Reading Group in the scope of Praxis-CFUL activities
Working language: English
Organizer: Antonio Oraldi (antonio.oraldi [at] edu.ulisboa.pt)
When: Wednesdays from 14h-16h, according to the calendar below
Where: Sala Pedro Hispano (Department of Philosophy)
Participation is open to everyone. However, please contact the organizer to know the relevant pages of the texts for each session.
The question of technology is becoming increasingly relevant as technology expands and affects most areas of life. This reading group will focus on some of the main authors who engaged with the question of technology. We will explore how technology has been theorized from a variety of perspectives – critical, ontological, anthropological, and political. Central questions will involve the relationship between technology and agency, the role of technology in history, the status of technology as ideology, the idea of automation, the environmental dimension of technology, and more. In the first series of this reading group, the aim is to highlight differences and points of contacts between some of the main perspectives on the place of technology in the social and political spheres.
Program
Session 1 | 01/03/2023
Habermas – “Science and Technology as Ideology”
Session 2 | 08/03
Heidegger – The Question Concerning Technology
Session 3 | 22/03
Marcuse – One-dimensional Man
Session 4 | 29/03
Anders – The Obsolescence of Man
Session 5 | 12/04
Foucault – Discipline and Punish
Session 6 | 26/04
Latour – “On Technical Mediation”
Session 7 | 03/05
Haraway – The Cyborg Manifesto