The analysis of science fiction narratives is valuable to explore possible futures. This article analyzes the representation technology in television series Years and (2019), a co-production by BBC HBO created Russell T Davies. audiovisual narrative depicts key problems present near future, enabling identification new socio-technological paradigms. We applied method Causal Layered Analysis (CLA...

A new chapter in the history of technology seems to be unleashed. Until recently, man-made technologies basically functioned as prostheses, as external prosthetic extensions of human bodies, directed towards the outside world, allowing us to interact with and manipulate objects more effectively, eventually transforming humans into ‘prosthesis-gods’ (Freud 1930). Currently, technological devices...

This book belongs to the category describing itself as "thought provoking". For once this claim is well grounded. Quite explicitly, the author sets out to apply the methods of Foucault to the analysis of conceptual change within medicine in the present century. Although not a slavish imitation of Foucault, the hand and name of the master are never far from sight. But the book is also sufficient...

Diese Dissertation ist auf den Internetseiten der Hochschulbibliothek online verfügbar. Sieh es mir nach, wenn ich weine. Acknowledgements I would like to express my deep gratitude towards Professor Hermann Ney, who granted me the possibility to, in his own words, build machines instead of pressing knobs and turning wheels. His proficiency in matters of science , his relentless search for the n...

We are now rethinking the idea of electronic democracy. Today nobody is looking at e-democracy from the perspective of a living room, push button, instant referenda democracy, hi the electronic age it is more and more evident that we are facing a complex evolution of the functioning of political systems that democracy is becoming not direct, but continuous; that we can look at an extreme democr...

At the Second Conference on Philosophical Aspects of Information Systems in 1998 the contributors presented their views with the help of various metaphors and frameworks including Dialectics, Constructivism, Soft Systems Methods, Autopoiesis, and the Panopticon. A meta-system that could encompass these frameworks would help to develop the discussion. Nomology, a decisionscience-based meta-syste...