At both #SPT2025 Eindhoven 🇳🇱 and the "Communicative #AI" book launch in Vienna 🇦🇹, we inevitably got involved in talking about #remix as a metaphor for #LLM tech and #AI generated content. It's a useful comparison, but there are important differences. ssrn.com/abstract=486...
There actually was a picture of me after all! #spt2025
My colleague and friend Darryl in action, exploring the temporalities of history we need for #philtech at #spt2025
The second and final talk of our #spt2025 panels is by our very own Darryl Cressman on Technology and Historical Time: Insights from the Annales and Hermeneutics #philtech
Our final #spt2025 panel on hidden histories of #philtech, starting with Dominic Smith on the radio project of Walter Benjamin
In our #spt2025 panel on the empirical turn, we have, first @masssimons.bsky.social (no photo) on the history of the empirical turn, and then Agostino Cera on Gunther Anders and the empirical turn #philtech
@hannesve.bsky.social #spt2025
We conclude the #spt2025 panel with Pietro Prunotto on Bernard Stiegler and Catherine Malabou on the pharmacology of plasticity #philtech
We continue with Hannes Van Engeland on the history of vitalism in French Philosophers of Technology, focusing on Bergson, Simondon, Ruyer #spt2025
Our second #spt2025 panel on history of philosophy of technology is on French philosophy, and starts with Emanuele Clarizio on Georges Canguilhem and the machine #philtech
The panel continues with Mariska Bosschaert who uses Simondon and Heidegger to think about the digitalization of farming #spt2025
Today is history of philosophy of technology day at #spt2025!
Starting with panel on German philosophy, with Natalie Nenadic first on Heidegger, "the intimate technology revolution," and AI #philtech #hopot
Slide opening the Dewey and Philosophy of Technology panel at SPT
Last day of #SPT2025 and I am SO excited to start the day with a Dewey panel because philosophers of technology need more Dewey!
Up next is keynote at #spt2025 by Robert Rosenberger on Sartre's letter opener and the hard problem in the philosophy of technology
Bright stage at TU Eindhoven with slide of Li Bocong and a speaker at the podium
#SPT2025 Lifetime Achivement Awards for Li Bocong and Bernadette Bensuade-Vincent.
@joel-h-anderson.bsky.social interesting discussion today at #SPT2025 on "Agency, alienation, and recognition in the AI-mediated workplace"-the newsletter could be interesting to check out:
Continuing #spt2025 with session on maintenance and #philtech, starting with Mark Thomas Young on Artifact metabolisms: the material flows of an iphone
Another Simondon talk at #spt2025! Luuk Stellinga uses Simondon to criticize the instrumentalism of humane AI
Another great topic/period for the history of philosophy of technology! #spt2025
#spt2025 continues, now panel on instrumentalism, starting with Johannes Schick on 'technology' as a category (with Durkheim, Mauss, and Hubert) #philtech
Woman in front of a slide with an image and title surgical history of rotationplasty
Woman at front of a screen showing a history of rotationplasty from 1927 to 2021
Today at #SPT2025 @ashleyshoo.bsky.social dropping knowledge about rotationplasty as a challenge to our notions of cyborg history (me in the back of the room waving my hand as the only person who knew what rotationplasty was and only because of Ashley!)
At #SPT2025 tomorrow I'll be meeting with a friend, colleague, and collaborator who I've shared many zooms, discussions, laughs, and even coauthored a paper with... for the first time ever in person!
Here's the coauthored work (so far):
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40351175/
Me in front of my slide for my talk on my new book "The Technological Unconscious"
Had a great time at #SPT2025. Thanks to everyone who made it to my talk and for the great questions afterwards...
Title slide for presentation on a management strategy for folk terms in AI
At #SPT2025 today, I shared some thoughts on the challenges of using terms from folk psychology in AI, chaired a session on Philosophy of Language, and nailed passing the mic during the Q&A of @shannonvallor.bsky.social's amazing keynote, without tripping. Great time all around!
Final #spt2025 session of the day, starting with @ethicistforhire.bsky.social on #philtech and movies!
Today at 1720 in Auditorium 1...
#SPT2025
www.conftool.pro/spt2025/inde...
Slide that reads The deeper problem with generative Al technologies is their strong alignment with the overlapping dreams of the neoliberal and authoritarian projects: the final enclosure of the human will, imagination, and intellect.
As usual, @shannonvallor.bsky.social dropping truth bombs at #SPT2025
