2021 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - From the Fetish to the Cyborg: Technology as a Humanistic Problem

This event took place on November 1st at 5pm.
Abstract from the email flyer: "In this lecture, Johnson introduces the relationship between digital technology and the problem of so-called fetishism (or
animistic religion) by interpreting the distinction between people and objects. He demonstrates how a classic problem
of materiality has been reintroduced through recent technological innovations in such forms as Artificial Intelligence and
cybernetics (human-machine combining)."

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2021 Walter A. Strauss Lecture Series - From the Fetish to the Cyborg: Technology as a Humanistic Problem

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2021-11-01

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This event took place on November 1st at 5pm.
Abstract from the email flyer: "In this lecture, Johnson introduces the relationship between digital technology and the problem of so-called fetishism (or
animistic religion) by interpreting the distinction between people and objects. He demonstrates how a classic problem
of materiality has been reintroduced through recent technological innovations in such forms as Artificial Intelligence and
cybernetics (human-machine combining)."

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