Technically Man Dwells Upon This Earth

This is an incredible piece of scholarship on artificial intelligence and the possibility of a new art. For three months, an extract of this essay was made publicly available on our website — this is the complete version, preceded by an introduction by Louis Morelle, and followed with an elaborate postface by the author.It’s difficult to introduce this book, as it is not only an elaborate response to a burning question of the moment, but it is a vivid introduction into the work of Émilie Carrière, one of the most thought-provoking and impressive young authors of the last century — originally subtitled The Work of Art in the Age of Automated Reproduction, this text hits home as hard as Benjamin’s essay one hundred years ago. It is a a declaration of the conditions of the moment, and an introduction into how they will solve the problem.A deep exploration into the future of art, and what A.I reveals to us about the direction art is going. The book contextualises art and philosophy within an evolutionary timescale, and uses biology as an entry point into tackling difficult questions about art and intelligence. If you ever wondered how someone might handle a combination of Plato and Deleuze without ever losing form, this is really worth your time.This book has an introduction by Louis Morelle, another impressive, bright and young person with a really cutting-edge perspective on the moment. Between Carrière and Morelle, this text makes for a thrilling introduction to what they are calling Differential Henology. Both authors write with a cinematic flow, and perhaps it is there, in the comfort and conviction of their articulation, that we realise how talented these two authors are. TOPICS COVERED:Artificial IntelligenceMillennial SubjectivityAnti-TheoryArt, Philosophy of ArtThe Intellect and Dwelling Techne and ExternalizationAvatar 2, Wednesday AdamsEvolutionary Biology "This text leaves us with a clearing of the conceptual ground for thinking of the Intellect as unbounded production (as you are about to see unfold). This setting is able to provide a meaning to acceleration as the relinquishment of idenity to itself. All that can be automated, must be, for it already is; real acceleration derieves from the potentiallity to realize that which one already feels is at work in the now, the wirklich working its ways to the real. The tedious bone-crushing wheels of history will never stop turning, not until they have turned the world itself into a purposeless engine, at which point there wil be no calculation left to execute anyway. The logic of extinction here reveals itself as a condition for anarchic creations to operate, as its unilaterial counterpart. Instead of giving ourselves to erotics, or Gods forbid, aesthetics as a replacement for thought, there remains only the immanent necessity of understanding Thinking as a thinking of the Beautiful" Louis Morelle, Introduction. And still, there was the reproach that it was with the intellect that we began. But it was not so — and that the chosen subject was that of art, should have shown this enough already. We began, like Plato before us, right in the middle — we began with the beautiful. — Ulysse Carrière