The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism

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Part One The Epokhē of My Life
1 Disruption: A ‘New Form of Barbarism’
	1. The loss of reason
	2. From the slums of Temara to the presidency of the Université de technologie de Compiègne
	3. From Richard Durn to Jean-Marie Le Pen: primordial narcissism of the I and reason for living
	4. A ‘new kind of barbarism’ and algorithmic governmentality
	5. Always too late
2 The Absence of Epoch
	6. Before the end
	7. Negative teleology and end without purpose
	8. Epokhē and disruption
	9. Epochs and collective protention
	10. Disruption and sharing
3 Radicalization and Submission
	11. Ὕβρις and aboulia
	12. Speed and vanity
	13. Retention and disruption
	14. Despair and submission
	15. What we must not lose
	16. Neganthropy
	17. Identification, idealization and sublimation in the mutual admiration of the we
	18. Individuation, admiration and insubordination
4 Administration of Savagery, Disruption and Barbarism
	19. The barbarians attack
	20. Nihilism, disruption, madness
	21. Noesis and hallucination
	22. Outside the law: the epokhē of disruption and domination by chaos
	23. Conquest or salvation?
5 Outside the Law: Saint-Michel and the Dragon
	24. Anthropology of disruption
	25. Neganthropology of disruption
	26. Providential disruption and the ‘wall of time’: the reign of dread
	27. Φιλία, différance and ὕβρις
	28. Absent from every bouquet
	29. My prison studies and the epokhē of my life
	30. The existential propadeutic of noetic salvation
	31. The ‘end of the Book’, ‘Mémoires du futur’ and the ‘change of epoch’
	32. Release from prison: on another madness
	33. Filial experience of veridiction
	34. The cowardice of optimism and pessimism
Part Two Madness, Anthropocene, Disruption
6 Who Am I? Hauntings, Spirits, Delusions
	35. I am Malcolm X
	36. Who are we?
	37. State of emergency and philosophy
	38. Economy and politics
	39. Stories of contemporary madness
	40. Cultures, expectation, madness
7 Dreams and Nightmares in the Anthropocene
	41. Daydreams - or ‘The Milkmaid and the Pot of Milk’
	42. ‘All goes ill!’: sleep of reason and waking dreams
	43. Dreaming, making, acting - in the Anthropocene and beyond
	44. The deliberate exploitation of toxicity and the systemic carelessness that results
	45. Everything happens, nothing happens
	46. Legal and theoretical vacuums
	47. Technologically integrated totalitarianism and madness as neganthropological possibility
	48. Madness, reality and truth
	49. Hubris and boulēsis
	50. Will, disinhibition and denial
8 Morality and Disinhibition in Modern Times
	51. The exosomatization of the life of the mind, spiritual life as exosomatization, computational unreason
	52. Modern will and disinhibition
	53. Disinhibition and discipline as pharmacological consequences of tertiary retention
	54. The tragic and ὕβρις
	55. On the need to read or reread History of Madness in the twenty-first century
	56. The most mad
	57. The Modern Age as the ‘propensity for madness’
	58. From Raskolnikov to disruption, via Schumpeter: mercilessly clearing the way for the territories of disinhibition
	59. Risks, probabilities and protentions: reflective madness
	60. Modernity as a process of reflexive disinhibition
	61. Descartes and the Anthropocene, pirates and money, Sloterdijk and ill-being
9 Ordinary Madness, Extraordinary Madnesses
	62. On ‘the ordinary madness of power’
	63. Ordinary, extraordinary, morality, imagination
	64. The dream of Descartes and the question of powerlessness
	65. Hyperpower
	66. Madness, δαίμων, ὕβρις, Derrida (right up) against Foucault
	67. Dream, structure, history and totality
	68. The différance of madness
10 The Dream of Michel Foucault
	69. Dreaming and meditating with and according to Foucault
	70. From Descartes’ dream to the bifurcation towards the Neganthropocene (the ὕβρις of philosophy itself)
	71. The Cartesian sources of disruption
	72. Foucault, Asclepius and the death of Socrates
	73. Dream and anthropology in Foucault, reader of Binswanger
	74. Entropocentrism and neganthropology
Part Three Demoralization
11 Generation Strauss-Kahn
	75. The collapse of the ‘American way of life’
	76. The catastrophic start to the twenty-first century
	77. Becoming without future: when the world is without meaning
