Andrés Vaccari
Biographic Data
| ID | 1339779 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrés Vaccari |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrés |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaccari |
| SIGNATURE | VACCARI A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6408-9006 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils
This article carries out a diffractive reading of Kurt Vonnegut through the writings of Donna Haraway. Vonnegut and Haraway never read each other, yet this essay argues that they are kindred spirits, or oddkin. Both authors challenge the distinction between theory and fiction in their practice. The approach of Vonnegut's work from the perspective of Haraway's is through the polysemic notion of SF and her diagnosis of the "trouble." The reading ha…
Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices
We examine the question of material agency as raised in material engagement theory (MET). Insofar as MET tends to highlight the causal roles played by extra-bodily material flows in human practices, the term “material agency” does not sufficiently distinguish cases in which these flows are part of an agentive engagement from cases in which they are not. We propose an operational criterion to effect such a distinction. We claim this criterion is o…
The centrality of the machine in the thought of Jacques Lafitte
Jacques Lafitte occupies an odd place in the philosophy of technology. He was a French engineer who made a significant and conceptually innovative contribution to this field, yet his influence has been elusive and largely ignored until relatively recently. Many of Lafitte’s ideas find echoes in the work of later philosophers (particularly Gilbert Simondon), yet, notably in the case of Simondon, apparently without any direct line of influence. Laf…
Neosubstantivism as Cosmotechnics
Yuk Hui refers to cosmotechnics as the deep interweaving of human action and technology as shaped by diverse moral universes. In this article, I pit two views of cosmotechnics against each other. I begin by characterizing the present, dominant cosmotechnics through the lens of neosubstantivism, a view where technology is naturalized and seen as propelled by an autonomous logic of development. I focus on the Transhumanist Synthesis (TS) in its cos…
Artifact Dualism, Materiality, and the Hard Problem of Ontology
How the Brain Became The Headquarters of the Self
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How the Brain Became The Headquarters of the Self
Artifact Dualism, Materiality, and the Hard Problem of Ontology
Neosubstantivism as Cosmotechnics
Yuk Hui refers to cosmotechnics as the deep interweaving of human action and technology as shaped by diverse moral universes. In this article, I pit two views of cosmotechnics against each other. I begin by characterizing the present, dominant cosmotechnics through the lens of neosubstantivism, a view where technology is naturalized and seen as propelled by an autonomous logic of development. I focus on the Transhumanist Synthesis (TS) in its cos…
The centrality of the machine in the thought of Jacques Lafitte
Jacques Lafitte occupies an odd place in the philosophy of technology. He was a French engineer who made a significant and conceptually innovative contribution to this field, yet his influence has been elusive and largely ignored until relatively recently. Many of Lafitte’s ideas find echoes in the work of later philosophers (particularly Gilbert Simondon), yet, notably in the case of Simondon, apparently without any direct line of influence. Laf…
Toward an Enactive Conception of Productive Practices
We examine the question of material agency as raised in material engagement theory (MET). Insofar as MET tends to highlight the causal roles played by extra-bodily material flows in human practices, the term “material agency” does not sufficiently distinguish cases in which these flows are part of an agentive engagement from cases in which they are not. We propose an operational criterion to effect such a distinction. We claim this criterion is o…
A Tentative Tangling of Tendrils
This article carries out a diffractive reading of Kurt Vonnegut through the writings of Donna Haraway. Vonnegut and Haraway never read each other, yet this essay argues that they are kindred spirits, or oddkin. Both authors challenge the distinction between theory and fiction in their practice. The approach of Vonnegut's work from the perspective of Haraway's is through the polysemic notion of SF and her diagnosis of the "trouble." The reading ha…
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (3 works) · Philosophical and Theoretical Analysis (3 works) · Philosophy of science (3 works) · Philosophy of technology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Biology (2 works)