{"product_id":"philosophies-of-technologies-theory-as-practice-hardback-9781786308702","title":"Philosophies of Technologies; Theory as Practice (Hardback) 9781786308702","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003ePhilosophies of Technologies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTheory as Practice\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eValerie Charolles (Edited by), V Charolles (Author), Elise Lamy-Rested (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781786308702, Wiley\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 May 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e240 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.68 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the lessons of a long history, \u003ci\u003ePhilosophies of Technologies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor Presentation xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments xv\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValérie CHAROLLES and Élise LAMY-RESTED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction xvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValérie CHAROLLES and Élise LAMY-RESTED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 1 Continuities and Disruptions in the Practices of Philosophies of Technologies 1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part 1 3\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eÉlise LAMY-RESTED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 1 The Question of Technology and Ecological Constraints 5\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierre CAYE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 What is the appropriate metaphysics for ecology? 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Technology and limits 10\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 For transcendental poetics: technology at the service of our relationship with space and time 16\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 References 18\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 2 From Power to Care: For an Object-Oriented Philosophy of Technology 21\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eXavier GUCHET\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Empirical and \"thingly\" turn in the philosophy of technology 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 From technology as power to technology as care 23\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Places and connections 27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 References 29\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 3 Thinking in the Anthropocene Era with Henri Bergson 31\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eÉlise LAMY-RESTED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Homo faber 32\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 Intelligence as an instinct 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Life as an organization 37\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Conclusion: the power and limits of general organology 39\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 References 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 2 Epistemological Challenges of Modern Technologies 41\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part 2 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValérie CHAROLLES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 4 The Code Paradigm: Trace Amnesia and Arbitrary Interpretation 47\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruno BACHIMONT\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Introduction 47\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 The ages of knowledge 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.1 The age of resemblance 49\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.2 The age of causality 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2.3 The age of coding 51\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Digital technology and coding 52\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Interpreting coded content 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Conclusion 56\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 References 57\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 5 \"Motion\" Machines and \"Token\" Machines: Milestones in the History of the Alphabet 59\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJean LASSÈGUE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Introduction 59\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Two comments on technology from François Sigaut 60\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Renewal of the technology–language relationship based on François Sigaut 6\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Writing as a tool 62\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.1 \"Motion\" machine hardware 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4.2 The semiotic mechanism of \"token\" machines 63\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Conclusion 68\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 References 69\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 6 \"Digital Technology\", Revealing Intersections between Epistemology, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology 71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eÉric GUICHARD\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 Introduction 71\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Our thought is essentially technical 73\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Writing is a technology 74\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Internet as writing 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 The robbing of writing and our free will 78\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.6 Should political philosophy be renewed? 83\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.7 Conclusion 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.8 References 85\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 3 The Subject in the Era of Digital Metamorphosis 89\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part 3 91\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eÉlise LAMY-RESTED\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 7 Taking Care of Digital Technologies with Bernard Stiegler 95\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVincent PUIG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Memories and writings, retention and protention: constructing the organology of the spirit 96\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Reflexivity for transindividuation 101\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Taking care of intermittence 103\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Toward a benevolent disposition 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.5 The practice of knowledge and the contribution economy 108\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.6 References 109\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 8 Predictive Machines and Overcoming Metaphysics 111\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnna LONGO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.1 Cybernetic machines and intelligent machines 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.2 The overcoming of metaphysics and the automation of knowledge production 113\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8.3 References 118\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 9 Artificial Intelligence’s New Clothes 119\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTyler REIGELUTH\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.1 The automation of the other 120\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.2 (Un)controlled intelligence 123\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.3 An endgame 127\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9.4 References 128\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart 4 Politics and Technology 131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Part 4 133\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValérie CHAROLLES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 10 Controlling Digital Technologies: Between Democratic Issues and Social Demand 137\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePierre-Antoine CHARDEL\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.1 Introduction 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.2 Dematerialization leads to an inability to act 137\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.3 Technologies and their social practices 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.4 Deconstructing techno-discourses for a better life with technology 140\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.5 Digital micropolitics 142\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.6 Promoting pluralism 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.7 Conclusion 143\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10.8 References 144\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 11 Responsibilities System: Ethics of Civic Technology 147\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernard REBER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.1 Introduction 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.2 Improvisations on Jonasian responsibility 148\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.3 Civic technologies 150\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.4 The limited promise of remote participation 152\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.5 Contributions of the philosophy of technology 154\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.6 Conclusion 156\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11.7 References 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChapter 12 From the Infinite Universe to the Reflexive System: Uses of Technology, States of Emergency and Decidability 161\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eValérie CHAROLLES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.1 Introduction 161\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.2 Deployment of technology and exceptional events 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.3 From the infinite universe to the reflexive system or the end of naturality 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.4 The unsuitability of the Enlightenment framework 167\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5 A place for politics and the decidable 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5.1 The question of frames of thought 170\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.5.2 Decidable support and the role of rules 172\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.6 Conclusion 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12.7 References 175\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eConclusion Marcuse's Critique of Technology Today 179\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAndrew FEENBERG\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Authors 195\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 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