Norbert Wiener

Filosofía de la técnica - cibernético postmoderno

[Alexandra Epps @ArtGuideAlex]

Morning..
#LeahGardner

[love drops @lovedropx]

Portrait of a small boy reading by Gluyas Williams

[Marysia @marysia_cc]

Yuko Nakamura (Japanese, b. 1977)
"Black Cat", 2021

[Roger Boylan @BoylanRoger]

Exiled Cuban author Guillermo Cabrera Infante in his home library in London.

[Jorge Galindo @galindo45.bsky.social @galindo45]

1. Acaba de publicarse el libro electónico: "Las aventuras de la sobreproducción. Diferenciación funcional, autopoiesis y los límites biofísicos del capital" que escribimos Rodrigo Gómez y yo.
El libro se puede descargar de manera gratuita acá:
https://t.co/yB9VQ39qCf

[Nicolas G. Varela @niklasgv]

Ballard: "La ciencia y la tecnología se multiplican a nuestro alrededor. Hasta cierto punto, incluso dictan los lenguajes en que hablamos y pensamos. O usamos esos lenguajes, o mejor nos quedamos callados."

[Alejandro Romero @romeroreche]

"Con no poca ironía, podría decirse que la expresión común Angstaffekt se convierte aquí [según Byung-Chul Han] en la prueba de un delito cometido por Eva Illouz a través de un intermediario: el traductor".

[Manuel @Chuqaro]

La Marina de Guerra anuncia que dos submarinos con tecnología coreana serán construidos en el Perú. Revisa la entrevista al Contralmirante Luis León Cores, Comandante de la Fuerza de Submarinos de la Marina de Guerra, sobre la participación del Perú en el RIMPAC 2026.

[Christopher Satoor​​ @aufgehenderRest]

#Kierkegaard

[Guido @DekaGuido]

“Esiste un ordine segreto: i libri non puoi metterli a caso.
L'altro giorno ho riposto Cervantes
accanto a Tolstoj, ed ho pensato:
se vicino ad Anna Karenina c'è Don Chisciotte, di sicuro quest'ultimo farà di tutto per salvarla».

Ettore Scola

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

La esposa y la hija del gobernador colonial francés Paul Doumerm, arrojan sapèques (monedas de bajo valor) y granos de arroz a niños vietnamitas como si fuesen animales. (1900)

Así es como Occidente llevó la "civilización" al mundo, con la esclavitud, el saqueo y el genocidio.

[yahoo @yahoolovesyou]

Review of Santos' "US -- China: The Battle for the last Cyborg"

The Harmony That Wasn't

Santos asks the right question and then declines to answer it. He wonders whether the United States and China, under all the civilizational rhetoric, are merely contesting variants of the same Western technical rationality. He reheats the stereotypes of the "Brutish" cavalier Americans (cowboys, yankees) vs the "Serene" East (feminine, harmonious), and legitimizes it with discussions of Qi and Dao that exists more in seminar rooms than in the street level reality of the civilizations he is discussing.

Start where the claim is checkable.

> ...whether both the United States and China, despite all their civilisational rhetoric, are merely contesting variants of the same Western technical rationality.

This claim can easily be checked. Open Google Scholar and look at who is producing different kinds of engineering or AI research. Chinese-name researchers typically publish constantly and incrementally, in dense rapid series of iterative improvements that compound into something formidable; Western researchers publishes less frequently but aims at forever hunting the next paradigm. If a cosmotechnics exists at all, it lives there, in the daily orientation of ten thousand people bent over a problem; not in five-year plans, not in warmed-over Confucius. It does in fact reveal a distinct relation to technics, but not the kind that Santos imagines. It is the logic of Shanzhai and Tall-poppy Syndrome vs the drive to explore new vistas.

> In the Taoist and Confucian thought that Yuk Hui explores, technics resembles an instrument of harmonisation rather than domination... the Dao... and the Qi...

We can grant that the Shanzhai (mountain bandit fortress) style is superficially Daoist: zoom into the real, copy, refine, decline to interrogate the bigger picture, let the chips fall where they may. In practice, to call it "harmonious" is naive in the extreme. It is cutthroat, red in tooth and claw. The liberal outside the system and the orientalist HK academic in his ivory tower both prefer Laozi sanitized for export, because the real thing is unpleasant to look at. It would be gauche to point out the messiness.

