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multiple-natures

The idea that nature is not singular but plural, which raises the question of whether multiple forms of technology can also exist correspondingly.

1 chapter across 1 book

The Question Concerning Technology in China (2019)Yuk Hui

PREFACE

In the preface, Yuk Hui reflects on his intellectual journey from his teenage fascination with Neo-Confucian cosmogony and astrophysics to his engagement with Western philosophy and contemporary thought. He describes how encounters with philosophers like Keiji Nishitani and Bernard Stiegler helped him approach the question of technology through the lens of time, leading to his formulation of 'cosmotechnics'—the idea that multiple technics exist ontologically and cosmologically, not just functionally or aesthetically. Hui also expresses gratitude to numerous scholars and institutions that supported his work.