Mediation and Transcendence: Balancing Postphenomenological Theory of Technological Mediation with Karl Jaspers’s Metaphysics of Ciphers

Mykhailov, Dmytro

doi:10.1007/s10746-023-09666-6

Hum Stud

2023

DOI: 10.1007/s10746-023-09666-6

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Mediation and Transcendence: Balancing Postphenomenological Theory of Technological Mediation with Karl Jaspers’s Metaphysics of Ciphers

Dmytro Mykhailov¹

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“…In "Mediation and Transcendence: Balancing Postphenomenological Theory of Technological Mediation with Karl Jaspers's Metaphysics of Ciphers," Dmytro Mykhailov analyzes the relation between technology and transcendence (Mykhailov, 2023). Dmytro Mykhailov introduces a new type of 'human-technology' relation named 'transcending mediation' and shows that today's technologies can change not only our relation to the world we live in but also to transcendence.…”

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Introduction: Chinese and Japanese Postphenomenology

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Haiqing

2023

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Back to the technologies themselves: phenomenological turn within postphenomenology

Mykhailov

Liberati

2023

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This paper revives phenomenological elements to have a better framework for addressing the implications of technologies on society. For this reason, we introduce the motto “back to the technologies themselves” to show how some phenomenological elements, which have not been highlighted in the philosophy of technology so far, can be fruitfully integrated within the postphenomenological analysis. In particular, we introduce the notion of technological intentionality in relation to the passive synthesis in Husserl’s phenomenology. Although the notion of technological intentionality has already been coined in postphenomenology, it is “in tension” with the notion of technological mediation since there are still no clear differences between these two concepts and studies on how they relate one to another. The tension between mediation and intentionality arises because it seems intuitively reasonable to suggest that intentionality differs from mediation in a number of ways; however, these elements have not been clearly clarified in postphenomenology so far. To highlight what technological intentionality is and how it differs from mediation, we turn the motto “back to the things themselves” into “back to the technologies themselves,” showing how the technologies have to be taken into consideration by themselves. More specifically, we use the concept of passive synthesis developed by Husserl, and we apply it to technologies to show their inner passive activity. The notion of the passive synthesis enables to demonstrate how technologies are able to connect to a wider (technological) environment without the subjects’ activity. Consequently, we claim that technologies have their pole of action, and they passively act by themselves.

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Mediation and Transcendence: Balancing Postphenomenological Theory of Technological Mediation with Karl Jaspers’s Metaphysics of Ciphers

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Introduction: Chinese and Japanese Postphenomenology

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Back to the technologies themselves: phenomenological turn within postphenomenology

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