Martin Heidegger
philosopher · 4 mentions across 4 readings
In this course
Heidegger anchors the course's concern with how technology and cybernetics shape human existence and perception—his thinking on physicality and embodiment appears here as a counterweight to purely computational or linguistic frameworks for understanding agency and knowledge. The readings invoke him to trouble the assumption that representation and linear time are natural or inevitable, positioning his critique of technological determinism alongside discussions of new materialist ontologies and cybernetic recursion that might exceed those limits. He functions as a theorist whose warning about science's subsumption into cybernetic logic remains urgent for a seminar examining AI's claims to model life itself.
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