Unobtrusive Governance: Heidegger and Foucault on the Sources of Social Normativity

Beinsteiner, Andreas

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“…(d) For, secondly, it is ignored, that any artifact -a book no less than a quantified self app -participates in shaping regimes of accessibility, and accordingly also of the meaning that guides human action (cf. Beinsteiner, 2017c, for an account based on Heidegger and Foucault). 17 Anders thus calls for the development of scientific disciplines like thing psychology (cf.…”

Section: Anthropocene or Euro-/technocene?mentioning

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Cyborg agency: The technological self-production of the (post-)human and the anti-hermeneutic trajectory

Beinsteiner

2019

Thesis Eleven

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This paper situates Günther Anders’s diagnosis of a shift in the modes of human self-production from hermeneutic and educational practices to techno-scientific interventions in the broader context of observations concerning posthumanism and biopolitics (e.g. Peter Sloterdijk, Giorgio Agamben). It proposes to reframe the problem of human self-production within the philosophy of media and traces a common anti-hermeneutic trajectory to which both technoscientific transhumanism and certain strands of posthumanism belong, insofar as they are based on an ontology that exclusively considers causally effective agency. With Anders and Martin Heidegger it is argued that such a focus on agency neglects the dimension of meaning that irreducibly guides technoscientific interventions. The paper claims that, with regard to the escalating dynamics both of human enhancement and of the Anthropocene, neither a truly critical theoretical stance nor a practical subversion is possible without taking the horizons of meaning into account that drive these dynamics. The last section sketches an outline of the complex interrelations of humans, technologies and meaning that cannot be mapped in terms of causally effective agency.

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Cyborg agency: The technological self-production of the (post-)human and the anti-hermeneutic trajectory

Beinsteiner

2019

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Das Handeln der Dinge und die Vorgängigkeit der Zugänglichkeit

Beinsteiner¹

2019

Sociologia Internationalis

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Das Desiderat einer Konzeption sozialen Handelns, welche sich nicht am Paradigma des Herstellens orientiert, wurde in der Sozialtheorie klar artikuliert. Der vorliegende Beitrag argumentiert, dass neben der Vorstellung eines gezielt realisierbaren Handlungsresultats auch die Identifikation von Handeln und Bewirken aufgegeben werden muss, um zu einem wahrhaft postpoietischen Paradigma vorzudringen. Der Beitrag zeichnet zuerst die Argumentation nach, die der gezielten Realisierbarkeit bestimmter Handlungsresultate die Pluralität menschlicher (Hannah Arendt) oder nichtmenschlicher (Bruno Latour) Akteure entgegensetzt. Daran anschließend wird Martin Heideggers Unterscheidung von Bewirken und Entbergen entfaltet, um zu einer nicht bewirkenden, aber dennoch maßgeblichen Dimension des Handelns vorzudringen, welche u. a. im Handeln der Dinge, aber auch in der wissenschaftlichen Selbstreflexion zur Geltung kommt. The desideratum of a conception of social action that is not based on the paradigm of production has been articulated clearly in social theory. The present contribution argues that, in addition to the idea of a purposefully realizable outcome of action, the conception of action as a causally effectuating intervention has to be abandoned. The article first traces arguments that object to the idea of a purposefully controllable outcome of action by underlining the plurality of human (Hannah Arendt) or nonhuman (Bruno Latour) agents. Subsequently, it unfolds Martin Heidegger’s distinction of effecting and disclosing to bring into view a dimension of action that is decisive without being causally effective. The relevance of this dimension is discussed with reference both to the agency of things and to scientific self-refection.

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Primordiality and the Pragmata: A Critical Assessment of Rorty’s Challenge to Heideggerian Nostalgia

Beinsteiner¹

2017

Pragmatic Perspectives in Phenomenology

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Unobtrusive Governance: Heidegger and Foucault on the Sources of Social Normativity

Cited by 3 publications

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Cyborg agency: The technological self-production of the (post-)human and the anti-hermeneutic trajectory

Cyborg agency: The technological self-production of the (post-)human and the anti-hermeneutic trajectory

Das Handeln der Dinge und die Vorgängigkeit der Zugänglichkeit

Primordiality and the Pragmata: A Critical Assessment of Rorty’s Challenge to Heideggerian Nostalgia

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