Humanity 8.0 Podcast: Season 2, Episodes 9-16. For all Humanity 8.0 episodes to date, please go to: https://humanity8.com/. Season Two of Humanity 8.0 closes with an 8-episode drop of 4 interviews with four remarkable people: • Eileen Reavey, National Grassroots… Read More ›
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On the Worth of Trying, Adam Riggio
The core of the problem of whether institutions of scientific knowledge can hold onto their legitimacy is a matter of trust. When I take a COVID vaccine, I do so trusting that the institutions and organizations involved in developing and… Read More ›
Our Techno-Masters and their Philosophical Cheerleaders: A Review of Richmond’s A Way Through the Global Techno-Scientific Culture, Stephen Turner
Sheldon Richmond is a philosopher who spent his working career in IT, and has written an ambitious and courageous book on the philosophy of the problem of computer technology that integrates philosophy of science and cultural and political aspects of… Read More ›
Pathologies of a Shuddering Civilization: Review of Fuchs’s Communicating COVID-19, Adam Riggio
Books like Christian Fuchs’s Communicating COVID-19 are necessary for our time. They are documents and analyses of global human civilization’s violent mutation, already catastrophically in progress. They document the causes and conditions of how humanity has failed the great test… Read More ›
Interview With Steve Fuller on State 2.0, Tikhon Sysoev
Interview With Steve Fuller on State 2.0 The following interview with Steve Fuller, conducted by Tikhon Sysoev, appeared in the 23 November 2020 edition of Expert, the Russian equivalent of Economist magazine. The interview appeared under the title: “Стив Фуллер:… Read More ›
Democracy, Its Contradictions, and the Political Imaginary, Paula Diehl
I would like to thank Social Epistemology for opening the debate on the political imaginary and to Brian Singer (2020) for agreeing to write the commentaries and challenging the contributing authors of the Conceptualizing the Political Imaginary special issue …… Read More ›
If Democracy is a Habit, How Might Citizens Practice It? John B. Min
The rise of authoritarianism, fascism, and illiberalism are all contributing factors to the malaise of the dark times of democracy. Many books written on this topic share a common theme. Whether one argues that democracy is resilient or democracy rests… Read More ›
Inside a Game: Using Games as a Metaphor for Deconstructing the Oppressive Nature of Reality, Sindi Breshani
Gameplay is an intensive process that happens under the circumstances of exchange between a player on one hand, and the physical and virtual elements that structure a game on the other. At their core, games are ludic infrastructures that come… Read More ›
The Perils of Radical Subjectivity: A Comment on Antonio’s “Ethnoracial Populism,” Regina Queiroz
Robert Antonio’s association of authoritarian ethno-racial nationalism with neoliberal adventure capitalism, and the broader matter of how neoliberal democratization opens the way to rightwing populism and illiberal capitalism (Antonio 2019, 280), seem particularly pertinent. The recourse to Hayek’s political theory… Read More ›
In Defense of Our Common Goods, Adam Riggio
Author Information: Adam Riggio, Royal Crown College, serrc.digital@gmail.com. Riggio, Adam. “In Defense of Our Common Goods.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 4 (2019): 1-5. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-47K Seumas… Read More ›