Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: The article is devoted to the identification of minimum units of existence and action, which modern complex artistic-theoretical practices help to reveal. Through a number of examples – IT based cultural theory (A. Galloway), medium oriented postbiology (D. Bulatov) and literature inspired new materialism (J. Bennett) – the author explores the description and terms that would be equally effective in the variety of disciplines, including humanities and exact sciences. Underlying the process character, dynamism and principal non-completion of compression-decompression, reversible vector shifts, alternation of influx and efflux of “gravitational sympathy”, accordingly, the author sees the insistence to discover some autonomous existence behind them, however small, generic or quantic it may turn to be. It obviously means the shift from what seemed a mere artistic practice to ontological and existential questions. Further, analyzing the basic characteristics of this autonomous existence, the author identifies the relationship between high-tech procedures and degree of intensity of the autonomy in question. Having opened before us a huge number of new experiences, new technologies present us with existence which appears to be not only “weak”, but literarily “semiliving”. Therefore, open-ending into physical cosmic space the multilevel technological contours seek to outline a new world whose description needs time to develop.
Source: Philosophy Journal
Author: Nina Sosna
Language: English
Subfield: History and Philosophy of Science
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4409071156