Luca M. Possati serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands, specializing in human-technology interaction. He is also a senior researcher for the international research program ESDiT (Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies). Trained as a philosopher, he has held positions as a researcher and lecturer at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, the University of Porto in Portugal, and the Institut Catholique in France. He has also been an associate researcher with the Fonds Ricoeur and the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences). His research is primarily focused on the philosophy of technology, postphenomenology, psychology and philosophy of mind. Additionally, he engages in software studies. He has published numerous papers and books on phenomenology, and the history of contemporary philosophy. He is the author of The Algorithmic Unconscious. How Psychoanalysis Helps in Understanding AI (Routledge, 2021).
Organisations
2024 âExploring the geopolitical limits of Research Innovation and Technology Assessmentâ Science and Technology Studies. https://sciencetechnologystudies.journal.fi/article/view/137812
2023 âNegotiating actors. Toward a new paradigm for social roboticsâ TechneĚ. Research in Philosophy and Technology. https://philpapers.org/rec/POSNAA-3
2023 "Looking through the algorithmic unconscious. The noise as anti-mediationâ Angelaki. Journal of the Theoretical Humanities doi/full/10.1080/0969725X.2023.2216546
2023 âQuantum technologies: A Hermeneutic Technology Assessment Approachâ NanoEthics. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11569-023-00449-y
2023 Unconscious Networks. Philosophy Psychoanalysis and Artificial Intelligence. London: Routledge https://www.routledge.com/Unconscious-Networks-Philosophy-Psychoanalysis-and-Artificial-Intelligence/Possati/p/book/9781032385518
Courses academic year 2024/2025
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