A critique of both classical humanism and dominant trends in
posthumanism that formulates the ultimate form of intelligence as a
theoretical and practical thought unfettered by the temporal order
of things. In Intelligence and Spirit Reza Negarestani formulates
the ultimate form of intelligence as a theoretical and practical
thought unfettered by the temporal order of things, a real movement
capable of overcoming any state of affairs that, from the
perspective of the present, may appear to be the complete totality
of history. Intelligence pierces through what seems to be the
totality or the inevitable outcome of its history, be it the
manifest portrait of the human or technocapitalism as the alleged
pilot of history. Building on Hegel's account of Geist as a
multiagent conception of mind and on Kant's transcendental
psychology as a functional analysis of the conditions of
possibility of mind, Negarestani provides a critique of both
classical humanism and dominant trends in posthumanism. The
assumptions of the former are exposed by way of a critique of the
transcendental structure of experience as a tissue of subjective or
psychological dogmas; the claims of the latter regarding the
ubiquity of mind or the inevitable advent of an unconstrained
superintelligence are challenged as no more than ideological
fixations which do not stand the test of systematic scrutiny. This
remarkable fusion of continental philosophy in the form of a
renewal of the speculative ambitions of German Idealism and
analytic philosophy in the form of extended thought-experiments and
a philosophy of artificial languages opens up new perspectives on
the meaning of human intelligence and explores the real potential
of posthuman intelligence and what it means for us to live in its
prehistory.
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