Erwin Ott
@erwin-ott.web.app
Leiter des Instituts für Strategische Philosophie in Heidelthal
Shadow Ontology, Postmetaphysics, Genealogy of Ideas
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Shadow Ontology, Postmetaphysics, Genealogy of Ideas
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Large Language Models and classism. The ethics of reading (3)
Large Language Models and classism. The ethics of reading (3)
When reading texts with lots of general remarks and little attention to detail, I often wonder whether it’s produced by ChatGPT or some other LLM. I don’t like this kind of suspicion, especially in…
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October 26, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Large Language Models and classism. The ethics of reading (3)
The true Copernican revolution is the dissolution of the subject and the embrace of the immanent absolute: the endless, dynamic, decentered becoming of the real.
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The True Copernican Revolution: From Correlationism to Immanent Absolutes
I.
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November 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The true Copernican revolution is the dissolution of the subject and the embrace of the immanent absolute: the endless, dynamic, decentered becoming of the real.
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1/10 How can philosophy think a reality independent of human consciousness? The essay looks at Meillassoux' critique of modern philosophy’s “correlationism” and offers a radical alternative via post-structuralism.
#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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Vom kritischen Subjekt zum spekulativen Absoluten
Die wahre kopernikanische Wende als Weg zur neuen Metaphysik
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November 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
1/10 How can philosophy think a reality independent of human consciousness? The essay looks at Meillassoux' critique of modern philosophy’s “correlationism” and offers a radical alternative via post-structuralism.
#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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#PhilSky #Philosophy #Meillassoux
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Reposted by Erwin Ott
Happy anniversary to Bob Moog's US patent number 3,475,623, the voltage-controlled low pass filter! October 29th, 1969.
October 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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
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Beat and Flux: The Club as a Laboratory of Ontological Experience
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November 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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
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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
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November 3, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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
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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.
I don't think students should be asked to rhetorically analyze poetry in a class before they get practice experiencing poetry without imagining it as a rhetorical structure.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
Like, cooking is so much better if you begin by first developing a relationship to the pleasure of food.
October 21, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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
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From the Philosophy of Sound to Philosophy in Sound: Christoph Cox’s "Sonic Flux" and the Via Negativa
The Problem of the Ephemeral
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October 26, 2025 at 5:07 PM
To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky
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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
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
Von der Philosophie des Klangs zur Philosophie im Klang
Christoph Cox’ <em>Sonic Flux</em> und die via negativa
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October 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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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
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
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"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
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#philsky #metaphysics
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Emergence explains nothing and is bad science | John Heil
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October 14, 2025 at 12:16 PM
"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
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#philsky #metaphysics
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🚀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
#DigitalHumanities #Libraries #NLP #ResearchTools #DARIAH #ADHO
October 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🚀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
#DigitalHumanities #Libraries #NLP #ResearchTools #DARIAH #ADHO
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Full article: Uncovering Hidden Influences: The Reception Reader as a Tool for Intellectual Historians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#dh #digitalhumanities
#dh #digitalhumanities
Uncovering Hidden Influences: The Reception Reader as a Tool for Intellectual Historians
Published in Global Intellectual History (Ahead of Print, 2025)
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April 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Full article: Uncovering Hidden Influences: The Reception Reader as a Tool for Intellectual Historians www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
#dh #digitalhumanities
#dh #digitalhumanities
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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
Real ist der große Vorteil einer Diss, dass man einmal im Leben etwas von vorne bis hinten durchdenkt
Ein Doktortitel ist prestigeträchtig, aber bedeutet jahrelanger Stress. Experten erklären, in welchen Fächern sich das finanziell und beruflich lohnt – und wann nicht.
Doktortitel: Lohnt sich die Promotion noch?
Ein Doktortitel ist prestigeträchtig, aber bedeutet jahrelanger Stress. Experten erklären, in welchen Fächern sich das finanziell und beruflich lohnt – und wann nicht.
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October 7, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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
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
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Against Self-Assurance: Raymond Geuss as an Anti-Heroic Philosopher in the Post-Metaphysical Age
Thinking in an Age of Disillusionment
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September 24, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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
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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
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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
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Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
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September 24, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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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
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
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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
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
Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
das.ubernerden.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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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
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
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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.
September 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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...
The Static and the Fluid: A Review of Giorgina Haferkrug’s „Die Genese und Dominanz statischer Philosophie im abendländischen Denken“
The Weight of Tradition
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September 18, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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...
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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
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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...
Die Genese und Dominanz statischer Philosophie im abendländischen Denken
Eine historisch-systematische Analyse
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September 18, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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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 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
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Heidegger and AI: From „Gestell“ to the Clearing of Data
When Algorithms Think and Philosophers Hesitate
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September 14, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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
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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.
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#Heidegger #AI #PhilosophyOfTechnology #DigitalHumanities #PhilSky
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
Heidegger und die KI
Vom Gestell zur Datenlichtung
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September 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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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 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
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The Necessity of Shadows: A Response to T.A. Schulz’s „Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma“
On the Unavailable, the Emergent, and the Ethics of Dwelling in Darkness
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September 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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
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TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
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#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
TA Schulz' "Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma" explores how "Schattenontologie" (E. Ott) & Rheoplegma (G. Haferkrug) redefine reality, knowledge, and ethics in the 21st century.
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#Philosophy #Ontology #PostMetaphysics #Anthropozän #Philsky
Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma
Fragen der Gegenwartsphilosophie
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September 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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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
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...
Review of Georgina Haferkrug - Rheoplegma: A Postmetaphysical Ontology of Becoming
The Crisis of Metaphysics and the Need for a New Ontology
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September 6, 2025 at 10:39 AM
"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...