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SUMMARY:ITeG-Ringvorlesung: "If You Could Read My Mind: Neurotechnology and
  Post-Digital Labor Subjectivities"
DESCRIPTION:In der ITeG-Ringvorlesung "Digitale Gesellschaft - eine Gestalt
 ungsaufgabe" wird am 16. Dezember 2026 Prof. Dr. Peter Mantello Einblicke g
 eben zum Thema "If You Could Read My Mind: Neurotechnology and Post-Digital
  Labor Subjectivities".\n\n\n\nZoom-Link für die Online-Zuschaltung: www.un
 i-kassel.de/go/iteg-lectures-zoom\n\n\n\nPeter Mantello is an artist, filmm
 aker and Professor of Media Studies at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University 
 in Japan. His area of specialization focuses on the intersection between te
 chnology, conflict, Artificial Intelligence and surveillance. Combining med
 ia studies, International Relations theories, film studies, data studies, a
 nd technologies studies, he is interested in the various feedback loops bet
 ween media, technology, conflict, and popular culture.\n\nWebsite at APU: P
 eter Mantello\n\n\n\nZusammenfassung seines Vortrags:\n\nMy talk examines h
 ow workplace neurotechnology reshapes labor subjectivity under AI-mediated 
 governance. By neurotechnology, I mean cognitive and sensory interfaces tha
 t access, monitor, interpret, and modify neural and sensory processes, ther
 eby translating aspects of mental activity into observable data. Proponents
  claim these systems optimize performance, track attentiveness, and warn of
  fatigue; critics warn they render workers legible and thus governable with
 in algorithmically driven management systems. I argue that neurotechnology 
 is not simply a more invasive form of biometric surveillance but a broader 
 shift in how cognition is understood, measured, and governed, one that turn
 s attention, focus, and affect into a new form of human capital. Once neura
 l states become quantifiable and comparable, they function as credentials, 
 metrics through which workers are ranked, valued, and rendered employable. 
 A growing literature on neuroethics tends to specify how these systems shou
 ld operate (ethics) rather than interrogate the political conditions that m
 ake their authority possible, illuminating consequences while leaving unexa
 mined the transformations in agency, cognition, and governance that accompa
 ny deployment.\n\nThe question is therefore not simply whether neurotechnol
 ogies are ethical, but how they reshape the conditions under which labor su
 bjectivities are constituted, valued, and governed. Through the marketing d
 iscourse and technical architecture of leading providers, the article shows
  how the promise of objective neural measurement operationalizes this gover
 nance while displacing responsibility onto the worker and argues that the d
 atafication of cognition reconfigures the criteria of employability itself.
  In this way, it contributes not only to the biopolitics of neurotechnology
  but also to debates on AI in the workplace.
LOCATION:ITeG - Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Informationstechnik-Gestaltu
 ng, Universität Kassel
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