Baptiste Loreaux: "From Structure to Singularity: Kit of Construction"
04. Juni
18:00 Uhr, Raum C40.530
It has been shown that the structuralist movement was influenced by the structures of communication theorized by cybernetics. It is also well known that many post-structuralists authors insisted on a concept of “singularité”, which seems by definition to escape clear definition and conceptual grasp. But it is perhaps less well well known that the second cybernetics also gave rise to a specific notion of “singularity” (prior to the myth of a technological Singularity). The aim of this presentation is to retrace the logical steps that led the cyberneticians to move from the concept of structure to that of singularity. The point is not to reduce Deleuze to an update of cybernetics, but to show the rigour of this epistemological shift and to shed light on its nature.
Baptiste Loreaux, born in Paris in 1994, is PhD student at the University Paris VIII (Pierre Cassou-Noguès) in co-supervision with Leuphana (Erich Hörl). He studied Greek and German philosophy at La Sorbonne. Through the history of cybernetics, he explores the way the epistemological framework of modernity is altered.
Die Veranstaltung findet im Rahmen des Kolloquiums zur Disruptiven Bedingung statt.
(Rückfragen an Anne Gräfe: anne.graefe@leuphana.de)