A new review of my book Digital Hermeneutics by A. Milhano has been published in Portuguese on the journal Trans/Form/Açao: https://revistas.marilia.unesp.br/index.php/transformacao/article/view/11422.

Together with Dario Rodighiero (Harvard MetaLab), we have started a project on the stock imagery of AI. Dario has scraped circa 7,500 images of AI from Shutterstock using Shutterscrape (https://github.com/chuanenlin/shutterscrape) and visualized them with Yale DHLab’s PixPlot (https://github.com/YaleDHLab/pix-plot). You can check the results here: https://rodighiero.github.io/AI-Imaginary/#. We are also collaborating with Marta Severo (Paris Nanterre) and Olivier Buisson (Inathèque), by testing for instance on our corpus the algorithm Snoop (https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02096036). The first results of this project have been presented in French at the conference “Que font les images de l’IA?” (Strasbourg 15 and 16 April 2021). The next presentations are at the SPT (Society for Philosophy and Technology) and 4S (Society for Social Studies of Science) online conferences in June and September.

The book Interpreting “Technology: Ricoeur on Questions Concerning Ethics and Philosophy of Technology” I have co-edited with Wessel Reijers and Mark Coeckelbergh will be released soon by Rowman & Littlefield for the series “Philosophy, Technology, and Society”. You can see here below the cover with the tremendous endorsement by Charles M. Ess. The volume includes contributions of Ernst Wolff, Eoin Carney, Bas de Boer and Jonne Hoek, David M. Kaplan, Bruno Gransche, Annemie Halsema, Noel Fitzpatrick, David Lewin, Geoffrey Dierckxsens, Guido Gorgoni and Robert Gianni, Alain Loute, Todd S. Mei, Eric Chown and Fernando Nascimento, Esther Keymolen.

A new article of mine has been just published in the journal Foundations of Science. The article, titled “The Transcendental of Technology is Said in Many Ways”, is a comment to Pieter Lemmens’ article “Thinking Technology Big Again”, published in the same journal.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10699-020-09758-x

François-David Sebbah and I are editing a special issue of the journal Philosophy & Technology dedicated to “Philosophy of Technology and the French Thought”.

Deadline: August 1st, 2021.

https://www.springer.com/journal/13347/updates/18486884

On Monday, January 18 at 6 pm I will discuss my book Digital Hermeneutics with the members of the research group in Digital Culture of the University of Hagen.

For information and registration, https://www.fernuni-hagen.de/forschung/schwerpunkte/digitale-kultur/veranstaltungen.shtml

On January 1st 2021, I have reached the IZEW, the International Center for Ethics in Sciences of the University of Tübingen, as a research fellow. For the next three years, I will be involved in several research projects, and I will also have the opportunity to develop my own researches in digital hermeneutics.

My new article “The Datafication of the Worldview” has been published in AI & Society journal.

You can read it online via this link: https://rdcu.be/b4LHh

You can also download a pre-peer reviewed version of it:

ROMELE AI&SOC FINAL

On June 24, I will deliver a keynote lecture at the OAP (Organizations, Artifacts & Practices) workshop at the University of California, Berkeley.

The event can be followed online.

https://www.eventbrite.fr/e/billets-10th-organizations-artifacts-practices-oap-workshop-84911024159

Lo Sguardo. Journal of Philosophy launches a call for proposals for a special issue on Hexis, Habitus, Habits (N. XXXI, February 2021).

Deadline for abstract’s submission: June 20, 2020.

Notification of acceptance: July 10, 2020.

Submission of the article: December 2020.

Guest editors: Miriam Aiello, Gabriella Paolucci, Alberto Romele.

http://www.losguardo.net/en/call-for-proposals-hexis-habitus-habit-how-to-think-the-second-nature?fbclid=IwAR08QFv2rwHv-tM3iGl2jZcwHUNJKUXf_PwzTeJ9W3hphqJHfDDRZYGut-U