*Please distribute to others who may be interested...* You are hereby invited to the next weekly seminar in our interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>(ECCO) and theGlobal Brain Institute<http://www.globalbraininstitute.org/>(GBI).
*Time*:* Friday, May 25th, *14:00-16:00 p.m *Place*: *Room 3B217 * (building B, level 3, From the elevator take the long corridor to the right, to its end), on the VUB Campus Etterbeek (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels), Free entrance: everybody welcome! * * ------------------------------ 'The Interrelatedness of Many Things': Toward a McLuhanist Philosophy of Technology *Yoni Van Den Eede* <http://nl-nl.facebook.com/yonivandeneede>* ( Faculty of Philosophy, VUB)* Abstract: Can media theorist Marshall McLuhan be "read" as a full-blown philosopher of technology? We attempt to do so, by reformulating his ideas in the context of a systematic "philosophy of media." The concept of "human-technology relationships" is deployed as guiding metaphor. And we proceed, practically, by synthesizing McLuhan's approach with that of contemporary philosophers of technology, hence constituting a crucial overall link between the disciplines of Media Ecology and contemporary Philosophy of Technology. References: Van Den Eede, Yoni. 2010. βIn Between Us: On the Transparency and Opacity of Technological Mediation.β Foundations of Science 16 (2-3): 139β159. doi:10.1007/s10699-010-9190-y. The Speaker: Yoni Van Den Eede is affiliated to the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences at the VUB as a Ph.D. fellow of the Research Foundation β Flanders (FWO). He conducts research into the philosophy of technology, media theory, and media ecology, with an emphasis on phenomenological, cultural, and existential themes. His doctoral dissertation, 'Amor Technologiae,' synthesizes the work of Marshall McLuhan with diverse approaches in the contemporary philosophy of technology, in that way reformulating McLuhan's ideas in the context of a systematic 'philosophy of media,' that circles around the notion and metaphor of 'human-technology relationships.' *Speaker's website:* http://www.westofthediamond.com. ------------------------------ * Forthcoming ECCO/GBI seminars* *** June 1 (ECCO/GBI) *The social dynamics of ontological commitment Christophe Debruyne <http://www.linkedin.com/in/christophedebruyne>(STARlab, VUB) * June 8 (ECCO) *Who needs a worldview ? S.N. Balagangadhara <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._N._Balagangadhara> (aka Balu) (Center for Comparative Science of Cultures, University of Ghent) * June 15 (ECCO)* The ACTION of making DISTINCTIONS Petter Braathen <http://memetor.com/petter-braathen/> (Memetor) * June 22 (ECCO/GBI)* Chemical Organizations Theory Tomas Veloz <https://people.ok.ubc.ca/tomveloz/homepage.htm>* *(University of British Columbia) More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) ECCO/GBI Seminar Coordinator Email: [email protected] http://clea.academia.edu/DavidWeinbaum
