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36Oikos der Alterität: Drei Ouvertüren zu einer Ökonomie, Ökologie und Echologie der AufmerksamkeitInternationales Jahrbuch Für Medienphilosophie 4 (1): 169-184. 2018.n three overtures on economy, ecology and >echo-logy< of attention this paper introduces Aristotle's conception of economics. In particular, in Giorgio Agamben's theological-patristic reading of the oikos and the double theoretical movement of a politicization of the oikos and an economization of the political. In the background of a totalitarian concept of budgetary thinking. In Agamben's interpretation, the form of intimate household and domesticity itself becomes a threshold phenomenon - whic…Read more
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13Humanity is facing to be increasingly immersed in the digital world, becoming hackable concerning self-, personhood and our sociality. Companies and even states are engaged in the digital governance of our behaviour and our extended digital doubles and interconnected bodily selves by profiling, tracking, surveillance, automated decision- making and big data that redefine values and our humanity. Big Data and AI do not always empower diversity. Besides aiding and opening up new fields of research…Read more
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12“The Origin of the New World”. On Elena Dorfman’s Deus (S)ex-MachinaIn J. Loh & M. Coeckelbergh (eds.), Feminist Philosophy of Technology. Techno:Phil – Aktuelle Herausforderungen der Technikphilosophie, J.b.metzler. pp. 145-166. 2020.Mechane in Aristotle designates the theater machine, which provided for illusion and the effects and dramaturgies of overpowering as in the aleatory principle of Deus ex machina. The creation of an absolute experience machine—as an AI sex robot that as well is a companion and even is wished for as a lifetime partner as imagined by David Levy or recently described in a retro-fiction novel entitled “Machines like me” by the author Ewan McEvan 20192 lies at the core of contemporary uncanny human ar…Read more
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10Hacking into Cybertherapy: Considering a Gesture-enhanced Therapy with Avatars (g+TA)Kairos 23 (1): 32-87. 2020.This paper will philosophically extend Julian Leff’s Avatar therapy paradigm (AT) for voice-like hallucinations that was initially proposed for treatment-resistant Schizophrenia patients into the realm of gesture-enhanced embodied cognition and Virtual Reality (VR), entitled g+TA (gesture-enhanced Avatar Therapy). I propose an philosophy of technology approach of embodied rhetorics of triadic kinetic “actions” in the sense of Charles Sanders Peirce that transforms the voice hallucination incorpo…Read more
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7The Eyes Have It. The Problem of the Avatar GazeIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 265-272. 2023.
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7Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts (edited book)Springer Verlag. 2024.
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7Towards the techno-social UncannyRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 75 (4): 2171-2206. 2019.This paper explores a technical unfinished half-method [Halbzeug] of a metaphorology of the technological other in its variations and the philosophical mise-en-scène of the techno-social uncanny. The roboticist Mori had revived the concept of a technological uncanny in human machine interaction in the spatial metaphor derived from a diagram of an uncanny valley in the reaction of a human being shaking an artificial hand in order to show why we feel a certain eeriness in relation to technological…Read more
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5In my general aim to probe a non-reductionist Philosophy of Cognitive Enhancement, considering social self-other relations and the epistemic 2PP in social syn-aesthetic tuning-ins, synchronisations and tuning-outs, this paper amplifies the Aristotelian common sense concept κοινὴ αἲσθησις2 by analysing the concept and metaphor of “resonance”3 in contemporary debates on >resonance< as acoustic and multimodal figure of thought. Resonance as shown in scientific models derived from acoustics will be …Read more
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3Self-Melioration, Autonomy and Music-Enriched Self-Control: On Enhancing Children’s AttentionIn Saskia K. Nagel (ed.), Shaping Children: Ethical and Social Questions That Arise When Enhancing the Young, Springer Verlag. pp. 155-182. 2019.This paper dwells on the question of how we can enhance perspectives on the enhancement of attention in children. By shifting the neuro-enhancement of attention debate from the field of biomedicine into the area of philosophy of technology of control and philosophy of attention, I render two concepts operative for the neuroethical debate on enhancing children’s attention in self- melioration: control and autonomy in attention enhancement. The shaping of a self entails three things: First, indivi…Read more
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1Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts – An IntroductionIn Thiemo Breyer, Alexander Matthias Gerner, Niklas Grouls & Johannes F. M. Schick (eds.), Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts, Springer Verlag. pp. 1-8. 2024.This book opens up an interdisciplinary arena of research, contoured by the terms “gestures” and “artefacts,” and is oriented by a diachronic perspective on technology. In the context of anthropology, artefacts and gestures are both essential to understanding human culture and behavior. They are interconnected features that reveal numerous facets of a culture’s ideas, values, social institutions, and communication methods. In a general sense, artefacts are the material entities created, utilized…Read more
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The AIS Have It? Hacking into the AI Avatar DreamIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 75-84. 2023.
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Playing with Arte(f)actorsIn Thiemo Breyer, Alexander Matthias Gerner, Niklas Grouls & Johannes F. M. Schick (eds.), Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology: Gestures and Artefacts, Springer Verlag. pp. 9-43. 2024.Arte(f)actors are artefacts that mimic to be actors. Can artifacts play or mimic playing with human actors, or are they necessarily staged in technological as-if dramaturgies? What role do gesture play in arte(f)actors? How can playing with and staging games with artefactors render visible the relations of co-embodiments between animate and artificial players in games we play with artefactors as play media that entail artifacts and AI systems mimicking to be actors and that, in turn, play with u…Read more
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On Ali Moini’s Avatar HackingIn Dieter Mersch, Anton Rey, Thomas Grunwald, Jörg Sternagel, Lorena Kegel & Miriam Laura Loertscher (eds.), Actor & Avatar: A Scientific and Artistic Catalog, Transcript Verlag. pp. 139-147. 2023.
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