Miara Sung (they/them) is a philosopher living in
Korea.
They are writing a monograph,
Madness and Consent, a syncretic work that thinks with mathematical logic for a metaphysics of flesh and sexual violence that takes consent as the ground. The core of the book is an analytic Deleuzianism, Deleuze interpreted with fixed point semantics. In consent, we do not make up our minds about each other, but give in to continually shaping each other; consent is a fixed point, affirmation of difference.
Why use mathematical logic for philosophy at all? The motivation can be posed as a question. When so much of human life becomes computable data under technological surveillance, how can we usurp the theoretical foundations of technology for our purposes, to turn the enemy's thought against their own? How can mathematical logic be used as the backbone of a humanistic philosophy to prove that humans cannot be reduced to mathematical equations, and to give us a certain form for fuzzy yet incredibly important concepts like consent, flesh, and sexual violence?
In the past, Miara has worked at an evil big tech corporation, as well as several startups. They mostly worked on natural language processing systems and machine translation. Now they study at and work as a programmer for a para-academic institution of interdisciplinary scholars. They also teach philosophy and literature to schoolchildren.
In 2012, they programmed
6180 the moon, an indie game.
See their writing
here.
성아민은 한국에 거주하는 철학자다.
그의 연구는 한 가지 질문을 따른다: 인간을 수학 공식으로 환원하지 않는 동시에, 수리 논리를 인본주의 철학의 형식적 틀로 사용하려면 어떻게 해야 하는가? 이 질문에 대한 한가지 답변으로 현재 단행본 『광기와 동의 (
Madness and Consent)』를 집필중이다. 프랑스 후기 구조주의, 근현대 철학, 유교 사상, 흑인 연구(black studies), 분석 철학, 그리고 수리 논리학의 융합 프로젝트인 이 책은 광기와 동의의 형이상학을 수학적으로 탐구한다. 나아가 동의를 유한한 이성적 숙고의 결과물로 여기는 자유주의적 개념을 정면으로 비판하며 그 대신 육신 안에서 함께-느끼는, 무한한 공동 연산이라는 보다 심층적인 동의의 개념으로 대체하고자 한다.