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Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology

Gestures and Artefacts

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  • Integrates empirical and theoretical perspectives on human development and technology
  • Presents cutting-edge approaches to the human environment interaction, contextualized by historical material from discursive traditions
  • Collects chapters from experts at the centre of philosophy of technology

Part of the book series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology (POET, volume 46)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

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About this book

This book investigates the relationships between gestures and artefacts theoretically and historically, by analyzing different phenomena stemming from a variety of fields such as robotics, archaeology, gesture studies, anthropology, philosophy, and gestural practices like choreography, music performance, and composition. It underlines how embodiment and technology change the interplay between maker and artefact over time and appeals to students and researchers in these fields. Its goal is to enable the reader to understand that the recurring topics and questions as well as multi-level similarities are by no means accidental, but can best be understood if one pays attention to the intertwinements of materiality and cognition, praxis and techne.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

    Thiemo Breyer

  • CICANT, Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal

    Alexander Matthias Gerner

  • FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Niklas Grouls

  • CRC Media of Cooperation, University of Siegen, Siegen, Germany

    Johannes F.M. Schick

About the editors

Thiemo Breyer is Professor for Phenomenology and Anthropology at the Department of Philosophy and Director of the Husserl Archives, University of Cologne (Germany). His research interests include embodiment, perception, and affectivity, as well as the philosophy of science and technology. Important publications: On the Topology of Cultural Memory (2007), Attentionalität und Intentionalität (2011), Verkörperte Intersubjektivität und Empathie (2015), Perspectives on the Philosophy of Culture (co-ed. with Elio Antonucci and Marco Cavallaro, 2022). 

Alexander Gerner is Auxiliary Professor and Researcher at Cicant, Universidade Lusófona and FilmEU, European University, based in Lisbon, Portugal. He works on Dramaturgies and Technologies of becoming other from the perspective of performative and cinematic arts. He investigates conceptual relationships and praxis between pervasive digital technologies, creativity and persuasion, and interdisciplinary resonances in between philosophy, technology, aesthetics and ethics. His research interests include philosophy of technology, computer, art & society, media and the digital; diagrammatic praxis, philosophy of gesture, hacking cultures and alterity, philosophy of embodied cognitive enhancement,AI avatars and anthropology of technology, philosophies of attention, dramaturgies of film, play and performative media, phenomenology and aesthetics, generative AI aesthetics and (h)acktivism of green and digital transitions. Recently he started  proposing improvisational, turbulence-driven strategies for a diagonal dialogues and encounters of open-thinking collectives to address the climate crisis and other (technological-political-aesthetic) uncertainties for realizing future commons (e.g. Quantum Communication commons in the global south).

Niklas Grouls is a Research Coordinator at the Research Center “Work – Education – Digitalization” at the University of Hagen as well as a professional grant consultant. His interests lie in the field of history and theory of science as well as philosophical methodology. 

Johannes Schick is currently scientific coordinator of the Collaborative Research Center 1187 “Media of Cooperation” at the University of Siegen (Germany). From 2017 to 2021 he ledthe research project “Action, Operation, Gesture: Technology as Interdisciplinary Anthropology” at the a.r.t.e.s. Graduate School for the Humanities, University of Cologne (Germany). From 2013 to 2017 he was a post-doctoral research fellow at the Research Lab “Transformation of Life” (a.r.t.e.s.). His current research focuses on interdisciplinary (techno-)anthropology, French epistemology, philosophy of life and the relation of anthropology and philosophy. He is a member of the editorial board of the Durkheimian Studies (new series). Furthermore, he is interested in phenomenological psychiatry and the phenomenon of creativity. In his PhD thesis he focused on the relation of intuition and emotion in the philosophy of Henri Bergson (published as: Erlebte Wirklichkeit. Zum Verhältnis von Intuition zu Emotion bei Henri Bergson (2012).  

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Diachronic Perspectives on Embodiment and Technology

  • Book Subtitle: Gestures and Artefacts

  • Editors: Thiemo Breyer, Alexander Matthias Gerner, Niklas Grouls, Johannes F.M. Schick

  • Series Title: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-50085-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50084-8Published: 13 March 2024

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-50087-9Due: 01 April 2024

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-50085-5Published: 12 March 2024

  • Series ISSN: 1879-7202

  • Series E-ISSN: 1879-7210

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VI, 187

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 12 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Philosophy of Technology, Social Anthropology, Robotics and Automation

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