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table of contents
  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Introduction: For a Planetary Thinking
    1. Β§1. On the Planetary Condition
    2. Β§2. Planetary Thinking as Political Epistemologies
    3. Β§3. Search for a Planetary Politics beyond the Nation-State
    4. Β§4. Toward a Tractatus Politico-Technologicus of the Planetary
  9. 1. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking
    1. Β§5. Individuation of the Spirit as Historical Process
    2. Β§6. World Spirit as Planetary Thinking and the Place of Reason in History
    3. Β§7. Freedom as the Drive of the Transitions of Political Forms
    4. Β§8. Recursivity of Reason and Freedom in the Modern State
  10. 2. The Organism of the State and Its Limit
    1. Β§9. Spirit and the Organic Becoming of the Externalized
    2. Β§10. Organism of the State versus Organism of the Animal
    3. Β§11. The Impasse from the State to Planetary Freedom
  11. 3. From Noetic Reflection to Planetary Reflection
    1. Β§12. Noetic Reflection: Consciousness and Life
    2. Β§13. Bioeconomical Reflection: Georgescu-Roegen Reads Hegel
    3. Β§14. Cybernetic Reflection: Toward the Consciousness of Machines
    4. Β§15. Noospheric Reflection: In Search of a Planetary Freedom?
  12. 4. Mechanism, Organism, or Decisionism
    1. Β§16. From Political Theology to Political Epistemology
    2. Β§17. Machine and Organism in The Leviathan in the State Theory of Thomas Hobbes
    3. Β§18. Political Epistemology in Hobbes’s Leviathan
    4. Β§19. Catholicism and the Logic of Complexio Oppositorum
    5. Β§20. The Death of Hegel and the Triumph of Political Vitalism
  13. 5. Nomos of the Digital Earth
    1. Β§21. First Deconstruction on the Contingency of Sovereignty
    2. Β§22. Second Deconstruction on the Contingency of Friend and Enemy
    3. Β§23. Sovereignty and the Elementary Philosophy of Space
    4. §24. GroßrÀume as Post-Static Political Form and the Problem of Pluralism
    5. §25. Giving Colonialism, New GroßrÀume, and Digital Sovereignty
  14. 6. An Organology of Wars
    1. Β§26. The Disproportion of Organs and the Hubris of Wars
    2. Β§27. From a Cybernetics of Freedom to an Organology of Differences
    3. Β§28. The Conflict of Tendencies and the Recurrence of Mysticism
    4. Β§29. The Dynamics of the Technical Tendency and Technical Fact
    5. Β§30. On the Organological Relation between Technology and Democracy
    6. Β§31. Biodiversity, Noodiversity, and Technodiversity
  15. 7. Toward an Epistemological Diplomacy
    1. Β§32. Acceleration, Automation, and the Prosthetic Future
    2. Β§33. Universality Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity
    3. Β§34. Sovereignty Seen from the Perspective of Technodiversity
    4. Β§35. Technodiversity Analyzed via an Anatomy of Technical Objects
    5. Β§36. Technodiversity as Epistemological Diplomacy
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index
  19. Author Biography

Index

  • AbbΓ© de Saint-Pierre, 1
  • Absolute, 15, 24, 28, 33, 36–37, 39–40, 60, 63, 162
  • absolute depolitization, 20, 115
  • absolute fear, 61, 166
  • absolute idea, 177
  • absolute knowing, 32
  • absolutism, 63, 287
  • acceleration, 81, 111, 222–23, 230, 233–34; technical, 111
  • accumulation, historical, 109
  • actuality, 29, 36, 56, 75, 89, 91, 269–70; abstract, 55; objective, 39; outer, 32; pure, 270; vanishing, 96
  • actualization, 36, 38, 48–49, 62, 66–67, 271
  • actualization and concretization, 67
  • adaptation, 99, 219–20, 223
  • Adorno, Theodor W., 53, 214
  • aesthetics, 171, 211–13
  • Agamben, Giorgio, 152, 244
  • AGI, 245
  • air power, 17, 151
  • Alexis de Tocqueville, 73–74, 279; Democracy in America, 73
  • algorithms, 106, 189, 198, 233; complex recursive, 27; concrete, 76; digital, 106; recursive, 198
  • alienation, 3, 46, 62, 178
  • American imperialism, 16–17, 174, 177–78, 180, 185–86, 196, 279, 298
  • anarchism, 89, 187, 193
  • anatomy, 250; of technical objects, 238, 247, 254
  • Anders, GΓΌnther, 200, 303
  • animals, 13, 59, 63, 67, 69–72, 85, 88, 90, 100, 108, 113, 125, 127, 132–33, 136, 167, 211, 219, 224, 257, 266, 271, 277, 280, 286, 295, 302
  • animal soul, 90
  • Anthropocene, 1, 6, 20, 114, 193
  • anthropocentrism, 5
  • anthropogenesis, 8, 92
