Luca M Possati
Biographic Data
| ID | 460866 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Luca M Possati |
| GIVEN NAMES | Luca M |
| FAMILY NAME | Possati |
| SIGNATURE | POSSATI L M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Twente |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7110-6107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Calzati Stefano and de Kerckhove Derrick (2025) Quantum Ecology
Quantum Ecology by
Less and more than data
This paper explores how data mining can redefine and reshape human identity, transforming the self into a fluid construct continuously shaped through ongoing profiling. To understand this transformation, we draw on Lacan’s theory of subjectivity and his conception of desire as the engine of subjectivity. Rejecting essentialist notions of the self, Lacan argues that identity is formed within—and through—social, cultural, and, as we emphasize here,…
To Repair or not to Repair? Disclosing the Subject in Technical Mediation
This paper aims to develop a more comprehensive account of subjectivity in human-technology relations. Our argument unfolds in two stages. First, we contend that classical mediation theory falls short in addressing subjectivity, as it remains confined to functionalist and instrumentalist perspectives. Rather than rejecting postphenomenology, we seek to renew and deepen it by reconnecting it to its phenomenological roots as envisioned by Don Ihde.…
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers
In this study, we explore the complexities and implications of connecting quantum computers. This connection is in the literature seen as an obvious and fast way forward to arrive at a large quantum computer that can deliver the promises of quantum computing. We explore this option by understanding the conditions and contexts under which different scenarios of connecting these computers are most beneficial for quantum computer owners, be it for p…
Negotiating Actors
This paper intends to address social robotics from the Actor-network theory (ANT) perspective. Starting from the critique of Seibt’s approach and the distinction between anthropomorphing and sociomorphing, the paper proposes a new methodological approach based on ANT and negotiation concepts. This approach allows us to: a) assume a more symmetrical ontology in which robots are considered as social agents, like humans; b) consider all the interact…
Why We Need a Political Technology Assessment
This paper's central argument is that the frameworks of Responsible Innovation (RI) and Technology Assessment (TA) are rooted in an antiquated political and geopolitical paradigm, necessitating a conceptual overhaul. This argument is supported by two primary reasons. First, RI and TA are not neutral towards technological innovation; instead, they inherently align with a specific political and geopolitical model—the liberal world order (LWO). This…
Quantum Technologies
This paper develops a hermeneutic technology assessment of quantum technologies. It offers a “vision assessment” of quantum technologies that can eventually lead to socio-ethical analysis. Section 2 describes this methodological approach and in particular the concept of the hermeneutic circle applied to technology. Section 3 gives a generic overview of quantum technologies and their impacts. Sections 4 and 5 apply the hermeneutic technology asses…
Psychoanalyzing artificial intelligence
Ethics of Quantum Computing
This paper intends to contribute to the emerging literature on the ethical problems posed by quantum computing and quantum technologies in general. The key ethical questions are as follows: Does quantum computing pose new ethical problems, or are those raised by quantum computing just a different version of the same ethical problems raised by other technologies, such as nanotechnologies, nuclear plants, or cloud computing? In other words, what is…
Looking Through the Algorithmic Unconscious
This paper concerns the role of the unconscious in technology. The central thesis is that there exists an experience of non-acceptance and failed incorporation of technology, which (a) does not depend on the technical engineering dimension of the artifact but (b) instead concerns the relationship between the human unconscious and the artifact. This thesis is supported and developed through the analysis of a case study - that is, the creation and …
Unconscious Networks
Software as Hermeneutics
Making the Invisible Visible
In today’s society the use of new technologies for data visualizations is becoming increasingly widespread. This article seeks neither to give a complete view of its history nor an exhaustive definition of the phenomenon of data visualization. This article takes a new perspective on data visualization by dealing only with a new type of data visualizations, those based on “Big Data” and AI systems. This perspective is completely different from exi…
Is There a Digital World
This article discusses the relation between software and human experience. I argue that software-based experiences are based on a radical discrepancy between the code and “lived experience.” This break is different than the so-called “opacity” of technology. I start analyzing a case study: the video game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Video games are one of the most profound digital experiences humans can have. When I play a video game I do not see th…
Freud and the algorithm
