Bioinformational Philosophy and Postdigital Knowledge Ecologies is an easy book for me to review. Why do I make such an audacious statement at the start of this review? Because this book is inextricably linked to the last two books I… Read More ›
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Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part II, William T. Lynch
Steve Fuller’s work on transhumanism is interesting because it forces us to think about the long-term trajectory of the human species and the knowledge and technology it is likely to build in the future. He is surely right that the… Read More ›
Zombie Epistemology: Or, I Ain’t Gonna Work on Zoltan’s Farm, Either, Part I, William T. Lynch
Zombie movies express for us the horror that would take place if the dead did not go away so that the living could pursue existence unimpeded by the dead hand of history. The horror is an inversion of the desire… Read More ›
SERRC, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2020
Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2020 Articles, Replies, Reviews, and Reposts ❧ John B Min. “If Democracy is a Habit, How Might Citizens Practice It?” https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-54G. ❧ Matthew Goodrum. “Review: How History Gets Things Wrong by Alex Rosenberg.” https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-546. ❧… Read More ›
Enhancing Human Existence: Mercer and Trothen’s Religion and the Technological Future, Des Hewitt
Without intending to be distasteful, let alone insensitive, it seems fitting that the publication of Religion and the Technological Future: An Introduction to Biohacking, Artificial Intelligence, and Transhumanism (2021) by Calvin Mercer and Tracy J. Trothen should take place during… Read More ›
On Gunn on Boundary Work, Finn Collin
In “Reflections on Boundary Work on Social Epistemology”, Hanna Kiri Gunn offers an analysis of the pros and cons of academic boundary work. I argue that this is an aspect of a larger issue, i.e. specifying the most productive organizational… Read More ›
A Hazard Called Sociology: Review of Stephen Turner’s Mad Hazard: A Life in Social Theory, Raphael Sassower
Years ago, I traveled on a sabbatical to South America and returned with what I thought was a derivative of my companion book on the trip, Jacques Derrida’s The Post Card (1987), thinking my thoughts and feelings deserved to be… Read More ›
A Critical Review of Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game by Steve Fuller, Des Hewitt
Reviewing Steve Fuller’s book, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game, from the Greek island of Zakynthos, in the middle of a global pandemic is a surreal experience…. [please read below the rest of the article]. Article Citation: Hewitt, Des. 2020…. Read More ›
Follow the Signs: Taking Direction from Semiotics on How to Identify Experts, Jamie Carlin Watson
Abstract The recognition problem—or, the difficulty of non-experts to appropriately distinguish experts from cleverly disguised fakes—is a perennial problem in expertise studies. And the more we learn about human cognition and the social distribution of knowledge, the more intractable the… Read More ›
Meditations on a Theme: A Review of Steve Fuller’s Nietzschean Meditations, Des Hewitt
At the time of writing this review, Steve Fuller’s latest book appears in the face of what the World Health Organisation (WHO) now officially describes as a pandemic. By pure coincidence, the threat posed by Coronavirus or Covid-19 to humanity… Read More ›