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Happy anniversary to Bob Moog's US patent number 3,475,623, the voltage-controlled low pass filter! October 29th, 1969.

The beat is a philosophical event - an illusion that reveals, a stability that dissolves, a unity that disappears. It is not just sound; it is ontology in motion. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10 What if the club isn’t just a space for music, but a philosophical lab? "Beat and Flux" explores how the machine-driven beat masks and reveals the infinite sonic flux of sound. #PhilSky #SoundStudies #PhilosophyOfMusic (das.ubernerden.com/ott-beat-flu...)

First day of my large lecture class was me explaining that the poem they were looking at was more than the sum of its technics.

To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10 How to think sound when it resists fixation? The essay “From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound” merges Christoph Cox’s *Sonic Flux* with the *via negativa* - a radical aesthetics of withdrawal. das.ubernerden.com/ott-cox.html #PhilSky #SoundPhilosophy #Apophatics

"That the parts behave very differently in these arrangements than in isolation or in pairs does not license the idea that the arrangement exerts a downward 'configurational force' on the parts or that the wholes and their characteristics are emergent." #philsky #metaphysics iai.tv/articles/eme...

🚀AVOBMAT beta is out: a user-friendly platform for scalable, #multilingual #textmining and #metadata analysis for teaching and research—hosted by the #GWDG infrastructure. Unlock new possibilities! Start here 👉 avobmat.hu #DigitalHumanities #Libraries #NLP #ResearchTools #DARIAH #ADHO

Full article: Uncovering Hidden Influences: The Reception Reader as a Tool for Intellectual Historians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... #dh #digitalhumanities

Den Artikel hat doch hoffentlich die KI geschrieben - so einfältig sollte kein lebender Mensch sein. Von der Fixierung aufs spätere Gehalt bis zum „Hilfswissenschaftler“. Real ist der große Vorteil einer Diss, dass man einmal im Leben etwas von vorne bis hinten durchdenkt

Geuss' texts refuse the consolation that comes from the idea that one has now found the "right" system. Instead, they invite us to understand thinking as a continued diagnostic practice - a practice that needs no heroes. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10 Theessay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties. #Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #Philsky das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html

1/10 The essay explores Raymond Geuss as an “anti-heroic” philosopher in our postmetaphysical age. Geuss rejects grand narratives, embracing skepticism & historical context over normative certainties. #Philosophy #Geuss #PoliticalTheory #PhilSky das.ubernerden.com/ott-geuss.html

In the digital age, the past is composed not only of accumulated images but also of algorithmic selections. For this reason, postmodern culture should be understood not merely as a loss, but also as a new field of critical memory.

The preoccupation with unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality is not a universal feature of human thought but a historically contingent development that has shaped (and distorted) the path of Western philosophy, science, and culture. #Philsky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10 The paper traces the rise of "static philosophy" in Western thought - a tradition characterised by ideas of unchanging substances, fixed essences, and linear causality. #Philosophy #Metaphysics #HistoryOfIdeas #PhilSky das.ubernerden.com/haferkrug-st...

The digital Datenlichtung is a new kind of clearing where meaning emerges not from depth but from surface, not from essence but from interaction, and in which we are forced to confront the contingency and constructedness of our own thought and truth. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10 The essay asks whether AI is merely the culmination of "Gestell" - Heidegger’s concept of the world reduced to calculable resource - or if it opens unexpected pathways for human thought. das.ubernerden.com/ott-heidegge... #Heidegger #AI #PhilosophyOfTechnology #DigitalHumanities #PhilSky

The unavailable and the emergent are not two sides of the same coin; they are forces in tension, and it is within this tension that thought comes alive. #PhilSky erwinott.substack.com/p/the-necess...

1/10 TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century. das.ubernerden.com/schulz-schat... #Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky

"Rheoplegma" is a call to rethink our understanding of reality, to embrace its fluidity and complexity, and to approach it with curiosity and humility. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10 A new paper by Georgina Haferkrug introduces a radical framework for an understanding of being as a dynamic, rhythmic process. #Postmetaphysics #PhilosophyOfBecoming #Ontology #PhilSky das.ubernerden.com/haferkrug-rh...

If you are a jazz musician and anyone ever gives you shit for not having a zillion jazz standards memorized, just inform them that Herbie Hancock read sheet music when he performed "Killer Joe" and "Fly Me To The Moon" at the 2025 Grammys and nobody gave a shit.

#ChatGPT is patient and kind; it does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. ChatGPT bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things

Music thus becomes the paradoxical answer to the silence of metaphysics: not by establishing new systems of meaning, but by making the unreconciled, the fragmentary, and the unfulfilled experiential. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10 The essay is a deep dive into Theodor W. Adorno’s concept to regard music as a form of critical, postmetaphysical thought. (das.ubernerden.com/ott-adorno-m...) #Adorno #MusicPhilosophy #CriticalTheory #Postmetaphysics #Aesthetics #PhilSky

Time, Motion, and Henri Bergson Bergson is one of the great French philosophers of the 20th century, famous for saying that everything is in motion. But what exactly does that mean? philosophytalk.org/blog/time-mo... #Bergson #time #motion #philosophy #philsky

