See Yuk Hui, “Philosophy and the Planetary,” Philosophy Today 64, no. 3 (November 2020).
Martin Heidegger, GA66 Besinnung (1938/39) (Vittorio Klostermann, 1997), 74.
I will deal in detail with this question in Art and Cosmotechnics (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming 2021).
Martin Heidegger, “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking,” in On Time and Being, trans. Johan Stambaugh (Harper & Row, 1972), 59.
Bruno Latour, Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime, trans. Catherine Porter (Polity, 2019), 15.
Peter Sloterdijk, Infinite Mobilization: Towards a Critique of Political Kinetics, trans. Sandra Berjan (Polity, 2020).
Yuk Hui, “On the Unhappy Consciousness of Neoreactionaries,” e-flux journal, no. 81 (April 2017) →.
Hegel, Philosophy of Nature, vol. 3, trans. M. J. Petry (George Allen and Unwin, 1970), §376.
Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia, trans. Robert Hurley, Mark Seem, and Helen R. Lane (University of Minnesota Press, 2004), 239–40.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, The Future of Man, trans. Norman Denny (Image Books, 2004), 151: “When Homo faber came into being the first rudimentary tool was born as an appendage of the human body. Today the tool has been transformed into a mechanized envelope (coherent within itself and immensely varied) appertaining to all mankind. From being somatic it has become ‘noospheric.’”
Joseph Needham, “Preface,” in Ursula King, Teilhard de Chardin and Eastern Religions (Seabury, 1980), xiii.
Arnold Toynbee, The World and the West (Oxford University Press, 1953), 67.
Carl Schmitt, Dialogues on Power and Space (Polity, 2015), 67.
This also differentiates our approach from Bruno Latour’s terrestrial thinking. The terrestrial is the common denominator of all: left and right, modern and nonmodern. He contrasts terrestrial to both local and global. See Latour, Down to Earth, 54.
Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, trans. Walter Kaufmann and R. J. Hollingdale (Vintage Books, 1968), 8.
Schmitt, Dialogues, 46.
In The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics (Urbanomic, 2016), I used “technological consciousness” to characterize Jean-François Lyotard’s postmodern project.