13
Aug
2015
Aug
2015
of mice and men (technology and humanity)
Digitised Necrophilia: Technology and Psychosocial Orientations in the Age of ISIS and Drone Strikes
If ISIS’s images and drone strikes are symptoms of a necrophilous orientation in human-computer interaction today, what implications are there for those of us who maintain that digital technologies should be advanced toward a biophilous orientation that“ wish[es] to further growth, whether in a person, a plant, an idea, or a social group” (Fromm, 1973, p.365)?