Enchantment of the Virtual

Mathematics, Physics, Philosophy

Enchantment of the Virtual
Robin Mackay, Taylor Adkins, Jack Cox, Gilles Chatelet, Charles Alunni, Matt Hare, John Paetsch, Cecile Malaspina, Dan Mellamphy, Thomas Murphy
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14 Feb 2021 US
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9781733628112
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This rich collection brings together a set of newly translated essays, dialogues, and reviews by Gilles Ch telet (1944-1999). Ch telet was not only a philosopher, political theorist, theorist of individuation and of the magnification of human freedoms, but also a talented mathematician and an original theorist of the virtual, the diagram, and the gesture. With their characteristic ebullience and speculative agility in transporting concepts between different fields, Ch telet' s polymath interrogations were an acknowledged inspiration to his fellow philosophers, including Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou. In the essays collected in this volume, Ch telet explores the articulation between mathematics and physical reality, algebra and geometry, romanticism and science, finite beings and the infinite manifestations of nature, and gesture and abstraction. The book also offers interviews with Ch telet and review articles in which he reckons with contemporaries including Badiou, Deleuze, Roger Penrose, and Rene Thom. The extensive introduction by Ch telet' s former colleague Charles Alunni outlines the life and career of this "last romantic philosopher" and the continuing importance of his work for our understanding of the relationships between the mathematical and the physical, the abstract and the concrete, and scientific thinking and the politics of liberation.
Gilles Ch telet (1944-1999) was a mathematician and philosopher and a leading member of the Front homosexuel d' action revolutionnaire (FHAR). He was Professor at the University of Paris VIII, and Program Director at the Coll ge Internationale de philosophie. Robin Mackay is a philosopher, Director of the UK arts organization Urbanomic, and Associate Researcher at Goldsmiths University of London.
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ISBN-13: 9781733628112
Published: 14 Feb 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Sequence Press
Publisher: Sequence Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 178mm
Width: 114mm
Pages: 432

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