{"product_id":"mathematics-and-information-in-the-philosophy-of-michel-serres-9781350251328","title":"Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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, inve\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat happens when we take mathematics not as the elementary basis upon which science must bloom, but as an ‘architectonics’ that unfolds the world as it informs mass, space and time?  With great rigor, in content and style, Bühlmann reads the concepts that Michel Serres produced in his oeuvre through his mathematics and information theory, revealing his highly original, inclusive and affirmative philosophy of the 21st century. -- Rick Dolphijn, Associate Professor of Theories of Arts and Culture, Utrecht University, the Netherlands\u003cbr\u003eThe importance of Serres’ philosophy has mostly gone unrecognized in continental philosophy, even though this philosopher had a critical influence on many of its key figures, such as Deleuze and Foucault. The dearth of informed commentary is now reduced by this scholar whose knowledge of mathematics is able to bridge both the analytical and continental traditions. -- Gregg Lambert, Dean’s Professor of Humanities, Syracuse University, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eChapter one: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/b\u003e The plan of this book \u003cb\u003eChapter two: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuantum literacy\u003c\/b\u003e Elementary indecision Communication versus production: Bearing witness, and literacy Cultivating indecision: The quantum domain’s domesticity Ciphers, zeroness, equations: Architectonics of nothing Chance-bound objects Taking ignorance into account: Quantifying strangeness Entropy and negentropy The 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’ \u003cb\u003eChapter three: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChronopedia I: Counting time\u003c\/b\u003e Meteora: The wisdom of the weather Code: A rosetta stone, a double staircase Time modelled as contemporaneity Counting time: Equinox and solstice The turning points for modelled beginnings and ends Of tables and models Sense means significance and direction Meteora A logos genuine to the world – ‘Le Logiciél Intra-Matériel’ Software, hardware Economy of maxima and minima: An anarchic logos \u003cb\u003eChapter four: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eChronopedia II: Treasuring time\u003c\/b\u003e             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) \u003cb\u003eChapter five:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e    Banking universality: The magnitudes of ageing \u003c\/b\u003e             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: \u003ci\u003eHow old\u003c\/i\u003e 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 to bank account             Quantum writing: Substitutes step in to address things themselves \u003cb\u003eChapter six:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e     The incandescent Paraclete: Tables of plenty\u003c\/b\u003e             Equatoriality generalized             Coming of age, liking sunset and sunrise             How to combine precision with finesse or: euphoria contained by      instruments that behave like cornucopia             The (mathematical) inverse of Pantopia is not a utopia: Law in the     panonymy of the whole world             The objective mentality and character of instruments             The vicarious order of knowledge that is authentic to the world             Pan: The excitable subject of universal knowledge             Generational con-sequentiality             Blessed curiosity             Exodic discourse \u003cb\u003eChapter seven:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Sophistication and anamnesis: Retrograde movement of truth,   remembering an abundant past\u003c\/b\u003e                         The currency of knowledge             The price of truth, and the price of information             The convertibility of truth             Classicism: Remembering contemporaneity             Classical analysis, symbolical analysis             Interlude: The Tower of Eiffel, archetypical symbol of                                   existentialism?             Building a cipher             A corpus of intelligent forms             The technical order of an object that is comfortable             How to reason the sum total of all archetypes?             Towards critique with regard to the symbolic alchemy of                    myth-making             A realist classicism             Familiarizing ourselves as strangers, native to the universe             The domain of the quasi: Instructive analysis, character dispositions             How can reason in general learn from singularities?             Of genealogical and of tabular orders: Eating ‘next to’ (parasite)             Heterogeneous scales, logistical uniformality (forms of operation)             Indexical address: The referential of the centre             Respecting order by challenging it             Cunning ruses: The anarchic architectonic way of paying respect             How to address the third-person singular?             Augmentation, not authorship             Anarchic civility, and the meanings of cultures \u003cb\u003eChapter eight\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Coda: Quantum literacy and architectonic dispositioning\u003c\/b\u003e Architecture and philosophy \u003cb\u003eChapter zero:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e   Instead of a conclusion: The static tripod\u003c\/b\u003e Notes Bibliography","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359361827159,"sku":"9781350251328","price":31.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350251328.jpg?v=1754124431","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/mathematics-and-information-in-the-philosophy-of-michel-serres-9781350251328","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}