Phenomenology

The Sartre Society's 31st meeting: AI, virtual worlds and digital existentialism

The thirty-first annual meeting of the North American Sartre Society will be held online on 23-24 October 2026. Its theme carries existentialism's most familiar concepts — bad faith, the look, freedom and situation — into the digital, this time among avatars and algorithms.

Philosophy of technology takes centre stage: a handbook maps the field

The Oxford handbook edited by Shannon Vallor shows that the philosophy of technology is no longer a sideline. Running from Heidegger and Ellul to Don Ihde's postphenomenology and the ethics of algorithms, it draws the map of a discipline that has come of age.

Don Ihde in the age of AI: how technology reshapes human experience

Don Ihde, the founder of postphenomenology, died in 2024, three days after his ninetieth birthday. The memorial conference held at Stony Brook, and the discussion that followed it, suggest that his theory of mediation has acquired an unexpected currency in the age of artificial intelligence.

Agamben's Heidegger notebooks published: the Le Thor seminars

The notes Giorgio Agamben took at Heidegger's Le Thor seminars in Provence in 1966 and 1968 have appeared as 'The Time of Thinking'. Zone Books has also reissued the philosopher's collection 'Profanations'.

Giorgio Agamben