The Truth of Stiegler: 2024 special issue of Philosophy Today on Bernard Stiegler, each article currently available for free download, with articles by @profgeraldmoore, @AnneAlombert, @digital_objects, and others (and my article on the "idiotext"): https://t.co/9U0JNLOxiD
@RestPoliticsUS Thinking of how they'd parachute Newsom in, given what little time remains... Constitutionally, what happens if (Biden) the candidate dies between confirmation and the election? Are there any mechanisms for postponing the election to prepare a new candidate?
@lastpositivist Lots of people died, yes, but there are some conspicuous oddities over whether the Covid is actually what killed them - which tie, in turn, into much bigger questions about its status as a 'syndemic' and the underlying conditions of poverty that exacerbated it.
Great to see this special issue on “entropies” out now, edited by Joel White and Gerald Moore! Thank you for the work in putting this issue together. I have contributed with a paper on “entropy’s critical translations” @profgeraldmoore@philotechne
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@bayesianboy Notionally but perhaps not meaningfully empirically testable? As in, if it happens, it happens - but we may well see deferrals until the day when a 1,000-year-old Elon Musk watches them alone on a seastead surrounded by a lifeless planet on fire.
@JeremyTate41 Care to name those philosophers you are holding responsible? I answered about half of your questions and am not persuaded any of them are important of even good questions. We may well be committing civilisational suicide, but a shift away from fact-digestion isn't the culprit.
@DPDCare How do I put in yet another official complaint about your diabolically awful service? The app won't let me. But I don't see why I should spend £30 going to collect 7kg of catfood from the random shop you dumped them in when you decided to deliver it on the wrong day.
@bayesianboy You want to be able to show that you are adding to their strengths without replicating what they already do. And I want reassurance that applicants actually know what job they are applying for and want it...
@suzanne_moore Yes, but there was reason to facilitate him: self-educating, working-class public intellectuals with a flair for communication are rare and to be welcomed. Whether 'they' knew he was malignant and abusive is another question, and there is every reason to suspect wilful blindness.
@garibaldIooo@PhysInHistory Finally! A decent suggestion after two minutes of scrolling. Someone else said Plantinga, but nothing else on this thread would even count as philosophy of science...
@VladDavidzon@ArmandDAngour@robinsaikia Not as bad as the seemingly near-universal trait of conflating passive aggression with either passivity or aggression. And also hard to claim it's straightforwardly worse than aggression.
@dioscuri Would be that it's irrelevant to the tweet you are responding to. It doesn't matter whether we are all healthy billionaires if global food, air and water supplies are collapsing within a timeframe we are manifestly incapable of staving off.
@dioscuri Stealing people's land off them, forcing them to work on it for a pittance and declaring their income of $2.01 to be above the wholly arbitrary and inadequate threshold assigned to absolute poverty is no basis whatsoever for making this kind of argument. But the bigger point...