Panel Discussion: Promethean Creation or Post-Promethean Agency?

Promethean Creation or Post-Promethean Agency? 

The Role of Literary and Cultural Studies in Thinking about the Future of Work and Technology

Wednesday, November 29, 2023, 6 pm 

Trijsje Franssen
TU Delft, Department: Values, Technology and Innovation, Section: Ethics and Philosophy of Technology

Paweł Piszczatowski
University of Warsaw, Department of German Studies, Research Area: The Humanities: Crossing Borders, Extending Capabilities, “Non-Anthropocentric Cultural Subjectivity”

Where do we encounter Promethean creation today and is there such a thing as a post-Promethean agency? What could be the role of literary and cultural studies in thinking about the future of work and technology? The panel discussion brings together experts on agency from a posthumanist perspective and philosophy of technology. The discussion finds its starting point in current discourses on Promethean and post-Promethean agency.

Organisation:
Alena Heinritz (University of Innsbruck)

TWF-Project: “Promethean Creation or Post-Promethean Agency?  Prometheus in Discourses of Literature, Work, and Agency”, funded by: Tiroler Wissenschaftsförderung 

Virtual panel discussion, please contact alena.heinritz@uibk.ac.at for access information.