READING GROUP:
PCPN is back this fall with, DIGITAL MACHINICS, a unit on modern technology and its effect of human self-understanding. Don’t miss our meetings most Tuesday evenings (7:00pm) at the Bloomfield Crazy Mocha.
This week:
- 11/26 – De Landa, Manuel. “Collision Course” in War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE
Please bring either a digital or hard copy of the text with you to the discussion.
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Bloomfield Crazy Mocha (4525 Liberty Ave).
As a reminder, even though we have moved to thematic groups, there is no expectation that people participate in every week, so even if you can’t commit to the whole section, you are still more than welcome to join us when you can.
OTHER EVENTS THIS WEEK:
OTHER NEWS:
LOOKING AHEAD:
Upcoming in DIGITAL MACHINICS
Pdfs of the readings can be found: HERE
- 11/26 – De Landa, Manuel. “Collision Course” in War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
- 12/03 – Lazzarato, Maurizio. “Signifying Semiologies and Asignifying Semiotics
in Production and in the Production of Subjectivity” in Signs and Machines. - 12/10 – Bifo. “Info-labor and ‘precarization’.”
- 12/17 – Serres, Michel. Thumbelina, excerpt TBD.
Pittsburgh Continental Philosophy Network 
Thought introduction to DeLanda essay more interesting that assigned reading. Although I did read assignment. The feeling it gave me was that I was reading Hegel’s Phenomenology as written by Grahan Harman. Interesting that DeLanda and Harman recently collaborated on a book on Realism.