Egzosomatyzacja lub moment technologiczny antropocenu: n/a

Michał Krzykawski

doi:10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.11

Published: 2023-12-05

Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023)

Exosomatization or a Technological Moment of the Anthropocene

Michał Krzykawski

Section: GEologos. In search of new alliances

https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.11

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The article deals with the notion of exosomatization, treating as a starting point a description of Alfred Lotka’s “exosomatic evolution” (evolution of out-of-body organs – machines, devices, instruments, platforms). It shows why this notion is necessary to capture a technological moment of the Anthropocene in a wider perspective than the environmental one. If the Anthropocene is indeed “a human epoch”, it is also a time of deep anthropotechnological transformation. In order to describe its wide and far-reaching effects, criticism of an anthropological way of thinking prevailing in the environmental reflection on the Anthropocene is not enough. Destabilization of planetary systems as a result of human activities goes in tandem with a brutal interference of computational technology into social systems, bodies and structures of mental health derived therefrom. The author argues that these two types of disruptions – a digital and planetary disruption – are systemically connected and, hence, it is worth considering them together while discussing solutions to problems confronted in the “climate endgame” (Kemp et al., 2022).

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digitisation , exosomatisation , disruption , technosphere , pharmacon

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Krzykawski, M. (2023). Exosomatization or a Technological Moment of the Anthropocene: n/a. Postscriptum Polonistyczne, 32(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2023.32.11

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Michał Krzykawski

michal_krzykawski@poczta.fm
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7992-0285

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University of Silesia in Katowice Poland

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MICHAŁ KRZYKAWSKI – PhD, Professor at the University of Silesia, Centre for Critical Research on Technologies, University of Silesia in Katowice, Katowice, Poland.
He specializes in contemporary and continental philosophy of technology, and is interested in building a dialogue between philosophy, technology and sciences in the context of epistemological, political, psychosocial and economic challenges that appear with ecological and digital transformation. Latest publications include Necessary bifurcation. “There is no alternative”, edited by B. Stiegler and Kolektyw Internacja (Paryż 2020, Londyn 2021, Katowice 2023), What Is a Neganthropic Institution? („Theory, Culture & Society” 2022), Krytyka w technopresji [Criticism in technopressure] („Śląskie Studia Polonistyczne” 2022), Gospodarka i entropia. Jak wyjść z polikryzysu? [Economy and entropy. How to get out of the polycrisis?] (Warszawa 2023, a book coedited with Jerzy Hausner).

Vol. 32 No. 2 (2023)
Published: 2023-03-29

ISSN: 1898-1593

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