The World is Complex – That's Why We Need All of Us

2017

Humanities is just about reading old books and writing new ones, isn’t it? Not anymore – think digital

2016

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In my essay, The Light within Our Ever Growing Darkness, I showed how a deeper background to the Trump phenomenon is becoming explicit, through its new appearances. These appearances are “seen” with new language creeping into the pubic domain. Such a word is “chaos” and my essay Chaos in American Politics explores how more and more people are seeing the appearances as chaotic. This newest essay, What Is It to Be Human, asks a deeper question about the self-transformations of the background “cause” of our present, chaotic appearances. We seem to be in a moment of further transformation in the definition of the human being and have yet to catch up to its enormous implications. I begin with a vision that transformed C. G. Jung in 1944.

Viruses, 2023

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2016

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Abstract for Ian Webster Oration 2013 Professor Eileen Baldry The $5.5 million 22 year old: how we have created complex needs and what to do about it This is a story of tragedies, vicious cycles created in the lives of individuals and communities by compounding disability, disadvantage, discrimination, policy disasters and service siloing, refusal and neglect. But it is also a story of the potential for resilience, of greater equity and the creating of virtuous cycles of family and community support and shared and integrated human and social services. For all its excellent health and social programs, Australia has not created whole systems that require and allow for integrated and flexible service provision across portfolios taking into account the whole range of a person, family or community’s needs and context. The whole of government, integrated service delivery approach headlined by governments over the past decade has not materialized on the ground in any systemic way; there ar...

The Onlife Manifesto, 2014

In my inaugural lecture I have reiterated the notion of a computational turn, referring to the novel layers of software that have nested themselves between us and reality (Hildebrandt 2013). These layers of decisional algorithmic adaptations increasingly co-constitute our lifeworld, determine what we get to see (search engines; behavioural advertising), how we are treated (insurance, employment, education, medical treatment), what we know (the life sciences, the digital humanities, expert systems in a variety of professions) and how we manage our risks (safety, security, aviation, critical infrastructure, smart grids). So far, this computational turn has been applauded, taken for granted or rejected, but little attention has been paid to the far-reaching implications for our perception and cognition, for the rewoven fabric on which our living-together hinges (though there is a first attempt in Ess and Hagengruber 2011, and more elaboration in Berry 2012). The network effects of ubiquitous digitization have been described extensively , though many authors present this as a matter of 'the social', neglecting the extent to which the disruptions of networked, mobile, global digital technologies are indeed 'affordances' of the socio-technical assemblages of 'the digital'. Reducing these effects to 'the social' does not help, because this leaves the constitutive and regulative workings of these technologies under the radar. Moreover, we need to distinguish between digitization per se and computational techniques such L. Floridi (ed.), The Onlife Manifesto,

Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, 2018