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Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene book cover

1st Edition

Cosmotechnics For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene

Edited By Yuk Hui, Pieter Lemmens Copyright 2021
164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge

164 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume is initial reflections on the meaning and the implications of Yuk Hui’s notion of cosmotechnics, which opens up an anti-universalist and pluralist perspective on technology beyond the West. Martin Heidegger’s famous analysis of the essence of technology as enframing and as rooted in ancient Greek techne has had a crucial influence on the understanding and critique of... Read more

Preface: Cosmotechnics

Yuk Hui

Introduction: Cosmotechnics and the ontological turn in the age of the Anthropocene

Pieter Lemmens

1. Other turnings. Yuk Hui’s pluralist cosmotechnics in between heidegger’s ontological and stiegler’s organological understanding of technology

Pieter Lemmens

2. Cosmotechnics from an anthropotechnological perspective

Marco Pavanini

3. Neosubstantivism as Cosmotechnics: Gilbert Simondon versus the Transhumanist Synthesis

Andrés Vaccari

4. Machine and ecology

Yuk Hui

5. Noodiversty, technodiversity. Elements of a new economic foundation based on a new foundation for theoretical computer science

Bernard Stiegler and translated by Daniel Ross

6. Technics and agency. The pluralism and diversity of technē

Jason Tuckwell

7. Philosophy in the light of AI. Hegel or Leibniz

Sjoerd van Tuinen

8. Towards a fifth ontology for the Anthropocene

Clive Hamilton

9. The black angel of history. Afrofuturism’s cosmic techniques

Frédéric Neyrat and translated by Daniel Ross

10. Equivocations of the body and cosmic arts. An experiment in polyrealism

Peter Skafish

Biography

Yuk Hui teaches at the City University of Hong Kong. He did his Ph.D. thesis at Goldsmiths College in London, postdoctoral studies in France, and Habilitation thesis in Germany. Between 2012 and 2019 he taught at Leuphana University and Bauhaus University in Germany. Hui’s research focus is on the philosophy of technology.

Pieter Lemmens teaches philosophy and ethics at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands. His current interests are the philosophical and politico-economic aspects of human (cognitive) enhancement technologies, the philosophical aspects of trans- and post-humanism, philosophy of psychedelics, and philosophy of technology in the age of the Anthropocene.

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