Materialism and Artefactuality. A Political Philosophy of the Topic

Abstract

In this paper, I analyze the idea of the world as the co-existence of humans and things. I argue that this co-existence should be considered from the conceptual perspective of responsibility. In the first two paragraphs, I argue that a system of artefacts always mediates human experience. In the third and fourth paragraphs, I synthetize two different philosophical approaches, namely the theory of artefacts and the materialistic method, which share the thesis of the performativity of artefacts in the constitution of human experience. In the conclusions, I show the political and ethical relevance of this possible material hermeneutics of the world.