Sebastian Michael

Ludger Hovestadt

Vera Bühlmann

from Scarcity to Abundance - a Radical Pathway

Genius Planet : Energy

This book introduces the reader to Serres' unique manner of 'doing philosophy' that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness. It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that commits itself to a form of reasoning which privileges the most direct path (simple method) in order to expend minimal efforts while pursuing maximal efficiency. In Serres' universal economy, value is considered as a function of rarity, not as a stock of resources. This book demonstrates how Michel Serres has developed an architectonics that is coefficient with nature. Mathematic and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres acquaints the reader with Serres' monist manner of addressing the universality and the power of knowledge – that is at once also the anonymous and empty faculty of incandescent, inventive thought. The chapters of the book demarcate, problematize and contextualize some of the epistemologically unsettling situations Serres addresses, whilst also examining the particular manner in which he responds to and converses with these situations.

Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres

Mit der Inversion von McLuhan’s berühmten Dictum das Medium sei die Nachricht geht es der Autorin darum, einen Begriff von Medialität zu konturieren, welcher die selbstbezügliche – und damit dem Stattfinden nach unbegrenzte, weil rein operative – Wendigkeit medialer Instrumentalität beherbergen und in einem Element des Mitteilbaren einquartieren kann. Medialität wird hier seinem Sinngehalt nach als abstrakt-symbolische und virtuelle Verteiltheit konzipiert, die alles denkbar Mögliche aufnehmen und indexieren kann, unter einer Bedingung: dass dieses sich formal-operativ symbolisieren, adressieren und kategorisieren lässt. So begriffen durchkreuzt Medialität rein logische wie auch rein fiktive Ordnungsvorstellungen und eröffnet genau damit die Möglichkeit einer Architektonik ziviler, im Sinne von mehrwertigen und unstetig wandelbaren Gliederungsgefügen. Dieser Möglichkeit spürt die Autorin hier gegenwartsdiagnostisch und kulturgeschichtlich nach.

Generische Medialität, städtische Architektonik

Die Nachricht, ein Medium

The humanities, natural and technical sciences seemingly have little to say to each other - despite all the trans-disciplinary efforts. The "Applied Virtuality" series will comprise four volumes that create and examine a discourse on the correlations between the larger contexts of ther present. Printed Physics, the first volume, begins with the discussion of developments in information technology that make the physical behavior of matter technologically programmable, allow for its factual construction, industrial production and its determination with symbols. Is it possible that a revitalization of the field of physics looms in the future similar to that which took place with geometry in the 19th century?

Metalithikum I

Printed Physics

Selena Savić

Michael R. Doyle

In this book, the editors focus on architecture and communication from various different perspectives – taking into account that the term “architecture” is used for buildings as well as in the context of computer software. Data and software also impact on our cities; raw data, however, do not convey any information – in order to generate information and communication they have to be organized and must make sense to the reader. The contributions avoid clear separation of the various communication spheres of their disciplines. Instead, they use the wide range of approaches to explore meanings – an ambitious aim that leaves the destination wide open; the reader is invited to share in this adventure.

Shadows cast and shadows cast out

Ghosts of Transparency

Imagine a world where the power is always on, where there is not just enough energy, but an abundance of it. Such a world is no Utopia, it is a possible reality. Using indefinitely available sources of energy – especially photovoltaic solar, in combination with others – and networking this energy, much in the way that we have networked information, we can get beyond our current energy ‘crisis’ and resolve it. The world we then find ourselves in is not a world without problems – we will face new challenges on the way – but in terms of energy it is a world of plenty. Rooted in sound theory and based on technology that is available now, A Genius Planet offers an accessible but detailed and insightful perspective on how we can free ourselves from our dependency on natural resources and generate, trade, and use energy in ways that open up the genuine potential that we have at our disposal today.

Energy: From Scarcity to Abundance – a Radical Pathway

A Genius Planet

“SHEAVES” will not describe anything. It will not judge. It will inspire. There are no continuous texts, but a wide range of topics. How to read this book? Take the notions seriously. Search the Internet and they will lose their generalness. They will begin to speak to you vividly. Bundle these riches with the riches of other notions and they will activate each other. Also take the pictures seriously. Photograph or scan them. Use them as an index, while searching the Internet. Again, you will find rich stories. Bundle those riches, concentrate them into new identities that are interesting to you. Let yourself be inspired by the intellectual wealth of our world. You can expand it. It is an exciting adventure, demanding and optimistic.

Vera Bühlmann

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