SMR is proud to announce that Joel White will be giving a free lecture on November 22 (19.00 CET/13.00 EST ) as part of SMR's Winter Open Seminar Series 2024/2025 entitled: " On Logomachy: A Conceptual Recovery". You can register for their talk on this link: [ Ссылка ]

Abstract:
I take logomachy to be a transduced thermoinformatic logic of sense. It is concerned with how thermodynamics, the science of energy and entropy, and information theory, the science of information, affects questions concerning the adequacy, validity, and demonstration of sense, what is sometimes called logic or philosophical semantics. The content of the course, in particular, will explore the etymological and conceptual history of the Greek word λογομᾰχῐ́ᾱ (logmachia) and its subsequent translations into Latin, French and English as Logomachiis, Logomachie and logomachy. I shall track, through the major events in the concept’s history (from Plato and Saul to Artaud via Derrida), what is at stake in logomachy’s philosophical recovery as a thermoinformatic logic or art of sense.

Bio:
Joel White is a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and a Part-time Lecturer at Staffordshire University. He is also the executive editor of Technophany, Journal of Philosophy and Technology (Radboud University Press) and a Seminar Instructor at the New Centre for Research and Practice. His research is situated in the emerging transdisciplinary field termed Critical Epistemology

Abouth the School of Materialist Research:
The School of Materialist Research hosts seminars on original content engaging materialist thought and practice across the humanities, arts, and sciences. Topics covered in the seminars range from contemporary philosophical, political, and scientific materialisms, and the various ecological, aesthetic, and feminist materialisms that have sprung up in the last few decades, to the material challenges and possibilities confronting engineering and design on a planetary scale (through the distributed practices of computing, finance, urbanization, etc.), especially the host of geopolitical, racial, and ecological asymmetries that emerge in their wake. The seminars therefore embrace a full range of methodologies—philosophical, artistic, empirical, ethnographic, etc.—and offer a platform for showcasing research and experimentation on the many complexities of materialist thought and practice today

свернуть