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As part of Fall/Winter 2025–26 Season, we present our Seminar "Enlightenment Reloaded" by Reza Negarestani. The Scholarship Applications for our Certificate Program are open until September 16!
In this Seminar we revisits the radical core of Enlightenment thought through the philosophies of René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, challenging the worn-out clichés of dualism and rigid rationalism often pinned to their legacy. Against the backdrop of Cartesian Conflagrations, this module traces the computational and ethical revolution they initiated, one grounded in emancipatory logic, not scholastic compliance. From Plato’s dialectics to al-Khwarizmi’s algorithms, we uncover an Enlightenment that was never meant to end in Kantian compromise or techno-liberal consensus. Instead, we confront how its revolutionary impulse was co-opted by a counter-revolutionary lineage stretching from Hobbes to the instrumentalism of modern technocracy. Along the way, we interrogate how the image of Enlightenment has been hollowed out: mimicked by AI discourse, disarmed by liberal economic dogma, and depoliticized by institutional science.
Session 1: The Hijacking of Enlightenment and Historical Disasters - How the radical Enlightenment was subdued and the consequences of its betrayal.
Session 2: Contemporary Scientific Crisis and False Paths - From scientistic reduction to anti-modern reactions — the bipolar logic of false Enlightenment.
Session 3: The Technical Parasite and Ideological Overdetermination - AI, ideology, and the ghost of Enlightenment in a technocratic capitalist shell.
Session 4: Pathways for Enlightenment Recovery - Strategies for restoring Enlightenment’s revolutionary core and resisting the simulacra of progress.
To learn more and enroll, follow the link in our Bio.
IMAGE: Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
In this Seminar we revisits the radical core of Enlightenment thought through the philosophies of René Descartes and Baruch Spinoza, challenging the worn-out clichés of dualism and rigid rationalism often pinned to their legacy. Against the backdrop of Cartesian Conflagrations, this module traces the computational and ethical revolution they initiated, one grounded in emancipatory logic, not scholastic compliance. From Plato’s dialectics to al-Khwarizmi’s algorithms, we uncover an Enlightenment that was never meant to end in Kantian compromise or techno-liberal consensus. Instead, we confront how its revolutionary impulse was co-opted by a counter-revolutionary lineage stretching from Hobbes to the instrumentalism of modern technocracy. Along the way, we interrogate how the image of Enlightenment has been hollowed out: mimicked by AI discourse, disarmed by liberal economic dogma, and depoliticized by institutional science.
Session 1: The Hijacking of Enlightenment and Historical Disasters - How the radical Enlightenment was subdued and the consequences of its betrayal.
Session 2: Contemporary Scientific Crisis and False Paths - From scientistic reduction to anti-modern reactions — the bipolar logic of false Enlightenment.
Session 3: The Technical Parasite and Ideological Overdetermination - AI, ideology, and the ghost of Enlightenment in a technocratic capitalist shell.
Session 4: Pathways for Enlightenment Recovery - Strategies for restoring Enlightenment’s revolutionary core and resisting the simulacra of progress.
To learn more and enroll, follow the link in our Bio.
IMAGE: Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
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