Publications

The art of living with ICTs

Author(s)

Mark Coeckelbergh

Abstract

This essay shows that a sharp distinction

between ethics and aesthetics is unfruitful for thinking about how to

live well with technologies, and in particular for understanding and

evaluating how we cope with human existential vulnerability, which is

crucially mediated by the development and use of technologies such as

electronic ICTs. It is argued that vulnerability coping is a matter of

ethics and art: it requires developing a kind of art and techne

in the sense that it always involves technologies and specific styles

of experiencing and dealing with vulnerability, which depend on social

and cultural context. It is suggested that we try to find better,

perhaps less modern styles of coping with our vulnerability, recognize

limits to our attempts to “design” our new forms, and explore what kinds

of technologies we need for this project.

Organisation(s)

External organisation(s)

De Montfort University

Journal

Foundations of Science

Volume

Pages

339-348

No. of pages

ISSN

1233-1821

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10699-015-9436-9

Publication date

2015

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

603113 Philosophy, 603122 Philosophy of technology

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

General, History and Philosophy of Science

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