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UNK RUS 1-5 35613414600 0000-0003-3502-9324 Department of Mechanical Engineering, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg Altenbach Holm
Universitätsplatz 2, 39112 Magdeburg, Germany
 Scientific Language – A Comparative Analysis of English, German and Russian This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language considers the development of scientific language in engineering. This development is influenced mainly by developments in industry and, in general, in society. With the help of some examples it is discussed how precise are English, German and Russian with respect to some expressions in the field of mechanics and engineering in general. The author is not a linguist and the given conclusions are personal impressions and not based in science. On the other hand, maybe the presented examples stimulate further research concerning the development and accuracy of scientific terms. The focus here is on three languages: English, German, and Russian. Surely, however, there are more examples, also with respect to other languages. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.01 Scientific language; Engineering; Mechanics; English; German; Russian https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.1/ 1-5.pdf
UNK RUS 6-11 0000-0003-1074-8023 Oranim Academic College of Education Aronin Larisa Multilingualism in the Age of Technology This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language builds on the observation that both humans and animals have a communication system but only humans are multilingual. Likewise, humans and animals use tools but only humans develop technology. The multilingual and technological conditions of humankind are undergoing profound transformations in the age of globalization and under pressure of a pandemic. Since these transformations implicate human languages and technologies in tandem, it is important to study them in tandem as well. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.02 Multilingualism Dominant language constellation Multimodality Technology Communication https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.2/ 6-11.pdf
UNK RUS 12-15 0000-0002-7216-2354 Université Paris, 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Bensaude-Vincent
17, rue de la Sorbonne, 75231 Paris cedex 05, France
 Connecting the World and the Word: The Hard and the Soft in Michel Serres’s philosophy This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language builds on work in the philosophy of chemistry and materials science. Like these sciences, it begins in the middle of things and explores the condition of the mixt which precedes the scientific interest in purification. – The essay discusses the difference between the hard and the soft in the writings of Michel Serres. In the real world, there is nothing like hard, brute matter on one side, and soft information, codes, on the other. Not only the body is a system producing language out of noise and information, but everything in the world, whether natural or artificial, is emitting information. We live in an intricate mixt of hard and soft 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.03 Michel Serres Technics and technology Material cost of symbolic code Entropic and informational technology the Mixt https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.3/ 12-15.pdf
UNK RUS 16-21 J-9548-2017 57210142445 0000-0002-7956-4647 Department of Social Science, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University Bylieva Daria
St. Petersburg, Russia
 The Language of Human-Machine Communication This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language discusses the problem of finding an optimal form of human-machine communication. In the ongoing search for an alien mind, humanity seems to find it not in the infinities of space, but in its own environment. Changes in the language of human-machine interaction made it understandable not only to trained specialists but to every household. In the course of time, home appliances and devices have developed their language abilities even more and reached a very advanced level – by way of status indicators, displays, emergency sound and color signals. The transition to computer-assisted communication brought about a great diversity of human expression forms translated into the discrete digital language of technologies. According to some prognoses, the first human-robot marriage might be registered in the future, however, such a union is not the only possible human-machine alliance 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.04 Technology Language Communication Robot https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.4/ 16-21.pdf
UNK RUS 22-27 22233758600 0000-0001-9576-1002 Philosophy of Department, University of Vienna Coeckelbergh Mark
Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna, Austria
 When Machines Talk: A Brief Analysis of Some Relations between Technology and Language This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language builds on sustained discussions of the relation of the (philosophy of) technology and the (philosophy of) language, for example in the suggestion that there are “technology games” in analogy to “language games” as forms of life. In light of recent technological developments, this essay takes another step by way of distinguishing three types of interaction between language and technology as one considers technology as a language author, language user, and shaper of a form of life. This reflects back on what technology itself is and does. Technology is deeply integrated in, and interwoven with, our human world and our human thinking, which is always also a world permeated with, and enabled by, language. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.05 Avant-garde art Language creation Constructivism Artistic and social utopia Viktor Shklovsky https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.5/ 22-27.pdf
UNK RUS 28-33 0000-0001-5286-4634 Saint-Petersburg Stieglitz Academy of Art and Design Ershova
Saint Petersburg, Russia
 Language of Art as Language of Utopia This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language looks at language and technology coming together in avant-garde art, Russian futurism and constructivism. When words become a visual elements in the composition of new worlds, the creation of words can be seen as a way of breaking with the thinking of the past, but it can also be viewed as a social technology for the construction of a new life. Artists and poets experimented with graphic and phonetic images of the words. Though constructive principles and laboratory methods of creation were thought to be universal, the ideas of effectiveness and economy were not accepted unanimously. Viktor Shklovsky, founder of the formal school of philology, did not consider poetic language subject to regulation by principles of economy. Still, the creation of a new language united all the schools of the avant-garde and builders of proletarian culture, which found expression in sound poetry, zaum, novoyaz. Conceived between 1910 and 1920, they were a tool for utopian projects and creative development. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.06 Avant-garde art Language creation; Constructivism Artistic and social utopia Viktor Shklovsky https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.6/ 28-33.pdf
UNK RUS 34-36 Stony Brook University Ihde
Stony Brook, NY 11794- 3750 , USA
 Language and Hermeneutics This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language builds on the author’s longstanding commitments and forthcoming book on Material Hermeneutics. These concern the technological revolutions in imaging technologies which created the ways for material things to "speak", as in visualism and its expansion. Science though its instruments changed perception – but in different ways at different times. Early Modern Science began in the 17th century in an instrumentally optical or "visualist" mode with telescopes and microscopes. Late Modern 19th century Science, more sure of itself and more abstract, drew on the new imaging technology of spectroscopy. In the 20th century, postmodern science expanded from "visualism" as perception became multi-sensory. Tending to the ways in which material things learn to "speak" will reshape all previous historiography and interpretation 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.07 Material hermeneutics Scientific instruments Perception; Visualism Technological revolutions https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.7/ 34-36.pdf
SCO RUS 37-39 University of Aberdeen Ingold
Aberdeen AB24 3QY, Scotland, UK
 Back to the Future with Writing and Speech This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language suggests a kind of time-travel. As the hand becomes dethroned in writing, the voice might be in speech, and it is with the technologies of the scribal and vocal arts that they can be reclaimed. In the fairly recent past, words, severed from hand and mouth, have been converted into the liquid currency of a global information and communications industry. Technologies followed in step and stripped words of both gesture and voice, reducing them to mere tokens in anonymised circuits of exchange. This condition is here critiqued not in terms of semantics or eloquence but in terms of the traces of writing and speech – what is said not by the what but by the how of the hand and the voice 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.08 Hand and voice Scribal and vocal art Writing and speech https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.8/ 37-39.pdf
UNK RUS 40-44 Polytechnic Museum Kotomina Аnna
Novaia Ploshad, 3/4, 101000, Moscow, Russia
 Cybernetics for the Blind: The Reading Machine “Luch” (The Ray) This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language looks at a particular technical device that was to give access to the written word. In the late 1960s Rostislav Muratov proposed the model of a reading machine named “Luch” (Ray). “Luch” was designed for blind people to provide comprehensive access to books, newspapers, and magazines. Muratov understood blindness as “the loss of information” and assumed that his invention would appeal to a desire to participate on one’s own terms in the circulation of knowledge and information. Then as now, however, people were content to have texts preselected for them. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.09 Reading Machine Typhlotechnics Cybernetics Human-Machine Interaction https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.9/ 40-44.pdf
UNK RUS 45-48 University of California Kramsch Claire
Berkeley, CA 94720-1234, USA
 The Political Power of the Algorithm This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language highlights that digital technology is transforming not only the way we communicate through language, but the very nature of language, thought and action. Algorithms are deployed to make decisions, to sort and make meaningfully visible the vast amount of data produced and available on the Web. In ranking, classifying, sorting, predicting, and processing data, algorithms are political in the sense that they help to make the world appear in certain ways rather than others. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.10 Algorithm Digital Communication https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.10/ 45-48.pdf
UNK RUS 49-50 0000-0002-1703-2119 Kalashnikov Izhevsk State Technical University Krylov Eduard
30 let Pobedy 2, bld. 5, Izhevsk, 426069, Russia
 Engineering Education – Сonvergence of Technology and Language This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language demonstrates the close relationship between technology and language with just a few examples from engineering education. Just like a name becomes meaningful in the context of a sentence, the meaning of an engineering object depends on external circumstances. This relation between technology and language is not the same in all Engineering cultures and languages, however – as testified by the differences between engineering education in Russian and English. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.11 Engineering education Language of kinematics Russian and English engineering languages https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.11/ 49-50.pdf
UNK RUS 51-56 0000-0001-8583-1759 Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University Kuchinov Eugene
Kaliningrad, st. A.Nevskogo, 14, 236016, Russia
 On the Question concerning Animatechnics This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language explores the notion of animatechnics in its two meanings: living technology and animal technology. On the one hand, there is a fiction or utopian component in this notion, on the other hand, it raises the question about technical life beyond the human: Can technology be alive – other than metaphorically? How does animal technical life work? These questions can be fused into one and suggest the notion not of the command but of the request as a technical operation. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.12 Animatechnics Fiction Animal Tool Request https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.12/ 51-56.pdf
UNK RUS 57-60 0000-0002-5785-7553 Renmin University of China Liu Yongmou
59 Zhongguancun Street, Haidian District Beijing, 100872, China
