Humble is a book of images without pictures. i am not humble, but i am trying... my first and probably only book, a snapshot of some of the ideas that challenge my worldview. this is a small print run i made for #book afficionados. free online version also available.
#books #philosophy #graphicdesign #typography
Worked from home. Got distracted by a favorite movie. Decided to write about it in order to salvage my distraction. It's about the prescience of the movie Hackers and how we can still make the world better with the tools at our disposal.
And another new preprint: the second of my two recent collaborations with Marcus Neustetter that we submitted to the #ArtScience journal #Leonardo (special issue: "Designing Myth").
"Galactic Brains, Zombie Apocalypse, and the Poiesis of an Ecology of Metamodern Myths"
https://zenodo.org/records/21778707
#mythopoiesis #art #philosophy #metamodernism #sincere_irony #ecology_of_practice
Hey everyone, hope the weather's as nice wherever you are as it is in NYC. I'm writing this post to pin it- just want to say that I somtimes use Masto to promote events & content. Mostly public philosophy, almost always free stuff. I'm fully independent & financially precarious- this is part of a necessary work hustle for me. I'm also very left-leaning: I don't like using Big Tech platforms, but if I didn't, I wouldn't be able to work at all. Thanks for understanding
What I’ve been reading (and watching) week ending 16 August https://jchyip.medium.com/what-ive-been-reading-and-watching-week-ending-16-august-722524ba1f76 #philosophy #culture #management #lean #AI #SoftwareEngineering #economics #science
"Speak not of liberty, poverty is slavery!" Pëtr Kropotkin, Anarchism: its philosophy and ideal #anarchy #poverty #liberty #philosophy
Rated The Reluctant Fundamentalist 6/10
A moving film about allegiances at the social, national, and personal levels, The Reluctant Fundamentalist has high aims but fails to fully render its many messages. Because of this, a beautiful film about the origins of culture clash and the role patriotism and fear play in producing these inevitabilities, comes across heavy-handed. This is a bit of a disappointment as the casting is spot-on--Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland, and Om Puri give some incredibly magnetic performances--and there is no dearth of technical skill.Typically I'm a fan of overambitious films, but this manages to somehow telegraph a variety of positions while never quite putting its foot down. It is perhaps too comfortable with ambiguity, certainly more comfortable than its audience is. At the film's opening this makes for compelling and interesting material, but the fact that few concrete answers or explanations are offered on the ontologies of its characters' motivations ensures that the congealed product is unrewarding. It comes as no surprise, then, that many of the supporting cast exist solely to add context and are themselves underdeveloped.All said, the film IS vibrant. When not dominated by the rich sounds and visuals of Pakistan, ethereal vocalizations and sheer and embroidered textiles, the film is arguably at its most uninteresting. One of the things I loved, in particular, was how the soundtrack was used to inspire feeling or to accompany the feelings being created and shown on screen. The sound profile of the film is itself incredibly diverse and enjoyable; the soundtrack contains oral chants, hip hop beats, and melodious instrumentations, all of which are creatively and effectively woven into the narrative.Through this film we come to realize that militancy is rarely a mask of our making or choosing, that sometimes it is chosen for us. This is the kind of film that brings cerebrality and moral philosophy to characters we often hear about but never see. While a smaller scale might have provided for more powerful meditations on the social constraints of identity, this remains a film to be seen because it manages to be both race and class-conscious, all while subverting the popular characterizations of peoples and groups in the middle east. It doesn't do it well, but it does it. And that is saying something.
I am a guest on the inimitable Disintegrator podcast with filmmaker E. Elias Merhige. Hear us talk about this machine that we are eating that is eating us.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/disintegrator/id1716416573?i=1000775998168
#disintegrator #podcast #ai #eliasmerhige #cinema #music #philosophy #alchemy
We're hosting @tante for a talk online!
https://events.floxford.org/event/uncaring-software-tante
Thurs 12 Nov
18:00-19:00 UK time
Online (https://meet.floxford.org)
Free and Open to All
"NO WARRANTY", FLOSS licences say.
Has this (originally merely a legal precaution) cast a way longer shadow than we thought? What is FLOSS, if not a work of care?
#event #onlineEvent #floxfordEvent #FLOxford
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #ethics #technologyEthics #philosophy #licensing #governance #solidarity #community
"Does Expertise Matter?: Authority in the Age of Infinite Information" is an event I’m hosting Thurs Sept 24th, 7-9pm, IRL at Index Chinatown. I’ll use frameworks from epistemology and political theory to explore how standards of intellectual authority have been shaped by the evolution of tech. It’ll be very interactive - structured thought experiments, back-and-forth, etc.. and no deck, we do it live 🙂
Link:
https://luma.com/index-49m5
hope to see you there!
This week in #NYC - as part of the Durations festival, I'll be on a panel called "Civilization Is Over." Thursday the 12th, 7pm at Public Records in Gowanus. You can buy a one-off ticket just to the panel, although the festival lineup is great - William Basinski, Suzanne Ciani, Fred Moten, Ghost Dubs, lots of dj sets & philosophy panels!
boosts appreciated, this is going to be a lot of fun, hope to see you there!
Rage against MIT's Moral Machine - a video essay
Of tech ethics and its teaching, self-driving Trolleys and associated Problems, utilitarianism, the MIT's Moral Machine, with mentions of The Good Place and the acceptable amount of deaths an LLM can cause.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQ1Hcbma4kU
#AI #Ethics #PhilippaFoot #Philosophy #Kant #MoralMachine #SelfDriving #AutonomousVehicles #TechEthics #TrolleyProblem #Utilitatianism
Seeing and still not believing
is the cardinal virtue
of the one who knows.
Nietzsche
Unpublished Fragments
1882~1883/84
Photo Juan Brufal
Zaki Naguib Mahmoud’s Work Rethought Religion and Modernity https://www.byteseu.com/2402544/ #Culture&Lifestyle #Egypt #HeritageVsModernity #IslamReligion #Life&Society #modernity #philosophy #Religion #ZakiNaguibMahmoud
les grandes questions de l'Histoire de l'Humanité : tu tires ou tu pointes ?
Discus Thrower, Cronulla Beach, South Sydney, Australia, Photo by Max Dupain, c. 1937
tags : épochè, histoire des jeux olympiques, #sport #philosophy #photography
First women of philosophy
Philosophy was once a woman’s world, ranging across Asia, Africa and Latin America. It’s time to reclaim that lost realm
by Dag Herbjørnsrud
Books about or by women philosophers at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=women+philosophers
I doubt so I think so I am
YOU CAN FIND IT HERE:https://fineartamerica.com/featured/i-doubt-so-i-think-so-i-am-patricia-hofmeester.html
By buff.ly/3i3uCm2 #finearts #WallArt #homedecor #art #artgallery #artprints #giftideas #AYearForArt #LoveArt #WALLARTFORSALE #BuyIntoArt #photography #philosophy #philosopher #Descartes #classic #quote
