Publication of Philosophy Today special issue “Philosophy after Automation”

The special issue of Philosophy Today (Vol65, No.2) “Philosophy after Automation” edited by Yuk Hui, with the contributions from Jean-Luc Nancy, Bernard Stiegler, Howard Caygill, Katerina Kolozova, Babette Babich, Anna Longo, Michał Krzykawski, Hiroki Azuma, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and Pieter Lemmens is now published and is open access between May 2021 to July 2021 for three months: https://www.pdcnet.org/philtoday


Philosophy Today
Volume 65 Issue 2 2021

Special Issue: “Philosophy after Automation”
Guest Editor: Yuk HUI

Table of Contents

Part I: Interventions

Yuk Hui, Philosophy after Automation?

Jean-Luc Nancy: Automation, Alteration

Bernard Stiegler, Elements for a neganthropology of automatic man

Michał Krzykawski, Towards Idiodiversity. Retranslating Cybernetics

Ana Longo, The Automation of Philosophy or the Game of Induction

Babette Babich, On Necropolitics and Techno-Scotosis

Howard Caygill, Heidegger and the Automatic Earth Image

Yuk Hui, On the Limit of Artificial Intelligence

Katerina Kolozova, The artifact of non-humanity: a materialist account of the signifying automaton and its physical support in a fantasized unity

Part II: Dialogues

Pieter Lemmens and Yuk Hui: Landscapes of Technological Thoughts

Eduardo Vivieros de Castro and Yuk Hui: For a Strategic Primitivism

Hiroki Azuma and Yuk Hui: Homo animalis, a Japanese futurism

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