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Drone Ethics Part 11: Acephalic World Spirit

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Drone Ethics Part 11: Acephalic World Spirit

As the V2 rockets fell on London in 1944 Theodor Adorno wrote, "I have seen the world-spirit," not on horse-back, but on wings and without a head". What this acephalic weltgeist harboured, Gregoire Chamayou argues in Drone Theory, was the total effacement of any identifiable subject that could be held

Vile Bodies

'This study of the historical technologies of debasement calls for the creation of a political philosophy of scientific practice.'

Language and Death

Language and Death

In the beginning was the Word (John 1:1).

Drone-Ethics part 1

Military Tech and Strategy

Drone-Ethics part 1

Necro-Ethics and the Categorical Imperative

Negative Capability and Nihilism as Nietzsche’s Artistic Leitmotif

Negative Capability and Nihilism as Nietzsche’s Artistic Leitmotif

For Nietzsche, far from being the obvious state of existence, nihilism perhaps became an act of faith.

Pointing Towards Christ

Pointing Towards Christ

Prefigurations of Christian Teleology in the Early Greek Thinkers

Kant’s Project in the Critique of Pure Reason and its Implications for Scientific Theories

Kant’s Project in the Critique of Pure Reason and its Implications for Scientific Theories

Our minds are filled with concepts like space and time because they conferred a survival value to our ancestors.

Zarathustra’s Ape

Zarathustra’s Ape

How He Became What He Was

Art against the Cynics

Art against the Cynics

Reflections on Shaun Berke’s Winter and Summer: a memory of nature and culture

Lewis Mumford & Tales from The Loop

Lewis Mumford & Tales from The Loop

Megatechnics and Planned Obsolescence

The Smart Social Contract

The Smart Social Contract

Neo-Feudal Techno-Communism. Part II of a Triptych.

Gettin’ Medieval on EUr Ass

Gettin’ Medieval on EUr Ass

Reflections on Jan Zielonka’s Europe as Empire (2006). Part I of a Triptych.

International Journal of Solarist Studies

International Journal of Solarist Studies

Loneliness, A Phenomenological Reflection

Extremely Offline

Extremely Offline

Reflections on E. M. Forster’s The Machine Stops & Pathological Blogging

The Joi of Xex

Xenoproduction in Blade Runner 2049

Novacene for the Soul

Novacene for the Soul

A review of James Lovelock’s Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Wittgenstein and Addiction

Wittgenstein and Addiction

Sense Perception and Moral Perception

Metaphysical Logic and The Interpretation of Dreams

Metaphysical Logic and The Interpretation of Dreams

In his On Dreams (1901), Freud puts forward the theory that we do not sleep in order to dream but that we dream in order to sleep.

Kant and the Art of BMW Maintenance

Kant and the Art of BMW Maintenance

From German Idealism to German Engineering