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Philosophies of Technologies
Theory as Practice
Valerie Charolles (Edited by), V Charolles (Author), Elise Lamy-Rested (Edited by)
9781786308702, Wiley
Hardback, published 8 May 2024
240 pages
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.68 kg
In the space of a century, technologies have acquired unprecedented power. The result of these developments is a new form of the world. These transformations test our capacities and generate new crises with multiple issues at stake.
Drawing on the lessons of a long history, Philosophies of Technologies examines the continuities and disruptions brought about by the power of contemporary technical systems, without reducing them to the digital age. It draws together 13 authors from different schools of thought and proposes tools that combine productive technology with sustainability, innovation and responsibility.
This book wagers that, in the face of the sprawling and ever-changing deployment of technologies, philosophy is able to respond to the changes that offer so many opportunities to shape our future. Today, technologies need a philosophical moment.
Author Presentation xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction xvii Part 1 Continuities and Disruptions in the Practices of Philosophies of Technologies 1 Introduction to Part 1 3 Chapter 1 The Question of Technology and Ecological Constraints 5 1.1 What is the appropriate metaphysics for ecology? 6 1.2 Technology and limits 10 1.3 For transcendental poetics: technology at the service of our relationship with space and time 16 1.4 References 18 Chapter 2 From Power to Care: For an Object-Oriented Philosophy of Technology 21 2.1 Empirical and "thingly" turn in the philosophy of technology 21 2.2 From technology as power to technology as care 23 2.3 Places and connections 27 2.4 References 29 Chapter 3 Thinking in the Anthropocene Era with Henri Bergson 31 3.1 Homo faber 32 3.2 Intelligence as an instinct 33 3.3 Life as an organization 37 3.4 Conclusion: the power and limits of general organology 39 3.5 References 40 Part 2 Epistemological Challenges of Modern Technologies 41 Introduction to Part 2 43 Chapter 4 The Code Paradigm: Trace Amnesia and Arbitrary Interpretation 47 4.1 Introduction 47 4.2 The ages of knowledge 48 4.2.1 The age of resemblance 49 4.2.2 The age of causality 50 4.2.3 The age of coding 51 4.3 Digital technology and coding 52 4.4 Interpreting coded content 54 4.5 Conclusion 56 4.6 References 57 Chapter 5 "Motion" Machines and "Token" Machines: Milestones in the History of the Alphabet 59 5.1 Introduction 59 5.2 Two comments on technology from François Sigaut 60 5.3 Renewal of the technology–language relationship based on François Sigaut 6 5.4 Writing as a tool 62 5.4.1 "Motion" machine hardware 63 5.4.2 The semiotic mechanism of "token" machines 63 5.5 Conclusion 68 5.6 References 69 Chapter 6 "Digital Technology", Revealing Intersections between Epistemology, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology 71 6.1 Introduction 71 6.2 Our thought is essentially technical 73 6.3 Writing is a technology 74 6.4 Internet as writing 77 6.5 The robbing of writing and our free will 78 6.6 Should political philosophy be renewed? 83 6.7 Conclusion 85 6.8 References 85 Part 3 The Subject in the Era of Digital Metamorphosis 89 Introduction to Part 3 91 Chapter 7 Taking Care of Digital Technologies with Bernard Stiegler 95 7.1 Memories and writings, retention and protention: constructing the organology of the spirit 96 7.2 Reflexivity for transindividuation 101 7.3 Taking care of intermittence 103 7.4 Toward a benevolent disposition 105 7.5 The practice of knowledge and the contribution economy 108 7.6 References 109 Chapter 8 Predictive Machines and Overcoming Metaphysics 111 8.1 Cybernetic machines and intelligent machines 111 8.2 The overcoming of metaphysics and the automation of knowledge production 113 8.3 References 118 Chapter 9 Artificial Intelligence’s New Clothes 119 9.1 The automation of the other 120 9.2 (Un)controlled intelligence 123 9.3 An endgame 127 9.4 References 128 Part 4 Politics and Technology 131 Introduction to Part 4 133 Chapter 10 Controlling Digital Technologies: Between Democratic Issues and Social Demand 137 10.1 Introduction 137 10.2 Dematerialization leads to an inability to act 137 10.3 Technologies and their social practices 138 10.4 Deconstructing techno-discourses for a better life with technology 140 10.5 Digital micropolitics 142 10.6 Promoting pluralism 143 10.7 Conclusion 143 10.8 References 144 Chapter 11 Responsibilities System: Ethics of Civic Technology 147 11.1 Introduction 147 11.2 Improvisations on Jonasian responsibility 148 11.3 Civic technologies 150 11.4 The limited promise of remote participation 152 11.5 Contributions of the philosophy of technology 154 11.6 Conclusion 156 11.7 References 157 Chapter 12 From the Infinite Universe to the Reflexive System: Uses of Technology, States of Emergency and Decidability 161 12.1 Introduction 161 12.2 Deployment of technology and exceptional events 162 12.3 From the infinite universe to the reflexive system or the end of naturality 165 12.4 The unsuitability of the Enlightenment framework 167 12.5 A place for politics and the decidable 170 12.5.1 The question of frames of thought 170 12.5.2 Decidable support and the role of rules 172 12.6 Conclusion 175 12.7 References 175 Conclusion Marcuse's Critique of Technology Today 179 List of Authors 195 Index 197
Valérie CHAROLLES and Élise LAMY-RESTED
Valérie CHAROLLES and Élise LAMY-RESTED
Élise LAMY-RESTED
Pierre CAYE
Xavier GUCHET
Élise LAMY-RESTED
Valérie CHAROLLES
Bruno BACHIMONT
Jean LASSÈGUE
Éric GUICHARD
Élise LAMY-RESTED
Vincent PUIG
Anna LONGO
Tyler REIGELUTH
Valérie CHAROLLES
Pierre-Antoine CHARDEL
Bernard REBER
Valérie CHAROLLES
Andrew FEENBERG
Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]