  • anthropology, 7, 36, 87, 89, 100, 113, 130–32, 288, 305
  • anti-Christ, 115, 163, 196
  • antiglobalization movements, 15
  • Antigone, 56
  • antinomy, third, 50, 199
  • antithesis, 27, 50–51, 70, 128, 138–40, 208, 213; of mechanism and organism, 128; of spirit, 139
  • apocalypses, 112, 115, 225; See also technological acceleration
  • apparatus; psychic, 222; technical, 31, 235; technological, 152
  • Arendt, Hannah, 3, 180, 233, 265, 274, 298, 303; Between Past and Future, 274; Human Condition, 3, 180, 233, 265, 274, 298, 303
  • Ariadne’s thread, 18
  • Aristotle, 28–29, 44–46, 63, 90, 107, 133, 270, 273; Athenian Constitution, 46; De Anima, 28–29, 107; and hylomorphism, 31; Metaphysics, 28, 270; Nicomachean Ethics, 45, 273; Politics, 45, 63, 273
  • art, 4, 8, 36–37, 46, 78, 108, 118–19, 126, 134, 139, 200, 214, 216, 241, 261, 266, 307
  • artifacts, 4–5, 109, 114, 210, 281
  • artificial intelligence, 14, 89, 109, 112, 141, 146, 178, 192, 197, 209, 232, 245, 253, 263, 291, 302, 305
  • Ashby, Ross, 106
  • Asia, 39, 185, 188, 267
  • atomic bomb, 151, 174, 178–79, 293, 303
  • atmosphere, 4, 100, 112–13, 225
  • Augustine, 274
  • authoritarianism, 6, 53, 196, 200, 216, 244
  • authority, 58, 76, 78, 132, 139, 146, 154, 159, 200, 229, 269, 281; sovereign’s, 143; supreme political, 58
  • autogenesis, 27, 269
  • Autoimmunity, 165–66, 185–86, 244, 295
  • automata, 28, 126
  • automatic machines, 205, 235
  • automation, 105, 146–47, 189, 201–2, 230–31, 234, 254; mass, 233; modern, 105
  • automation of society, 234
  • autonomy, 159, 178, 180, 198–201, 227, 247, 274, 297, 300; individual, 64, 274; relative, 276
  • autonomy of technological systems, 199
  • Axelos, Kostas, 1, 265–67
  • Bardin, Andrea, 287
  • Bartelson, Jens, 155, 293–94; Genealogy of Sovereignty, 155
  • basic norm, 16, 120, 159–61, 194
  • Bataille, George, 8, 266; Lascaux ou la naissance de l’art, 8, 266
  • becoming organic, 13, 106, 143, 197, 199, 200, 205
  • Begriff, 29, 292, 295–96, 298
  • Begriede, 28, 271
  • Behemoth, 16, 144
  • being-for-itself, 36, 97
  • Bell, Daniel, 184
  • Benjamin, Walter, 214, 302–3
  • Bergson, Henri, 8, 20, 31, 88, 99, 105, 108–9, 118–19, 149, 191–96, 200, 203–4, 206–11, 221, 224, 231, 233–34, 236, 245–46, 268, 283–84, 300–302, 305; analysis of war, 226–27; concept of tendency, 210; Creative Evolution, 20, 191–92, 268, 283, 300–301; critique of machines, 119, 197; on Γ©lan vital, 31, 105, 149, 216, 219; Essai sur les donnΓ©es immΓ©diates de la conscience, 105; and Leroi-Gourhan, 211; Matter and Memory, 301; β€œThe Meaning of the War,” 21, 119, 191–95, 202–3, 209, 229, 231, 284, 300; on time, 104–5; The Two Sources of Morality and Religion, 193, 203, 206, 231, 301; on vitalism, 104–5, 192; and Wiener, 104–5
  • Beer, Stafford, 111, 197
  • Berlin, Isaiah, 273
  • Bernard, Claude, 106, 266; Introduction Γ  l’étude de la mΓ©decine expΓ©rimentale, 106
  • Bertalanffy, Ludwig von, 104
  • Bible, 47
  • Bichat, Xavier, 91
  • bifurcation, 208, 225–26, 236, 264
  • Bildung, 60–61, 276
  • biodiversity, 20, 220, 223–27, 229, 255, 263–64
  • biosphere, 4, 108–10, 112–13, 223, 225
  • Blumenberg, Hans, 121–23, 285–86; The Legitimacy of the Modern Age, 121–22, 285–86; and Schmitt, 123, 285
  • bodily organism, 68
  • Bodin, Jean, 127, 143, 155, 162–63, 167, 287; Six Livres de la RΓ©publique, 127
  • body politics, 26, 127, 129–30, 135, 191
  • Boltzmann, Ludwig, 98
  • Brand, Stewart, 4–5
  • Bratton, Benjamin, 187, 298–99
  • Buckminster Fuller, Richard, 4
  • Burke, Edmund, 24, 155
  • Cacciari, Massimo, 162, 229–30, 240, 246, 290, 295, 300, 304; Europe and Empire, 229; The Withholding Power, 300, 304
  • Canguilhem, Georges, 20, 140, 192, 203, 266–68, 300; β€œMachine and Organism,” 192, 300; A Vital Rationalist, 266–67
  • Cannon, Walter B., 106, 114, 283
  • capital-nation-state, 10–11, 48, 60, 276
  • Carnot, Sadi, 94, 105
  • Cassirer, Ernst, 65, 268, 277–78, 293; The Myth of the State, 268, 277–78
  • catastrophe, 3, 6, 51, 78, 147, 303
  • Catholicism, 138, 140–41
  • Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 114
  • ChatGPT, 222, 233
  • ChΓ©rif, Mustapha, 303
  • China, 3, 10, 17, 42, 47, 58–59, 76, 81–84, 101, 111–12, 150, 165, 173–76, 183, 185–87, 211, 238, 241, 244, 257, 260–62, 272, 276, 300, 302, 305
