Open Access Journal
Stupidity: Human and Artificial NATASHA LUSHETICH University of Dundee, UK Abstract In this brief commentary, I trace the ‘development’ of stupidity from human (individual and social) stupidity, via technologically and heteronomically facilitated stupidity, to the more recent human-artificial variant in an attempt to define the difference between human-artificial stupidity, ‘milintelligence’, and artificial intelligence. Keywords Read More …
Figuring Covid: A Note on Media Flows and ‘Statisticality’ JOHN CORNER University of Leeds, UK Abstract This note examines the ways in which statistics have been an important and controversial aspect of public information concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. The profile has varied internationally but some schematic observations about lines of flow, the distinctive role Read More …
Abstract Late in the summer of 2019, Gary Hall gave a series of talks hosted by the Philosophy Department at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. One of them was titled ‘Liberalism Must be Defeated. On the Obsolescence of Bourgeois Theory in the Anthropocene’. As the organizer of this event, I was curious about the reception of Read More …
Dependence, Addiction and Arrest: A Eulogy to Stiegler by Ekin Erkan
Picking SCADs: The Dangers of Opening Wounds Covered by Corruption Abstract The events of 9/11 and the subsequent Global War on Terror have revealed to careful observers deep systemic flaws in what had long been recognised as reliable and authoritative ‘mainstream media’. The rush to war in the wake of 9/11, the flouting Read More …
Abstract In this note of commentary, I want briefly to reflect on how questions concerning aesthetics variously figure, lie just below the surface or are simply ignored across the increasingly diverse academic approaches to investigating media. This is in a situation in which the array of activities and practices under the heading ‘media’ is undergoing Read More …
In this essay from our forthcoming special section of commentaries on Edward S. Herman, Victor Pickard and Todd Wolfson discuss Herman’s antifascist intellectual roots, his media criticism and his activism in Philadelphia.
In another of our forthcoming special section commentaries on the influence of Edward S. Herman, Paula Chakravartty considers the decolonial significance of Herman’s critique of liberal theories of media freedom and of US media power.
In this short commentary, Mieke Bal sets out her ten objections to the peer-review system in academic publishing.
