology in Creative Evolution §30. Norms and Accidents §31. The Uncanny Fire

4 Organizing Inorganic

§32. Universal Cybernetics, General Allagmatic §33. Recursivity in Psychic and Collective Individuation §34. An Organology of Contingency §35. Nature or Art §36. Tertiary Protention and Preemption §37. Inorganic Organicity or Ecology §38. The Principle of Ground

5 The Inhuman That Remains

§39. Postmodernity and Recursivity §40. Technosphere or Christogenesis §41. Inhuman contra System §42. Contingency after System, or Technodiversity §43. Sensibility and Passibility §44. Organicism, Organology, and Cosmotechnics

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