Ancient instincts, modern hardware: paranoia and medical imaging and surveillance technics
Paranoia, said Philip K Dick, is “a modern-day development of an ancient, archaic sense...” Reflecting on Dick's theory, this paper offers a ontological interpretation of paranoia in which medical scanners and clinical surveillance technics are 'paranoiacally' imagined as sources of predatory and persecutorial affect.
Kant’s kind of freedom
Kant's distinction between the human techne and the nature of freedom gives rise to a crucial philosophical debate. My reading of Kant, through Pheng Cheah's reading, glosses a number of increasingly critical points related to the development of technology and our potential to maintain a sense of freedom in its wake.
