Technophany

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New Special Issue: "Computionational Creativity" (Vol. 3 No. 2)

2025-07-03

Technophany is delighted to announce the completion and closing of its latest Special Issue "Computational Creativity," edited by Anna Longo (https://technophany.philosophyandtechnology.network/issue/view/1744),  a compelling exploration into the intersections of "computational" creative outputs. Through this inquiry, contributors have challenged us to reconsider not only the boundaries of machine intelligence, but the very meaning of creative thought in a post-human context.

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2025: Online First
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Technophany publishes on an "Online First" basis throughout the year, meaning final revision articles prior to their inclusion into the journal's yearly "General Issue" or guest edited "Special Issue" are attributed a unique DOI number and placed into their appropiate section allowing articles to be cited as soon as they are published.

Published: 2024-02-27

General Articles

  • When Philosophy Becomes Cybernetics and Cybernetics Becomes Philosophy Luhmann's Systems Theory as the Foundation for Twenty-first Century Cybernetics

    Pedro Cárcamo-Petridis
    1-22

    This article examines the intersection of philosophy and cybernetics, proposing Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory as a crucial foundation for renewed cybernetics in the twenty- first century. By revisiting Norbert Wiener’s foundational insights and reinterpreting key cybernetic principles, it explores how Luhmann’s second-order observation and the concept of meaning challenge the traditional distinctions between human consciousness and technology. The paper argues that Luhmann’s approach not only addresses concerns of dehumanization in a technologically advanced society but also offers a dynamic framework for rethinking human self-perception and social organization without denying it cybernetic foundations. This exploration highlights the potential of systems theory to redefine the philosophical significance of cybernetics, providing tools for understanding the evolving interactions among humans, machines, and society in modernity.

  • Dialectics, Technoscience and Non-linearity The Relevance of Hegelian Dialectics for Philosophy of Technology Now

    Natalia Juchniewicz, Hub Zwart
    1-20

    Our article aims to analyse the significance of dialectics for philosophical reflection on technology. Drawing on the philosophy of Hegel, this article first of all reconstructs the progressive artefactualisation of thought and action, by indicating the transition from labour through tool use to the emergence of intelligent machines in the field of practice, secondly, by indicating the importance of dialectical thinking for the media theory, and thirdly, by pointing out that dialectics delivers both a conceptual and a practical understanding of the possibilities of emergence for cognitive technologies we encounter today (AI and the noosphere). Dialectics captures these dynamics in a non-linear manner, offering a conceptual grounding for addressing developments that are both universal and concrete, offering Hegelian dialectics as a dynamical method of thinking about technological progress without falling into schematism and simplifications.

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