The Porous Mask

A Theological Reflection on Concepts of Personhood and Personal Agency in the Digital Age

Abstract

Given the metaphorical and technical transitions between machines and people, what is a person? Drawing on John Locke and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Florian Höhne reflects on imaginations and practices of the digital juxtaposing a forensic imagination of personhood with a responsorial imagination of personhood, respectively, and discusses their implications regarding digital transformations.