Technophany, General Issue Vol. 1, No. 2
With the start of the new year, we’d like to announce the completion of Technophany, Journal of Philosophy and Technology’s first General Issue, Vol.1, No. 2. (2023). Throughout the year, we have been releasing articles Online First on the Technophany website. The issue includes articles by Yuk Hui, Georgios Tsagdis & Donovan Stewart, Toni Hildebrandt, Joel White, Franziska Aigner, Jean-Hugues Barthélémy, Matheus Ferreira de Barros, Marco Pavanini & Pieter Lemmens, and Claire Sagan; and book reviews by Louis Morelle and Jamie Ranger.
Call for Papers
General Issue 2024
With the closing of the first General Issue, Technophany would like to open a call for papers for the second General Issue (2024). We are now open to proposals for book reviews and papers on topics related to philosophy and technology.
Lyotard and the 21st Century
Special Issue of Technophany dedicated to the Centenary of Jean-François Lyotard
Edited by Yuk Hui & Pieter Lemmens
2024 marks the 100th anniversary since the birth of Jean-François Lyotard (10 August 1924–21 April,1998). Technophany would like to commemorate this anniversary with a special issue dedicated to the question of the continuing relevance of the work of Lyotard for the 21st century, which, on the one hand, appears to develop along the lines set out in Lyotard’s highly prophetic book on The Postmodern Condition, with the ongoing consolidation of the global techno-economic system embodying the most updated logic of capitalism and with the ever-increasing subordination of societies on a global scale to the performativity criterium through digital networks, AI algorithms and the transhumanist ideology propagated by the global oligarchy; on the other hand, the 21st century seems to have unfolded into a series of crises that Lyotard himself did not fully anticipate, for example, the apocalyptic urgency of the global ecological crisis and the enframing of the Earth into what Earth system scientists have called the Anthropocene, a new geological and geo-technological condition.
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