My research focuses on (i) the question of technology in the history of philosophy and in contemporary thought, and (ii) the question of philosophy according to the contemporary digital technological condition. I am currently working on a monograph on the question of the planetary.
Professor (Philosophy of Technology and Media), School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, 2022-
Visiting Professor (Philosophy and Technology), China Academy of Art, 2015-
Lecturer, Institute of Philosophy and Art, Leuphana University Lüneburg, 2012—2019
Juror, Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture, 2020-
Convenor, Research Network for Philosophy and Technology, 2014-
Leuphana University Lüneburg, Habilitation (Philosophy), 2020
Goldsmiths College London, PhD (Philosophy), 2011
Selected Publications (Books only):
Monographs
- On the Existence of Digital Objects, pref. Bernard Stiegler, University of Minnesota Press, 2016. ISBN9780816698905
- 论数码物的存在, trans. Wannan Li (李婉楠), Shanghai: Shanghai People’s Publishing House, 2019. ISBN9787208154346 (Chinese)
- 디지털적 대상의 존재에 대하여, trans. 조형준, 이철규, 임완철, Seoul: 새물결, 2021. ISBN9788955594317 (Korean)
- The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics, Falmouth: Urbanomic/MIT, 2017
- 중국에서의 기술에 관한 물음, trans. Hyung-Joon Jo, 새물결, 2019. ISBN9788955594171 (Korean)
- Die Frage nach der Technik in China. Ein Essay über die Kosmotechnik, trans. David Frühauf, Berlin: Matthes und Seitz, 2020. ISBN9783957578501 (German)
- La Question de la technique en Chine, pref. Junius Frey, trans. Alex Taillard, Paris: Éditions Divergences, 2021. ISBN9791097088354 (French)
- La Question della Tecnologia in Cina, trans. Sara Baranzoni, Rome: Produzioni Nero, 2021. ISBN9788880560937 (Italian)
- 论中国的技术问题—宇宙技术初论, trans. 卢睿洋, 苏子滢, Hangzhou: China Academy of Art, 2021. ISBN9787550317215 (Chinese)
- 中国における技術への問い──宇宙技芸試論, trans. Kohei Ise, Tokyo: Genron, 2022. ISBN 9784907188467 (Japanese)
- Вопрос о технике в Китае, trans. Денис Шалагинов, Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2023. ISBN 9785911036379 (Russian)
- Recursivity and Contingency, pref. Howard Caygill, London: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019.
- Рекурсивность и контингентность, trans. Dmitry Kralechkin, Moscow: V-A-C, 2020. ISBN9785907183124 (Russian)
- 递归与偶然, trans. 苏子滢, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2020. ISBN9784791774463 (Chinese)
- 再帰性と偶然性, trans. 原島大輔, Tokyo: Seidosha, 2022. ISBN9787576004694 (Japanese)
- Rekursywność I Przygodność, trans. Joanna Bednarek, Katowice: University of Silesia, 2022. ISBN9788322642429 (Polish)
- Recursividad y Contingencia, trans. Maximiliano Gonnet, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra Editora, 2022. ISBN9789874862365 (Spanish)
- Art and Cosmotechnics, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2021, 2022. ISBN9781517909543
- 艺术与宇宙技术, trans. 苏子滢, Shanghai: East China Normal University Press, 2022. ISBN9787576031539 (Chinese)
Anthologies
- Fragmentar el futuro: ensayos sobre tecnodiversidad, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2020. ISBN9789871622894 (Spanish)
- Tecnodiversidade, trans. Humberto do Amaral, Sao Paolo: Ubu, 2021. ISBN9786586497229 (Portuguese)
- Teknodiversitet, trans. Anders Dunker, Oslo: Existenz Forlag, 2022. ISBN9788269190991 (Norwegian)
- Pensare la Contingenza. La rinascita della filosofia dopo la cibernetica, Rome: Castelvecchi, 2022. ISBN9788832907216 (Italian)
- Technodiverzita, Prague: UMPRUM, 2022. ISBN 9788088308546 (Czech)
Edited volumes
- Philosophy after Automation, Special Issue of Philosophy Today(Volume 65, Issue 2, Spring 2021)
- On Cosmotechnics, Special Issue of Angelaki, Vol 25 Issue 4 (August 2020)
- 30 Years after Les Immatériaux: Art, Science and Theory, Meson Press, 2015. ISBN9783957960306
- Cosmotechnics For a Renewed Concept of Technology in the Anthropocene, Routledge, 2021. ISBN 9780367769369