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Justin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 13/08/2026
A philosophy journal just published an article written mostly by Claude. The philosopher who "supervised" Claude, and who is listed as the article's author, explains how he did it. The journal's editor thinks of the decision to publish the piece as an "experiment."
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Philosophy Journal Publishes Largely AI-Authored Article — On Purpose (guest post) - Daily Nous
Philosophy & Public Affairs recently---and knowingly---published an article written mostly by Claude, Anthropic's LLM. The article's thesis was supplied by Simon Goldstein, associate professor of phil...
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 21/04/2026
In an era of algorithmic dogmatism and cynical relativism, this ambitious genealogy argues that reason can survive the death of God and the death of the subject - but only if it learns to define itself through its own limits. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The Courage of Fragility: A Review of T.A. Schulz „Die vernünftige Freiheit in der postsäkularen Konstellation“
In an era of algorithmic dogmatism and cynical relativism, this ambitious genealogy argues that reason can survive the death of God and the death of the subject - but only if it learns to define itsel...
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 23/02/2026
The tension between autonomy and responsibility - between the work’s claim to its own formal integrity and its indebtedness to the material conditions that produced it - must be held rather than resolved. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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Ästhetik der Materie: Toward a Neo-Materialist Theory of Aesthetic Experience
On Perception, Agency, and the Problem of Form in the Anthropocene
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 05/02/2026
Metaphysics is not a theory of being, but a practice of world-sustaining. It is to recognize the profound in the profane, the extraordinary upkeep required for the ordinary. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The Metaphysics of the Everyday Life: On the Unbypassable in the Ordinary
We live in a world of self-evidence.
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 08/01/2026
The next form of critique will not be negation but a kind of precise affirmation analysis. For whoever understands how assent functions has already taken the first step toward interrupting it. #PhilSky erwinott.substack.com/p/affirmatio...
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Affirmation and Critique in Contemporary Philosophy
Philosophy Is Never Neutral
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 08/01/2026
1/10 "Affirmation and Critique" dissects contemporary philosophy as a tension between legitimation and disruption. A diagnosis of our time, where critique becomes performative, and affirmation the invisible norm. 🔗 erwin-ott.web.app/ott-affirmat... #philosophy #criticaltheory #philsky
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Affirmation und Kritik
Zeitgenössische Philosophien zwischen Legitimation und Unterbrechung
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 21/12/2025
The task is therefore to develop a philosophy of nature for the anthropocene that is neither nostalgic nor reductionist, and that embraces both Romantic sensitivity and materialistic rigour. #PhilSky #LitSky #Schelling #Goethe open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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Nature in Flux: Romantic Nature Philosophy and the Challenges of New Materialism
Goethe, Schelling, Ritter, and the Search for a New Language of Nature
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 21/12/2025
1/10 How can Romanticism’s nature philosophy resonate with 21st-century New Materialism? This essay explores Goethe, Schelling, & Ritter as “resonance figures” for today’s ecological & ontological crises. (erwin-ott.web.app/ott-romantis...) #PhilSky #Naturphilosophie #NewMaterialism #LitSky
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Natur im Fluss
Romantische Resonanzen im Materialismus des 21. Jahrhunderts
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 13/12/2025
1/10 Money isn’t just a tool—it’s a living system shaped by code, cables, bodies & power. If we don’t understand its agency, we can’t understand the world we live in. erwin-ott.web.app/ott-geld.html #philsky #Money #Philosophy
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Die lebendige Materie des Geldes
Eine new-materialistische Philosophie der Finanzen
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 13/12/2025
The challenge before us is not to resurrect the illusion of human mastery but to develop new forms of understanding, responsibility, and governance that take seriously the material agency of money. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The Living Matter of Money: A New-Materialist Philosophy of Finance
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 25/11/2025
The Essay rethinks van Dyck’s portrait of the Stuart brothers as a site where matter and meaning refuse separation. It isn’t just pigment or symbol - it’s a relational field where social order and materiality co-constitute each other. erwin-ott.web.app/ott-dyck.html) #PhilSky #ArtTheory
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Materialität und Repräsentation im Porträt
Jenseits der Dichotomien
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 25/11/2025
It is the eventfulness that makes the portrait not just a masterpiece of Baroque art but a philosophical provocation, one that continues to resonate long after the paint has dried and the brothers have faded into history. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The Flesh of Paint: Van Dyck’s Stuart Brothers and the Ontology of the Portrait
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 10/11/2025
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 (erwin-ott.web.app/ott-meillass...
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Vom kritischen Subjekt zum spekulativen Absoluten
Die wahre kopernikanische Wende als Weg zur neuen Metaphysik
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 10/11/2025
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. open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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The True Copernican Revolution: From Correlationism to Immanent Absolutes
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summerstreet.bsky.social @summerstreet.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 03/11/2025
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...
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Beat and Flux: The Club as a Laboratory of Ontological Experience
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 26/10/2025
To philosophize in sound is to embrace withdrawal, to think not about the unsayable but from within it. #PhilSky open.substack.com/pub/erwinott...
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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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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 26/10/2025
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
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Von der Philosophie des Klangs zur Philosophie im Klang
Christoph Cox’ <em>Sonic Flux</em> und die via negativa
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 24/09/2025
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
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Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 24/09/2025
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...
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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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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 24/09/2025
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
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Wider die Selbstgewissheit
Raymond Geuss als anti-heroischer Philosoph im postmetaphysischen Zeitalter
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 18/09/2025
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...
