Philosophy, Technology,
and the Body—Toward Justice
I am a media philosopher whose research intersects the concepts of body, politics, and technology to address current algorithmic rationality in terms of operations of identification and (mis)recognition that are closely connected to mechanisms of value extraction and selective exposure to risks. I am currently a research associate in the project Interact! (Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany). Extending my theory of touch as a condition for the emergence of meaning in my first book Theorie des graphischen Felds [A Theory of the Graphic Field] (Diaphanes, 2020), I am now writing my second monograph, “Toward a Hauntology of Touch.” Relying on poststructuralism, political philosophy, black studies, and the philosophy of technology, I am working through the concept of “touch” to uncover and describe modern and contemporary culture-technical operations that shape the contact between bodies and that determine forms of sociality marked by subjection, extraction, and dispossession. Instead, what I call the “hauntology of touch” proposes a non-violent form of dispossessed subjectivity.
Upcoming Talks
Von “outliers” zu “edge cases”: Machine Learnings Umgang mit Minderheitenpositionen (Conference: Critical Computing. Calculating with(in) Relations. Organized by Irina Raskin & Ulrike Bergermann, Braunschweig University of Art, Germany).
Upcoming Papers
“From Enclosure to Foreclosure and Beyond: Opening AI’s Totalizing Logic.” (Under review at AI & Society)
with Campolo, Alex. ‘“Desired Behaviors’: the Problem of Alignment and the Emergence of a Machine Learning Ethics.” (Under review at AI & Society)
“Counting, Recounting, and Accounting for—Machine Learning’s Ways of Future-Making.”
Recent Papers
with Campolo, Alexander C. “From Rules to Examples. Machine Learning’s Type of Authority.” Big Data & Society 10, no. 2 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517231188725.
with Cachoian-Schanz, Deanna. “‘One Unique You’: Affective Attachments and DNA-Testing as Ethnotechnological Apparatus.” Social Text 41, no. 1 (2023): 71–97. https://doi.org/10.1215/01642472-10174982.