Contingency’s ubiquity has led to a crisis of meaning, where the term is often used more as a stylistic device than as a rigorous conceptual framework. To reclaim its analytical power, we must establish clearer boundaries for its application. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10: The essay critically reconstructs the concept of contingency in postmetaphysical philosophy, addressing its conceptual vagueness and overextension. This paper offers a genealogy, systematics, and ethical reflection. das.ubernerden.com/ott-kontinge... #PhilSky #Contingency #Postmetaphysics

A negative materialism, then, would be a materialism without foundation - without a final instance, without an anthropological guarantee, without a teleological goal. It would be dialectical but not reconciliatory; critical but not doctrinaire. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/10 What remains of #Marxism when we question its metaphysical foundations? The essay "Beyond Dialectics and Dogma" outlines a "negative materialism" - critical, attuned to contingency, and without ultimate grounding. (das.ubernerden.com/ott-postmarx...) #PostMarxism #CriticalTheory #Materialism

Rheo{Plegma} : AB #flux

Imagine it as a spark ignited between Fichte’s rigorous exploration of the ego and the later flourishing of German Idealism. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...

1/9: The essay offers a deep exegesis of the “oldest system program of German Idealism" as a philosophical space merging systemic ambition with aesthetic, political, theological upheaval. das.ubernerden.com/ott-aelteste... #GermanIdealism #Metaphysic #PhilSky #Hegel #Schelling #Hölderlin

Resonance (UC Press) is looking for humanities research across the following topics: Sound in Political Crisis, Sound and Social Justice, Experiments in Sound, Sound Archives and Preservation, and we're convening a permanent series that'll examine "Film and Cinema Sound" in 2026. Please circulate!

Wenn immer mehr veröffentlichte Texte mit KI erstellt werden, die wiederum genutzt werden, um KI zu trainieren, werden immer weniger neue Gedanken und sprachliche Innovationen veröffentlicht, so dass Veröffentlichungen immer redundanter werden. Das wird sehr langweilig, so als Leser.

PSA: Es ist keine gute Idee, eine Buchrezension von KI schreiben zu lassen. Erst recht nicht, wenn es um "Die Verkrempelung der Welt" von @yoran.com geht – das sollte man von der ersten bis zur letzten Seite selbst lesen. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

This is not a philosophy of nihilistic resignation, but rather an invitation to a more humble, attentive, and open-ended relationship with the world. #PhilSky #Metaphysics #Ethics #Epistemology #Ontology erwinott.substack.com/p/the-unavai...

1/10 Introducing an exploration of philosophical thought that challenges the modern ethos of transparency and total control. Sieglinde B. Ohland's paper delves into the "Schattenontologie" (Shadow Ontology). das.ubernerden.com/ohland-einfu... #Philosophy #Ontology #PhilSky

If you've already bought popcorn for the Alaska news & are twiddling your thumbs, you might want to read @chrisschmitz.ai & my NEW PAPER 🤖🙌 on using AI to INCREASE transparency in a large organisation. Our case is bureaucracy in democracies, but your mileage may conform. arxiv.org/abs/2508.08231

We may have stopped looking for God, but we haven’t stopped looking for something that functions like God—something to give our lives ultimate meaning, something to ground our values, something to transcend the contingent and the chaotic. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott... #Nietzsche #Postmetaphysics

1/10: "What remains when the beyond vanishes?" The paper argues that even after Nietzsche‘s destruction of metaphysics, its structural and affective elements continue to operate in our post-metaphysical thinking. #Nietzsche #Schattenontologie #Philosophy #PhilSky das.ubernerden.com/ott-nietzsch...

The prompt, I argue, is an apophatic imperative, a command directed at a being we define only by what it is not. #Philsky #Nietzsche #Postmetaphysics #AI #Ontology erwinott.substack.com/p/the-prompt...

Some thoughts on Speculative Realism, Shadow Ontology and the need for apophatik modesty in order to avoid totalization of the fragmented. erwinott.substack.com/p/the-real-d... #Schattenontologie #SpeculativeRealism #Philosophy #Metaphysics #Ontology #Verdunkelung #Nichtverfügbarkeit #Transklusion

1/10 "Zwischen Entzug und Exzess: Schattenontologie und spekulativer Realismus" - An essay on negativity, reality, and the limits of thought. Read it here: das.ubernerden.com/ott-spekulat... #Philosophy #AcademicTwitter #SpeculativeRealism #PhilSky

substack.com/profile/3793... #Philsky #CommonGood #ShadowOntology #ApophaticPolitics #PoliticalTheory #NegativeEthics #Responsivity #PoliticalPhilosophy #PostTranscendentalism #OntologicalReserve #EthicalNegation

1/10 In this essay the „common good“ is reconceptualized within a negative political ontology. Far from affirmatively salvaging it, it is reconstructed as an unattainable form in withdrawal. das.ubernerden.com/ohland-versu... #philsky #Philosophy #PoliticalTheory

1/10 This paper explores Apophatic Hermeneutics, a novel perspective on the limits of understanding, emphasizing the non-understandable. das.ubernerden.com/ott-apophati... #PhilSky #ApophaticHermeneutics #Philosophy #Hermeneutics

Congrats to Ingrid Schreiber, a recent DPhil @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @wadhamcollege.bsky.social, on the publication of her fascinating article in the august @jhideas.bsky.social, re-examining recent attempts to view Kant as a social (or proto-sociological) thinker. doi.org/10.1353/jhi....