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11Peter Sloterdijk’s Philosophy of Technology: From Anthropogenesis to the AnthropoceneTechnophany 1 (2): 84-123. 2023.In the present work, we aim to expose the central tenets of the philosophy of technology which underlines the work of the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. Beginning from his early works and also mapping his philosophical influences, we show how he incidentally started theorising technology while still profoundly engaged with critical theory in the 1980s, but along the 1990s, passed through an anthropological turn, which made possible a concept of technology that has its foundations in both H…Read more
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294Ecomodernism and the libidinal economy: Towards a Critical Conception of Technology in the Bio‑Based EconomyPhilosophy and Technology. 2023.In this paper, we carry out a critical analysis of the concept of technology in the current design of the bio-based economy (BBE). Looking at the current status of the BBE, we observe a dominant focus on technological innovation as the principal solution to climatic instability. We take a critical stance towards this “ecomodernist” worldview, addressing its fundamental assumptions, and ofer an underarticulated explanation as to why a successful transition toward a sustainable BBE—i.e. one that f…Read more
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206Appraising Asymmetries: Considerations on the Changing Relation between Human Existence and Planetary Nature—Guest Editors’ IntroductionJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 31 (6): 635-644. 2018.
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11Ecomodernism and the Libidinal Economy: Towards a Critical Conception of Technology in the Bio-Based EconomyPhilosophy and Technology 36 (2): 1-23. 2023.In this paper, we carry out a critical analysis of the concept of technology in the current design of the bio-based economy (BBE). Looking at the current status of the BBE, we observe a dominant focus on technological innovation as the principal solution to climatic instability. We take a critical stance towards this “ecomodernist” worldview, addressing its fundamental assumptions, and offer an underarticulated explanation as to why a successful transition toward a sustainable BBE—i.e. one that …Read more
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7On Pharmacology and Multistability: a Commentary on Marco PavaniniPhilosophy and Technology 35 (2): 1-6. 2022.This is a commentary piece on Marco Pavanini's article ' ‘Multistability and Derrida’s Différance: Investigating the Relations Between Postphenomenology and Stiegler’s General Organology' in which I critically extend upon his comparative analysis of postphenomenology''s notion of multistability and Stiegler's conception of organology, focusing in particular on the pharmacological nature of Stiegler's organology and the latter's most recent re-interpretation of it in terms of entropy and negentro…Read more
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458Phenomenology and the Empirical Turn: a Phenomenological Analysis of PostphenomenologyPhilosophy and Technology 29 (4): 313-333. 2016.This paper provides a phenomenological analysis of postphenomenological philosophy of technology. While acknowledging that the results of its analyses are to be recognized as original, insightful, and valuable, we will argue that in its execution of the empirical turn, postphenomenology forfeits a phenomenological dimension of questioning. By contrasting the postphenomenological method with Heidegger’s understanding of phenomenology as developed in his early Freiburg lectures and in Being and Ti…Read more
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236The Ideal of a Zero-Waste Humanity: Philosophical Reflections on the Demand for a Bio-Based EconomyJournal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 28 (2): 353-374. 2015.In this paper we inquire into the fundamental assumptions that underpin the ideal of the Bio-Based Economy as it is currently developed . By interpreting the BBE from the philosophical perspective on economy developed by Georges Bataille, we demonstrate how the BBE is fully premised on a thinking of scarcity. As a result, the BBE exclusively frames economic problems in terms of efficient production, endeavoring to exclude a thinking of abundance and wastefulness. Our hypothesis is that this not …Read more
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36Rethinking Technology in the Anthropocene: Guest Editors’ IntroductionFoundations of Science 27 (1): 95-105. 2021.
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20Technologizing the Transcendental, not Discarding itFoundations of Science 27 (4): 1307-1315. 2022.In this reply I further defend my claim that the transcendental should always remain a primary concern for philosophy of technology as a philosophical enterprise, contra the empirical turn’s rejection of it. Yet, instead of emphasizing the non-technological conditions of technology, as ‘classic’ thinkers of technology such as Heidegger did, it should recognize technology itself as the transcendental operator par excellence. Starting from Heidegger’s ontological understanding of transcendence I s…Read more
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42Thinking Technology Big Again. Reconsidering the Question of the Transcendental and ‘Technology with a Capital T’ in the Light of the AnthropoceneFoundations of Science 27 (1): 171-187. 2021.This article has two general aims. It first of all critically reconsiders the empirical turn’s dismissal of transcendentalism in the philosophy of technology, in particular through the work of Ihde and Verbeek, and defends the continuing relevance of the notion of the transcencental in thinking about technology today, illustrating this mainly through a reading of Stiegler’s understanding of the human condition as a technical condition and his view of human (noetic) evolution as proceeding from a…Read more
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52Toward a Terrestrial Turn in Philosophy of TechnologyTechné: Research in Philosophy and Technology 21 (2/3): 114-126. 2017.
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Gerecenseerde werken-bibilgraphische notities-Heidegger, M., phanomenologische interpretationen ausgewahlter abhandlungen Des aristoteles zur ontologie und logikTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (1): 180. 2007.
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11This article is an attempt to interpret Yuk Hui’s ambitious and promising project of cosmotechnics and technodiversity as a kind of “critical synthesis” of the philosophies of technology of Martin...
