How might radical social perspectives interpret these convolutions of thought and action which re conceive human and object relations?
How do current models of politics contend with the question ‘do artefacts have politics?
’ How do we relate digital aesthetics – in which abstract computational actors like algorithms give rise to new forms and morphologies – to the social and sensual conditions in which they arise and take effect?
What happens to our understanding of politics and culture when the satisfaction of ‘human needs’, however problematic these are to define, ceases to be a key aim of knowledge systems?
What, indeed, is ‘thought’ when the notion of the human, let alone the cogito, is recursively destabilised by the same man-made tools developed to defend our ontological centrality and certainty?
What can we make of ‘cognition in the wild’, when ‘the wild’ is seen not as threatening or dystopian, but as a social utopia?
