Dienstag, 02. Mai 2017, 17:00 - 19:00 iCal
Buchpräsentation "New Romantic Cyborgs"
Neue Publikation von Mark Coeckelbergh, Professor für Medien- und Technikphilosophie am Institut für Philosophie
HS 3D, NIG
Universitätsstraße 7, 1010 Wien
Buchpräsentation, Lesung
Romanticism and technology are widely assumed to be opposed to each other. Romanticism —understood as a reaction against rationalism and objectivity—is perhaps the last thing users and developers of information and communication technology (ICT) think about when they engage with computer programs and electronic devices. And yet, as Mark Coeckelbergh argues in this book, this way of thinking about technology is itself shaped by romanticism and obscures a better and deeper understanding of our relationship to technology.
Coeckelbergh describes the complex relationship between technology and romanticism that links nineteenthcentury monsters, automata, and mesmerism with twenty-first-century technology’s magic devices and romantic cyborgs. Coeckelbergh argues that current uses of ICT can be interpreted as attempting a marriage of Enlightenment rationalism and romanticism. He describes the “romantic dialectic,” when this new kind of material romanticism, particularly in the form of the cyborg as romantic figure, seems to turn into its opposite. He shows that both material romanticism and the objections to it are still part of modern thinking, and part of the romantic dialectic. Reflecting on what he calls “the end of the machine,” Coeckelbergh argues that to achieve a more profound critique of contemporary technologies and culture, we need to explore not only different ways of thinking but also different technologies—and that to accomplish the former we require the latter.
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Agnes Buchberger
Institut für Philosophie
Professur für Medien- und Technikphilosophie
+43 1 4277 464 06
agnes.buchberger@univie.ac.at
Erstellt am Montag, 24. April 2017, 17:12
Letzte Änderung am Mittwoch, 26. April 2017, 08:45