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Noumenal Technology: Reflections on the Incredible Tininess of Nano

Nordmann, Alfred
eds.: Schummer, Joachim ; Baird, Davis (2017)
Noumenal Technology: Reflections on the Incredible Tininess of Nano.
In: Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society, 2006
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Item Type: Book Section
Type of entry: Secondary publication
Title: Noumenal Technology: Reflections on the Incredible Tininess of Nano
Language: English
Date: 30 November 2017
Place of Publication: Singapore
Year of primary publication: 2006
Place of primary publication: Singapore
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing
Book Title: Nanotechnology Challenges: Implications for Philosophy, Ethics and Society
Abstract:

Noumena are distinct from phenomena. While the latter are the things as they appear to us and as we experience them, the noumena are the philosophically infamous and mysterious things-in- themselves.2 The “noumenal technology” referred to in the title of this paper would therefore appear to be a contradiction in terms: Technology is a human creation that involves human knowledge and serves human needs; this firmly roots it in phenomena and it appears absurd to speak of technology that exists beyond human perception and experience among the things-in-themselves. The noumenal world is nature uncomprehended, unexperienced, and uncontrolled; it is nature in the sense of uncultivated, uncanny otherness. By speaking of “noumenal technology” this paper argues that some technologies are retreating from human access, perception, and control, and thus assume the character of this uncanny otherness. Three seemingly disparate reflections prepare the formulation of this thesis, and the remaining sections work to establish at least its plausibility.

Status: Postprint
URN: urn:nbn:de:tuda-tuprints-69935
Classification DDC: 000 Generalities, computers, information > 000 Generalities
100 Philosophy and psychology > 100 Philosophy
500 Science and mathematics > 500 Science
600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 600 Technology
600 Technology, medicine, applied sciences > 620 Engineering and machine engineering
Divisions: 02 Department of History and Social Science > Institute of Philosophy
Date Deposited: 30 Nov 2017 15:21
Last Modified: 29 Sep 2023 07:11
URI: https://tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de/id/eprint/6993
PPN: 424493616
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