The chapter deals with the birth of Pythagorean mathematics - or, more precisely, the way with which mathematicians fall into the delirium of Infinity.
Carnival. In that old-fashioned sense, every mathematical calculus has a strange carnivalesque side because you extract the flesh from life. Just as the tones of the music are abstracted from the body of sound, the formula dissolves an experience from reality, imposing on it a system of rules in which the highest is at the bottom, the lowest is at the top.
Speaker: Hopkins Stanley
Sound-Design: Martin Burckhardt
Music: Hopkins Stanley & Martin Burckhardt
From: The Philosophy of the Machine, translated by Hopkins Stanley and Martin Burckhardt. (to be published)
To listen to previous chapters:
Philosophy of the Machine 7
Philosophy of the Machine 6
Philosophy of the Machine 5
Philosophy of the Machine 4
Philosophy of the Machine 3
Philosophy of the Machine 2
Philosophy of the Machine 1
Here’s the link to the original German edition.
Philosophy of the Machine 8