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Communication Dans Un Congrès Année : 2018

Cyborg Relations. Between Technologies and Imaginaries

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Peter-Paul Verbeek (2011, 144) introduced the concept of “cyborg relations” as a radical variant of embodied relations, where “technologies actually merge with the human body [...]”. This presentation has a twofold aim. Theoretically, it seeks to challenge some of the overstatements of the empirical turn that has dominated the philosophy of technology over the past two decades. While the philosophy of technology has often been content to describe (and celebrate) our technical extensions and hybridizations, we will emphasize the difficulties, fears, hopes, and beliefs that inherently mediate this technological mediation. In other words, we aim to highlight how technologies and our adaptations to them are always encapsulated in a linguistic, symbolic, and ultimately imaginary universe (Jasanoff and Kim 2015). Empirically (as well as epistemologically and methodologically), we will discuss research currently being conducted within our research unit (ETHICS – EA7446) at Lille Catholic University in collaboration with the Centre l’Espoir, a prosthetic center specializing in lower extremity prosthetics. The research investigates the technological imaginaries of various stakeholders at the center, from directors to patients. Specifically, we are 1) analyzing (through “technological scenarizations” – see Grandjean and Lobet-Maris 2012) the conflicts and variations between three imaginaries and models: miserabilist (where the patient is seen or sees herself as disabled), social (where disability is viewed as a result of social constructions), and utopic (where the patient is seen or sees herself as an enhanced individual); and 2) considering the empowering and disempowering effects of these imaginaries on cyborg relations, i.e., the relationships patients form with their world and themselves through their prostheses.
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hal-04595252 , version 1 (31-05-2024)

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David Doat, Alberto Romele, Alain Loute. Cyborg Relations. Between Technologies and Imaginaries. Human-Technology Relations: Postphenomenology and Philosophy of Technology, Peter-Paul Verbeek; Twente University, Jul 2018, Twente, Netherlands. ⟨hal-04595252⟩
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