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Engineering the Interval
2022
Overview
Gilbert Simondon argued in 1958 that we had entered “a new phase of the philosophy of technics” that followed a long period concerned with “thermodynamics and energetics.”¹ The new phase was one of information, which, as he claimed, still failed to make “a clear distinction between form and information.”² Broad application of the nineteenth-century scientific materialism born of research on the laws of thermodynamics to matters of industrial, philosophical, and social significance found a vanishing boundary between the human and the machine. After Hermann von Helmholtz, “energy was a transcendental principle” that allowed little regard for the metaphysical constructs that
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
ISBN
1517912547, 9781517912543
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