Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt discuss the inspiration behind Martin’s major book series titled The Psychology of the Machine - and how Nietzsche's criticism of Philosophy was the inspirational guide in his research and writing the series.
Was a single one of the philosophers who preceded me a psychologist at all, and not the very reverse of a psychologist—that is to say, a high swindler, an Idealist? Before my time, there was no psychology. (Nietzsche, Ecce Homo)
The Machine is misunderstood if assigned to the world of devices; when it’s really a matter of establishing the mirroring of the Master's own Spirit within it, that is the thinking of its maker: its Psychology.
The first volume of Martin Burckhardt’s six-volume Psychology of the Machine series, Über dem Luftmeer: Vom Unbehagen in der Moderne, will be available as a bound book from bookstores and as an Ebook from the publisher Matthes & Seitz as of today, April 25th, 2023. Martin is the powerhouse behind the Ex nihilio Salon here on Substack where there are essays, audiobooks and interviews with critical thinkers on current topics of our enigmatic age.
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