Announcing the latest title in Open Humanities Press's MEDIA : ART : WRITE : NOW series:

Masked Media: What It Means to Be Human in the Age of Artificial Creative Intelligence by Gary Hall.

Available open access - to be downloaded for free:

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

If we want a socially and environmentally just future, do we need a radical new theory of change – or to radically change theory? Unsettling received ideas of the author and the book, originality and copyright, real and artificial intelligence, Masked Media tests ‘non-modernist-liberal’ modes of creating and sharing knowledge enabled by media technologies, from writing through to GenAI. Thinking outside the black box that renders Euro-Western knowledge-making practices invisible – keeping the human ontologically separate from the nonhuman – it shows there’s no such thing as the human, the nonhuman already being in(the)human.

#newmedia #academicpublishing #experimentalwriting #humanities
#philosophy #ai #openai #genai

Without music, life would be a mistake. #stoicism #life #philosophy

Just a reminder that I am the philosophy reviews editor for the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies. I get a lot of requests from authors to find reviewers for their books, so if you would like to be on my radar, please let me know.

Even better, if you work in philosophy or religious studies and you would like to propose a review essay about a recent book in 18th-c phil to me, please get in touch! I do make efforts to ensure our reviewers get physical books whenever possible.

Benn Jordan does it again: “You are witnessing the death of American capitalism”.

Great video, great insights. Rings true, with all that’s happening around us today. The Great Techbro Takeover is real, and it’s because once you accumulate enough wealth, money in itself ceases to be an important measure of wealth.

It’s a long watch, but a good one. Please check it out.

#capitalism #philosophy #money #wealth #power

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqtrNXdlraM

"While we teach, We learn" #stoicism #life #philosophy

Would you agree with the following posited idea?

"Kindness is not just the rejection of selfishness but also of the utility monster. Kindness is grounded - based on our consideration of each individual in the present rather than philosophical abstractions of the future or the collective. One can act for the greater good of a country, or humanity, but one cannot be kind to those things - only to a person."

Boosts and thoughts appreciated!

"A conservative says, 'It hasn't happened to me, so I don't care.'
A liberal says, 'It should never happen to anyone, that's why I care.'"

New in our #digital #collection:

Science of science : understanding the foundations and limits of science from an interdisciplinary perspective

https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198937401.001.0001

'Science of Science' provides an integrated framework for the #science of science as an emerging field, and a comprehensive understanding of the foundations and limits of science.

Back in the day as a wee undergrad majoring in philosophy, I attended a symposium on theology of science. I asked one of the speakers how could anyone falsify theological data. He simply said this: "Falsification is not as transparent as once believed."

Classic philosopher move. When backed into a corner, redefine the terms.

𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗪𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗦𝗮𝗴𝗲

Ahoy, here's what to expect if you follow me.

Independent writing and analytical articles on

#Politics
#Philosophy
#Prepping
#Propaganda
#Publications
#Puppies

https://open.substack.com/pub/morewretchthansage

'To judge by the number of papers I read last semester that were clearly #AI generated, a lot of students are enthusiastic about this latest innovation.'

Troy Jollimore on why #ChatGPT can't give you an #education

https://thewalrus.ca/i-used-to-teach-students-now-i-catch-chatgpt-cheats

#books #reading #writing #philosophy #bookstodon @bookstodon

#Fascism isn't a new phenomenon but is has a #history and understanding it is necessary for #prevention & #resistance.

There is an often overlooked work by #italian #writer, #philosopher & #antifascist #UmbertoEco

First published 1995 in the #NewYorkReviewOfBooks http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1995/06/22/ur-fascism/

There was no #gamification that time

There is a #wikipedia article on it & many opportunities to find it in different languages