 The Uprising of the Chinese Language in a Technological Age This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language shows how the rise or “uprising“ of technology also produces an upheaval of language in China. This concerns not only the relation of literary language and so-called internet language which is a hybrid of symbols, sounds, images, and text. It also concerns the languages of ethnic minorities as well as the relation of Chinese to English. Not only in academic publishing there is a  shift from the consideration of literary vs. non-literary languages to that of valid vs. invalid ones. It is not the expression of thoughts but the recruitment of an audience that validates writing. These and other changes cannot be described simply as a degradation of language but need to be viewed as an uprising also in terms of a liberation of language. (Translation by Yingyu Zhu.) 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.13 Chinese Language English Communication Technological age https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.13/ 57-60.pdf
UNK RUS 61-65 0000-0003-4199-5940 Colorado School of Mines Mitcham Carl
1500 Illinois St., Golden, CO 80401, USA
 Philology and Technology: Notes This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language contrasts two visions for the future of philology. One seeks to establish it alongside philosophy and mathematics as a cross-cutting discipline for making sense of texts. The other takes technology seriously and renders texts materially present, exploring texts as untamed objects. What is happening with the love of language in a world in the overwhelming presence of so many things defined by their technicity? It is not content to discover the meanings of words and sentences, it seeks out the textualities of technology. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.14 Philology Textualities of Technology Hermeneutics Love of Language https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.14/ 61-65.pdf
UNK RUS 66-70 0000-0001-9771-1391 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) Mokhorov Dmitriy
St. Petersburg, Polytechnicheskaya, 29, 195251, Russia
 0000-0002-7777-6988 Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) Fedyukovsky Alexander
St. Petersburg, Polytechnicheskaya, 29, 195251, Russia
 Language of criminalistic research as a basis for studying criminal legal phenomena This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language explores the complicated interrelation of conceptual and technological change in the context of scientific development. It shows how these relations become even more complex in the age of information technologies. Criminalistic research offers a case in point. It is defined by a set of technologies and a precise language which serves to render vague legal concepts determinate. Technology is not only used by law enforcement and the science behind it, it is also used for committing criminal acts. In this case, as criminals learn to draw on the technical vocabulary of the information society, criminalistic science has to develop or refine its vocabulary in order to define and characterize the new kinds of criminal activities. This marks a dialectical moment in the development of contemporary societies. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.15 Language of Criminalistic Research Terminology Linguistic Concept https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.15/ 66-70.pdf
UNK RUS 71-80 57222081807 0000-0002-0670-9315 Samara National Research University Nesterov Alexander Technology as Semiosis This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language develops a systematic conception of technology, both as the human way of being in the world and in its historical development. As such it continues a line of thought that was initiated by Ernst Kapp and Piotr Engelmeyer – but does so from the point of view of contemporary philosophies of technology and language. Technology is presented as projective semiosis that works on the level of ideas, rules (including the laws of nature), and material or ontology, leading to the creation of artificial environments and finally to a second or third nature. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.16 Projective Semiosis Semiotics of technology Problem of the New the Artificial Triact https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.16/ 71-80.pdf
UNK RUS 81-84 0000-0002-8876-1669 S. I. Vavilov Institute for the History of Science and Technology of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg Branch Nikiforova
St. Petersburg, Russia
 Non-Technological Narratives about Technology in Russian Science Fiction This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language discusses Russian science fiction and utopias where technological devices and systems become active agents of the story, providing a perspective for treating social and political problems. Three major periods are covered in broad brushstrokes – the turn of the twentieth century when the industrial production went hand in hand with techno-optimism; the 1960s-1970s which were the Golden Era of Soviet science fiction, reflecting on technological achievements and social and ethical dimensions of technology; and post-Soviet literature that turns to dystopian and utopian narratives of socio-technical development. Throughout, science fiction was a venue for formulating national identity, reasoning on the essence of progress and coping with historical experience. As such, the literary imagination about technology was not technological at all, but was grounded in ideology and social concerns or identity, which assimilates technology to language and culture. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.17 Science Fiction Utopia Discourse Representation of Technology Progress National Identity Cosmism https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.17/ 81-84.pdf
UNK RUS 85-90 17344631600 0000-0002-2173-4084 Institut für Philosophie, Darmstadt Technical University Nordmann Alfred nordmann@phil.tu-darmstadt.de The Grammar of Things This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language programmatically proposes that “technology” and “language” are two sides of the same coin and that one cannot talk about one without the other. Everyone agrees that technology cannot be defined as the application of science to the engineering of specific devices. Instead, it includes all the ways in which homo faber has always worked to transform the naturally given world into a technosphere. And everyone agrees that language cannot be discussed without consideration of the technical media and communicative practices that make up an infosphere. And yet, our traditional ways of thinking make it difficult to treat language as a kind of technology and technology as a kind of language. Once the obstacles are removed, however, multiple research perspectives open up for linguistics, philosophy, cultural studies, and engineering. These can theoretically illuminate and practically contribute to our lives in a socio-technically multilingual world. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.18 Philosophy of technology Philosophy of multilingualism Composition Working knowledge https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.18/ 85-90.pdf
