{"title":"Digitised Necrophilia: Technology and Psychosocial Orientations in the Age of ISIS and Drone Warfare","authors":"R. Low","doi":"10.1145/2838739.2838808","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, I draw on the work of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm and his postulation of fundamental psychosocial orientations -- necrophilia and biophilia -- to reflect on two contemporary exemplars of human-computer interaction: the use of media communications technology by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the military use of weaponised drones. I consider the emergence of these modes of human-computer interaction located at the extremities of our social world as a key historical moment requiring urgent reflection on the interfaces of the psyche, the social, and the digital.","PeriodicalId":364334,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2015-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Australian Special Interest Group for Computer Human Interaction","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2838739.2838808","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this paper, I draw on the work of psychoanalyst Erich Fromm and his postulation of fundamental psychosocial orientations -- necrophilia and biophilia -- to reflect on two contemporary exemplars of human-computer interaction: the use of media communications technology by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the military use of weaponised drones. I consider the emergence of these modes of human-computer interaction located at the extremities of our social world as a key historical moment requiring urgent reflection on the interfaces of the psyche, the social, and the digital.
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