1st Edition
Digital Habitus A Critique of the Imaginaries of Artificial Intelligence
Introduction
Part 1
1.1. From Transhumanism to Technological Imaginaries
1.2. From Technological Imaginaries to Habitus
1.3. From Habitus to Technological Habitus
Part 2
2.1. Technological Habitus
2.2. Digital Habitus 1
2.3. Digital Habitus 2
Conclusion
Biography
Alberto Romele teaches digital communication at the Institute of Communication and Media at Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He is also research associate of philosophy and ethics of technology at the Department of Philosophy and Education Sciences of the University of Turin. He edited Towards a Philosophy of Digital Media (with E. Terrone, 2018) and Interpreting Technology (with W. Reijers and M. Coeckelbergh, 2021). He is the author of Digital Hermeneutics (Routledge 2020).
"This book not only represents an impressive contribution to the philosophy of technology, but also helps serve to further define this field of inquiry. It clearly shows that technology cannot be reduced to the sum of its parts and its purely material dimension, but that it is based on a work of the imagination. This book will be an excellent resource both for inspiring classroom discussion and for future scholarly research."
Luca M. Possati, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
"With its original analysis of the technological dimension of habitus, Digital Habitus does not only offer an interesting reading of Bourdieu, but also fills an important gap in the philosophy of technology and helps to link thinking about contemporary technology to influential theory of social reality. Finally a theory that does justice to the ways digital technologies produce habitus and a timely warning about what Alberto Romele calls a the ‘flattened hermeneutics of the self’ presented to us by AI and related technologies. Obligatory reading."
Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna. Austria
"Alberto Romele deftly weaves a critique of technology by encouraging us to consider digital technologies through the familiar habits that they are designed to reproduce. Through the concept of digital habitus, this book is both a response to different intellectual traditions and a new trajectory for philosophical and critical inquiries."
Darryl Cressman, Maastricht University, The Netherlands
"In a theoretical scene in which the dogma of innovation at any cost, which is often a sham innovation, has imposed itself, Alberto Romele has the merit of originally reconnecting contemporary reflection on technology with the philosophical and sociological tradition. For this reason, there is no philosopher of technology who cannot benefit from reading this book."
Maurizio Ferraris, University of Turin, Italy