  • Chinese medicine, 251–52
  • Christ, 19, 34, 113, 139
  • Christianity, 34, 46, 56, 121–23
  • civil society, 19, 35, 47–48, 54–55, 62, 64–65, 72, 79, 85, 90, 95, 103, 130, 230, 293
  • Clausewitz, Carl von, 150–51
  • Clausius, Rudolf, 97
  • Cleisthenes, 45–46
  • Climate of History, 284
  • clocks, mechanical, 58, 105
  • coexistence, 1, 9, 20–21, 168, 223–24, 239–40, 263, 265
  • colonialism, new form of, 184–85
  • communism, 89, 148, 217
  • community, 1, 34, 55–57, 76, 132–33, 135, 137, 182, 186, 215, 220, 227, 239, 252, 256, 260
  • complexio oppositorum, 136, 138–39, 153, 290
  • Comte, Auguste, 78, 103–4, 274
  • concept, 23–31, 35, 37–38, 41, 43, 46, 48–52, 54, 59–60, 62–63, 65, 68–71, 74, 82–83, 86–89, 91–92, 94–95, 97–99, 101–3, 121–24, 137, 148, 156–57, 159, 166, 169–70, 181–82, 192–93, 206–8, 212, 216–17, 222–24, 233–34, 240, 257, 275–76, 278–79, 289–93, 301, 303; boundary, 156, 162, 166; juridical, 121, 159
  • concrete universal. See Universal
  • consciousness; individual, 82; unhappy, 33–35, 80
  • constitution, political, 66–67
  • contingency, 26–30, 32, 37–38, 51–53, 55, 58, 63, 65, 70–71, 88–91, 149, 154, 156, 166, 215, 247, 269–70; of sovereignty, 154, 156
  • Cosmotechnics, 10, 12, 212, 241, 247, 264, 268, 276, 301–3
  • Crary, Jonathan, 186, 299
  • cybernetic reflection, 87, 93, 101
  • cybernetics, 5, 13–14, 21, 24, 103–8, 112, 114, 120, 142–43, 197–98, 200, 202, 205, 221, 227, 231, 249, 253–55, 283, 301, 305
  • cybernetic system, 4, 14, 198–99
  • dao, 175, 241
  • Decisionism, 15, 21, 117–52, 200, 284
  • deconstruction, 2, 154, 163, 295
  • de Cusa, Nicholas, 138
  • de Laurentiis, Allegra, 91, 268, 271, 281
  • Deleuze, Gilles, 28, 207, 301; Bergsonism, 301; Difference and Repetition, 28
  • de Maistre, Joseph, 285
  • democracy, 18, 21, 54, 73–74, 120, 145, 148, 180, 215–21, 226, 251, 273, 279, 302–3; planetary, 217
  • democracy to come, 217, 219
  • depoliticization, 16, 141, 144, 290–91, 297
  • Derrida, Jacques, 2, 73–74, 153, 161–65, 167, 177, 185, 189, 217–19, 240, 247, 270, 279, 294–95, 297, 303–4; β€œThe Force of Law,” 163; The Politics of Friendship, 153, 162; Rogues: Two Essays on Reason, 161, 270, 279, 294–95, 297
  • Descartes, RenΓ©, 12, 53, 90, 125–26, 128–29, 136, 149, 199, 287; β€œDescription of the Human Body,” 126; Discourse on the Method, 90, 287; on mechanization, 15, 117; Mediations on Philosophy, 128, 287; β€œTreatise on Man,” 126
  • Descola, Philippe, 223
  • determinative judgment, 137
  • Deutsch, Karl, 120; The Nerves of Government: Models of Political Communication and Control, 120
  • dialectical movement, 27–28, 40, 54, 57, 65, 140
  • dialectics, 12, 26–27, 29, 32–35, 40, 42, 49, 51–52, 54–55, 58, 60–62, 81, 86, 93–95, 97, 100, 226, 254, 270, 301
  • Dieter, Heinz, 266
  • digital Earth, 153–89, 197, 221, 293
  • digital platforms, 186–88, 218
  • digital sovereignty, 21, 182, 188–89, 299
  • digital technology, 18, 154, 189, 198, 219, 255
  • Dilthey, Wilhelm, 133
  • Dionysus, 46
  • Driesch, Hans, 88, 105, 149
  • Dugin, Alexander, 17, 196, 218
  • Earth, 3–5, 7, 10, 14, 16–18, 66, 76, 83, 86, 101, 108–12, 115, 151–52, 167–68, 170–71, 173–74, 178–80, 182, 193, 197, 209, 221, 223, 225, 245, 256, 262, 265–66
  • ecology, 4, 14, 18, 86, 223, 226–27, 305
  • Economic and technological rationality, 139
  • economics, 89, 102–3, 144; activities, 6, 19, 93–95, 98–99, 101, 139, 251; theory, 94, 102, 253
  • economy, 10–11, 14, 60, 93–97, 99–101, 146, 173, 223, 233, 243, 259, 262; capitalist, 11, 276, 306
  • electrified earth, 174, 176–77, 179–80
  • Eliade, Mircea, 237
  • end of philosophy, 5, 14, 107
  • end of politics, 115
  • enemy, 77, 80, 139, 141, 147–50, 161, 163–66, 169, 179, 183, 185, 291
  • ένέργΡι, 28, 270
  • Engels, Friedrich, 217, 266, 272
  • Enlightenment, 87, 173, 186, 209, 222, 239, 263, 299, 306
  • enmity, 85, 151, 163–65, 183, 185, 293
  • EntΓ€usserung, 37, 62, 65, 276–77
  • entropocene, 193
  • entropy, 1, 48, 92, 97–98, 101–2, 110, 113, 193, 242, 255, 282, 305
  • Epimetheus, 8, 142, 245–46, 290, 295, 304; Christian, 142, 166, 295
  • epistemological diplomacy, 10, 21, 229–64, 303
  • epistemological paradigm, 115, 232, 254
  • epistemological questions, 136, 254
  • epistemological reconstruction, 253, 305
  • Esposito, Roberto, 14, 239, 244, 267
