Discover cutting-edge science and solutions for the world of tomorrow! Join us for this new lecture series with researchers from the University of Luxembourg. Open to all and free of charge, with topics from across our research areas. Lectures will be held in different languages and at a range of venues. Speaker Prof. Till Dembeck Associate professor, Leiter des Instituts für deutsche Sprache, Literatur und für Interkulturalität | Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences | Department of Humanities Abstract Media have a resounding effect on social relations. For example, the emergence of modern society resulted from the invention of the printing press. Today, many anticipate that "digitalisation" will have similarly far-reaching effects, and this often leads to ethical reactions: ethics is to align digital technology with "human" values. This reaction, however self-evident it may seem, must be questioned: not only is the "ethification" of digital technologies a comparably weak reaction, worse, it impedes a clear-sighted assessment of the societal revolution underway. This lecture aims at offering a more sober, though potentially "unethical", look at the affordances of digital media.
