Conference Agenda

Intimate technologies, brain chips and cyborgs: Revisiting the bright-line argument

Chair(s): John Sullins

Presentations of the Symposium

The Crux of the Bright-line Argument as an Explanatory Lens for Understanding Why the Problem of Authenticity Concerning Artificial Companions Persists

Aaron Butler

Thinking Otherwise

David Gunkel

Intimate technologies and liberation

John Sullins

Hell is Other Robots: Participatory Sense-Making and GenAI

Robin Zebrowski

Uncanny desires: AI, psychoanalysis, and the future of human identity

Chair(s): Luca Possati, Maaike van der Horst

Presentations of the Symposium

Can technology destroy desire? Stieglerian considerations

Bas De Boer

The algorithmic other: AI, desire, and self-formation on digital platforms

Ciano Aydin

Deadbots and the unconscious: A qualitative analysis

Luca Possati

Reconceptualizing reciprocity through a lacanian lens: the case of human-robot-interactions

Maaike van der Horst, Ciano Aydin, Luca Possati

The role of technology in conceptual disruption

Ibo van de Poel

The good, the bad, and the disruptive: On the promise of niche construction theory for technology ethics

Jeroen Hopster, Elizabeth O'Neill

The sense of disruptive innovation

Georgios Tsagdis

Digital technologies and the disruption of the lifeworld

Christa Laurens, Vincent Blok, Bernice Bovenkerk, Nolen Gertz

Understanding deep technological disruptiveness as the social construction of human kinds

Wybo Houkes

Conceptual disruption and niche disruption

Guido Löhr

Toward beneficial technology: A transformative master’s program for product managers

Sari Harrison

Artificial moral discourse and the future of human morality

Elizabeth O'Neill

Recognition through technology: Design for recognition and its dangers

Nynke van Uffelen

Queering the sex robot: insights from queer Lacanian psychoanalysis and new materialism

Maaike van der Horst, Anna Puzio

Buddhist killer bots, sex bots and enlightenment bots

Tom Hannes

Personal and intimate relationships with AI: an assessment of their desirability

Philip Antoon Emiel Brey

Hybrid family – intimate life with artificial intelligence

Miroslav Vacura

(Don’t) come closer: Excentric design for intimate technologies

Esther L.O. Keymolen

Matters of the Heart: Ethical Considerations in the development of a Soft Biocompatible Artificial Heart

Anne Bonvanie, Merlijn Smits

The Pull-Factor of Metaphors in Technology Development - a conceptual Vehicle for Ethical Vision Design

Nils Neuhaus, Nele Fischer, Sabine Ammon

Personal & prosthetic, historical & surgical

Ashley Shew

Information as dispositions: an ontological analysis

Mitchell Roberts

The Picture of Existence: Ontological commitments and existential trade-offs in the age of intimate technologies

Ângelo Nunes Milhano

Re-ontologising psychiatric illness using deep learning: ethical concerns beyond the clinic

Emily Postan

Backgrounding in climate engineering: a multispecies perspective for carbon dioxide removal

Elisa Paiusco

Geo-engineering revisited: A reformational critique

Maaike Eline Harmsen

Epistemic justice in climate adaptation: balancing technological data and human experience across socioeconomic divides

Sara Vermeulen

Programming with Care: AI as Non-Anthropocentric and Entangled

Ceren Polat

Shipwrecks as adaptive mediators: a new media reality of the Anthropocene

Benjamin Morris King

From anthropocene to technocene. The story of our fate

Klaus Erlach

Third wave continental philosophy of technology

Chair(s): Pieter Lemmens, Vincent Blok, Hub Zwart, Yuk Hui

Presentations of the Symposium

Pharmacology of artificial intelligence: Stiegler’s exotranscendantal philosophy of digital technology

Anne Alombert

Philosophy of technology today: ethics without self

Amelie Berger-Soraruff

World constitutive technicity in the digital age: rehabilitating the domains of the Sun and the Earth in the constitution of the digital World

Vincent Blok

«Die Frage nach der Technik» as «Die Frage nach der Philosophie»

Agostino Cera

Response against Reaction: Stiegler’s positive philosophy of technology

Benoit Dillet

Heidegger and the limits of the empirical turn

Matheus Ferreira de Barros

After cybernetics, after thinking

Yuk Hui

Rationality after the ‘algorithmic turn’

Natalia Juchniewicz

Evil incorporated. the tragic philosophy of technology of mehdi belhaj kacem

Pieter Lemmens

Towards an Evolutionary Turn in the Philosophy of Technology

Marco Pavanini

Can we read stiegler environmentally

Martin Ritter

For the Ontological Rehabilitation of the Techno-Aesthetic Feeling

Andrea Zoppis