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The Last Words
9 months ago

The Last Words

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Sometimes I wonder how the last words committed from my hands will eventually read? What will these final words say? Would they be as I imagined it all ending? Or …
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Nietzsche and AI: On ChatGPT and the Psychology of Illusion
9 months ago

Nietzsche and AI: On ChatGPT and the Psychology of Illusion

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When Blake Lemoine, a Google engineer, claimed in the summer of 2022 that AI was “sentient,”[1] thereby heralding the ‘Singularity’ (more on this below),[2] he was roundly denounced as, to …
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Dialectics of the Anthropocene: Hegel for the Last Generation
10 months ago

Dialectics of the Anthropocene: Hegel for the Last Generation

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The mood, to put it bluntly, is bleak. Vladimir Putin’s imperialist invasion of Ukraine marches into yet another month. Thousands have been killed in the conflict and millions more have …
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Truth in the Age of Artificial Reproduction
10 months ago

Truth in the Age of Artificial Reproduction

In July 2022, the Midjourney platform was still at an embryonic stage and only accessible to few. Back then, I wrote an article (or, rather, two articles) on the topic. …
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Gradually, Then Suddenly? Crisis Capitalism and Its Disavowals
10 months ago

Gradually, Then Suddenly? Crisis Capitalism and Its Disavowals

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Perhaps the best way to grasp the meaning of our New Normal is to frame it as the irreversible paradigm shift towards “crisis capitalism”. The key macroeconomic implication is that …
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A Woman’s Right to Life, Liberty, and Happiness
10 months ago

A Woman’s Right to Life, Liberty, and Happiness

In 1875, German embryologist and zoologist Oscar Hertwig discovered that fertilization happens when an ovum and a sperm merge. It was an incredible discovery, and one from which the conclusion …
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Does ChatGPT Enjoy?
11 months ago

Does ChatGPT Enjoy?

In a recent article for Sublation Magazine, Slavoj Žižek outlines Rouselle and Murphy’s argument that “ChatGPT is an unconscious,” which means that, through its stupidities and its slips, ChatGPT actually …
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Mysticism Is Everywhere
11 months ago

Mysticism Is Everywhere

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Mysticism is hiding in plain sight. One can search for it in a desert or atop a mountain and perhaps find it there with incomparable starkness. But it is everywhere. …
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Life Is Valuable. Or Is It?
11 months ago

Life Is Valuable. Or Is It?

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Of the countless questions that we can ask ourselves, there are some that have the power to make us very uncomfortable. By this I do not mean that we simply …
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Old Normal vs. New Normal: The Showdown
11 months ago

Old Normal vs. New Normal: The Showdown

I’m calling it: we’ve won this war. By “we,” I mean normal people who want normal things: community, connection, creativity, with a bit of dancing on the side. By “war,” …
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