This Shanzhai, bandit capitalism, culture of china is OLD, but was rarely the stuff of philosophers, so it may have been overlooked by academics seeking beautiful orientalist things to teach about. Nonetheless, this part of Chinese civilization was indeed canonnized long ago, in Water Margin, the Outlaws of the Marsh. Westerners, Brazilians included, would understand modern China far better through that lens than through the serene Laozi they keep reaching for.

> Modern (Western) technology developed under the dominion of instrumental reason, orienting tools toward the overcoming and control of nature rather than toward a harmonious relation with it.

A tired trope and a false dichotomy: the brutish Westerner, the esoteric harmonious other. This narrative survives, one suspects, because migrants to the West are in a foreign land, so outnumbered that they must adopt peacefulnesss, passivity, yin, accommodation. Then Westerners mistake this for the traits of civilization the migrant left. Do business in their homeland, where they are the majority, and the logic inverts. Harmony there is the figleaf the strongman on top tells to the ruled to keep them quiet, to make open debate feel like bad manners. Democracies run on dialectic, on talking back; the single-party state files exactly that under disharmonious. Hold your tongue, defer to the boss, do not debate in the open.

Moreover, claiming that technology "dominating nature" is due to modern, western capitalism belies reality. Iberians and Britons ran heavily-polluting, industrial-scale tin operations around 2000 BC, before coin or capitalism, and the Chinese rerouted entire watersheds long before modernity. Nobody waited for Heidegger to start bending the world to the will.

> Xi Jinping has revived Confucianism as the soul of the nation... not the harmonisation with nature or the flourishing of cultural diversity.

To imagine Confucianism a friend of diversity is to misread it at the root. Its animating impulse is the codification of ritual, however arbitrary, toward standardization- fewer cultural forms, not more.

The tension between the Confucian drive toward standardization and hierarchy and the Shanzhai drive toward rebellion and innovation is an ancient one. Daoism itself seeks to square the circle by allowing those lower down the hierarchy enough rope to hang themselves, only intervening to set incentives and not micro-manage. The current Confucian tidying of China into clean, legible shapes and monoculture is not a betrayal of the tradition. It is the tradition, running on schedule.

All in all, the dichotomy Santos identifies should not be rationality against harmony.

Both the West and China are deeply competitive, albeit in subtly different ways. Chinese look upon the West with its open arguments, assumption that "we" can reach a common understanding, and constant paradigm innovation with skepticism and alarm.

Among Chinese, there is little assumption of Good Faith among the others. Debates are about domination, not synthesis. And yet, as Confucian hierarchy wanes and Shanzhai waxes, the conflict becomes quieter. People are placid on the surface, while pursuing their own interests or sharpening knives in silence, showing their true strength only when they are so powerful no one is left to object. Sun Tzu, not Heidegger. Water Margin, not the Tao Te Ching. The Gestell reading holds; it simply has teeth the piece preferred not to show.

Commentators in the West (or Brazil) ought turn inwards to contrast these to their own societies. The irony is that real bottom-up harmony, the decentralized kind, is far more a Catholic Brazilian inheritance than a Chinese one: the pickup band jamming together in the café, strangers talking amicably in line at the grocery store or bank.

We can always point the finger at others and decry them. But it would profit us more to, grab the bull by the horns and build the kinds of institutions that WE love and value ourselves.

And for us? It is dialectic. Good faith sharing and disagreement. It is then that we can come together and build what we are looking for on Earth.

[Günther Anders @GuntherAnders1]

¿Qué significa exactamente "arma controlada"?
¿Controlada por quién: por los gobiernos, por la IA o por ambos? 👇

[José Mario @JoseMarioMX]

Durante años nos repitieron que el futuro era aprender a programar. Que las humanidades eran adorno. Que filosofía, ética y derecho eran cosas lentas para un mundo que iba a vivir de datos, código y velocidad. Pero ahora ocurre algo revelador: los grandes laboratorios de inteligencia artificial están contratando filósofos. No porque se hayan vuelto románticos, sino porque descubrieron que la pregunta más difícil ya no es técnica.

