<nettime-ann> Just out: The Question Concerning Technology in China by Yuk Hui

[Geert Lovink <geert@xs4all.nl>]

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The Question Concerning Technology in China 
An Essay in Cosmotechnics 
By Yuk Hui

https://www.urbanomic.com/book/question-concerning-technology-china/

December 2016 Paperback 115 x 175mm ISBN 978-0-9954550-0-9 £14.99 

In this remarkable book, Yuk Hui draws on the major thinkers of both the West and the East to elaborate an orig- 
inal re ection on the nature of technology. He has enlarged the philosophical horizon for the Anthropocene age. — Andrew Feenberg, author of Between Reason and Experience: Essays in Technology and Modernity 

Heidegger’s critique of modern technology and its relation to metaphysics has been widely accepted in the East. Yet the conception that there is only one—originally Greek—type of technics has been an obstacle to any original critical thinking of technology in modern Chinese thought. 

Yuk Hui argues for the urgency of imagining a speci cally Chinese philosophy of technology capable of responding to Heidegger’s challenge, while problematizing the a rmation of technics and technologies as anthropologically universal. 
This investigation of the historical-metaphysical question of technology, drawing on Lyotard, Simondon, and Stiegler, and introducing a history of modern Eastern philosophical thinking largely unknown to Western readers, including philosophers such as Feng Youlan, Mou Zongsan, and Keiji Nishitani, sheds new light on the obscurity of the question of technology in China. Why was technics never thematized in Chinese thought? Why has time never been a real question for Chinese philosophy? How was the traditional concept of Qi transformed in its relation to Dao as China welcomed technological modernity and westernization? 

In The Question Concerning Technology in China, a systematic historical survey of the major concepts of traditional Chinese thinking is followed by a startlingly original investigation of these questions, in or- der to ask how Chinese thought might today contribute to a renewed, cosmotechnical questioning of globalized technics. 

Yuk Hui is currently research associate at the ICAM of Leuphana University in Germany. He is co-editor of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (Meson Press, 2015) and author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (University of Minnesota Press, 2016). 


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