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    Technic and

    5 M,r i ^ • fr 1Y

    The Re-Enchantment of the World, Bernard Stiegler


    The Philosophy of Simondon, Pascal Chabot
    Lines o f Flight, Felix Guattari
    How to Sleep, Matthew Fuller
    Philosophy and Simulation, Manuel DeLanda
    Dust, Michael Marder
    Hypnosis Between Science and Magic, Isabelle Stengers
    The Reconstruction of Reality

    Technic and
    Magic
    BY F E D E R I C O CAAAPAGNA

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    Preface, ‘The Keymaker’ by Timothy Morton x

    Introduction 1

    1 Technic’s world 13
    Crisis of reality 13
    Technic 19
    Measure and infinity 28
    No outside 37
    Crisis of action, crisis of imagination 45

    2 Technic’s cosmogony 57
    Defining terms 57
    First hypostasis: Absolute language 65
    Second hypostasis: Measure 71
    Third hypostasis: Unit 79
    Fourth hypostasis: Abstract general entity 84
    Fifth hypostasis: Life as vulnerability 89
    Upper and lower limits: Ego absconditus and double
    affirmation 95
    Conclusion 99

    Intermission - W hat is reality? 103


    Between India and the West 105
    Why seek reality? 109

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