Tag: We Live In the Future
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Arendt’s 1964 Lecture on Cybernetics
[This is an uncorrected transcription of some remarks Hannah Arendt gave to the first annual Conference on the Cybercultural Revolution. I’ve copied it from the Library of Congress, here . Notice that her concerns with the…
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Personal identity intuitions
Most philosophers start with the big theories : psychological continuity, embodied persistence, “no further fact” anticriterialism. Yet in a vaguely Parfitian way, I’ve been wondering whether our identity intuitions can or should be forced to…
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Some good sentences on science fiction
I’ve been looking at G. K. Chesterton’s theology lately, but today I came across this : The modern man no longer presents the memoirs of his great grandfather; but is engaged in writing a detailed…
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Google evaluates our reading level
Check out the results here . How to take the news? Should I be pleased that I blog in an accessible style or worried that the blog is only 18% advanced? I think this is…
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Wikileaks as Distributed Governance
Hannah Arendt begins The Human Condition with an account of a world in which “speech has lost its power,” where scientific omnipotence is achieved through the manipulation of mathematical equations whose sense escapes even the…
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This is why we need a “Dislike” button.
The Washington Post tells the tragic story of a new mother’s untimely death by annotating her Facebook page. ( via ) Is this the new model for obituaries ? Friendship is not a gift, or…
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An Uncanny Film
Watch this: Beautiful, right? Now watch this: It’s all computer generated! Here’s how it’s done . ( via )