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O. Schürer, C. Müller, C. Haider, R. Trappl, C. Tsiourti:
"Demonstration: Variations of Mechanic Intelligence(s) / Panel 1";
Talk: The Future of Demonstration 2017 - VERMÖGEN, REAKTOR, Geblergasse 40, 1170 Wien (invited); 2017-10-31 - 2017-11-11.

In the age of automation, due to new technologies, the conventional, western, and largely humanistic understanding of the human being is questioned. The boundaries between human and machine, woman and man, subject and object, and nature and culture, are getting blurred. Together with our artificial creatures we now seem to live in a universe of promiscuity. The metamorphosis of the human and the human world results in significant political, economic, scientific, and aesthetic changes. Posthumanists discuss this crisis of the humanistic understanding of the human in the age of automation from various perspectives.

In panel 1, we would like to shed some light on the journey of the humanistic human being, its transformation into a posthuman being, visions of posthuman futures, the negative and positive effects, and the potential artificial alterities that we are about to meet on this way.

http://thefutureofdemonstration.net/e02/panel.html

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