The Art of Being Free in the Age of Automata -

Do you often find yourself spoiled for choice? What will freedom look like in the 21st century? Since the invention of machines and computers, our daily lives seem to have gained time. But in return, they appear increasingly codified, subject to automation. From Leibniz to the biometric chip, the author tells an alternative history of the computer age. He demonstrates that “numerism”—the principle of computing—is an ancestral and necessary human virtue. But it is insufficient. After the “every man for himself” chaos of postmodernism, a new paradigm is emerging: “realism”—the world is our ceaseless collective creation. The horizon of our political and existential freedom is the Earth as a work of art. Structured as a curious and humorous philosophical odyssey, this is a treatise on co-creativity for an era of fragmented active forces—where we discover that order and adventure are not incompatible.