The Technoscientific Turn of Philosophy: The Age of Cybernetics

By Žarko Paić

In this book, Zarko Paic offers a radical rethinking of aesthetics, ontology, and the technosphere in the age of digital transformation and posthumanism. Challenging classical metaphysics, Paic explores how cybernetics, autopoiesis, and visualization reshape our understanding of art, the body, and Being itself. Through a synthesis of philosophy, contemporary art theory, and technoscience, the book argues that the technosphere is not merely a technological environment but a new ontological condition--one that redefines freedom, embodiment, and the human in terms of synthetic cognition and algorithmic life.

Spanning topics from chaos and entropy to transgenic art and the ethics of war, Paic constructs a compelling vision of the posthuman condition, where singularity replaces God and ontology dissolves into code. This book is essential reading for scholars of digital aesthetics, visual studies, posthumanism, and contemporary philosophy, offering a provocative framework for understanding art and existence in the era of planetary computation.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3032210801
• ISBN13: 9783032210807
• Release Date: May 2026
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.3"