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Open to current students and faculty. This event is in-person only. All registrants will receive copies of the selected readings via Dropbox and PDFs which should be read in advance of the class. An optional wine and cheese reception will follow.
Technology is part of our everyday lives. Despite its everydayness, there remains something mysterious about it. In this master class, we will demystify technology, engaging it as a product of culture that both challenges and enhances culture.
Readings:
Martin Heidegger – “The Question Concerning Technology”
Levis, Duganzic, and Scheirer – “Organoids are Multi-Cellular Engineered Living Systems: What is the Path Forward for Their Use in the Laboratory and Beyond?”
Bishop – What is Man that AI is Mindful of Him? and Toward a Liturgical Cosmotechnics
Conwill, Levis, and Scheirer – Chapter 1 and Chapter 6 in Virtues in Virtual Spaces
Schedule:
1:30 PM | pre-event pastries and coffee
2:00 PM | Part 1: Technology as a way of thinking
2:40 PM | Part 2: Technology as a way of doing: Engineering Living Systems
3:20 PM | BREAK
3:40 PM | Part 3: Cosmotechnics: Technology, Culture, and Human Identity
4:20 PM | Part 4: Goods, Virtues, and Virtual Spaces
Class concludes at 5 PM with a reception following.
For more information, contact gzokal@lumenchristi.org
This event is made possible through the support of ‘In Lumine: Supporting the Catholic Intellectual Tradition on Campuses Nationwide’ (Grant #62372) from the John Templeton Foundation.
