Foundations of Meta-technics

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University Press of America, 2004 - Broj stranica: 191
The Foundations of Meta-Technics is a rigorous phenomenological analysis of the transcendence of anthropomorphic, anthropocentric, and geocentric technology in terms of the new meta-technical forms of space and time. The book draws out the epistemological and ontological implications of an emerging meta-technical supernature in which space and time are perceived by trans-human means and from trans-terrestrial perspectives. This book is especially valuable to philosophers in either the phenomenological or continental tradition.
 

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PRINCIPLES
1
VARIANTS OF METATECHNICS
2
UTENSILS AND INSTRUMENTS
4
ANTHROPOMORPHISM ANTHROPOCENTRISM AND GEOCENTRISM
6
EPIGENESIS OF METATECHNICS
9
NOOTECHNY AND DEMIURGY
13
SPACE AND TIME
17
POSITIONS AND SPATIALITY
24
OPTICOLUMINIC SOURCES OF SOME ONTOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
89
SKETCH OF A METATECHNICAL ONTOLOGY
90
NATURE AND SUPERNATURE
93
METATECHNICAL SUPERNATURE
95
THE NATURAL BEING OF HUMANITY AND SUPERNATURAL TELEONOMY
98
METATECHNICAL ANTHROPOGONY
103
OPTICOLUMINIC LANGUAGE AND METATECHNICAL MATHESIS
105
ANTHROPOCENTRIC ETHICS AND THE TRANSMUTATION OF VALUES
108

RATIONALITY AND TRANSRATIONALITY
30
OPTICOLUMINIC TIME
34
TIME AND DURATION
38
TIME AND CONSCIOUSNESS
40
TIME AND EXISTENCE
43
TIME AND THE FOURDIMENSIONAL CONTINUUM
49
TIME AND METATECHNICS
53
THE METATECHNICAL CONSTRUCTION OF TIME
56
EPISTEMOLOGY AND ONTOLOGY
65
THINKING AND METATECHNICS
69
ONTOLOGYAND METATECHNICS
76
OPTICOSPATIAL ROOTS OF THE NOTION OF BEING
77
THE DOUBLE HORIZON OF NOTHINGNESS
86
GEOCENTRIC STATE AND GALACTIC STATE
116
FROM HUMAN TO TRANSHUMAN GOD
125
NOTES
129
ERNESTO MAYZ VALLENILLA
135
NAME INDEX
137
ANALYTICAL INDEX
139
METATECHNICAL HORIZONS
159
ADVICE TO THE READER
161
ANTITECHNICS AND LOVE
163
ECOLOGY AND METATECHNICS
173
PERPLEXITIES AND CHALLENGES
181
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