Preface / Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinski -- Is religion an enemy of civilization? / Gianni Vattimo -- Ramon Llull: background and horizons / Fernando Dominguez Reboiras -- Llull, Leibniz, Kircher, and the history of Lullism in the early modern era / Wilhelm Schmidt-Biggemann -- Combinatorics as scientific method in the work of Ramon Llull and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz / Diane Doucet-Rosenstein -- Deus ex machina: eschatologies of automation in seventeenth-century Lullism and present-day post-scarcity utopias / Florian Cramer -- Ramon Llull: poet and pioneer of digital philosophy / Peter Weibel -- The language and science of Ramon Llull in the light of Jacques Lacan's teachings: the beloved, the "Affatus," and the art / Miquel Bassols -- The act of communicating: language and meaning in Ramon Llull / Josep E. Rubio -- The movements of Ramon Llull and the Lullist network: a "Chronotopological" cartogram / Robert Preusse and Stefanie Rau -- Introduction to Salvador Dali's "Mystical Manifesto": Dali and Iberian mysticism / Amador Vega -- Mystical manifesto / Salvador Dali -- Cyborg art: Dali, Llull, and the sciences / Henning Schmidgen -- Imperceptible analogy in art: the forest metaphors of Ramon Llull and Perejaume / Amador Vega -- Musical representations of the "Scala Naturae" in the neoplatonic tradition / Sebastian F. Moro Tornese -- Leibniz - "I Ching" - Cage: blind thinking and chance operations / Daniel Irrgang -- Ars combinatoria: mystical systems, procedural art, and the computer / Janet Zweig -- Lullism: a modern (media-) philosophical approach / Siegfried Zielinski -- Computational imaginaries: some further remarks on Leibniz, Llull, and rethinking the history of calculating machines / Jonathan Gray -- Freedom for dialogue / Jordi Gaya -- About the miniatures and "meditations" / David Link -- The blue catalogue: exhibiting Ramon Llull, thinking machines, and combinatorial arts: fragments / Amador Vega, Peter Weibel, Siegfried Zielinksi -- Computational thinking and thinking computationally / Pierre Vandergheynst, Roland Tormey, Lisandra S. Costiner, Sarah Kenderdine -- If I could reconcile reason and madness... / Vicencʹ Villatoro. Contributors -- Index.
Summary:
In this book, international experts from Europe and the United States address Lullism as a remarkable and distinctive method of thinking and experimenting. The origins and impact of Ramon Llull's oeuvre as a modern thinker are presented, and their interdisciplinary and intercultural implications, which continue to this day, are explored. Ars combinatoria, generative and permutative generation of texts, the epistemic and poetic power of algorithmic systems, plus the principle of unconditional dialogue between cultural groups and their individual members, are the most important coordinates of this combinatorial-dialogical media and communication theory, which appeared very early in the history of science, technology, and art. It was developed in the work of Ramon Llull during the transition from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century when Arab-Islamic, Jewish, and Christian cultures intersected. The legacy of Lullism lives on in poetry and in the visual and electronic-based arts, as well as in research on the history of informatics, formal logic, and media archaeology. The primary idea of Llull's teachings--to enable rational and therefore trustworthy dialogue between cultures and religions through a universally valid system of symbols--is today still topical and of great relevance, especially in the tensions prevailing in globalized spaces of possibility.
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