I’m happy to share that my new book, The Philosophy of Isabelle Stengers, is out today. A paperback edition will follow. edinburghuniversitypress.com…

“If there is a text to be learned by heart, it’s Spinoza’s Ethics. Learning Kant by heart makes no sense! That would be useless. Learning Spinoza by heart will serve you throughout your life.” (Deleuze, 6 January 1981)

“All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature.” Marx

I have been simulating fluids for 15 years. There is a widespread impression that the Navier Stokes equations have been now “solved”, thanks to OpenAI. This suggests that they were “unsolved” so far and this was a major engineering breakthrough. This is not true. This misunderstanding deeply bothers me as a computational physicist. So I had to put this out.

I’ve been reading a lot of books about technology and politics lately, and this is one of my favorites. It persuasively argues that any viable postcapitalist future will require us to appropriate emerging technologies like AI and robotics as the means of production.

“It is time to re-examine machinic productions of images, signs of artificial intelligence, etc., as new materials of subjectivity.” Guattari, 1992

One thing I love about Guattari is that he’s deeply optimistic.

Philosophy friends! I wrote a new essay titled "Analytic Philosophy Is the Ideology of the Status Quo" - please share your thoughts walterveit.substack.com/p/an…

The Dig you have been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes a fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI thedigradio.com/podcast/sili…

“Accepting otherness is possible precisely on the condition of assuming the multiplicity within oneself.” Guattari

“Become who you are.” Nietzsche

“One of the most pervasive and subtle aspects of hegemony is the limitations it imposes upon our collective imagination.” Srnicek and Williams

“How could we reconnect the head to the body, how could we join science and technology with human values?” Guattari, 1992

“Humanity is an incomplete vector of transformation.” Srnicek and Williams

It's really impressive just how much a man who died in 1992 understood already about phenomena most of us are only beginning to grasp now.

“Intelligence and sensibility have undergone a total mutation as a result of new computer technology.” Guattari, 1992

“Subjectivity produces reality.” Guattari

Seize the means of production of subjectivity.

“People have little reason to turn away from machines; which are nothing other than hyperdeveloped and hyperconcentrated forms of certain aspects of human subjectivity.” Guattari