This book is based upon the collaborative efforts of the Ontogenetics Process Group (OPG) – an interdisciplinary, multi-institutional, multi-national research group that began meeting in 2017 to explore new and innovative ways of thinking the problem of complexity in living, physical, and social systems outside the algorithmic models that have dominated paradigms of complexity to date.

For all the descriptive and predictive power that the complexity sciences offer (the ability to compute feedback systems, recursive networks, emergent dynamics, etc.), they also presume that the living world in all of its modalities (biological, semiotic, economic, affective, social) can be reduced to finite schema of description that delimits in advance all possible outcomes. What is proposed in this volume are conceptual architectures for the living that are not only irreducible to physico-mathematical frames of reference, but that are also as vital as the phenomena they wish to express. In short: life is more complex than complexity. What emerges from this engagement is not the ascendance of a new transcendental principle (or, what amounts to the same thing, a foundational bedrock) derived from the physico-mathematical sciences, but just the opposite: a domain in which the ontological and the epistemological domains enter a zone of strange (and unavoidable) entanglement.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Angelaki.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2021

ISBN

9781000533637

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Philosophy History & Theory

Cover
Half-Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Citation Information
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
1 Eros and Logos
2 The Epimedial Landscape
3 The Digital Sublime: Algorithmic Binds in a Living Foundry
4 Alienated Life: Toward a Goth Theory of Biology
5 The Square Root of Negative One is Imaginary
6 The Singularity Has Come and Gone: The Beginning of Organization
7 In-Kind Disruptions: Circadian Rhythms and Necessary Jolts in Eco-Cinema
8 Relational Realism and the Ontogenetic Universe: Subject, Object, and Ontological Process in Quantum Mechanics
9 Scientific Thought and Absolutes: For an Image of the Sciences, Between Computing and Biology
10 What “The Animal” Can Teach “The Anthropocene”
11 Ontogenesis Beyond Complexity: Conversations
Index