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Die Genese und Dominanz statischer Philosophie im abendländischen Denken
Eine historisch-systematische Analyse
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 18/09/2025
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 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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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 11/09/2025
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
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Schattenontologie und Rheoplegma
Fragen der Gegenwartsphilosophie
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 14/09/2025
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
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Heidegger und die KI
Vom Gestell zur Datenlichtung
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 14/09/2025
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...
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Heidegger and AI: From „Gestell“ to the Clearing of Data
When Algorithms Think and Philosophers Hesitate
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 06/09/2025
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...
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Rheoplegma
Eine postmetaphysische Ontologie des Werdens
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 06/09/2025
"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...
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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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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 02/09/2025
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...
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Between Truth and Disillusionment: Adorno’s Music as Post-Metaphysical Philosophy of Sound
Introduction: The Silence of Metaphysics and the Language of Music
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 30/08/2025
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
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Kontingenz ohne Maß – Zur Unschärfe eines Schlüsselbegriffs der postmeta­phy­si­schen Philosophie
Ein Beitrag zur begrifflichen Rekonstruktion und Systematisierung
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 30/08/2025
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...
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Contingency Without Measure: On the Fuzziness of a Key Concept in Postmetaphysical Philosophy
The concept of contingency has become one of the most pervasive yet elusive ideas in contemporary thought.
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 24/08/2025
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...
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Shadow Light of Freedom: A Journey Through the „Älteste Systemprogramm des deutschen Idealismus“
The Fragment’s Living Pulse: Unfinished Yet Potent
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summerstreet.bsky.social @summerstreet.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Rheo{Plegma} : AB #flux
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 24/08/2025
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
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Schattenlicht der Freiheit
Eine Lektüre des ältesten Systemprogramms des deutschen Idealismus
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 16/08/2025
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...
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The Unavailability of Being: Sieglinde Ohland's "Einführung in die Schattenontologie"
In an era dominated by the relentless demand for transparency, data, and complete accessibility, a new philosophical voice emerges to challenge the very foundations of our contemporary worldview.
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 15/08/2025
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...
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Was bleibt, wenn das Jenseits verschwindet?
Nietzsche, die Metaphysik und die Geburt der Schattenontologie
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 13/08/2025
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
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The Real Doesn't Want to Be Known: The Case for Philosophical Restraint
Reflections on Speculative Realism and its limits
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 12/08/2025
substack.com/profile/3793... #Philsky #CommonGood #ShadowOntology #ApophaticPolitics #PoliticalTheory #NegativeEthics #Responsivity #PoliticalPhilosophy #PostTranscendentalism #OntologicalReserve #EthicalNegation
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New post - a reflection on Sieglinde Ohland’s incisive “Essay on the Common Good”. Her work takes the fraught concept of the common good and reframes it not as a positive goal but as an unattainable f...
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 09/08/2025
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
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Apophatische Hermeneutik
Eine umfassende Untersuchung der Grenzen und Unzugänglichkeiten des Verstehens
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 05/08/2025
“Souveränität und Différance,” crafts a poststructuralist state theory, tracing the state’s historical evolution. erwin-ott.web.app/ott-poststru... #PoliticalTheory #Poststructuralism #philsky (1/10)
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Souveränität und Différance
Entwurf einer poststrukturalistischen Staatstheorie
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 04/08/2025
10/10: Schattenontologie offers a framework for a non-totalizing science, embracing structural uncertainty as a productive dimension of knowledge. This work invites reflection on science’s boundaries and possibilities. #PhilosophyOfScience #ModernPhysics
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 03/08/2025
10/10 The paper highlights apophatic thought’s enduring relevance across disciplines, from theology to science. It invites further research into its intercultural and interdisciplinary potential. #Apophatik #Philosophy
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 02/08/2025
1/10: "Schattenontologie" proposes an apophatic metaphysics of non-availability, challenging epistemologies of transparency and control and advocating a philosophy of withdrawal against poststructuralist totalizing critiques. #Philosophy #Ontology #philsky das.ubernerden.com/ott-schatten...
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Schattenontologie
Apophatische Metaphysik der Unverfügbarkeit
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 30/07/2025
1/10 Physics doesn’t just describe the world—it shapes and is shaped by philosophy, art, & society. This paper explores the surprising, reciprocal dialogues between physics & its cultural contexts. #Physics #Culture #philsky das.ubernerden.com/ott-suppleme...
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Die Physik im kulturellen Resonanzraum
Ein Supplement zur Genealogie der Physik
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 24/07/2025
1/10 "Beyond the Paradigm" argues for a post-paradigmatic economics inspired by 20th-century scientific revolutions. While physics and philosophy transformed radically, economics still often clings to metaphysical frameworks. #Economics #ParadigmShift #philsky das.ubernerden.com/ott-postpara...
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Jenseits des Paradigmas
Für eine post-paradigmatische Ökonomie im Horizont moderner Wissenschaftsrevolutionen
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Erwin Ott @erwin-ott.web.app · 22/07/2025
1/10 "From Archive to Platform" introduces Shadow Ontology, a critical lens for understanding knowledge in the digital age. It builds on Foucault’s archive concept to explore how platforms and AI reshape what’s knowable. #Philosophy #DigitalCulture #philsky das.ubernerden.com/ott-archiv-p...
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Vom Archiv zur Plattform
Schatten des Wissens in Zeiten algorithmischer Überproduktion
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