Living Automatically, Living Remotely: On the Contemporary Reduction of Experience and Decision-Making Spaces

Abstract

Technology transforms human life and reduces the spaces of experience and decisión making. This article proposes a brief phenomenology of this view of life, systematizes some arguments of contemporary philosophers who have diagnosed this situation by relating technology to capitalism and liberalism (Benjamin, Heidegger, Schmitt, Negri, Blumenberg) and others who have suggested ideas to compensate for it (Land, Agamben, Badiou, Gumbrecht). From this perspective, we finally offer alternatives to think about how to avoid the undesirable consequences of colonization by, and the determination of life by, technology.