MONDAY NIGHT LECTURE SERIES | JUSTICE AND JUDGMENT
MONDAY, OCTOBER 14 | 6 p.m. | DANIEL FAMILY COMMONS | USDAN UNIVERSITY CENTER
PROFESSOR KATHERINE HAYLES
Duke University
As the digital realm continues to advance with networked and programmable devices embedded in the environment, carried on our persons, scattered on our desks, and hidden in our cars, nonconscious agency, intentionality, and cognition are arguably more pervasive on the planet than is human cognition. Moreover, even inside our bodies, the role of the cognitive nonconscious has achieved new levels of appreciation and importance. These developments are paralleled with a growing awareness of the costs of consciousness. How do these millennial reassessments affect the importance of human reason and judgment, for which Joseph Weizenbaum argued passionately in 1976?
