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Anonymous 2014-07-16 17:12:44 No.193

Hey /lit/, does anyone know of contemporary philosophers that write about technology and its relationship to humans and society? When I say contemporary I mean works put out within the past five years or so. I feel like with how rapidly the atmosphere of society has changed with the advent of social media, communications, and government surveillance there would be more people writing opinions on the subject in the ways that philosophers have addressed issues of morality and such in the past. I've been thinking it would be interesting to read what other people have to think, and by the nature of structured and well written philosophy, a welcome alternative to 3 lines of shitposting on anonymous image boards. Obviously RMS would probably be on the list, so does anyone else know of writers on these topics that are worth reading?

Anonymous 2014-07-20 07:14:42 No.194

Phillip k dick.

Anonymous 2014-07-25 13:37:30 No.196

William Gibson
you will love him

Anonymous 2014-07-28 01:22:19 No.225

>>193
Lyotard and Baudrillard.
>I feel like with how rapidly the atmosphere of society has changed with the advent of social media, communications, and government surveillance there would be more people writing opinions on the subject in the ways that philosophers have addressed issues of morality and such in the past.
Nothing new since the 50s. Back then everyone already had some ideas that their future would be like this.

Anonymous 2014-07-29 21:39:54 No.228

Nick Bostrom

Anonymous 2014-07-29 21:48:13 No.229

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In the vein of >>225, I would say Marshall McLuhan.

Anonymous 2015-01-29 23:37:49 No.756

Frank J Tipler's Physics of Immortality might be of interest. Would attach a PDF, however it's too large.

Anonymous 2015-01-30 04:17:02 No.761

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>>229

Anonymous 2015-01-31 08:35:09 No.763

Bernard Stiegler Technics and Time.

Anonymous 2015-02-01 21:26:35 No.766

Try Evgeny Morozov.

Anonymous 2015-06-20 12:26:41 No.1484

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>>761
McLuhan is a very interesting guy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNhRCRAL6sY

Another thinker i really like is Evgeny Morozov, he has a more sceptical view on technology (I adore his snarky writing style).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYHiE1GX1HI

Anonymous 2015-06-21 20:08:18 No.1490

http://www.thenewatlantis.com/
5 years is not much, I think AI and consciousness stuff is the most loud now but the site I linked has a lot of related articles.

Anonymous 2015-06-25 12:09:08 No.1509

>>194
>>196
>philosophers

>>225
>>229
>contemporary

Alexander Galloway and McKenzie Wark are the big two in contemporary not-pop media theorists. Try Galloway's the Interface Effect or their collab with Thacker, Excommunication.

Peter Sloterdijk and Vilem Flusser are great but lean more heavily towards philosophy.

Imo plain media theory is in general easy to read without much academic background, I started reading it in highschool, so there's no reason to settle with pop intellectuals like Morozov or Bogost.

Just go through MIT & Semiotext's publications and pull out anything that seems interesting.

Anonymous 2015-06-25 18:52:08 No.1512

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>>1509
Thank you for this post!

Anonymous 2015-06-28 15:01:06 No.1525

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Liquid modernity - Zygmunt Bauman

Anonymous 2015-06-29 07:24:17 No.1529

>>225
baudrillard is based

Anonymous 2015-07-17 11:28:28 No.1623

Besides McLuhan and Baudrillard, you might have a look into Heidegger; he doesn't fit your criteria of being new but some of the stuff he's written about technology (readiness-to-hand in Being and Time) is relevant. Dense as fuarrrk though, be warned.

In terms of other recommendations, I recently read The Machine Question, by David Gunkel. Pretty good, accessible to read. I also read The Shallows by Nicolas Carr there a few years back, but I remember it not being that good (easy to read though, and short. You'd probably finish it over a weekend).

Anonymous 2015-07-18 15:55:12 No.1626

>>1484
McLuhan is mentioned more than I thought he would.

When someone famous comes from your country it's hard to tell if he's actually famous or not.

Anonymous 2015-08-17 16:51:51 No.1789

Robots Will Steal Your Job But That's OK, Federico Pistono
Btw im thinking about writing a story about this /cyber/ guy who lives in a /cyber/ city and a girl who lives in a countryside. Both will take advantages of their places to change the world. Living free, the robots will do your job and you will be free to do what you want. Like the Venus Project.
What you think?

Anonymous 2015-08-21 07:48:21 No.1815

>>1626
Heh, there's famous and then there's "Canada famous"

Anonymous 2015-10-07 07:35:52 No.2187

Manuel deLanda - War in the Age of Intelligent Machines

Anonymous 2015-10-09 16:42:37 No.2194

>>1623
we've stepped outside the realm of technology but if you're gonna suggest heidegger may as well suggest derrida, IMO he did a better job with some of heidegger's ideas than heidegger did

Anonymous 2015-10-10 02:18:31 No.2200

there's a few people out there reading Heidegger in the context of tech. haven't read any myself so can't offer an opinion but it exists.

Anonymous 2015-10-18 08:09:06 No.2231

While not in the form of books, per-se, Christine Love has created a few VNs that deal with social media, the lack of privacy, and how people interact with technology in general.

Anonymous 2015-10-19 01:40:29 No.2232

>>2231
Ironically, the one that takes place in the far future is primarily focused on problems of the past.

However, "Don't Take It Personally" is painfully realistic.

Anonymous 2015-10-20 02:26:16 No.2241

This is pretty interesting:
http://www.hedweb.com/

I read it maybe 10 years ago but still very contemporary in its theme and speculation.

"The Hedonistic Imperative outlines how genetic engineering and nanotechnology will abolish suffering in all sentient life."

Anonymous 2015-10-22 15:17:06 No.2265

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>>193

Anonymous 2015-10-23 05:34:21 No.2269

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>>2187
Seconding this. Here's a copy of it in pdf (30mb):
https://u.teknik.io/7Hvi03.pdf

Anonymous 2015-10-23 07:10:26 No.2271

>>2269
thank you!