On Thinking in the Anthropocene: A Sketch of a Proposal

The paper suggests, on the basis of paleoanthropological evidence, a hypothetical differentiation of human modes of thinking. Moreover, on the basis of historical evidence, it reconsiders the so-called passage from mythos to logos as a Greek rationalization of the shift between the technologies of speech and writing and their associated modes of thinking respectively. Finally, it relies on these considerations to construct digital information as an opportunity at once to redistribute the powers of writing and reconfigure thinking.