Branches: A Philosophy of Time, Event and Advent

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Contents
Preface
System
	Format-father
		Anti-event protection system
		Balance and balance sheet
		Format: Homogeneous units, series, repetitions
		Things and humans: Formation
		The definition of format
		A different genealogy of the computer
		Pedagogy, production, training
		Leibniz: The mathematics of the father and the singularities of the son
		Five moments of formatting in the West
		A different synthesis
		Format, information, recording medium
		The Grand Formatter
		The father, today?
		The tyrant
		Foresight and prevision
		An age of the Son?
		Sciences-daughters
		The Grand Narrative and history
	Science-daughter
		Father-son: Deduction, induction
		Decenterings
		Scientists-sons
		Father and Son
		Possession or contract?
		Birth and newness
		Mother, black widow
		Christmas and Palm Sunday [Rameaux]
		Knowledge
		Wandering or exodus
		Metaphysics and metanomics
		Learning, inventing
		The escient of consciousness
		Communion of saints
		The end of war during the era of the Son
	The adoptive son
		Belongingness and identity
		The newness of the I
		Hominization
		Event, advent
		The three contingencies of universal consciousness
		Credo and cogito
		The evaluation of the I
		Paul, son
		The adoptive son
		The Prodigal Son
		Ecclesia
		The power of death and the resurrection
		Dead object
		The renascent subject
		The project of immortality
Narrative
	Event
		The consequences of the event
		Causes
		On little causes
		Nature and cultures
		Generalization
		The observer and his interest
		Action and thought
		Jubilation, gambling
		Four new things
		Boredom
		The deadly melancholy of ‘news’
		New praise of format
		Freedom from death
		The theory of four truths
		Us, in this story
		Narratives
		The ramification of languages
		The ramification of consciousness and of desire
		Branch-time
		Disquietude
	Advent
		How are we to be reborn? Through good encounter [encontre]
		Autocatalysis
		The birth of the Earth and of a group
		Inclination
		Announcements
		The principle of reason
		An extract from a poetic art: Exordium
		The birth of subjects
		The birth of possibilities
		The second nappe of the cone
		The escence of humanity
		Appareiller [setting sail], precisely: the Grand Narrative of technologies
		The detachable artificial
		Revisiting death
		The egg: Half-alive and half-object
		Exoskeleton and keratinous appendages
		Heat, solids, fluids and negentropy
		The origin of the quasi-object
		Revisiting the origin of biotechnologies and evolution
		Avatars
		Numbers, codes, notes
		Naturance
	Today
		How are we to move to today’s sum?
		The sham master
		Evolution produces a producer of evolution
		The ethics of the helm [gouvernail]: Precaution and prudence
		Death on the horizon
		Leaving a place
		Interlude: 1944–2004
		Reprise: Concordance
		New politics?
		Three reasons for the concordat
		Change of knowledge
		Three formats-cities
		Another interlude
		An admission
		Virtual contract
		Project
		Envoi
Notes
	Preface
	Format-father
	Science-daughter
	The adoptive son
	Event
	Advent
	Today
Bibliography
	System
	Narrative