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"This book introduces the reader to Serres' unique manner of 'doing philosophy' that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a novel manner of bearing witness. It explores how Serres takes note of a range of epistemologically unsettling situations, which he understands as arising from the short-circuit of a proprietary notion of capital with a praxis of science that commits itself to a form of reasoning which privileges the most direct path (simple method) in order to expend minimal efforts while pursuing maximal efficiency. In Serres' universal economy, value is considered as a function of rarity, not as a stock of resources. This book demonstrates how Michel Serres has developed an architectonics that is coefficient with nature. Mathematic and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres acquaints the reader with Serres' monist manner of addressing the universality and the power of knowledge - that is at once also the anonymous and empty faculty of incandescent, inventive thought. The chapters of the book demarcate, problematize and contextualize some of the epistemologically unsettling situations Serres addresses, whilst also examining the particular manner in which he responds to and converses with these situations."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Main description: Ließe sich die architektonische Frage, wo denn das Wissensmögliche seine Begründung, Behausung, und Gliederung findet, jenseits jeder Behauptung von Natürlichkeit und unter genuin städtischen Vorzeichen neu formulieren? Die Autorin konturiert einen Begriff von Medialität als Element verteilter, diskontinuierlicher und sich gegenseitig herausfordernder wie hervorbringender Möglichkeiten, die aus all jenem entspringen, was sich mitteilen lässt.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Instead of a Preface, a Frontispiece -- Incipit, a Chord -- Tempered in the Time of the Analemma -- Didascalicon -- Digital Ekphrasis -- The Digital, a Continent? -- Cosmoliteracy and Anthropography -- Statuesque Words in Locum Tenens: Cornucopian Instruments, Lieu-tenants of Statements -- Photosynthesis: Cosmic Convivia of Meteora Alloys -- The Alphabetic Absolute -- Capital Bodies: Secrets of the Universe -- In Medias Naturae -- The Instrumentation of Space: Time, Cosmos, Politics -- Entwurf of the Method and Ethics of its Discourse: Cartesianism Reconsidered -- Once Upon the Autonomy of Words -- Bibliography.

We know the specific strengths of various cities, are aware of their ranking, are able to discuss their density and growth. But what do all cities have in common, what do we know about their "lowest common denominator"?The "city as a species", the "primal genetic material of the city": this is the subject of A Quantum City. This colossal work is a love letter to the city and intellectual culture.

This report on the Ethics of Coding [EoC] presents a snapshot view through an investigation on the current state of what we call "the algorithmic condition". By speaking of the algorithmic condition, we pick up today, in critical manner, Hannah Arendt's question of the condition of possibility for leading an "active life" as the conditions of possibility for politics. For Arendt, this question emerged out of an altered status of knowledge that resulted in her time from being related to nature of the earth as investigated from a viewpoint in the universe, rather than one situated firmly on earthly grounds (Arendt, 1958). In doing so this report brings together discourses and objects, of the sciences and the humanities, and seeks to present a spectrum of the diversity of issues generated by this altered, novel condition, and survey of the wide-ranging considerations and potential applications of this topic. Further, this report on the ethics of coding and the algorithmic condition asks: How can we think adequately about the relation between knowledge and ethics in societies that are governed by algorithmic digital systems and objects endowed with agency? In order to attend to these latter questions, we looked at Jean-Francois Lyotard's report from 1979 on the altered status of knowledge in "computerized societies". Raising Arendt's question of critique (and transcendentality of conditions of possibility) with regard to how we think about "human nature", as well as by relating coding and programming to Lyotard's particular notion of language games and paralogisms (Lyotard, 1979), we propose to take into account, from both viewpoints, an emerging novel "literacy" which we propose to call a "quantum literacy". With this, we want to direct attention to the principle inadequacy of thinking about numbers and letters, mathematics and language, as two separate domains of which the former is concerned with the necessary whereas the latter deals with the contingent and interpretable. Code confronts us with an "impure" ...