Postphenomenological Research 1: Alterity relations, robots, and virtual others

Session Submission Type: Paper Session

Abstract

The ‘postphenomenological’ approach to technology finds itself at the intersection of empirical studies of technology on the one hand, and philosophical theory on the other. The central focus of the approach is the investigation of the structures and implications of the relations between human beings and technologies. This session focuses on alterity relations: relations between humans and technologies in which technologies play the role of quasi-other. By analyzing human-robot relations and virtual others, the papers in this session explore new dimensions of the role of technology in contemporary society.

Sub Unit

• 4S Annual Meeting – Denver

Chair

• Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus University

Discussant

• Robert Rosenberger, Georgia Institute of Technology

Individual Presentations

• The Internet Teacher: Online/Virtual/Cyber or Authority in Alterity Relations? - Bjarke Lindsø Andersen, Aarhus University

• Multistable Alterity Relations - Cathrine Hasse, Aarhus University

• Weird Realism and Alterity Relations – and Some Remarks about the Gaze of Robots - Oliver Tafdrup, Aarhus University

• Synesthesia and Human-Robot-Interactions – How Alterity Relations shape Sensorimotor Unity - Michael Funk, TU Dresden

• The relationship between cats and pansies: a post-phenomenological perspective on technology, culture and education. - Maurício Fernando Bozatski, Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul