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Article Excerpt
Fix(at)ing Technicity. Arthur Bradley and Louis Armand, Eds. Technicity. Prague: Litteraria Pragensia, 2006. 375 pp.[euro] 12.00 pbk.
* The concept of technicity promulgated in this collection of critical essays assumes that technology (low or high, hard or soft, social or material) is not simply an extension of the body that serves no ontological function, as it has generally been perceived in philosophy since Aristotle (i.e., techne, an impartial object whose status derives solely from how it is put to use). Here, technicity accounts for a reconstruction and, to varying degrees, a pathology of the human condition by its numerous prostheses insofar as "we exist pros-thetically, that is to say, by putting ourselves outside ourselves" (3). In the twenty-first century maelstrom of electronic media, cybernetics, technocapitalism, and science-fiction-made-flesh, editors Bradley and Armand argue that it is essential to re-think technicity in this vein so as to come to terms with the vicissitudes of contemporary subjectivity and selfhood. They lament the term's many definitions. "It is variously defined today as everything...
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