Often qualified as “revolutionary,” electronic and reactive textiles are promising to bring wide-reaching changes to our existence: from the way we dress to the way we communicate, from the way we sense and are sensed to the way we build and use textiles as substrates for new applications. From a philosophical perspective, this article explores the revolutionary character of electronic and reactive textiles—in other words, what about them is “revolutionary?” Corollary questions include, “What do electronic and reactive textiles revolutionize?” and “What is it to revolutionize?” or more precisely, “What exactly is expected to be revolutionized when it comes to textiles?” The article emphasizes that with electronic and reactive textiles we are confronted with a new understanding of matter (and implicitly with new ways to manipulate and use it). The article also addresses the ways digitization not only affects the constitution of new objects (interactive objects/devices) but also produces changes in the industrial forms of production. Last but not least, we argue that the innovation aspects related to the development of new materials and their forms of production have to be addressed on different scales, by following trans-disciplinary approaches within a deliberate framework of philosophical questioning.

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革命性纺织品：关于电子和反应性纺织品的哲学探究

通常被称为“革命性”的电子和活性纺织品有望为我们的生活带来广泛的改变：从我们的着装方式到我们交流的方式，从我们感知和被感知的方式到我们构建和使用纺织品的方式作为新应用的基材。这篇文章从哲学的角度探讨了电子和活性纺织品的革命性特征——换言之，它们何以具有“革命性”？随之而来的问题包括：“电子和反应性纺织品给什么带来了革命性的变化？” 和“什么是革命？” 或者更准确地说，“在纺织品方面，究竟哪些方面会发生革命性的变化？” 文章强调，对于电子和反应性纺织品，我们面临着对物质的新理解（并隐含着操纵和使用它的新方法）。本文还讨论了数字化不仅影响新对象（交互式对象/设备）的构成，而且还导致工业生产形式发生变化的方式。最后但并非最不重要的一点是，我们认为与新材料及其生产形式的开发相关的创新方面必须在不同的尺度上加以解决，方法是在哲学质疑的深思熟虑的框架内遵循跨学科方法。