The urgency of thinking about the technological challenges in the contemporary world is clear, which can be understood in ethical, moral, ecological or even engineering terms and linked to the demand for innovation. Technology is ubiquitous today; the studies about it abound. The philosophy of technology, just started in the twentieth century, today has a boom that corresponds to the height of time.

Nature and technology -or the intervention of the living and the non-living through technoscience- have occupied our minds, our wisdom, our capacities; We have put there all that we are, our pluripotent and exacerbated desire, and we have transformed the planet and our existence.

This book opens a multiple temporality to think about technology and that is why it is fascinating. It is not an analysis in which technology is progressively explained from the hegemonic knowledge. The route is rather that of the serpent. The chosen moments are heterodox. The axis of the plot is magic.

Technology is not presented as the result of pure processes of pure knowledge and applied science, but as the sinuous consequence of the relationship, imbrication and continuation of the ancient world in the present.

The commitment of Manuela de Barros is that the understanding of technology extends from the ancient and contemporary magic, from the artifacts and gadgets that have been part of the development of the devices that today populate our vision of the world.

This book is inscribed in the attempts of contemporary philosophy to build short and specific stories that, by dislocating the great narratives, give us another look at the current events.