The core hypothesis of this paper is that neuropsychoanalysis provides a new paradigm for artificial general intelligence (AGI). The AGI agenda could be greatly advanced if it were grounded in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis rather than cognitive science. Research in AGI has so far remained too cortical-centric; that is, it has privileged the activities of the cerebral cortex, the outermost part of our brain, and the main cognitive…
Towards a hermeneutic definition of software
The paper intends to establish a comprehensive definition of software from a postphenomenological and hermeneutic point of view. It intends to show the contribution of continental philosophy to the study of new technologies. In section “Introduction: why do we need a comprehensive definition of software?,” I underline the need for a philosophical analysis that can highlight the multifaceted and paradoxical nature of software. In section “Engineer…
Algorithmic unconscious
The central hypothesis of this paper is that the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis can be applied to the study of AI and human/AI interaction. The paper connects three research fields: machine behavior approach, psychoanalysis and anthropology of science. In the “Machine behavior: research perspectives” section, I argue that the behavior of AI systems cannot be studied only in a logical-mathematical or engineering perspective. We need to stu…
Software and Experience. A Phenomenological Analysis of Digital Technology
Cet article explore la relation entre les logiciels informatiques et l’expérience humaine. L’expérience basée sur le software – l’expérience médiée par la technologie numérique – découle d’un écart radical entre « code » et « expérience vécue » – l’expérience des utilisateurs ordinaires qui interagissent avec les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC). Cet écart, ou rupture, est paradoxal et ne peut être réduit à l’« opacité »…
E. Melandri
Ricœur et Deleuze, lecteurs de Spinoza
Cet article se propose de mettre en œuvre une lecture de Ricœur et Deleuze à partir de leurs interprétations respectives de la pensée de Spinoza. Ricœur et Deleuze se placent au centre de la Spinoza-Renaissance qui a eu lieu en France dans les années 1950-1960. Cependant, le ''spinozisme'' de Ricœur reste encore largement méconnu. Les deux premières parties de l'article se penchent sur les notions spinozistes de conatus et d'essentia actuosa, en …
Si l’action est comme le texte. La fondation du social et le principe d’analogie chez Ricœur
Cet article présente une reformulation générale de l’analogie du texte et de l’action de Paul Ricœur. Mon hypothèse de travail est qu’une telle reformulation nous aide à mieux contextualiser des tensions qui traversent toute la philosophie pratique de Ricœur, tout d’abord la tension entre le social et l’institution. Il s’agit de montrer que la philosophie ricœurienne est une philosophie tensionnelle parce qu’elle se fonde sur le principe d’analog…
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Si l’action est comme le texte. La fondation du social et le principe d’analogie chez Ricœur
Cet article présente une reformulation générale de l’analogie du texte et de l’action de Paul Ricœur. Mon hypothèse de travail est qu’une telle reformulation nous aide à mieux contextualiser des tensions qui traversent toute la philosophie pratique de Ricœur, tout d’abord la tension entre le social et l’institution. Il s’agit de montrer que la philosophie ricœurienne est une philosophie tensionnelle parce qu’elle se fonde sur le principe d’analog…
Ricœur et Deleuze, lecteurs de Spinoza
Cet article se propose de mettre en œuvre une lecture de Ricœur et Deleuze à partir de leurs interprétations respectives de la pensée de Spinoza. Ricœur et Deleuze se placent au centre de la Spinoza-Renaissance qui a eu lieu en France dans les années 1950-1960. Cependant, le ''spinozisme'' de Ricœur reste encore largement méconnu. Les deux premières parties de l'article se penchent sur les notions spinozistes de conatus et d'essentia actuosa, en …
E. Melandri
Towards a hermeneutic definition of software
The paper intends to establish a comprehensive definition of software from a postphenomenological and hermeneutic point of view. It intends to show the contribution of continental philosophy to the study of new technologies. In section “Introduction: why do we need a comprehensive definition of software?,” I underline the need for a philosophical analysis that can highlight the multifaceted and paradoxical nature of software. In section “Engineer…
Algorithmic unconscious
The central hypothesis of this paper is that the concepts and methods of psychoanalysis can be applied to the study of AI and human/AI interaction. The paper connects three research fields: machine behavior approach, psychoanalysis and anthropology of science. In the “Machine behavior: research perspectives” section, I argue that the behavior of AI systems cannot be studied only in a logical-mathematical or engineering perspective. We need to stu…
Software and Experience. A Phenomenological Analysis of Digital Technology
Cet article explore la relation entre les logiciels informatiques et l’expérience humaine. L’expérience basée sur le software – l’expérience médiée par la technologie numérique – découle d’un écart radical entre « code » et « expérience vécue » – l’expérience des utilisateurs ordinaires qui interagissent avec les technologies de l’information et de la communication (TIC). Cet écart, ou rupture, est paradoxal et ne peut être réduit à l’« opacité »…
Making the Invisible Visible
