Theorizing and criticizing human-technology relations

The relations between humans and technologies are manifold, intricate, and complex, and play a crucial role in today's societies.From AI systems to climate engineering technologies, and from smart environments and genome editing technologies to nanomaterials: technologies help to shape the ways in which we behave, live our lives, understand the world, make decisions, and organize society.Investigating the character and implications of human-technology relations, therefore, is of utmost importance, both academically and socially.This new journal aims to be a platform for precisely this investigation.Rooted in Philosophy of Technology and Science and Technology Studies, it brings together a variety of disciplines that all shed light on specific dimensions of human-technology relations, including Design Research, Human-Computer Interaction, Ethics, Artistic Research, Communication and Media Studies, Psychology, Cultural Anthropology, and Political Theory.Our journal combines theoretical and empirical analyses of human-technology relations, as long as they contribute to a better understanding of the character, structure, and implications of the relations between humans, technologies, and societies.