After this weekend I will send you a trilingual abstract for my
speech. My piece deals with European thought systems in philosophy and
cybernetics. For example, France counts closed systems (Badiou's) and
open systems (Deleuze's); my intention is to approach the concept of
Fold (what a platonist heritage would synthesize as "stupeur de
l'Etre"), and the conceptual scheme of Unfolding (or what a spinozist
lignage would call "Clameur de l'Etre"). But an analog meaning is to
be unveiled in science (the dynamic systems of Jay W. Forester, the
cybernetics of Norbert Wiener). I will leave aside the question of the
pre-Socratic enigma as an anti-systemic resource, and rather go back
to the "late" ancient Greece and Sicily as remanent topoi for
contemporary European thought. A while ago, Foucault wrote about a
thought of the "outside", when Deleuze, Nietzsche and quantum physics
lead us to forge a conception of the Overfold.

A link could also be made with the origins of cybernetics as the art
of sailing and governing and the Sicilian expedition which marks the
of the pre-Socratics (Heraclitus, Empedocles of Agrigentum, Anaxagoras
of Clazomenae); it will also be a mean to call forth the dogmatic and
systemic scheme of the philosophical academies (through Plato,
Aristotle, Stoicism, Skepticism, etc.).