D. S. Ushakov. AWAKENING WITHOUT A SLEEPER:
THROUGH THE GENEALOGY OF THOUGHT TO PREDICTIVE PHILOSOPHY
 

The monograph presents a fundamental ontological investigation that grounds the transition from a substantial ontology to an ontology of holding, according to which being is not an essence but a configuration of forces enduring in the tension of holding and dispersal. The author develops and consistently applies a single analytical procedure to six registers of philosophical thought — the ontological, the epistemological, the anthropological, the ethical, the register of power and order, and the register of progress, science, and technology — and discloses a common invariant: a category thought as a bearing ground, at the appearance of a plane that lays it bare, reveals its own configurational nature and, being institutionally normalized, reproduces the initial shift at a higher level. Particular attention is given to the ontological analysis of power as an autonomous system of the second nature, to its substratization, and to technological syngenesis, in which a configuration for the first time ceases to require the human being. On this basis the restoration of the prognostic function of philosophy is established: what is derivable is not the content of coming configurations but the structural form of their reshaping. The monograph is intended for specialists in ontology, philosophical anthropology, social philosophy, and complexity theory.

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Table of contents 

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THRESHOLD
CHAPTER ONE, ONTOLOGICAL
   1.1. Antihydrogen: Regime Instead of Substance
   1.2. Whanganui: Status Instead of Subjecthood
   1.3. Quantum Reversal: Duration Instead of Form
   1.4. Neural Ensembles: Matter Instead of Soul
   1.5. CRISPR Twins: Holding Instead of Project
CHAPTER TWO, EPISTEMOLOGICAL
   2.1. Aspect–Clauser–Zeilinger: Institution Instead of Correlate
   2.2. PURSUE: Archaeology Instead of Correspondence
   2.3. Hindawi: Thinking Instead of Text
   2.4. October 7: Density Instead of Neutrality
   2.5. LaMDA: The First Person Instead of a Bearer
CHAPTER THREE, ANTHROPOLOGICAL
   3.1. Ozempic: Tuning Instead of Givenness
   3.2. Facebook Files: Asymmetry Instead of Sublation
   3.3. Tilly Norwood: Distribution Instead of Detachment
   3.4. Bubble: Labor Instead of Experience
   3.5. Everest: Production Instead of Impossibility
CHAPTER FOUR, ETHICAL
   4.1. Koalas: Selectivity Instead of Universality
   4.2. The Pity of the Pitiful: Simulacrum Instead of the Cross
   4.3. Recognition of the Non-Recognizing: Number Instead of Face
   4.4. The Torn Shelter: Demonstration Instead of Surveillance
   4.5. The Restored Genesis: Archaeology Instead of Archive
CHAPTER FIVE, ON POWER AND ORDER
   5.1. Epstein's Island: The Silence of Elites Instead of the Protest of Masses
   5.2. FTX: Legitimacy Without the Legitimate
   5.3. The Abandoned Fortress: Two Recognitions Instead of One Order
   5.4. Paid Subjection: Self-Holding Instead of Freedom
   5.5. The Sublated City: The Threshold of Substratehood Instead of the Apotheosis of Power
CHAPTER SIX, ON PROGRESS, SCIENCE, AND TECHNOLOGY
   6.1. The Unclosed Trace: Latency Instead of Oblivion
   6.2. The Fragile Connection: A Single Thread Instead of a Scattered Fabric
   6.3. Smooth Holding: The Given Instead of the Thinking
   6.4. The Unclosed Will: Node Instead of Effort
   6.5. The Closed Circuit: Technology Instead of the Human
EXODUS
Philosophical Roots and Documentary Sources