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Luciana Parisi

Professor of Literature
Literature

Scholarly Works - Journal articles


Recursive apocalypse

Journal article Communication Culture and Critique · September 1, 2025 This article posits that the recursive algorithm of apocalypse, including fascism, can be understood as part of the continuous logic of recursive colonialism. Recursive colonialism explains the relationship between Western European colonialism, the bio-eco ... Full text Cite

Cosmocomputation and Negpoethics

Journal article Social Text · January 1, 2025 Full text Cite

Recursive philosophy and negative machines

Journal article Critical Inquiry · January 1, 2022 What has philosophy become after computation? Critical positions about what counts as intelligence, reason, and thinking have addressed this question by reenvisioning and pushing debates about the modern question of technology towards new radical visions. ... Full text Cite

Negative optics in vision machines

Journal article AI and Society · December 1, 2021 Can machine vision step beyond the ocularcentric metaphysics of the Western gaze and the reproduction of racial capital? Paul Virilio argued that machine vision requires no perceptual response or recognition of the world. The computer’s series of coded imp ... Full text Cite

Interactive Computation and Artificial Epistemologies

Journal article Theory Culture and Society · December 1, 2021 What is algorithmic thought? It is not possible to address this question without first reflecting on how the Universal Turing Machine transformed symbolic logic and brought to a halt the universality of mathematical formalism and the biocentric speciation ... Full text Cite

What Is (Machine) Philosophy?

Journal article Qui Parle Critical Humanities and Social Sciences · June 1, 2021 This interview with the digital media theorist Luciana Parisi opens with the hypothesis that cybernetics is not merely the name for that postwar metascience of command and control. For Parisi, cybernetics names a “historical reconfiguration of metaphysics ... Full text Cite

Data capitalism and the counter futures of ethics in artificial intelligence

Journal article Communication and the Public · September 1, 2020 Ethics in data science and artificial intelligence have gained broader prominence in both scholarly and public discourse. Much of the scholarly engagements have often been based on perspectives of transparency, politics of representation, moral ethical nor ... Full text Cite

Media Ontology and Transcendental Instrumentality

Journal article Theory, Culture & Society · November 2019 This article takes inspiration from Kittler’s claim that philosophy has neglected the means used for its production. Kittler’s argument for media ontology will be compared to the post-Kantian project of re-inventing philosophy through the medium of ... Full text Cite

The alien subject of AI

Journal article Subjectivity · March 2019 Full text Cite

Critical Computation: Digital Automata and General Artificial Thinking

Journal article Theory, Culture & Society · March 2019 As machines have become increasingly smart and have entangled human thinking with artificial intelligences, it seems no longer possible to distinguish among levels of decision-making that occur in the newly formed space between critical reasoning, ... Full text Cite

Xeno-Patterning: Predictive Intuition and Automated Imagination

Journal article Angelaki · February 2019 If the image of the future has already been colonized by the inevitability of a planetary automation or by the Singularity, is it at all possible to re-introduce alienness in machine thinking beyond a master pattern that knows it all? As contemporary forms ... Full text Cite

Automated Thinking and the Limits of Reason

Journal article Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies · October 2016 This article reflects on how the ingression of computation in culture has not only transformed media into algorithmic devices but has also, more importantly, led to the automation of the most precious faculty of the human, namely, reasoning. This a ... Full text Cite

Digital Design and Topological Control

Journal article Theory, Culture & Society · July 2012 At the turn of the 21st century, topology, the mathematical study of spatial properties that remain the same under the continuous deformation of objects, has come to invest all fields of aesthetics and culture. In particular, the algebraic topology ... Full text Cite

Soft Thought (in Architecture and Choreography)

Journal article Computational Culture: A Journal of Software Studies · November 2011 Link to item Cite

EVENT AND EVOLUTION

Journal article The Southern Journal of Philosophy · September 2010 abstractWhy have theories of evolution become now (and again) a matter of concern for critically rethinking sex and sexual difference? Why after years of deconstructing the ontologies of sex rooted in bio ... Full text Cite

What Can Biotechnology Do?: Process-Events vs the Bio-Logic of Life

Journal article Theory, Culture & Society · July 2009 Full text Cite

Symbiotic Architecture

Journal article Theory, Culture & Society · March 2009 This article tackles an old, classical problem, which is acquiring a new epochal relevance with the techno-aesthetic processing of form and substance, expression and content. The field of digital architecture is embarked in the ancient controversy ... Full text Cite

AN ARCHIGENESIS OF EXPERIENCE

Journal article Australian Feminist Studies · March 2009 Full text Cite

Extensive Continuum: Towards a Rhythmic Anarchitecture

Journal article Inflexions : a Journal for Research Creation · 2009 Link to item Cite

Biotech

Journal article Theory, Culture & Society · November 2007 Full text Cite

The Affect of Nanoterror

Journal article Culture Machine · 2005 Cite

For a Schizogenesis of Sexual Difference

Journal article Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture · January 1, 2004 Author(s): Luciana Parisi | Лучијана Паризи Title (English): For a Schizogenesis of Sexual Difference Title (Macedonian): За една шизогенеза на половата разлика Translated by (English to Macedonian): Goran Stoev | Горан Стоев&#x0D ... Full text Cite

Recursive Colonialism and Cosmo-Computation

Journal article Social Text Online Cite