[ecrea] Continental Philosophy and Information Technology Workshop

*SCCP:CP+IT*

9:15am-5:30pm, 1^st December 2017

Dalhousie Building, Room 2S16, University of Dundee

This open workshop will bring together scholars engaging with 
information technologies within the continental philosophical tradition, 
with the aim of sharing ideas and fostering this emerging area of 
research. The broad area of Philosophy of Information and Computing is a 
burgeoning one, but the significant treatment of these issues in the 
continental tradition remains underexplored. The advent of the 
‘information society’ raises many questions which have been usefully 
addressed in this tradition, such as how technologies change our 
conception of what it means to be human, the variability of values in 
relation to cultural change, the nature and function of digital art, and 
a host of other existential, social, political, and aesthetic questions. 
Well-known philosophers such as Heidegger and Deleuze have addressed 
these questions through intermittent engagements with issues such as 
cybernetics, the concept of information in relation to language and 
knowledge, and the ‘control society.’ Other continental philosophers who 
have dedicated substantial bodies of work to understanding information 
in its technical sense, such as Gilbert Simondon and Raymond Ruyer, have 
recently begun to be rediscovered. Drawing on and extending these 
resources, exciting new work is now being done in this area by younger 
researchers. The aim of the workshop is to bring together such 
researchers to engage in dialogue, debate ideas, and further develop the 
rich potentials of continental approaches to information technology.

Speakers: Beatrice Fazi (University of Sussex), Jon Roffe (University of 
New South Wales), Laura Lotti (University of New South Wales), Andrew 
Illiadis (Temple University), Dominic Smith (University of Dundee), and 
Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee).

All welcome. This workshop is open to all staff and students of the 
University of Dundee, of other universities, and to members of the 
general public. The formal proceedings will be followed by drinks at a 
local bar, and then dinner. No need to book except if you would like to 
attend the dinner. For dinner bookings or any inquiries, please contact 
Ashley Woodward: (a.z.woodward /at/ dundee.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(a.z.woodward /at/ dundee.ac.uk)>

For further information: 
https://scot-cont-phil.org/continental-philosophy-and-information-technology-workshop/



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