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Martin Burckhardt

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89:02

Talking to ... Robert Skidelsky

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2024/05/09

When does it ever happen that an intelligent contemporary describes himself as a neo-Luddite with conviction and a certain sense of status? This alone would be reason enough to talk with Baron Robert Jacob Alexander Skidelsky, co-founder of the British Social Democratic Party and a man who can look back on a long career in the English House of Lords. Skidelsky came into the public’s consciousness primarily through his multi-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, a work that sharpened and changed

51:10

Talking to ... Wilfred Reilly

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2024/05/02

That society loses its way in phantasmata and ideological labyrinths may be attributable to the human-all-too-human – but it’s strange in a culture that declares science and objectivity its highest values. In this context, Wilfred Reilly’s work is enlightening in an old-fashioned sense: a political scientist undertakes the task of comparing and contrasting morality trends with the data and finds the results deeply troubling. As in the case of the Black Lives Matter movement, where the data found

83:31

Im Gespräch mit ... Michael Andrick

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2024/04/18

Mögen die Klagen über die Einbuße an Liberalität und Toleranz, ja, über die Probleme der Cancel Culture unterdessen Legion sein, bleibt die grundsätzlichen Frage, was es mit der Hypermoralität auf sich hat, zumeist unerhellt. Genau hier aber setzt Michael Andrick an, der in seinem jüngst erschienenen Buch Im Moralgefängnis das Leben daselbst einer gründlichen, philosophisch unterfütterten Untersuchung unterzieht. Der große Vorzug dieses Zugangs ist, dass er sich aller Wertung enthält und sich

12:52

Alles und Nichts II

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2024/04/14

Hydra ist die Tochter des Typhon, des Vaters aller Monster, und der Echidna, der Mutter aller Monster. Sie bewohnt den lernäischen Sumpf. Hier bewacht sie ein unterseeisches Tor, das zur Unterwelt führt. Ihr Blut ist giftig, selbst die Spuren, die sie hinterlässt, sind giftig. Die Griechen sagten, sie habe mehr Köpfe, als die Vasenmaler malen konnten. Schlägt man einen ab, wachsen zwei wieder nach.HydraDraculas VermächtnisKernspaltungPandemieIm ArbeitsspeicherVorherige KapitelVorherige Kapitel This

19:47

Alles und Nichts I

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2024/04/07

Am Anfang war die Null und die Null war bei Gott und Gott war die Eins. Die Null und die Eins waren im Anfang bei Gott. Alle Dinge sind durch dieselben gemacht und ohne dieselben ist nichts gemacht, was gemacht ist. In ihnen war das Leben und das Leben war das Licht der Menschen. Und das Licht scheint in der Finsternis und die Finsternis hat’s nicht begriffen.1 Boole und die Formel2 Im Dark Room der Geschichte3 God is a DJ4 Alles wird Schrift5 Unendliche Potenz This is a public episode. If you would

32:07

Im Gespräch mit ... Dirk Höfer

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2024/04/05

Ein Gespräch mit Dirk Höfer ist schon deswegen nichts Ungewöhnliches, weil wir seit langer Zeit freundschaftlich verbunden sind, zusammen gearbeitet, darüber hinaus ein Buch miteinander geschrieben haben: Alles und Nichts. Ein Pandämonium digitaler Weltvernichtung. Und weil dies fast eine Dekade zurückliegt, lässt sich die Unterhaltung als ein post mortem auffassen, ein Rückblick auf eine gemeinsame Erkundungsreise, die insofern ungewöhnlich ist, als sie sich auf das Unpersönlichste bezieht, das man

52:13

Talking to ... Volodymyr Ishchenko

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2024/03/30

Since Putin invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the country has been at war, with the rest of the world having registered this state of exception in horror, as one of the post-war foundations of order has started to slip. Wherever events come rushing in, it's not uncommon for the soberly detached, skeptical view of the social analyst to fall by the wayside. But this is precisely what drew our attention to Volodymyr Ishchenko, who, in his book Towards the Abyss: Ukraine from Maidan to War, links the

52:55

Vom Marsch durch die Institutionen

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2024/03/23

here is a link to the English presentation textL’imagination au pouvoir!Institutionen schaffen Schattenräume, in denen nichts zu sehen ist und keine Fragen gestellt werden. (Mary Douglas)Das folgende Video ist die Visualisierung eines Vortrages, den ich im Jahr 2018 im Konzertsaal des Deutschlandfunks in Köln gehalten habe. Der Redakteur, der mich zu diesem Vortrag zum 50jährigen Jubiläum der Studentenrevolte eingeladen hatte, hatte mein kleines Büchlein zur Kulturrevolution von 68 gelesen – und so

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Philosophy of the Machine 12

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2024/03/03

Examining the question of how the Universal Machine represents an epistemic force - this chapter explores how a Machine Culture’s socioplastic nature inevitably subjects its societies to a certain order.Long before Columbus sets off to cross the Atlantic, the European Middle Ages is already the New World that it will seek and find in America.Speaker: Hopkins StanleySound-Design: Martin BurckhardtMusic: Hopkins Stanley & Martin BurckhardtFrom: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins

