Cosmotechnics and Empires
Yuk Hui who is the author of Cosmotechnics, proposes an idea of technology that tries to bridge the gap between technical expertise and having a cosmological sense of one's place in the world. In effect, it tries to sacralize one's relationship with machinery and technology.
However, it remains to be seen whether cosmotechnics can evolve beyond just a niche interest of those who are privacy conscious and already aware of the metaphysical implications of the hyperdigital and data harvesting decay of American Empire.
Rather, the task for cosmotechnics is whether it can fully sustain itself as a alternative civilization on paradigm to the one that we currently have, which is premised on big tech surveillance, corporate espionage, and state-sponsored spyware.
If cosmotechnics indeed offers an alternative paradigm to the Leviathan-like organism which is big tech, then it has to be grounded in local sacred cosmologies and local ideas about vicegerency and custodianship, which figures prominently in the Islamicate ethical traditions.