Towards reconciliation or mediated non-identity? Feenberg’s aesthetic critique of technology

Nietzsche's aesthetic critique of Darwin.

Despite his position as one of the first philosophers to write in the "post-Darwinian" world, the critique of Darwin by Friedrich Nietzsche is often ignored for a host of unsatisfactory reasons. I argue that Nietzsche's critique of Darwin is important to the study of both Nietzsche's and Darwin's impact on philosophy. Further, I show that the central claims of Nietzsche's critique have been bro...

“ From Participatory Art Forms to Interactive Culture : Towards a Critique of the Aesthetic Economy ” ∗

Do participatory art forms and relational aesthetics constitute a background for the growingly interactive culture of today? Do they express the same ideals or are they different ideologies? Why is modern and contemporary culture so concerned with the spectator, be it the art lover, TV audiences, or internet users? Why, in spite of their different scopes, are media (art included) so interested ...

Technology Critique: ReMarkable Texts

ReMarkable Texts (RMT) is an “electronic student notebook” currently under development by Brown Computer Science Department's Computer Graphics Group. Running on a TabletPC, the system aims to replace and augment the standard paper notebook with an electronic device. RMT offers a variety of tools for manipulating and annotating documents, including simple note-taking with the Tablet's stylus, s...

Performing Critique: Towards a Non-Representational Theatre in Britain

Towards Ontological Reconciliation for Agents

This paper addresses issues faced by agents operating in large-scale multi-cultural environments. We argue for systems that are tolerant of heterogeneity. The discussion is illustrated with a running example of researching and comparing university web sites, which is a realistic scenario representative of many current knowledge management tasks that would benefit from agent assistance. We discu...