LOW RESOLUTION
Classes on the philosophy of technology
Announcement:
The Philippines is hit hard by typhoon Ulysses (Vamco). Members of our team are heavily affected by the flash floods and have been evacuated (https://www.rappler.com/tropical-cyclones). With this, the Palihan Team has decided to reschedule Low Resolution: Being and Technology in order to focus on recovery first.
The new date:
December 6
Philippines 9am – 12 noon
Netherlands 2am – 5am
December 5 (U.S.)
New Mexico 6pm – 9pm
New York 8pm – 11pm
Original date:
November 14/15, 2020
Kwago
1403 Apolinario, corner Heneral Estrella, Bangkal, 1233 Makati, Philippines
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For the first class, “Being and Technology,” we are looking into technological developments that have started to explicitly interfere with human nature. How do these technologies influence and affect our ideas of self, community and society? What constitutes human nature if the self is avatarized? How do we love in between screens? How do we form solidarities? If we can make robots that can make poetry and art on their own, what becomes of human creativity? How do technologies rewrite human behavior and the way we think? This course examines how technology is rewiring human nature and social relations. Do we embrace machines or resist change?
SPEAKERS
Ramon Guillermo
Sasha Stiles (@sashastiles)
Iain Thomson (@iainthomson)
MODERATORS
Margarita Blanco (@_theblancspace)
Roy Voragen (@royvoragen)
INCLUSIONS
🧫Access to our learning lab and community on Slack
🎓 Certificate of participation
📚 PDF versions of the speaker presentations with sources
🖊️Writing exercises
Enroll here: https://isipkwago.carrd.co/
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ABOUT THE SPEAKERS AND MODERATORS
Iain D. Thomson is an American philosopher and Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Mexico. Thomson studied as an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, where he worked with Hubert Dreyfus, and then earned his Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of California, San Diego. As a visiting graduate student at UC Irvine, he also studied with Jacques Derrida. He is known for his expertise on Heidegger’s philosophy, philosophy of education, philosophy of technology, philosophy of art, philosophy of literature and environmental philosophy.
Thomson received the Gunter Starkey Award for Teaching Excellence and a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Research Fellowship. He is featured in Tao Ruspoli’s film Being in the World. His articles on Heidegger have been published in such journals as Inquiry, Journal of the History of Philosophy, The Harvard Review of Philosophy, the International Journal of Philosophical Studies, and the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology.
Ramon Guillermo is a Filipino novelist, translator, poet, union leader, and scholar in the field of Southeast Asian Studies. A graduate of Philippine Science High School, he received his B.A. and M.A. in Philippine Studies from the University of the Philippines Diliman, and his Ph.D. in Southeast Asian Studies (Austronestik) from University of Hamburg in Germany. Guillermo taught for many years at the UP Department of Filipino and Philippine Literature (DFPP) before transferring to the Center for International Studies (CIS) at UP Diliman. He also serves as a fellow of the UP Institute for Creative Writing (ICW). A long-time activist, in 2018 he was elected to be the faculty representative to the Board of Regents (BOR) of the University of the Philippines, the highest governing body of the University. According to the critic and literary historian Resil Mojares, “In the Philippines, the value of digital or ‘computational’ criticism is demonstrated in the admirable work of Ramon Guillermo in the field of translation studies.”
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramon_Guillermo
Sasha Stiles is a US-based poet and artist who works at the intersection of text and technology. She fuses elements of poetics, artificial intelligence, coding, translation, concrete poetry, and digital and conceptual art. Her practice challenges our notions of what makes us human and what makes machines.
Margarita Blanco is a Filipina educator based in the US. She got her Bachelor of Science in Education minor in Philosophy at University of New Mexico.
Roy Voragen graduated from the University of Amsterdam, where he got his double masters in both philosophy and political science. He taught at universities in Bandung and Jakarta for a decade. Since 2010, he has worked as a curator and writer. He has curated, organized and participated in and consulted on projects, talks, workshops and seminars across Southeast Asia. Beside his curatorial practice, he writes and publishes conceptual poetry.
ABOUT PALIHAN
Kwago’s center for trial and error, Palihan proposes a post academic, practice-led, co-autonomous approach to learning. Palihan favors contextualized forms of knowledge and transformative education. We voice and listen to antidisciplinary perspectives and dissenting positions to nurture nuanced thinking and multilayered modes of understanding. Palihan learns by doing, trying and failing.
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ABOUT KWAGO
Kwago is an independent research and publishing laboratory based in the Philippines. We develop exhibitions, publications, programs and projects to create spaces centered on community, collaborations and collective reimagining of authorship, access and distribution. We believe in the power of paper, ink and code as tools for emancipatory pedagogy. The distinction between reading, writing, curating, cooking, drinking, dancing, talking, listening, coding, composing, publishing, resisting, failing, cooperating, and other gestures are fluid to us.
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