Work

Cyborg-Technology Relations

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: We advocate for a philosophizing of cyborg-technology relations that takes account disabled technology users. First, we sketch out how tech-driven ableism (“technoableism”) is present in most discourse about technology, and then address how ableism has shaped accounts of disability in philosophy more broadly too. We examine this in historical and media context, then turn to what an unapologetic disability-forward approach to cyborg-technology relations looks like, and what it means to listen to the cyborgs we know and love. This work draws from the interdisciplinary field of disability studies and STS work on crip technoscience. We situate this work mostly within North American media and history of disability and Silicon Valley boosterism on tech, but accounts of technology and of disability are not unique to these locations.

Source: Journal of Human-Technology Relations

DOI: 10.59490/jhtr.2024.2.7073

Authors: Ashley Shew, Joshua Earle

Institutions: Virginia Tech, University of Virginia

Language: English

Topic: Disability Rights and Representation

Subfield: Safety Research

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: diamond

Funder: National Science Foundation

Award: Science of Broadening Participation: CAREER: Disability, Experience, and Technological Imagination