DIGITAL PHILOSOPHY

Sublating Time: Hegel's speculative philosophy and digital aesthetics

In this paper I discuss G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy, arguing that the immanent, self-determining and dialectical movement of his ‘speculative thinking’ offers insights into contemporary aesthetics, the knowledge of reality, and of meaning in the transitoriness of the digital image. I relate speculative thinking as ontology to the ontology and temporality of the digital image, and focus my discuss...

Philosophy of Philosophy of Religion

How to Escape Irrelevance: Performance Philosophy, Public Philosophy and Borderless Philosophy

 Carlo Cellucci has rightly pointed out that contemporary professional academic philosophy has a serious problem of irrelevance. Performance philosophy and public philosophy are two recent attempts to solve that problem and radically transform professional academic philosophy into what I call real philosophy. Nevertheless, performance philosophy and public philosophy have some prima facie probl...

Digital Culture & Education (dce) " Ludic Philosophy " : Subjectivity, Choice and Virtual Death in Digital Media Please Scroll down for Article Schäfer 116 " Ludic Philosophy " : Subjectivity, Choice and Virtual Death in Digital Media

Time, the irrevocability of choice and commitment as well as the finality of death are central premises in modern moral and political thinking. This irreversibility is understood to reflect something about the organism, and something about the world. As culture comes to be mediated more and more by digital architectures in which time can be skipped, reversed, and begun again, it becomes importa...

Philosophy of Mathematics and Philosophy of History

mathematical and one philosophical. In the first, Socrates leads the slave boy to correct, refine, and extend his intuition of a pair of geometrical diagrams by examining his presuppositions in the light of certain background knowledge (about arithmetic), as they solve a problem together. In the second, Socrates leads Meno to correct, refine, and extend his intuition about virtue as well as abo...