French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary ‘nonhuman turn’ in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze.
Tracking the unruly transition from Catholic vocabularies of grace, potentiality, and actuality to the m...
French Technological Thought and the Nonhuman Turn traces a genealogy of thinking and writing about technology, which takes us from the French avant-gardes to the contemporary ‘nonhuman turn’ in Anglo-American theory via the Surrealists, Gilbert Simondon, and Gilles Deleuze.
Tracking the unruly transition from Catholic vocabularies of grace, potentiality, and actuality to the modern and contemporary secular lexicon of agency, virtuality, and affect, this book explores technology as a source of subject matter and conceptual metaphors, but also probes how ideas and words are modes of technicity through which we shape and reshape the world. Fusing literature, philosophy, and theology, it offers readers new contexts – and questions – for the egalitarian ontological commitments of contemporary post- and nonhuman thinking.
作者简介
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Madeleine Chalmers is Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Leicester. Her work revives modern French avant-garde writings to engage critically with twenty-first-century questions in the fields of science, technology, and epistemology.
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List of Figures
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Editions
Introduction: Unruly Technics
Technologos
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List of Figures
Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Note on Editions
Introduction: Unruly Technics
Technologos
1. The Technologos: A Sacrament of Synthesis
2. Technics of the Fiat: The Metaphysical Machines of Jean Richepin, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, Marcel Schwob, and Alfred Jarry
3. Charles Cros and the Time of the Technologos
Apocalypse
4. Technics and the Apocalypse: Didier de Chousy
5. Technics and the Virtual: Alfred Jarry and Henri Bergson
6. The Therapeutic Algorithms of Raymond Roussel
Ontotechnics
7. Surreal Technics I: André Breton’s Toolbox
8. Surreal Technics II: Tinkering with Gilbert Simondon
9. Gilles Deleuze and the Technologos
Conclusion: For the Love of Technics
Bibliography
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The nonhuman turn is defined by what it is against, rather than what it is for. It is against ‘human exceptionalism’, ‘the privileged status of the autonomous male subject of the Western liberal tradition’, and such ‘fundamental logical oppositions as human/nonhuman and subject/object’. [...] A fixation on dualisms is perhaps not a property of western metaphysics but rather the product of a particular historical moment. (查看原文)
Philosophy and theology are held apart today, but for centuries they were intimately enfolded. For Charles Taylor, their separation – and a broader logic of separation and epistemological stratification – was born with ‘Renaissance humanism, the scientific revolution, the rise of the “police state”, the Reformation’. These are the moments of shift towards what we now recognize as a secular disposition. Prior to the Reformation, ‘the line between personal agency and impersonal force was not at all clearly drawn’, and ‘power also resided in things’. Indeed, the medievalist Jason Crawford recently suggested that the ways in which writers of the nonhuman turn confront the world is an echo of this pre-Reformation, Catholic tradition. He suggests that ‘the path to re-enchantment lies in the many... (查看原文)
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后面西蒙东+德勒兹的部分引申出很多超越技术学的东西，surrealism、machine desire、天主教视角下的Tech-phi flesh/avatar
3 有用 余颜 2024-12-15 08:44:45 英国
从布勒东部分开始看到结论，核心是说二十世纪法国技术思想家都有极强的天主教背景，以至于一直到 ANT、OOO、思辩实在论等等当代非人转向的思想也都有类似影子——例如强调经由联结来道成肉身或将物性看作某种外神性——思路在技术哲学相关讨论里比较少见，但主要还是思想家论的写法，没有对更当代的思想做有效检讨。中间有部分具体分析讨论怎么从西蒙东文本（主要是论个体化一篇）中找到对神性的迷恋，但硬要和布勒东一起写... 从布勒东部分开始看到结论，核心是说二十世纪法国技术思想家都有极强的天主教背景，以至于一直到 ANT、OOO、思辩实在论等等当代非人转向的思想也都有类似影子——例如强调经由联结来道成肉身或将物性看作某种外神性——思路在技术哲学相关讨论里比较少见，但主要还是思想家论的写法，没有对更当代的思想做有效检讨。中间有部分具体分析讨论怎么从西蒙东文本（主要是论个体化一篇）中找到对神性的迷恋，但硬要和布勒东一起写还是略显牵强，没给出充分证据。 (展开)