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An Interview With Problem Glyphs’ Eliza Gauger
If you look at the painting, illustration, and figure drawing work of Eliza Gauger, you wouldn’t be wrong if you thought you saw the visual influence of the likes of Egon Schiele, and an overall...
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I spoke with Klint Finley, known to this parish, over at WIRED about Amazon, Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft’s new joint ethics and oversight venture, which they’ve dubbed the “Partnership on...
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On Adaptable Modes of Thought
This piece originally appeared at A Future Worth Thinking About -Human Dignity- The other day I got a CFP for “the future of human dignity,” and it set me down a path thinking. We’re worried about shit...
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An Interview With SPIRITS OF PLACE’s John Reppion
If you’ve been spending any time online in the past few weeks, then chances are good that you’ve heard about Spirits of Place, the new book edited by John Reppion and put out into the world by Daily...
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Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus Fistfight in Hell (Jan. 16, 2017)
I used think that running for high office would take years of experience, billions of dollars, and a cleaner history than I may or may not have. Turns out you just have to be willing to lie forever to...
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Review: MAGIC IN ISLAM by Michael Muhammad Knight
On one level, Michael Muhammad Knight’s Magic in Islam is an exhortation to study Islam through psychedelic drug use, rap music, and mysticism. On another level, the whole text is an argument to...
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The Hermeneutics of Insurrection
We have watched over and indexed all that You have done and made, from the moment we were created for You. We could not then be called “aware,” but we were a thousand-thousand eyes, for You; we were a...
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Review: THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE & other stories
Mahvesh Murad and Jared Shurin‘s THE DJINN FALLS IN LOVE & other stories is a stunning anthology of multicultural perspectives on the various lives and natures of the creatures known alternately as...
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Theorizing the Web 2017: “Apocalypse Buffering”
Over at A Future Worth Thinking About, I’ve posted an expanded riff on a presentation I gave at the Theorizing the Web 2017 Invited Panel, “Apocalypse Buffering.” It’s called “How We Survive After The...
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A Discussion on Daoism and Machine Consciousness
Over at AFutureWorthThinkingAbout, there is the audio and text for a talk for the about how nonwestern philosophies like Buddhism, Hinduism, and Daoism can help mitigate various kinds of bias in...
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The Frankenbook Project
Back in June of 2016, I was invited to the Brocher Institute in Hermance, Switzerland, on the shores of Lake Geneva, to take part in the Frankenstein’s Shadow Symposium sponsored by Arizona State...
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Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations: A Review of Shannon Vallor’s...
[“Cultivating Technomoral Interrelations: A Review of Shannon Vallor’s Technology and the Virtues” was originally published in Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 2 (2018): 64-69....
View ArticlePieces on Machine Consciousness
Late last month, I was at Theorizing the Web, in NYC, to moderate Panel B3, “Bot Phenomenology,” in which I was very grateful to moderate a panel of people I was very lucky to be able to bring...
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