A comparative review of The Veldt and Computing Machinery and Intelligence
The Veldt was written by American author Ray Bradbury in 1950, which is a…
Strange Loop of Hofstadter: Bring Evidence for Objectivity if You Can!
Hofstadter in his famous book “Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid” written in 1979, brings…
“Let’s not talk about objectivity” …
… is what Ian Hacking said in 2015 about this topic. Tomorrow we will, obviously, still…
SFU Seminar on Gilbert Simondon, featuring STS scholar Andrew Feenberg
SFU Professor Andrew Feenberg is a world-renowned STS scholar. This is an exciting chance to hear…
New routes to old places
A few days ago I found a Mythbusters video in which they test whether someone would…
New Materialism seminars at SFU!
There are a wealth of seminars relevant to this course happening at Burnaby, check out this…
Time and the Anthropocene
“Quantum Physics blows away any progressive notion of time” declares Karan Barad in a talk given…
Ludwig Fleck and Nazi Vaccines
Wonderful article relevant to today’s lecture. This is a fascinating account of the history of the…
The Return to Sensory Experiences
When I saw the performance piece attached to this post I felt it was an affective…
