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Facing Janus: Reframing the Question Concerning Technology – Part 3 of 3
Bernard Stiegler: What Will We Become Bernard Stiegler has reframed the question concerning technology around the concept of human becoming. Stiegler sees an intrinsic relationship between the evolution of human beings (anthropogenesis) and technology (technogenesis). Stiegler makes two central claims: (1) that human beings are inherently technological and (2) that they develop

Facing Janus: Reframing the Question Concerning Technology – Part 2 of 3
Martin Heidegger: How Shall We Live? Martin Heidegger reframed the question concerning technology around the concept of human being. Heidegger’s 1953 essay “The Question Concerning Technology” approaches the question of modern technology as a pervasive and Janus-faced fact of modern human life. Drawing on Rousseau he captures the problem in his opening statement: “everywhere we remain free and chained to technology (Heidegger, Martin

Facing Janus: Reframing the Question Concerning Technology: Part 1 of 3
Introduction The question concerning technology is a perpetually human question that arises from a Janus-faced technology that holds within it both threats and promises. The technological progress of human history is a testament to this fact with its advances in science and medicine that gave birth to both cures and curses, like polio vaccines and the atom bomb. It is therefore n

Plato’s Revenge and the Promise of Politics: Reading the Republic with Hannah Arendt – Part 4 of
Objections and Responses Several objections may be raised against Arendt’s reading of the Republic and her subsequent claims regarding Plato’s project in the work. I will attempt to respond to four objections that seem to be the strongest challenges to Arendt’s claims. First, Arendt’s reading of the Republic has been criticized for straining the text to accommodate her uncritical glorification o

Plato’s Revenge and the Promise of Politics: Reading the Republic with Hannah Arendt – Part 3 of
Arendt’s Revenge Arendt’s response to Plato was to dethrone the philosopher by reintegrating thought and action through the recovery of the Socratic notion of doxa which bears within it the promise of politics. As Dana Villa has pointed out Arendt’s response is “a revenge on Plato’s revenge(Villa, Politics, Philosophy and Terror, 218.)“