Introduction: a multifocal view of human agency in the era of autonomic computing&MIREILLE HIL DEBRANDT 1
1 Smart? Amsterdam urinals and autonomic computing&DON IHDE 12
2 Subject to technology: on autonomic computing and human autonomy&PETER-PAUL VERBEEK 27
3 Remote control: human autonomy in the age of computer-mediated agency&JOS DE MUL AND BIBI VAN DEN BERG 46
4 Autonomy, delegation, and responsibility: agents in autonomic computing environments&ROGER BROWNSWORD 64
5 Rethinking human identity in the age of autonomic computing: the philosophical idea of trace&MASSIMO DURANTE 85
6 Autonomic computing, genomic data and human agency: the case for embodiment&HYO YOON KANG 104
7 Technology, virtuality and Utopia: governmentality in an age of autonomic computing&ANTOINETTE ROUVROYC 119
8 Autonomic and autonomous 'thinking': preconditions for criminal accountability&MIREILLE HILDEBRANDT 141
9 Technology and accountability: autonomic computing and human agency&JANNIS KALLINIKOS 161
10 Of machines and men: the road to identity. Scenes for a discussion&STEFANO RODOTA 179
11‘The BPI Nexus': a philosophical echo to Stefano Rodota's 'Of Machines and Men'&PAUL MATHIAS 199
Epilogue: technological mediation, and human agency as recalcitrance&ANTOINETTE ROUVROY 217
Index 223