עברית

Dr. Asaf Hazan

דוא"ל
asitwas@gmail.com
תחומי עניין
  • The psychological dimension of technology
  • Science, Technology and Society (STS)
  • Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Thermodynamics and electricity
קורות חיים

Asaf Hazan is a researcher and musician, holding a B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from Tel Aviv University and a Ph.D. from the Program in Science, Technology and Society at Bar-Ilan University. His research focuses on the psychological dimension of technology, particularly on the transition from analog to digital technologies, the cybernetics movement, and the roots of artificial intelligence.

מחקר

My doctoral thesis focused on the Macy Conferences of the cybernetics movement in the mid-20th century. It offered a psychological interpretation of the conferences’ central themes: the transition to digital technology and the emergence of feedback as a guiding principle. The concluding part of the study consisted of a redefinition of the metaphysical foundations underlying today’s artificial intelligence systems.

My current research explores the nature of human creativity in relation to artificial intelligence systems, and examines how both are connected to broader questions of memory in general and dreams in particular. Through these interrelations, I attempt to rethink the very way we conceive of “regulation” in relation to technology.

קורסים

Leads the reading group: An Alternative History of Artificial Intelligence from a Psychic Perspective

 
 
 
פרסומים

Articles

  • “The Forbidden Zone”: A Psychological Reading of The Analog-Digital Difference, Submitted to: Social Sciences & Humanities Open, (Under Review), 2025-11.

  • “Theaetetus Snubbness: Towards a New Form of Face Recognition”, Together with Prof. Liran Razinsky, in preparation, expected submission: Nov. 15th 2025.

Conferences

  • Transparent Forces: On The Disappearance of Mater in The Weimar Republic, National Conference of Research Students On the Topic of the Holocaust and Genocide, School of Historical Studies, Tel-Aviv University, 2007-02-01

  • A Man Escaped: On the visual conditions of the contemporary Prison Cell, The Second Visual Culture Workshop, The Program for Hermeneutics & Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University, 2008-05-01

  • The Analog-Digital Question as a Question of Magnitude, Graduate Students Conference, Interdisciplinary Studies Unit, Bar-Ilan University, 2023-01-01

  • “The Forbidden Zone”: A Psychological Reading of The Analog-Digital Difference, Signals & Noises, The Australian Science Studies Network, 9-11-07-25

  • The rules of rhetoric of dreams - The Origin of AI Creativity, 4S 2025: Reverberations, Society for Social Studies of Science, Seattle, 3-6-09-25

Last Updated Date : 10/11/2025