	78. Morale, ‘morals’, moral being: diseconomy and demoralization
	79. ‘Morals’, education and credit
	80. Politics and moral philosophy
	81. For example
	82. Economy and function of reason at the turn of the twenty-first century
	83. Indiscretions, deceits, falling prey
	84. The epidemic of which Strauss-Kahn and his disease are merely symptoms: on moral philosophy
	85. Pathogenesis and moral philosophy
12 Thirty-Eight Years Later
	86. The political function of dreaming
	87. Dreaming together
	88. Flowers, pearls, diamonds and the King’s son
	89. Politics and interpretation of ὕβρις
	90. Worstward Ho
	91. Laroxyl and writing
	92. The ordeal of the pharmakon as the fall into insignificance
	93. Taking notes, consistences and prophets of doom
	94. Taking notes, from the birth of θεωρία as the hypomnesic spatialization of ἀνάμνησις to the ‘tags’ of
the data economy – via Saint-Miche
	95. My circuits are screwed up
	96. Detention, retention and protention
	97. Suffering
13 Death Drive, Moral Philosophy and Denial
	98. The absence of epoch as demoralization
	99. Exosomatization as interpretation: on the meaning of ἦθος
	100. Αρετή, Sittlichkeit and neganthropological courage
	101. Guilt and transvaluation
	102. The apprenticeship of life 1: the cosmological dimension of noesis
	103. The apprenticeship of life 2: the transformation of the cosmological dimension into universal knowledge
	104. Disgust, contempt and despair
	105. Idealization, dream, transition
	106. The liquidation of Sittlichkeit by the ethics of ‘lifestyles’
14 Nonconformism, ‘Uncoolness’ and Libido Sciendi at the University
	107. Conformists, ‘petits-bourgeois’ and the ‘uncool’
	108. Understanding, reason and disinhibition
	109. Disinhibition as the revolutionary power of the bourgeoisie, proletarianization as demoralization, the new prospects opened up by the general intellect, and
the question of entropy
	110. Transvaluation without concessions
	111. Organology of exemplarity
	112. The pleasure principle, the reality principle and the drives in capitalism, according to Marcus
	113. The market as catalyst of the death drive and Keynes’ dream
	114. Collective suicide in the face of what capitalism no longer succeeds in containing, and the question of investment
	115. ‘To think otherwise’: it’s always about Keynes’ dream
15 The Wounds of Truth: Panic, Cowardice, Courage
	116. A reminder concerning questions of denial and disavowal
	117. Knowledge, thermodynamics, philosophy and economy
	118. State of emergency and splitting: courage, object of moral philosophy in the twenty-first century
	119. Muddying the waters: denial, regression, democracy
	120. The powers that be in the face of the parrhesiasts of our time
	121. Pharmacology of democracy
	122. Ethical quagmires, suffocations, theoretical vacuums
	123. Denial and disavowal
	124. Not wanting to know: despair
	125. Denial and protention: the bifurcation to come
	126. Calculation and meditation
	127. Reading Heidegger in the twenty-first century
Conclusion: Let’s Make a Dream
	128. ‘Universal folly’, noetic dreams and τέχνη
	129. The folly of the cross, and the dream according to Foucault in 1954
	130. The madness of capitalism
	131. One step forward, two steps back: accelerationism and its denial
	132. Psychotic capitalism
	133. The conversion to come
	134. The onrush into the computational
	135. Creating a miracle: despair, salvation, fidelity
	136. Denial and the obsolescence of man, according to Günther Anders
	137. Conversion as the taking place of locality
	138. Dragons and serpents
A Conversation about Christianity
Notes
	Epigraphs
	1 Disruption: A ‘New Form of Barbarism’
	2 The Absence of Epoch
	3 Radicalization and Submission
	4 Administration of Savagery, Disruption and Barbarism
	5 Outside the Law: Saint-Michel and the Dragon
	6 Who Am I? Hauntings, Spirits, Delusions
	7 Dreams and Nightmares in the Anthropocene
	8 Morality and Disinhibition in Modern Times
	9 Ordinary Madness, Extraordinary Madnesses
	10 The Dream of Michel Foucault
	11 Generation Strauss-Kahn
	12 Thirty-Eight Years Later
	13 Death Drive, Moral Philosophy and Denial
	15 The Wounds of Truth: Panic, Cowardice, Courage
	Conclusion: Let’s Make a Dream
	A Conversation about Christianity
Index
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