My thanks to @TomGrosfeld for putting me and my
#NihilismAndTechnology book in the same sentence as Marcuse and One-Dimensional Man...
https://www.vn.nl/eendimensionale-mens-marcuse/
Hoe we van de grote dromen van Marcuse over vrijheid iets kunnen waarmaken
Herbert Marcuse stelt dat de mens in de jaren 60 eendimensionaal is geworden. Tom Grosfeld legt Marcuses moderne mens naast die van nu.
Just learned that the YouTube channel Wisecrack did an episode all about my Nihilism book last week...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgD-2z6eUYA&ab_channel=Wisecrack
Nihilism: Are We Missing the Point?
Foucault on ChatGPT, or on the difference between trying to "say the non-said" and wanting to "collect the already-said" in Plato's Phaedrus...
Just discovered that video of the debate on technological progress I participated in with
@jesswade, Kenneth Cukier, and Caitjan Ganty, at the How the Lights Get In Festival is now available online...
https://iai.tv/video/the-dream-of-progress
The dream of progress
From work to entertainment, communication to travel, technology has shaped every aspect of our lives. We think technological progress is relentless and inevitable. But Aldous Huxley argued
Nietzsche (1882): "For the new year...
I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly."
Giving my last lecture of the year today, a guest lecture "in" Milan on Simon, Norman, Fogg, Mill, Nietzsche, Beauvoir, and the ethics of technology...
"I am a 'University Professor' at Southern Illinois University. I am a deliberate comprehensivist and do not operate in a department. Though I am a professor, I do not profess anything..." - R. Buckminster Fuller (1972)
