DRC Bangkok 2012 Workshop: Humans and Technology Relationship
Dates: Deadline for abstracts 29 February 2012
Dates: Workshop 1 July 2012
Location: Bangkok, Thailand
Website: http://drs2012bangkok.org/index.php?page=Workshops#workshop9
This workshop invites paper presentations discussing the relationship between humans and technology and how this relationship informs design.
Recent debates in the fields of artificial consciousness, human enhancement, technology design and art, amongst others, indicate that there is a crisis in the current perception of the relationship between humans and technology. The disputes and deliberations exploring this crisis are pivoting around two opposing views: Posthumanism and Technoantagonism.
Posthumanism, gaining wide-spread support from philosophers, artists and technology designers argues that humans cannot be seen as separate from their natural and technological environment. That consciousness spreads beyond the confines of the brain, through body's technological extensions into an ever-changing system.
Technoantagonsim offers a conflictingly diverse vision, believing the relationship between humans and technology to be of antagonistic nature and any radical technological agency behind change as having the ability to distress, dislodge and ultimately destroy an inherent human nature or soul.
Both fractions, however, place strong emphases on the importance active debates have within the field and the impact these have on any practical development of new and emerging technologies which further impacts upon the relationship between humans and their technological environment.
This is a call for papers that consider practical, theoretical and philosophical positions that place the relationship between humans and technology at its pivotal core. These papers could discuss new and emerging technologies and their applications, philosophical positions within the field, technology design theory amongst many other subjects, however they have to contribute and consider the debate that explores and pushes the boundaries of our current understanding of the relationship between humans and technology.
Submissions:
Please prepare an abstract submission of a maximum of 500 words including title, your names and affiliations and references and send it to Sylvia.tzvetanovayung@ntu.ac.uk before 29 February 2012. All abstracts will be pier reviewed. Further information will follow by e-mail.
Important dates:
29 February 2012: Abstracts submission
30 March 2012: Paper submission
15 April 2012: Accepted papers notifications and reviews
30 April 2012: Deadline for the presenters registration
15 May 2012: Final papers submissions
1 July 2012: Workshop will take place
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