El problema ya no es si una máquina puede escribir, diagnosticar, conducir, resolver, vigilar o decidir. El problema es desde qué idea de verdad, daño, libertad, dignidad y responsabilidad lo va a hacer. Una IA no contesta desde el vacío: trae una arquitectura moral escondida. Puede privilegiar eficiencia sobre derechos, seguridad sobre privacidad, obediencia sobre criterio, propiedad sobre igualdad. Y cuando esa lógica entra a tribunales, hospitales, escuelas, bancos o gobiernos, deja de ser software: se vuelve poder.

Por eso este debate es gigantesco. La pregunta brutal no es si la IA va a pensar por nosotros. La pregunta es quién va a decidir cómo debe pensar. Porque si empresas y gobiernos empiezan a diseñar “constituciones invisibles” para máquinas que ordenan nuestra vida, sin transparencia, sin control democrático y sin responsabilidad jurídica, no estaremos frente al futuro: estaremos frente a una nueva forma de autoridad, más rápida, más elegante, más opaca y mucho más difícil de combatir.

https://t.co/YgYG0iUZrw

[𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖝𝖌𝖊 🧙‍♂️🔮 @realjuanruocco]

Después de unos meses escribí un nuevo artículo para @421Net . Sobre el pensamiento de Curtis Yarvin y su influencia en internet. Cerramos así la prometida saga junto a Nick Land y Peter Sloterdijk.

https://t.co/Iarm6hsKOv

[Valy 🎩🎭 @liderfiscal]

#URGENTE Beirut en CAOS ‼️

Las multitudes han tomado completamente las calles, quemando neumáticos y bloqueando carreteras en furia por la firma de un acuerdo entre las autoridades libanesas e Israel.

Dicen que legaliza la ocupación israelí del sur de Líbano y otorga inmunidad a Netanyahu por crímenes de guerra.

Esto podría escalar rápidamente, la inconciencia de los lideres libaneses es brutal.

[Jorge Olivos Silva @tumbesbolibar7]

Caramba, caramba....Así cualquiera es PRESIDENTA DE LA REPÚBLICA... Fácil, muy fácil, NOOO ❗.

[Ado Rosa @rosa_ado]

«EL ANCIANO FILÓSOFO

Escribir es borrar».

Javier Villafañe (1909–1996), titiritero y poeta argentino.

🖌️ Robert Staudinger: «Löschung 01» (2016).

[Norbert Wiener @jucezave]

"Mazamorra" Muslera, se te meten todas las pelotas al arco y malogras el partido.

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

"Carpe Diem", le magnifique poème de Walt Whitman, une ode vibrante à vos rêves :
"Ne laisse pas le jour finir sans avoir grandi un peu,
Sans être heureux, sans avoir atteint tes rêves.
Ne te laisse pas vaincre par la déception.
Ne laisse personne t’enlever le droit de parler, c’est presque un devoir.
N’abandonne pas le désir de faire de ta vie quelque chose de spécial.
Crois bien que les mots et la poésie peuvent changer le monde.
Quoi qu’il advienne, notre être profond reste intact,
Nous sommes pleinement des êtres de passion.
La vie est désert et oasis.
Nous tombons, nous avons mal, nous apprenons, nous sommes les acteurs de notre histoire,
En dépit des vents contraires, ce travail puissant continue,
Tu peux en écrire une strophe.
Ne cesse jamais de rêver, parce que dans son rêve, l’homme est libre
Ne t’abandonne pas à la pire des fautes, le silence.
La plupart des hommes vivent dans le silence. Echappe-toi !
Apprécie la beauté des choses simples.
Tu peux écrire des poèmes sur des choses simples
Mais on ne peut voguer contre soi-même
Cela fait de la vie un enfer.
Aime la peur qui te fait aller de l’avant
Vis intensément, sans médiocrité
N’oublie pas que tu es le futur et aborde cette tâche avec fierté, sans crainte,
Apprends de ceux qui peuvent t’instruire
Ne laisse pas la vie s’écouler sans vivre cela."