Calleja-López, A., Pérez-Verdugo, M., & Barandiaran, X. E. (2025). Autonomy and technology: from instrumentalism to technocomplexity. In Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual (pp. 111-120). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland. Link available here.
The authors present diverse perspectives on the relationship between technology and autonomy using a historical and partly dialectical exploration. The exploration begins by confronting the notion that humans instrumentalize techniques for their own benefit against the perspective that technological systems become autonomous and subordinate people. A synthetic position emphasizes that the only space for autonomy in a technologically mediated world is technopolitical autonomy, leading the individual to the ontotechnical constitution of their being and participating in their becoming.
The contribution is part of the book Barandiaran, X. E., & Etxeberria, A. (Eds.). (2026). Outonomy: Fleshing out the Concept of Autonomy Beyond the Individual. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-05501-9
The book offers an exploration of the concept of autonomy, taking it beyond the traditional individual perspective, encompassing a more interdependent concept from various fields: from biology to psychology or technology.