Technics and Finitude

The hand is infinitely different from all grasping organs—paws, claws, or fangs—different by an abyss of essence. Heidegger

What is Matter?—Never Mind.What is Mind?—No Matter.
Punch
It is a commonplace of contemporary economic, social and political culture that we live in a world articulated through increasingly sophisticated technological supports. It is also a commonplace of the cognitive sciences and of the sciences of life that a radical transformation of the site of humanity in the world (its location and the very value of the concept ‘humanity’) accompanies this process of sophistication. Little of interest has yet been said, however, of how this transformation is to be thought (ultimately how do we still talk of ‘we’?) and how ‘we’ are to orient ourselves in this increasingly technicized world. There is, of course, much literature (often quickly ‘vulgarized’ for the general reader or for the reader unversed in the languages of the contemporary scienc...