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Art and Cosmotechnics Author: Xu Yu Publisher: East China Normal University Press Translator: Su Ziying
Art and Cosmotechnics Author: Xu Yu Publisher: East China Normal University Press Translator: Su Ziying
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Introduction · · · · · ·
The sequel to "Recursion and Contingency" refines the landscape logic in Taoist thought, restarts artistic thinking in the era of artificial intelligence, and responds to Heidegger's theory of the end of Western philosophy.
【Editor's recommendation】
● Extract the landscape logic from Chinese Taoist thought, which is opposite to the tragic logic of the West, to answer the role of philosophy and art in the era of artificial intelligence.
● Pay attention to the diversity of artistic experience and aesthetic thinking, and restart the ideological connection between philosophy and art in the conceptual situation of the technological age.
Technology challenges the existence of art and traditional thought. Drawing on the discourse of artificial intelligence and robotics, this book attempts to respond to this challenge with the cosmic technology in Chinese landscape painting. It then asks: What is the meaning of landscape in the face of new challenges brought about by current technological changes? By juxtaposing art and cosmic technology, we try to enter the diversity of artistic experience and ask ourselves how these experiences can help reflect on today's technology.
"Art and Cosmic Technology" is a sister book of "Recursion and Chance", which continues the concept of recursion proposed in the previous book. Inspired by the thoughts of Wang Bi and Mou Zongsan, the author Xu Yu extracted the landscape logic from Chinese Taoist thought, which is opposite to the tragic logic of the West, to answer...
About the Author · · · · · ·
Yuk Hui holds a PhD in Philosophy from Goldsmiths College, UK. He has conducted postdoctoral research in France and completed his philosophy professorship thesis in Germany. He has taught at the University of Lüneburg, Bauhaus University, and the China Academy of Art. He currently teaches at the City University of Hong Kong, where he teaches philosophy of technology and aesthetics.
His monographs include On the Existence of Digital Objects (2016), The Question Concerning Technology in China. An Essay in Cosmotechnics (2017), and Recursivity and Contingency (2019), which have been translated into German, French, Italian, Russian, Korean, Japanese, etc.