In today’s society the use of new technologies for data visualizations is becoming increasingly widespread. This article seeks neither to give a complete view of its history nor an exhaustive definition of the phenomenon of data visualization. This article takes a new perspective on data visualization by dealing only with a new type of data visualizations, those based on “Big Data” and AI systems. This perspective is completely different from exi…
Is There a Digital World
This article discusses the relation between software and human experience. I argue that software-based experiences are based on a radical discrepancy between the code and “lived experience.” This break is different than the so-called “opacity” of technology. I start analyzing a case study: the video game Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. Video games are one of the most profound digital experiences humans can have. When I play a video game I do not see th…
Freud and the algorithm
The core hypothesis of this paper is that neuropsychoanalysis provides a new paradigm for artificial general intelligence (AGI). The AGI agenda could be greatly advanced if it were grounded in affective neuroscience and neuropsychoanalysis rather than cognitive science. Research in AGI has so far remained too cortical-centric; that is, it has privileged the activities of the cerebral cortex, the outermost part of our brain, and the main cognitive…
Unconscious Networks
Software as Hermeneutics
Psychoanalyzing artificial intelligence
Ethics of Quantum Computing
This paper intends to contribute to the emerging literature on the ethical problems posed by quantum computing and quantum technologies in general. The key ethical questions are as follows: Does quantum computing pose new ethical problems, or are those raised by quantum computing just a different version of the same ethical problems raised by other technologies, such as nanotechnologies, nuclear plants, or cloud computing? In other words, what is…
Looking Through the Algorithmic Unconscious
This paper concerns the role of the unconscious in technology. The central thesis is that there exists an experience of non-acceptance and failed incorporation of technology, which (a) does not depend on the technical engineering dimension of the artifact but (b) instead concerns the relationship between the human unconscious and the artifact. This thesis is supported and developed through the analysis of a case study - that is, the creation and …
Negotiating Actors
This paper intends to address social robotics from the Actor-network theory (ANT) perspective. Starting from the critique of Seibt’s approach and the distinction between anthropomorphing and sociomorphing, the paper proposes a new methodological approach based on ANT and negotiation concepts. This approach allows us to: a) assume a more symmetrical ontology in which robots are considered as social agents, like humans; b) consider all the interact…
Why We Need a Political Technology Assessment
This paper's central argument is that the frameworks of Responsible Innovation (RI) and Technology Assessment (TA) are rooted in an antiquated political and geopolitical paradigm, necessitating a conceptual overhaul. This argument is supported by two primary reasons. First, RI and TA are not neutral towards technological innovation; instead, they inherently align with a specific political and geopolitical model—the liberal world order (LWO). This…
Quantum Technologies
This paper develops a hermeneutic technology assessment of quantum technologies. It offers a “vision assessment” of quantum technologies that can eventually lead to socio-ethical analysis. Section 2 describes this methodological approach and in particular the concept of the hermeneutic circle applied to technology. Section 3 gives a generic overview of quantum technologies and their impacts. Sections 4 and 5 apply the hermeneutic technology asses…
Calzati Stefano and de Kerckhove Derrick (2025) Quantum Ecology
Quantum Ecology by
Less and more than data
This paper explores how data mining can redefine and reshape human identity, transforming the self into a fluid construct continuously shaped through ongoing profiling. To understand this transformation, we draw on Lacan’s theory of subjectivity and his conception of desire as the engine of subjectivity. Rejecting essentialist notions of the self, Lacan argues that identity is formed within—and through—social, cultural, and, as we emphasize here,…
To Repair or not to Repair? Disclosing the Subject in Technical Mediation
This paper aims to develop a more comprehensive account of subjectivity in human-technology relations. Our argument unfolds in two stages. First, we contend that classical mediation theory falls short in addressing subjectivity, as it remains confined to functionalist and instrumentalist perspectives. Rather than rejecting postphenomenology, we seek to renew and deepen it by reconnecting it to its phenomenological roots as envisioned by Don Ihde.…
The rationality and morality of connecting quantum computers
In this study, we explore the complexities and implications of connecting quantum computers. This connection is in the literature seen as an obvious and fast way forward to arrive at a large quantum computer that can deliver the promises of quantum computing. We explore this option by understanding the conditions and contexts under which different scenarios of connecting these computers are most beneficial for quantum computer owners, be it for p…
Computer Science (14 works) · Philosophy (14 works) · Epistemology (9 works) · Psychology (8 works) · Artificial Intelligence (7 works) · Cognitive science (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Sociology (4 works)