Philosophy of the Machine 8

The chapter deals with the birth of Pythagorean mathematics - or,
more precisely, the way with which mathematicians fall into the
delirium of Infinity.


Carnival. In that old-fashioned sense, every mathematical
calculus has a strange carnivalesque side because you extract the
flesh from life. Just as the tones of the music are abstracted
from the body of sound, the formula dissolves an experience from
reality, imposing on it a system of rules in which the highest is
at the bottom, the lowest is at the top.


Speaker: Hopkins Stanley


Sound-Design: Martin Burckhardt


Music: Hopkins Stanley & Martin Burckhardt


From: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins
Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)


To listen to previous chapters:


Philosophy of the Machine 7


Philosophy of the Machine 6


Philosophy of the Machine 5


Philosophy of the Machine 4


Philosophy of the Machine 3


Philosophy of the Machine 2


Philosophy of the Machine 1


Here’s the link to the original German edition.


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