Yuk Hui
Biographic Data
| ID | 284 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuk Hui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuk |
| FAMILY NAME | Hui |
| SIGNATURE | HUI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leuphana University of Lüneburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3242-9819 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 59 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Standpoint of Heimatlosigskeit and the Planet in advance
Since the launch of Sputnik in 1957, it has become impossible to comprehend the world solely through the lens of Hegel’s Berlin or Kojève’s Paris—even as nation-states continue to wrestle with their growing obsolescence. The planetary condition of human existence has also intensified a form of nihilism rooted in modernity: geographically through globalization, and cosmically through thermodynamics. If, in the twentieth century, reactionary politi…
Apropos Technophany
The aim of this article is to reconstruct the concept of technophany, which is scattered throughout various posthumously published works of Gilbert Simondon, and to demonstrate the philosophical significance of developing this concept. Technophany, that is, the manifestation of technicity, occupies a central place in Simondon’s reflections on techno-aesthetics and, more importantly, in his intellectual project of reintegrating technology into cul…
"Tendency and Intuition in Simondon's "Genesis of Technicity
This article aims to reconsider the use of the term tendency in Gilbert Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958). The term tendency is used throughout the book, but more concentratedly in Part III, "The Genesis of Technicity." Simondon often uses the term to describe the process of a bifurcation of phases; for example, the magical phase bifurcates into a religious tendency and a technical tendency, and each bifurcated phase…
Bernard Stiegler, the Mystagogue
What does it mean to teach philosophy today? This question occupies a central position in Bernard Stiegler’s thinking and his practice. For Stiegler, to teach philosophy is to initiate, so that an individuation, or a quantum leap, could take place within and between the teacher and the participants. This article traces a mystagogical thinking in Stiegler’s work, especially his reading of Plato and Simondon. This mystagogical thinking, present in …
L’imagination et l’infini. Une critique de l’imagination artificielle
L’appel à contribution pour ce numéro spécial nous invite à penser la création après le calcul. Le terme « après » suggère que la créativité, telle qu’elle fut précédemment comprise, est déjà épuisée par le calcul, et que cet appel anticipe donc une compréhension nouvelle, voire radicale, de la créativité à venir. Qu’en est-il alors de cette nouvelle créativité qui ne peut être épuisée par le calcul ? Ou pour être plus sceptique : ne s’agit-t-il …
Por um primitivismo estratégico: Um diálogo entre Eduardo Viveiros de Castro e Yuk Hui
Neste diálogo com Yuk Hui, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discute seu trabalho sobre o perspectivismo ameríndio e o multiculturalismo; a relação entre natureza, cultura e técnica em seus estudos etnográficos; bem como a necessidade de uma definição não antropológica de tecnologia. Também trata de um futuro assustador da crise ecológica e da automação do Antropoceno, além de explorar um "primitivismo estratégico" como ferramenta de sobrevivência
Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking
In Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking, Yuk Hui expands his philosophical interrogation of technology, extending his analysis of cosmotechnics to address the urgent planetary crisis. He argues that the current ecological devastation is not merely a consequence of industrialization but stems from a deeper ontological fissure-a disconnect between the human and the earth. Hui traces the genealogy of this separation, examining how the c…
Sketch of an Axiology of Contingency
In this article I attempt to sketch out what we might call an axiology of contingency, namely the study of the value of contingency. The triadic structure of the article follows the paraphrased epigraph from the Gospel of St John, where the word “word” is replaced with “contingency.” Although I play on the words of John in a Hegelian spirit, what is outlined here is an – admittedly brief – attempt to understand contingency as Begriff
On the Varieties of Experience of Art
This essay takes up the line of critique of François Jullien in The Great Image Has No Form, that Chinese landscape painting ( shanshui) provides a counter-example to Western painting. The opposition, namely that the former undermines form and the latter focuses on form, provides two kinds of access to 'truth' and demonstrates two different philosophical temperaments between China and Europe. The article attempts to reflect on Jullien's compariso…
The Exhibition as Medium: Some Observations on the Cybernetisation of the Institution and the Exhibition
