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Book SynopsisThis 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 di
Table of Contents
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
