An interesting event blogged by Peter-Paul Verbeek:
Workshop ‘Security and the Political Turn in the Philosophy of Technologies’, University of Twente | DesignLab, March 10 2017. How to understand the political significance of things? And how to deal with the politics of technology in a responsible way? Ever since Langdon Winner claimed in the early 1980s that “artifacts have politics”, these questions have been puzzling philosophers and ethicists of technology. Technologies are not just instruments for humans to do politics but actively shape politics themselves. In this workshop we will explore various dimensions of this political role of technologies, especially with regards to security, citizenship in a technological world, and the role of social media and ‘fake news’ in contemporary democracy.
Speakers include:
- Babette Babich (Fordham)
- Robin James (UNCC),
- Laura Fichtner (TUD)
- Wolter Pieters (TUD)
- Melis Bas (UT)
- Jonne Hoek (UT)
- Philip Brey (UT)
- Nolen Gertz (UT)
- Michael Nagenborg (UT)
- Peter-Paul Verbeek (UT)
The workshop is sponsored by the 4TU.Ethics working group on “Risk, Safety, and Security.”