  • Europe, 1, 39, 42, 58–59, 75, 111, 163, 167–68, 171–72, 175, 184–85, 188, 229, 240, 244, 265, 267, 270, 295, 304; and Empire, 229, 295
  • European state, 144–45, 261
  • evolution of technical objects, 200, 249
  • existence, human, 119, 256
  • existence of God, 128–29, 238
  • exosomatization, 92, 93, 99–100; exosomatic activities, 92, 100, 193; exosomatic evolution, 99, 282; exosomatic instrument, 99–100
  • family and civil society, 19, 48, 54, 62, 72, 85
  • Far East, 173, 175, 213
  • Feuerbach, Ludwig, 9
  • Fichte, Johann Gottlieb, 1, 51, 57, 76, 232, 261–63, 275, 279, 306; Closed Commercial State, 261, 263, 279, 306; Early Philosophical Writings, 279
  • First World War, 118–19, 191, 193, 196
  • Five Star Movement, 218
  • Ford, Henry, 184
  • formalism, mechanical, 125, 143, 161
  • Foucault, Michel, 198
  • foundation of law, 154–55, 157, 161, 166
  • Frederick the Great, 239
  • freedom, 6, 12, 18, 20, 23–24, 26, 34, 37, 43–44, 46–55, 57, 59–60, 63–64, 66, 68, 71, 74, 81–82, 86–87, 90, 114, 119, 157, 197, 199–200, 227, 274, 276; economic, 6, 186; human, 85–86, 199, 226; individual, 44–47, 49–50, 56; and laws, 49–50; limit of, 81; private, 143; realization of, 54, 70, 85; subjective, 47, 82, 121
  • French Revolution, 44, 46, 49, 215
  • Freud, Sigmund, 2, 222
  • Friedmann, Georges, 89, 184
  • friend and enemy, 77, 139, 141, 164, 166, 185
  • Fukuyama, Francis, 176, 178, 297; End of History and the Last Man, 176, 297
  • GachΓ©, Rodolphe, 241, 304
  • Gaia, 4, 19, 112, 265, 267, 284
  • Geist, 32, 35, 39, 43, 68, 91, 197, 269–71, 300; See also spirit
  • general organology, 20, 192, 203, 268, 300
  • General Salan, 150
  • genesis of technicity, 208, 236–37, 246, 304
  • geoengineering, 1, 9
  • geopolitical drift, 101, 260
  • geopolitics, 16, 43, 84–85, 147, 182, 278
  • Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas, 87, 89, 93–103, 110, 193, 204, 226, 274, 282; on bioeconomy, 94–95, 100–101; β€œEnergy and Economic Myths,” 100, 282; The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, 98, 282
  • geosphere, 4, 108, 110, 112–13
  • Gerovitch, Slava, 253
  • Gestell, 141–42, 255
  • Gille, Bertrand, 221
  • Glissant, Edouard, 248, 304
  • globalization, technological, 5, 186, 244
  • God, 9, 28–29, 34, 43, 46, 78, 111, 115, 118, 127–29, 136, 141, 160, 162, 210, 218, 238–39, 270, 301, 306
  • Gotthard, GΓΌnther, 13, 107; The Unconsciousness of Machines: A Metaphysics of Cybernetics, 13
  • Großraum, 3, 17–19, 21, 154, 169, 174, 178–83, 185, 189, 192, 196, 218, 221–22, 229, 231–32, 256, 260, 263, 287, 295–96, 298
  • Grotius, Hugo, 157, 287
  • ground and figure, 236–37
  • Gua, 42
  • Habermas, JΓΌrgen, 259, 297, 304
  • Haeckel, Ernst, 4, 70, 265, 278
  • Halpin, Harry, 305
  • Haraway, Donna, 223
  • Hawking, Stephen, 209
  • Hayek, Friedrich, 89, 103–4, 106, 279, 283; The Counter-Revolution of Science, 103; Individualism and Economic Order, 283; Law, Legislation and Liberty, 104, 283; β€œThe Use of Knowledge in Society,” 103
  • Haym, Rudolf, 43; Hegel und seine Zeit, 43
  • Hazard, Paul, 238–39, 304; The Crisis of the European Mind 1680–1715, 238
  • Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 10–13, 15–17, 20, 23, 25–44, 46–51, 53–91, 93, 95–97, 103–4, 106–9, 111, 113, 117–19, 121, 123–24, 130, 138, 140, 147–49, 151, 154, 163, 165, 169, 174, 177–79, 183, 192, 195, 200, 215–16, 219, 221–22, 229–32, 241, 252, 259, 263, 266, 268–82, 284, 292–93, 295; on the Absolute Spirit, 36–37, 89; on Aufhebung, 25, 121; and Comte, 103, 279, 283; on the concept, 56, 62–63, 88; on the concept of organicity, 59; on the concept of reflection, 108; death of, 147–49; on dialectics, 11, 28, 60, 94–95, 108; The Encyclopaedia Logic, 269, 70–71, 278; on freedom, 53, 74, 87; Hegel’s Philosophy of Nature, 278; Introduction to the Philosophy of History, 271, 273, 275–76; Jenaer Realphilosophie, 61, 276; β€œJena Writings,” 61; Lectures on the History of Philosophy, 28, 270, 273; Lectures on Philosophy of History, 59, 276; Lectures on the Philosophy of World History Vol. 1, 273; on logic, 13, 51, 81, 89, 95, 107; Logik, 27, 95, 269, 275; on organicism, 88–89; on organismic thinking, 20, 107; Outlines of the Philosophy of Right, 11–13, 16, 23, 26, 40, 42, 44, 46–50, 54, 64, 66, 72, 74, 76, 81, 83–84, 88, 90, 119, 130, 133, 151, 163, 165, 178–79, 183, 215, 230, 257, 266–67, 271–79, 284, 292–93, 295; Phenomenology of Spirit, 23, 28–30, 32–34, 40, 63, 70, 96, 107, 109, 270–72, 276–78, 282; Philosophy of History, 28, 39, 47, 272, 274; Philosophy of Mind, 39, 59, 71, 90, 269, 272, 274–76, 278, 281; Philosophy of Nature, 71; Realphilosophie II, 276; and Schmitt, 18, 229; state theory of, 15, 72, 74, 86, 118, 148–49, 169, 230; System der Sittlichkeit, 65; on time, 41–42, 88, 96, 200, 269
