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Document type
Journal articles

Document subtype
Full paper

Title
Towards the techno-social Uncanny

Participants in the publication
Alexander Matthias Gerner (Author)
Dep. História e Filosofia das Ciências
CFCUL

Summary
This paper explores a technical unfinished half-method [Halbzeug] of a metaphorology (Blumenberg) of the technological other in its variations and the philosophical mise-en-sce?ne of the techno-social uncanny. The roboticist Mori had revived the concept of a technological uncanny in human machine interaction in the spatial metaphor derived from a diagram of an uncanny valley in the reaction of a human being shaking an artificial hand in order to show why we feel a certain eeriness in relation to technological artefacts, a topic that gains importance today to reflect human technological automata relations with robots/AI/Avatars that mimic and socially resonate with humans and may even drive further technological transhumanism. Although in an artefact design approach uncanniness is said to be avoided in the human-like automaton-human encounter this paper dwells on the critic of techno- social otherness avoidance by technological overcoming of obstacles and thus argues for a cybernetic uncanny that can’t be avoided. This paper introduces in a broader sense than Mori’s a philosophical dramaturgy of Emmanuel Levinas’ temporal notion of the relation to the other, including a preliminary metaphorological variation of the temporal techno-social uncanny.\n


Institution
FACULDADE DE CIÊNCIAS DA UNIVERSIDADE DE LISBOA

Where published
Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia

Publication Identifiers
ISSN - 0870-5283,2183-461X

Address
Braga

Publisher
Aletheia - Associacao Cientifica e Cultural



Document Identifiers
DOI - https://doi.org/10.17990/rpf/2019_75_4_2171
URL - http://dx.doi.org/10.17990/rpf/2019_75_4_2171

Keywords
metaphorology philosophy of technology techno-social uncanny technological transhumanism temporality

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