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(2007) Human Studies 30 (4).
The goal of this article is to examine the nature of technology in view of Georges Bataille's notion of intimacy. After providing a summary of Bataille's critique of technology, I offer my response and show that a technological device can reach such a degree of familiarity that it becomes indistinguishable from our psychophysical personality. In this sense, we experience technology not as instrumentation, but in intimacy. The old theory of technology as organ-projection is, therefore, reinterpreted to produce a theory of technology that includes the technological process in its entirety, from the moment of invention and innovation, involving a movement of transcendence and objectification, to the moment of intimacy.
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DOI: 10.1007/s10746-007-9072-7
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Tomasi, A. (2007). Technology and intimacy in the philosophy of Georges Bataille. Human Studies 30 (4), pp. 411-428.
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