  • Hegelian state, 13, 64, 69, 74
  • hegemony, 168, 173, 177, 183, 260, 280
  • Heidegger, Martin, 3, 5, 13, 16–17, 107, 141–43, 210, 243, 255, 265, 267, 291; Black Notebooks, 142; β€œThe End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking,” 5, 265; essence of modern technology, 141; On Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 16, 267; β€œOnly a God Can Save Us,” 3; Ponderings XII–XV, 291; The Question Concerning Technology, 141; β€œThe Age of the World Picture,” 3
  • Heller, Hermann, 160, 284, 294
  • Heraclitus, 28
  • Herder, Johann Gottfried, 24–25, 295; Junctures on the Beginning of Human History, 25; Philosophy of the History of Mankind, 25
  • historical materialism, 81, 251
  • historical progress, 50, 230
  • historicism, 16, 78, 154–55
  • history, 2, 6–8, 11–13, 16, 24–25, 28, 31–33, 35–36, 38–43, 47, 51, 55–56, 58–59, 61, 75, 78, 81–86, 106–8, 121–25, 135, 139–40, 143–44, 148, 155, 167, 170, 172, 174, 176, 178, 195, 197, 205–6, 223, 225, 264–66, 280–81, 284–85, 301–2, 304–5
  • history of planetary thinking, 11, 16
  • history of reason, 43, 78, 82
  • history of technology, 144, 151, 163, 167
  • Hitler, Adolf, 144, 148, 280
  • Hobbes, Thomas, 12, 15–16, 49, 117–18, 124–37, 141, 143–46, 149, 153, 156–57, 163, 242, 267, 286–89, 291; De Motu, 129, 287; The Elements of Law, 128, 287; Leviathan, 118, 126, 130, 133–34, 137, 156, 171, 242, 286–88; on mechanism, 118, 125, 128, 130; on mechanization, 15, 117–18, 127; and Rousseau, 132, 154–55; state of nature, 131, 261; state theory, 118, 125, 127, 145; Treatise β€œOf Liberty and Necessity,” 288
  • hospitality, 162–63
  • HΓΆlderlin, Friedrich, 34, 281
  • Homo deus, 7, 9, 115
  • Homo faber, 7–9, 214, 233, 266
  • homogenization of technology, 176, 221
  • Homo sacer, 150
  • Homo sapiens, 7–9, 92, 266
  • Honneth, Axel, 64, 78, 277
  • Hooker, William, 182, 290–91, 296, 299
  • Horkheimer, Max, 53, 214
  • Howse, Robert, 164, 291, 295
  • hubris, 52, 100, 193–96, 203, 209, 227, 245, 261
  • Hui, Yuk, 266, 268–69, 271, 276, 283, 300–305; Art and Cosmotechnics, 12, 241, 247, 264, 268, 276, 301–3; β€œFor a Planetary Thinking,” 268; β€œLyotard after Us,” 266; β€œOn the Unhappy Consciousness of the Neo-reactionaries,” 271; Question Concerning Technology in China, 10, 211, 241, 300, 302; Recursivity and Contingency, 12, 23–24, 57–58, 66, 104, 107, 197, 199–200, 229, 264, 268–69, 275–76, 283, 300
  • human beings, 3, 7, 37, 40, 68, 91, 98, 100, 108, 126, 130, 132, 154, 197, 205–6, 214, 222, 226, 240, 251, 270–71, 282, 294; and nonhumans, 9, 86, 224–25
  • human body, 5, 68, 126
  • human history, 9, 25, 32, 39, 86
  • human nature, 56, 113, 120, 131–32, 142, 155, 157, 289, 306
  • human society, 119, 131, 194
  • humanity, 7, 25, 34, 77, 110, 112–13, 176–77, 193, 195, 197, 201, 209–10, 226, 249, 254, 257, 263–65
  • Hume, David, 157–58, 160, 261, 294; Treatise of Human Nature, 157, 294
  • Husserl, Edmund, 158
  • Hyppolite, Jean; β€œLa Conception HΓ©gΓ©lienne,” 277, 279; Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, 271
  • Iching, 42
  • Idee, 27
  • images; anthropological, 126, 136; organic, 141; of political thought, 120
  • impetus of life, 206–7, 209
  • India, 3, 47, 59, 111, 237, 260, 272
  • individualism, 6, 45–47, 77, 216, 252, 273
  • individuation, 32, 43, 56, 242–43, 247–48, 269, 271; theory of, 27, 29; of thinking, 247–48, 304
  • Industrial Revolution, 16, 171; new, 245
  • information theory, 102–3, 219, 245
  • institutions, political, 17, 88, 224
  • intellect, 8, 31, 139, 161, 204, 266, 281–82
  • intention, 2, 39, 74, 95, 107, 128, 246, 263
  • interfaces, new, 219–20
  • interiority, 13–14, 168, 259
  • internalization, 30, 32, 61, 65, 71; See also recollection
  • international laws, 15, 80, 120, 168–71, 177, 181; universal, 76–77
  • international order, 170, 181, 189, 245
  • international problems, 194
