Tony Chemero
@tonychemero.bsky.social
Philosophy and Psychology professor at University of Cincinnati. Embodied cognition, AI, social cognition, phenomenology, critical theory. Against fascism, like everyone should be.
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Failed country.
Supreme Court issues emergency order to block full SNAP food aid payments
The Supreme Court has granted the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to temporarily block a court order to fully fund SNAP food aid payments amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Failed country.
Ok, so this is multiply nerdy and maybe I am insane, but… in chapter 18 of his new book ”Shadow Ticket”, Thomas Pynchon seems to have a song about the Heaviside step function.
November 7, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Ok, so this is multiply nerdy and maybe I am insane, but… in chapter 18 of his new book ”Shadow Ticket”, Thomas Pynchon seems to have a song about the Heaviside step function.
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@edbaggs.bsky.social, @valtour.bsky.social, Sarah Bro Trasmundi, and yours truly teach a Ph.D. course on Cognitive Processes in Social Settings - at Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, January 7-9, 2026.
November 6, 2025 at 7:32 PM
@edbaggs.bsky.social, @valtour.bsky.social, Sarah Bro Trasmundi, and yours truly teach a Ph.D. course on Cognitive Processes in Social Settings - at Syddansk Universitet – University of Southern Denmark, January 7-9, 2026.
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@zachpeck.bsky.social and @tonychemero.bsky.social argue that radical embodiment has implications for ethics - if embodiment erodes the boundaries of the self, does it also erode the boundaries of moral agency? Happily, feminist philosophers have thought carefully about this
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
A Radical Embodied Account of Responsibility - Topoi
In this paper, we argue that radical embodied cognitive science implies an ethics of responsibility that prioritizes what we refer to as taking collective responsibility. By taking responsibility, we ...
doi.org
November 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
@zachpeck.bsky.social and @tonychemero.bsky.social argue that radical embodiment has implications for ethics - if embodiment erodes the boundaries of the self, does it also erode the boundaries of moral agency? Happily, feminist philosophers have thought carefully about this
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
doi.org/10.1007/s112...
New paper out today with Zach Peck, “A radical embodied account of responsibility”. Not open access alas. Hit me up if you want a copy.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A Radical Embodied Account of Responsibility - Topoi
In this paper, we argue that radical embodied cognitive science implies an ethics of responsibility that prioritizes what we refer to as taking collective responsibility. By taking responsibility, we ...
link.springer.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:17 PM
New paper out today with Zach Peck, “A radical embodied account of responsibility”. Not open access alas. Hit me up if you want a copy.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Yesterday was an inspiring day in the US, the best of the year. Today is also good: a new Juana Molina album came out.
November 6, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Yesterday was an inspiring day in the US, the best of the year. Today is also good: a new Juana Molina album came out.
I would love to be a subscriber to Teen Rogue.
hire all the fired political teen vogue writers and make a new magazine call teen rogue.
we’ll all subscribe en masse
we’ll all subscribe en masse
November 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
I would love to be a subscriber to Teen Rogue.
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For months now, @teenvogue.com has been our media’s greatest caller of bullshit. Apparently this is over.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
For months now, @teenvogue.com has been our media’s greatest caller of bullshit. Apparently this is over.
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A short essay following up on the recently rediscovered poem by Adrienne Rich, titled "Artificial Intelligence", and written in 1961. I do what she suggested back then. I forced AI systems to write some poems. rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-...
A Prophetic Poem about Artificial Intelligence Written in 1961 – Rodney Brooks
rodneybrooks.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
A short essay following up on the recently rediscovered poem by Adrienne Rich, titled "Artificial Intelligence", and written in 1961. I do what she suggested back then. I forced AI systems to write some poems. rodneybrooks.com/a-prophetic-...
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Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP
November 1, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Apparently there was a Gatsby party at Mar a Lago, while Trump is trying to kick 42 million off SNAP
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Looking forward to this!
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
@tonychemero.bsky.social @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy @davidcolaco.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
@tonychemero.bsky.social @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy @davidcolaco.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social
We are pleased to announce that our next workshop on explanatory paradigms in cognitive neuroscience (examining pluralism, integration, and elimination as competing alternatives) will take place on 25th to 27th February at TU Berlin. You're most welcome to join us there 😀
October 29, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Looking forward to this!
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
@tonychemero.bsky.social @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy @davidcolaco.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social
#philsci #cogsky #CognitiveNeuroscience
www.merex-project.org/workshop-2026
@tonychemero.bsky.social @dcm.social.sunet.se.ap.brid.gy @davidcolaco.bsky.social @francesegan.bsky.social @gualtiero.bsky.social @laurennross.bsky.social @okaydaniellle.bsky.social
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Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 23, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
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WATCH: “A MASTER PLAN”
Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regime’s war profiteering in Gaza - they’ve been working on for ‘TWO YEARS’🤔
(But don’t worry, apparently $50 Billion is “not a lot of money”! 💰🙃)
PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.
Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regime’s war profiteering in Gaza - they’ve been working on for ‘TWO YEARS’🤔
(But don’t worry, apparently $50 Billion is “not a lot of money”! 💰🙃)
PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.
October 23, 2025 at 5:23 PM
WATCH: “A MASTER PLAN”
Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regime’s war profiteering in Gaza - they’ve been working on for ‘TWO YEARS’🤔
(But don’t worry, apparently $50 Billion is “not a lot of money”! 💰🙃)
PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.
Usually stoic Kushner silently panics as Witkoff spills the beans on the Trump regime’s war profiteering in Gaza - they’ve been working on for ‘TWO YEARS’🤔
(But don’t worry, apparently $50 Billion is “not a lot of money”! 💰🙃)
PSA: This slip-up should be a big deal.
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At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.
OpenAI's Sora 2 Can Generate Videos of Celebrities Appearing to Shout Racial Slurs
OpenAI's Sora 2 video generation model can be exploited to push misinformation and depict public figures behaving badly despite promised guardrails.
www.rollingstone.com
October 23, 2025 at 7:07 PM
At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.
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dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience
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I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
BI 223 Vicente Raja: Ecological Psychology Motifs in Neuroscience
YouTube video by Brain Inspired
youtu.be
October 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I've been talking about ecological neuroscience and other topics with @braininspired.bsky.social on the Brain Inspired podcast. You can check it out here 👇
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
youtu.be/Aj3LyStBgpg
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I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
October 7, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
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We don't need AI, but we do need a livable Earth. We can't have both.
#fuckAI#ArtistsAgainstAI#AgainstAI#SayNoToAI
#fuckAI#ArtistsAgainstAI#AgainstAI#SayNoToAI
July 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We don't need AI, but we do need a livable Earth. We can't have both.
#fuckAI#ArtistsAgainstAI#AgainstAI#SayNoToAI
#fuckAI#ArtistsAgainstAI#AgainstAI#SayNoToAI
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Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
October 3, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Today's the day for my anti-AI zine volume 2: "Human Perspectives on the Latest AI Hype Cycle" 🎉
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Enjoy the fruits of my focus these past few months and learn from many great people!
Scanned zine to print your own and the full text and references are available at padlet.com/laurenUU/antiAI
Deleting my Academia.edu account now. I will gradually move my papers over to PhilPeople. If you need to read something of mine in the meantime, please dm or send an email.
September 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Deleting my Academia.edu account now. I will gradually move my papers over to PhilPeople. If you need to read something of mine in the meantime, please dm or send an email.
Why did no one ever tell me to read Manuel DeLanda? I should have been citing him on every page of my in press book.
September 19, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Why did no one ever tell me to read Manuel DeLanda? I should have been citing him on every page of my in press book.