Essays and conversations on politics, philosophy, and technology that interrogate our cultural condition since the end of the Enlightenment.
One Hundred Years of Crisis is an anthology of the influential philosopher of technology Yuk Hui’s recent essays and conversations for e-flux journal. Moving between technology and modernity, art and politics, artificial intelligence and planetary thought, these texts follow the evolving forms of crisis that have accompanied modernity. From the emergence of the “neo-reactionaries” to the advent of ChatGPT, and the “auto-immunological” crisis of Covid-19, Hui asks how we came to inhabit the present and, more importantly, how we might think beyond the horizons that produced it.
Taken together, this collection bears witness not only to a decade of thinking on philosophy and technology, but also a sustained search for other ways of imagining technology, history, and the future since the end of the Enlightenment. The collection serves as a complement to his longer academic monographs: as he notes in the book’s postface, “The flexibility afforded by e-flux journal allowed me to mix irony with provocation and to write in a more direct and polemical manner.” The longer conversations also present a rare opportunity to witness how he engages with the larger critical discourse ignited by his work.
Hui’s writings will be of relevance to many overlapping communities, including technologists, media studies scholars, art theorists, curators, artists, and political activists engaged in and around the field of technology.
Contributors
Geert Lovink, Barry Schwabsky, and Brian Kuan Wood.
Co-published by e-flux journal
