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Recursivity and Contingency (Paperback)
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Recursivity and Contingency (Paperback)
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This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle
concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and
technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It
reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of
thinking elaborated by Kant, passing by the philosophy of nature
(Schelling and Hegel), to the 20th century Organicism (Bertalanffy,
Needham, Whitehead, Wiener among others) and Organology (Bergson,
Canguilhem, Simodnon, Stiegler), and questions the new condition of
philosophizing in the time of algorithmic contingency, ecological
and algorithmic catastrophes, which Heidegger calls the end of
philosophy. The book centres on the following speculative question:
if in the philosophical tradition, the concept of contingency is
always related to the laws of nature, then in what way can we
understand contingency in related to technical systems? The book
situates the concept of recursivity as a break from the Cartesian
mechanism and the drive of system construction; it elaborates on
the necessity of contingency in such epistemological rupture where
nature ends and system emerges. In this development, we see how
German idealism is precursor to cybernetics, and the Anthropocene
and Noosphere (Teilhard de Chardin) point toward the realization of
a gigantic cybernetic system, which lead us back to the question of
freedom. It questions the concept of absolute contingency
(Meillassoux) and proposes a cosmotechnical pluralism. Engaging
with modern and contemporary European philosophy as well as Chinese
thought through the mediation of Needham, this book refers to
cybernetics, mathematics, artificial intelligence and inhumanism.
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