Alexander R. Galloway will give a lecture at the "Vinzavod"

On November 27, the lecture “Digital in Philosophy” will be held in the New Cosmology cycle “New Cosmologies” of the philosophical club of the Center for Contemporary Art “Vinzavod” the theoretician of new media and the digital culture of the present, Alexander R. Galloway.

The start of the lecture at 19:00, the entrance is free by preliminary registration .

Computers that control the world today reduce nature and man to a set of numbers: statistical data, financial assets, information flows. As DNA is divided into four nitrogenous bases, and the alphabet of the Russian language is thirty -three letters, so the computer code is one per unit and zero. In the same way, philosophy split the world into the soul and body, being and being, matter and spirit.

According to the professor of media, the culture and communication of New York University, Alexander R. Galloway, philosophy and digital have the same structure.

In his lecture, he will simultaneously turn to these concepts and talk about how to explore digital media using philosophy methods and vice versa.

Andrey Shental, Socurator of the Philosophical Club of the TsSI Vinzavod:

“In a sense, the performance of Galloway can be called central for the“ New Cosmology ”cycle, as it assembles evolutionary theory, cybernetics, semiotics and philosophy at a deep, ontological level. Given that philosophers rarely listen to the development of technology, the figure of Alexander R. Galloway is unique. It not only synthesizes philosophy with media theory, but, being also a programmer, knows digital technologies from the inside. Like Jacques Derrida, who became famous for applying linguistics to metaphysics and found that the thought was due to a letter, Galloway attaches to the philosophy of algebra, which leads us to no less unexpected conclusions. Philosophical thinking itself is arranged as digital machines and divides the world into conditional "zeros" and "units". "