The Question Concerning Technology in China

An Essay in Cosmotechnics

Yuk Hui (Leuphana University), Robin Mackay

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English

Urbanomic Media Ltd
02 September 2016

Philosophy; Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism; Oriental & Indian philosophy; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Impact of science & technology on society

Series: Urbanomic / Mono

A systematic historical survey of Chinese thought is followed by an investigation of the historical-metaphysical questions of modern technology, asking how Chinese thought might contribute to a renewed questioning of globalized technics.

Heidegger's critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one-originally Greek-type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a specifically Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger's challenge, while problematizing the affirmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in order to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics.

By: Yuk Hui (Leuphana University), Robin Mackay
Imprint: Urbanomic Media Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 178mm, Width: 114mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 260g
ISBN: 9780995455009
ISBN 10: 0995455007
Series: Urbanomic / Mono
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 02 September 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; Part I: In Search of a Technological Thought in China; Part II: Time and Technological Consciousness; Epilogue

Yuk Hui is a philosopher based in Berlin and the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects and Recursivity and Contingency.

Reviews for The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics

In this remarkable book, Yuk Hui draws on the major thinkers of both the West and the East to elaborate an original reflection on the nature of technology. He has enlarged the philosophical horizon for the Anthropocene age. (Andrew Feenberg, author of Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity)