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03309aam a2200409 i 4500 001 F9C0F9769C8E11E981649E3E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20190702010117 008 190117s2019 enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019002450 020 $a 1786600536 020 $a 9781786600530 020 $a 1786600528 020 $a 9781786600523 035 $a (OCoLC)1050963221 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UUM $d YDX $d PUL $d OCLCO $d QGQ $d L2U $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a Q334.7 H85 2019 100 1 $a Hui, Yuk, $d 1985- $e author. 245 10 $a Recursivity and contingency / $c Yuk Hui. 264 1 $a London, United Kingdom ; $b Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., $c [2019] 300 $a xv, 319 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Media philosophy 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Nature and recursivity -- Logic and contingency -- Organized inorganic -- Organizing inorganic -- The inhuman that remains. 520 $a This book employs recursivity and contingency as two principle concepts to investigate into the relation between nature and technology, machine and organism, system and freedom. It reconstructs a trajectory of thought from an Organic condition of thinking elaborated by Kant, passing by the philosophy of nature (Schelling and Hegel), to the 20th century Organicism (Bertalanffy, Needham, Whitehead, Wiener among others) and Organology (Bergson, Canguilhem, Simodnon, Stiegler), and questions the new condition of philosophizing in the time of algorithmic contingency, ecological and algorithmic catastrophes, which Heidegger calls the end of philosophy.The book centres on the following speculative question: if in the philosophical tradition, the concept of contingency is always related to the laws of nature, then in what way can we understand contingency in related to technical systems? The book situates the concept of recursivity as a break from the Cartesian mechanism and the drive of system construction; it elaborates on the necessity of contingency in such epistemological rupture where nature ends and system emerges. In this development, we see how German idealism is precursor to cybernetics, and the Anthropocene and Noosphere (Teilhard de Chardin) point toward the realization of a gigantic cybernetic system, which lead us back to the question of freedom. It questions the concept of absolute contingency (Meillassoux) and proposes a cosmotechnical pluralism. Engaging with modern and contemporary European philosophy as well as Chinese thought through the mediation of Needham, this book refers to cybernetics, mathematics, artificial intelligence and inhumanism. 650 0 $a Artificial intelligence $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Self-organizing systems $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Computer algorithms $x Philosophy. 650 0 $a Conditionals (Logic) 650 0 $a Recursive functions. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hui, Yuk, 1985- author. $t Recursivity and contingency $d London ; New York : Rowman & Littlefield International, Ltd., [2019] $z 9781786600547 $w (DLC) 2019003010 830 0 $a Media philosophy 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707011055.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F9C0F9769C8E11E981649E3E97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search