Philosophies of Technologies : Theory As Practice

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Author:

Charolles, Valérie, editor.

ISBN:

9781394284139

9781394284153

9781394284146

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Series:

Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series. Innovation and responsibility set ; volume 11

Interdisciplinarity, science and humanities series. Innovation and responsibility set ; v. 11.

General Note:

9.2. (Un)controlled intelligence

Contents:

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Author Presentation -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Continuities and Disruptions in the Practices of Philosophies of Technologies -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 1. The Question of Technology and Ecological Constraints -- 1.1. What is the appropriate metaphysics for ecology? -- 1.2. Technology and limits -- 1.3. For transcendental poetics: technology at the service of our relationship with space and time -- 1.4. References -- Chapter 2. From Power to Care: For an Object-Oriented Philosophy of Technology

2.1. Empirical and "thingly" turn in the philosophy of technology -- 2.2. From technology as power to technology as care -- 2.3. Places and connections -- 2.4. References -- Chapter 3. Thinking in the Anthropocene Era with Henri Bergson -- 3.1. Homo faber -- 3.2. Intelligence as an instinct -- 3.3. Life as an organization -- 3.4. Conclusion: the power and limits of general organology -- 3.5. References -- Part 2. Epistemological Challenges of Modern Technologies -- Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 4. The Code Paradigm: Trace Amnesia and Arbitrary Interpretation -- 4.1. Introduction

4.2. The ages of knowledge -- 4.2.1. The age of resemblance -- 4.2.2. The age of causality -- 4.2.3. The age of coding -- 4.3. Digital technology and coding -- 4.4. Interpreting coded content -- 4.5. Conclusion -- 4.6. References -- Chapter 5. "Motion" Machines and "Token" Machines: Milestones in the History of the Alphabet -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Two comments on technology from François Sigaut -- 5.3. Renewal of the technology-language relationship based on François Sigaut -- 5.4. Writing as a tool -- 5.4.1. "Motion" machine hardware -- 5.4.2. The semiotic mechanism of "token" machines

5.5. Conclusion -- 5.6. References -- Chapter 6. "Digital Technology", Revealing Intersections between Epistemology, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Our thought is essentially technical -- 6.3. Writing is a technology -- 6.4. Internet as writing -- 6.5. The robbing of writing and our free will -- 6.6. Should political philosophy be renewed? -- 6.7. Conclusion -- 6.8. References -- Part 3. The Subject in the Era of Digital Metamorphosis -- Introduction to Part 3 -- Chapter 7. Taking Care of Digital Technologies with Bernard Stiegler

7.1. Memories and writings, retention and protention: constructing the organology of the spirit -- 7.2. Reflexivity for transindividuation -- 7.3. Taking care of intermittence -- 7.4. Toward a benevolent disposition -- 7.5. The practice of knowledge and the contribution economy -- 7.6. References -- Chapter 8. Predictive Machines and Overcoming Metaphysics -- 8.1. Cybernetic machines and intelligent machines -- 8.2. The overcoming of metaphysics and the automation of knowledge production -- 8.3. References -- Chapter 9. Artificial Intelligence's New Clothes -- 9.1. The automation of the other

Abstract:

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.

Local Note:

John Wiley and Sons

Subject Term:

Technological innovations.

Technology -- Philosophy.

Technologie -- Philosophie.

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