Index

Abbé 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, Günther, 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 élan vital, 31, 105, 149, 216, 219; Essai sur les données immédiates de la conscience, 105; and Leroi-Gourhan, 211; Matter and Memory, 301; “The 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 à l’étude de la médecine expérimentale, 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 République, 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; “Machine 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
Chérif, 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; “The Force of Law,” 163; The Politics of Friendship, 153, 162; Rogues: Two Essays on Reason, 161, 270, 279, 294–95, 297
Descartes, René, 12, 53, 90, 125–26, 128–29, 136, 149, 199, 287; “Description of the Human Body,” 126; Discourse on the Method, 90, 287; on mechanization, 15, 117; Mediations on Philosophy, 128, 287; “Treatise 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
ένέργει, 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
Entäusserung, 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

Gaché, 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; “Energy 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, Günther, 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, Jürgen, 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; “The 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; “Jena 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; “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking,” 5, 265; essence of modern technology, 141; On Hegel’s Philosophy of Right, 16, 267; “Only a God Can Save Us,” 3; Ponderings XII–XV, 291; The Question Concerning Technology, 141; “The 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 “Of Liberty and Necessity,” 288
hospitality, 162–63
Hölderlin, 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; “For a Planetary Thinking,” 268; “Lyotard after Us,” 266; “On 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; “La Conception Hégélienne,” 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; “An Answer to the Question: ‘What Is Enlightenment,’” 263; antinomy, 50–52, 139, 199, 213, 239, 275; “Architectonic 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; “Treatise 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
Kervégan, Jean-François, 285
Kissinger, Henry, 263, 306; “How the Enlightenment Ends,” 263
Kjellén, Rudolf, 85, 278
kleroterion, 46, 215, 218
Kohlhaas, Michael, 150
Kojève, 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; “You 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
Levêque, Pierre, and Pierre Vidal-Naquet, 45, 273
Lefebvre, Henri, 284, 302; Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, 284; Le manifeste différentialiste, 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, André, 8, 210–13, 295, 302, 305; Gesture and Speech, 8, 213, 266; Milieu et Technique, 210, 302
Le Roy, Édouard, 8, 108
Leviathan, 17, 117–18, 126, 128, 130, 136, 143–45, 171, 189, 267
Lévi-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
Löwith, 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; “Futurist 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
Müller, 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; “New Organum,” 12, 147
Musk, Elon, 4, 209
mysticism, 69, 76, 203, 207–10, 237; pantheist, 43
mystic life, 207, 209–10

Nachträglichkeit, 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

Index — Continued (2 of 2)