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

  • Nicola Masciandaro (author)
Chapter of: The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche and the Network-Centric Condition(pp. 132–143)

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TitleNietzsche’s Amor Fati
SubtitleWishing and Willing in a Cybernetic Circuit
ContributorNicola Masciandaro (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0149.1.09
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/digital-dionysus/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightMasciandaro, Nicola
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-09-12
Long abstractThis paper is commentary on The Gay Science §276 in light of the cybernetic.3 The natural connection between the cybernetic and Nietz sche’s amor fati is evident in their intersection within the principle of interface as the site of steering or helmsmanship (kubernēsis). Nietz sche names this love under the double sign of Januarius — at once the two-faced god of beginnings/doorways/gates and the saint whose annually liquefying blood signals the miracle of spiritual renewal — and installs it as a navigational protocol in the form of a new year’s resolution: “Let that be my love from now on!” Amor fati, I will affirm, is the protocol for navigating interface itself, a pure cybernetic law that steers steer-ing per se around the radically immanent negative interfacial pole of looking away: “Let looking away be my only negation!” Love of fate, the positive formulation of not worrying, is a pros-thetic intrinsically necessary for manipulating the inoperability of interface, its being “a medium that does not mediate.”4 Far from representing an immaterial or merely subjective affect, amor fati enjoys a terrifying invisible positive traction and in-escapable occult influence upon all interfaces.
Page rangepp. 132–143
Print length12 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Nicola Masciandaro

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