Technological Mediation of Politics: An Arendtian Critique of Political Philosophy of Technology
The PhD defence of Melis Bas will take place (partly) online and can be followed by a live stream.
Melis Bas is a PhD student in the research group Philosophy. Supervisors are prof.dr.ir. P.P.C.C. Verbeek and prof.dr. C. Aydin from the Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences (BMS).
Melis’ dissertation criticizes the narrow focus of the current political philosophy of technology on power relations and expands this focus with Hannah Arendt’s analysis of politics as intersubjective sense-making. By integrating Hannah Arendt's political philosophy and insights from the philosophy of human-technology relations, she develops a framework that makes it possible to investigate the political significance of technology in a more adequate way - which she makes visible by analyzing the Gezi Park protests in Turkey in 2013.
