Cybernetic Memories: Flusser’s Apparatus in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
This essay revisits Vilém Flusser’s concept of cybernetic memories to examine artificial intelligence as a terminal stage of the Apparatus, where predictive archives risk foreclosing the event of memory itself. Through dialogue with Bernard Stiegler, Jacques Derrida, Frédéric Neyrat, and Gilbert Simondon, it distinguishes memory as storage from memory as embodied impression, arguing that forgetting, abstraction, and rupture are conditions of learning and individuation. Against predictive temporality, the essay proposes prophetic survival, dialogical cybernetics, and the mechanologist as figures for preserving mental integrity, techno-intersubjectivity, and the human capacity for deep memory within AI-mediated technical systems.
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