General Technology for a Multitude of Worlds: Towards a Non-dogmatic Philosophy of Technology

In this response to Simon Mills’ ‘General Technology, Judgement, and the Optative: Constructing the Technological Transcendental in Gilbert Simondon’, we engage with and contribute to the recent scholarship on transcendental perspectives in philosophy of technology. Reading Simondon alongside Stiegler, we argue that Stiegler’s atranscendental philosophy is often dismissed by a universalizing tendency that risks dogmatism. Drawing on Bataille’s general economy and Stiegler’s general organology, we propose a politicized, non-dogmatic approach to 'general technology' that attends to multiple worlds and transcendentals. We caution against solutionism and the fetishization of technical judgement, advocating instead for a pharmacology of liminal spaces that cultivates sensibility, openness, and the future of philosophy itself.