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The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition

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TitleThe Digital Dionysus
SubtitleNietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition
ContributorDan Mellamphy (editor)
Nandita Biswas Mellamphy(editor)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0149.1.00
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/digital-dionysus/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightMellamphy, Dan; Biswas Mellamphy, Nandita
Publisherpunctum books
Publication placeEarth, Milky Way
Published on2016-09-12
ISBN978-0-692-27079-0 (Paperback)
Long abstractCan Nietzsche be considered a thinker of media and mediation, as the German media theorist Friedrich Kittler declared in his influential book Gramophone, Film, Typewriter? Nietzsche was a truly transdisciplinary thinker, one who never fit into his own nineteenth-century surroundings and who recognized himself as a “herald and precursor” of the future, of our globally-reticulated digital present. Perhaps not since Kittler has there been a study — let alone an anthology — that re-assesses and re-evaluates Nietzsche’s thought in light of the technically mediated and machinic conditions of the human in the age of digital networks.
Print length286 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Dimensions127 x 203 mm | 5" x 8" (Paperback)
THEMA
  • JBCT
  • UXA
  • QDHR
BIC
  • JFD
BISAC
  • SOC052000
Keywords
  • media studies
  • cybernetics
  • networks
  • philosophy
  • technology
Contents

Frontmatter

(pp. i–x)
  • Dan Mellamphy
  • Nandita Biswas Mellamphy

Nietzsche and Networks, Nietzschean Networks: The Digital Dionysus

(pp. 10–30)
  • Dan Mellamphy
  • Nandita Biswas Mellamphy

Digital Alexandrians: Greek as Musical Code for Nietzsche and Kittler

(pp. 32–48)
  • Babette Babich

The Internet as a Development from Descartes' Res Cogitans: How to Render It Dionysian

(pp. 50–61)
  • Horst Hutter

Networked Nightmares: On Our Dionysian Post-Military Condition

(pp. 62–81)
  • Manabrata Guha

A Philosophy of the Antichrist in the Time of the Anthropocenic Multitude: Preliminary Lexicon for the Conceptual Network

(pp. 82–94)
  • Gary Shapiro

Occupying God's Shadow: Nietzsche’s Eirōneia

(pp. 96–106)
  • Julian Reid

Reading Nietzsche in the Wake of the 2008-9 War on Gaza

(pp. 108–130)
  • C. Heike Schotten

Nietzsche’s Amor Fati: Wishing and Willing in a Cybernetic Circuit

(pp. 132–143)
  • Nicola Masciandaro

Outing the "It" that Thinks: On the Collapse of an Intellectual Ecosystem

(pp. 144–160)
  • R.Scott Bakker

All for Naught

(pp. 162–170)
  • Eugene Thacker

A Horse Is Being Beaten: On Nietzsche’s “Equinimity”

(pp. 172–183)
  • Dominic Pettman

The Rope-Dancer’s Fall: “Going Under” as Undergoing Nietzscheo-Simondonian Transindividuation

(pp. 184–195)
  • Sarah Choukah

The Will to Obsolescence: Nietzsche, Code, and the Digital Present

(pp. 196–206)
  • Jen Boyle

Farmville, Eternal Recurrence, and the Will-to-Power-Ups

(pp. 208–217)
  • Dylan Wittkower

Aesthetic States of Frenzy: Nietzsche’s Aesthetic Palimpsest

(pp. 218–235)
  • Joseph Nechvatal

“Philosophizing With a Scalpel”: From Nietzsche to Nina Arsenault

(pp. 236–248)
  • Shannon Bell

“Nietzsche in Drag”: Thinking Technology through the Theater of Judith Butler

(pp. 250–282)
  • Arthur Kroker
Contributors

Dan Mellamphy

(editor)

Nandita Biswas Mellamphy

(editor)
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3576-1841