February 2018 – Understanding Digital Events

All the speakers for the Colloquium on Understanding Digital Events, 14-6-18, are now confirmed.

Mark Coeckelbergh, University of Vienna, Austria, President of the Society for Philosophy of Technology
Malcolm Garrett, Manchester School of Art, UK Master of the RSA’s Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry
Yasushi Hirai, Fukuoka University, Japan, Convenor, Project Bergson Japan.
Chris Bush and Elizabeth Buie, SigmaUK Ltd, UK Delivering exceptional digital solutions and an improved user experience for all
Tina Rock, University of Dundee, UK Lecturer in Philosophy and Whitehead scholar
Bernd Stahl, de Montfort University, UK, Director of the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility

Abstracts for papers should be available soon, and a full programme will be published here at concrescence.org.uk when it is available.

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Concrescence

“The physical, and conceptual, for Whitehead, always go together, forming two poles within every entity. The physical or conceptual may be of more or less significance in each Actual Occasion, but both are always there. It is their integration, different every time, which makes up what Whitehead calls ‘concrescence’ – the process by which an Actual Occasion, or ‘event’, comes to be, becomes, and passes.” Kreps, D., (2018) Against Nature London: Routledge (forthcoming)

Against Nature: The Metaphysics of Information Systems

By David Kreps

“This book questions the nature of the business and social information systems so ubiquitous in contemporary life. Linking positivism, individualism, and market-fundamentalist economics at the root of these systems, it critiques the philosophical ground of this triumvirate as fundamentally against nature. Connecting counter-philosophies of the subject as a natural part of existence, with more collectivist and ecological economics, it presents a historical critique of the development of the academic field of information systems and offers a complex view of the nature of Nature through which we might reshape our approach to technology and to our economies to overcome the existential threat of climate change. As such, it will appeal to philosophers, social theorists, and scholars of science and technology studies with interests in the environment and ecology, as well as those working in the field of information systems.”

Month: February 2018

Colloquium Speakers confirmed