Thermodynamics of the Technosphere. Rethinking Temporality and Technicity in the Age of Planetary Emergency with Heidegger and Stiegler

P. Lemmens
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This article critically reflects on Stiegler’s re-interpretation of Heidegger’s views on the relationships between existential temporality, the understanding of being and technology within the context of the latter’s notion of enframing, reconceptualized as an explicitly planetary phenomenon: the technosphere. Stiegler replaces Heidegger’s ontological conception with an organological one, arguing that the latter fails to understand these phenomena from the crucial perspective of thermodynamics, i.e., of the question of entropy and negentropy, which has never been addressed by Heidegger. What I particularly aim to show is that Stiegler’s organological re-intepretation of enframing as the technosphere and of existential temporality in terms of ‘quasi-causality’ (per Deleuze) may profit from being put in the broader, geothermodynamic context of Earth System Science, and considered from the perspective of Schneider & Sagan’s ‘gradient theory’, as being driven by what may be called the planetary ‘thermodynamic imperative’ with Jeffrey Wicken.
技术圈热力学。与海德格尔、斯蒂格勒一起反思地球紧急时代的时间性与技术性
本文批判性地反思了斯蒂格勒对海德格尔关于存在的时间性之间关系的观点的重新解释,在后者的框架概念的背景下,对存在和技术的理解被重新概念化为一个明确的行星现象:技术圈。斯蒂格勒用一个有机的概念取代了海德格尔的本体论概念,认为后者未能从热力学的关键角度理解这些现象,即熵和负熵的问题,这是海德格尔从未解决过的。我特别想说明的是,斯蒂格勒对框架的有机重新解释是技术圈,是“准因果关系”(根据德勒兹的说法)下的存在时间性,如果放在更广泛的地球系统科学的地球热力学背景下,从施耐德和萨根的“梯度理论”的角度来看,可能会受益,因为它是由杰弗里·威肯(Jeffrey Wicken)所谓的行星“热力学命令”驱动的。
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