Bypassing Immanence is about the crisis of cultural innovation in the context of internet's algorithmic paradigm shift. Through a framework based around a cross-disciplinary notion of entropy, the essay explores philosophy of art in relation to technology. The thesis stresses the necessity for arts to innovate outside the mathematical-logical framework, in order to avoid being absorbed and homogenized under contemporary cybernetic regimes.
“The unique qualities of art differentiating it from other disciplines lie outside the realm of entropy and therefore, are inert to algorithmic subjectification. The problem of contemporary culture is perhaps a deficiency of those qualities, responsible for generating novel outcomes. It might be that arts are misunderstood in their ontology. A painter should not be concerned with the invention of photography, just as a writer should not be concerned with the invention of automated text generation. A computer can never generate anti-entropic outcomes, since it's an automatized process. It lacks the inventive quality, the de-automatization necessary for novel outcomes, The true danger behind AI is not that it will 'outpace' human intelligence or creativity, it is that we are conditioned to believe it will.”
