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Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 3, Episodes 1-6.
We open Season 3 of Humanity 8.0 with a 6-episode drop of 3 interviews with four insightful people:
• Anne Alombert, Associate Professor in contemporary French philosophy at the University of Paris 8;
• David Elliot Berman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania;
• Ingemar Patrick Linden, Adjunct Professor at NYU and author of The Case Against Death (MIT Press, 2022), and;
• Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology Department of Sociology University of Warwick.
❧ Season 3, Episode 1: “On Digital Schizophrenia—A Conversation with Professor Anne Alombert, Part I”
https://youtu.be/l1NsJfmHliY?si=NfiZaalnxgyN1Bnj.
❧ Season 3, Episode 2: “On Digital Schizophrenia—A Conversation with Professor Anne Alombert, Part II” https://youtu.be/-PPjwqRZdu0.
❧ Season 3, Episode 3: “Is Another Internet Possible?—A Conversation with David Berman, Part I”
https://youtu.be/eSVrfZ9ngZo.
❧ Season 3, Episode 4: “Is Another Internet Possible?—A Conversation with David Berman, Part II”
https://youtu.be/Gtoi0EmtbI4.
❧ Season 3, Episode 5: “Radical Life Extension—A Conversation with Steve Fuller and Patrick Linden, Part I” https://youtu.be/FWgRGeDw9r0.
❧ Season 3, Episode 6: “Radical Life Extension—A Conversation with Steve Fuller and Patrick Linden, Part II” https://youtu.be/cjJkrsgR3Js.
❧ For all Humanity 8.0 episodes to date, please go to: https://humanity8.com/.
❧ Season 3, Episode 1: “On Digital Schizophrenia—A Conversation with Professor Anne Alombert, Part I” https://youtu.be/l1NsJfmHliY?si=NfiZaalnxgyN1Bnj.
❧ Season 3, Episode 2: “On Digital Schizophrenia—A Conversation with Professor Anne Alombert, Part II” https://youtu.be/-PPjwqRZdu0.
Professor Anne Alombert, Associate Professor in contemporary French philosophy at the University of Paris 8 and former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon holds an aggregation in philosophy. Her dissertation is entitled: “Derrida and Simondon in the Face of Questions of the Human and Technology: Ontogenesis and Grammatology in the Philosophical Moment of the 1960s.” Her research focuses on the relationship between life, technology, and mind in the history of philosophy, as well as the anthropological implications of contemporary technological transformations.
Professor Alombert discusses her latest book Schizophrénie Numérique (Allia, 2023) and touches on, among other topics, Artificial Intelligence, flow and immersion, the concept of expertise, Generative AI and ChatGPT. The interview is conducted in French with English subtitles.
Main Topics: Artificial Intelligence, Generative AI, Flow, Distraction, Expertise, Peer Review
Links:
• Academic Profile: https://philosophie.univ-paris8.fr/anne-alombert.
• Schizophrénie Numérique https://www.editions-allia.com/fr/livre/961/schizophrenie-numerique.
• Articles and other podcast appearances: “What impact do digital technologies have on our minds, and how can we make them positive?” https://www.human-technology-foundation.org/news/what-impact-do-digital-technologies-have-on-our-minds-and-how-can-we-make-them-positive.
• Aux Sources Du Numérique #45 – Anne Alombert, “Schizophrénie numérique” // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dLjjRHwdyg.
• Schizophrénie Numérique – Le Meilleur des mondes https://youtu.be/o90GlMy-THw?si=WKlViA-tRrCRk4CG.
• Schizophrénie Numérique – GRRIF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVcZcqybSCA.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AnneAlombert.
Season 3, Episode 3: “Is Another Internet Possible?—A Conversation with David Berman, Part I”
https://youtu.be/eSVrfZ9ngZo.
Season 3, Episode 4: “Is Another Internet Possible?—A Conversation with David Berman, Part II”
https://youtu.be/Gtoi0EmtbI4.
Dr. David Elliot Berman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Pennsylvania, discusses the state of the internet and the obstacles that stand in the way of digital equity.
Main Topics: The Internet, Digital Equity, Social Media, Antitrust
Links:
• Academic Profile: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/david-elliot-berman-phd.
• Book: “After Net Neutrality: After Net Neutrality A New Deal for the Digital Age https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300241402/after-net-neutrality/..
• Cities and states take up the battle for an open internet https://theconversation.com/cities-and-states-take-up-the-battle-for-an-open-internet-126170.
• Biden’s Broadband Plan Is a Good Start—but America Needs Guaranteed Broadband for All https://www.thenation.com/authors/david-elliot-berman/.
• A Primer on Net Neutrality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghe-3hlNVoQ&list=PLUc8oJcp2VBeLaQp6E4q9D280kWA56nEv&index=10.
• Lihkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-elliot-berman-66681b55/.
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/_DavidBerman.
Season 3, Episode 5: “Radical Life Extension—A Conversation with Steve Fuller and Patrick Linden, Part I” https://youtu.be/FWgRGeDw9r0.
Season 3, Episode 6: “Radical Life Extension—A Conversation with Steve Fuller and Patrick Linden, Part II” https://youtu.be/cjJkrsgR3Js.
Professors Steve Fuller and Patrick Linden discuss the topic of radical life extension with a special focus on the power dimension. If we live in a society where people can live a healthy and productive life past 100 years, should we expect that such a society would be run, whether in the public or private sphere, by those who are old since older people will be likely vigorous, of means, well connected, and with significant material and social resources?
Main Topics: Radical Life Extension, Gerontocracy, Power relations
Links:
• Steve Fuller: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/staff/sfuller/.
• Patrick Linden: https://ingemarpatricklinden.com/
• Nietzschean Meditations: Untimely Thoughts at the Dawn of the Transhuman Era (2019) by Steve Fuller https://www.amazon.com/Nietzschean-Meditations-Untimely-Transhuman-Posthuman/dp/3796540600/.
• The Case Against Death (2022) Patrick Linden https://www.amazon.com/Case-against-Death-Basic-Bioethics/dp/0262543168/.
• Steve Fuller: https://twitter.com/ProfSteveFuller.
• Patrick Linden: https://twitter.com/DrPatrickLinden.
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