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
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. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of Angelaki.
General
| Imprint: |
Routledge
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Angelaki: New Work in the Theoretical Humanities |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| First published: |
2021 |
| Editors: |
Yuk Hui
• Pieter Lemmens
|
| Dimensions: |
246 x 174mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
152 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-367-76937-6 |
| Categories: |
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| LSN: |
0-367-76937-9 |
| Barcode: |
9780367769376 |
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