Descartes once told us, "ego cogito ergo sum": I think, therefore I am. Or again, "ego cogito ego sum": I think, I am. But what am I? A thinking thing...
Today, we only retain one or the other term of this more or less polarized entity: either the "thing" in its thingness, or the immateriality of subjectivity. In doing so, we reintroduce the idea of a true duality between body (utilitarian) and thought or spirit (valued only in its volitional dimension).
And if it appears that technosciences encounter humanity as their condition of possibility, they nonetheless jeopardize this foundation of specificities and aptitudes through their efficiency. Indeed, through the transformation of the grasped object, manipulated living beings, elaborated concepts, and definitional or identity knots, techniques risk reducing becoming to a process.
And undoing the biological, personal, and conceptual modes of differentiation. Moreover, unraveling symbolic networks before exploding individuality—at least in its personal, affective, existential, and conceptual investment...
Manufacturer
- Publisher
- OmniScriptum
- Type
- Telecommunications, Biology of Natural Sciences
- Language
- French
- Subtitle
- -
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 648
- Release Date
- -
- Publication Date
- -
- Dimensions
- 15x22 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9786131571404
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