A Pharmacological Perspective on Technology-Induced Organised Immaturity: The Care-giving Role of the Arts

IF 3.4 2区哲学 Q2 BUSINESS

Business Ethics Quarterly Pub Date : 2023-03-16 DOI:10.1017/beq.2022.39

Ana Alacovska, P. Booth, Christian Fieseler

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Abstract

Digital technologies induce organised immaturity by generating toxic sociotechnical conditions that lead us to delegate autonomous, individual, and responsible thoughts and actions to external technological systems. Aiming to move beyond a diagnostic critical reading of the toxicity of digitalisation, we bring Bernard Stiegler’s pharmacological analysis of technology into dialogue with the ethics of care to speculatively explore how the socially engaged arts—a type of artistic practice emphasising audience co-production and processual collective responses to social challenges—play a care-giving role that helps counter technology-induced organised immaturity. We outline and illustrate two modes by which the socially engaged arts play this role: 1) disorganising immaturity through artivism, most notably anti-surveillance art, that imparts savoir vivre, that is, shared knowledge and meaning to counter the toxic side of technologies while enabling the imagination of alternative worlds in which humans coexist harmoniously with digital technologies, and 2) organising maturity through arts-based hacking that imparts savoir faire, that is, hands-on knowledge for experimental creation and practical enactment of better technological worlds.

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技术诱发的有组织不成熟的药理学视角:艺术的照顾作用

数字技术通过产生有毒的社会技术条件，导致我们将自主的、个人的、负责任的思想和行动委托给外部技术系统，从而导致有组织的不成熟。为了超越对数字化毒性的诊断性批判性阅读，我们将Bernard Stiegler对技术的药理学分析与关怀伦理进行对话，以推测性地探索社会参与艺术(一种强调观众合作生产和对社会挑战的过程集体反应的艺术实践)如何发挥关怀作用，帮助对抗技术引起的有组织的不成熟。我们概述并说明了社会参与艺术发挥这一作用的两种模式:1)通过艺术主义(最著名的是反监视艺术)来瓦解不成熟，这种艺术赋予了人们生活的智慧，即共享知识和意义，以对抗技术的毒面，同时使人们能够想象人类与数字技术和谐共处的另一个世界;2)通过基于艺术的黑客行为来组织成熟，这种黑客行为赋予了人们生活的智慧，即为实验创造和更好的技术世界的实际制定提供实践知识。

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Business Ethics Quarterly Multiple-

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期刊介绍： Business Ethics Quarterly (BEQ) is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal that publishes theoretical and empirical research relevant to the ethics of business. Since 1991 this multidisciplinary journal has published articles and reviews on a broad range of topics, including the internal ethics of business organizations, the role of business organizations in larger social, political and cultural frameworks, and the ethical quality of market-based societies and market-based relationships. It recognizes that contributions to the better understanding of business ethics can come from any quarter and therefore publishes scholarship rooted in the humanities, social sciences, and professional fields.