Demonstrating in Tel-Aviv against the starvation of Palestinians in Gaza. Using starvation as a political tool to serve ethnic cleansing is dreadful. Most people who live here, Israelis and Palestinians alike, want this nightmare to end NOW

tinyurl.com/TCS25OS
What does the decentring of choice through algorithmic prediction mean for subjectification? My new paper suggests AI interpelates a 'system-1 cognition' self, assuming our quick automatic responses are who we really are, while consciousness/reflection is mere self-deception 1/

Some thoughts on Weber and the AI-coup: We all have intuition, a gut feeling based on past experiences that often hits the mark. Bureaucracy prohibited relying on intuition in governance, insisting instead on using standing promulgated rules to achieve fairness, transparency & accountability 1/5

So apparently, the Turkish translation of my book, Sociological Theory for Digital Society, is out now! Which is great news: I happened to read & enjoy quite a lot of Turkish sociology, and it seems like a thriving community. Here's the link:
www.ayrintiyayingrubu.com/kitap/dijita...

Yes, it could be worse (in Gaza Netanyahu's govt exercised scholasticide, physically destroying all 19 colleges/unis) but new bill to silence Israeli academia, forcing unis to dismiss dissident faculty for alleged 'support of terrorism' w/o criteria/legal process is frightening. We won't b silenced!