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What Is (Machine) Philosophy?
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 185–207.
Published: 01 June 2021
... it might mean not merely to live in a cyberneticized world but to actively participate and believe in such a world. Parisi’s response puts to philosophy an important task: not to seek the accommodations of an expanding concept of the human within a machinic world but to think with the logic...
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Machine Primitives: Philippe Lamour, Germaine Krull, and the Fascist Cult of Youth
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 57–102.
Published: 01 June 2001
...Mark Antliff Copyright © 2001 Qui Parle 2001 MACHINE PRIMITIVES: PHILIPPE LAMOUR,
GERMAINE KRULL, AND THE FASCIST CULT OF
YOUTH
Mark Antliff
In thinking about the primitive, the sculpted athletes lining the Foro
Mussolini in Rome [Fig. 1] do not usually come to mind...
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Published: 01 December 2017
Fig. 3. Sewing machine ( www.gettyimages.com/license/645103994 )
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Wheel and axle ( eschooltoday.com/science/simple-machines/what-is-a-wheel-a...
Available to PurchasePublished: 01 December 2017
Fig. 2. Wheel and axle ( eschooltoday.com/science/simple-machines/what-is-a-wheel-and-axle.html )
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Read Yourself!: The Griffin Condition on the Day before the Last Day
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Qui Parle (2018) 27 (1): 77–98.
Published: 01 June 2018
...Kathleen Biddick Abstract Centered on the opening scene of reading staged by Giorgio Agamben in his study of reading machines, The Open: Man and Animal , this article considers how Agamben’s own messianic reading of an illuminated page from a medieval Ashkenazi Bible (Biblioteca Ambrosiana MSS B 30...
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How to Make a Class: Hayek’s Neoliberalism and the Origins of Connectionism
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 159–184.
Published: 01 June 2021
... speculating about the possibility of a machine fulfilling a similar function of “the nervous system as an instrument of classification,” auguring what we call today a “classifier algorithm.” This article shows how Hayek’s connectionist theory of the mind was used to shore up a specific and ideological view...
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An Ode to Amekhania
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Qui Parle (2016) 24 (2): 151–160.
Published: 01 December 2016
... est une machine à
demeurer” (The house is a machine for dwelling).1 One year later, in
his book Toward an Architecture, Le Corbusier slightly changed the
formulation to “La maison est une machine à habiter” (The house is
a machine for living in) (ta, 151).
Although the modifi cation seems...
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Violence and Mechanism: Georges Canguilhem's Overturning of the Cartesian Legacy
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Qui Parle (2015) 24 (1): 125–146.
Published: 01 June 2015
... myself with Canguilhem’s thought from a
considerably earlier period. In what follows I read a single text ac-
knowledged to epitomize postwar epistemological concerns, Can-
guilhem’s 1947 lecture “Machine and Organism,” published in
Knowledge of Life in 1952...
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A Liar’s Epistemology: Herbert Simon’s Performative Artificial Intelligence
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 119–157.
Published: 01 June 2021
...-Heyck, “Defining the Computer” In early January 1956 Herbert Simon opened his lecture at Carnegie Tech’s Graduate School of Industrial Administration with a shocking declaration. “Over the Christmas holiday, Al Newell and I invented a thinking machine.” 1 What Simon meant was an algorithm he had...
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From Automation to AI: The Informatization of Labor
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Qui Parle (2024) 33 (2): 347–362.
Published: 01 December 2024
... of artificial intelligence.” 1 By rooting the history of AI, or artificial intelligence, in the automation practices of the nineteenth-century British political economy, Pasquinelli highlights collective cultural heritage as the progenitor of machine intelligence. He contends that transformations taking...
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Driven
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Qui Parle (2001) 13 (1): 137–156.
Published: 01 June 2001
...
like fashion accessories:
The cabriolet is king among the vehicles devised by our
current appetite for destructive luxury, like the infernal
machine is the king of artillery weapons.
Doubtless, the first person to import the fashion...
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (1): 1–17.
Published: 01 June 2021
... in the form of a system, an ecology, an assemblage, in short, as a network. Alexander R. Galloway, “Network Pessimism” It no longer registers as a shock to hear proclamations of an emerging age of networks, of algorithms, of artificial intelligence, of machine learning, robotics, ubiquitous digital...
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Network Digital Information Humachines: A Conversation with Mark Poster
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Qui Parle (2003) 14 (1): 1–19.
Published: 01 June 2003
... restructuring
of space/time, of inter-corporeal relations, and of the interface
between humans and machines, don't we have to abandon liberal
humanism? How might we get out from under this weight?
M.P. — As for the subject conceived by humanism and the
Enlightenment ideal, I would want to include...
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Ready-Made Artist: The Genealogy of a Concept
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Qui Parle (2014) 22 (2): 57–68.
Published: 01 December 2014
... with irony.
Machines that are both producers and protagonists of the artwork
Fontaine: The Genealogy of a Concept 59
are there to reveal the confl ict between objects and the human
body and not to reconcile art and technology.
6. There would be no point in holding...
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Unctuous: Resentment in David Copperfield
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Qui Parle (2012) 20 (2): 127–150.
Published: 01 December 2012
... the resentment that binds him to them all the more
closely, and that has them all working away diligently in the vast
resentment-machine that is the Dickens novel—David Copperfi eld,
as many readers have testifi ed, becomes a seductive locus of reader-
ly identifi cation. (Although...
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Cartographies of Style: Asignifying, Intensive, Impersonal
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Qui Parle (2014) 23 (1): 213–238.
Published: 01 June 2014
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from the heights of logical essences. Similarly, style operates on the
plane of the textual machine, on the plane of syntax and not that
of discursive signifi cations: it is asignifying.
Deleuze does not simply adopt the structuralist hypothesis...
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The Magic Skin; Or, the Franco-European Accident of Philosophy After Jacques Derrida
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Qui Parle (2009) 18 (1): 97–110.
Published: 01 June 2009
...) in a capitalist will to
power.
If Derrida must be read and reread, and if he must nevertheless
be criticized in this respect, it must be done by retracing the his-
tory of modern philosophy from Marx’s questions as they were
articulated around the fact of machinism...
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Media and Prosthesis: The Vocoder, the Artificial Larynx, and the History of Signal Processing
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Qui Parle (2012) 21 (1): 107–149.
Published: 01 June 2012
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Fig. 2. Voder fl oat at Golden Gate Expo. Courtesy of AT&T Archives and
History Center.
What made this exchange extraordinary was that it took place
between two talking machines—two Voders, or Voice Operation
DEmonstratoRs. Bell engineers nicknamed these machines “Pe...
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“Les Hypothèses Trop Hasardées”: Synecdoche and Speculative Method at the End of the Rougon-Macquart
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 337–366.
Published: 01 December 2021
... by the machine. 19 Ensuing debates about rationalization and technological determinacy often render opaque an important insight about the already existing technical mediation of labor by the tool, alluded to as early as the discussion of the “first historical act” in The German Ideology . However, the late...
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Why Medieval Allegory?
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Qui Parle (2021) 30 (2): 421–438.
Published: 01 December 2021
...Bernardo Sarmiento Hinojosa A review of Katharine Breen , Machines of the Mind: Personification in Medieval Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021) and Nicolette Zeeman , The Arts of Disruption: Allegory and “Piers Plowman” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020). Cited...
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