The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics

INTRODUCTION
§1 The Becoming of Prometheus
§2 Cosmos, Cosmology, and Cosmotechnics
§3 Technological Rupture and Metaphysical Unity
§4 Modernity, Modernisation, and Technicity
§5 What Is the \'Ontological Turn\' For?
§6 Some Notes on Method
PART 1: IN SEARCH OF TECHNOLOGICAL THOUGHT IN CHINA
§7 Dao and Cosmos: The Principle of the Moral
§8 Techne as Violence
§9 Harmony and the Heaven
§10 Dao and Qi: Virtue Contra Freedom
§10.1 Qi and Dao in Daoism: Pao Ding\'s Knife
§10.2 Qi and Dao in Confucianism: Restoring the Li
§10.3 Remarks on Stoic and Daoist Cosmotechnics
§11 Qi-Dao as Resistance: The Gu Wen Movement in the Tang Period
§12 The Materialist Theory of Ch\'i in Early Neo-Confucianism
§13 Qi-Dao in Song Yingxing\'s Encyclopaedia During the Ming Dynasty
§14 Zhang Xuecheng and the Historicisation of Dao
§15 The Rupture of Qi and Dao after the Opium Wars
§16 The Collapse of Qi-Dao
§16.1 Carsun Chang: Science and the Problem of Life
§16.2 The Manifesto for a China-Oriented Cultural Development, and Its Critics
§17 Needham\'s Question
§17.1 The Organic Mode of Thought and the Laws of Nature
§18 Mou Zongsan\'s Response
§18.1 Mou Zongsan\'s Appropriation of Kant\'s Intellectual Intuition
§18.2 The Self-Negation of Liangzhi in Mou Zongsan
§19 The Dialectics of Nature and the End of Xing Er Shang Xue
PART 2: MODERNITY AND TECHNOLOGICAL CONSCIOUSNESS
§20 Geometry and Time
§20.1 The Absence of Geometry in Ancient China
§20.2 Geometrisation and Temporalisation
§20.3 Geometry and Cosmological Specificity
§21 Modernity and Technological Consciousness
§22 The Memory of Modernity
§23 Nihilism and Modernity
§24 Overcoming Modernity
§25 Anamnesis of the Postmodern
§26 The Dilemma of Homecoming
§27 Sinofuturism in the Anthropocene
§28 For Another World History