Cyborg agency
The technological self-production of the (post-)human and the anti-hermeneutic trajectory
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4481471 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andreas Beinsteiner (0000-0002-8670-5524, University of Vienna, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 153 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 113-133 |
| Publication date | 2019-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513619863855 |
| OpenAlex | W2971226147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 23 |
This paper situates Günther Anders's diagnosis of a shift in the modes of human self-production from hermeneutic and educational practices to techno-scientific interventions in the broader context of observations concerning posthumanism and biopolitics (e.g. Peter Sloterdijk, Giorgio Agamben). It proposes to reframe the problem of human self-production within the philosophy of media and traces a common anti-hermeneutic trajectory to which both technoscientific transhumanism and certain strands of posthumanism belong, insofar as they are based on an ontology that exclusively considers causally effective agency. With Anders and Martin Heidegger it is argued that such a focus on agency neglects the dimension of meaning that irreducibly guides technoscientific interventions. The paper claims that, with regard to the escalating dynamics both of human enhancement and of the Anthropocene, neither a truly critical theoretical stance nor a practical subversion is possible without taking the horizons of meaning into account that drive these dynamics. The last section sketches an outline of the complex interrelations of humans, technologies and meaning that cannot be mapped in terms of causally effective agency
Agency (philosophy · Biopower · Cognitive reframing · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Human enhancement · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Sociology · Transhumanism · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Law · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Psychology · Social Psychology
Technology and the Lifeworld
Die Weltfremdheit des Menschen
Embodying Technesis
Theorien der Passivität
Körper 2.0
Phenomenology and the Empirical Turn
The Pathology of Freedom
Posthumanist Performativity
Reassembling the Social
Homo Sacer
Better humans? Understanding the enhancement project
Rules for the Human Zoo
On the Pseudo-Concreteness of Heidegger's Philosophy
The Philosophical Roots of Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Imagery
Posthermeneutik
Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions
Art in the Anthropocene
Beyond hierarchical oppositions
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |