Abstract
In the humanities and social sciences, there is a long tradition of discourses on the relationship between automats and human autonomy. Socio-technological transformation processes of the past decades have revitalized related discussions. At the same time, based on ideas of either human exceptionalism or hybridity, current debates tend to focus on ontological questions and comparisons between humans and machines. This paper aims to widen recent discursive foci by introducing Ivan Illich’s work which highlights institutions, power structures, and the social shaping of technology as key factors of humanartifact relations and autonomous action. It will be argued that Illich’s approach contributes to rethinking autonomy in the digital age by integrating issues of technology design and regulation and by providing a normative framework that allows for assessing autonomy as conviviality in sociotechnical constellations.
DOI
10.30658/hmc.9.4
Author ORCID Identifier
Anne Hoss: 0009-0002-0178-0750
Recommended Citation
Hoss, A. (2024). Rethinking autonomy in the digital age: Between human exceptionalism, hybridity, and conviviality. Human-Machine Communication, 9, 51–62. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.9.4
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