Abstract This essay discusses Sloterdijk’s anthropotechnical framework as it relates to recent contributions that deal with the inherent opacities of digital technology and processes of blackboxing. I argue that Sloterdijk’s philosophy is a precious case of affirmative, non-nihilistic technophilic thinking that espouses the technogenic provenance of mankind, and leaves space for technologically engendered incomprehensibility while tracing a horizon for human beings’ resoluteness. In the first section of my essay I tackle Sloterdijk’s reflections on the philosophical transition from wonder to horror in the twentieth century, and I put it in dialogue with his concept of the monstrous as defined by boundlessness, complexity, and excess. Here, I discuss how the human being shows both monster-slayer and monstrous tendencies. Secondly, after having revisited the question “what happened in the twentieth century” from this perspective, I discuss how Sloterdijk’s analysis of the monstrous provides a coherent genealogy for an assessment of the individual’s relation to current “monstrous” technologies, as they are tied to algorithmic processing. I conclude by arguing that Sloterdijk’s anthropotechnics and onto-anthropology allow for an acrobatic confrontation with the possibility of untethering technological advancement from illusory promises of absolute clarity, and promote the immunological value of darkness.

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与黑暗同在

摘要 本文讨论了 Sloterdijk 的人类技术框架，因为它与最近的贡献有关，这些贡献涉及数字技术和黑盒过程的固有不透明性。我认为 Sloterdijk 的哲学是肯定的、非虚无主义的技术主义思想的宝贵案例，它支持人类的技术起源，并为技术产生的不可理解性留出空间，同时为人类的坚定性描绘了一个视野。在我文章的第一部分，我探讨了 Sloterdijk 对 20 世纪从惊奇到恐怖的哲学转变的反思，并将其与他的由无限、复杂和过度定义的怪物概念进行对话。在这里，我将讨论人类如何同时表现出杀怪和怪物倾向。第二，在从这个角度重新审视“二十世纪发生了什么”这个问题之后，我讨论了 Sloterdijk 对怪物的分析如何为评估个人与当前“怪物”技术的关系提供了一个连贯的谱系，因为它们与算法处理相关. 最后，我认为 Sloterdijk 的人类技术学和本体人类学允许与将技术进步与绝对清晰的虚幻承诺解除束缚的可能性进行杂技对抗，并促进黑暗的免疫学价值。因为它们与算法处理有关。最后，我认为 Sloterdijk 的人类技术学和本体人类学允许与将技术进步与绝对清晰的虚幻承诺解除束缚的可能性进行杂技对抗，并促进黑暗的免疫学价值。因为它们与算法处理有关。最后，我认为 Sloterdijk 的人类技术学和本体人类学允许与将技术进步与绝对清晰的虚幻承诺解除束缚的可能性进行杂技对抗，并促进黑暗的免疫学价值。