A(l)gora: the Mindscape
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A(l)gora: the Mindscape. / von Xylander, Cheryce.
In: Technology and Language, Vol. 1, No. 1, 12.2020, p. 115-125.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research
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T1 - A(l)gora: the Mindscape
AU - von Xylander, Cheryce
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020, St. Petersburg Polytechnic University of Peter the Great. All rights reserved.
PY - 2020/12
Y1 - 2020/12
N2 - This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language articulates how we inhabit public space in the critical tradition of the Enlightenment and in the condition of contemporary cyber-technologies. The fabled agora of the ancients has forfeited its intersubjective relevance and imaginary potency. Community no longer hinges on communing: Algorithmic Gate-Keeping is taking command. This paper sounds the bell for a new approach to envisaging social cohesion based on the notion of an “algora,” a term coined to describe a state of affairs that has a longer, largely overlooked, philosophical pedigree. The history of cognitive ideation is also the history of “mindscapes.” They are occasioned by the conjuncture of technology and language, an insight articulated by Kant, formalized by Turing and now practiced by the global citizenry of users, daily hammering out on keyboards what this means in practice.
AB - This essay for the inaugural issue of Technology and Language articulates how we inhabit public space in the critical tradition of the Enlightenment and in the condition of contemporary cyber-technologies. The fabled agora of the ancients has forfeited its intersubjective relevance and imaginary potency. Community no longer hinges on communing: Algorithmic Gate-Keeping is taking command. This paper sounds the bell for a new approach to envisaging social cohesion based on the notion of an “algora,” a term coined to describe a state of affairs that has a longer, largely overlooked, philosophical pedigree. The history of cognitive ideation is also the history of “mindscapes.” They are occasioned by the conjuncture of technology and language, an insight articulated by Kant, formalized by Turing and now practiced by the global citizenry of users, daily hammering out on keyboards what this means in practice.
KW - Algora
KW - Cyber-Kant
KW - Mindscape
KW - Philosophy of Mind
KW - Public Space
KW - Reason as Composition
KW - Turing Imitation Game
KW - Philosophy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101244586&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.23
DO - 10.48417/technolang.2020.01.23
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 1
SP - 115
EP - 125
JO - Technology and Language
JF - Technology and Language
SN - 2712-9934
IS - 1
ER -