This book proposes that technologies, similar to texts, novels and movies, tell stories and thereby configure our lifeworld in the Digital Age.The impact of technologies on our lived experience is ever increasing: innovations in robotics challenge the nature of work, emerging bi…
This book proposes that technologies, similar to texts, novels and movies, tell stories and thereby configure our lifeworld in the Digital Age. The impact of technologies on our lived experience is ever increasing: innovations in robotics challenge the nature of work, emerging b…
Humanitarian technology -- Humanitarian challenges & new technologies -- Theorizing technology -- Humanitarian biometrics -- GM food aid and the molecular subject as political -- Humanitarian vaccination, vilization & expansion of power -- Humanitarian aspirations & technology e…
This book offers a detailed exploration of three examples of humanitarian uses of new technology, employing key theoretical insights from Foucault. We are currently seeing a humanitarian turn to new digital technologies, such as biometrics, remote sensing, and surveillance drone…
This book offers a detailed exploration of three examples of humanitarian uses of new technology, employing key theoretical insights from Foucault. We are currently seeing a humanitarian turn to new digital technologies, such as biometrics, remote sensing, and surveillance drone…
"Die Technisierung der Natur und des menschlichen Körpers droht außer Kontrolle zu geraten. Der Ethik muss es um Kriterien der Passung von Technik, Natur und Menschenwürde gehen. Ihre Methode ist eine historisch belehrte Vernunft. In der gegenwärtigen Phase der ökonomisch-techni…
Artificial intelligence (AI) permeates Google searches, the personal assistants in our smartphones, and is all over our newsfeeds. Watson's machine learning has already started to revolutionize many important industries including oncology, law, finance, and entertainment. The …
"This book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, which allows for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political the…
"This book aims to offer an empirically-informed philosophical framework for understanding the technological construction of power, which allows for a differentiated vocabulary for describing various senses of technological power, while bridging together social and political the…