coeckelbergh

Vice-President/ President-Elect SPT

Elected Vice-President/President-Elect of the Society for Philosophy and Technology (SPT), to become President in 2017. Election result and profile on SPT webpage: http://www.spt.org/election-result/

CFP:Symposium Embodied Cognition, Acting, and Performance

Co-organising Symposium on Embodied Cognition, Acting and Performance at AISB 2016 with M Bishop et al Call for Papers deadline 15 Feb

https://embodcogperformance.wordpress.com/aisb-symposium-2016/

Call for Papers

Call for papers: Special Issue of Philosophy & Technology on philosophy of financial technologies

Guest editors: Mark Coeckelbergh, Quinn DuPont, & Wessel Reijers

Click to access cfp-special-issue-philosophy-of-financial-technologies.pdf

new article on financial technology

Coeckelbergh, M. (2015). Money as Medium and Tool: Reading Simmel as a Philosopher of Technology to Understand Contemporary Financial ICTs and Media. Techne (online first)

This article explores the relevance of Georg Simmel’s phenomenology of money and interpretation of modernity for understanding and evaluating contemporary financial information and communication technologies (ICTs). It reads Simmel as a philosopher of technology and phenomenologist whose view of money as a medium, a “pure” tool, and a social institution can help us to think about contemporary financial media and technologies. The analysis focuses on the social-spatial implications of financial ICTs. It also makes links to media theory, in particular remediation theory and Marshall McLuhan, and refers to work in anthropology and geography of money to nuance the story of the progressive dematerialization and delocalization of modern life. The conclusion highlights Simmel’s continuing relevance for thinking about the relation between technologies and social change, and explores alternative social-financial media and institutions.

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