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Creaturely Love

Symposium on Love

May 14, 2018 • by Dominic Pettman

Today I would like to briefly talk about some of the ways I think that love makes us both more and less than human. But first a nutshell version of my understanding of love. Love is a technology (as I have argued in a book called Love and Other Technologies). Indeed, it is ...

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Five Theses on Virtual Reality and Sociality

Understanding the implications of radically new experiences

May 10, 2018 • by Deborah Levitt

The first published use of the term “virtual reality” is found in Antonin Artaud’s The Theater and its Double, in a section in which he asserts that alchemy and theater have in common that they are virtual arts. For Artaud, writing in 1933, there’s nothing technologically novel about virtual reality; it ...

Five Theses on Virtual Reality and Sociality

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Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Psychotherapy?

The changing relationship between mind and machine

April 16, 2018 • by Kevin Rice

Whether it is an unhealthy YouTube fascination with Boston Dynamic’s robot dogs opening doors, Amazon’s Alexa on your coffee table, or Elon Musk’s ominous March 13th statement of “Mark my words -- AI is far more dangerous than nukes,” chances are the growing conversation of artificial intelligence has intruded in some way ...

Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Psychotherapy?

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OBJECT AMERICA: The Model 500 Telephone

An interdisciplinary reimagining of America

April 10, 2018 • by Pascal Glissmann and Selena Kimball

Telephones are emblems of power for President Trump, key devices for running his hyper-mediated reality TV show presidency. “I have great phones, I have phones -- let me tell you. The technology that we have in this country is incredible,” Trump boasted to Sean Hannity soon after taking office. From ...

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Philosophers on Fake News

Arendt and Foucault on power and truth in media politics

March 19, 2018 • by Haeun Kim

Despite their irrefutable and continued presence in the world today, for some time the practices of banning and censorship have struck me as antiquated, almost quaint, like a desperate but not wholly effective grasp for control by a declining State. My admission of this admittedly unsubstantiated and impressionistic outlook—although not ...

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What Makes Something New Today?

On the compulsion to innovate

February 20, 2018 • by Santiago Zabala

Given our prejudice towards innovation, everything labeled as “new” captures our interest with the promise of genuine improvement. But are new politicians, technological discoveries, and works of art necessarily better than previous ones? As we enter 2018 we recall last year’s breakthroughs as improvements in politics, technology, and art. It is ...

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System Error

Fighting Online Abuse from Within

February 16, 2018 • by Brooke Foucault Welles

Zoë Quinn is a game developer, programmer, artist, and activist. She is also the victim of Gamergate, an ongoing campaign of targeted harassment levied against Quinn and other women in the video gaming industry. For the uninitiated, Quinn’s experience reads like dystopian science fiction -- an embittered ex-lover fabricated a story ...

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the “Possibility of Joy”

An interview

January 30, 2018 • by Clinamen

The following is a transcription of a broadcast aired on the radio program Clinamen, which is co-conducted by Diego Sztulwark, Diego Skliar, and Natalia Genero. It was translated from the Spanish by Ana Vivaldi and Daniel Harper in 2017. Bifo casts his gaze across multiple planes: the personal and the political, the technical ...

Franco “Bifo” Berardi on the “Possibility of Joy”

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Racial Preference and Grindr

The enduring erotics of colonialism

January 11, 2018 • by Dominic Reilly

Beyond preference vs. prejudice At what point does preference become discrimination? This question was used to frame a recent video produced by Grindr exploring the increasingly prominent topic of “race” and so-called “racial preferences” on hook-up and dating apps. That increasing attention is being paid to the racialized aspects of our partner selections ...

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Offshoring

Reassessing the Rhetoric of Ineluctability

December 19, 2017 • by Sabine Pitteloud

Such rhetoric explains the increased use of offshoring since the 1990s — and the changes in employment that it has engendered — by referencing the changing economic environment. One decisive change that is almost always mentioned when this is discussed is the increased integration of markets around the world: markets ...