In this book, arko Pai offers a radical rethinking of aesthetics, ontology, and the technosphere in the age of digital transformation and posthumanism. Challenging classical metaphysics, Pai explores how cybernetics, autopoiesis, and visualization reshape our understanding of art, the body, and Being itself. Through a synthesis of philosophy, contemporary art theory, and technoscience, the book argues that the technosphere is not merely a technological environment but a new ontological conditionone that redefines freedom, embodiment, and the human in terms of synthetic cognition and algorithmic life.

Spanning topics from chaos and entropy to transgenic art and the ethics of war, Pai constructs a compelling vision of the posthuman condition, where singularity replaces God and ontology dissolves into code. This book is essential reading for scholars of digital aesthetics, visual studies, posthumanism, and contemporary philosophy, offering a provocative framework for understanding art and existence in the era of planetary computation.

Reframes aesthetics through the lens of cybernetics, autopoiesis, and technoscientific ontology Explores the posthuman condition via visual studies, transhumanism, and digital embodiment Connects art theory with philosophical reflections on chaos, entropy, and technological singularity

Autorentext

arko Pai is a retired full professor at the School of Fashion Design, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where he taught aesthetics, fashion, media theory, and visual studies. His previous Palgrave books include White Holes and the Visualization of the Body (2019) and The Return of Totalitarianism (2022).

Klappentext

In this book, arko Pai offers a radical rethinking of aesthetics, ontology, and the technosphere in the age of digital transformation and posthumanism. Challenging classical metaphysics, Pai explores how cybernetics, autopoiesis, and visualization reshape our understanding of art, the body, and Being itself. Through a synthesis of philosophy, contemporary art theory, and technoscience, the book argues that the technosphere is not merely a technological environment but a new ontological condition—one that redefines freedom, embodiment, and the human in terms of synthetic cognition and algorithmic life. Spanning topics from chaos and entropy to transgenic art and the ethics of war, Pai constructs a compelling vision of the posthuman condition, where singularity replaces God and ontology dissolves into code. This book is essential reading for scholars of digital aesthetics, visual studies, posthumanism, and contemporary philosophy, offering a provocative framework for understanding art and existence in the era of planetary computation.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Theses on the Technosphere as the End of the Cosmic Epoch.- 2. Homo Kybernetes: From Onto-genesis to the Posthuman Condition.- 3. The Technosphere and Nihilism: Autopoiesis as the End of Metaphysics.- 4. The Body and The Technosphere: Beyond Phenomenology And Its Conceptual Matrix.- 5. How else can we think about Art? Figurality, Aisthesis, and Visualization.- 6. On The Navigation Of Uncertainties: Chaos, Entropy, and Technological Singularity.- 7. War, The Technosphere, and the Question of Evil: Three Paradigms of War.- 8. Freedom As An Event: Groundlessness As The Openness Of The World.- 9. Conclusion.