Haben wir dem Antlitz (Countenance/Gegenblick) und den unterschiedlichen technisch-matematisierten Vorstellungen des Gesichts und seiner philosophischen Reflexionspraktik als „verdichtetes Bild des Menschen“ bereits genug Aufmerksamkeit geschenkt? Dieses Bild des Menschlichen gilt es in der Zeit von KI, Big Data und Programmierbarkeit algorithmisch- metrischer Rationalisierungen des Sozialen kritisch-posthuman über künstlerische Praktiken neu zu differenzieren. Konzepte des anthropologischen Gesichtssinns, der poststrukturalen Gesichtsmaschine aus Linien und Löchern, der visagiete ("visum"), persona, panim, lico, Prosopon(Maske) und eines kartographierten Surface der Gesichtserkennung, dem affektive Expressionsfähigkeit zugesprochen wird, (...) sollen hinterfragt werden. (shrink)

n three overtures on economy, ecology and >echo-logy< of attention this paper introduces Aristotle's conception of economics. In particular, in Giorgio Agamben's theological-patristic reading of the oikos and the double theoretical movement of a politicization of the oikos and an economization of the political. In the background of a totalitarian concept of budgetary thinking. In Agamben's interpretation, the form of intimate household and domesticity itself becomes a threshold phenomenon - which this paper refers to as the oikos of alterity, indicating (...) a necessity of incorporating Oikos' figures in political life and its economization as well in political order. In a second opening coming from fin-de-siècle debates on cinematic distraction the paper shows the critical discourse of socio-cultural techniques of attention and media of modernity while facing the rise of the media of cinema and internet can be described as transitions in attention economy. A third opening introduces in economic metaphors of attention analysed and their move from modern economic theory into biology and Cognitive Sciences. Finally, a recent metaphorologic shift from economic metaphors of attention to acoustic resonance and ecology metaphors of attention, starting with the >echo-logical< attention metaphor of Yves Citton, is hinted on. (shrink)

In my general aim to probe a non-reductionist Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement, considering social self-other relations and the epistemic 2PP in social syn-aesthetic tuning-ins, synchronisations and tuning-outs, this paper amplifies the Aristotelian common sense concept κοινὴ αἲσθησις2 by analysing the concept and metaphor of “resonance”3 in contemporary debates on >resonance< as acoustic and multimodal figure of thought. Resonance as shown in scientific models derived from acoustics will be applied to an aesthetic comunity of sensing and making music together as explored (...) in Alfred Schütz, as well as in social relations in social psychology. Finally, this paper puts resonance to test as well in technical atunements of social relations and closes with the necessary resistance to imposition of social resonance, introduced in this paper as xenoresonance. (shrink)