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The Ethos of Digital Environments: Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy book cover

1st Edition

The Ethos of Digital Environments Technology, Literary Theory and Philosophy

Edited By Susanna Lindberg, Hanna-Riikka Roine Copyright 2021
304 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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While self-driving cars and autonomous weapon systems have received a great deal of attention in media and research, the general requirements of ethical life in today’s digitalizing reality have not been made sufficiently visible and evaluable. This collection of articles from both distinguished and emerging authors working at the intersections of philosophy, literary theory, media, and... Read more

Introduction: From Solving Mechanical Dilemmas to Taking Care of Digital Ecology

Susanna Lindberg and Hanna-Riikka Roine

Should a Self-driving Car

Eino Santanen

 

PART 1

Digital Ecologies Today

1 Three Species Challenges: Toward a General Ecology of Cognitive Assemblages

N. Katherine Hayles

 

PART 2

The Ethos: Description and Formation

2 Viral Storytelling as the Contemporary Narrative Didacticism: Deriving Universal Truths from Arbitrary Narratives of Personal Experience

Maria Mäkelä

3 Authorship vs. Assemblage in Digital Media

Hanna-Riikka Roine and Laura Piippo

4 The Logic of Selection and Poetics of Cultural Interfaces: A Literature of Full Automation?

Matti Kangaskoski

5 Ghosts Beyond the Machine: "Schizoid Nondroids" and Fictions of Surveillance Capitalism

Esko Suoranta

 

PART 3

The Ethos: Entanglement and Delegation

6 The Zombies of the Digital: What Justice Should We Wait For?

Frédéric Neyrat

7 Just Machines. On Algorithmic Ethos and Justice

Susanna Lindberg

8 Automation: Between Factuality and Normativity

Marc-Antoine Pencolé

9 How Agents Lost Their Cognitive Capacities within the Computational Evolution of Market Competition

Anna Longo

10 Thinking about Google Search as #DigitalColonialism

Joshua Adams

 

PART 4

The Ethos: Thinking, Computing, and Ethics

11 The Light of Morality and the Light of the Machine

François-David Sebbah

12 What Do We Call "Thinking" in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Moral Machines?

Anne Alombert

13 Can a Machine Have a Soul?

Daniel Ross

14 The Chiasm: Thinking Things and Thinging Thoughts. Our Being with Technology

Lars Botin

Biography

Susanna Lindberg is Professor of Continental Philosophy at the University of Leiden, Netherlands.

Hanna-Riikka Roine is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy of Finland.

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