Ramon Amaro | The Black Technical Object: A Correction on the Concept of (Black) Resonance
Ramon Amaro (Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam), Konstantin Mitrokhov, Erich Hörl
19. Nov
4:00 - 8:00 pm, C40.704
Workshop with Ramon Amaro, Konstantin Mitrokhov and Erich Hörl as part of the colloquium on the disruptive condition.
This intervention addresses the performative politics of difference and ideas of life within a social-technical/ social-racial-technical milieu, whereby an incompatible alignment between perceptible and affective worlds are in confrontation with the spatial-temporal conditions of (Black) life and being as such. Amaro explores how the convergence of difference with the conditions of the world translate “the very instability of individuation” which can be understood as terminus, or alternatively how death “does not come from the confrontation with the world, but from the convergence of internal transformation” or what Simondon calls internal transformation or resonance (Barthélémy, 2015). While death as an end point and internal transformation are usually seen as distinct considerations in Simondon's operation of individuation, I focus on how both together can help address issues of representation, particularly in relation to strict interpretations of algorithmic matters and the release of Black technical being from thought and thereby the imaginary of the heterogeneous subject.
Dr. Ramon Amaro is Senior Researcher for Digital Culture and Lead Curator of -1, the testing ground and innovation hub for new tools, methods and public uses of digital culture at Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam. His writings, research and artistic practice emerge at the intersections of Black Study, digital culture, psychosocial study, and the critique of computational reason.
Language: English
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This is a university-public event organized by the Research Initiative The Disruptive Condition . Pre-registration is required.
Contact: Anne Gräfe (anne.graefe@leuphana.de)