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Zusammenfassung This book introduces the reader to Serres’ unique manner of ‘doing philosophy’ that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness.It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that commits itself to a form of reasoning which privileges the most direct path (simple method) in order to expend minimal efforts while pursuing maximal efficiency. In Serres’ universal economy, value is considered as a function of rarity, not as a stock of resources. This book demonstrates how Michel Serres has developed an architectonics that is coefficient with nature. Mathematic and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres acquaints the reader with Serres’ monist manner of addressing the universality and the power of knowledge – that is at once also the anonymous and empty faculty of incandescent, inventive thought.The chapters of the book demarcate, problematize and contextualize some of the epistemologically unsettling situations Serres addresses, whilst also examining the particular manner in which he responds to and converses with these situations. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Chapter one: Introduction The plan of this book Chapter two: Quantum literacy Elementary indecisionCommunication versus production: Bearing witness, and literacyCultivating indecision: The quantum domain’s domesticityCiphers, zeroness, equations: Architectonics of nothingChance-bound objectsTaking ignorance into account: Quantifying strangenessEntropy and negentropyThe price of information as a measure for an object’s strangeness Quantum literacy: Towards a novel theory of the subject‘La Langue est une Puissance’ Chapter three: Chronopedia I: Counting time Meteora: The wisdom of the weatherCode: A rosetta stone, a double staircaseTime modelled as contemporaneityCounting time: Equinox and solsticeThe turning points for modelled beginnings and endsOf tables and modelsSense means significance and directionMeteoraA logos genuine to the world – ‘Le Logiciél Intra-Matériel’Software, hardwareEconomy of maxima and minima: An anarchic logos Chapter four: Chronopedia II: Treasuring time Homothesis as the locus in quo of the universal’s presence 1st iteration (acquiring a space of possibility) 2nd iteration (learning to speak a language in which no one is native) 3rd iteration (setting the stage for thought to comprehend itself) 4th iteration (intelligence that is immanent and coextensive with the universe) 5th iteration (inventing a scale of reproduction) 6th iteration (the formula, a double-articulating application) The amorous nature of intellectual conception 1st iteration (marking all that is assumed to be constant with a cipher) 2nd iteration (confluence of multiple geneses) 3rd iteration (the residence of that which is genuinely migrational) 4th iteration (universal genitality) 5th iteration (mathematics is the circuit of cunning reason’s ruses) 6th iteration (the real as a black spectrum) Chapter five: Banking universality: The magnitudes of ageing Metaphysics The quickness of a magnanimous universe Invariance: Genericness in terms of entropy and negentropy Genuine and immanent to the all of time: Le ‘logiciel intra-matériel’ White metaphysics: How old does the world think it is? Freedom The neutral element: Materialism of identity (Pan’s) glossematics: The economy that deals with ‘purport’ Quanta of contemporaneity: Heat to incandescence, storage...
