Summary
Since modern times, the artificial/humanized world constructed by science and technology has gradually become a cocoon for human existence. The imagination of the artificial world determines the meaning and future direction of human civilization. In the eyes of philosophers who are concerned about the existence and value of human beings, the fundamental reason why the innovation of modern technology has repeatedly shown cultural lags is the fact that modern technology lacks the allocation of value: human beings are treated as a completely natural existence, and technology deals with human life processes like all other processes. Thus, the interweaving of progressivism and rationalism, and the realization of power through technology are essentially two sides of the same coin.
It is not difficult to see that from Martin Heidegger's "Gestell" to Bernard Stiegler's "a loss of individuation" in the super-industrial era, the price paid for modern technology means that with the evolution of technology, the repressive power relationship has become increasingly prominent. On the one hand, the entanglement of knowledge and power makes modern science and technology evolve into technoscience based on the world image of science. In this way, the pragmatic manufacturing, control, and governance of nature and man through science and technology have become an exclusive priority in modern society. On the other hand, in the process from automation to intelligence, machines and media based on information and communication technology have not only brought about "assembly lines", "global villages" and "the Anthropocene", but also goes deep along with the layers of analog, digital, and data, making people's biological and social behaviors and characteristics the objects of real-time capture and in-depth mining of technology.
From data transparency without privacy to the widespread use of undifferentiated face recognition, in the face of the repeated provocations of the rapid growth of technology on the value of humans, mankind is experiencing a spiritual decline that is more serious indifference and burnout than that in the scientific age a century ago. How will the sapiens of technology wield the glow stick of philosophy to relieve the curse of technology? … For this reason, philosophy should transform from a machine of thought to a machine of social imagination, and transform its speculation on biopolitics and spiritual politics in the technological age into a perceptual and experiential social-technical imagination or anti-social-technical imagination. By creatively connecting with art, design, film and television, and games, it reshapes the value of man in the man-made world and lays the foundation for a desirable future of human science and technology in terms of thoughts and values.