Acknowledgements / Introduction. A Psychedelic Becoming / Chapter 1. Nature and Recursivity / Chapter 2. Logic and Contingency / Chapter 3. Organized Inorganic / Chapter 4. Organizing Inorganic / Chapter 5. The Inhuman that Remains / Bibliography / Index
Yuk Hui is the author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and The Question Concerning Technology in China. An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Urbanomic, 2017).
Recursivity and Contingency is simply an outstanding philosophical
treatise on cybernetics that re-opens the all-too human image of
technology today. Alongside a zealous re-situating of system theory
within philosophies of nature, Hui boldly defies current
technocratic aspirations towards totalizing and deterministic
systems with a metaphysical commitment to re-envision the relation
with the inhuman. Cosmotechnical perspectives, alter-cosmologies,
and techno-diversity are here part of human-machine genesis that
promises to finally re-situate technology in various cosmic
realities.
*Luciana Parisi, Reader in Cultural Theory, Goldsmiths, University
of London*
I hardly know how best to recommend this third major achievement in
as many years by one of the most insightful younger philosophers.
It reanimates an abandoned arc of reflection that includes
cybernetics, organicism, and organology from both European and
Chinese traditions to address aspirations for a pluralism of homes
within the becoming of an artificial Earth.
*Carl Mitcham, Professor of Liberal Arts and International Studies,
Colorado School of Mines*
Yuk Hui’s rich, new writing shows that in order to understand our
modern technological world, we need to understand modern thinking
about organisms and organology – and not only to understand but,
recursively, to think differently. Hui’s cosmotechnical
approach – from cybernetics to history of philosophy – is complex,
and exactly because of that, deeply rewarding.
*Jussi Parikka, Professor in Technological Culture and Aesthetics,
University of Southampton*
Yuk Hui's Recursivity and Contingency is not simply a major
contribution to the Philosophy of Technology – it is an immense
resource in that respect – but it is also a lively work of
pluralistic experiment in thought. Here Hui's invitation to
think in terms of cosmotechnics comes into its full bloom,
engineering an unsurpassably agile guide to questions of technology
and culture, nature and mechanism, logic and existence as they have
arisen before and as they manifest with full force in the
present.
*Matthew Fuller, Professor of Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths,
University of London*
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