Abstract In his recent response to my article, Andrew Kissel presented a thought-provoking critique of my emergentist ontology of video game weapons. In that article, I argued that guns in the looter-shooter game Destiny 2 are emergent entities borne out… Read More ›
Gilles Deleuze
Folding the Demos: Deleuze, True Representation, and the Architecture of Episdemos, Ahmed Bouzid
In The Fold (1993), Gilles Deleuze argues that subjectivity is not constructed through static oppositions of inside versus outside or private versus public, but through a continuous topology of folds. In this vision, the interior is not the opposite of… Read More ›
Working through Messy Causal Relations: A Reply to Spence, Andrew Kissel
It can be helpful to think about ontological questions, those questions about what and how something exists, in terms of a list. Does the proposed entity in question belong on the list of things that are? When writing the list… Read More ›
Deleuze to the Rescue, Ahmed Bouzid
It was a welcome relief from the running endless procession of redundant “critical” takes on AI to encounter Professor David Gunkel’s essay, “Deconstruction to the Rescue”.[1] Finally, a perspective on Artificial Intelligence, Generative or otherwise, that does not smuggle through… Read More ›
The Place of the Notion of the Weird in Today’s Thinking, Lyudmila Markova
Author Information: Lyudmila Markova, Russian Academy of Sciences, l.a.markova@yandex.ru. Markova, Lyudmila. “The Place of the Notion of the Weird in Today’s Thinking.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 8, no. 5 (2019): 48-51. The pdf of the article gives specific… Read More ›
Reviewing Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology, Frank Scalambrino
Author Information: Frank Scalambrino, Duquesne University, franklscalambrino@gmail.com. Scalambrino, Frank. “Reviewing Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism and Technology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 12 (2018): 22-28. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-44B There are three (3) parts… Read More ›
Changes in Social Epistemology, Lyudmila Markova
Author Information: Lyudmila Markova, Russian Academy of Science, markova.lyudmila2013@yandex.ru Markova, Lyudmila. “Changes in Social Epistemology.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 7 (2018): 15-18. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3YV Scientific thinking had as its… Read More ›
Action in Harmony with a Global World, Adam Riggio
Author Information: Adam Riggio, SERRC Digital Editor, serrc.digital@gmail.com Riggio, Adam. “Action in Harmony with a Global World.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 7, no. 3 (2018): 20-26. The pdf of the article gives specific page references. Shortlink: https://wp.me/p1Bfg0-3Vp Bryan Van… Read More ›