caa a22 4500 463161165 CHVBK 20180406164748.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20071201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10746-007-9072-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10746-007-9072-7 Tomasi Alessandro Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave., Alger Hall 223, 02908-1991, Providence, RI, USA aut Technology and Intimacy in the Philosophy of Georges Bataille [Elektronische Daten] [Alessandro Tomasi] The goal of this article is to examine the nature of technology in view of Georges Bataille's notion of intimacy. After providing a summary of Bataille's critique of technology, I offer my response and show that a technological device can reach such a degree of familiarity that it becomes indistinguishable from our psychophysical personality. In this sense, we experience technology not as instrumentation, but in intimacy. The old theory of technology as organ-projection is, therefore, reinterpreted to produce a theory of technology that includes the technological process in its entirety, from the moment of invention and innovation, involving a movement of transcendence and objectification, to the moment of intimacy. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2007 Bataille nationallicence Intimacy nationallicence Self nationallicence Technology nationallicence Unknowing nationallicence Human Studies Springer Netherlands 30/4(2007-12-01), 411-428 0163-8548 30:4<411 2007 30 10746 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9072-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-007-9072-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Tomasi Alessandro Rhode Island College, 600 Mount Pleasant Ave., Alger Hall 223, 02908-1991, Providence, RI, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Studies Springer Netherlands 30/4(2007-12-01), 411-428 0163-8548 30:4<411 2007 30 10746 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer