SAS people: Evgenii Bykov
Evgenii Bykov
Evgenii’s interests are threefold; throughout his MSU-HSE period, he actively promoted in-depth exploration and application of Actor-Network Theory and writings of Bruno Latour in general, which resulted in a joint publication of a dedicated ‘Logos’ journal series in 2017—2018 and later transformed into increased sensitivity to the formation of hybrid sociotechnical entities within the domain of Science and Technology Studies.
His enthusiasm for the technomodification illuminates the cutting-edge intersection between philosophy of technology and philosophical anthropology, since prostheses and artificial extensions of human psychophysiology inevitably problematize the very notion of “human”. Evgenii worked with Prof. Chris Hables Gray (UC Santa Cruz) on the Cyborg Studies approach to hallenges to this notion stemming from discourses of transhumanism and posthumanism.
The way Evgenii understands philosophy, however, is non-academic at heart and implies functions of facilitation, idea exchange, and connection with the lifeworld. Such a spirit of collaborative endeavor was exemplified in “The Terraforming” – an international multidisciplinary postgraduate program developed as an experiment by the STRELKA Institute for Media, Design and Architecture (2021, director Benjamin Bratton) that covered a wide range of topics: from geoengineering and computational zoning of Earth to astropolitics, synthetic/spatial materialism, planetary sapience, etc.
Evgenii is an external scientific journalist for “Moscow News”, an accidental public speaker, and a sympathizer of Science Art.
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