Description
In June 2012, dr. Gijs van Oenen, assistant professor in Political Philosophy, organizes a conference on 'interactive metal fatigue'. The conference aims to philosophically analyse the social and psychological burden that today’s thoroughly interactive society imposes on its members, through its unrelenting efforts to realise emancipation and democracy. The success of the Enlightenment project that turned emancipation and democracy into an incontrovertible part of modern life, has produced ‘interactive metal fatigue’ as an unforeseen and unintended consequence: the fatigue that follows upon our realisation that we have placed a virtually unlimited duty of emancipatory responsibility upon ourselves.