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A Critical Use of Foucault’s Art of Living

Foucault’s vocabulary of arts of existence might be helpful to problematize the entwinement of humans and technology and to search for new types of hybrid selves. However, to be a serious new ethical vocabulary for technology, this art of existence should be supplemented with an ongoing critical dis...

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Autor principal: Huijer, Marli
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5442202/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28603442
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10699-015-9441-z
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Sumario:Foucault’s vocabulary of arts of existence might be helpful to problematize the entwinement of humans and technology and to search for new types of hybrid selves. However, to be a serious new ethical vocabulary for technology, this art of existence should be supplemented with an ongoing critical discourse of technologies, including a critical analysis of the subjectivities imposed by technologies, and should be supplemented with new medical and philosophical regimens for an appropriate use of technologies.