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Phenomenology of Changing Life-Worlds: Exploring Human-Machine Interactions

Technology changes fundamentally how we experience daily interactions, how we think, act and move. Humans interact increasingly with intelligent robots and connect their bodies through technological devices with the Internet of Things. Major parts of the global economy and systems of transport will soon be governed by automated systems. This fundamental shift includes a blurring of categories such as real/virtual perceptions or biological/technological entities. In this line of thought, a new materialism of the embodied and embedded subject that evolves through and with its environment has become central. The notion of experience in technological permeated environments and through embodiment of technologies however still lacks attention within the intellectual reflection. In this workshop, the absence of a conceptual framing of experience will be challenged. The hypothesis is that current philosophy of technology and new media can and should be complemented by a phenomenological account of experiences in technological life-worlds. We want to discuss constructive and creative relations with technological possibilities from an experiential perspective, which can be the groundwork for the constitution of moral standards and ethical guidelines concerning intelligent technologies.

Invited Speakers:

Denisa Butnaru (Konstanz)

Liat Grayver (Berlin)

Hye Young Kim (Paris)

Jongkwan Lee (Seoul)

Christian Meyer (Konstanz)

Max Ryynänen (Helsinki)

Alex Stingl (Paris)

Maren Wehrle (Rotterdam)

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