PROGRAMME v.1 8th BEYOND HUMANISM CONFERENCE Posthuman Studies and technologies of Control Universidad Complutense de Madrid 25‐27 May 2016 www.beyondhumanism2016.org
Wednesday 25th May Plenary room ‐ Multipurpose Building 10'00 opening and welcome ‐ coffee Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: Sorgner 11'00 ‐1300 Philosophy of technology 1 Daniel Andersson: The Concept of Noosphere in Systems Analysis for Sustainability: Unpredictability and Complexity, between Bateson and Earth System Analysis. Nicoletta Iacobacci: Ectogenesis: The Coming Age of Motherless Births. Eduardo Trajano Gadret: Cryptography Standards and Technical Barriers in the TransPacific Partnership Agreement.
Yannis Mazarakis: Mind‐Uploading: A Postmodern End of Humanity or a Neomodern Beginning.
Seminars Room 217 ‐ Philosophy Faculty Round tables in SPANISH ‐ Chair: Rodriguez 11'00‐13'00 (Re)pensar lo humano Nuria Sánchez Madrid (UCM): La antropogénesis y la distinción sonora: Aristóteles y Nietzsche en torno a la distinción entre psóphos, phoné y lógos. Emma Ingala (UCM): Humanos catacréticos para una antropología política antihumanista y no antropocéntrica: Judith Butler y Étienne Balibar Jaime Pascual Summers (UCM): Foucault y Deleuze: sobre la determinación e impugnación de la humanidad en la constitución del discurso psicopatológico Amanda Nuñez (UCM): Perros, hummus y lobos. Paseando por los territorios humanos desde el cinismo a G. Deleuze
Room S‐30 ‐ Philosophy Faculty Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: Ferrando 11'00‐13'00 Singularity and Transcendence 1 Scott Midson: C(l)ogs in the Machine: Theological Reflections on Technological Industries and Working with/as Robots. Eva Zackova (University of West Bohemia): Homo Posthumus Face to Face with Eternity. Stefan Grosu (Ph.D. Student at the University of Bucharest): Transhumanism in the Conception of John Paul II. Adriana M. Macsut.: Eternal Life in Transhumanism and Catholic Doctrine.
13'00‐15'00 ‐ Lunch brake
13'00‐15'00 ‐ Lunch brake
13'00‐15'00 ‐ Lunch brake
Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: Sorgner
Round tables in SPANISH ‐ Chair: Quejido
Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: Ferrando
15'00‐17'00 Philosophy of technology 2 Marios Giakalaras; Christos P. Tsongidis (University of the Aegean): Posthuman: Biometrics, Big Data and Video Games. Kevin LaGrandeur: Smart Machines and the Future of Work: Can We Avoid Mass Unemployment, Poverty, and Social Dislocaton? Yvonne Förster: Metaphysical Considerations on the Omnipresence of Sensors. Lorenzo Coretti &, Daniele Pica; (John Cabot University Rome): Ubiquitous Technologies and the Police: Towards the End of Discretion.
15'00‐17'00 Enfoque crítico José Ignacio Galparsoro (Universidad del País Vasco): La cuestión de las antropotécnicas en el contexto del debate en torno al modificación de las fronteras de lo humano Teresa Álvarez: Las fronteras de lo humano: la antropología en la obra de Bernhard Waldenfels Cristina Bernabeu: Biografías, tecnografías y zoografías del yo Mariano Rodríguez González (UCM): Tecnotranscendencia y posthumanismo crítico.
15'00‐17'00 Deleuze, Foucault, Simondon, Latour Jedrzej Malinski: Media and Posthuman Dividual—Wojciech Chyla Concept. Jae‐Hee Kim, (Ewha Womans University, Seoul): Simondon and Latour: A Techno‐Politics of Non‐ Human Humanism. Jun Zubillaga‐Pow (University of Liverpool in Singapore): Weapon of Mass Securitization: Necropolitics and the Safety Announcement. Mohammad‐Ali Rahebi; Fateme Aminaee: and the Decimated Individuations Externalization of Habits: Singular Humans, Cybernetics, and Amnesia.
17'00 Coffee
17'00 Coffee
Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: ‐‐‐
Round tables in SPANISH ‐ Chair: Rodriguez
17'30‐19'30 Art and technology 1 Hyesook Jeon (Ewha Womans University, Korea): Reconsidering Life‐Control through Bioarts. Rosangela Barcaro (C.N.R.‐I.M.A.T., Genova); Paolo Virgili (Ministry of Justice, Genova): Bioart: a Brand New Critique of Contemporary Science. Thomas F. DeFrantz: Controls of Race. Posthuman as Posrace. Claudia Canovai ‐ Why posthumanist art should count as art?
17'30‐19'30 Nietzscheanos Amparo Carrillo Sáenz. (Colombia): El concepto de enfermedad en sentido extramoral en el pensamiento de Nietzsche. Carlos Javier González Serrano (UCM): De las representaciones oscuras, o inconscientes en Leibniz, Locke y Kant a la muerte de Dios en Nietzsche y Mainländer Oscar Quejido (UCM): Posthumanismo y crítica. Reflexiones en torno a un más allá de lo humano Ferén David Barrios Pérez. (UCM): Transhumanos en la caverna. hacia una crítica de la era tecnológica.
17'30‐19'30 Book Panel: Recent Publications on the posthuman. Panelists (in alphabetic order): Francesca Ferrando Stefan Lorenz Sorgner Sangkyu Shin Evi Sampanikou
20'00‐21'30 Plenary Debate on Posthuman Studies and Technologies of Control Animated by the Organizing Committee
Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: ‐‐‐
(to be confirmed) 22'00 Outdoors in campus: Performance by Jaime del Val
Thursday 26th May Plenary room ‐ Multipurpose Building
Seminars Room 217 ‐ Philosophy Faculty
Room S‐30 ‐ Philosophy Faculty
Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: Del Val 10'00‐12'00 Art and technology 2 Jan Stasienko, (University of Lower Silesia, Poland): Makin‐of…a Cyborg. The Cinematic Visual Effects as Posthuman Domain. Emily Rosamond, (University of Kent): Algorithmic Witnesses. The move from discipline to behavioural modulation: control. Evi D. Sampanikou, (University of the Aegean): Authority, Manipulation and Control in the graphic novel "Democracy" (Papadatos ‐ Kawa). Posthumanist Reflections. Maciej Czerniakowski: “The Walking Dead” series as a new (post‐)human and post‐technological zombie panopticon.
Round tables in SPANISH ‐ Chair: Rodriguez 10'00‐12'00 Inmortalidad y “healthspan” Ángela Duverger‐Bobin. (UCM): La transferencia mental: más allá de las tecnologías de control. Giovanna Frongia: El dolor y la muerte en la práctica médica. Patrick Simonnin (Institut International de Prospective sur les Écosystèmes innovants, Lille): Transhumanismo y mesianismo.
Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: Sorgner 10'00‐11'30 Nietzsche Stephen Overy, (University of Newcastle): Revisiting a Truncated Debate: Competing Post‐ and Trans‐humanist Readings of Nietzsche and Deleuze. George Papandreopoulos: Nietzsche’s Overhuman as a Challenge to Posthumanism. Thomas Steinbuch, (Zhejiang University of Science and Technology): Nietzsche at the Jena Clinic for the Care and Cure of the Inssane: A Evolutionary case of Misunderstood Development.
12'00 ‐ Coffee 12'30‐13'30 ‐ session in SPANISH
Gladys Maria Rangel, Relaciones De Poder En La Construcción Y Gestión De La Vejez
Keynote: Fernando Broncano: Dos formas de posthumanismo: obsolescencia de lo humano u obsolescencia de las categorías
13'30‐15'00 ‐ Lunch brake Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: Sorgner 15'00‐17'00 Critique Mónica Cano Abadía, (Universidad de Zaragoza): Beyond Capitalism’s Anthropocentrism. Towards a Zoe‐ egalitarian Ethic‐Onto‐Epistemology. Sangkyu Shin, (Ewha Womans University, Seoul): Digital Technology and Ethics for Autonomous Artificial Agents. Margaux Portron: Whistleblowing: Towards a Cyber‐ parrhesia? Peggy Reynolds, (Visiting Research Fellow Goldsmiths, London): Thinking Outside the Grid.
13'30‐15'00 ‐ Lunch brake Round tables in SPANISH ‐ Chair: ‐‐‐ 15'00‐17'00 En torno a filósofos Santiago Javier Armesilla Conde: (Euro‐ Mediterranean University Institute (EMUI), Instituto de Investigación de la UCM). ¿Es posible un transhumanismo marxista? Agata Bak: De Husserl a cyborgs o qué nos puede decir la fenomenología sobre el futuro de la inteligencia artificial Guillermo Garrido‐Lestache Vidal: (European Graduate School). Foucault, Deleuze, Nietzsche, Derrida, Levinas y el Post‐trans‐meta humanismo Francisco Javier Alcalá Rodríguez: Plegar el pliegue: pensando el transhumanismo a partir de las aportaciones de Deleuze y Foucault
13'30‐15'00 ‐ Lunch brake 15'00‐16'00 WORKSHOP by Evi Sampanikou and Jaime del Val: Posthuman Transitions. War, the Media as Technologies of Control and the Aegean Sea Refugees in Greek and European Contemporary Artistic Production. ‐ 40 min
17'00 Coffee
17'00 Coffee
Round tables in ENGLISH ‐ Chair: Sorgner
Round tables in SPANISH ‐ Chair: Del Val
17'30‐19'30 Discussing the posthuman Gavin Rae: Humanism to Posthumanism: The Meaning of the Beyond. Daryl Wennemann: The Concept of the Posthuman: Chain of Being or Conceptual Status?
17'30‐19'30 Artes y Cuerpo Jonathan Piedra Alegría (Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica): Cuerpo y human Enhancement Virginia Ballesteros: Psicofármacos: patologización y trascendencia de lo humano Gala González: Estudios Posthumanistas y Tecnologías del Control. Bioarte, performance y arte de nuevos medios Salud López: DhaM
Luciano Zubillaga: Expanded telepathy revisited: teleportation, moving image and technologies of control.
Bert Olivier: Posthuman Nihilism and Technics.
21'00 Place to be confirmed: Experiencing a Spanish Night Out in the Old Town of Madrid‐ Optional Tapas Dinner (additional costs)
Friday 27th May Plenary room ‐ Multipurpose Building Round tables in ENGLISH 10'00 ‐11'30
Seminars Room 217 ‐ Philosophy Faculty Round tables in SPANISH 10'00‐11'30
Room S‐30 ‐ Philosophy Faculty Round tables in SPANISH 10'00‐11'30
Metabody‐Metahumanism Panel Francesca Ferrando (NYU): Glamorous Selfies, Reverse Panopticon and the Will to Global Surveillance Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (John Cabot University): Big Gene Data, Bioprivacy and the Internet Panopticon Jaime del Val (Reverso): Ontoethics: The wars of indeterminacy and control in the era Silicon valley Transhumanism ‐ towards a Bog Data Ethics White Paper
Cuestiones éticas Aníbal Monasterio Astobiza: Sobre la obligación de desarrollar algoritmos morales: llevar la ética al silicio. Sobre el Big Data Noé Expósito:. Sobre la posible aportación de la fenomenología husserliana al debate del posthumanismo Ricardo Morte Ferrer; Big data privacidad. Privacidad/Protección de Datos en los tiempos del Big Data
Biopolítica Pablo Domenech (Phd reseracher University of Murcia) y María García Pérez (Phd reseracher University of Granada).: Deshumanismo en las fracturas ontológicas abiertas por los dispositivos securitarios en las fronteras contemporáneas Ariane Aviñó: People analytics y trabajo biopolítico Iñigo Galzacorta: Siempre fuimos post‐humanos: tecnologías del control y el descontrol.
With participation of Metabody partners: Yvonne Foerster Peggy Reynolds Tommy DeFrantz Kevin LaGrandeur Evi Sampanikou
11'30 Coffee
12'00 Keynote: Claudia Giannetti 12'30 Claudia Giannetti in dialogue with Jaime del Val 13'00‐14'00 Keynote: Allucquére Rossane Stone 14'00 final remarks and closure 14'30 catering (to be confirmed)