Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- About the Authors -- Introduction -- Part I -- The Onlife Manifesto -- The Onlife Manifesto -- 1 Game Over for Modernity? -- 2 In the Corner of Frankenstein and Big Brother -- 3 Dualism is Dead! Long Live Dualities! -- 3.1 Control and Complexity -- 3.2 Public and Private -- 4 Proposals to Better Serve Policies -- 4.1 The Relational Self -- 4.2 Becoming a Digitally Literate Society -- 4.3 Caring for Our Attentional Capabilities -- Part II -- Commentaries -- Charles Ess-Commentary on The Onlife Manifesto -- References -- Luciano Floridi-Commentary on the Onlife Manifesto -- References -- Commentary on the Onlife Manifesto -- References -- Dualism is Dead. Long Live Plurality (Instead of Duality) -- References -- Commentary by Yiannis Laouris -- Comments to the Onlife Manifesto -- References -- Comment to the Manifesto -- References -- May Thorseth: Commentary of the Manifesto -- Part III -- The Onlife Initiative -- Background Document: Rethinking Public Spaces in the Digital Transition -- 1 What do we Mean by Concept Reengineering? -- 2 What do we Mean by the Digital Transition? -- 3 Why Such an Exercise in the Realm of the Digital Agenda? -- 3.1 The Blurring of the Distinction Between Reality and Virtuality -- 3.2 The Blurring of the Distinctions Between People, Nature and Artefacts -- 3.3 The Reversal from Scarcity to Abundance, when it Comes to Information -- 3.4 The Reversal from Entity's Primacy Over Interactions to Interactions' Primacy Over Entities -- 4 Process and Outcome -- References -- Part IV -- Hyperconnectivity -- Hyperhistory and the Philosophy of Information Policies -- 1 Hyperhistory -- 2 The Philosophy of Information Policies -- 3 Political Apoptosis: from the Historical State to the Hyperhistorical MASs -- 4 The Nature and Problems of the Political MAS -- 4.1 Identity and Cohesion.

4.2 Consent -- 4.3 Social vs. Political Space -- 4.4 Legitimacy -- 5 The Transparent State -- 6 Conclusion -- References -- Views and Examples on Hyper-Connectivity -- 1 Preliminary -- 2 G-rid Democracy -- 2.1 Evolution of the Social Fabric -- 2.2 Diffusion Modes -- 2.3 Network Topology -- 2.4 Institutions as Processors -- 2.5 Parallel Computing -- 2.6 Grid Computation and Modern Democracy -- 2.7 G-rid Democracy -- 3 Wikipedia, a Realized Utopia -- 3.1 Evolution of the Editorial Governance -- 3.2 Traditional Governance of Editorial Projects -- 3.3 Facilities Induced by ICTs -- 3.4 Wikipedia Editorial Governance -- 3.5 An Unexpected Success -- 4 Fortunes and Misfortunes of Patients' Associations -- 4.1 Preliminary -- 4.2 Brief Historical Recall -- 4.3 Medical Nemesis -- 4.4 Forty Years Later -- 4.5 The Shattering of Institutions -- 5 The Digital "Aura" in a World of Abundance -- 5.1 From Scarcity to Abundance -- 5.2 The Loss of the Aura -- 5.3 The Digital "Aura" -- References -- Part V -- Identity, Selfhood and Attention -- The Onlife Manifesto: Philosophical Backgrounds, Media Usages, and the Futuresof Democracy and Equality -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Relational Self and the Onlife Initiative: Descartes, Phenomenology, and the Analogue-Digital Age -- 2.1 From Norbert Wiener to Enactivism and the Embedded Mind -- 2.2 Phenomenology -- 2.3 Summary -- 2.4 How These Developments Prefigure and Support Our Characterizations -- 3 Digital-Analogue Media and the (re)Emergence of Relational Selves -- 3.1 Digital Media and Digital Futures? -- 3.2 Trust, Identity, and Polity -- 3.3 Changing Selves, Changing Privacies -- 3.4 Changing Selves, Changing Polities? -- 4 Relational Selves, Democracy and Equality? -- 4.1 Recent Work in (Western) Internet Studies -- 4.2 Core Tension: Equality and Gender Equality.

