I’d like to register a complaint that you haven’t posted an image and are therefore reducing opportunities for scolds

And because the Right are entirely predictable and completely incompetent at stats they took that to mean “51% of people in adverts are black”

And that’s NOT FAIR because only 4% of the UK population is black so they’re taking WHITE acting jobs (or words to that effect…🙄)

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As a Heidegger scholar, I feel his contributions concerning technology, control and history are more pertinent than ever. But I’m just as interested to see what other phenomenological interpretations can bring to these pressing questions 4/4

The theme, coming from Tanja Staehler and Mahon O’Brien, is an interesting provocation to think about a world that feels like it’s constantly in crisis and respond philosophically. What role does thinking have in the face of technological dominance? 3/4

Heidegger famously quipped, in an interview with der Spiegal, that only a god could save us now. More than a joke, it gets to the heart of his mitigated pessimism about the future: we’re likely doomed, but not so much that a god couldn’t save us. Would he still be that optimistic today? 2/4

For this reason I approve of the earnestness of the AI anti-hypers citing books and essays from the 1980s claiming that word processors will destroy academia. I disagree with them, but yes, let’s stop pretending this is a novel new era. We remain in the information age, just more entrenched. 2/2