Virus Magic, or about the amplification of an unknown factor
The unknown factor is a variable in a conditional equation in mathematics; it is the quantity which is to be discovered by solving an equation (This is…
Moribund Algorithm, or “How to learn the magic word that evokes the shape of things to come?” On Modalities of Sorcery
Operations with Algorithms are at the heart of disease prevention technologies. This is a follow-up article of those published in the 20 September, 13 October, and 6…
(Without) the Reason of State, with the Autonomous Technicality of Disease Prevention
Can we arrive through reason at knowing what is the reason of state? For if unreason should come into conflict with reason, we shall then reason and…
The Soul and the Mind-building potentates, or on the irrationality of Artificial Intelligence
This is a follow-up article to the one published in VoegelinView on 20 September 2021. The question concerned whether a sudden emergency situation can lead to or…
Instrumentalizing Politics by Secreting Delirious Effluences
When we pose the question whether a sudden emergency situation can lead to or bring about permanent changes in politics, the seemingly evident answer would be ‘yes’.…
The Perspective of Liminality
Liminality and the Modern. Bjørn Thomassen. Farnham: Ashgate, 2014. This new book by the Danish scholar Bjørn Thomassen is organized around the term liminality, an anthropologically based…