68:25

Talking to ... Scott Tinker

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2024/02/29

If one were to describe Scott Tinker's work, perhaps the most apt description would be to describe him as an anthropologist of human energy use. In any case, as a trained geologist who, after a few years in the Texas oil industry, went back to university and, in 2000, became Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology at the University of Texas in Austin and State Geologist for the State of Texas, has spent a lifetime studying the relationship between energy use and society - a concern that, as he

68:11

Talking to ... Benedict Beckeld (Audio)

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2024/01/31

Undoubtedly, the question of oikophobia is a most puzzling social phenomenon. If the 19th-century psychiatrists understood it as the fear of being inside one’s home, the English philosopher Roger Scruton understood it to mean becoming a stranger, no, even more than that: an idiosyncrasy towards one's own culture that can take on ‘a chronic form…in the guise of political correctness.’ Benedict Beckeld – who grew up in Uppsala and Stockholm, and emigrated with his family to New York as a teenager –

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Talking to ... Jeff Sutherland (Audio)

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2024/01/20

Looking at many contemporary institutions, we can't help thinking Modernity's secret goal lies in its organizational irresponsibility. In the shadows, however, a revolution has occurred where the individual doesn’t have to function as a cog in the Wheelwork of a Machine. Instead, they’re given the freedom to work in small, highly agile groups responsible for the efficiency and quality of their product. Inspired by the novel Toyota Production System of Teamwork (TPS) that Japanese engineer Taiichi

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Philosophy of the Machine 11

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2023/12/23

If we remember that the machina mundi, like the Deus ex Machina, flies in from above, it's unsurprising that the scene of the Machine Discourse shifts to where the Politics of Heaven are fought over. It's the emerging Christianity that takes up the Machine question - albeit in a way that seems like a palimpsest, a parchment that has been scraped over and over again: constantly rewritten.This chapter deals with the paradox of the Christian world (which is trying to free itself from ancient

50:53

Talking to Roger Pielke jr. (Audio)

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2023/08/13

You might call Roger Pielke Jr., the son of the highly respected Climatologist Roger Pielke Sr., an Environmental Political scientist who analyzes the atmospheric disruptions between Science and Politics. And because, with the looming apocalypse, this represents mined terrain, Dr. Pielke, who's been awarded international prizes and honorary doctorates for his work and served as director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research at the University of Colorado, Boulder, has found himself

39:31

Philosophy of the Machine 10

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2023/08/08

The chapter deals with the birth of metaphysics and eternal damnation, the emergence of that peculiar attitude of mind called Gnosis in the science of religion. That the Earth becomes transformed into a vale of tears is, in this sense, a dialectical necessity. That culture becomes the angel maker.If the pure sign represents the appearance of eternity, the question arises why we still concern ourselves with the decrepitude of the earthly. Why not live eternally right away?Speaker: Hopkins

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Philosophy of the Machine 9

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2023/07/04

The idea of another world arises with the pure, animate signs: Pure spirit, eternity, Platonic bodies. In contrast, the real world is a cave, an underworld realm of shadows, in which illusory existences see only reflections of their destiny: the reflection of the true, the good, and the beautiful.The chapter tells of philosophy's birth - and of how thinking thus begins to run in circles: That which philosophy considers as being or essence is the art of running in the circle of the universal machine

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Talking to ... Malcom Kyeyune

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2023/06/24

Occasionally, we must admit we belong to an older generation with worldviews shaped by our specific generational experiences. This, at least, was what crossed my mind while reading the text of a young Swedish writer considering the question of whether our present-day culture wars could be the result of an elite overproduction in the form of an educational glut from a flawed educational system; often leading its actors into the fiercest battles, not infrequently unfairly waged, for the remaining

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Philosophy of the Machine 8

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2023/05/16

The chapter deals with the birth of Pythagorean mathematics - or, more precisely, the way with which mathematicians fall into the delirium of Infinity.Carnival. In that old-fashioned sense, every mathematical calculus has a strange carnivalesque side because you extract the flesh from life. Just as the tones of the music are abstracted from the body of sound, the formula dissolves an experience from reality, imposing on it a system of rules in which the highest is at the bottom, the lowest is at the

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Philosophy of the Machine 7

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2023/04/05

The chapter tells of how the Machine, as socioplasty, inscribes itself on antiquity - how it becomes an ideal of personality and, as imprinted freedom, ultimately determines social relations.From then on, sacrifices were no longer made to the gods but to the Polis. It is no coincidence that taxation is the only area in which we still talk about having to make sacrifices today.Speaker: Hopkins StanleySound-Design: Martin BurckhardtMusic: Hopkins Stanley & Martin BurckhardtFrom: The Philosophy of the

31:43

Philosophy of the Machine 6

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2023/03/15

The sixth chapter tells how the phallic sign of the bull deity turns into an alphabetic type. But where does this story begin? There, where the god in bull form abducts Europa to Crete? Or in the labyrinth of Daedalus, where the Alpha-beast and mythical figure awaits its extinction?With the Alphabet, the twilight of the gods begins…we do not meet the riddle of creation here, but rather a nature that is spun into the type wheel of an already given understanding of the world.Speaker: Hopkins

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