4.3 Recent Work on Confucian Traditions and Contemporary Communication Technologies -- 5 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Towards a Grey Ecology -- 1 Economy of Attention: From Abundance to Scarcity -- 2 Disembodiment and Data-ification of Experiences -- 3 Interaction and Agency -- 4 Control and Self-Presentation -- 5 Intimacy as a Defence -- 6 Grey Ecology as an Ecology of Agency and Alterity -- References -- Reengineering and Reinventing both Democracy and the Concept of Life in the Digital Era -- 1 The Need to Reinvent Democracy in the Digital Era -- 1.1 Direct Democracy A Recipe for Chaos -- 1.2 Grand Challenges Towards Reengineering or Even Reinventing Democracy -- 1.2.1 Challenge #1: Identify and Engage the Right Stakeholders -- 1.2.2 Challenge #2: Voting Leads to Fair and Wise Results -- 1.2.3 Challenge #3: Protecting Anonymity and Authenticity of Opinions -- 1.2.4 Challenge #4: Achieve True and Not Elusive Equality -- 1.3 Policy Implications -- 1.3.1 Authentic Participation -- 1.3.2 Respect Human Cognitive Limitations -- 1.3.3 Technologies to Enhance Human Cognitive Limitations -- 2 Should We Re-Engineer the Concept of Life in the Computational Era -- 2.1 What Does It Mean to Be Alive? -- 2.2 What Does It Mean to Be Human? -- 2.3 Mind and Body -- 2.4 Immortality and Sustainability -- 2.5 Grand Challenges Towards Achieving Immortality -- 2.5.1 Challenge #1: Decelerate or Stop Biological Aging -- 2.5.2 Challenge #2: Replace Biological with Manufactured Tissues -- 2.5.3 Challenge #3: Regenerative Medicine -- 2.5.4 Challenge #4: Transfer the Mind to a Machine -- 2.6 Policy Implications -- 2.6.1 Life Extension -- 2.6.2 Authentic Participation in Decision Making and Governance -- 2.6.3 Access to Technologies -- 2.6.4 Privacy in a Globally Connected World -- 2.6.5 The Right to Digital Euthanasia -- 2.7 What Is Human? -- References -- Part VI.

Complexity, Responsibility and Governance -- Distributed Epistemic Responsibility in a Hyperconnected Era -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Knowing Today -- 3 Responsible Research and Innovation -- 4 Approaching Distributed Epistemic Responsibility -- 4.1 Epistemic Responsibility: Insights from (Social) Epistemology -- 4.2 Responsibility &amp -- ICT: Insights from the Philosophy of Computing -- 4.3 Epistemic Responsibility in Entangled Socio-Technical Systems: Insights from Feminist Theory -- 5 Facing Distributed Epistemic Responsibility -- 5.1 Re-Conceptualizing Epistemic Responsibility -- 5.2 Governance for Epistemic Responsibility -- References -- Good Onlife Governance: On Law, Spontaneous Orders, and Design -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Defining Governance -- 3 Three Levels of Analysis -- 4 The Topology of Onlife Networks -- 5 The Design of the Onlife Experience -- 6 Conclusions -- References -- Part VII -- The Public Sphere in a Computational Era -- The Public(s) Onlife -- 1 Onlife After the Computational Turn? -- 1.1 Computational Turn -- 1.2 Smart Environments -- 1.3 What's New Here? -- 1.4 Which Are the Challenges? -- 2 Publics and their Problems in Smart Environments -- 2.1 Smart Environments and the Public Sphere -- 2.2 Public Private Social: Performance, Exposure, Opacity -- 2.3 Public Performance in the ONLIFE Everywhere -- 2.4 A Plurality of Publics, a Choice of Exposure, a Place to Hide -- 3 Legal Protection by Design: A Novel Social Contract? -- 3.1 The Nature of the Social Contract -- 3.2 Protecting Modernity's Assets: Reconstructing the Social Contract -- 3.3 Technology Neutrality and Legal Protection by Design -- 3.4 The Proposed Data Protection Regulation -- References -- Rethinking the Human Condition in a Hyperconnected Era: Why Freedom is Not About Sovereignty But About Beginnings.

1 The Digital Transition as a Reality-Check for Plato's Utopia Failure -- 2 Omniscience/Omnipotence: Modern Utopia, Human Condition's Dystopia? -- 2.1 The Centrality of Control in Knowledge and Action -- 2.2 Policy-Making or the Victory of the Animal Laborans? -- 2.3 Policy-Making and the Devaluation of the Present -- 3 The Arendtian Axiomatic Reset -- 3.1 Acknowledging Natality -- 3.2 Embracing Plurality -- 3.3 Plurality-and-Natality as an Alternative to Omniscience-and-Omnipotence -- 4 Reclaiming Distinctions in the Light of Plurality and Natality -- 4.1 Public and Private -- 4.2 Agents, Artefacts and Nature -- 5 The Arendtian Axiomatic Reset in a Hyperconnected Era -- 5.1 The Proper Mix of Literacy and Policy… -- 5.2 Coping With the Risk of "Reality Theft" -- 6 Conclusion: Reclaiming Plurality -- References -- Designing the Public Sphere: Information Technologies and the Politics of Mediation -- 1 Onlife Technologies -- 2 Onlife Relations -- 3 Onlife Mediations -- 4 Onlife Governance -- 5 Onlife Citizenship -- References -- Towards an Online Bill of Rights -- 1 The Lingering Myth of Cyber-Utopianism -- 2 Towards a European Onlife Bill of Rights? -- 3 A Digital 'Bill of Rights' -- 4 From Creative Commons to Civilized Commons -- References -- On Tolerance and Fictitious Publics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 New Publics and the Old Problem of the Public?-Digital Transition -- 3 New Medias and Blurring of Private-Public -- 4 Reflective Judgment -- 4.1 The Universal of Reflective Judgment -- 4.2 Reflective Judgment and Real Public Reasoning -- 4.3 Kant's Maxims of Common Human Understanding -- 5 Responsibility and Tolerance at Stake -- 5.1 Stefan Arkadievitch vs. Anders Behring Breivik -- 5.2 Tolerance of Real or Fictitious Publics? -- 6 Concluding Remarks -- References -- Part VIII -- The Onlife Initiative-Conclusion -- The Onlife Initiative-Conclusion.

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