One of the great insights from the philosophy of technology is that the more our devices become integrated with our lives, the more they reframe our relationships to others, the world, and even our purposes. In other words, technological devices tend to carry us away, for better or for worse. Dominic Smith (Associate Professor, University of Dundee) and Mark Coeckelbergh (Professor, University of Austria) discuss the paradoxical, political, and historical dimensions of our relations to technology.

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Links Related to this Episode:
Dominic Smith (University of Dundee)
Mark Coeckelbergh (University of Austria, personal website)

Martin Heidegger (Wikipedia)
Walter Benjamin (Wikipedia)
Marshall McLuhan (Wikipedia)
Bruno Latour (Wikipedia)
Peter-Paul Verbeek (Wikipedia)
Robert Rosenberger (Georgia Tech)
Stacey Irwin (Millersville)
Bernard Stiegler (Wikipedia)
Thomas Hobbes (SEP)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (SEP)
Aristotle (SEP)

Benjamin Bratton, The Revenge of the Real (Verso)
Stuart Russell, Human Compatible (Wikipedia)
Carole Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Wikipedia)
Yuval Noah Harari (Author website)

Kaddish (Dominic’s band)

Pig Terrorism (Todd’s book)

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