  • international relations, 13, 120, 182, 240, 284–85
  • intuition, 30, 37, 158, 207–8; and Bergson, 207–8, 236; and Bergson, 207–8, 236; intellectual, 156, 294; philosophical, 208, 236; sensible, 156
  • James, William, 292
  • Japan, 7, 76, 173, 175–76, 183–84, 196, 210, 241, 257, 265, 297
  • Jellinek, Georg, 159; General Theory of the State, 159
  • Julius Stahl, Friedrich, 41
  • Jus Publicum Europaeum, 16, 151, 168, 172, 296
  • Kalashnikov, Maxim, 196
  • Kant, Immanuel, 1, 10–13, 19, 24–26, 48, 50–51, 55–57, 64, 70, 76–78, 83, 93, 106–7, 113, 137, 156, 158–59, 199, 226, 229–30, 238–39, 256–60, 263, 265–66, 269, 274–75, 279–80, 283, 294, 304–6; β€œAn Answer to the Question: β€˜What Is Enlightenment,’” 263; antinomy, 50–52, 139, 199, 213, 239, 275; β€œArchitectonic of Pure Reason,” 48, 257, 263, 275, 306; cosmopolitanism, 75–76, 83; Critique of Judgment, 12, 24, 26, 51, 55, 106–7, 137, 258, 269, 294, 304–6; Critique of Practical Reason, 26, 51, 258, 275, 305–6; Critique of Pure Reason, 26, 48, 50–52, 156, 158, 229, 257–58, 263, 274, 294, 305–6; and Hegel, 11, 48; Metaphysics of Morality, 76; Political Writings, 265–66, 269, 275, 279, 305; Practical Philosophy, 279; β€œTreatise on Perpetual Peace,” 76, 226, 264, 279
  • Kapp, Ernst, 24, 31, 57, 68–69, 92, 170, 195, 230, 268, 271, 278, 281, 300; Elements of a Philosophy of Technology, 68–69, 271, 278, 281; Der konstituierte Despotismus und die konstitutionelle Freiheit, 68; on the organic state, 24, 57, 68–69, 195
  • Karatani, Kōjin, 10–11, 19, 48, 60, 82, 258–60, 266, 268, 274, 276, 303, 305; and Schmitt, 19–20; Structure of World History, 10, 258, 266, 268, 274, 276, 305
  • katechon, 115, 142, 147, 163, 246, 300
  • Kelsen, Hans, 15, 148, 159–61, 294
  • Kelsenian liberalism, 125
  • KervΓ©gan, Jean-FranΓ§ois, 285
  • Kissinger, Henry, 263, 306; β€œHow the Enlightenment Ends,” 263
  • KjellΓ©n, Rudolf, 85, 278
  • kleroterion, 46, 215, 218
  • Kohlhaas, Michael, 150
  • KojΓ¨ve, Alexander, 33, 37, 40, 60–61, 101, 176, 178, 184–85, 271–72, 274, 276, 280, 299, 304; on the colonialism of taking, 182–85; on the colonialism of giving, 182–85; on the end of history, 81, 84, 176, 179; Introduction to the Reading of Hegel, 272, 276; on Kant and Hegel, 304
  • Koselleck, Reinhart, 143, 288, 291, 306
  • Kurzweil, Ray, 14, 113, 284; on singularity, 14, 112, 115, 146
  • Kyoto School, 183, 196, 296, 300
  • Land, Nick, 34
  • land, sea, and air power, 7, 16–17, 49, 144, 151–52, 167–72, 175, 179–80, 183–84, 195, 222, 231, 296–97
  • Laplace, Pierre Simon, 94, 198
  • Lapoujade, David, 204, 301–2
  • Latour, Bruno, 9–10, 76, 186, 265–66; β€œYou and I Don’t Live on the Same Planet,” 10
  • laws; civil, 129–30; and freedom, 49–50; natural, 10, 16, 76, 120, 134, 153–54, 293; positive, 16, 120, 141, 153–54
  • laws of mechanics, 98, 130
  • laws of nature, 49–51, 124, 129, 133, 160, 199, 210, 227
  • League of Nations, 74, 77–78, 279
  • LevΓͺque, Pierre, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 45, 273
  • Lefebvre, Henri, 284, 302; Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, 284; Le manifeste diffΓ©rentialiste, 302; State, Space, World, 302
  • Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 42
  • Lenin, Vladimir, 41, 81, 176, 216–17, 220, 302; State and Revolution, 216, 302
  • Leroi-Gourhan, AndrΓ©, 8, 210–13, 295, 302, 305; Gesture and Speech, 8, 213, 266; Milieu et Technique, 210, 302
  • Le Roy, Γ‰douard, 8, 108
  • Leviathan, 17, 117–18, 126, 128, 130, 136, 143–45, 171, 189, 267
  • LΓ©vi-Strauss, Claude, 212, 255, 305
  • liberal democracy, 49, 125, 143, 216–17
  • liberalism, 16, 53, 87, 125, 135–36, 143, 167, 177, 195, 216, 244, 286, 288–90
  • life, 37, 59, 62, 65, 70, 73, 88, 90–92, 95–98, 100, 106, 108–10, 112, 119, 124, 139–40, 145, 147, 149–51, 165–66, 183–84, 191–92, 194, 204, 206–7, 209–10, 224, 234, 241, 243, 261, 265, 290, 301; ethical, 12, 46, 55–56, 66, 232
  • life of technical objects, 235
  • Liu Cixin, 4; The Wandering Earth, 4
  • localism and nationalism, 221
  • Locke, John, 219; Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 291
  • Lotka, Alfred, 89, 99, 193, 282
  • Louis XIV, 148
  • Lovelock, James, 4, 108, 112, 265, 267, 284
  • LΓΆwith, Karl, 121–23, 285
  • Luhmann, Niklas, 89, 217–18, 219, 303
  • Mabille, Bernard, 89–90, 269, 272, 275
  • Macartney Mission, 42
