Ravelijn

dr. N. Gertz (Nolen)

Associate Professor
BMS-TPS-PHIL
Ravelijn 4276
n.gertz@utwente.nl
+31534894239
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Nolen Gertz is Associate Professor of Applied Philosophy at the University of Twente, the Coordinator of the Human Condition Research Line of ESDIT, and a Senior Researcher of the 4TU.Centre for Ethics and Technology. His research focuses primarily on the intersection of political philosophy, existential phenomenology, and philosophy of technology. He is the author of  The Philosophy of War and Exile (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2014),  Nihilism and Technology (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2018), and Nihilism (MIT Press, 2019). His work has appeared in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and on the ABC Australia website, as well as in interviews for BBC World, Al Jazeera, Austrian Public Radio, Ireland's National Independent Radio, and France's Philosophie Magazine.

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  • Social Sciences

    • Technology
    • Philosophy
    • Responsibility
    • Armed Forces

  • Arts and Humanities

    • Facebook
    • Crisis
    • Analytical Method
    • Virtual

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2024

Beauvoir versus Behavior Change: Introducing Existential Ethics to the Politics of Design (2024)Design issues, 40(2), 56-67. Gertz, N. & Ozkaramanli - Leerkes, D.https://doi.org/10.1162/desi_a_00755Moralizing Radio Frequency (RF) Photography Using Techno-Moral Scenarios (2024)In 2024 IEEE 29th International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA 2024 (IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation, ETFA). IEEE. Cammers-Goodwin, S., Gertz, N. & Aydin, C.https://doi.org/10.1109/ETFA61755.2024.10710955Nihilism and Technology (2024)[Book/Report › Book]. Rowman & Littlefield International. Gertz, N.Technology and the Digital World (2024)In The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology (pp. 460-468). Taylor & Francis. Gertz, N.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197430-47

2023

Posthumanism’s Revolt Against Responsibility: Refuting philosophies that welcome human extinction (2023)Commonweal. Gertz, N.https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/kirsch-revolt-gertz-post-human-transhumanism-haraway-climateMore than Machines?: Jacques Ellul on AI’s real threat to humanity (2023)Commonweal, 150(8), 24-28. Gertz, N.https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/jacques-ellul-gertz-artificial-intelligence-AI-WGA-technologyChatGPT: the route to loneliness?: No comfort from AI (2023)[Non-textual form › Web publication/site]. Gertz, N.https://iai.tv/articles/chatgpt-the-route-to-loneliness-nolen-gertz-auid-2423?_auid=2020Crime without punishment? On the legitimacy of illegal actions from the climate movement (2023)Filosofie en praktijk, 44(3/4), 307-323. Reyes Benavides, P. D. & Gertz, N.https://doi.org/10.5117/FEP2023.3/4.004.REYE

2022

Abortion bans in the age of surveillance: The state doesn't want to protect your privacy (2022)[Non-textual form › Web publication/site]. Gertz, N.https://iai.tv/articles/abortion-bans-in-the-age-of-surveillance-auid-2172Nihilism and Violence from Plato to Arendt (2022)In Violence and Nihilism (pp. 7-23). Walter de Gruyter. Gertz, N.https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110699210-003

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