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	<description>philosophy, fiction, and other dangerous pursuits</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 01:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Life, Technics and Nature in Gilbert Simondon</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2010/04/18/life-technics-and-nature-in-gilbert-simondon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 23:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Vida, Técnica y Naturaleza en el Pensamiento de Gilbert Simondon
Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, Vol. 5, #14  (April 2010).
This work examines the relation between the natural and the artificial,  and between living and technics, in the philosophy of Gilbert Simondon.  One of the strong points of Simondon’s thought is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Critical Look at Stiegler&#8217;s Philosophy of Technics</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2009/09/18/a-critical-look-at-stieglers-philosophy-of-technics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:11:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Unweaving the Program: Stiegler and the Hegemony of Technics&#8221;
Published in Transformations #17: &#8220;Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics&#8221; (2009)
Full text: http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_17/article_08.shtml
This paper examines the empirical and historical aspects of Bernard Stiegler’s philosophy of technology, arguing that it consolidates, rather than challenges, a number of traditional ontological distinctions; in particular, those between living and technological, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simondon, Stiegler and the Evolution of Technology</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2009/09/18/simondon-stiegler-and-the-evolution-of-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 01:03:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Prolegomena to a Future Robot History: Stiegler, Epiphylogenesis and Technical Evolution&#8221;
(coauthored with Belinda Barnet)
Published in Transformations #17: &#8220;Bernard Stiegler and the Question of Technics&#8221; (2009)
Full text: http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_17/article_09.shtml
How does one tell the story of a machine? Can we say that technical artefacts have their own genealogies, their own evolutionary dynamic? Bernard Stiegler feels this question is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot poetry?</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2009/09/18/robot-poetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As any blogger and email user would now, there is a tremendous amount of spam out there. Apparently, 97% of the volume of all email correspondence consists of unsolicited emails. Anyway, I&#8217;ve been quite intrigued lately by a series of spam messages that have been sent both to my email account and to this site. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Descartes and Technological Metaphor</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2008/08/30/descartes-and-technological-metaphor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[“Legitimating the Machine: The Epistemological Foundations of Technological Metaphor in the Natural Philosophy of René Descartes”
Philosophies of Technology: Francis Bacon and his Contemporaries.
Edited by Claus Zittel. Volume 11: Intersections - Yearbook for Early Modern Studies (Brill: Leiden and Boston: 2008).
I post here a draft version, uncorrected.
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		<title>Reassembling the Social</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2008/06/30/reassembling-the-social/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Reensamblar lo Social: Una Introducción a la Teoría del Actor-Red
Bruno Latour
Ediciones Manantial, 2008, 390 páginas
(Revista de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad, number 11, vol 4, July 2008)
¿Qué es lo social? ¿Qué es una sociedad? ¿Qué quieren decir los científicos “sociales” cuando hablan de ciertos fenómenos como “enmarcados en lo social”, socialmente “construidos”, “constituidos” o “determinados”?
La respuesta [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Houellebecq on Lovecraft</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2007/01/20/houellebecq-on-lovecraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 01:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life 
By Michel Houellebecq
(The Australian December 2-3, 2006)
In this short but eventful study of H.P.Lovecraft, Michel Houellebecq suggests the pioneering writer created modern horror while exhausting its possibilities. Perhaps the horror genre never lived up to its early promise because practitioners such as Edgar Allan Poe and Lovecraft are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Takes Shape</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2007/01/20/brain-takes-shape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 16:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brain Takes Shape: An Early History
By Robert L. Martensen (Oxford University Press, 2004)
(Published in Metascience 15:3, December 2006)
Few people nowadays would dispute that the brain is the seat of personhood, the locus of all cognitive, sensory and emotional processes. This commonsensical, distinctively Western idea has had a relatively short but convoluted history, beginning in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2001: An Imagined History of Technology</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2006/09/28/2001-an-imagined-history-of-technology/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:22:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Is there anything NEW to say about 2001: A Space Odyssey? 
I watched it again the other day for the fiftieth time. It occurred to me that we can read the film as presenting a synoptic, imagined history of technology. This imagined history perpetuates many myths about technology, as well as offering a comprehensive range [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Micronations</title>
		<link>http://andresvaccari.net/2006/09/25/micronations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrés Vaccari</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Micronations
By John Ryan, Simon Sellars and George Dunford
Lonely Planet Publications, 144pp, $24.95
(The Australian September 23 2006)
THIS latest offering by Lonely Planet Books is a curious creature. Ostensibly a travel book, it turns out on closer inspection to be an exploration of the idea of nationhood. In our post-colonial, globalised times, some people see the nation [...]]]></description>
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