Ontologies refreshed:
the Manifest Image Vs the Scientific Image
“Thing” power
- Thing-power materialism endows inanimate things with vitality, namely the ability to produce effects on other beings including human. (Bennett)
- Assemblage theory
- Cyborg
人與物的新結連
/Donna Haraway: “A Cyborg Manifesto” (1984)
The late twentieth century is a mythic time:
The boundaries
between human and animal,
between organism and machine, and
between physical and nonphysical are breached,
and thus “we” have become hybrids, namely cyborgs
/Jane Bennett: “The Force of Things: Steps towards an Ecology of Matter”
“Thing-power” — a phenomenology of “vitality, willfulness, recalcitrance possessed by nonhuman entities and forces” (347).
Two properties of “thing-power”:
(1)assemblage thinking 裝配、組合:
individuals including human and nonhuman, associate to form a whole à produce new form of agency…
Assemblage thinking emphasizes the part-whole relation.
(2) the ability of self-organizing.
/ (Daniel Dennett) (Wilfrid Sellars)
ONTOLOGY
The Manifest Image that could change over time.
The Manifest Image of humanness is very different from the
Scientific Image
“What is your ontology?”
= What are the set of things one believe to exist?
// Does your episteme include … … …?
// the basis to reconfigure our episteme to for existence and to generate experience
