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E-book Psychopolitical Anaphylaxis : Steps Towards a Metacosmics

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Let me begin by expressing my sincere gratitude for your decision to crack open at least the first page of this volume. Given that mass lit-eracy is an idea that has only been around a few centuries, given that thus far some 130 million titles have been published and more than two million new ones are added each year, given that a human being who dedicated his or her life to reading books would still only be able to get through a few thousand tomes cover-to-cover over the course of a lifetime, and given that the desire and the habit of regularly read-ing whole books is on the decline, an author in the twenty-first cen-tury should be thankful that anyone should happen to choose theirwork from among all the other possible options vying for their careful attention. Given the vastly greater number of possible choices com-pared with the number any individual can read, the set of books read by any particular man or woman amounts, we could say, to one way in which the uniqueness or the singularity of the psychic individua-tion process that characterizes his or her existence is expressed: the corpus of books read over a lifetime is an expression of that particular individual’s way of participating in the process of the transindividu-ation of literary significance, their way of drawing nourishment for their noetic soul from what the philosopher Bernard Stiegler called the noetic necromass, that artificial treasure of wealth corresponding psychically and culturally to the wealth of nutrition that the necro-mass, composed of dead life, makes available to the biomass.In the ecological sense (rather than the renewable energy sense), the biomass is the sum total of all the living biological organisms occupy-ing an ecosystem, and the ecosystem that encompasses all the smaller ecosystems has been known since the work of Vladimir Vernadsky as the biosphere. Vernadsky reflected on the way in which biochemistry interacted with and also transformed geochemical processes, hypoth-esizing that it was indeed possible, across geological timescales, for the combined biochemical processes of the biomass to reshape the whole ‘terrestrial envelope’.1 The book in which he made this case, The Biosphere, was published in 1926, the same year in which Martin Heidegger was still settling upon his conception of temporality while writing the final draft of Being and Time. The last of these books, Being and Time, was read by Stiegler early in his philosophical life, and his first book argues that, even though Heidegger does consider the place of artefacts in the constitution of Dasein’s historical tempo-rality, he ultimately rejects the possibility that ‘determining the unde-termined’ could grant access to the true character of time. For Stiegler himself, on the other hand, the possibility of such access can arise only from the world opened up by artefacts of all kinds, from the most basic tools to books to computer technology – the question of ‘tech-nics and time’ lying in this possibility of a world opened up beyond the ‘milieu’ described by Jakob von Uexküll for the animal (or the sensible soul, in Aristotle’s terms.

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320.01 ROS p

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: OPEN HUMANITIES PRESS., 2021

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440 hlm

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English

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9781785420900

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320.01

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computer

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online resource

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