Every trick requires superior craftsmanship, every illusion and every forgery needs the right tools: from photo retouching, output techniques, and deepfakes, to ingenious rhetorical methods. Thus, the history of technology becomes readable as a history of the evolution of deception (and its defense mechanisms).
From this perspective, this year's Yearbook of the Philosophy of Technology addresses the following question:
How do (new) technologies enable new forms of deception and illusion?
How should historical and contemporary developments in the field of illusion creation be categorized?What are their potential cultural and social impacts?
