Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude

214 Pages·2018·1.308 MB·English

by  Michael Haworth

NeurotechNology aNd the eNd of fiNitude
cary Wolfe, SerieS editor
45 Neurotechnology and the End of Finitude
Michael Haworth
44 Life: A Modern Invention
Davide Tarizzo
43 Bioaesthetics: Making Sense of Life in Science and the Arts
Carsten Strathausen
42 C reaturely Love: How Desire Makes Us More and Less
Than Human
Dominic Pettman
41 Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds
Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
40 Of Sheep, Oranges, and Yeast: A Multispecies Impression
Julian Yates
39 Fuel: A Speculative Dictionary
Karen Pinkus
38 What Would Animals Say If We Asked the Right Questions?
Vinciane Despret
37 Manifestly Haraway
Donna J. Haraway
36 Neofinalism
Raymond Ruyer
35 Inanimation: Theories of Inorganic Life
David Wills
34 All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy
John Ó Maoilearca
33 Necromedia
Marcel O’Gorman
32 The Intellective Space: Thinking beyond Cognition
Laurent Dubreuil
31 Laruelle: Against the Digital
Alexander R. Galloway
30 The Universe of Things: On Speculative Realism
Steven Shaviro
29 Neocybernetics and Narrative
Bruce Clarke
28 Cinders
Jacques Derrida
27 Hyperobjects: Philosophy and Ecology after the End of the World
Timothy Morton
26 Humanesis: Sound and Technological Posthumanism
David Cecchetto
25 Artist Animal
Steve Baker
24 Without Offending Humans: A Critique of Animal Rights
Élisabeth de Fontenay
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NEUROTECHNOLOGY AND
THE END OF FINITUDE
Michael haworth
posthumanities 45
University of Minnesota Press
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Portions of chapter 3 were previously published as “Synchronicity and Correlation-
ism: Carl Jung as Speculative Realist,” Speculations: A Journal of Speculative Real-
ism 3 (2012): 189– 209. Portions of chapter 4 were previously published as “Telepathy
and Intersubjectivity in Derrida, Husserl, and Levinas,” Journal of the British Society
for Phenomenology 45, no. 3 (2015): 253–6 6. Reprinted by permission of Taylor &
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for heleN aNd BerNard
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Rapidly we approach the final stage of the extensions of man.
Marshall Mcluhan, understanding Media
To eradicate the gap, to put an end to the scandal of the interval of space
and time that used to separate man so unacceptably from his objective:
all this is well on the way to being achieved. But at what cost?
Paul Virilio, oPen sky
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments  xi
Introduction 1
1 The Idea Becomes a Machine That Makes the Art 13
2 Intellectual Intuition and Finite Creativity 45
3 Unus Mundus 87
4 Techno- Telepathy and the Otherness of the Other 127
Notes  169
Index  193