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Art in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
We are entering an era of upheaval that some are calling the fourth industrial revolution.[1] The rise of artificial intelligence, and in particular generative art, threatens to upend our social and cultural landscape, leading to a renewed conflict between mechanical technique, art, and culture. While some technologists are proclaiming the death of art,[2] a murder allegedly committed by…
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#AI art#Art#Art and artificial intelligence#art and culture#Byung-Chul Han#cultural critique#culture and society#is ai art real art?#Jean Baudrillard#Marshall McLuhan#Philosophy#philosophy of art#social commentary#Technology#what is ai art?
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The Poet in Residence
It was lush inside, but simultaneously a mess, with papers lying everywhere, and old magazines, and posters on the wall of Elvis and Humphrey Bogart. The poet, by contrast, was pristine. Her hair was white-grey and cut short on her slightly ovaled head, she wore a knitted scarf and light blue woolen jumper and if I saw her on the street, I would have easily confused her with one of my professors.…
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#Creative Writing#Elvis#Humphrey Bogart#lessons on life#lessons on writing#new creative writing#new short stories#Oxford poet in residence#poet in residence#Short story#stories about writing#writing a poem
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An Absurdist Reply to Ben Lerner: The Hatred of Poetry
He doesn’t like Ben Lerner. He doesn’t like most successful writers. He sits in his bathtub reading Ben Lerner’s Hatred of Poetry, because he hates Ben Lerner, and he hates poetry. He doesn’t just sit in his bathtub. He lies. He lies principally to himself, about his hatred of Ben Lerner and his hatred of poetry. An unfinished manuscript lies beside him. Its narrator is unreliable. The narrator…
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#Ben Lerner#Books#Education#grand theme poems#grand themes#How to read poetry#love poems#Modern Poetry#The Hatred of Poetry#writing a poem
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Recommender Systems: Automated decisions, AI and Human Freedom
My latest academic work looks at recommender systems, the recommendations that shape our digital lives on YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, and other major sites / apps.
(Below is a pre-print shared for educational purposes. The full article is available here, with credit to my co-author Jan Blockx: https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3599712)
My latest academic work looks at recommender systems, the recommendations that shape our digital lives on YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, and so on.
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Recommender systems form the backbone of modern e-commerce, suggesting…
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#AI#artificial intelligence#Byung-Chul Han#Gerald Dworkin#google#Harry Frankfurt#Human Autonomy#Jenny Holzer#Philosophy#Recommender Systems#Technology#Walter Benjamin#youtube
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Does Australia have free speech?
Does Australia have free speech?
*This article was originally released in the NSW Law Journal (2022).*
A High Court case has empowered the government to make statutes that silence individuals and groups, leading to a range of proposed laws that pose an existential threat to democratic debate. Without a right to free speech, Australians risk entering a new era of government censorship and silencing.
Introduction
In 2011,…
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#Australian constitution#Australian politics#Banerji Case#censorship laws#Code of Conduct#freedom of speech#high court of australia#human rights#human rights law#Laws on free speech#Michaela Banerji#political communication#political speech
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Dreaming of a better future
Dreaming of a better future
There’s an interesting flaw at the heart of Olivia Wilde’s new movie, Don’t Worry, Darling, which reveals everything wrong with the ongoing culture wars.
The premise of the film is simple.
A 1950s housewife is living with her husband in a utopian community. Frank, the leader of the community, is loosely based off of Jordan Peterson, the famous psychologist who has become a figurehead of the alt…
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#Don&039;t Worry darling#dystopian fiction#film reviews#Gender politics#Gender relations#Jordan Peterson#olivia wilde#Philosophy#Sci fi#Science fiction#self-help#Sexism#Technology#visions of the future
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Black Friday 2050
My new novel, Black Friday 2050, is now out!
In 2050, pleasure is the drug of choice.When an accident renders Jack Preston severely dopamine deficient, he becomes immune to his sensory overload addiction. Immune to the organisations who use it to control.Forced into psychological treatment by his employer, Silicon Tech — the biggest pleasure pusher in the business — Jack struggles to let go of…
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#1984#black friday 2050#Black Mirror#Books#Creative Writing#new novels#Philosophy#Science fiction#scifi novels#Technology#technology fiction#Twilight Zone
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Book Excerpt: Black Friday 2050
Book Excerpt: Black Friday 2050
Tomorrow is the release date of my novel, Black Friday 2050! Find it on pre-sale here.
Check out chapter 1 below!
Chapter 1
It was an afternoon like any other, and my notifications totaled two million. Hurrying inside the two front doors of number thirty-eight, I threw my umbrella atop a growing pile, leaking raindrops onto the cold concrete floor. I closed the doors, but in here there was no…
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#booklover#Books#bookworm#Creative Writing#dystopian fiction#fantasy books#new dystopian novels#novels#Philosophy#Science fiction#Technology
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Peace in our time? Nah, better teach them war
Peace in our time? Nah, better teach them war
Our universities have scrapped degrees on peace making, preferring we learn to make war.
