This paper develops a dialectical methodology for assessing technoscience during the Anthropocene. How to practice Hegelian dialectics of technoscience today? First of all, dialectics is developed here in close interaction with contemporary technoscientific research endeavours, which are addressed from a position of proximity and from an ‘oblique’ perspective. Contrary to empirical (sociological or ethnographical) research, the focus is on how basic concepts of life, nature and technology are acted out in practice. Notably, this paper zooms in on a synthetic cell project called BaSyC as a concrete instantiation of converging views of life, nature and technology currently at work in technoscience. While dialectics is used to explore the significance of this project (of this ‘experience’ in the dialectical sense), the synthetic cell as a case study also allows us to demonstrate the remarkable relevance of dialectics for understanding contemporary research, notably because it incites us to see the synthetic cell project as a concrete exemplification of life under Anthropocenic conditions. Should we assess the synthetic cell as the ultimate realisation of the technoscientific will to control and optimise life, or rather as an effort to bridge the disruptive collision between technoscience and nature, or both?

本文提出了一种人类学评估技术科学的辩证法。今天如何实践黑格尔的技术辩证法？首先，辩证法是在与当代技术科学研究成果紧密互动的基础上发展起来的，这些研究成果是从接近的立场和“倾斜”的角度来解决的。与实证（社会学或人种学）研究相反，研究重点是在实践中如何实现生活，自然和技术的基本概念。值得注意的是，本文放大了一个称为BaSyC的合成细胞项目，作为融合当前在技术科学领域中生活，自然和技术的观点的具体实例。尽管辩证法被用来探索这个项目的意义（在辩证意义上的“经验”），以合成细胞为例的研究还使我们能够证明辩证法与理解当代研究的显着相关性，特别是因为它促使我​​们将合成细胞计划视为人类文明条件下生命的具体例证。我们应该将合成细胞评估为控制和优化生命的技术科学意愿的最终实现，还是作为弥合技术科学与自然之间的破坏性碰撞的努力，还是两者兼而有之？