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DESCRIPTION:This event has been postponed. A new date will be announced sho
 rtly. \n	\n	'Towards a Phenomenology of Digital Conflict'\n\nNiclas Rautenbe
 rg (University of Hamburg)\n	Friday\, April 4\, 2025\n	3:00-4:30 PM\n	Leacock
  927\n\n\n	Abstract: Once praised as a beacon for open exchange and the pro
 mise for a truly deliberative polity\, the Internet\, with its echo chambe
 rs\, conspiracy theories\, and uncivil communication practices\, is now of
 ten considered a threat to the very foundations of liberal democracy. Onli
 ne discourse seems helplessly polarized and abrasive—and political conflic
 t in the digital world (subsequently ‘digital conflict’) insurmountable. T
 echnology ‘pessimists’ in the phenomenological literature explain these sh
 ortfalls by the very nature of the virtual: disembodied digital spaces sim
 ply do not allow for meaningful encounters between persons (e.g.\, Dreyfus
  2009\; Fuchs 2014). If meaningful engagement is precluded\, so is resolvi
 ng our quarrels. Other scholars hold that the body and other-understanding
  still ‘reach into’ the digital world (e.g.\, Ekdahl & Ravn 2021\; Osler 2
 019\, 2021)\, albeit potentially in a modified form. The work of such ‘opt
 imists’ suggests that dysfunctional conflict is not inevitable. Yet\, thes
 e authors focus on the harmonious aspects of online sociality or on ludic 
 forms of competition (e.g.\, videogames). How does political conflict\, i.
 e.\, strife where matters of existential concern are at stake\, complicate
  the picture? This paper presents some initial findings of the three-year 
 research project ‘Virtual Battlefields: Political Conflict in Digital Spac
 es’ currently running at the University of Hamburg. Based on qualitative d
 ata from interviews with politicians\, activists\, and journalists\, it re
 lies on an existential-phenomenological account of political conflict cons
 trued as a co-occurrence of different types of normative claims. How do di
 gital places have to be structured\, so that the different forms of normat
 ivity of the political world—i.e.\, me-reasons\, thou-reasons\, we-reasons
 \, they-reasons—can come to the fore? This paper gives some tentative answ
 ers to this question.\n\n \n
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: Niclas Rautenberg (University of Hamburg)\, 'Towards a P
 henomenology of Digital Conflict'
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 berg-university-hamburg-towards-phenomenology-digital-conflict-364641
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