ASSANGE + ZIZEK. Social Networking and Ethics. First published Fri Aug 3, 2012 In the first decade of the 21st century, new media technologies for social networking such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube began to transform the social, political and informational practices of individuals and institutions across the globe, inviting a philosophical response from the community of applied ethicists and philosophers of technology. While this scholarly response continues to be challenged by the rapidly evolving nature of social networking technologies, the urgent need for attention to this phenomenon is underscored by the fact that it is reshaping how human beings initiate and/or maintain virtually every type of ethically significant social bond or role: friend-to-friend, parent-to-child, co-worker-to co-worker, employer-to-employee, teacher-to-student, neighbor-to-neighbor, seller-to-buyer, and doctor-to-patient, to offer just a partial list.
Nor are the ethical implications of these technologies strictly interpersonal. 1. 2. 3. Wired 4.01: Who Am We? Who Am We? We are moving from modernist calculation toward postmodernist simulation, where the self is a multiple, distributed system. By Sherry Turkle There are many Sherry Turkles. There is the "French Sherry," who studied poststructuralism in Paris in the 1960s.
There is Turkle the social scientist, trained in anthropology, personality psychology, and sociology. All of these Sherry Turkles have authored a new book, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, published November 30 by Simon & Schuster. This story is borne of Turkle's past decade of research.
What has she found? Turkle's own metaphor of windows serves well to introduce the following samplings from her new book. "Windows have become a powerful metaphor for thinking about the self as a multiple, distributed system," Turkle writes. As recently as 10 to 15 years ago, it was almost unthinkable to speak of the computer's involvement with ideas about unstable meanings and unknowable truths. Page 2 >> Top 100 Public Intellectuals Poll. 2005 list[edit] The following appeared on the original 2005 list.[1] Demographics[edit] According to location of birth, roughly 40% came from the United States and Canada, 25% from Europe, and 22% from the Middle and Far East.
The other locations received less than 5%—Latin America with 4 and Africa and Australia with 3. Only 8% are women. Criticisms[edit] As happens with many free Internet polls, this one may have been affected by organized voting campaigns and biases introduced by the nationality and language of the organizer.[2] Almost all of the African votes were cast in Nigeria. 2008 list[edit] The following appeared on the 2008 list.[1] Criticism[edit] 2009–2013 lists[edit] (Registration may be required view these lists.) References[edit] External links[edit] The Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals – Prospect/FP's pick of the top 100 (registration required)Prospect/FP Top 100 Public Intellectuals Results – Results of the ranking vote.
God_and_Golem_Inc. Relativity. Noam Chomsky MIT Institutions vs People Will the Species Self Destruct April 10, 2001. Blog Archive » 1949 – Wiener’s Moth “Palomilla” – Wiener / Wiesner / Singleton. Wiener's/Wiesner's/Singleton's 'Moth' – why so many names attached? (extract from below) Wiener wanted the theories put to a practical test. In the late 1940s he teamed up with Dr. J. Wiesner, then in the Research Laboratory of Electronics, and later to become the president of MIT, to build a demonstration-machine with two feedbacks that would play a purposive and postural role, respectively, and exhibit the two types of tremors known to physiologists. The machine they built, with help from H. (next two photo's are sourced from Google images, Source:life) At first glance the trace appears somewhat confusing. Update: 28 Apr 2010 – More images of cart From Wiener’s “the human use of human beings”…. (1950 ed.)
I have recently received a letter from Dr. Later, from Weiner’s expanded 1952 edition “here let me mention some earlier machines of Dr. —————————— "The Way Things Work" 1969 (Translated from the German) G Voluntary, postural and homeostatic feedback. Search MIT Barton libraries. ...OR MAYBE NOT | Hyper-reality, and the Death of Post-modermism. Jean Baudrillard spent a life time writing about how the simulation of reality will soon and maybe already has replaced reality itself. He references Borges Fable where a cartographer starts to draw a map of the kings empire, however through wanting to draw it as accurately as possible with as much detail as possible he ends up covering the whole empire with the map itself.