  • Macherey, Pierre, 270–71; Hegel or Spinoza, 270–71
  • machine and ecology, 303
  • machine and organism, 105, 119, 124, 140, 268
  • machine learning, 14, 109, 146, 202, 232
  • machine of machines, 145
  • machines, 4, 6, 12–13, 56, 58, 63, 68–69, 101, 105–7, 114, 117–19, 125, 127–28, 135–37, 139, 141, 143, 145–46, 148, 156, 197, 200–206, 209–10, 221–23, 227, 230, 232–35, 244–46, 250, 254, 265–66, 284–85, 287, 291; administrative, 149, 183; cybernetic, 13, 105–6, 114, 197, 200, 210; mechanical, 65, 94, 114, 118, 128, 141, 210, 266; organic, 12–14, 88, 107, 232, 266
  • Macron, Emmanuel, 244, 304
  • magic unity; See under unity
  • Malabou, Catherine, 29, 63, 71, 270, 277–78; Au voleur!, 277; The Future of Hegel, 270, 277–78
  • Mann, Geoff, and Joel Wainwright, 17, 260, 267–68, 305
  • Mao Zedong, 150–51, 216
  • Marder, Michael, 139, 271, 290; Groundless Existence, 139; Hegel’s Energy, 271
  • Margulis, Lynn, 4, 112, 223, 267, 284
  • Marinetti, Filippo Tommaso, 194, 300; β€œFuturist Manifesto,” 194
  • market and infrastructure, 184–85
  • Mars, 4, 112, 179
  • Marx, Karl, 10, 13, 20, 41–43, 46, 48, 59–60, 62, 67–68, 70, 72–73, 75–76, 81, 88, 93, 182, 184, 201, 216, 233, 235, 266–68, 271–74, 276–79, 281, 293, 299, 303; Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 13, 59, 267, 271, 273–74; Poverty of Philosophy, 20, 268
  • Marx and Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, 272
  • Marxism, 6, 123, 205
  • Maxwell, James Clerk, 98
  • Maxwell’s demon, 98, 102
  • McLuhan, Marshall, 4, 265
  • mechanical arts, 193
  • mechanical science, 193, 204
  • mechanics, 65, 83, 98, 119, 130, 136–37, 140, 146, 285–86; classical, 93, 104
  • mechanism, 12–13, 15, 20–21, 23–26, 56, 58, 63, 68–69, 88, 93–94, 104, 106, 114, 117–52, 191–92, 194–95, 197, 199, 202–3, 207–10, 216, 230–32, 237, 246, 275, 284–85, 287–89; absolute, 63; and freedom, 24, 68; in Hobbes, 135, 288; and organism, 12, 15, 23–24, 57, 100, 106, 114, 118, 120, 125, 128, 136–37, 141, 143–44, 147, 149–50, 153, 161, 195, 231, 264; to organism, 12, 93, 124; and organism opposition, 203, 289
  • mechanistic epistemology, 3, 93
  • mechanization, 24, 114, 119, 124, 126–27, 136, 139, 142–43, 146, 191, 193, 204, 206–7, 209–10; of spirit, 195, 203
  • mechano-organicism, 26, 89, 104
  • megamachine, 3, 11, 24, 63, 73, 78, 87, 107, 114, 135, 145, 189, 193, 201, 227, 231, 242–44, 246–47, 260
  • Mesopotamia, 3
  • metaphysical force, 142, 145, 147, 222, 234
  • metaphysics, 28, 46, 78, 107, 114, 118, 144–45, 229, 232, 257–58, 274
  • milieu; associated, 204–5; external, 211–12, 221; internal, 80, 211–13; technical, 211, 213
  • Mill, John Stuart, 233
  • Mirowski, Philip, 102, 282
  • models; mechanical, 58, 254; organismic, 103
  • modern European philosophy, 106, 118, 128, 147
  • modern nation-states, 1
  • modern state, 3, 12, 19, 48, 50, 54, 57, 60–61, 63, 69, 72–74, 80–83, 86, 122, 134, 229, 252, 272, 275–76
  • modern technology, 4–5, 147, 212, 247, 255
  • monism, 173, 181, 292
  • Monod, Jean-Claude, 123, 286
  • Monroe Doctrine, 16, 79, 172, 178, 185, 187–88, 279, 298
  • Montesquieu, Charles de, 100, 125, 131–32, 287
  • Moreno, Jacob, 252
  • Morris, William, 235
  • Mou Zongsan, 20, 82–83, 280–81
  • MΓΌller, Adam, 67, 125
  • multitude, 14–15, 62, 130, 135
  • Mumford, Lewis, 3, 12, 63, 87, 89, 114–15, 142, 147, 193, 227, 265–66, 284, 303; attack on Teilhard, 114; The Myth of the Machine, 12, 63, 114, 265–66, 284, 303; β€œNew Organum,” 12, 147
  • Musk, Elon, 4, 209
  • mysticism, 69, 76, 203, 207–10, 237; pantheist, 43
  • mystic life, 207, 209–10
  • NachtrΓ€glichkeit, 42
  • Nagasaki, 178
  • Nail, Thomas, 267
  • Napoleon, 40, 75, 81, 84, 271–72, 279–80
  • nationalism, 162, 198, 221, 247–48
  • National Socialism, 17, 118, 128, 144, 148
  • nation-state, 1–2, 9–12, 14–17, 19–20, 80–81, 83–84, 86–87, 93, 111, 114–15, 172, 178, 188, 193, 197, 201, 216, 218, 220–21, 231, 240, 242–43, 256, 262; individual, 17, 178; limits of, 222; and nature, 2
  • nation-state-capital, 14, 176, 260
  • nation-state-sovereignty, 177
  • natural law; See under laws
  • natural law traditions, 16, 154–55
  • nature, 2, 4, 24–26, 29, 42–43, 45, 49–51, 54, 59–60, 63, 66, 68, 70–72, 84–85, 89–91, 96, 98, 112–13, 126, 129, 131–33, 138–39, 142, 154–55, 157, 159–60, 210, 220, 223–24, 226–27, 256–57, 278, 281–82, 288–89, 293; first state of, 131; inorganic, 96, 278; organic, 1, 25, 70, 227; second, 25, 36, 71, 225
