Jean du Toit
Biographic Data
| ID | 6298588 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jean du Toit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jean |
| FAMILY NAME | du Toit |
| SIGNATURE | DU TOIT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | North-West University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5297-8241 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Negative niche construction
A significant contributor to the rise in populism and authoritarianism has been the alteration in modes of interpersonal relations brought about by the increasing mediation of social relations by social media scaffolds. Using 4E cognition’s concept of niche construction and Erich Fromm’s social psychology we argue that social media functions to form and gratify necrophilous personality types attracted to populism, authoritarian leaders and politi…
Happiness, circumstance, and the environment
A Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the virtual
A Manifesto for Messy Philosophy of Technology
Philosophy of technology was not initially considered a consolidated field of inquiry. However, under the influence of sociology and pragmatist philosophy, something resembling a consensus has emerged in a field previously marked by a lack of agreement amongst its practitioners. This has given the field a greater sense of structure and yielded interesting research. However, the loss of the earlier “messy” state has resulted in a limitation of the…
Being-in-the-Covid-19-World
The multifaceted nature of COVID-19 permeates all dimensions of human life. In this article, we argue that the COVID-19 crisis might teach us something about dealing with ruptures of this kind and scope in the future. The pandemic challenges our Being-in-the-world and it has the potential to help us realise the authentic possibilities of our own being – a freedom we have in our being-towards-death. We contemplate the extent to which this pandemic…
The (oh-so-queerly-embodied) virtual
The virtual has become the latest rostrum for ideological heteronormativity; it increasingly plays host to an insidious rhetoric of unjustifiably fixed and oppositional gender binaries that exhort heterosexuality as a norm. Conservative political and religious groups, as well as consumerist advertising, utilise digital technology to reinforce cast-in-stone and adversarial social perspectives for manipulative and exploitative ends. Contrastingly, …
Between Thanatos and Eros
Social networking technologies have become a ubiquitous framework for social interaction, serving to organise much of the individual's social life.Such technological structuring affects not merely the individual's psyche (as a psychotechnics), it also affects broader aspects of society (as a socio-technics).While social networking technologies may serve to transform society in positive ways, such technologies also have the potential to significan…
The (oh-so-queerly-embodied) virtual
The virtual has become the latest rostrum for ideological heteronormativity; it increasingly plays host to an insidious rhetoric of unjustifiably fixed and oppositional gender binaries that exhort heterosexuality as a norm. Conservative political and religious groups, as well as consumerist advertising, utilise digital technology to reinforce cast-in-stone and adversarial social perspectives for manipulative and exploitative ends. Contrastingly, …
Between Thanatos and Eros
Social networking technologies have become a ubiquitous framework for social interaction, serving to organise much of the individual's social life.Such technological structuring affects not merely the individual's psyche (as a psychotechnics), it also affects broader aspects of society (as a socio-technics).While social networking technologies may serve to transform society in positive ways, such technologies also have the potential to significan…
A Manifesto for Messy Philosophy of Technology
Philosophy of technology was not initially considered a consolidated field of inquiry. However, under the influence of sociology and pragmatist philosophy, something resembling a consensus has emerged in a field previously marked by a lack of agreement amongst its practitioners. This has given the field a greater sense of structure and yielded interesting research. However, the loss of the earlier “messy” state has resulted in a limitation of the…
Being-in-the-Covid-19-World
The multifaceted nature of COVID-19 permeates all dimensions of human life. In this article, we argue that the COVID-19 crisis might teach us something about dealing with ruptures of this kind and scope in the future. The pandemic challenges our Being-in-the-world and it has the potential to help us realise the authentic possibilities of our own being – a freedom we have in our being-towards-death. We contemplate the extent to which this pandemic…
The (oh-so-queerly-embodied) virtual
The virtual has become the latest rostrum for ideological heteronormativity; it increasingly plays host to an insidious rhetoric of unjustifiably fixed and oppositional gender binaries that exhort heterosexuality as a norm. Conservative political and religious groups, as well as consumerist advertising, utilise digital technology to reinforce cast-in-stone and adversarial social perspectives for manipulative and exploitative ends. Contrastingly, …
A Merleau-Pontian phenomenology of the virtual
Negative niche construction
A significant contributor to the rise in populism and authoritarianism has been the alteration in modes of interpersonal relations brought about by the increasing mediation of social relations by social media scaffolds. Using 4E cognition’s concept of niche construction and Erich Fromm’s social psychology we argue that social media functions to form and gratify necrophilous personality types attracted to populism, authoritarian leaders and politi…
Happiness, circumstance, and the environment
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Embodied cognition (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Embodied and Extended Cognition (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Anthropology (1 work)