Simplex Society : : How to Humanize.

• Author: Stroeken, Koen.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Palgrave Macmillan,, 2023.; ©2024.
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (321 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Prologue -- The Signal -- Post-knowledge: Fragmented and Frameless -- Training Intuition: Tensors Versus Ideologies -- A Method -- Introduction: After Knowledge -- Sources of Culture -- Culture as Nomos and Logos -- Social and Cultural Analysis: Matrixial Anthropology -- Humanity: Life-Sensing -- Anthropological Validity: Toward a Speciated History -- Tensorial Anthropology: Society/Culture/Life -- Brief Overview of Chapters -- Part I: Simplex Frames -- Chapter One: Simpl(if)ication -- Unidimensional Language and Scapegoating -- Loss of Agency and Mediation -- Conflation in Automation -- The Multiplex: Going Back on a Decision -- Sphere and Frame: A Dynamic -- Chapter Two: Frameshift -- Post-knowledge: Simplex Frames in the Language Economy -- Miscommunication -- Reconstructing the Simplication -- Animism: Frame Retrieval and the Species -- Frameshift, Identity and Emotion -- The Rapprochement of 'Russia' -- Chapter Three: Losing the Feel for the Craft -- Babied -- Drones -- Witchcraft as Science -- Uncertainty and the Real -- Statement, Frame, Sphere and Source -- Chapter Four: The Human Experiment -- Superiority of the WEIRD -- Demonization: A Genealogy of Simplexes -- Chapter Five: Simplex Communication Society -- Gut Feeling Versus the Globe's Distended Frame -- Beyond Ontology and Intersectionality: The 'Incel' Vector -- Obstructions to Communication in the Knowledge Economy -- Simplex Aspects Applied: Boycott and Science -- Part II: Tensors of the Undertow -- Chapter Six: Collective Reason -- A New Prodemocracy Wave -- Re-sphere: The Law Against Ecocide -- Reframe: The Matrix of Enlightenment -- Marx's Matrix -- The Tensor of Inclusion -- Re-source to Reform -- Chapter Seven: The Oracle and the Real -- Quick Pull -- Chapter Eight: Healer or King.

Medicine and Chiefship: Communal Truth or Collective Reason? -- After Collective Reason: Anthropocene Autocracy -- Elections as Politics of the Real -- Chapter Nine: A Model Leader -- Chapter Ten: Entropology -- Generations of Energy -- The Anthropocene: A Speciated History of Affect -- Post-truth's Sixfold Effect on Affect: An Entropology -- Reconnecting: The Final Chapters -- Chapter Eleven: Soccer as Mirror -- Chapter Twelve: Street Cred -- Chapter Thirteen: Godwork -- Chapter Fourteen: Intuition, Destiny, Love -- Conscious Machines -- Chapter Fifteen: Phantoms of the Future -- A Brief History of Digital Distress -- Reasons for Optimism -- Pre-ception and Intraspecies Communication -- Aliens -- Epilogue: Or 16 -- Bibliography -- Index.