Histories of Faulty Humans

申请是为了六个月的临时替代，这将延长正常的休假期。目的是完成一本关于“有缺陷的人”的历史的书。该项目调查的历史性的错误的人的主题相对于“错误”的定义相比，技术。这本书认为，自19世纪以来，通过将人类与技术进行比较，出现了一个关于人类缺陷的新概念框架。这一主题在20世纪世纪已经变得无处不在，并且仍然决定着今天的技术话语。与哲学人类学理论中的人是一种有缺陷的生物不同，这本书并没有假设人类在“自然”上是生物缺陷的，而是要求对缺陷进行文化归属。因此，这本书分析了人类缺陷在不同生活世界背景（如工作，思维，人际关系等）中的文化归因方式的变化，并参考了不同的技术（如机械，计算机，人工智能）。这将展示错误归因的历史变迁和多元性。与技术有关的错误人类的历史不仅仅是为了它本身而有趣。相反，这本书认为，这一主题代表了现代性的一个基本配置，具有深刻而持久的影响。它使技术合法化，塑造了人和机器的概念以及社会的概念，特别是将克服人类缺陷的想法与更美好世界的承诺联系起来。然而，地形一直是有争议的。正因为如此，它非常适合研究关于人和机器的概念以及社会概念的谈判过程。因此，该项目将描绘的拓扑在现代性的系统地位，有别于基于生物学家的概念和哲学人类学的不足理论。

The application is for a six-month temporary replacement which will extend a regular sabbatical term. The aim is to complete a book on the history of “the faulty human being”. The project investigates the historicity of the topos of faulty humans with respect to the definition of ‘faulty’ in comparison to technology. The book argues that since the 19th century a new conceptual framework for human deficiency has emerged by comparing humans with technology. This topos has become ubiquitous in the 20th century and still determines discourses on technology today.Unlike philosophical-anthropological theories of man as a deficient creature, the book does not assume that human beings are biologically deficient by "nature", but ask for the cultural ascription of faultiness. Therefore, the book analyses the changes in the ways in which human faultiness was culturally ascribed in different life-world contexts (such as work, thinking, interpersonal relationships, to name but a few) and with reference to different technologies (e.g. mechanical machine, computer, AI). This will demonstrate the historical shifts and pluralities in fault-ascriptions.The history of the faulty human being in relation to technology is not just interesting for its own sake. Instead, the book argues that this topos represents a fundamental configuration of modernity with a deep and enduring impact. It legitimized technology, shaped concepts of man and machine as well as concepts of society, especially in connecting the idea of overcoming human faults to the promise of a better world. However, the topos has always been controversial. For this very reason it is very well suited for investigating negotiation processes about concepts of man and machine and concepts of society. Thus, the project will delineate the systematic place of the topos in modernity as distinct from the deficiency theories based on biologist conceptions and philosophical anthropology.