Cosmotechnics: for a renewed concept of technology in the Anthropocene

"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 technological society and culture in the twentieth century. However, it is still unclear to what extent his a...

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Weitere Verfasser: Hui, Yuk 1985- (HerausgeberIn), Lemmens, Pieter (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; New York Routledge [2021]
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Zusammenfassung:"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 technological society and culture in the twentieth century. However, it is still unclear to what extent his analysis can also be applied to the development of technology outside of 'the West', e.g. in China, Africa, and Latin America, particularly against the backdrop of receding Western domination and impending global ecological disaster. Acknowledging the planetary expansion of Western technology already observed by Heidegger, yet also recognizing the existence of non-Western origins of technical relationships to the cosmos, Yuk Hui's notion of cosmotechnics calls for a rethinking - in dialogue with decolonial studies and the so-called ontological turn in contemporary anthropology - of the question concerning technology which challenges the universality still present in Heidegger (as well as in Simondon and Stiegler) and proposes a radical technological or rather cosmotechnical pluralism or technodiversity. The contributors to this volume critically engage with this proposal and examine the possible implications of Hui's cosmotechnical turn in thinking about technology as it becomes a planetary force in our current age of the Anthropocene."--Publisher's description
Beschreibung:The chapters in this book were originally published in Angelaki, volume 25, issue 4 (August 2020)"--Page vii Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:xi, 151 Seiten 25 cm
ISBN:9780367769369
9780367769376

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