Technology as Culture – Technics as Gesture: Critique of Cybernetics in Simondon and Heidegger

In this paper, the author will propose a new reading of Heidegger’s reflections on technology based on Gilbert Simondon’s critique of cybernetics as a major opponent of Norbert Wiener’s philosophy, whose thought project almost single-handedly established the science of information systems management...

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Published inIn medias res (Zagreb, Online) Vol. 12; no. 23; pp. 3847 - 3860
Main Author Dario Vuger
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Center for Philosophy of Media and Media Research 01.09.2023
Subjects
criticism
culture
cybernetics
heidegger
philosophy
simondon
techno-culture
technology
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Summary:In this paper, the author will propose a new reading of Heidegger’s reflections on technology based on Gilbert Simondon’s critique of cybernetics as a major opponent of Norbert Wiener’s philosophy, whose thought project almost single-handedly established the science of information systems management as the grounding discipline of modern science. Simondon proposes the establishment of a techno-culture of open machines in which man finds himself as a technician and mechanologist of a new social nexus. But for such a project, it is first necessary to develop a radically disruptive attitude towards everyday language, which hides in itself the means to rethink our attitudes towards the everyday challenges of techno-scientific enframing of the world.
ISSN:1848-6304
DOI:10.46640/imr.12.23.5