Journal of Northeastern University(Social Science) ›› 2021, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (1): 9-17.DOI: 10.15936/j.cnki.1008-3758.2021.01.002

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From “Chasing for Violence” to “Chasing for Victory”: The Essence of Military Technology from the Perspective of Post-phenomenology

WU Yipeng   

  1. (School of Art and Science, National University of Defense and Technology, Changsha 410073, China)
  • Published:2021-02-08
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Abstract: Using “technology applied in the military field” to define “military technology” ignores the classification of technology under R&D, which tends to cause the conceptual ambiguity between “military technology” and “civilian technology”. With the help of the post-phenomenological analysis structure of “human-technology-world”, it can be found that military technology originates from the usage context variation of civilian technology, which embarks on a relatively independent development path. Military technology regulates the perceptual connection between human and military technology, and obscures people's judgment on wars. The combination of modern natural science and the expansion of capitalist modernity makes military technology embark on a path which is “chasing for violence”. However, the emergence of strategic deterrence weapon makes military technology lose its usage context, transformed into the “others” and “background” of superpower games. In the vanishing of military technology's violence nature, it is clear that, military technology, as “the occupation of being” and “the chasing for victory” has a structural difference from civilian technology which is “the occupation of being”.

Key words: post-phenomenology; military technology; human-technology-world

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