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 new cybernetics, with a focus on the differences between living beings and machines as systems, to reflect on the modern technological condition and to realize new values based on respect for life. His books include Critical Words: Media Theory (2021, in Japanese), Autonomy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Reconstructing the Basic Concept for the Future (2019, in Japanese), and Frontiers of Fundamental Informatics: Can Artificial Intelligence Have Its Umwelt? (2018, in Japanese), and he has published in the journals Gendai Shiso and 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.

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