This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle
concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and
technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs
a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of thinking
elaborated by Kant, passing by the philosophy of nature (Schelling and
Hegel), to the 20th century Organicism (Bertalanffy, Needham,
Whitehead, Wiener among others) and Organology (Bergson, Canguilhem,
Simodnon, Stiegler), and questions the new condition of philosophizing
in the time of algorithmic contingency, ecological and algorithmic
catastrophes, which Heidegger calls the end of philosophy.
The book centres on the following speculative question: if in the
philosophical tradition, the concept of contingency is always related
to the laws of nature, then in what way can we understand contingency
in related to technical systems? The book situates the concept of
recursivity as a break from the Cartesian mechanism and the drive of
system construction; it elaborates on the necessity of contingency in
such epistemological rupture where nature ends and system emerges. In
this development, we see how German idealism is precursor to
cybernetics, and the Anthropocene and Noosphere (Teilhard de Chardin)
point toward the realization of a gigantic cybernetic system, which
lead us back to the question of freedom. It questions the concept of
absolute contingency (Meillassoux) and proposes a cosmotechnical
pluralism. Engaging with modern and contemporary European philosophy
as well as Chinese thought through the mediation of Needham, this book
refers to cybernetics, mathematics, artificial intelligence and
inhumanism.
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ISBN
9781786600547
Publisert
2019
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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