A Critical Use of Foucault’s Art of Living

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 22 - Trang 323-327 - 2015
Marli Huijer1
1Faculty of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Tóm tắt

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.

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