  • nature and technology, 224, 226
  • necessity, 4, 19, 27, 30, 50, 52–55, 61, 65, 71–72, 79–82, 86, 119, 124, 132, 163, 166, 176, 180, 215, 223, 262, 267, 281, 289, 296; absolute, 27, 269; epistemological, 90; formal, 269; historical, 84; inner, 72; internal, 74; moral, 76; of contingency, 52, 269; of organicity, 119; real, 269; of sovereignty, 163; of spirit, 30
  • Needham, Joseph, 89, 276
  • negation, 29, 33, 60–61, 77, 161, 222, 255, 273, 276, 288–89
  • negativity, 29, 32–33, 122, 150
  • negentropic, 36, 242
  • Negri, Antonio, 14, 201, 267, 300; The End of Sovereignty, 267, 300
  • network, 256; global, 197; planetary, 245
  • neoliberalism, 6, 89, 177, 193
  • neutralization, 16, 123, 140–41, 144, 146, 153, 166, 290–91, 297; and depoliticization, 144; of politics, 141, 146; technological, 152
  • Newton, Sir Issac, 104
  • Newtonian mechanics, 94, 254
  • Newtonian time, 105
  • new vocation of machines, 210, 233
  • Nietzsche, Friedrich, 40–41, 45, 122, 272, 279; Untimely Meditations, 40, 272, 279
  • nihilism, 224, 226, 264
  • Nishitani, Keiji, 297, 299
  • noesis, 108
  • Noetic Reflection, 21, 85–115, 281
  • noetic soul, 90
  • nomos, 3, 7, 14, 16, 18, 62, 150–84, 222, 245, 266, 280, 287, 293, 295–96
  • noodiversity, 20–21, 220, 223–26, 229, 255, 263–64; and technodiversity, 224–25
  • noosphere, 108–13, 225, 231, 283
  • noospheric reflection, 87, 93, 108, 112–13, 225
  • norms, 57–58, 120, 153, 159–61, 163, 180, 294; communitarian, 46; legislative, 125; positive legal, 294
  • nothingness, 161; absolute, 196
  • noumenon, 156, 162
  • nous, 28, 108, 225
  • Novalis, 24, 117, 125, 241, 269, 284; Christianity or Europe, 269; Glauben und Lieben, 117; Schriften, 284
  • object, 32, 35, 38, 55, 61, 89–90, 106, 109, 129, 156–57, 160, 207, 211–12, 214, 233, 236, 238–39, 253, 275, 294, 304; concrete, 234; natural, 82
  • objective spirit, 36–37, 53, 60, 62, 90, 109
  • objectivity, 51, 62
  • Ōgai, Mori, 7
  • ontogenesis, 18, 27, 269
  • Onuf, Nicholas, 155, 293
  • operation, 11, 26, 55, 70, 73, 90, 93, 95, 106, 127, 188, 199, 205, 208, 215, 230, 235, 243, 245, 249, 251, 253, 258, 283; cybernetic, 197; linear, 24; logical, 52, 244; mechanical, 149; organismic, 56; reflective, 56, 275
  • order, 15, 36, 45, 48, 56, 97–98, 103, 120, 135, 140, 146, 158, 167–68, 173, 176, 180–81, 193, 255, 282; autonomous, 168; complex, 97; concrete, 15; new geopolitical, 14; oceanic, 170; planetary, 172; religious, 7; social, 5; temporal, 90
  • Ordnung, 167–68, 179–80, 296
  • organ projection, 31, 68, 170
  • organic, 58, 67, 88, 143, 203, 261, 289; condition, 12, 24, 26, 57, 107, 137, 264; form, 12, 24, 49, 63–65, 85, 93, 96–97, 105, 138–39; state, 13, 84–85, 88, 119, 123, 182, 191, 232; structure, 54, 70, 280; totality, 99, 108, 110, 241, 255; unity, 67, 73–74, 79, 82, 96, 99, 107–8, 118, 130, 148, 197, 268
  • organicism, 12, 88–89, 97, 105, 114, 140, 142, 149, 192, 294; political, 76, 84, 192, 229; romantic, 136
  • organicity, 13, 48, 55, 57–60, 65–68, 73–76, 117–19, 125, 149, 227, 241, 257; of international relations, 13; and reflectivity, 74
  • organic organs, 194, 202
  • organic state theory, 136
  • organic unity, effective, 66
  • organism, 4, 12–13, 15, 20–21, 23–26, 42, 55–84, 87–89, 92–93, 96–98, 100, 105–6, 114, 117–53, 161, 192, 195, 199, 230–31, 237, 264, 266, 269, 274–75, 284; animal, 71, 88, 231, 278; living, 90, 105, 284; and mechanism, 24, 26, 125, 136, 142, 231–32; planetary, 231; universal, 96
  • organismic epistemology, 21, 85, 124
  • organismic paradigm, 89
  • organismic philosophy, 88
  • organization, 11, 13, 24, 26, 57, 63, 71, 90, 105, 119, 127, 130, 204, 215, 230, 269, 301
  • organized inorganic, 68, 199
  • organizing inorganic, 199
  • organological critique, 192, 202, 227
  • organological expansion, 193, 222, 245
  • organological problem, 195–96, 227
  • Organology, 20–21, 68, 192–93, 202, 227, 230, 255; negative, 20, 194, 209; of Wars, 21, 191–227, 300
  • organs, 8, 31, 68, 90, 92, 109, 192–94, 203, 213, 230, 244; artificial, 20, 115, 191–92, 194, 202–4; artificial external, 195; exosomatic, 194
  • Ortung, 167–68, 170, 177, 179–80, 296

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