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Note: La conférence sera exprimée en anglais. L'orateur, francophone, pourra entendre des questions en français et y répondre au besoin dans notre langue.
Elle sera suivie d'une pause café-jus de fruits pour prolonger les discussion.

Résumé The Internet is unlike anything else in the history of technology that preceded its creation. It is neither a tool nor a machine, but a network. As such it is a new type of technical system.

It resembles the telephone system in some respects, but it also has similarities to broadcast networks that distribute entertainment, shopping malls that distribute goods, and transportation systems insofar as it opens new "worlds" to its users.

What is more, the users of the Internet take on new capacities and identities through their participation in the network, most obviously the unprecedented absorption in mediated social relations exemplified by Facebook.

This talk will attempt to put some order in the understanding of the Internet in terms of three theoretical approaches, loosely interpreted to suit this new object. These approaches are actor network theory, the phenomenological concept of world, and Simondon's concepts of individuation and concretization.

Voir aussi la page http://www.ixxi.fr/agenda/seminaires/conference-dandew-feenberg-canada-research-chair-in-philosophy-of-technology-vancouver-the-internet-as-network-system-world.