As narration, syllogism represents the opposite of addition. Big Data is purely additive, it never comes to an end, to a conclusion. In contrast to the correlations and additions that Big Data generates, theoretical thinking represents a narrative form of knowledge. The Spirit is a conclusion, a syllogism, an integral whole in which component parts are meaningfully preserved. The intergral whole is a conclusive form. But without Spirit, the whole world falls apart into merely additive, unincorporated elements. Spirit constitutes the world´s interiority and composure - what gathers, or composes, everything within itself. Theory is also conceptual - syllogistic - because it comprehends all the elements it includes. Ultimately, the "end of theory" that Chris Anderson has trumpeted means taking leave of Spirit. Big Data makes Spirit - that is, thinking and thought - wither and die. Human science that is purely data-driven is, in fact, no longer human. It has no Geist, or Spirit. Totalized data-knowledge amounts to absolute ignorance, the absolute zero of Spirit.

Unlike mere addition, narration is a syllogism. Knowledge - the state of knowing - is a syllogism. Rituals and ceremonies are syllogistic forms too. They represent a narrative process. As such, they have their own temporality, their own rhythm and pace. As narratives, they defy acceleration. But when all syllogistic forms fall apart, everything has become additive, where all narrative tension - any vertical tautness - has gone missing, total acceleration sets in.

Today, our perceptive apparatus itself is incapable of arriving at any conclusion, it just clicks its way through the endless, digital net. Our senses are completely distracted. Yet only contemplative lingering manages to achieve any meaningful end. Shutting one´s eyes offers a symbol for arriving at a conclusion. Abrubt change from image to image, from information to information, has made any such contemplative conclusion impossible. If all that qualifies as reasonable is a syllogism - a conclusion - then our era, the age of Big Data, is an epoch without reason.

(Byung-Chul Han - Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power)

"Inasmuch as it expends a great deal of energy to force people into the straightjacket of commandments and prohibitions, disciplinary power proves inefficient. A significantly more efficient technology of power makes sure that people subordinate themselves to power relations on their own. Such a dynamic seeks to activate, motivate and optimize - not to inhibit or repress. It proves so effective because it does not operate by means of forbidding and depriving, but by pleasing and fulfilling. Instead of making people compliant, it seeks to make them dependent.

Power that is smart and friendly does not operate frontally - i.e., against the will of those who are subject to it. Instead, it guides their will to its own benefit. It says "yes" more often than "no", it operates seductively, not repressively. It seeks to call forth positive emotions and exploit them. It leads astray instead of erecting obstacles. Instead of standing opposed to the subject, smart and friendly power meets the subject halfway.

Smart power cosies up to the psyche rather than disciplining it through coercion or prohibitions. It does not impose silence. Rather, it is constantly calling on us to confide, share and participate: to communicate our opinions, needs, wishes and preferences - to tell all about our lives. Friendly power proves more powerful, as it were, than purely repressive power. It manages not to be seen at all. Today´s crisis of freedom stems from the fact that the operative technology of power does not negate or repress freedom so much as exploit it. Free choice (Wahl) is eliminated to make way for a free selection (Auswahl) from among the items on offer.

Smart power read and appraises our conscious and unconscious thoughts. It places its stock in voluntary self-organization and self-optimization. As such, it has no need to overcome resitance. Mastery of this sort requires no great expenditure of energy or violence. It simply happens."

(Byung-Chul Han - Psychopolitics: Neoliberalism and New Technologies of Power)

INK_FLO: T.S.Eliot je super:

“And after our all exploring we will end up where we have started but know it for the first time.”

Kde je ta moudrost, co ztratili jsme ve vědění?
Kde je to vědění, co ztratili jsme v informacích?

(T. S. Eliot)

"Myths are public dreams. Dreams are private myths." (Joseph Campbell)

„Zdalipak ses,“ ptal se ho jednou, „ zdalipak ses naučil od řeky tajemství: že není čas?“ Vasudévovu tvář přeběhl jasný úsměv.

„Ano, Siddhártho,“ řekl, „je to přece tohle, co máš na mysli: že řeka je všude zároveň, u pramene i u ústí, u vodopádu, u přívozu, u peřejí, v moři, v horách, všude zároveň, a že pro ni je pouze přítomnost, nikoli stín budoucnosti?“

„Tak je to,“ řekl Siddhártha. „Když jsem se to naučil, podíval jsem se na svůj život a byla to také řeka a chlapec Siddhártha byl od muže Siddhárthy a od starce Siddhárthy oddělen jen stínem, ničím skutečným. Ani Siddhárthova dřívější narození nebyla žádnou minulostí a jeho smrt a návrat k brahmanu žádnou budoucností. Nic nebylo, nic nebude; všechno je bytí a přítomnost.“

Siddhártha mluvil zaníceně, toto osvícení jej hluboce obšťastnilo. Ach, nebylo snad všechno utrpení čas, nebylo všechno sebetrýznění a strachování čas, nebylo všechno obtížné, všechno nepřátelské ve světě pryč a překonáno, jakmile byl překonán čas, jakmile bylo možno čas odmyslet? Mluvil zaníceně. Vasudéva se však na něho zářivě usmíval, souhlasně pokyvoval, pokyvoval mlčky, rukou pohladil Siddhárthu po ramenou a vrátil se ke své práci.


Herman Hesse, Siddhartha, 1967

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