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Digitalization and society of singularities

Digitalisation and society of singularities
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Discussion | 11.12.2020, 7 pm.
Live at Goethe-Institut, Hanoi and at Deutsches Haus, Ho Chi Minh City; Online via Zoom.

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The late-modern society produces singularities. It does no longer aim at the general, standardized and average solely, but promotes and expects uniqueness. Things, individuals, events, places and communities – everything wants to be special… The result is a competition of attention and evaluation for the status of this uniqueness, the so-called singularity. The result: there are losers and winners. Digital technologies, such as social media platforms and smartphones, are a necessary condition of the process. Andreas Reckwitz asks in his lecture on the society of singularities: To what extent can digitalisation be interpreted as a mechanism of social singularisation and what are the consequences?

ORIGINAL LECTURE AT THE ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT INSTITUTE FOR INTERNET AND SOCIETY (HIIG) 

Experts

 
  Host  
 
 
  Dr. Nguyen Thu Huong Assoc. Prof. Tran Huu Quang
  Guest  
   
  Adreas Reckwitz  

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