Rousseau and the Future of Freedom: Science, Technology and the Nature of Authority

ISBN-13: 9781032045238 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 144 str.

The Netherlands) Deibe Eric (Delft University of Technology

Opis

Drawing on cases from the world of ‘free software’, this book examines Rousseau’s conception of freedom and its significance in the modern world of science and technology, where so much of our experience and activity is enwrapped by algorithms, from our property to our food, bodies, brains and, by extension, our liberty.

O autorze

Eric Deibel is a Lecturer of Science, Technology and Society at the engineering faculty of Bilkent University, Turkey, and is Assistant Professor at the political science faculty. He is a co-author of Recoding Life: Information and the Biopolitical.