Phenomenologies of the Digital Age

Marco Cavallaro received his Ph.D. from the University of Cologne and is currently Research Assistant at the Husserl Archive of the University of Cologne. Specializing in phenomenology, philosophy of mind, and digitality, he authored Wissenchaft als System: Husserls Begriff der Wissenschaftslehre (2025) and co-edited Perspectives on the Philosophy of Culture: Husserl and Cassirer (2022), Phenomenology of Phantasy and Emotions (2022), and The Existential Husserl: A Collection of Critical Essays (2022) His articles are published in journals such as the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Husserl Studies, and Phänomenologische Forschungen.Nicolas de Warren is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Penn State. He is the author of Husserl and the Promise of Time (2010), A Momentary Breathlessness in the Sadness of Time (2018), Original Forgiveness (2020), and German Philosophy and the First World War (2023).

• Introduction Marco Cavallaro and Nicolas de Warren 1. Layers of Simplicity: Phenomenological Considerations of Immersion in Videogames Thomas Arnold 2. The Otherness of the Other Interface: Relationality and Corporality between Humankind and the Machines-with (Mitmaschinen) Thomas Bedorf 3. Time-Consciousness and E-Memory: Arguing for a Phenomenological Revision of the ‘HEC’ (Hypothesis of Extended Cognition) Paradigm Federica Buongiorno 4. The Vanishing Point: Digital Technologies and the Quest for a Phenomenology of Technological Invisibility Marco Cavallaro 5. The Phantom Matrix: A Critical Phenomenology of Television Nicolas de Warren 6. Large Language Models and the Patterns of Human Language Use Christoph Durt and Thomas Fuchs 7. On Tertiary Retentions and Digital Sedimentations: Bernard Stiegler and Phenomenology Saulius Geniusas 8. The Imaginary, Magic and Hypervirtuality: On the Phenomenological Nature of Digital Screens Daniel O’Shiel 9. Perceiving the Virtual: Rethinking Blaustein within the Phenomenology of Virtual Reality Witold Płotka 10. From Immersive Body Swap to the Apprehension of the Other’s Emotions: Perspective-Taking and Levels of Empathy in Embodied Virtual Reality Íngrid Vendrell Ferran

“This collection presents a variety of significant contributions that employ the phenomenological approach to investigate the ways in which human experience is shaped and modified by new technologies in the digital age. It is essential reading for anyone interested in the theoretical, existential, and social implications of digital technologies.”Andrea Pace Giannotta, University of Florence, Italy