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New Publication: Prof. Dr. Žarko Paić

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Prof. Dr. Žarko Paić, research fellow at CeNic, has published The Technoscientific Turn of Philosophy: The Age of Cybernetics (Palgrave Macmillan, 2026). In this book, Prof. Paić offers a radical reinterpretation of aesthetics, ontology, and the technosphere in the context of digital transformation and posthumanism. Furthermore, by challenging classical metaphysics, he examines how cybernetics, autopoiesis, and visualization reshape our understanding of art, the body, and Being. Drawing on a dialogue between philosophy, contemporary art theory, and technoscience, the author argues that the technosphere constitutes a new ontological condition that redefines freedom, embodiment, and the human through synthetic cognition and algorithmic life. By addressing topics such as chaos, entropy, transgenic art and the ethics of war, the author offers an innovative framework for understanding art and existence in the age of planetary computing.

Meaningful Disorientation and the Nihilistic Preconception Today [Smiselna dezorientacija in nihilistični precep danes]

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Prof. Drs. Dean Komel and Manca Erzetič (CeNic Research Fellows) organized the conference series Smiselna dezorientacija in nihilistični precep danes [Meaningful Disorientation and the Nihilistic Preconception Today], which took place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) on 24th-25th September 2024. This event is part of the activities of Inštitut Nove revije, zavod za humanistiko (INR) –a CeNic partner institution– and was dedicated to analyzing the loss of meaningful orientation as a nihilistic experience in contemporary world. Among the 23 speakers who discussed this problem from disciplines such as philosophy, ethics, history, communication, politics, among others, were professors Dean Komel and Manca Erzetič, who gave the lectures Nihilizacija v smiselni dezorientaciji [Nihilization in the Disorientation of Meaning] and Urbančičevo soočenje s smiselno dezorientacijo in nihilističnim razpoloženjem slovenstva [Urbančič’s Confrontation with the Disorientation of Meaning and the Nihilistic State of Slovenian Society], respectively.