The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition

286 Pages·2016·2.246 MB·English

by  Dan Mellamphy, Nandita Biswas Mellamphy, Babette E. Babich, Horst Hutter, Manabrata Guha, Gary Shapiro, Julian Reid, C. Heike Schotten, Nicola Masciandaro, R. Scott Bakker, Eugene Thacker, Dominic Pettman, Sarah Choukah, Jen Boyle, Dylan Wittkower, Joseph Nechvatal, Shannon Bell, Arthur Kroker

the digital dionysus

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Contents
00. Nietz sche and Networks, Nietz schean Networks:
The Digital Dionysus
Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy 10
01. Digital Alexandrians:
Greek as Musical Code for Nietz sche and Kittler
Babette Babich 32
02. The Internet as a Development from Descartes’
Res Cogitans: How to Render It Dionysian
Horst Hutter 50
03. Networked Nightmares:
On Our Dionysian Post-Military Condition
Manabrata Guha 62
04. A Philosophy of the Antichrist in the Time of the
Anthropocenic Multitude: Preliminary Lexicon for the
Conceptual Network
Gary Shapiro 82
05. Occupying God’s Shadow: Nietzsche’s Eirōneia
Julian Reid 96
06. Reading Nietz sche in the Wake of the 2008–9
War on Gaza
C. Heike Schotten 108
07. Nietzsche’s Amor Fati:
Wishing and Willing in a Cybernetic Circuit
Nicola Masciandaro 132
08. Outing the “It” that Thinks:
On the Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem
R. Scott Bakker 144
09. All for Naught
Eugene Thacker 162
10. A Horse is Being Beaten: On Nietz sche’s “Equinimity”
Dominic Pettman 172
11. The Rope-Dancer’s Fall: “Going Under” as Undergoing
Nietz scheo-Simondonian Transindividuation
Sarah Choukah 184
12. The Will to Obsolescence:
Nietz sche, Code, and the Digital Present
Jen Boyle 196
13. Farmville, Eternal Recurrence, and the Will-to-Power-Ups
Dylan Wittkower 208
14. Aesthetic States of Frenzy: Nietz sche’s Aesthetic Palimpsest
Joseph Nechvatal 218
15. “Philosophizing With a Scalpel”:
From Nietz sche to Nina Arsenault
Shannon Bell 236
16. “Nietz sche in Drag”:
Thinking Technology through the Theater of Judith Butler
Arthur Kroker 250