This paper introduces the notion of counter-disruption as a response to socially disruptive technologies grounded on a Spinozist affirmative ethics and values of care, affinity, solidarity, affirmation.
This panel, organised under the ESDiT line on Democracy, Justice and Solidarity (DJS), examines how socially disruptive technologies are reshaping solidarity as a moral and political practice.
The term “harmony ideology” was coined by anthropologist Laura Nader to describe alternative forms of conflict resolution as mechanisms of social and political control.
Emphasis on contingency, and the nihilism that follows from it, have been with us for a long time, yet never before has this outlook been so widely shared across society.
Rawlsian ideas about justice are increasingly applied to various disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, the architecture and design of the internet and some of its most prominent applications.