Introduction: Theses on the Technosphere as the End of the “Cosmic Epoch”
摘要
Eleven theses explain why the concept of the technosphere, the realization of philosophy as metaphysics in cybernetics, is, and why it is grounded in its quadrilateral of information, feedback, control, and communication. Philosophically speaking, we are faced with a new absolute that, unlike Hegel’s speculative dialectic, presupposes immanent transcendence and the disappearance of the distinction between idea and reality, between substance and subject, and between living and artificial. What remains to be thought of is no longer anything outside the technosphere, but rather the way of constructing artificial reality and its networked nodes. The image becomes the essence of the technosphere, and language loses its dominance as the primary signifier of history, yielding to the quantification and visualization of life itself.