PDF-[BOOK]-Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

What is a technical object At the beginning of Western philosophy Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest and manmade objects which did not have the source of their own production within themselves This book the first of three volumes revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential distinct temporality and dynamics of its ownThe Aristotelian concept persisted in one form or another until Marx who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics Lodged between mechanics and biology a technical entity became a complex of heterogeneous forces In a parallel development while industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social organization technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical questioning Philosophy was for the first time faced with a world in which technical expansion was so widespread that science was becoming more and more subject to the field of instrumentality with its ends determined by the imperatives of economic struggle or war and with its epistemic status changing accordingly The power that emerged from this new relation was unleashed in the course of the two world warsWorking his way through the history of the Aristotelian assessment of technics the author engages the ideas of a wide range of thinkersRousseau Husserl and Heidegger the paleoontologist LeroiGourhan the anthropologists Vernant and Detienne the sociologists Weber and Habermas and the systems analysts Maturana and Varela. 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It not only represents an important intellectual step in discussions of art—in its rigor and in its having refreshingly set itself the task of creating a set of distinctions for determining what counts as art that could be valid for those creating as well as those receiving art works—but it also represents an important advance in systems theory.Returning to the eighteenth-century notion of aesthetics as pertaining to the knowledge of the senses, Luhmann begins with the idea that all art, including literature, is rooted in perception. He insists on the radical incommensurability between psychic systems (perception) and social systems (communication). Art is a special kind of communication that uses perceptions instead of language. It operates at the boundary between the social system and consciousness in ways that profoundly irritate communication while remaining strictly internal to the social.In seven densely argued chapters, Luhmann develops this basic premise in great historical and empirical detail. Framed by the general problem of art\'s status as a social system, each chapter elaborates, in both its synchronic and diachronic dimensions, a particular aspect of this problem. The consideration of art within the context of a theory of second-order observation leads to a reconceptualization of aesthetic form. The remaining chapters explore the question of the system\'s code, its function, and its evolution, concluding with an analysis of self-description.Art as a Social System draws on a vast body of scholarship, combining the results of three decades of research in the social sciences, phenomenology, evolutionary biology, cybernetics, and information theory with an intimate knowledge of art history, literature, aesthetics, and contemporary literary theory. The book also engages virtually every major theorist of art and aesthetics from Baumgarten to Derrida. What is a technical object? At the beginning of Western philosophy, Aristotle contrasted beings formed by nature, which had within themselves a beginning of movement and rest, and man-made objects, which did not have the source of their own production within themselves. This book, the first of three volumes, revises the Aristotelian argument and develops an innovative assessment whereby the technical object can be seen as having an essential, distinct temporality and dynamics of its own.The Aristotelian concept persisted, in one form or another, until Marx, who conceived of the possibility of an evolution of technics. Lodged between mechanics and biology, a technical entity became a complex of heterogeneous forces. In a parallel development, while industrialization was in the process of overthrowing the contemporary order of knowledge as well as contemporary social organization, technology was acquiring a new place in philosophical questioning. Philosophy was for the first time faced with a world in which technical expansion was so widespread that science was becoming more and more subject to the field of instrumentality, with its ends determined by the imperatives of economic struggle or war, and with its epistemic status changing accordingly. The power that emerged from this new relation was unleashed in the course of the two world wars.Working his way through the history of the Aristotelian assessment of technics, the author engages the ideas of a wide range of thinkers—Rousseau, Husserl, and Heidegger, the paleo-ontologist Leroi-Gourhan, the anthropologists Vernant and Detienne, the sociologists Weber and Habermas, and the systems analysts Maturana and Varela. 2022-23 2022-23 17 3.Fill in the blanks.(a)The Tropic of Capricorn is located at _________________.(b)The Standard Meridian of India is ____________________.(c)The 0° Meridian is also known as ______