Tools of the Trade - philosophy of technology (Yuk Hui)

Philosopher Yuk Hui, in a conversation with Daniel Birnbaum, argues that a philosophy of technology and the post-European condition require resisting both techno-skepticism and transhumanist techno-determinism, with imagination guiding which technologies are invented and used. Hui says his book Post-Europe (2024) is less about fighting Eurocentrism than asking what philosophy means today, and that globalization has ended as one phase of planetarization. He links nostalgic nationalism to the "Overcoming Modernity" movement and to Heidegger and Dugin. Hui also says the danger of Silicon Valley-style transhumanism is that it erodes imagination, hope and belief.