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
9798881850593
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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