Yuk Hui May 2026

Here’s a short, interesting story about how his thinking developed:

This led him to propose — the idea that every culture's technology is inseparable from its moral and cosmological understanding. So, for example, ancient Chinese clockwork wasn't just about measuring time "accurately" in the Western sense; it was about aligning human activity with cosmic rhythms. yuk hui

While studying in Germany, Hui noticed that Western philosophy of technology (from Heidegger to Stiegler) often treated technology as universal — something that confronts humanity in the same way everywhere. But Hui, coming from a background in both engineering and philosophy, began questioning: Why don't Chinese traditions have a single word for "technology" that matches the Greek techne? Here’s a short, interesting story about how his