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Considering Artificial Intelligence with Nietzsche

On the Critique of Current AI Debates

Considering Artificial Intelligence with Nietzsche

On the Critique of Current AI Debates

29.5.25
Hans-Martin Schönherr-Mann

Transhumanists believe that artificial intelligence is used to capture the real world. It wasn't just Nietzsche who presented this as nonsense. Moral programs are entered into the AI. With Nietzsche, this prolongs hostile morality. And Nietzsche would have already questioned the fact that AI helps people. Instead, people must submit to AI. With Nietzsche, they can evade their power.

Transhumanists believe that artificial intelligence can capture the real world. It wasn't just Nietzsche who presented this as nonsense. Moral programs are entered into the AI. With Nietzsche, this prolongs hostile morality. And Nietzsche would have already questioned the fact that AI helps people. Instead, people must submit to AI. With Nietzsche, they can evade their power.

“Choose the right time to die!”

Nietzsche's Ethics of “Free Death” in the Context of Current Debates About Suicide

A Conversation with Filmmaker Lou Wildemann

“Choose the right time to die!”

Nietzsche's Ethics of “Free Death” in the Context of Current Debates About Suicide. A Conversation with Filmmaker Lou Wildemann

14.5.25
Lou Wildemann & Paul Stephan

Lou Wildemann is a cultural scientist and filmmaker from Leipzig. your current feature film project, MALA, deals with the suicide of a young resident of Nietzsche City. Paul Stephan discussed this provocative project and the topic of suicide in general with her: Why is it still taboo today? Should we talk more about this? What role can Nietzsche's reflections, who repeatedly thought about this topic, play in this? What does suicide mean in an increasingly violent neoliberal society?

Lou Wildemann is a cultural scientist and filmmaker from Leipzig. Her current feature film project, MALA, deals with the suicide of a young resident of Nietzsche City. Paul Stephan discussed this provocative project and the topic of suicide in general with her: Why is it still taboo today? Should we talk more about this? What role can Nietzsche's reflections, who repeatedly thought about this topic, play in this? What does suicide mean in an increasingly violent neoliberal society?

“A Gods’ Table for Divine Dice Throws and Dice Players”

Nietzsche's Superman Visits the Start-Up Scene

“A Gods’ Table for Divine Dice Throws and Dice Players”

Nietzsche's Superman Visits the Start-Up Scene

15.10.24
Natalie Schulte

Nietzsche's superman is dead. Hardly anyone can do anything with this obscure idea anymore. You'd think so. And yet, in the current startup environment, you encounter numerous set pieces from Zarathustra's promise. What is it all about? — On the occasion of Nietzsche's 180th birthday, Natalie Schulte dedicates herself to this peculiar continuation of one of the philosopher's best-known concepts. A plea for taking a closer look at Nietzsche's idea despite its past and present misinterpretations.

Editor's note: We have translated longer English quotations into German in the footnotes ourselves.

Nietzsche's superman is dead. Hardly anyone can do anything with this obscure idea anymore. You'd think so. And yet, in the current startup environment, you encounter numerous set pieces from Zarathustra's promise. What is it all about? — On the occasion of Nietzsche's 180th birthday, Natalie Schulte dedicates herself to this peculiar continuation of one of the philosopher's best-known concepts. A plea for taking a closer look at Nietzsche's idea despite its past and present misinterpretations.

Nietzsche and Music

Nietzsche and Music

9.6.24
Christian Saehrendt

For hardly any other philosopher, music was as important as it was for Nietzsche. “Without music, life would be a mistake”1, he wrote. Christian Saehrendt goes for Nietzsche PopArts The question of how this high appreciation of sound art was manifested in his life and work. He talks about Nietzsche's own compositions as well as one of the most iconic aspects of his life: his friendship with Richard Wagner. He shows that the music for Nietzsche is almost erotic It was important — and in this respect he was not so “out of date” at all, but a typical child of his time.

For hardly any other philosopher, music was as important as it was for Nietzsche. “Without music, life would be a mistake,” he wrote. For Nietzsche PopArts, Christian Saehrendt explores the question of how this high appreciation of sound art was manifested in his life and work. He talks about Nietzsche's own compositions as well as one of the most iconic aspects of his life: his friendship with Richard Wagner. He shows that the music had an almost erotic meaning for Nietzsche — and that he was not so “out of date” in this regard, but a typical child of his time.