CREATe is delighted to invite you to the next in our series of public lectures, delivered by Yuk Hui, Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University and one of the leading international figures in the philosophy of technology. Yuk will discuss his concept of technodiversity as well as some timely issues relating to AI and sovereignty (abstract below).

Yuk’s lecture will take place on Thursday 13 March at 4:30pm in Studio 2, Advanced Research Centre, followed by a drinks reception in the ARC. The event will be in-person only.

To book your place in the audience please register here.

We hope to see you there!

Yuk Hui - In Defence of Technodiversity

Current discourses on technological development have sparked widespread speculation about humanity’s future, ranging from mass unemployment and extinction to the emergence of homo deus. These speculations expose not only the limits of our understanding of AI but also the absence of a clear methodology for assessing its societal impact. More critically, they suggest that we have already accepted the industrial agenda without having the means to change them. This talk begins by critiquing the two dominant attitudes: acceleration and deceleration. Instead, it proposes an alternative to this dilemma by exploring technological pluralism, specifically the agenda of technodiversity, which also enables us to reevaluate the democratic project for the 21st century.

Yuk Hui is currently Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he holds the Chair of Human Conditions. He is the author of several monographs that have been translated into a dozen languages, including On the Existence of Digital Objects (2016), The Question Concerning Technology in China: An Essay in Cosmotechnics (2016), Recursivity and Contingency (2019), Art and Cosmotechnics (2021), Post-Europe (2024), and Machine and Sovereignty (2024). He is the convenor of the Research Network for Philosophy and Technology and a juror for the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture.