Gerhard Wiesenfeldt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3486328 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerhard Wiesenfeldt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerhard |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiesenfeldt |
| SIGNATURE | WIESENFELDT G |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Diabolus in Machina? Complex Digital Systems Interpreted through Early Modern Demonology
Based on the characterisation of complex technology as inherently magical, we interpret the engagement with digital systems within the framework of medieval and early modern demonological thought. By presenting a historicising argument that demonic understandings are inherent to the navigation of technological systems, we provide an ontological approach to the debate on the intentionality of technology. In the demonological vision of technology, …
Cultural Cosmologies of the Internet: Situating Digital Networked Technologies in Diverse Moral Universes
In this panel we consider how social actors situate uses of technologies within systems of moral norms and values while at the same time compelling the creation of new ones. Popular discourse tends to present dualistic thinking of the positive and negative impacts of technologies. Scholars have engaged with the internet and digital media, emphasising emancipatory subcultures (Coleman 2014; Gehl 2016, 2018) or presenting a critical view of the con…
Academic writings and the rituals of early modern universities
There is a tendency to regard the early modern university as a transitional stage of the institutional form from its medieval origins to its manifestation in the modern research university. This tendency has a dual perspective – it can focus on how universities were still dominated by medieval ways of learning or it can look for traces of what later became the modern.1 However, not all changes that happened at universities between 1500 and 1800 c…
Reception and discovery: The nature of Johann Wilhelm Ritter’s invisible rays
Academic writings and the rituals of early modern universities
There is a tendency to regard the early modern university as a transitional stage of the institutional form from its medieval origins to its manifestation in the modern research university. This tendency has a dual perspective – it can focus on how universities were still dominated by medieval ways of learning or it can look for traces of what later became the modern.1 However, not all changes that happened at universities between 1500 and 1800 c…
Cultural Cosmologies of the Internet: Situating Digital Networked Technologies in Diverse Moral Universes
In this panel we consider how social actors situate uses of technologies within systems of moral norms and values while at the same time compelling the creation of new ones. Popular discourse tends to present dualistic thinking of the positive and negative impacts of technologies. Scholars have engaged with the internet and digital media, emphasising emancipatory subcultures (Coleman 2014; Gehl 2016, 2018) or presenting a critical view of the con…
Reception and discovery: The nature of Johann Wilhelm Ritter’s invisible rays
Academic writings and the rituals of early modern universities
There is a tendency to regard the early modern university as a transitional stage of the institutional form from its medieval origins to its manifestation in the modern research university. This tendency has a dual perspective – it can focus on how universities were still dominated by medieval ways of learning or it can look for traces of what later became the modern.1 However, not all changes that happened at universities between 1500 and 1800 c…
Cultural Cosmologies of the Internet: Situating Digital Networked Technologies in Diverse Moral Universes
In this panel we consider how social actors situate uses of technologies within systems of moral norms and values while at the same time compelling the creation of new ones. Popular discourse tends to present dualistic thinking of the positive and negative impacts of technologies. Scholars have engaged with the internet and digital media, emphasising emancipatory subcultures (Coleman 2014; Gehl 2016, 2018) or presenting a critical view of the con…
Diabolus in Machina? Complex Digital Systems Interpreted through Early Modern Demonology
Based on the characterisation of complex technology as inherently magical, we interpret the engagement with digital systems within the framework of medieval and early modern demonological thought. By presenting a historicising argument that demonic understandings are inherent to the navigation of technological systems, we provide an ontological approach to the debate on the intentionality of technology. In the demonological vision of technology, …
Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Historical Philosophy and Science (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Bureaucracy (1 works) · Chemistry (1 works) · Classics (1 works) · Classics (1 works)