
Symbolizing Existence
Metalithikum III
Birkhäuser Verlag GmbH
1st Edition
Published on 24. May 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
260 pages
978-3-0356-0378-1 (ISBN)
Description
Symbolizing Existence deals with the current rapidly happening "deterritorialization" of everything which was once regarded stable and binding. What we today regard as statistically encoded information is capable to explicate and index the entire realm of what can be expressed and represented through a cascade of geometrical, functional, or finally logified schemes. We are currently experiencing a rapid loss of "grounding" of that which we once considered binding in our cultural and intellectual history. How can we obtain an articulate, cultivate way of thinking about "instances" that does not fall back into a schematic model Platonism (thereby falling behind Plato), and that does not remain enmeshed in an Aristotelian realization dynamics with a naturalism organized by original genus, kinds, and specific marks of distinction?The central phenomenon considered was the technological process of doping material: At the quantum level, a particle or its representation, the point, is no longer "that which has no parts" (Euclid).
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
Switzerland
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
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Illustrations
108 Abbildungen
108 b/w ill.
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
438 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-0356-0378-1 (9783035603781)
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05/2016
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Persons
Ludger Hovestadt, ETH Zürich; Vera Bühlmann, ETH Zürich