Ex nihilo - Podcast English

This chapter goes back to the beginning of the machine concept, or more precisely: it makes clear that the Greek deus ex machina is based on an even older understanding of the machine, deeply interwoven with magical ideas.Could it be in the stage production of the godhead that the numinous passes over to the Machine? And the other way around: Is it possible that the godhead originates from the Machine? But then the godhead would be a product of the Machine. Basically, both are absurdities: the deified Machine, the reified god.To listen to the previous chapters:Philosophy of the Machine 1Philosophy of the Machine 2From: The Philosophy of the Machine (Translated by Hopkins Stanley & Martin Burckhardt - to be published)Here’s the link to the German edition: Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

This chapter continues uncovering the obscurations of what a Machine is by examining the Phenomenology of what it is or isn’t. What lies behind and beyond the phenomena of its skeuomorphic medially of a technological system?The closer you get to the Machine, the stranger it looks back. Speaking of a system of interacting elements functioning great than their sum is simply a tautology that leaves the question unanswered.From: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)To listen to the previous chapter:Philosophy of the Machine 1Here’s the link to the original German edition. Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe

Martin Burckhardts Philosophy of the Machine, Introdction. Translation & Music: Hopkins Stanley Get full access to Ex nihilo - Martin Burckhardt at martinburckhardt.substack.com/subscribe