Special Issue Call for Papers

Current Debates in Phenomenology: Technology and the Digital Age

This special issue aims to bring together contemporary discussions at the intersection of phenomenology and technology, with a particular focus on how digital transformations reshape experience, embodiment, and forms of technological existence. Since its origins in the work of Edmund Husserl, phenomenology has become one of the most influential philosophical traditions for the study of consciousness, perception, embodiment, and the structures of subjectivity. In contemporary philosophy, this tradition continues to develop through its engagement with technological mediation, digital environments, and the transforming conditions of human-world relations. In an era increasingly shaped by digital infrastructures, artificial intelligence, and networked forms of life, phenomenology provides powerful conceptual tools for examining how technological systems structure lived experience. This special issue seeks to address current debates in phenomenology, particularly concerning the meaning of experience in technologically mediated contexts and the reconfiguration of human existence in the digital age.

Topics include, but not limited to:

• Phenomenology of technology and digital existence
• Technological mediation of perception, action, and meaning
• Embodiment, incorporation, and the extended body
• Human–machine interaction and limits of agency
• Affordance, design, and phenomenology of use
• Post-phenomenology and STS approaches
• Virtual/augmented reality and digital lifeworld
• Digital communication and social presence
• Aesthetic experience, media, and digital art

Submission Languages: English or (veya) Türkçe

Guest Editors:

Dr. Thomas Zingelmann__Friedrich-Schiller- University Jena

Dr. Mehmet Esendemir__Manisa Celal Bayar University

Dr. Sercan Palavan__Friedrich-Schiller- University Jena / Ankara University

 

• Submission Deadline: September 1 / 2026