/lit/ - Literature

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>language is insufficient.

and out of that insufficiency, over-sufficiency, excess sufficiency: efficiency. it becomes technology, cybernetics.

i think this is what heidegger intuited. Being *vibrates.* he grasped the distinction between the ontic and the ontological, and completely brilliantly. but the more you divide them, the more you drift from what, in a way, its original substrate actually is, a thing that is neither being nor becoming, but an impersonal process theology that we sometimes have to reach back through our own language to discover, the big hermeneutic deep-dive.

even for the greeks the gods are beholden to processes that are ultimately tragic for the self-determining consciousness. perhaps in ways not unlike the indian gods, as emanations or manifestations of an ultimate Brahman, which is in turn twinned to the Atman that seeks to know it.

we're off to a cybernetic nightmare today in which all these distinctions are at risk of collapsing, but we do it to ourselves. we have to know.

>Driven by a new kind of virtue, cybernetics questions the character or essence of humanity. It ungrounds our classical assumptions, our metaphysical coordinates. It has an uncanny tendency to dissolve rigorous divisions between human beings and animals, and then in turn the holy division between animals and machines. Ontological collapse. Becoming-machine is always a becoming-animal, but the dissolution goes even further than this.

>Within the networked folds of communicating devices, a new aspect of humanity is awakening, a new kind of struggle for enlightenment and freedom across the globe. A revolution between people, a revival of human society, a dynamic, even exuberant regeneration through interconnection and multiplicity. Cybernetics provokes an apparent and disturbing contradiction: it is a purely immanent, historical intervention, itself a kind of abstract social ‘machine’ which transforms all manner of social practices.

https://fractalontology.wordpress.com/2008/01/19/deconstructing-cybernetics/

Is this any good?
What do I need to read before this? I already have a basic grasp on ancient philosophy and Heidegger's ideas.