Post-war French Perspectives on Technology
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King's College London
- Unit of assessment
- 26 - Modern Languages and Linguistics
- Output identifier
- 135861099
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- King's College London
- Open access status
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- Month
- January
- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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0
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- Additional information
- This ‘Post-war French Perspectives on Technology’ bundle includes three outputs: (1) ‘Introduction to Simondon,’ co-written with Andrea Bardin (Radical Philosophy, 2015); ‘A Thousand Cosmotechnics: Interview with Yuk Hui’ (Tank, 2018); and (3) a symposium on Stefanos Geroulanos’s Transparency in Postwar France, co-edited with Danilo Scholz (Syndicate, 2020 online version; print version forthcoming). This group of pieces centres on the themes of my post-doctoral project – focussing in particular on the philosophy of technology; the reception of cybernetic and information sciences in post-war French thought; assessing the significance of this reception within the intellectual history of 20th-century France and its relevance for contemporary debates on technology and its social and political consequences. (1) serves as an introduction to the first open-access translation of the post-war French thinker Gilbert Simondon’s 1965 essay ‘Culture and Technics,’ which I revised for this publication (also available in print), placing the essay in context and arguing for its continuing relevance. In (2), I debate the contemporary philosopher of technology Yuk Hui on his recent work, examining the connections between traditions in European and Chinese thought, their contrasting conceptions of technology, and the tension between universal and particular in the attempt to grasp digital systems in a globalised context. (3) brings together international scholars across different disciplines to analyse Geroulanos’s contribution. The introductory text takes up the emergence of critiques of “transparency,” which, in reaction to the social and technological change of the post-war period, sought to displace scientific and ethical perspectives from their anchoring in values of knowledge and presence. Together, these outputs aim to highlight the French post-war intellectual moment as central to the ideological transformations of the 20th century – from science to politics – but also as a conceptual key to a critical understanding of the present.
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