Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking by Hui, Yuk
Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking by Hui, Yuk

Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking

Developing a new political thought to address today's planetary crises What is "planetary thinking" today? Arguing that...
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Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking by Hui, Yuk

Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking

CHF 67.31
Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking by Hui, Yuk

Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking

CHF 67.31
Author: Yuk Hui
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 Gro raum 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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Author: Yuk Hui
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 10/29/2024
Pages: 368
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.93lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9781517917418

About the Author

Yuk Hui is professor of philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam and professor at City University of Hong Kong. He is author of Art and Cosmotechnics, Recursivity and Contingency, The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics, and On the Existence of Digital Objects (Minnesota, 2016).


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