Giorgi Vachnadze
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Member since Apr 29, 2024

About Giorgi Vachnadze

Giorgi Vachnadze is a Foucault and Wittgenstein scholar. He completed his Bachelor studies at New Mexico State University and received a Master’s qualification in philosophy at the University of Louvain. Former editor and peer-reviewer for the Graduate Student Journal of philosophy “The Apricot," he has been published in multiple popular and academic journals worldwide. Vachnadze’s research focuses on philosophy of language and discourse analysis. Some of the questions and themes addressed in his work include: History of Combat Sports, Ancient Stoicism, Genealogies of Truth, Histories of Formal Systems, Genealogy of Science, Ethics in AI and Psychoanalysis, Media Archaeology, Game Studies, and more. Vachnadze's latest work "Christian Eschatology of Artificial Intelligence" is a book-length comparative analysis of Christian and Neo-Liberal forms of governance seen through the lens of Biopolitics and Artificial Intelligence.

Education

MA Philosophy

University of Louvain (KU Leuven)

BA Philosophy

New Mexico State University

Areas of Expertise

Philosophy and History of Artificial IntelligenceBiopoliticsGenealogical CritiquePhilosophy of LanguageLudwig WittgensteinMichel Foucault

Awards

The Richard L. Hedden Scholarship (New Mexico State University)

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Heidegger warned that technology turns humans into a standing reserve. The Kyoto School's Zen-inflected response offers a genuine philosophical cure for burnout.

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3 Zen Lessons From Nishida Kitarō to Overcome Existential Dread

Nishida Kitarō, founder of the Kyoto School, offers three Zen-inflected philosophical lessons for facing existential dread without falling into despair.

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Why Intuition Is a Method, Not a Feeling (Deleuze on Bergson)

Bergson's intuition is not a hunch but a rigorous philosophical method. Deleuze's Bergsonism recovers its precision, its three rules, and its power to dissolve false problems.

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What Are Incompossible Worlds? Deleuze on Leibniz

Deleuze enacts a radical transformation in Leibniz's doctrine of incompossible worlds. Deleuze severs God from the system and allows a divergent series to coexist in a single, open, non-totalizable reality.

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What Is Time Really? Deleuze and Bergson on Duration

For Bergson and Deleuze, time is not a row of identical units but duration: a qualitative multiplicity, continuous, heterogeneous, and irreducible to space.

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Deleuze’s Most Important Distinction Between the Virtual and the Actual

"Virtual" does not refer to anything digital. Gilles Deleuze’s distinction between the virtual and the actual offers an unexpected, dynamic interpretation of the world.

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What Is the Élan Vital That Bergson Talked About?

Henri Bergson’s élan vital dismantles mechanical and teleological illusions. Deleuze reads it as virtuality actualizing itself.

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What Is the Baroque? Deleuze and Leibniz on Style and Thought

Gilles Deleuze reframes the category of the Baroque, moving it further away from an art-historical trope and closer to a philosophical concept, drawing on the philosophy of Gottfried Leibniz.

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How Deleuze “Folded Leibniz in Half”

Deleuze transforms Leibniz's orderly, theological metaphysics into a dynamic philosophy of movement through a single concept: the Fold, in which inside and outside fold endlessly into each other.

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Post-Modern Stoics? The Revival of Stoicism in the Late 20th Century

The unexpected revival of Stoicism, from Foucault to Deleuze, as a modern tool for self-care, political resistance, and an authentic life.

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Gilles Deleuze Really Admired Egyptian Art and Its Resilience

Gilles Deleuze offers an original examination of Egyptian art in terms of its creative effort to withstand the destructive effect of time.

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Deleuze Turned Leibniz’s Windowless Monad Into a Folded Space

Deleuze's book The Fold recasts Leibniz's windowless, hierarchical monad as a dynamic space where interiority is produced by folding the outside world inward into a subject.

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