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Harashima Daisuke

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Daisuke Harashima is a Research Associate of the Future Robotics Organization at Waseda University, Tokyo. He writes and teaches on humanities and technics in contemporary information societies from the perspective of fundamental informatics and neocybernetics, with a focus on the difference between living beings and machines, reflecting on the modern technological conditions and to realize new values based on the respect for life. His books include Cybernetics for the 21st Century Vol. 1 (co-authored, 2023), Future Society and Meaning (co-authored, in Japanese, 2023), Adventurers in Media Theory (co-authored, in Japanese, 2023), Autonomy in the Age of AI (co-authored, in Japanese, 2021), Frontiers in Fundamental Informatics (co-authored, in Japanese, 2019), and he has published in the journals Bijutsu Techo, Shiso, Gendai Shiso, Eureka. He is the translator of Yuk Hui’s Recursivity and Contingency (2022) and co-translator of Tim Ingold’s Being Alive (2021) in Japanese.Last Updated: 2024.12