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Philosophy in the Age of Emission without Listening

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This essay examines the contemporary condition of philosophy under the regime of emission without listening, characterized by textual proliferation detached from any interlocutive function. It argues that current discursive production no longer reorganizes the field of the possible, but rather becomes a mechanism of visibility and institutional legitimation. The critique focuses on three nuclei: textual inflation as a symptom of symbolic disarticulation; citation transformed into an emblem of belonging rather than a conceptual operator; and algorithmic silencing, which reduces difference to mere statistics of compatibilities. Against this scenario, the text proposes rethinking philosophy as a mediation of symbolic legibility, where listening and hesitation emerge as ontological conditions of thought. The argument is articulated in critical dialogue with Adorno and Deleuze, recovering diagnoses of the sterilization of communication and displacing them into an ontology of emerging complexity. The central contribution lies in affirming philosophy not as commentary or performance, but as an operative gesture of symbolic inscription capable of sustaining difference and reorganization within the contemporary saturation of discourse.

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References

  • Adorno, Theodor W. 1966. Negative Dialektik. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp.
  • Deleuze, Gilles. 1968. Différence et répétition. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France.