A Special Talk Co-presented by Hanart TZ Gallery and Inter-Asia School

“The Question Concerning Technology in China An Essay in Cosmotechnics” 

by
YUK HUI

26/04/2018 (THURSDAY)

Talk  6:00-7:00pm
Q&A  7:00-7:30pm

VENUE

Hanart TZ Gallery
In the “Constellation Forest”
by Inga Svala Thorsdottir and Wu Shanzhuan

First Come, First Served
Wine and Drinks Served Throughout！

In The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics published in December 2016, Yuk Hui questions the limit of the concept of technics in the 20th century philosophy of technology and proposes to re-open the question of technology according to what he terms cosmotechnics, which tends to go beyond the discourses limited to the Greek technē and modern technology. In this book he carries out a systematic historical survey of Chinese thought in comparison to the antique philosophy in Europe tries to understand why there is no systematic thinking of technics in Chinese thought. He attempts to construct a technological thought in China from two categories Qi and Dao, and suggests how it may contribute to the current debate on the global technological acceleration.

Yuk Hui is currently is associate lecturer at the institute of philosophy and art (IPK) and researcher at the Institute for Culture and Aesthetics of Media (ICAM) at the Leuphana University Lüneburg; he is also a visiting professor at the China Academy of Art. Previous to that, he was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Research and Innovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris and a visiting scientist at the Deutsche Telekom Laboratories in Berlin. He published on philosophy of technology and media in periodicals such as Research in Phenomenology, Metaphilosophy, Cahiers Simondon, Deleuze Studies, Techné among many others. He is co-editor of 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory (2015), author of On the Existence of Digital Objects (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) and The Question Concerning Technology in China -An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Urbanomic, 2016), he is completing a new monograph titled Recursivity and Contingency (forthcoming 2019).