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The corps of philosophers who make up the Society for Philosophy & Technology has now been collaborating, in one fashion or another, for almost fifteen years. In addition, the number of philosophers, world-wide, who have begun to focus their analytical skills on technology and related social problems grows increasingly every year. {It would certainly swell the ranks if all of them joined the Society!) It seems more than ap- propriate, in this context, to publish a miscellaneous volume that em- phasizes the extraordinary range and diversity of contemporary contribu- tions to the philosophical understanding of the exceedingly complex phenomenon that is modern technology. My thanks, once again, to the anonymous referees who do so much to maintain standards for the series. And thanks also to the secretaries - Mary Imperatore and Dorothy Milsom - in the Philosophy Department at the University of Delaware; their typing and retyping of the MSS, and especially notes and references, also contributes to keeping our standards high. PAUL T. DURBIN vii Paul T. Durbin (ed.), Philosophy ofT echnology, p. vii.
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Walter Wiese
reviewed Philosophy of Technology on January 03, 2014
Philosophy of Technology
Nietzsche, Marx, and Heidegger'although unlikely as a political or aesthetic combination'are critically appreciated in The Will to Technology as three cultural "trauma theorists" in advance of the 21st Century. Arthur Kroker's book is a transdisciplinary meditation on the genetic, biological, and emerging technologies, with human flesh "disappearing into" technological-being as the Ariadne's thread winding through and connecting their life's work. In addition to interpreting each author through other writings by the same author, this exegesis reads Heidegger, Nietzsche and Marx through and alongside writings of all three authors, together, as stand-ins and interpreters of each other, and as "perspectival simulacra" (78) of one another. Kroker repeatedly makes use of a "recombinant" DNA metaphor from the life sciences. In the context of critical digital studies this refers to more than a postmodern pastiche effect. It also refers to the "cutting and splicing" [1] of the material and analog surplus as they disappear and reassemble in virtual and digital forms. The author's cutting and splicing of the trauma theorists is a recombinant-style reading too, which makes this book a rich and uniquely chimerical consideration of the question of technology.
Review of this book published in The Agonist Journal on my blog here:
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