DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/R5CN71VS
Self-Writing Machines: Technology and the Question of the Self
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Abstract
In order to show that technology mediates between man and machine, I will discuss in this text a literally other or alter-knowledge system that also heavily relied on self-writing machines: spiritualism. Contrary to scientific knowledge systems, in spiritualism the unforeseen, the singular, and the disturbance is what counts as, and produces, significance. That is the reason why alter-concepts such as spiritualism, esotericism, or occultism are not typically recognized as innovative agencies in the history of knowledge. Hence, what is needed to raise the question of a non-hegemonic knowledge production is a symmetrical approach in the history of technology.
Recommended Citation
Kassung, Christian
(2015)
"Self-Writing Machines: Technology and the Question of the Self,"
communication +1:
Vol. 4:
Iss.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cpo/vol4/iss1/5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/R5CN71VS
