Mstyslav Kazakov holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy and is a Certificate Student in The New Centre’s Transdisciplinary Studies Program. Born and spending his whole life in Ukraine, he now lives in Madeira, Portugal, part-time lecturing remotely at Kyiv Polytechnic University. His research interests encompass metaphysics of temporality and philosophy of time (both within the context of the ‘speculative turn’ and aside from it), and philosophies of futility and pessimism as a grounding for the project of ‘transcendental catastrophism’. The most ambitious of his current studies is Geology of the Night. This project is the elaboration of an ontological and epistemic framework and a transdisciplinary theory/fiction research of The Night Land, a pioneering speculative sci-fi/space horror masterpiece by British author W.H. Hodgson. Here, Kazakov provides for the text a metaphysics of Time through the speculative ‘hypervision’ of the Future as a transcendental catastrophe.
Articles
Notes on Hypervision
Theory-fiction is a genre of thought in the process of making and becoming. And, as any genre of that kind on such a stage, what it needs for thriving is methodology: not from the side of ‘theory’ — for there are a lot of possible ways of theoretical inquiry present at hand today (which is,… Read More »
Telos at the End: A Meditation on Dysteleological Superintelligence
I proceed from an actual fact. For all the scenarios of existential risk from Artificial Intelligence/Superintelligence, there’s always been the same thing. There’s always been this aspect, put tacitly or implicitly, either merely enlisted, or considered to be decisive. And what is it? It is the presupposed teleology. Varying in movements and outcomes, all AI-concerned… Read More »