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2024Friday 27th SeptemberPanel 1Warhammer 40k

Projecting Technological Development Over 38,000 Years: Lessons from History

Abstract The Warhammer 40k universe, set roughly 38,000 years in the future, presents an intriguing opportunity to explore the potential trajectory of technological advancement. This abstract proposes a comparative analysis of historical technological development with speculative projections for the next 38 millennia, drawing on the rich technological landscape depicted in Warhammer 40k. Technological progress over …

2024Friday 27th SeptemberPanel 1Warhammer 40k

POV: You’re a Tech-Priest – Using Warhammer 40k’s sociotechnical ontology as a tool for diffraction

Abstract As I sit down in my scriptorium, the cogitator comes alive with a touch of my finger, its spirit has grown accustomed to in lengthy rituals of familiarization after it was first assigned to me. Eager to work, it presents me with chatter from the noosphere that still my flesh is too weak to …

2024Friday 27th SeptemberPanel 1Warhammer 40k

Martin Heidegger’s Critique of Technology exemplified by the Cult Mechanicus

Abstract When influential as well as controversial philosopher Martin Heidegger wrote “Die Frage nach der Technik” (1954), he did not have in mind the dark age of technology, but rather the danger of a reduction of human being to a resource (“Bestand”) inherent to the purely technical world-view of our time. Most perfidiously, this “Gefahr” …