Intelligence and Spirit
By: Reza Negarestani
4.14
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
The history of philosophy conceived as the elaboration of a program for artificial general intellig…
Want to Read"What makes Hegel's picture of geist a significant contribution not only to the history of functionalism and philosophy of mind but also, intriguingly, to the history of artificial general intelligence, is that it presents a social model of general intelligence, one in which sociality is a formal condition for the realization of cognitive abilities that would be unrealizable by individual agents alone."-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"In the wake of scientific rationality, mind turns into a wave of noetic deracination. This deracination of thought and its noetic drift is commensurate with what Plato calls the Form of Good as the Form of Forms, since it sets up the scaffolding for a conception of the realm of intelligibilities as a complex system of recipes for crafting a world which includes not only satisfying lives but also the perpetual demand for the better."-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"Functional analysis and the study of structural complexity should be approached as essentially conjoined programs. Unless both are in place, description and prescription in any form will be untenable, and prospective explanations, interventions, analyses, and critiques will result in dogmatic positions ranging, depending on their contexts, from resigned cynicism to fatalist optimism, from analytic stinginess to speculative overenthusiasm."-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"It is therefore necessary to grasp the concept of artificial general intelligence not merely as a technoscientific idea, but more fundamentally as a concept belonging to a thought or form of intelligence that treats its very possibility as an explicit opportunity to pierce through the horizon of its givenness: it does not matter what it currently is; what matters is what can be done - all relevant things considered - to expand and build on this possibility."-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
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1. Beyond Good and Evil
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Michael Tanner , R.J. Hollingdale
4.02
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
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2. The Speculative Turn: Continental Materialism and Realism
By: Alain Badiou , Slavoj Žižek , Isabelle Stengers , Graham Harman , Levi Bryant , Nick Srnicek , Martin Hägglund , Peter Hallward , Adrian Johnston , François Laruelle , Bruno Latour , Quentin Meillassoux , Reza Negarestani , John Protevi , Steven Shaviro , Alberto Toscano , Ray Brassier , Nathan Brown , Gabriel Catren , Manuel DeLanda , Iain Hamilton Grant
3.76
Format: 430 pages, Paperback
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3. #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader
By: Robin Mackay , Armen Avanessian
3.94
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Accelerationism is the name of a contemporary political heresy: the insistence that the only radica… read more
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"The subject of theory can no longer affect to stand outside the process it describes: it is integrated as an immanent machine part in an open ended experimentation that is inextricable from capital’s…"-Robin Mackay, #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader
4. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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5. Nihil Unbound: Naturalism and Anti-Phenomenological Realism
By: Ray Brassier
4.05
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Where much contemporary philosophy seeks to stave off the "threat" of nihilism by safeguarding the … read more
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6. Pattern Recognition (Blue Ant, #1)
By: William Gibson
4.06
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
Cayce Pollard is an expensive, spookily intuitive market-research consultant. In London on a job, s… read more
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7. Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
By: William Gibson
3.72
Format: 371 pages, Hardcover
Tito is in his early twenties. Born in Cuba, he speaks fluent Russian, lives in one room in a NoLit… read more
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"Secrets...are the very root of cool."-William Gibson, Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
"That’s what money will buy you, in America,"-William Gibson, Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
"Canadian cities looked the way American cities did on television."-William Gibson, Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
"the windows of army surplus stores constituted hymns to male powerlessness."-William Gibson, Spook Country (Blue Ant, #2)
8. The Wandering Earth
By: Liu Cixin , Holger Nahm , None , None
3.73
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
First published in Science Fiction World, July 2000. I've never seen the night, nor seen a star; I'… read more
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9. The Tartar Steppe
By: Dino Buzzati , Stuart Hood
3.80
Format: 25 pages,
Often likened to Kafka's The Castle, The Tartar Steppe is both a scathing critique of military life… read more
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10. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative?
By: Mark Fisher
4.00
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
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11. Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia
By: Gilles Deleuze , Félix Guattari
3.51
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
A major work in the development of critical theory in the late 20th century, ANTI-OEDIPUS is an ess… read more
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12. On the Genealogy of Morals
By: Friedrich Nietzsche , Douglas Smith
4.13
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. N… read more
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"We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!"-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"There is so much in man that is horrifying!.. The world has been a madhouse for too long!..."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"Somebody said: "About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
"All concepts in which an entire process is semiotically concentrated elude definition; only that which has no history is definable."-Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals
13. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
By: Sigmund Freud , James Strachey
2.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
In reasoned progression he outlined core psychoanalytic concepts, such as repression, free associat… read more
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14. The Man Without Qualities: Vol. 1
By: Robert Musil , Sophie Wilkins , Burton Pike
3.88
Format: 64 pages, Paperback
Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this great novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-so… read more
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15. The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
By: Thomas Ligotti , Ray Brassier
3.68
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
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16. Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
By: Søren Kierkegaard , Alastair Hannay , Victor Eremita
4.25
Format: 131 pages, Paperback
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17. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
By: Douglas R. Hofstadter
4.16
Format: None pages, Paperback
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18. Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
By: Robert M. Sapolsky
4.25
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, plumbs the depths of the … read more
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"I’m being diplomatic. Many readers will know of the “replication crisis"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"Obviously, imposing these classifications on determinism, free will, and moral responsibility is wildly simplified. A key simplification is pretending that most people have clean “yes"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
"You cannot decide all the sensory stimuli in your environment, your hormone levels this morning, whether something traumatic happened to you in the past, the socioeconomic status of your parents, you…"-Robert M. Sapolsky, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will
19. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
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Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
20. Intelligence and Spirit
By: Reza Negarestani
4.14
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
The history of philosophy conceived as the elaboration of a program for artificial general intellig… read more
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"What makes Hegel's picture of geist a significant contribution not only to the history of functionalism and philosophy of mind but also, intriguingly, to the history of artificial general intelligenc…"-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"In the wake of scientific rationality, mind turns into a wave of noetic deracination. This deracination of thought and its noetic drift is commensurate with what Plato calls the Form of Good as the F…"-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"Functional analysis and the study of structural complexity should be approached as essentially conjoined programs. Unless both are in place, description and prescription in any form will be untenable…"-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
"It is therefore necessary to grasp the concept of artificial general intelligence not merely as a technoscientific idea, but more fundamentally as a concept belonging to a thought or form of intellig…"-Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit
21. Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History
By: Thomas Moynihan
4.28
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
The historical continuity of spinal catastrophism, traced across multiform encounters between philo… read more
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"What is the therapeutic path? Is there one? How can we remedy a wound the size of existence? Of course, total recall— ecphoric excavation to the point of obsidian and diamantine repose—is the only th…"-Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History
"Coitus and sleep—both relieving the discontinuity of spinal-priapic erection through collapse into horizontal submersion—represent attempts at ‘archaic’ regressions. During both, ‘the whole body assu…"-Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History
"Like Blumenberg, Bataille relates uprightness to the origins of mythology, and, like Freud and Ferenczi, he formats the ‘progressive election [from] quadruped to Homo erectus’ as a deviation from cop…"-Thomas Moynihan, Spinal Catastrophism: A Secret History
