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This chapter proposes a new conceptual framework by introducing ontophany—understood as the manifestation of being—within a broadened reading of Bachelard’s “phenomenotechnique.” It analyzes digital technologies as culturally and historically produced perceptual structures that shape lived, existential encounters, thereby advancing historical phenomenology of technology for Internet Studies.","Chapter 23  \nOntophany Theory: Historical Phenomenology of Technology and the Digital Age  \nStéphane Vial  \nAbstract For over 20 years, the concept of the virtual has prevailed in French digital studies. Yet two decades of daily cultural integration with interfaces have demonstrated that virtuality is only one of many aspects of our interactive experience with digital devices. A need therefore exists for new concepts more apt to address the philosophical complexity of the digital phenomenon and the significance of our interactions with calculated matter as they are true existential experiences of phenomenological significance. In this chapter I explain why I have suggested introducing the phenomenological concept of ontophany (manifestation of being) . Inclose relationship with a comprehensive and broadened understanding of Bachelard’s notion of “phenomenotechnique,” I examine the hitherto unidentified technicality of this manifestation process. Prior to their existence as tools in uses, technologies are first the perceptual structure of our existence; they are the “devices” or the invisible matrixes, produced by culture and history, into which our potential experience-ofthe-world is cast. Not only do the following theoretical propositions seek to contribute, philosophically, to Internet Studies and to a better understanding the Digital Age, they also hope to give rise to a broader deliberation on technology and perception, as they relate to an approach I would characterize as a historical phenomenology of technology.  \nKeywords Digital media · Digital studies · Design · Environment/milieu · Internet studies · Historical phenomenology · Ontophany · Virtual  \nS. Vial (􀀍)  \nPROJEKT Design Lab (EA 7447), University of Nîmes, Nîmes, France ACTE Institute, Sorbonne Paris 1 University, Paris, France  \ne-mail: [stephane.vial@unimes.fr](stephane.vial@unimes.fr)  \n© Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018 385  \nS. Loeve et al. (eds.), French Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 29, [https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89518-5_23](https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89518-5_23)  \n[sacha.loeve@univ-lyon3.fr](sacha.loeve@univ-lyon3.fr)  \n386 S. Vial  \nWe have learned to take things at interface value.–Sherry Turkle  \nThis chapter is the outcome a dual intellectual filiation and a dual professional expertise.  \nIntellectually, its influence is rooted both in existential phenomenology, from which I have chosen to adapt a number of fundamental concepts (including the notion of being-in-the-world), and in the French tradition of a “historical epistemology” of science (Lecourt 1969) whose key figures include Gaston Bachelard, JeanClaude Beaune, Bertrand Gille and Jean-Pierre Séris.  \nProfessionally, I have drawn upon the twofold experience fostered as an interaction designer at LEKTUM, the Paris-based web design agency I founded and managed from 2009 to 2014, and as an educator and design researcher, originally as a philosophy professor at École Boulle, a Paris-based school of Art and Design, and currently as Associate Professor of Design and Digital Media at the University of Nîmes.  \nL’être et l’écran (Vial 2013) is both the synthesis and the fruit of these filiationsand experiences. 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