Name: Don

Family Name: Ihde

Affiliation: Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York, USA

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Don Ihde is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Stony Brook University. He is also the Director of the Technoscience Research Group which hosts international Visiting Scholars, Postdocs and advanced Ph.D. students. Its seminar focuses upon philosophies of science and technology and science studies and in recent years has produced a number of panels presenting “postphenomenological research” projects. Don Ihde is the author of sixteen books, including Ironic Technics (2008), Listening and Voice 2nd edition (2007), Bodies in Technology (2002), and Postphenomenology: A Critical Companion to Ihde was published in 2006, edited by Evan Selinger.

Title of the presentation

IT clouds and cyberspace-time

Abstract

The Economist, (25, October, 2008) claims that,” Computing will be a borderless utility. Technically, it need not matter whether your data and aprograms are stored down the road or on the other side of the world; everything will look as if it is happening on the screen in front of you. On the other, geography still matters…and the internet, the cloud, will be a cosmopolitan prisoner to laws that are mainly local.” This prediction, as all techno-predictions, is ambiguous, but I shall undertake a phenomenological analysis of human experience in the new IT and cyber-technologies with respect to the transformation of space-time implied. For, if we invent our technologies, they in turn, ‘invent’ us as well. Here I will focus upon the transformed global space-times which are displayed via IT and the internet with a look at the implications for self and lifeworld. By noting the antinomy of ‘clouds/localities,’ multistable screen spaces, and mutable times I hope to provide a topography of the texture of this new technology.
 

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