Last year, Sydney University stopped offering its Peace and Conflict masters program, one of the only degrees on peace in the country. At the time, a university spokesperson told Honi the degree needed to be scrapped “in order to ensure the long-term sustainability of our important postgraduate…
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#arms manufacturers#drone research#human rights#military research#Oxford University#pacifism#peace and conflict studies#peace and security#peacemaking#Technology#united nations#university of sydney
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The World According to Paolo Sorentino
The World According to Paolo Sorentino
I first discovered the films of Paolo Sorentino in university, when I watched his most famous work, The Great Beauty (In Italian, La Grande Bellezza).
The film begins in Rome, with the protagonist Jep Gambardella at his birthday party. The party is a spectacle of dance and depravity, a joyous celebration of a man that has reached his prime of middle age.
But even as he celebrates, Jep is less…
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#cinematography#film reviews#filmmaking#Il Divo#italian film reviews#Jep Gambardella#La Grande Bellezza#Paolo Sorentino#The films of Paolo Sorentino#The Great Beauty#The Hand of God#Youth the film
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Creative Writing: The Disappearance
Creative Writing: The Disappearance
It was Tuesday when Akira disappeared. I got home early to find the house ransacked. Her clothes had been meticulously removed from the cupboard, her shoes were gone from their resting place in the hall, and her toiletries were picked apart and removed from the bathroom cabinets.
I searched for any sign of her. In the living room, in the bedroom, under the couch cushions, behind every cupboard,…
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#Creative Writing#Fiction#flash fiction#interesting new fiction#new chapters#novella#novels#Short Stories#short story ideas#suspense writing#Writing
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The Story of Emily Hobhouse: Pacifism and Hope
The Story of Emily Hobhouse: Pacifism and Hope
In our current times of war and violence, I think it’s important to remember the story of those who went another way. It takes great courage to turn away from violence, to denounce one’s own country, and to say that we – as human beings – can and should do better.
The Boers
In 1899, a second war broke out it in South Africa between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics. The Boers were…
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#British concentration camps#Emily Hobhouse#Hobhouse and Gandhi#Lord Kitchener#Mahatma Gandhi#pacifism and diplomacy#Pacifism and hope#Second Boer War#South African History#war and conflict#War and politics
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Sketches of Europe
I took the morning train down to Starnberg, and immediately exited the train station onto a stunning view of the lake, stretching out as far as the eye could see, to the distant mountains. Seagulls squawked, in squadrons, down by the edge of the lake, flitting by and angrily telling me to fuck off, in so many words. I politely ignored them.
The café on the water’s edge served the usual German…
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#Creative Writing#european short stories#flash fiction#new books to read#new short stories#new stories to read#Short story#short story collection#stories in Germany#stories in Italy#writers in europe#writing in Germany#writing in Italy
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The Futility of War
When I was young, I would speak incredulously about the futility of war. We are raised peaceful in Australia, and in our lifetimes we spend on beaches and rocky coves, the threat of violence is always something far off, that happens to other people in other places. Violent crime is low. Low enough that we might call ourselves a pacifist nation, were it not for our politicians. And isn’t that how…
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The World According to Neoliberalism
The World According to Neoliberalism
In 1947, the Austrian philosopher Frederick von Hayek organized a gathering of economists, historians and philosophers at a Swiss spa at the base of Mount Pelerin, to discuss the state of the world following World War 2. The group called themselves the Mont Pelerin Society (MPS), and their main concern was the growth in power of governments. If governments became too strong, they believed, the…
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#deregulation#Frederick von Hayek#Margaret Thatcher#Milton Friedman#Mont Pelerin Society#neoliberal philosopy#neoliberal policies#Neoliberalism#Philosophy#political philosophy#Ronald Reagan#trickle down economics
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The World According to Martin Heidegger
The World According to Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was born in Germany in 1889. He grew up to become one of the most influential philosophers of existentialism: the sphere of philosophy that questions human existence and our responsibilities as free and independent beings in the world.
In his most famous book, Being and Time, Martin Heidegger makes the claim that we are all running away from the idea of our own death, denying…
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#Books#books by martin heidegger#existentialism#Jean Paul Sartre#Meaning of Life#Philosophy#the philosophy of martin heidegger#what is existentialism
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The World According to Robert Jordan | The Wheel of Time
The World According to Robert Jordan | The Wheel of Time
With the release of The Wheel of Time on Amazon Prime this month, I thought I’d explore what drew me into the books many years ago, and why I keep going back to them. I grew up reading Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time throughout my teenage years. It’s the only book series I’ve re-read, and I must have re-read it five or six times by now.
From its intricate world building to its grand…
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#eastern philosophy#fantasy books#philosophy of the wheel of time#Rand al&039;Thor#Robert Jordan and Vietnam#Robert Jordan Wheel of Time#Robert Jordan writing#The Wheel of Time#Tibetan wheel of life
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