The journal Technophany: Journal of Philosophy and Technology announces the publication and completion of its special issue “Entropies,” Vol. 2, Iss. 2, 2024. Edited by Joel White and Gerald Moore,The volume contains also some interesting material that touches on the history of (philosophy of) technology.

As they describe the volume: “Entropies” takes assembles a set of articles, discussions, and interview, all by a wide and prestigious collection of authors, which deals with the imperative of thinking through thermodynamic and information entropy. Given that our current era is marked by a perilous increase in “entropization,” the aim of this special issue has been to delimit entropy philosophically so as to offer the first steps toward a sober and theoretically informed account of this crucial concept.

The “Entropies” special issue of Technophany offers insight into how and why the concept of entropy—inclusive of its many historical definitions, expressions, and mathematical formulations—raises fundamental philosophical questions and problems. The concept of entropy has had several major historical scientific iterations, the three major being classical thermodynamic, statistical mechanical and information theoretic. Instead of concentrating on one type of entropy. The articles collected are, therefore, of a broad nature, reflective of entropy’s conceptual plurality. The aim has been not to determine what entropy is—whether quantitively or qualitatively—but to consider how this equivocal concept problematises our relation to fundamental phenomena such as life and death, technology, time, chance, information, and the cosmos.