The Beauty of Detours : A Batesonian Philosophy of Technology

Van Den Eede, Yoni

State University of New York Press（2019/12発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 260 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438477114
• DDC分類 601

Full Description

Proposes an innovative, holistic understanding of technology.

Winner of the 2020 S.I. Hayakawa Book Prize presented by The Institute of General Semantics

Winner of the 2020 Susanne Langer Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Symbolic Form presented by the Media Ecology Association

The Beauty of Detours proposes a new way of understanding and defining technology by reading systems thinker Gregory Bateson in the framework of contemporary philosophy of technology. Although "technology" was not an explicit focus of Bateson's oeuvre, Yoni Van Den Eede shows that his thought is permeated with insights directly relevant to contemporary technological concerns. This book provides a systematic reading of Bateson that reveals these under-investigated elements of his thought. It also critiques the field of philosophy of technology for still reifying "technology" too much despite its attempt to de-reify it, arguing instead that it should incorporate Bateson's insights and focus more on processes of human knowing. Sketching a Batesonian philosophy of technology, Van Den Eede calls for greater attentiveness to the purpose of technology and its role in our lives.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Laying the Groundwork

1. Gregory Bateson's "Ecology of Mind"

2. Philosophy of Technology

Part II. Bateson and Technology

3. Between One and Two: Epistemology/Ontology

4. Conscious Purpose

5. Remediating Conscious Purpose

Part III. The Art of Living with Technology

6. Toward Batesonian Philosophy of Technology

7. The Art of Living with Technology

Notes
References
Index