When the empire falls, the map takes its place as the new empire but fades into the landscape leaving neither the land or its representation behind. Baudrillard uses this as an example of hyper-reality and we are now seeing this hyper-reality in the media and advertising, popular culture, music and television. Our televisions now display simulations of reality instead of actual reality and our music and graphic design does the very same thing. These days pop music simulates a real song, so what we hear on the radio is 3 places removed from the actual song itself and the actual studio performance of the song. The Symbol Grounding Problem. Harnad, Stevan (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem. [Journal (Paginated)] This is the latest version of this eprint. Full text available as: Abstract There has been much discussion recently about the scope and limits of purely symbolic models of the mind and about the proper role of connectionism in cognitive modeling.
This paper describes the symbol grounding problem: How can the semantic interpretation of a formal symbol system be made intrinsic to the system, rather than just parasitic on the meanings in our heads? References in Article Select the SEEK icon to attempt to find the referenced article. Metadata Repository Staff Only: item control page. Symbol Grounding and the Symbolic Theft Hypothesis. Cangelosi, Angelo and Greco, Alberto and Harnad, Stevan (2002) Symbol Grounding and the Symbolic Theft Hypothesis. [Book Chapter] Full text available as: Abstract Computational simulations are used to model the following: (1) category learning through sensorimotor trial and error ("sensorimotor toil") and how it generates categorical perception (decreased between-category similarity and increased within-category similarity); (2) symbol grounding (the connection between symbols and the sensorimotor categories that they name); (3) the origins of language as the capacity to acquire categories indirectly, by definition alone ("symbolic theft"); and (4) the evolutionary advantage of acquiring categories by this symbolic theft instead of sensorimotor toil.
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The simulacrum hypothesis deserved better than to become a reality.2 Le Nouvel Observateur: Your reflections on reality and the virtual are some of the key references used by the makers of The Matrix. Jean Baudrillard: Certainly there have been misinterpretations, which is why I have been hesitant until now to speak about The Matrix. Nouvel Observateur: The connection between the film and the vision you develop, for example, in The Perfect Crime, is, however, quite striking. Baudrillard: Yes, but already there have been other films that treat the growing indistinction between the real and the virtual: The Truman Show, Minority Report, or even Mulholland Drive, the masterpiece of David Lynch.
Donna Haraway - A Cyborg Manifesto. An ironic dream of a common language for women in the integrated circuit This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful as blasphemy is faithful, than as reverent worship and identification. Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously. I know no better stance to adopt from within the secular-religious, evangelical traditions of United States politics, including the politics of socialist feminism. Blasphemy protects one from the moral majority within, while still insisting on the need for community. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.
Contemporary science fiction is full of cyborgs — creatures simultaneously animal and machine, who populate worlds ambiguously natural and crafted. The cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity. Fractured identities. Sublime Dreams of Living Machines: The Automaton in the European Imagination - Minsoo Kang. The Art of Complex Problem Solving - StumbleUpon. Foundations of American Cyber-Culture Course, UC Berkeley Other Courses Video Tutorials, Three films on communication and networks • Timo Arnall. In the last two weeks I’ve seen three documentaries dealing with communication and networks. Firstly, a broad and ambitious film from Ericsson, taking on the ‘networked society’ including interviews with David Weinberger, Catarina Fake and Eric Wahlforss.
Each of the interviewees discusses the emerging opportunities being enabled by technology as we enter the Networked Society. Concepts such as borderless opportunities and creativity, new open business models, and today’s ‘dumb society’ are brought up and discussed. The next film from Nokia brings daily life around networked communication technologies to the forefront, and does it through lovely experiential sequences.
However it does come across much more as a branding exercise or promotional piece, and doesn’t offer to explain or explore the practices it shows. Third is a film by Ben Mendelsohn and Alex Chohlas-Wood about the physical, geographic and material infrastructure that goes into running the internet. JAC Audio Interview: Jacques Derrida : UNT Digital Library. General Philosophy - Faculty of Philosophy - StumbleUpon. Technology in a Dangerous World Online Course, MIT Other Courses, | Free Video lectures, Download. SEE: Guide to Download MIT Video Lecture Lecture Details : Hugh Gusterson, Center for International Studies (CIS) and Department of Anthropology View the complete course at: License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at More courses at Course Description : Aim is to analyze important current events for what they reveal about the nature and working of our technological world.
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