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...: the question of entropy, understood as describing fundamental but diverse thermodynamic, biological, and informational tendencies. For Stiegler, taking care in the Anthropocene necessarily entails reinscribing philosophical concepts, including that of Ereignis , in relation to entropy, anthropy...

... are the situations where suddenly there's a stroke of genius and something happens, which in other contexts were called miracles. I don't talk about miracles, but about negentropy, since, in terms of pure physics, we're dealing with problems of entropy and negentropy here. Everything's organized today along entropic...

... entropy architecture war memory Figure 1 Murals in the 41 Squadron hangar, Coltishall. These were painted for a “welcome home” ball after the first Gulf War of 1991. Exhausted cartoon aircraft chase moustachioed missiles across rusting steel doors. Figure 1. Murals in the 41 Squadron hangar...

... extractive. Such moves contrast with wealth's accrual as found in the existing extractive models of the Anthropocene and its desultory effects on the munus (in terms of community, labor, knowledge, technology, and the environment). Contributory wealth could be that which slows entropy and provides...

... to [Arthur] Eddington’s incisive insight, this irreversible entropy on the time axis allows us to distinguish time axis manipulation in the first place. In the case of written words like god , nobody (with the exception of cabbalists and intelligence experts) would think of reading it back to front as dog...

... as inappropriable as the possibility of rewriting a book exactly like it. “And then coming back was the worst thing you ever did,” Joyce himself says in the book. Return does not seem to be the most advisable option; entropy pushes us forward without respecting our desire to stay or to turn back...

... of signs” and thus generate “a sort of entropy that fissures the community and may lead to war” (91). Reference Pandolfo Stefania . 1997 . Impasse of the Angels: Scenes from a Moroccan Space of Memory . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . ...

... then be seen both as primeval nature and as the entropy that threatens every act of order, every emergence of life, insofar as life is negentropic, striving against chaos, gathering materials and energy to protect itself from dissolution. This certainly was the standpoint of the first cyberneticists like John...

... digital technologies, the essays collected in The Spam Book , edited by Jussi Parikka and Tony D. Sampson, examine the various categories of digital media object that escape technologies of restriction. In the “Postscript on Control Societies” Deleuze argues that, in contrast to the “entropy...

...,” and desire (318), but instead, we face the far more banal and decentralized challenge of contemporary capitalism, and, more essentially for Stiegler, we face the problem of capitalism's unsustainable production of entropy, ever greater due to its improving capacities to sublimate desire with cycles...

... in Britain, 1945–2009” ( 2009 ), and Tim Edensor's “Mundane Hauntings: Commuting through the Phantasmagoric Working-Class Spaces of Manchester, England” (2008), imply that these places are indeed in a state of entropy and that they exist almost in some supernatural, parallel dimension to our society today...

... : Palgrave . Wolfe Patrick . 1999 . Settler Colonialism and the Transformation of Anthropology: The Politics and Poetics of an Ethnographic Event . London : Cassell . Wraith Matthew . 2013 . “ Throbbing Human Engines: Mechanical Vibration, Entropy, and Death in Marinetti, Joyce...

...). Opposed to static or objectifying systems (which, assuming a lexicon derived from thermodynamics, Stiegler argues only serve to increase entropy), “knowledge is a generator of improbable, which is to say incalculable, bifurcations” (141). As our senses are “proletarianized” by automation, we lose our...