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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 
 how workplace neurotechnology reshapes labor subjectivity under AI-mediated
  governance. By neurotechnology, I mean cognitive and sensory interfaces th
 at access, monitor, interpret, and modify neural and sensory processes, the
 reby translating aspects of mental activity into observable data. Proponent
 s claim these systems optimize performance, track attentiveness, and warn o
 f fatigue; critics warn they render workers legible and thus governable wit
 hin 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 tur
 ns attention, focus, and affect into a new form of human capital. Once neur
 al 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 sho
 uld operate (ethics) rather than interrogate the political conditions that 
 make their authority possible, illuminating consequences while leaving unex
 amined the transformations in agency, cognition, and governance that accomp
 any deployment. \n\nThe question is therefore not simply whether neurotechn
 ologies are ethical, but how they reshape the conditions under which labor 
 subjectivities are constituted, valued, and governed. Through the marketing
  discourse and technical architecture of leading providers, the article sho
 ws how the promise of objective neural measurement operationalizes this gov
 ernance while displacing responsibility onto the worker and argues that the
  datafication of cognition reconfigures the criteria of employability itsel
 f. In this way, it contributes not only to the biopolitics of neurotechnolo
 gy but also to debates on AI in the workplace.
LOCATION:ITeG - Wissenschaftliches Zentrum für Informationstechnik-Gestaltu
 ng, Universität Kassel
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