Machine and Sovereignty
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Machine and Sovereignty

For a Planetary Thinking

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Machine and Sovereignty

For a Planetary Thinking

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Developing a new political thought to address today’s planetary crises

What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops 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.

Machine and Sovereignty starts with three premises. The first affirms the necessity of developing a new language of coexistence that surpasses the limits of nation-states and their variations; the second recognizes that political forms, including the polis, empire, and the state, are technological phenomena, which Lewis Mumford terms “megamachines.” The third suggests that a particular political form is legitimated and rationalized by a corresponding political epistemology. The planetary thinking that this book sketches departs from the opposition between mechanism and organism, which characterized modern thought, to understand the epistemological foundations of Hegel’s political state and Schmitt’s Großraum and their particular ways of conceiving the question of sovereignty. Through this reconstruction, Hui exposes the limits of the state and reflects on a new theoretical matrix based on the interrelated concepts of biodiversity, noodiversity, and technodiversity.

Arguing that we are facing the limit of modernity, of the eschatological view of history, of globalization, and of the human, Hui conceives necessary new epistemological and technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the crises of our present and our future.

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Information

Publisher
Univ Of Minnesota Press
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781452972091
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Political Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. _GoBack
  2. Cover Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: For a Planetary Thinking
  8. §1. On the Planetary Condition
  9. §2. Planetary Thinking as Political Epistemologies
  10. §3. Search for a Planetary Politics beyond the Nation-State
  11. §4. Toward a Tractatus Politico-Technologicus of the Planetary
  12. Chapter 1. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking
  13. §5. Individuation of the Spirit as Historical Process
  14. §6. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking and the Place of Reason in History
  15. §7. Freedom as the Drive of the Transitions of Political Forms
  16. §8. Recursivity of Reason and Freedom in the Modern State
  17. Chapter 2. The Organism of the State and Its Limit
  18. §9. Spirit and the Organic Becoming of the Externalized
  19. §10. Organism of the State versus Organism of the Animal
  20. §11. The Impasse from the State to Planetary Freedom
  21. Chapter 3. From Noetic Reflection to Planetary Reflection
  22. §12. Noetic Reflection: Consciousness and Life
  23. §13. Bioeconomical Reflection: Georgescu-Roegen Reads Hegel
  24. §14. Cybernetic Reflection: Toward the Consciousness of Machines
  25. §15. Noospheric Reflection: In Search of a Planetary Freedom?
  26. Chapter 4. Mechanism, Organism, or Decisionism
  27. §16. From Political Theology to Political Epistemology
  28. §17. Machine and Organism in The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
  29. §18. Political Epistemology in Hobbes’s Leviathan
  30. §19. Catholicism and the Logic of Complexio Oppositorum
  31. §20. The Death of Hegel and the Triumph of Political Vitalism
  32. Chapter 5. Nomos of the Digital Earth
  33. §21. First Deconstruction on the Contingency of Sovereignty
  34. §22. Second Deconstruction on the Contingency of Friend and Enemy
  35. §23. Sovereignty and the Elementary Philosophy of Space
  36. §24. Großräume as Post-Static Political Form and the Problem of Pluralism
  37. §25. Giving Colonialism, New Großräume, and Digital Sovereignty
  38. Chapter 6. An Organology of Wars
  39. §26. The Disproportion of Organs and the Hubris of Wars
  40. §27. From a Cybernetics of Freedom to an Organology of Differences
  41. §28. The Conflict of Tendencies and the Recurrence of Mysticism
  42. §29. The Dynamics of the Technical Tendency and Technical Fact
  43. §30. On the Organological Relation between Technology and Democracy
  44. §31. Biodiversity, Noodiversity, and Technodiversity
  45. Chapter 7. Toward an Epistemological Diplomacy
  46. §32. Acceleration, Automation, and the Prosthetic Future
  47. §33. Universality Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity
  48. §34. Sovereignty Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity
  49. §35. Technodiversity Analyzed via an Anatomy of Technical Objects
  50. §36. Technodiversity as Epistemological Diplomacy
  51. Notes
  52. Bibliography
  53. Index
  54. Author Biography