The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition

The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition / edited by Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy.

Can Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter?Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recognize...

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Nietzsche Workshop @ Western.
TeilnehmendeR:
Biswas Mellamphy, Nandita,
Mellamphy, Dan,
New School Art Center (New York, N.Y.). Parson School of Design.
University of Western Ontario,
Nietzsche Workshop @ Western.
Place / Publishing House:Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020
©2020
Year of Publication:2016
2020
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (282 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).
Notes:"The inspiration for this volume of essays, drawn from the proceedings of the Nietzsche Workshop @ Western (held at Western University, London, ON, and the Center for Transformative Media at The New School, New York, NY), comes from the hypothesis that Nietzsche's thinking is pertinent to a phenomenon which can be described as the planetary propensity toward the digitization and networking of information"--Page 10.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nietzsche and Networks, Nietzschean Networks: The Digital Dionysus / Dan Mellamphy & Nandita Biswas Mellamphy
  • Digital Alexandrians: Greek as Musical Code for Nietzsche and Kittler / Babette Babich
  • The Internet as a Development from Descartes' Res Cogitans: How to Render It Dionysian / Horst Hutter
  • Networked Nightmares: On Our Dionysian Post-Military Condition / Manabrata Guha
  • A Philosophy of the Antichrist in the Time of the Anthropocenic Multitude: Preliminary Lexicon for the Conceptual Network / Gary Shapiro
  • Occupying God's Shadow: Nietzsche's Eirōneia / Julian Reid
  • Reading Nietzsche in the Wake of the 2008-9 War on Gaza / C. Heike Schotten
  • Nietzsche's Amor Fati: Wishing and Willing in a Cybernetic Circuit / Nicola Masciandaro
  • Outing the "It" that Thinks: On the Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem / R. Scott Bakker
  • All for Naught / Eugene Thacker
  • A Horse is Being Beaten: On Nietzsche's "Equinimity" / Dominic Pettman
  • The Rope-Dancer's Fall: "Going Under" as Undergoing Nietzscheo-Simondonian Transindividuation / Sarah Choukah
  • The Will to Obsolescence: Nietzsche, Code, and the Digital Present / Jen Boyle
  • Farmville, Eternal Recurrence, and the Will-to-Power-Ups / Dylan Wittkower
  • Aesthetic States of Frenzy: Nietzsche's Aesthetic Palimpsest / Joseph Nechvatal
  • "Philosophizing With a Scalpel": From Nietzsche to Nina Arsenault / Shannon Bell
  • "Nietzsche in Drag": Thinking Technology through the Theater of Judith Butler / Arthur Kroker.

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