A Conversation on Art and Cosmotechnics, Part 1 - Journal #124 February 2022 - e-flux

Brian Kuan Wood and Yuk Hui discuss art and cosmotechnics.

Brian Kuan Wood: Let’s start with a bit of background before we go into your new book, Art and Cosmotechnics—because the book, in turning its focus to art and aesthetics, builds upon some concepts that you’ve previously elaborated as a philosopher. The most obvious of these concepts—which is also in the title—was the focus of your 2016 book The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics. Let’s begin by situating ourselves around the meaning of “cosmotechnics,” also to clarify it against certain misunderstandings that may have arisen in the time since you wrote The…

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