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• Syllabus Cache AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.

  Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

  February 5 2023, 7:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. |…

  We need to acknowledge both the politics and the physical impact that AI has on the planet, says scholar Kate Crawford in her new book. At the turn of the 20th…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

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  October 8 2019, 7:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Readings in AI Ethics - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

  Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

  June 19 2019, 6:53pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: food ethics books

  Good books about food and ethics?

  June 14 2018, 4:42am | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: digital futures

  I am teaching a class this summer called "Digital Futures." It is going to be a seminar-style class where I'm making students read a lot of books about "the future" and then talk about technology, ethics, their relation…

  May 10 2017, 4:55am | Comments

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  March 2 2017, 11:29am | Comments

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  March 18 2016, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Hurtcore Porn and the Dark Web: Why We Need an Ethics of…

  In a famous scene from the original Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum), is lunching with John Hammond. They are discussing the ethics of building a theme park of…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture

  Sarah Perry is a guest blogger who blogs at Carcinisation and is the author of Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide.

  January 24 2015, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Deconstruction and Excision in Philosophical Transhumanism

  I distinguish the ethics of transhumanism from a related metaphysical position which I refer to as “speculative posthumanism.” Speculative posthumanism holds that posthumans might be radically non-human and thus unintelligible in…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

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  August 19 2013, 6:18am | Comments

• Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

  Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

  June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Foucault, Deleuze, and the Ethics of Digital Networks

  Information ethics has become a scholarly growth industry in recent years, especially through the work of Rafael Capurro, the  founder of the International Center forInformation Ethics (ICIE). The maturity of the…

  June 11 2011, 2:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Media (lecture series schedule)

  The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for…

  February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments

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  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Shadow Scholar

  In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

  November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark Matters of life and death

  Trolleyology encapsulates the deepest tensions in our moral outlook. To tease out our moral intuitions, philosophers have come up with ever more ingenious scenarios. The trolley is usually racing towards five…

  October 11 2010, 3:39am | Comments

• Bookmark What is Posthumanism?

  Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and clamoring…

  September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Titans of science: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins

  We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of life, ethics, energy, Handel – and the joy of riding a snowmobile Sir David Attenborough,…

  September 10 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)

  Hard Atheism or What Shall I Name This Column? Hold onto your hats, folks. Although it is perhaps fitting that the actual day on which I sit here at my computer…

  August 30 2010, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Ideas of the Century: Non-Critical Thinking

  Back in 1981, R.M. Hare, in his book Moral Thinking, featured a distinction that today I still find useful. Hare admitted that the distinction was not original with him, but he…

  August 21 2010, 3:16pm | Comments

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• Syllabus Cache AI Images — Cybernetic Forests.

  Critical Topics: AI Images is an undergraduate class delivered for Bradley University in Spring 2023. It is meant to provide an overview of the context of AI art making tools and connects media studies, new media art, and…

  February 5 2023, 7:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Stop talking about AI ethics. It’s time to talk about power. |…

  We need to acknowledge both the politics and the physical impact that AI has on the planet, says scholar Kate Crawford in her new book. At the turn of the 20th…

  May 17 2021, 11:55pm | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Understanding Interactive Media: Critical Questions & Concepts

  This seminar course is an introduction to the concepts, questions, and components that encompass interactive media as it relates to creative expression and critical engagement. Students will learn to analyze interactive media’s constituent parts, engage in readings that…

  August 25 2020, 10:59pm | Comments

• YouTube

  October 8 2019, 7:00am | Comments

• Syllabus Cache Readings in AI Ethics - Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

  Irina Raicu is the director of the Internet Ethics program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

  June 19 2019, 6:53pm | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: food ethics books

  Good books about food and ethics?

  June 14 2018, 4:42am | Comments

• Facebook Cache list: digital futures

  I am teaching a class this summer called "Digital Futures." It is going to be a seminar-style class where I'm making students read a lot of books about "the future" and then talk about technology, ethics, their relation…

  May 10 2017, 4:55am | Comments

• YouTube

  March 2 2017, 11:29am | Comments

• Vimeo

  March 18 2016, 4:48am | Comments

• Bookmark Hurtcore Porn and the Dark Web: Why We Need an Ethics of…

  In a famous scene from the original Jurassic Park, Ian Malcolm (played by Jeff Goldblum), is lunching with John Hammond. They are discussing the ethics of building a theme park of…

  October 3 2015, 10:38am | Comments

• Bookmark Ritual and the Consciousness Monoculture

  Sarah Perry is a guest blogger who blogs at Carcinisation and is the author of Every Cradle is a Grave: Rethinking the Ethics of Birth and Suicide.

  January 24 2015, 6:50am | Comments

• Bookmark Deconstruction and Excision in Philosophical Transhumanism

  I distinguish the ethics of transhumanism from a related metaphysical position which I refer to as “speculative posthumanism.” Speculative posthumanism holds that posthumans might be radically non-human and thus unintelligible in…

  December 18 2014, 1:48am | Comments

• YouTube

  August 19 2013, 6:18am | Comments

• Bookmark After the Last Man: Images and Ethics of Becoming Otherwise

  Huddled within one of the most influential theories of human desire and the destiny of democracy is an image of history and its future. This image is of a horizon. In…

  June 15 2012, 5:25am | Comments

• Bookmark The meaning of monsters, magic and miracles

  Monsters demonstrate, monsters alert us: whether or not the etymologies relating the word to both “monstro” (I show) and “moneo” (I warn), are correct, monsters act as a moral compass. The…

  February 9 2012, 10:33am | Comments

• Bookmark Foucault, Deleuze, and the Ethics of Digital Networks

  Information ethics has become a scholarly growth industry in recent years, especially through the work of Rafael Capurro, the  founder of the International Center forInformation Ethics (ICIE). The maturity of the…

  June 11 2011, 2:32am | Comments

• Bookmark Open Media (lecture series schedule)

  The concept of openness is often employed as part of a radical critique of the closed-off worlds of what might be called ‘traditional media’. It is variously used to urge for…

  February 16 2011, 6:54am | Comments

• Vimeo

  December 8 2010, 7:05am | Comments

• Bookmark The Shadow Scholar

  In the past year, I've written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won't find my name on a single paper. I've written toward a…

  November 17 2010, 2:56pm | Comments

• Bookmark Matters of life and death

  Trolleyology encapsulates the deepest tensions in our moral outlook. To tease out our moral intuitions, philosophers have come up with ever more ingenious scenarios. The trolley is usually racing towards five…

  October 11 2010, 3:39am | Comments

• Bookmark What is Posthumanism?

  Perhaps you have had a nightmare in which you fell through the bottom of your known universe into a vortex of mutated children, talking animals, mental illness, freakish art, and clamoring…

  September 13 2010, 3:19am | Comments

• Bookmark Titans of science: David Attenborough meets Richard Dawkins

  We paired up Britain's most celebrated scientists to chat about the big issues: the unity of life, ethics, energy, Handel – and the joy of riding a snowmobile Sir David Attenborough,…

  September 10 2010, 5:00pm | Comments

• Bookmark An Amoral Manifesto (Part I)

  Hard Atheism or What Shall I Name This Column? Hold onto your hats, folks. Although it is perhaps fitting that the actual day on which I sit here at my computer…

  August 30 2010, 10:12am | Comments

• Bookmark Ideas of the Century: Non-Critical Thinking

  Back in 1981, R.M. Hare, in his book Moral Thinking, featured a distinction that today I still find useful. Hare admitted that the distinction was not original with him, but he…

  August 21 2010, 3:16pm | Comments

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