DEFINITION / AUTHORITATIVE
Canonical claim for Mechanocene
The Mechanocene is a phase of technocivilizational transition in which technological environments built by humans acquire relative operational autonomy upon material substrates and sociotechnical organization, and asymmetrically condition human possibilities of sensation, cognition, judgment, and action by datafying, arranging, and feeding back human behavior.
Full claim
The Mechanocene is not an age in which machines replace humans, but a phase of transition in which the “reverse ecology” of human-made technological environments acquiring relative operational autonomy and reorganizing subsequent human possibilities becomes manifest on a civilizational scale.
Compare Korean claim
기계세는 기계가 인간을 대체하는 시대가 아니라, 인간이 만든 기술환경이 상대적 작동 자율성을 획득하여 인간의 후속 가능성을 다시 조직하는 ‘역전된 생태’가 문명적 규모로 전면화된 전환 국면이다.
Evidence
- Lee Humanities Core Concepts Reviewed Edition v1.103. Mechanocene / Formal proposition