Volume 10, Issue 12, 1-79, December 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Levy, Neil. 2021. “Predictably Rational: A Further Response to Grundmann.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (12): 75-79. ❧ Sassower, Raphael. 2021. “It’s the Economy, Stupid: Comment… Read More ›
Steve Fuller
It’s the Economy, Stupid: Comment on Fuller’s “Is the Metaverse the New Metaphysics,” Raphael Sassower
Though the question posed by Steve Fuller’s latest essay (2021) appears to be metaphysically minded, it turns out to be much more aligned with either Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm shifts or James Carville’s famous quip about the economy.[1] After discussing Facebook’s… Read More ›
Is the Metaverse the New Metaphysics? Steve Fuller
Editor’s Note: Beginning in 2012, I asked Steve Fuller to provide a Christmas greeting—or, end-of-year reflection. As the SERRC grew, I invited contributions from our members. In this tradition, and at this time of resolutions, Steve asks us to consider… Read More ›
Towards a Knowledge Socialism: A Digital Sedition, Des Hewitt
It isn’t very often that a book comes along that offers the opportunity to write a review which is facilitated so well by the very logic and structure of the work in question: Knowledge Socialism is an edited and collaborative… Read More ›
SERRC: Volume 10, Issue 8, August 2021
Volume 10, Issue 8, August 2021 Articles, Replies, and Reviews ❧ Richmond, Sheldon. 2021. “Open Letter to Markus Gabriel: A Review of The Power of Art and The Meaning of Thought.” Social Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 10 (8): 55-62…. Read More ›
The Individual as Elusive Quarry in the History of Philosophy: A Response to Radenovic, Steve Fuller
Ljiljana Radenovic’s (2021) defense of the Desert Fathers of early Christianity as providing a basis for a ‘post-Enlightenment ethics’ is perhaps most provocative in terms of her framing of the argument, which is by way of a critique of modern… Read More ›
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 ›
The Game and How to Play It: A Review of Fuller’s A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition, Darius Khor
What is striking as you turn the final page of Steve Fuller’s (2020) A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition: The Name of the Game, is the enormous ‘weight’ of the text despite its slim one-hundred and forty pages. Without… Read More ›
A Review of Steve Fuller’s A Player’s Guide to the Post-Truth Condition, Des Hewitt
When writing my last review of the prequel to this latest book by Steve Fuller, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game (2018), I was on the Greek Island of Zakynthos. I said what a surreal experience that was, as we… Read More ›