This book proposes a new theoretical framework for approaching the
causes and effects that digital technologies and the imaginaries
related to them have on the processes of self-interpretation and
subjectivation. It formulates three main theses. First, it argues
that today’s digital technologies, which are primarily based on
artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms and big data are formidable
habitus machines: they offer increasingly personalized services,
but these machines are actually indifferent to individuals and
their personalities. Second, this book contends that the
effectiveness of these machines does not depend solely on their
concrete capacity to classify the social world. It also depends on
the expectations, hopes, fears, and imaginaries that we have
concerning these technologies and their capacities. This cultural
habitus—a worldview, or world picture—leads us to believe in
the concrete effectiveness of AI and its potential for our
societies. Third, the author takes this Bourdieusian notion of
habitus and connects it to current “empirical turn” in
philosophy of technology. He contends that, by looking too closely
at the things themselves, many philosophers of technology have
deprived themselves of the possibility to study the symbolic
conditions of possibility in which single technological artifacts
are always embedded. Digital Habitus will appeal to scholars and
students working in philosophy of technology, the ethics of
artificial intelligence, media studies, and science and technology
studies.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy |
| Release date: |
July 2023 |
| Firstpublished: |
2024 |
| Authors: |
Alberto Romele
|
| Dimensions: |
229 x 152mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
176 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-250964-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-03-250964-3 |
| Barcode: |
9781032509648 |
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