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Am Anfang war die Operation

Directed by Marx’s Theses on Feuerbach, the article examines the Left Hegelian motives of the agenda of ‘operational ontologies.’ Bernhard Siegert’s attempt to attribute “ontological distinctions” to “ontical operations” finds a surprising parallel in Feuerbach’s enterprise “to dissolve the religious world into its secular foundation.” At the same time, a technically amplified echo of Marx’s idea of the primacy of practice can be perceived in the postulate of a precedence of cultural technological operations.