#OnlineFirst: Technophany, General Issue, Vol. 4, No. 1., 2025
New Book Reviews and Article
Book Review: Organism Oriented Ontology by Audrone Žukauskaitė
Review by Ben Woodard
Audrone Žukauskaitė’s book is a concise analysis of the place and role of the organism, or perhaps organic thinking, within the tradition of continental philosophy. In particular, it is interested in how the legacy of post-war French thought intersects with how we think biological systems today and suggests that this thinking should be renewed in order to address some of the more massive political deadlocks of the present namely the status of biopolitics and what to do with the concept of the anthropocene.
Book Review: The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Nature and Revolution in Marcuse’s Philosophy of Praxis by Andrew Feenberg
Review by Darryl Cressman
A book review of Andrew Feenberg's The Ruthless Critique of Everything Existing: Nature and Revolution in Marcuse's Philosophy of Praxis that emphasizes how Feenberg develops a critical philosophy of technology from Marcuse's work.
Article: "Dialectics, Technoscience and Non-linearity The Relevance of Hegelian Dialectics for Philosophy of Technology Now"
by Natalia Juchniewicz and Hub Zwart
Our article aims to analyse the significance of dialectics for philosophical reflection on technology. Drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, this article first of all reconstructs the progressive artefactualisation of thought and action, by indicating the transition from labour through tool use to the emergence of intelligent machines in the field of practice, secondly, by indicating the importance of dialectical thinking for the media theory, and thirdly, by pointing out that dialectics delivers both a conceptual and a practical understanding of the possibilities of emergence for cognitive technologies we encounter today (AI and the noosphere). Dialectics captures these dynamics in a non-linear manner, offering a conceptual grounding for addressing developments that are both universal and concrete, offering Hegelian dialectics as a dynamical method of thinking about technological progress without falling into schematism and simplifications.
#OpenCall: Technophany, General Issue, Vol. 4, No. 1., 2025
Technophany is currently open to new article submissions and book reviews for the General Issue, Vol.4, No.1, 2025. Articles are published #onlinefirst and close at the end of each year. This means that cutting-edge work in philosophy of technology is published online as soon as the articles are ready. We are also open for proposals for edited special issues. If you would like to publish with us, please get in touch with our editors at: journal@philosophyandtechnology.network.
Technophany is a peer-reviewed journal of philosophy and technology published by The Radboud University Press in The Netherlands.