In 'Qu'appelle-t-on un mdium?' ('What is called a medium?'), theorist Pascal Krajewski offers a useful summary of the possible meanings of the term medium, without being able to decide between them, on the basis of a detailed discussion of the notions of the concept, notably in Marshall McLuhan and Rgis Debray. From these two authors, two approaches to the medium can be articulated, one materialist and technical, the other more symbolic and anthr…
For Dialogue Between Strauss and Stiegler
Introduction: Philosophy after Automation
On the Limit of Artificial Intelligence
This article asks how can we articulate the limit of artificial intelligence, which virtually has no limit? Or maybe the definition of AI already implies its limit, how Marvin Minsky once declared that there is no generally accepted theory of intelligence, and that AI is only one particular way of modelling it. This article revisits the debate between Minsky and Hubert Dreyfus and repositions them in terms of an opposition between mechanism and o…
Homo animalis, a Japanese Futurism: A Dialogue between Hiroki Azuma and Yuk Hui
In this dialogue, Hiroki Azuma discusses with Yuk Hui about the perception of technology in Japan after the defeat in the Second World War, from the Kyoto School to the postmodern critics, and the ambivalent conflicts between the modern and the tradition. The postmodern culture has a different signification in Japan than in the West as well as in other parts of Asia. Azuma documents the rise of the Otaku culture in Japan, and calls them “database…
On the Persistence of the Non-Modern
Previous articleNext article FreeContextsOn the Persistence of the Non-ModernYuk HuiYuk Hui Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreHand-coloured lithograph from Joseph Josenhans, Bilder aus der Missionswelt (Images from the World of Missions), Mainz: Scholz, c.1860Farewell, phantoms! The world no…
For a Strategic Primitivism: A Dialogue between Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Yuk Hui
In this dialogue with Yuk Hui, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses his work on the Amerindian perspectivism, multinaturalism; the relation between nature, culture and technics in his ethnographic studies; as well as the necessity of a non-anthropocentric definition of technology. He also discusses a haunting futurism of ecological crisis and automation of the Anthropocene, and explores a “strategic primitivism” as survival tool
Landscapes of Technological Thoughts: A Dialogue between Pieter Lemmens and Yuk Hui
In this dialogue with Yuk Hui, Pieter Lemmens explains the discipline called philosophy of technology and gives a concise overview of the most important contemporary approaches within this field. He also offers a critical evaluation of what are probably the two most salient characteristics of contemporary philosophy of technology, the so-called "empirical turn" and the "ethical turn," which are deeply related and partly reflect the discipline's o…
Writing and Cosmotechnics
This paper aims to approach the notion of writing in the digital age in order to reflect on the question of technodiversity, or the multiplicity of cosmotechnics. It takes off with what seems to be two criticisms against each other: one from Derrida's Of Grammatology, where he claims that ‘the notion of technics can never simply clarify the notion of writing’; and the other from Stiegler's Discretising Time, where he openly criticized Derrida, ‘I…
Philosophy and the Planetary
This essay considers the pandemic as a consequence of the planetary condition. It goes on to ask: Can philosophy contribute to the elucidation of the planetary, or is philosophy, in the words of Heidegger, already completed in and as the planetary? What kind of relation to the planetary will it desire to have
Cosmotechnics
Machine and Ecology
This article investigates the relation between machine and ecology, and the philosophical and historical questions concealed in these two seemingly incompatible terms. The opposition between machine and organism was fundamental to philosophical projects since the eighteenth century. However, the emergence of cybernetics in the first half of the twentieth century proposed a unified logic which transcended the dualism between machine and organism, …
Recursivity and Contingency
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, Cang…
On the Soul of Technical Objects: Commentary on Simondon’s ‘Technics and Eschatology’ (1972)
This article comments on a paper titled ‘Technique et eschatologie: le devenir des objets techniques’ that Gilbert Simondon presented in 1972. For Simondon, eschatology consists of a basic presupposition, which is the duality between the immortal soul and the corruptible body. The eschatology of technical objects can be seen as the object’s becoming against time. Simondon suggests that in the epoch of artisans, the product through its perfection …
A Politics of Intensity: Some Aspects of Acceleration in Simondon and Deleuze
This article aims to clarify the question of speed and intensity in the thoughts of Simondon and Deleuze, in order to shed light on the recent debates regarding accelerationism and its politics. Instead of starting with speed, we propose to look into the notion of intensity and how it serves as a new ontological ground in Simondon's and Deleuze's philosophy and politics. Simondon mobilises the concept of intensity to criticise hylomorphism and su…
On Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Relation between Technology and Nature in the Anthropocene
This article aims to bring forward a critical reflection on a renewed relation between nature and technology in the Anthropocene, by contextualizing the question around the recent debates on the "ontological turn" in Anthropology, which attempts to go beyond the nature and culture dualism analysed as the crisis of modernity. The "politics of ontologies" associated with this movement in anthropology opens up the question of participation of non-hu…
On Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Relation between Technology and Nature in the Anthropocene
This article aims to bring forward a critical reflection on a renewed relation between nature and technology in the Anthropocene, by contextualizing the question around the recent debates on the "ontological turn" in Anthropology, which attempts to go beyond the nature and culture dualism analysed as the crisis of modernity. The "politics of ontologies" associated with this movement in anthropology opens up the question of participation of non-hu…
For a Strategic Primitivism: A Dialogue between Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Yuk Hui
In this dialogue with Yuk Hui, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses his work on the Amerindian perspectivism, multinaturalism; the relation between nature, culture and technics in his ethnographic studies; as well as the necessity of a non-anthropocentric definition of technology. He also discusses a haunting futurism of ecological crisis and automation of the Anthropocene, and explores a “strategic primitivism” as survival tool
Machine and Ecology
This article investigates the relation between machine and ecology, and the philosophical and historical questions concealed in these two seemingly incompatible terms. The opposition between machine and organism was fundamental to philosophical projects since the eighteenth century. However, the emergence of cybernetics in the first half of the twentieth century proposed a unified logic which transcended the dualism between machine and organism, …
Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology, and the Social
How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very…
Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking
In Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking, Yuk Hui expands his philosophical interrogation of technology, extending his analysis of cosmotechnics to address the urgent planetary crisis. He argues that the current ecological devastation is not merely a consequence of industrialization but stems from a deeper ontological fissure-a disconnect between the human and the earth. Hui traces the genealogy of this separation, examining how the c…
Cosmotechnics
The Parallax of Individuation: Simondon and Schelling
This article explores the concept of individuation in the early Schelling and Simondon by bringing them into dialogue, thereby highlighting affinities and differences in their philosophical projects in light of their epistemological and historical backgrounds. Individuation stands out as a major component of both Schelling’s Naturphilosophie and Simondon’s theory of genesis. But its role within both authors’ thinking is quite different: while for…
On the Soul of Technical Objects: Commentary on Simondon’s ‘Technics and Eschatology’ (1972)
This article comments on a paper titled ‘Technique et eschatologie: le devenir des objets techniques’ that Gilbert Simondon presented in 1972. For Simondon, eschatology consists of a basic presupposition, which is the duality between the immortal soul and the corruptible body. The eschatology of technical objects can be seen as the object’s becoming against time. Simondon suggests that in the epoch of artisans, the product through its perfection …
"Tendency and Intuition in Simondon's "Genesis of Technicity
This article aims to reconsider the use of the term tendency in Gilbert Simondon's On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects (1958). The term tendency is used throughout the book, but more concentratedly in Part III, "The Genesis of Technicity." Simondon often uses the term to describe the process of a bifurcation of phases; for example, the magical phase bifurcates into a religious tendency and a technical tendency, and each bifurcated phase…
Sketch of an Axiology of Contingency
In this article I attempt to sketch out what we might call an axiology of contingency, namely the study of the value of contingency. The triadic structure of the article follows the paraphrased epigraph from the Gospel of St John, where the word “word” is replaced with “contingency.” Although I play on the words of John in a Hegelian spirit, what is outlined here is an – admittedly brief – attempt to understand contingency as Begriff
On the Varieties of Experience of Art
