Abstract Yuk Hui’s concept of cosmotechnics provides us with an excellent theoretical device to investigate the role of technology in relation to a culture’s self-understanding. This paper, in the first place, aims to contextualise Hui’s reflexion on cosmotechnics within the broader field of contemporary philosophy of technology, outlining its discerning potential in undermining the outworn, Western dichotomy between nature and culture. In this spirit, it is stressed how cosmotechnics nicely fits in an anthropotechnological perspective, i.e., an understanding of the relation between technics and humans as originary and constitutive. In the second place, the goal of this paper is to evaluate the explanatory significance of the concept of cosmotechnics regarding the possibility of a comparative investigation of the modes according to which different cultures conceive technics and their relation to it. In this spirit, the concept of cultural techniques, i.e., scriptural, figurative and computing techniques embedded with a self-representative potential, is brought about in order to show which kind of technologies are most likely to determine and influence a culture’s self-understanding and should therefore be privileged by the focus of a comparative cosmotechnical inquiry.

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从人类技术角度看宇宙技术

摘要 Yuk Hui 的宇宙技术概念为我们研究技术在文化自我理解中的作用提供了极好的理论工具。首先，本文旨在在当代技术哲学的更广泛领域内将回族对宇宙技术的反思置于语境中，概述其在削弱西方自然与文化之间陈旧的二分法方面的洞察力。本着这种精神，强调宇宙技术如何很好地适应人类技术的观点，即，将技术与人类之间的关系理解为原始的和构成性的。其次，本文的目的是评估宇宙技术概念的解释意义，以便对不同文化所依据的模式及其与技术的关系进行比较研究。本着这种精神，文化技术的概念，即嵌入了自我代表潜力的圣经、比喻和计算技术，被提出，以表明哪种技术最有可能决定和影响一种文化的自我理解和自我理解。因此，应该优先考虑比较宇宙技术研究的重点。