Cosmotechnics From an Anthropotechnological Perspective
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3774202 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Marco Pavanini (0000-0001-5720-1426, Durham University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 26-38 |
| Publication date | 2020-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Angelaki (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0969-725X • E-ISSN: 1469-2899 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0969725x.2020.1790833 |
| OpenAlex | W3047348610 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
Yuk Hui’s concept of cosmotechnics provides us with an excellent theoretical device to investigate the role of technology in relation to a culture’s self-understanding. This paper, in the first place, aims to contextualise Hui’s reflexion on cosmotechnics within the broader field of contemporary philosophy of technology, outlining its discerning potential in undermining the outworn, Western dichotomy between nature and culture. In this spirit, it is stressed how cosmotechnics nicely fits in an anthropotechnological perspective, i.e., an understanding of the relation between technics and humans as originary and constitutive. In the second place, the goal of this paper is to evaluate the explanatory significance of the concept of cosmotechnics regarding the possibility of a comparative investigation of the modes according to which different cultures conceive technics and their relation to it. In this spirit, the concept of cultural techniques, i.e., scriptural, figurative and computing techniques embedded with a self-representative potential, is brought about in order to show which kind of technologies are most likely to determine and influence a culture’s self-understanding and should therefore be privileged by the focus of a comparative cosmotechnical inquiry
Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Literal and figurative language · Order (exchange · Perspective (graphical · Relation (database · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Media and Philosophy · Innovative Human-Technology Interaction · Mathematics · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence
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The Ontological Turn
Laboratory Life
Conceptualizing Society
On the Mode of Existence of Technical Objects
The Order of Things
Beyond Nature and Culture
The Duboisia Genus, Australian Aborigines and Suggestibility
We Have Never Been Modern
On Cosmotechnics
The Question Concerning Technology in China
"What Is an Apparatus?" and Other Essays
Making
Second-Order Animals
Culture, Technology, Cultural Techniques - Moving Beyond Text1
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |