Philosophies of Technologies

Valérie Charolles is a researcher at the Laboratoire d'anthropologie politique (CNRS and EHESS), where she directs the LACI (Laboratory of Interdisciplinary Critical Anthropology), France. Her research focuses on the place of economics, quantification and technology in the contemporary world.Élise Lamy-Rested is a SASPRO2 Marie Sklodowska-Curie researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia. She is also a former program director at the Collège international de philosophie.

• Author Presentation xiAcknowledgments xvValérie CHAROLLES and Élise LAMY-RESTEDIntroduction xviiValérie CHAROLLES and Élise LAMY-RESTEDPart 1 Continuities and Disruptions in the Practices of Philosophies of Technologies 1Introduction to Part 1 3Élise LAMY-RESTEDChapter 1 The Question of Technology and Ecological Constraints 5Pierre CAYE1.1 What is the appropriate metaphysics for ecology? 61.2 Technology and limits 101.3 For transcendental poetics: technology at the service of our relationship with space and time 161.4 References 18Chapter 2 From Power to Care: For an Object-Oriented Philosophy of Technology 21Xavier GUCHET2.1 Empirical and "thingly" turn in the philosophy of technology 212.2 From technology as power to technology as care 232.3 Places and connections 272.4 References 29Chapter 3 Thinking in the Anthropocene Era with Henri Bergson 31Élise LAMY-RESTED3.1 Homo faber 323.2 Intelligence as an instinct 333.3 Life as an organization 373.4 Conclusion: the power and limits of general organology 393.5 References 40Part 2 Epistemological Challenges of Modern Technologies 41Introduction to Part 2 43Valérie CHAROLLESChapter 4 The Code Paradigm: Trace Amnesia and Arbitrary Interpretation 47Bruno BACHIMONT4.1 Introduction 474.2 The ages of knowledge 484.2.1 The age of resemblance 494.2.2 The age of causality 504.2.3 The age of coding 514.3 Digital technology and coding 524.4 Interpreting coded content 544.5 Conclusion 564.6 References 57Chapter 5 "Motion" Machines and "Token" Machines: Milestones in the History of the Alphabet 59Jean LASSÈGUE5.1 Introduction 595.2 Two comments on technology from François Sigaut 605.3 Renewal of the technology–language relationship based on François Sigaut 65.4 Writing as a tool 625.4.1 "Motion" machine hardware 635.4.2 The semiotic mechanism of "token" machines 635.5 Conclusion 685.6 References 69Chapter 6 "Digital Technology", Revealing Intersections between Epistemology, Political Philosophy and Philosophy of Technology 71Éric GUICHARD6.1 Introduction 716.2 Our thought is essentially technical 736.3 Writing is a technology 746.4 Internet as writing 776.5 The robbing of writing and our free will 786.6 Should political philosophy be renewed? 836.7 Conclusion 856.8 References 85Part 3 The Subject in the Era of Digital Metamorphosis 89Introduction to Part 3 91Élise LAMY-RESTEDChapter 7 Taking Care of Digital Technologies with Bernard Stiegler 95Vincent PUIG7.1 Memories and writings, retention and protention: constructing the organology of the spirit 967.2 Reflexivity for transindividuation 1017.3 Taking care of intermittence 1037.4 Toward a benevolent disposition 1057.5 The practice of knowledge and the contribution economy 1087.6 References 109Chapter 8 Predictive Machines and Overcoming Metaphysics 111Anna LONGO8.1 Cybernetic machines and intelligent machines 1118.2 The overcoming of metaphysics and the automation of knowledge production 1138.3 References 118Chapter 9 Artificial Intelligence’s New Clothes 119Tyler REIGELUTH9.1 The automation of the other 1209.2 (Un)controlled intelligence 1239.3 An endgame 1279.4 References 128Part 4 Politics and Technology 131Introduction to Part 4 133Valérie CHAROLLESChapter 10 Controlling Digital Technologies: Between Democratic Issues and Social Demand 137Pierre-Antoine CHARDEL10.1 Introduction 13710.2 Dematerialization leads to an inability to act 13710.3 Technologies and their social practices 13810.4 Deconstructing techno-discourses for a better life with technology 14010.5 Digital micropolitics 14210.6 Promoting pluralism 14310.7 Conclusion 14310.8 References 144Chapter 11 Responsibilities System: Ethics of Civic Technology 147Bernard REBER11.1 Introduction 14711.2 Improvisations on Jonasian responsibility 14811.3 Civic technologies 15011.4 The limited promise of remote participation 15211.5 Contributions of the philosophy of technology 15411.6 Conclusion 15611.7 References 157Chapter 12 From the Infinite Universe to the Reflexive System: Uses of Technology, States of Emergency and Decidability 161Valérie CHAROLLES12.1 Introduction 16112.2 Deployment of technology and exceptional events 16212.3 From the infinite universe to the reflexive system or the end of naturality 16512.4 The unsuitability of the Enlightenment framework 16712.5 A place for politics and the decidable 17012.5.1 The question of frames of thought 17012.5.2 Decidable support and the role of rules 17212.6 Conclusion 17512.7 References 175Conclusion Marcuse's Critique of Technology Today 179Andrew FEENBERGList of Authors 195Index 197