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10Cosmotechnics and the ontological turn in the age of the anthropoceneAngelaki 25 (4): 3-8. 2020.Volume 25, Issue 4, August 2020, Page 3-8.
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2303The Emerging Concept of Responsible Innovation. Three Reasons why it is Questionable and Calls for a Radical Transformation of the Concept of InnovationIn Bert- Jaap Koops, Ilse Oosterlaken, Henny Romijn, Tsjalling Swiwestra & Jeroen Van Den Hoven (eds.), Responsible Innovation 2: Concepts, Approaches, and Applications, Springer International Publishing. pp. 19-35. 2015.Abstract In this chapter, we challenge the presupposed concept of innovation in the responsible innovation literature. As a first step, we raise several questions with regard to the possibility of ‘responsible’ innovation and point at several difficulties which undermine the supposedly responsible character of innovation processes, based on an analysis of the input, throughput and output of innovation processes. It becomes clear that the practical applicability of the concept of responsible inno…Read more
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10Embodiment in Whole-Brain Emulation and its Implications for Death AnxietyJournal of Evolution and Technology 26 (2): 1-15. 2016.The awareness of death is a central motivating force behind human activity. Their capacities for abstract and symbolic reasoning give human beings a unique foresight of their finite lifetime and forthcoming demise.Because of the overwhelming nature of this realization; we try to cope with the ensuing anxieties by means of various cognitive and existential strategies. One such strategy is to create a meaningful legacy during one’s lifetime that will outlive the single individual. Whole-brain emul…Read more
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28Re-Orienting the NoösphereGlimpse 19 55-64. 2018.According to geologists and Earth System scientists, we are now living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which humans have become the most important geoforce, shaping the face of the planet more decisively than all natural forces combined. This brings with it a huge and unprecedented responsibility of humanity for the future of the biosphere. Humanity’s impact on the planet has been largely destructive until now, causing a rupture of the Earth System which completely changes the planetary condi…Read more
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12Het unheimliche huisdier: Biotechniek en bio-ethiek in het licht Van sloterdijks radicaal-historische antropologieTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (2). 2006.In 1999, Peter Sloterdijk gave a lecture on the future of humanism in which he 'unmasked' it as part of the ongoing process of self-domestication of the human animal by way of literary media, and speculated that, taking account of the steady decline of literary Bildung in our technocultures, genetic engineering might one day become the key anthropo-technology for the further domestication of mankind. This lecture evoked much controversy, especially in Germany, where Sloterdijk was accused by som…Read more
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Biofilosofen bezorgd om de toekomst van hun vakAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 3. 2004.
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23Review of Vittorio Hösle, Christian Illies (eds.), Darwinism & Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (2). 2006.
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Catherine Malabou, wat te doen met ons brein?Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 104 (2): 144. 2012.
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6Book Review: Lenny Moss (2003). What Genes Can't do (review)Acta Biotheoretica 51 (2): 141-150. 2003.
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39Love and RealismFoundations of Science 22 (2): 305-310. 2017.In this reply I try to show that, contrary to Milberry’s apparent assertion, the general intellect of the multitude does not have the explanatory robustness she accredits to it. Digital network technologies are currently overwhelmingly effective in proletarianizing and disempowering the cognitariat and only an active technopolitics of deproletarianization could reverse this hegemonic situation. In my response to Verbeek, I attempt to correct his misinterpretation of the Stieglerian approach as b…Read more
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27Book review: Lenny Moss (2003). What genes can't do (review)Acta Biotheoretica 51 (2): 141-150. 2003.
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11Robert Ranisch and Stefan Lorenz Sorgner : Post- and Transhumanism: An Introduction: Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2014, 313 pp, $51.95Human Studies 38 (3): 431-438. 2015.
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9Book Review: Susan Oyama (2000). Evolution's Eye: A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide (review)Acta Biotheoretica 51 (1): 59-64. 2003.
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113Technological Mediation and Power: Postphenomenology, Critical Theory, and Autonomist MarxismPhilosophy and Technology 28 (3): 449-474. 2015.This article focuses on the power of technological mediation from the point of view of autonomist Marxism. The first part of the article discusses the theories developed on technological mediation in postphenomenology and critical theory of technology with regard to their respective power perspectives and ways of coping with relations of power embedded in technical artifacts and systems. Rather than focusing on the clashes between the hermeneutic postphenomenological approach and the dialectics …Read more
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20Mark Coeckelbergh: Human Being@Risk. Enhancement, Technology, and the Evaluation of Vulnerability Transformations, Springer, Dordrecht-New York, 2013, 218 pp., $129 (review)Human Studies 37 (1): 153-159. 2014.To be alive is to be vulnerable. That is probably the most basic truth all living creatures confront, from the smallest to the greatest and from the most primitive to the most complex. As Hans Jonas states in the introduction to his wonderful treatise, The Phenomenon of Life, the paradoxical, still enigmatic fact that vital substance by some original act of segregation has isolated itself from the general fabric of things and set itself over against the world introduced the tension of ‘to be or …Read more
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Wageningen University and ResearchCommunication, Philosophy and Technology (CPT)Post-doctoral fellow
Wageningen, Gelderland, Netherlands