The Subject in Digital Philosophy: A critical analysis based on Galloway's “non-philosophical” approach

Abstract

In this paper we discuss “digitality” not as an epiphenomenon of the modern technological world but as a special way of philosophical thinking. We address digitality as a special intellectual process characterized by two main features: 1) transcendence of material immanent reality and 2) division of “One into Two” or division of One into discreet indivisibilia. We consider two examples of such thinking: the cosmological theory of the physicist Max Tegmark and the ontological theory of the prominent French philosopher Alain Badiou. Our fundamental premise is that “digitalization” creates a special position for the Subject and alienates it. Moreover, it makes it necessary for the Subject to become a point in the hierarchy of power. At the end, we pose the question whether a different, “analog” mode of understanding the world is possible.