UNK RUS 91-96 0000-0002-2810-6259 Institute of Philosophy, Russian Academy of Sciences Pavlenko Andrey
12/1 Goncharnaya Str., Moscow, 109240, Russian Federation
 Technology as a new Language of Communication between the Human Being and the World This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language is based on an analysis of the “epistemological turn” in modern cosmology and modern science, more generally. In view of another epistemological turn towards technology and a combinatorial approach to the creation of artefacts, the question regarding the languages of science and technology suggests itself. – When human beings relate to the world, they effectively address the world or talk to it, and the world talks back. This communication proceeds in different registers. It may have started in the idiom of myth. With the emergence of philosophy, a first language with a rational or methodical way of addressing the world came into being. Philosophy was superseded by the emergence of the language of science, and as of today, the language of technology comes into being and claims predominance. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.19 Human-world communication Languages of philosophy science and technology https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.19/ 91-96.pdf
UNK RUS 97-102 56005365800 0000-0002-0195-627X Department Mechanical Enginering, Darmstadt Technical University Pelz Peter
Karolinenpl. 5, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
 Good Engineering Design – Design Evolution by Languages This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language shows that the mastery of multiple languages is the enabler for good engineering design. Engineers express ideas and for that they need expressive design languages. If a language is a structured system of symbols serving communication, the languages of engineering include German, English, and Russian, mathematical and programming languages, technical drawing and formal modelling, with abstract design elements constituting a further, engineering-specific language. The semantics and thus the basic elements of these languages constitute the design space, whereas the syntax constrains the expressivity of the language and structures the design space. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.20 Design Languages of engineering Good engineering Communication https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.20/ 97-102.pdf
UNK RUS 103-108 Zurich University of the Arts, Wickert Hartmut
Pfingstweidstrasse 96, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland
 The Techniques of the Arts This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language explores the languages of the theatre which define and constrain its mode of production. The very inability of the theatre to establish, even as an illusion, a non-theatrical reality, turns out to be its major asset and strength. Especially in regard to Bertolt Brecht and Walter Benjamin’s reflections on history, technology, and Brecht’s epic theatre, the peculiar grammar of gestural reading and writing becomes apparent. A quotable gesture is not tied to a particular subject but stands, frozen in time, as an element of action. It exposes the unfulfilled promise of a historical moment, allowing theatrical techniques to uncover the message of redemption in the cultural material of a tragic past. Accordingly, the many intersecting, non-instrumental technologies of theatrical production give us a language for reading history and deciphering here and there an index of a better future that was buried in the past. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.21 Art Techniques of the theatre Walter Benjamin Bertolt Brecht https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.21/ 103-108.pdf
UNK RUS 109-114 0009-0003-9910-7907 South China University of Technology Wu Guolin
381 Wushan Rd, Tianhe District, Guangzhou
 Quantum Hermeneutics and Its Essential Questions This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language presents a research program for Quantum Hermeneutics which serves as a theory for the epistemology, methodology and ontology of quantum texts and their understanding. As opposed to the texts of classical science and in this regard more like the texts of the humanities, quantum texts require interpretation. But as opposed to the humanities, quantum text concerns trans-empirical experience of a trans-empirical world – the quantum text is written as scientific technology prompts quantum objects to reveal themselves as a readable text that requires interpretation. (Translation by Yingyu Zhu.) 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.22 Hermeneutics Quantum mechanics Quantum technology Quantum text Trans-empiricality https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.22/ 109-114.pdf
RAR RUS 115-125 Leuphana Universität Lüneburg Xylander Cheryce von
Universitätsallee 1, 21335 Lüneburg, Germany
 A(l)gora: The Mindscape This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language articulates how we inhabit public space in the critical tradition of the Enlightenment and in the condition of contemporary cyber-technologies. The fabled agora of the ancients has forfeited its intersubjective relevance and imaginary potency. Community no longer hinges on communing: Algorithmic Gate-Keeping is taking command. This paper sounds the bell for a new approach to envisaging social cohesion based on the notion of an “algora,” a term coined to describe a state of affairs that has a longer, largely overlooked, philosophical pedigree. The history of cognitive ideation is also the history of “mindscapes.” They are occasioned by the conjuncture of technology and language, an insight articulated by Kant, formalized by Turing and now practiced by the global citizenry of users, daily hammering out on keyboards what this means in practice. 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.23 Cyber-Kant Mindscape Algora Public Space Philosophy of Mind Turing Imitation Game Reason as Composition https://soctech.spbstu.ru/article/2020.1.23/ 115-125.pdf