CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2023
| Author | Barsegova, Emma |
|---|---|
| Title | Composing Android Life: Interdisciplinary Implications of the Geminoid Entity |
| Summary | Socialization of technologies such as robots, androids, AI and the like produces a semi-paradoxical condition for foundational Western epistemological and ontological concepts such as agency, subjecthood and liveliness. Mandatory to make them accessible in everyday societal life, the pursuit to construct social technologies in a ‘human’ way triggers deterritorialization of the aforementioned concepts onto inhuman grounds. Concurrently, machines themselves do not acquire a stable conceptual and practical ground. Through discourse analysis of published research and Foucauldian approach of archeology of knowledge, this paper examines the “Geminoid” project by Hiroshi Ishiguro Laboratory as a case study of android entity composition. Agency, subjecthood and liveness of geminoids are critically approached to see the dynamic shift of these notions aimed at constituting an entity. Further, I view geminoids as an empirical ground for inductive elaboration on the positionality of social technologies. Extrapolating Simondon’s idea, I propose to strategically reterritorialize social tech into a separate species (specie-fication of technologies). This approach aims to solve theoretical issues in human-robot interaction studies, and the archeology of theoretical implications provides the ground to observe the process and the result of the present deterritorialization of human notions. |
| Supervisor | Alexandra Kowalski, Hyaesin Yoon |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2023/barsegova_emma.pdf |
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