'Machine and Sovereignty: For a Planetary Thinking' with Yuk Hui

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What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach
is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops a future-oriented mode of
political thought that encompasses the unprecedented global
challenges we are confronting: the rise of artificial
intelligence, the ecological crisis, and intensifying
geopolitical conflicts.


Machine and Sovereignty starts with three premises. The first
affirms the necessity of developing a new language of coexistence
that surpasses the limits of nation-states and their variations;
the second recognizes that political forms, including the polis,
empire, and the state, are technological phenomena, which Lewis
Mumford terms “megamachines.” The third suggests that a
particular political form is legitimated and rationalized by a
corresponding political epistemology. The planetary thinking that
this book sketches departs from the opposition between mechanism
and organism, which characterized modern thought, to understand
the epistemological foundations of Hegel’s political state and
Schmitt’s Großraum and their particular ways of conceiving the
question of sovereignty. Through this reconstruction, Hui exposes
the limits of the state and reflects on a new theoretical matrix
based on the interrelated concepts of biodiversity, noodiversity,
and technodiversity.


Arguing that we are facing the limit of modernity, of the
eschatological view of history, of globalization, and of the
human, Hui conceives necessary new epistemological and
technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the
crises of our present and our future.


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