Machine and sovereignty : for a planetary thinking / Yuk Hui.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hui, Yuk, 1985- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political science--Philosophy.

Political science.

Technology--Philosophy.

Technology.

Artificial intelligence--Philosophy.

Artificial intelligence.

Ecology--Philosophy.

Ecology.

Geopolitics--Philosophy.

Geopolitics.

Sovereignty.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Machine and Sovereignty offers a future-oriented mode of political thought that encompasses the unprecedented global challenges we are confronting: the rise of artificial intelligence, the ecological crisis, and intensifying geopolitical conflicts. Arguing that a new approach to planetary thinking is urgently needed, Yuk Hui presents new epistemological and technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the crises of our present and our future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

_GoBack

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Introduction: For a Planetary Thinking

1. On the Planetary Condition

2. Planetary Thinking as Political Epistemologies

3. Search for a Planetary Politics beyond the Nation-State

4. Toward a Tractatus Politico-Technologicus of the Planetary

Chapter 1. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking

5. Individuation of the Spirit as Historical Process

6. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking and the Place of Reason in History

7. Freedom as the Drive of the Transitions of Political Forms

8. Recursivity of Reason and Freedom in the Modern State

Chapter 2. The Organism of the State and Its Limit

9. Spirit and the Organic Becoming of the Externalized

10. Organism of the State versus Organism of the Animal

11. The Impasse from the State to Planetary Freedom

Chapter 3. From Noetic Reflection to Planetary Reflection

12. Noetic Reflection: Consciousness and Life

13. Bioeconomical Reflection: Georgescu-Roegen Reads Hegel

14. Cybernetic Reflection: Toward the Consciousness of Machines

15. Noospheric Reflection: In Search of a Planetary Freedom?

Chapter 4. Mechanism, Organism, or Decisionism

16. From Political Theology to Political Epistemology

17. Machine and Organism in The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes

18. Political Epistemology in Hobbes's Leviathan

19. Catholicism and the Logic of Complexio Oppositorum

20. The Death of Hegel and the Triumph of Political Vitalism

Chapter 5. Nomos of the Digital Earth

21. First Deconstruction on the Contingency of Sovereignty

22. Second Deconstruction on the Contingency of Friend and Enemy

23. Sovereignty and the Elementary Philosophy of Space

24. Grossräume as Post-Static Political Form and the Problem of Pluralism

25. Giving Colonialism, New Grossräume, and Digital Sovereignty

Chapter 6. An Organology of Wars

26. The Disproportion of Organs and the Hubris of Wars

27. From a Cybernetics of Freedom to an Organology of Differences

28. The Conflict of Tendencies and the Recurrence of Mysticism

29. The Dynamics of the Technical Tendency and Technical Fact

30. On the Organological Relation between Technology and Democracy

31. Biodiversity, Noodiversity, and Technodiversity

Chapter 7. Toward an Epistemological Diplomacy

32. Acceleration, Automation, and the Prosthetic Future

33. Universality Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity

34. Sovereignty Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity

35. Technodiversity Analyzed via an Anatomy of Technical Objects

36. Technodiversity as Epistemological Diplomacy

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Author Biography

Notes:

Recursivity and Contingency (2019) is first, followed by Art and Cosmotechnics (2021), and ending with Machine and Sovereignty, the third and final volume of this 3-volume series.

Planetary thinking: 1- thinking beyond the configuration of modern nation-states; 2- formulating a language of coexistence on the same planet; 3- developing a new framework that will enable us to go beyond the question of territory, respond to the current ecological crisis, and reverse the accelerated entropic process of the Anthropocene.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-4529-7210-9

1-4529-7209-5

OCLC:

1461037515