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      <journal-id journal-id-type="elibrary">75447</journal-id>
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        <journal-title>Technology and Language</journal-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Технологии в инфосфере</trans-title>
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      <issn pub-type="epub">2712-9934 18+</issn>
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      <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">9</article-id>
      <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.48417/technolang.2022.01.09</article-id>
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        <article-title>Quipping Equipment: Apropos of Robots and Kantian Chatbots</article-title>
        <trans-title-group xml:lang="ru">
          <trans-title>Говорящая машина: По поводу роботов и кантианских чат-ботов</trans-title>
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          <name>
            <surname>Xylander</surname>
            <given-names>Cheryce von</given-names>
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      <aff id="aff1">Leuphana Universität Lüneburg</aff>
      <pub-date publication-format="electronic" date-type="pub" iso-8601-date="2022-03-31">
        <day>31</day>
        <month>03</month>
        <year>2022</year>
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      <volume>3</volume>
      <issue>1</issue>
      <issue-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">6</issue-id>
      <fpage>82</fpage>
      <lpage>103</lpage>
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        <p>Robots, Bourdieu, Kant, and Sex – Coeckelbergh’s philosophy of technical assemblages has it all. This commentary considers his early work “on the linguistic construction of artificial others” in light of his later elaboration of a general theory of human-technology interaction. Coeckelbergh draws on “habitus”-theory, virtue ethics and a historically recontextualized Kantianism to propose nothing less than a new general moral philosophy for the technoscientific age. In so doing, he also conjures up something beguilingly elusive if not impossible – a pluralist personalism. Readers vested in pluralist accounts of agency and epistemic contingency will appreciate his invoking Bourdieu and Kant, thinkers prioritizing communalist over particularist interests. Readers of a personalist bent will welcome the voluntarism of his moral regimen – they like their reality served up in person-shaped bits, a perspective that prioritizes self-direction and self-possession. Two for the price of one: here everyone feels affirmed. Coeckelbergh appears to take the defining parameters of experience to be wholly contextual and, in equal measure, intrinsic. In squaring the circle, he also showcases a lurid scenario: sex with robots. The electrifying effect of this bold composition is to set the mind racing toward a position more coherent and less familiar than pluralist personalism. Central to this position is a conception of Gemüt as emergent reflexivity. Its consideration takes us via Immanuel Kant and Kant-Culture Research to such strange aberrations as corporate cannibalism and cyborg pillow talk. – This is one of six commentaries on a 2011-paper by Mark Coeckelbergh: “You, robot: on the linguistic construction of artificial others.” Coeckelbergh‘s response also appears in this issue of Technology and Language.</p>
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        <kwd>Commodified Agency</kwd>
        <kwd>Gemüt</kwd>
        <kwd>Kant-Culture Research</kwd>
        <kwd>Digital Cannibalism</kwd>
        <kwd>Personalism</kwd>
        <kwd>Kantbot</kwd>
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