Coloquio “El impacto social, moral y político de la tecnología virtual”

Participan Alfonso Ballesteros, Michael Barnes, Claire Benn, Sarra Bouabdeli, Leandro de Brasi, Cassie Finley, TQ George, Spencer Ivy, Nicola Liberati, Yonathan Listik, Kenneth Merrill, Kylie Musolf, Claudio Gutiérrez, Daniel O’Shiel, Matías Quer, Rachel Taylor-Fergusson.

Se trata del tercer y último taller sobre virtualidad, que se concentrará en algunos de los impactos sociales, morales y políticos concretos de la tecnología virtual, ahora y en adelante. Con el gran auge y la influencia de las tecnologías virtuales recientes (como las redes sociales y los juegos en línea, así como las nuevas tecnologías de realidad virtual, aumentada y mixta (VR, AR y MR respectivamente)), es cada vez más urgente comprender sus diversas influencias y efectos sociales y de otro tipo.

Programa / Programme

Online event, all times are Chilean. Contact [email protected] for further information.

Friday 22^nd January 2021

10:00-10:30: Introduction.
10:30-11:15: Alfonso Ballesteros (Universidad Miguel Hernández, Elche, Spain), ‘Digitocracy and its Subjects: the Rise of Animal Digitalis’.
11:15-12:00: Matías Quer (Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile), ‘New Digital Technologies: Between Crypto-Anarchism and New Totalitarianism’.
12:45-13:30: Michael Barnes (University of Oklahoma, US), ‘The Promise and Peril of Bringing Speech Act Theory Online’.
13:30-14:15: Cassie Finley (University of Iowa, US), ‘Assigning Moral Responsibility in Adversarial Attacks on AI’.
14:15-15:00: TQ George (University of Iowa, US), ‘Pseudo-Good Robots Are Good Enough’.
15:45-16:30: Sarra Bouabdeli (University of Reading, UK), ‘VR as an Empathy and Prosocial Behaviour Machine’.
16:30-17:15: Claire Benn (The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia), ‘The Sympathy Machine: Virtual Reality and Ethical Enhancement’.
17:15-18:00: Rachel Taylor-Fergusson (University of Calgary, Canada), ‘Environmental Sustainability and Virtual Reality’.

Saturday 23^rd January

10:00-10:45: Nicola Liberati (Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China), ‘MR and Smart Textiles: A Phenomenological Approach to the Change in Identity and Emotions Through Digital Devices’.
10:45-11:30: Kylie Musolf (George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia, US), ‘Bitcoin: A Marxian Analysis’.
12:00-12:45: Yonathan Listik (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands), ‘Technology and Political Stupidity’.
12:45-13:30: Spencer Ivy (University of Utah, US), ‘Responsible Automation in the Digital Age’.
13:30-14:15: Leandro De Brasi (King’s College London, UK) and Claudio Gutierrez (Universidad de Chile, Santiago), ‘Democratic Deliberation in the Virtual World’.
15:00-15:45: Daniel O’Shiel (Universidad Diego Portales, Santiago, Chile), ‘Imaginary and Real Engagement: Social Media and Activism’.
15:45-16:30: Kenneth Merrill (Independent Scholar, California, US), ‘Going Into Nearness: Heidegger’s Move From Technological Autonomy to Ontological Freedom’.
16:45-18:00: Round up and final discussion.