Thomas Tsakalakis
@dna-42.bsky.social
Postodoctoral researcher, with interests in philosophy (especially in the ethics of science and technology), literature, and the dumbing down caused by media culture; translator; novelist; pessimist par excellence.
Pinned
CFP
easychair.org
It is with great pleasure that I will be delivering a speech at this immensely interesting International Conference on a very timely topic.
easychair.org/cfp/mentor2026
easychair.org/cfp/mentor2026
It is with great pleasure that I will be delivering a speech at this immensely interesting International Conference on a very timely topic.
easychair.org/cfp/mentor2026
easychair.org/cfp/mentor2026
CFP
easychair.org
December 12, 2025 at 12:26 PM
It is with great pleasure that I will be delivering a speech at this immensely interesting International Conference on a very timely topic.
easychair.org/cfp/mentor2026
easychair.org/cfp/mentor2026
My presentation at the 1st International Conference on Hype:
zenodo.org/records/1748...
zenodo.org/records/1748...
Thomas Tsakalakis - Adverse and (Potentially) Beneficial Effects of Science Hype on How the Socio-Ethical Conundrums Concerning Rare Diseases Are Addressed [Hype Studies Conference 2025 presentation]
Pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to fund the development of medicines that might prevent/treat rare life-threatening diseases because small patient populations do not constitute a viable market....
zenodo.org
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
My presentation at the 1st International Conference on Hype:
zenodo.org/records/1748...
zenodo.org/records/1748...
For those interested in Samuel Beckett, paradoxes, silent films, and (most of all) humor as a potential analytical tool.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Beckett's Film: A Polycentric Parodic Pictorial Parable For Perennial Paradoxes
PDF | We put forth the proposition that Beckett's Film adroitly parodies Russell's paradox in order to call into question the normative claims of... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ...
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October 23, 2025 at 11:57 AM
For those interested in Samuel Beckett, paradoxes, silent films, and (most of all) humor as a potential analytical tool.
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
I'm ecstatic that the article I wrote on Douglas Adams is published in Vol.52 Iss.3 of Science Fiction Studies, which is the leading academic journal in its field.
Here's a link to the preprint of said article, i.e., the original accepted MS:
www.academia.edu/144574480/Th...
Here's a link to the preprint of said article, i.e., the original accepted MS:
www.academia.edu/144574480/Th...
The Philosophical Significance of Douglas Adams’s Comic AI Characters
The wit with which Douglas Adams depicts his AI characters constitutes the opposite of “comic relief,” as it corresponds to philosophical assumptions found in misanthropic pessimism. This type of humo...
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October 22, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I'm ecstatic that the article I wrote on Douglas Adams is published in Vol.52 Iss.3 of Science Fiction Studies, which is the leading academic journal in its field.
Here's a link to the preprint of said article, i.e., the original accepted MS:
www.academia.edu/144574480/Th...
Here's a link to the preprint of said article, i.e., the original accepted MS:
www.academia.edu/144574480/Th...