Following a symposium titled  Technology is History (https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/214106/symposium-technology-is-history/), in association with the exhibition "One Hand Clapping" at the Guggenheim, curator Xiaoyu Weng and Brian Kuan Wood join Yuk Hui to discuss his work. 

The conversation was followed by a talk by Yuk Hui at e-flux titled “What Begins After the End of Enlightenment?” https://www.e-flux.com/program/218683/e-flux-lectures-yuk-hui-what-begins-after-the-end-of-enlightenment/

Text mentioned in the conversation:  "30 Years after Les Immatériaux - Art, Science and Theory" (https://meson.press/books/30-years-after-les-immateriaux/).&nbsp; 

Yuk Hui is a philosopher based in Berlin. He is the author of three monographs: "On the Existence of Digital Objects" (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), "The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics" (Urbanomic, 2016), and "Recursivity and Contingency" (Rowman and Littlefield International, Spring 2019).  Read Yuk Hui in e-flux journal: https://www.e-flux.com/journal/?q=person_82704.

Xiaoyu Weng is The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art at the Guggenheim. &nbsp; 

Brian Kuan Wood is a founding editor of e-flux journal.

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