This essay takes up the line of critique of François Jullien in The Great Image Has No Form, that Chinese landscape painting ( shanshui) provides a counter-example to Western painting. The opposition, namely that the former undermines form and the latter focuses on form, provides two kinds of access to 'truth' and demonstrates two different philosophical temperaments between China and Europe. The article attempts to reflect on Jullien's compariso…
For Dialogue Between Strauss and Stiegler
Biopolitics and the Homonormative Subject; Epistemic Values and Epistemologies of the Eye; Individualization and the Play of Memories
Biopolitics and the Homonormative Subject; Epistemic Values and Epistemologies of the Eye; Individualization and the Play of Memories
Form and Relation. Materialism on an Uncanny Stage
This article seeks a materialism that is largely ignored in current philosophical discussion, which originates from speculation on the materiality of forms. Following the critique of Simondon and Heidegger, this article rejects hylomorphism which gives substantiality to forms rather than matter ; at the same time, this proposition also wants to distinguish itself from the current proposals of a return to matter, such as the vibrant matter of Jane…
On the Existence of Digital Objects
Memory in Motion: Archives, Technology, and the Social
How do new media affect the question of social memory? Social memory is usually described as enacted through ritual, language, art, architecture, and institutions ? phenomena whose persistence over time and capacity for a shared storage of the past was set in contrast to fleeting individual memory. But the question of how social memory should be understood in an age of digital computing, instant updating, and interconnection in real time, is very…
The Parallax of Individuation: Simondon and Schelling
This article explores the concept of individuation in the early Schelling and Simondon by bringing them into dialogue, thereby highlighting affinities and differences in their philosophical projects in light of their epistemological and historical backgrounds. Individuation stands out as a major component of both Schelling’s Naturphilosophie and Simondon’s theory of genesis. But its role within both authors’ thinking is quite different: while for…
A Politics of Intensity: Some Aspects of Acceleration in Simondon and Deleuze
This article aims to clarify the question of speed and intensity in the thoughts of Simondon and Deleuze, in order to shed light on the recent debates regarding accelerationism and its politics. Instead of starting with speed, we propose to look into the notion of intensity and how it serves as a new ontological ground in Simondon's and Deleuze's philosophy and politics. Simondon mobilises the concept of intensity to criticise hylomorphism and su…
On Cosmotechnics: For a Renewed Relation between Technology and Nature in the Anthropocene
This article aims to bring forward a critical reflection on a renewed relation between nature and technology in the Anthropocene, by contextualizing the question around the recent debates on the "ontological turn" in Anthropology, which attempts to go beyond the nature and culture dualism analysed as the crisis of modernity. The "politics of ontologies" associated with this movement in anthropology opens up the question of participation of non-hu…
On the Soul of Technical Objects: Commentary on Simondon’s ‘Technics and Eschatology’ (1972)
This article comments on a paper titled ‘Technique et eschatologie: le devenir des objets techniques’ that Gilbert Simondon presented in 1972. For Simondon, eschatology consists of a basic presupposition, which is the duality between the immortal soul and the corruptible body. The eschatology of technical objects can be seen as the object’s becoming against time. Simondon suggests that in the epoch of artisans, the product through its perfection …
Recursivity and Contingency
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, Cang…
Writing and Cosmotechnics
This paper aims to approach the notion of writing in the digital age in order to reflect on the question of technodiversity, or the multiplicity of cosmotechnics. It takes off with what seems to be two criticisms against each other: one from Derrida's Of Grammatology, where he claims that ‘the notion of technics can never simply clarify the notion of writing’; and the other from Stiegler's Discretising Time, where he openly criticized Derrida, ‘I…
Philosophy and the Planetary
This essay considers the pandemic as a consequence of the planetary condition. It goes on to ask: Can philosophy contribute to the elucidation of the planetary, or is philosophy, in the words of Heidegger, already completed in and as the planetary? What kind of relation to the planetary will it desire to have
Cosmotechnics
Machine and Ecology
This article investigates the relation between machine and ecology, and the philosophical and historical questions concealed in these two seemingly incompatible terms. The opposition between machine and organism was fundamental to philosophical projects since the eighteenth century. However, the emergence of cybernetics in the first half of the twentieth century proposed a unified logic which transcended the dualism between machine and organism, …
