Technē and Indigenous Exosomatic Memory: Heidegger, Stiegler, and Cutting the Gordian Knot of Modernity

Review of Michael A. Peters, Petar Jandrić, & Sarah Hayes (Eds.). (2022). Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies

“…Authors problematizing how digital technologies legitimize certain epistemologies and delegitimize others begin to answer my second question on how biodigitalism affects our logic. In their chapter, 'Technē and Indigenous Exosomatic Memory: Heidegger, Stiegler, and Cutting the Gordian Knot of Modernity', Irwin and White (2022) deconstruct northern modernities that use technologies to epistemologically justify the commodification of biology from cellular-to-planetary levels. Within the Anthropocene, accelerating cyber technologies too frequently distances us from each other and from the rest of nature.…”

From slogans to frameworks: Embedded values or postdigital positionality?

“…This data-driven rationality is supported by infrastructures of knowledge production that are situated mainly in Western countries and based on an economic system that supports capital accumulation and growth. This epistemic dominance becomes reflected and reinforced across research agendas and funding models (Ricaurte 2019: 351), resulting in a global model of knowledge capitalism (Peters et al, 2020a; 2020b) and also in new reconfigurations of traditional colonisation (Irwin and White 2022). Therefore, whilst slogans and values may appear to be created to aid institutional clarity of direction and purpose, there are issues relating to reinforcement of the dominant Western model on which such values are based.…”