Sunday, June 01, 2014

"When is the initiation of physical force justified?"

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I received this question from a reader, and this is my response to him. I am also elaborating the response a bit to provide more context for...
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Saturday, May 31, 2014

#BookTitleConfessions Twitterrant

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Milton Friedman, "Free To Lose: A Modest Proposal." #BookTitleConfessions Henry Hazlitt: "Economics in One Deception: The S...
Saturday, May 24, 2014

Emasculating Gun-Nuttery: Or, What Atrios Said

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I couldn't agree more : Obviously they're a scary crowd to mock, because they, you know, have guns. Which is part of the point. But ...
Monday, May 05, 2014

It's Now Or Never: An Adjunct Responds to SFAI's Latest Talking Points

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In the latest communication from SFAI Administration dissuading adjuncts from voting to organize with SEIU, Dean Rachel Schreiber writes: T...
Thursday, May 01, 2014

San Francisco Art Institute Touts Diego Rivera Fresco Celebrating Labor Politics While Engaging in Union Busting

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The Making of a Fresco Showing the Building of A City (1931) is a fresco painted by Diego Rivera which is a source of great pride, and an ...
Sunday, March 23, 2014

Robot Cultist Rebrands Torture And Dreams of Futuristic Prisons As Virtual Hells

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The Telegraph : Philosopher Rebecca Roache is in charge of a team of scholars focused upon the ways futuristic technologies might transform ...
Sunday, March 16, 2014

Why So Many Transhumanists and Digital Utopians Are Incapable of Imagining There's No Heaven

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Upgraded and adapted from an exchange in the Moot "JimF" commented: You know, I had (or attempted to have) [an] argument (or ...
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Saturday, March 15, 2014

Comments On and Critiques Of Existenz Volume on Humanism, Posthumanism, Transhumanism, Futurism Solicited

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Existenz itself has now linked to my Forum Page on its issue, "The Future of Humanity and the Question of Post-Humanity" to enco...
Sunday, March 09, 2014

Forum on the Existenz Journal Issue, "The Future of Humanity and the Question of Post-Humanity"

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The Journal Existenz has published an issue (Volume 8/2, Fall 2013 ISSN: 1932-1066) entitled The Future of Humanity and the Question of ...
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Thursday, March 06, 2014

Existenz Publishes "The Future of Humanity and the Question of Posthumanity"

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Existenz has published its volume on The Future of Humanity and the Question of Post-Humanity , which includes what is probably my own most ...
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Monday, February 24, 2014

Em Butterfly: Robot Cultists George Dvorsky and Robin Hanson Go Overboard For Robo-Overlords Over At io9

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"What will life be like when digital brains outnumber humans?" Of course, Dumb Dvorsky asks the question . Of course, he said ...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Thought Leaders Without Thoughts

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Creator! Innovator! Cerebrator! Yes, the Idea Man! What are his hopes and dreams, his desires and aspirations? Does he think all the time ...
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Saturday, January 25, 2014

Gizmuddle: Or, Why the Futuristic Is Always Only Perverse

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In his marvelous essay on the subject, Daniel Harris identified "the futuristic" with the perverse. While this insight may not b...
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Monday, January 13, 2014

Scientific Authority in Democratic Societies Must Be Democratically Politicized Science

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Upgraded and expanded from my response to a comment in the Moot: Warranted consensus scientific truth is essentially what is taken to be t...
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Monday, January 06, 2014

Tragic Techbrofashionistas of The Future Put. A. Phone. On. It!

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It is easy to lampoon the phony conjurations of progress celebrated by the gizmo-fetishizing consumer fandom gossip-columnists who call them...
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Saturday, January 04, 2014

Thought Is Bigger Than Philosophy UPDATED

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It is important always to remember that Thought is much bigger than Philosophy, that odd literary genre for mostly white guys still preoccup...
Friday, January 03, 2014

All Watched Over By Algorithms of Loving Grace

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Andrew Leonard in Salon : In a world where every step we take is increasingly mediated by digital networks and devices, we are going to incr...
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