Introduction: Philosophy after Automation
On the Limit of Artificial Intelligence
This article asks how can we articulate the limit of artificial intelligence, which virtually has no limit? Or maybe the definition of AI already implies its limit, how Marvin Minsky once declared that there is no generally accepted theory of intelligence, and that AI is only one particular way of modelling it. This article revisits the debate between Minsky and Hubert Dreyfus and repositions them in terms of an opposition between mechanism and o…
Homo animalis, a Japanese Futurism: A Dialogue between Hiroki Azuma and Yuk Hui
In this dialogue, Hiroki Azuma discusses with Yuk Hui about the perception of technology in Japan after the defeat in the Second World War, from the Kyoto School to the postmodern critics, and the ambivalent conflicts between the modern and the tradition. The postmodern culture has a different signification in Japan than in the West as well as in other parts of Asia. Azuma documents the rise of the Otaku culture in Japan, and calls them “database…
On the Persistence of the Non-Modern
Previous articleNext article FreeContextsOn the Persistence of the Non-ModernYuk HuiYuk Hui Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMoreHand-coloured lithograph from Joseph Josenhans, Bilder aus der Missionswelt (Images from the World of Missions), Mainz: Scholz, c.1860Farewell, phantoms! The world no…
For a Strategic Primitivism: A Dialogue between Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Yuk Hui
In this dialogue with Yuk Hui, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro discusses his work on the Amerindian perspectivism, multinaturalism; the relation between nature, culture and technics in his ethnographic studies; as well as the necessity of a non-anthropocentric definition of technology. He also discusses a haunting futurism of ecological crisis and automation of the Anthropocene, and explores a “strategic primitivism” as survival tool
Landscapes of Technological Thoughts: A Dialogue between Pieter Lemmens and Yuk Hui
In this dialogue with Yuk Hui, Pieter Lemmens explains the discipline called philosophy of technology and gives a concise overview of the most important contemporary approaches within this field. He also offers a critical evaluation of what are probably the two most salient characteristics of contemporary philosophy of technology, the so-called "empirical turn" and the "ethical turn," which are deeply related and partly reflect the discipline's o…
The Exhibition as Medium: Some Observations on the Cybernetisation of the Institution and the Exhibition
In 'Qu'appelle-t-on un mdium?' ('What is called a medium?'), theorist Pascal Krajewski offers a useful summary of the possible meanings of the term medium, without being able to decide between them, on the basis of a detailed discussion of the notions of the concept, notably in Marshall McLuhan and Rgis Debray. From these two authors, two approaches to the medium can be articulated, one materialist and technical, the other more symbolic and anthr…
For Dialogue Between Strauss and Stiegler
Sketch of an Axiology of Contingency
In this article I attempt to sketch out what we might call an axiology of contingency, namely the study of the value of contingency. The triadic structure of the article follows the paraphrased epigraph from the Gospel of St John, where the word “word” is replaced with “contingency.” Although I play on the words of John in a Hegelian spirit, what is outlined here is an – admittedly brief – attempt to understand contingency as Begriff
On the Varieties of Experience of Art
This essay takes up the line of critique of François Jullien in The Great Image Has No Form, that Chinese landscape painting ( shanshui) provides a counter-example to Western painting. The opposition, namely that the former undermines form and the latter focuses on form, provides two kinds of access to 'truth' and demonstrates two different philosophical temperaments between China and Europe. The article attempts to reflect on Jullien's compariso…
Bernard Stiegler, the Mystagogue
What does it mean to teach philosophy today? This question occupies a central position in Bernard Stiegler’s thinking and his practice. For Stiegler, to teach philosophy is to initiate, so that an individuation, or a quantum leap, could take place within and between the teacher and the participants. This article traces a mystagogical thinking in Stiegler’s work, especially his reading of Plato and Simondon. This mystagogical thinking, present in …
L’imagination et l’infini. Une critique de l’imagination artificielle
L’appel à contribution pour ce numéro spécial nous invite à penser la création après le calcul. Le terme « après » suggère que la créativité, telle qu’elle fut précédemment comprise, est déjà épuisée par le calcul, et que cet appel anticipe donc une compréhension nouvelle, voire radicale, de la créativité à venir. Qu’en est-il alors de cette nouvelle créativité qui ne peut être épuisée par le calcul ? Ou pour être plus sceptique : ne s’agit-t-il …
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