Book Symposium on Homo sapiens Technologicus: Philosophie de la Technologie Contemporaine, Philosophie de la Sagesse Contemporaine

摘要

I met Michel Puech for the first time in 2008 at a workshop entitled 'Artificial Environments.' In an interdisciplinary Science and Technology Studies (STS) spirit, this 2-day event at Roskilde University gathered philosophers and sociologists of science and technology, as well as architecture theorists. Being rather new to the STS-field at that point, I had read the main authors of the Anglo-Saxon tradition, including Andrew Pickering and Peter-Paul Verbeek, who were present at the workshop. And sure, I had acquainted myself with the work of the French masters such as Bruno Latour, Gilbert Simondon and Bernard Stiegler. I had never heard of the French philosopher of technology Michel Puech, though. But there he was, starting off his lecture by saying: 'I state here very directly and frankly what I think.' According to Puech's website, which provides public access to all his intellectual-academic and popular-material, this was the first time he pitched his book Homo sapiens Technologicus to a non-francophone academic audience.