Armen Avanessian Livres

Fusing speculative realism, analytical and linguistic philosophy this book theorises the fundamental impact the experience of reading has on us. In reading, language provides us with a world and meaning becomes perceptible. We can connect with another subjectivity, another place, another time. At its most extreme, reading changes our understanding of the world around us. Metanoia- meaning literally a change of mind or a conversion-refers to this kind of new way of seeing. To see the world in a new light is to accept that our thinking has been irrevocably transformed. How is that possible? And is it merely an intellectual process without any impact on the world outside our brains? Innovatively tackling these questions, this book mobilizes discussions from linguistics, literary theory, philosophy of language, and cognitive science. It re-articulates linguistic consciousness by underlining the poetic, creative moment of language and sheds light on the ability of language to transform not only our thinking but the world around us as well.

This book is an attempt at restating the importance of the great metaphysical categories of substance and accident, form and matter, life and death for the present: how our contemporary predicament forces us both to reclaim them and to give them a radically new twist--

Strange how many déjà vus you have here. How might we conceive of comradeship with a present that is increasingly predetermined by algorithms and governed by techno-politics? Armen Avanessian chronicles his stay in Miami as an experiment in writing about our times of individual optimization and digitization. An inventory of the self in the second person—and a philosopher's reflections in the infinity pool of the art world—this book reckons with a new time complex as well as the aesthetics and infrastructures of the contemporary. Can we advance from conditions of financial feudalism and climate change to a progressive poetics of the digital? The city of tropical noir becomes a case study for a geopolitics and economics of the future—Miami vision, Miami vacation, Miami fiction, Miamification.

Exploring the concept of modern irony, the book delves into its ethical implications as articulated by Romantic theorists like Hegel and Kierkegaard. It examines how this irony manifests through various literary figures, such as the aesthete and the flaneur, and evolves in the context of 19th-century novels and postmodern works by authors like Musil, Joyce, and Proust. Additionally, it analyzes the perspectives of Schmitt, Kafka, and Rorty on the political contradictions of the 20th century, providing a comprehensive account of modernity's complex ethical and political landscape.

Originally published as Preasens: Poetik eines Tempus, 2012 Diaphanes, Zurich -- Verso title page.

"Our decision to start the series of conversations with you is based on your implementation of the "xeno" in your perspective practices. Perhaps it is high time for a xeno-architecture to match aims to unpack the prefix xeno, probing what it entails -not merely rhetorically but also as a means of practice- in an attempt to bring the ideas it contains more concretely into the domain of architecture. It proposes to link the more philosophical discussions on the notion of xeno with the questions of instrumentalization and governance that are necessarily involved in the praxis and geopolitics of architecture. And it relates the significance of legal architectures and technologically driven transformations in the metaphysics of law back to the agenda of xeno-architecture."

Zweisprachige Ausgabe Deutsch / Englisch Herausgegeben von Milo Rau / IIPM (International Institute of Political Murder) Beiträge von: Armen Avanessian, Lúcio Belletani, Rolf Bossart, Hamze Bytyci, Can Dündar, Dieter Gerten, Théophile de Giraud, Ulrike Guérot, Hannah Hurtzig, Wolfgang Kaleck, Renée Karanungan, Nasir Mansoor, Robert Misik, Chantal Mouffe, Milo Rau, Friederike Schmitz, Thomas Seibert, Abou Bakar Sidibé, Harald Welzer Zahlreiche Infografiken von Ole Häntzschel „Wir verlassen das Zeitalter der Skandalisierung. An die Stelle der Kritik der Gegenwart tritt der symbolische Entwurf des Zukünftigen. Wir müssen außerhalb der bestehenden Institutionen neue, utopische Institutionen vorbereiten, die dann da sind, wenn die aktuellen zusammenbrechen. Das ist die Aufgabe der realistischen Generation. Wir nennen das: den globalen Realismus.“ (Milo Rau) “We are leaving the era of scandalization. The criticism of the present is being replaced by the symbolic conception of the future. We have to develop new, utopian institutions outside of the existing institutions, which will be there when the current ones collapse. This is the obligation of the realistic generation. This is what we call: global realism.” (Milo Rau)

Overwrite: Ethics of Knowledge Poetics of Existence is about writing differently in order to situate oneself in the world differently. It is a book about how new truths are produced when a subject takes responsibility for his/her thinking, experiences and conflicts. When a subject rewrites and overwrites itself, it becomes an other, transforming the world in the process

Současná akceleracionistická filozofie čím dál více slouží jako jistý bod propojení, který v sobě propojuje různorodé pokusy o přeformulování dřímajících společenských možností, odcizených kánonů, i mimolidské estetiky, které v současném diskurzu rezonují. V kontextu těchto probíhajících debat chceme vznést následující otázky: Jakým způsobem můžeme, tváří v tvář společenským výzvám i širému prostoru dalekého vesmíru, smysluplně působit? Jak odhodit pouta současnosti? Jaké jsou možnosti a podmínky spekulativního a akceleracionistického diskurzu, a jaké výsledky můžeme od takového projektu očekávat? Toto je smysl Reinventing Horizons. The current state of accelerationist philosophy increasingly appears to serve as a point of coalescence for various attempts at redefining diverse potentialities, estranged objectivities and inhumanisms which circulate the contemporary discourse. We attempt to add to these discourses by asking the following questions. What can we do within the confines of present conditions, while facing these challenges, agencies and vast spaces beyond? How can we unbind the shackles of the present? What are the possibilities and conditions of speculative and accelerationist discourses, and what are the investments and aspirations for such an endeavour? That is what we mean by Reinventing Horizons.

Ethnofuturismus ist eine provokante Neuschöpfung, die sich mit der Frage beschäftigt, warum bestimmte Überlegungen zur Zukunft in Bezug auf regionale, ethnische oder rassische Identitäten entstanden sind. Der Afrofuturismus nutzt die Vorstellung einer schwarzen Geheimtechnologie, um einen spekulativen Punkt der Beschleunigung zu erreichen. Der Blackzelerationismus postuliert, dass es im Schwarzsein immer schon einen Akzelerationismus gegeben hat, ob bewusst oder unbewusst. Während einige Entwicklungen gewagt wurden, scheinen andere Bereiche, einschließlich der Kunstgeschichte und des Science-Fiction-Genres, solche Risiken zu meiden. Die Frage, wie diese Kategorien miteinander verbunden sind, hängt davon ab, ob sie sich von der konventionellen Auffassung der Zeit lösen können. Der Golf-Futurismus zeigt eine seltsame Mitose, die außerhalb der Sichtweise von Planern und Architekten geschieht, und spaltet Welten in früh und spät, real und nicht real. Diese Machtstrukturen sind bereits dem Sog der Zukunft unterworfen. Es stellt sich die Frage, ob wir überhaupt fragen können, wie uns die Zukunft entgegenkommt. Der Sinofuturismus kartografiert den rasanten Aufschwung in Ostasien und verbindet heterogene Elemente innerhalb des planetaren Kapitalismus. Die Dubai-ifizierung der Welt hat bereits begonnen und schreitet mit Lichtgeschwindigkeit voran.