SOKION CHOI | sokionchoi@snu.ac.kr

I am a doctoral candidate affiliated with the Program in History and Philosophy of Science (PHPS), Department of Science Studies at Seoul National University (SNU). After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in philosophy at Yonsei University, I received a Master of Science degree at PHPS, SNU, with a thesis on the renowned British cybernetician Gordon Pask. Now I am working on my doctoral project on the history of computer vision from the 1960s to the 1990s. My dissertation, tentatively titled Artificial Ways of Seeing: A Historical Epistemology of Computer Vision, examines how multifarious notions of human subjectivity have been integrated into algorithms during the development of perceptive machines.

My academic endeavor consists of two major streams. First, I explore the dynamic interplay of technoscience and the senses. I am interested not only in the ways in which science apprehends the aisthēsis, but also in the role of technology as an infrastructure that conditions the senses. Second, I investigate the consequences that current developments in technoscience has on traditional ideas of “the human.” In this regard, I am concerned with the ethical and social implications of AI on the one hand, and the thorough interrogation of the transhumanist ideology on the other.

I have presented my research at multiple venues, including the History of Science Society (HSS), the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S), and the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES). I have published a number of academic journal articles and book reviews in Korean, and have taught at universities and civic education institutions. Besides my academic and educational experiences, I also had been a sound engineer, a music critic, an amateur astronomer, a graduate journal editor, and an art exhibitions curator.

EDUCATION

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PUBLICATIONS

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I have published nothing in English yet. What follows here are my journal articles in Korean. If you want to know about my other publications in Korean, including book reviews and non-academic essays, please check my CV in Korean.

“Transhumanism and the American Political Myths”
Transdisciplinary Humanities, No. 18 (2024), 61–91.

“Dartmouth Summer Research Project and the Origin Myth of Artificial Intelligence”
Journal of Science & Technology Studies, Vol. 23, No. 3 (2023), 37–65.

“We Have Never Been Cogito: Revisiting Cartesian Dualism in a Posthumanist Perspective”
Journal of Philosophical Ideas, No. 86 (2022), 87–120.

TALKS

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What follows here are information about my English talks only. If you want to know about my talks delivered in Korean, please check my CV in Korean.

“David Marr’s Vision and the Artificial Ways of Seeing” (Nov. 8, 2024)
2024 History of Science Society (HSS) Annual Meeting (Mérida, México: Nov. 7–10, 2024)

“Historiography of the Boundary-Works in Artificial Intelligence” (Oct. 23, 2024)
Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) & Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES) 2024 (San Jose, CA, USA: Oct. 21–23, 2024)

“Blocks World and the Early Development of Computer Vision” (Oct. 28, 2023)
2023 Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting (Los Angeles, CA, USA: Oct. 26–29, 2023)

“Manipulating the Metaphors: Anthropomorphism and Cybernetics in the Early Works of Gordon Pask”, (Dec. 10, 2022)
Presented via Video Recording @ 2022 Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) & Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios Sociales de la Ciencia y la Teconología (ESOCITE) Joint Meeting (Cholula, México: Dec. 7–10, 2022)

TEACHINGS

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Seoul National University
Department of Science Studies

• 054.024/E11.107 Science, Technology, and Society (Fall 2024, Spring 2025)

Sungkonghoe University
Division of Social Sciences

• MB00037 Artificial Intelligence and Society (Fall 2023, Fall 2024)

EXHIBITIONS

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Witnesses of the Anthropocene (co-curated by Jinhee Yoo & Sokion Choi)
Institute of Basic Sciences (Daejeon, South Korea: Jun. 28–Jul. 1, 2023).