Following from Li’s account of subjectality, we argued that toolmaking is fundamental to the production of sociality and the ability to actively engage with shaping our social individuation. This raises the question of how to do so well, which brings us to our third process: technical individuation. In asking how to become active in technical individuation, our project is somewhat different from the previous two chapters that sought an account of how to become active in subjectivation and subjectality. It is fairly clear how to become active in technical individuation: make, remake, repurpose, or destroy various artifacts. What is less clear is how to do so well, especially in the age of control. To answer this, I turn to Feenberg’s theory of secondary instrumentalization and the ancient Mohists’ ethics and counter-siege warfare engineering. This leads to an ethic of democratization and creative resistance.

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Machinic Phylum

  • Michael J. Ardoline

摘要

Following from Li’s account of subjectality, we argued that toolmaking is fundamental to the production of sociality and the ability to actively engage with shaping our social individuation. This raises the question of how to do so well, which brings us to our third process: technical individuation. In asking how to become active in technical individuation, our project is somewhat different from the previous two chapters that sought an account of how to become active in subjectivation and subjectality. It is fairly clear how to become active in technical individuation: make, remake, repurpose, or destroy various artifacts. What is less clear is how to do so well, especially in the age of control. To answer this, I turn to Feenberg’s theory of secondary instrumentalization and the ancient Mohists’ ethics and counter-siege warfare engineering. This leads to an ethic of democratization and creative resistance.