Technologies of control reduce the singularities, of which processes of individuation are constituent, into calculabilities, to such an extent that they overdetermine the horizon of reality and can no longer be recognised as such. But to what extent is the human already technologically predisposed - to what extent is the human calculable in relation to itself and therefore predisposed to its technological overcoming?

Human life is constituted by tertiary retentions that are always-already technical determinations through the relation of Anamnesis and Hyponomnesis - a ‘default of origin’. The ‘pharmakology of spirit’ turns technologies of control into technologies of individuation. The screen has become the paradigmatic pharmakological space and the digital the form of informational light that is brought to focus by the gaze of consciousness in this space. The pharmakologies of light-time that operate at this interface constitute Stieglerian ‘new weapons’.

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Practices that subject pharmakology itself to a clearing inherently only occur outside tradition. Outside history, they are occult. Can such practices be said to be individuating and what is their relation to technological apparatus? Such practices, which evade philosophical writing, can be unearthed through an archeology of meditative praxis. Such an archeology reveals examples of a performative, perceptual clearing that is achieved through a yoga of light, which considers embodiment as the spectral interface. Such techniques, which are theurgic arts, manipulate demiurgic instruments of control in their dual capacity as optic-dimensional and geometric. Here, pharmakological suspension is achieved through a perceptual interfacing where consciousness as such is opened to itself. Both technical-perceptual apparatus (prosthetic instrumentation) and apparition are already apprehended here - natural light already corresponds to that possible radiance revealed in the psycho-physicality of the practitioner.