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SUMMARY:Fourth Padova Summer School on Philosophy and Cultural Studies of Technology
DESCRIPTION:If you are interested to contribute to our discussions: please describe your motivation and interest (no more than 3 pages) and send it along with a CV by June 5 to Andrea Gentili - andrea.gentili.2@phd.unipd.it\n\n Animal Technologies\nOne of the first chapters in the history of technology concerns the domestication and breeding of animals, their technological deployment in agriculture, transport, mining, sacrificial rituals. At the same time, for hunters and gatherers, miners and urban dwellers alike, animals structured their technical practices and daily routines. Still today animal nature is harnessed, controlled, and transformed through technology, still today many human practices are shaped by our interactions with animals, and especially today we become aware of our co-dependency.\nGenome editing offers strategies to enhance animal performance, biorobotics exploits animal behavior, One Health research fuses human and veterinary medicine with the environmental sciences. Technological devices have taken the place of pets, animals for use are monitored, fed, even stimulated and entertained by phone apps and virtual reality games.\nThe triad of human-animal-machine creates ever new constellations which challenge the boundaries between them:\nThere is a wide range of phenomena that gives rise to cross-cutting questions:\n 	Animals as technological tools - natural resource and capital, weaponized, models for disease and biomimetics, environmental indicators, from micro-organisms to carrier-pigeons 	Technologies of animals - the dam building beaver, the singing whale, the nesting bird, the functional and aesthetic appropriation and adaptation of landscapes and urban environments 	Technologies for animals – animal husbandry, grooming, feeding, killing, entertaining animals in stables and homes, habitat construction in aquariums and game parks 	Enhancement and innovation – from medical treatment to tailoring, breeding, genetically engineered affordances, optimized for agrobusiness, entertainment, sports 	Overcoming animal use – cultured meat, precision and biomass fermentation, substitutes for animal experiments, sanctuaries, deification and taboo 	Circensic colonization - the fabrication and spectacular performance of wildness and taming 	Pure Emotion - the inexhaustible cuteness of animals, mirroring human desire in images and texts, their symbolic function in fables, fairy tales, political rhetoric, the great chain of being 	Animated technology - devices as pets, AI translation tools, instructing and understanding cats and dogs, vacuum cleaners and smart devices, biologically inspired technical form and function 	Disciplinary actions - the conquest of human animal nature, the erasure, invisibilization, sublimation of animal agency through scientific empowerment and technical progress \n\nCross-cutting questions for the philosophy and cultural study of technology:\n 	Kinship, moral community and their technological transformation - conceived as cooperation, cohabitation, coproduction, or codependency. 	Technology games, human and animal forms of life - conceived as interface, intersection, in-formation, inclusion, or integration. 	Analog and digital intelligence - limits and possibilities of communication, mutual recognition, perception, processing and sharing of information. 	Anthropocene, Chthulucene, Technocene - eco-historical positioning for planetary survival \nTo get more information about the presentations, but also details such as whom to contact and some interesting facts about Padova please take a look at the flyer link on the right \n\n
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