Author: David

This is dark. Very dark, but if you want some summer reading, try this.

It is dark, though.

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Thanks to everyone at Graveside Press for getting this out there.

This is rather rough and really just some initial ideas, but I am not sure when I shall get chance to think about it again, so have decided to throw it on and see what happens…

Title of session: Guerrilla Learning: disciplinary thinkers facilitating experimental encounters 

Continue reading “A paper on guerrilla learning.”

The aim of discussing (private) property was to show how our self-understanding, how we see ourselves, will be altered by a world in which there is abundance in some products.

Continue reading “Cultural Productions”

So, two participants have ideas and I am giving them some pointers on how I would approach their interests. They remain anonymous here, but they should recognize their own ideas. These are only suggestions about how I would start planning an initial first draft, but writing is a great activity for thought if we let it change what we are doing, so be flexible and ready to reject what I suggest (I am not an authority).  

Continue reading “First phase of production.”

So, new people and varied groups. For the introduction to posthumanism

Continue reading “Three sessions in…”

The first session happened. And thanks for the participants who made it a really interesting session. There were some good initial ideas about how the conceptual content interacts with both interests and other academic pursuits.

Continue reading “In place and up and running”

Definition: the human being is exceptional in the world of things, it is the sole thing we know to have a mind, reason, will. It makes its decisions for itself and is not determined by nature or other objects. 

Claim: we understand ourselves as individuals responsible for our actions and deserving of the consequences 

The point of will is the mind or decision which is a property only of human beings. 

Continue reading “Humanism”

The main claim of posthumanism is:

Technological changes raise questions about what it is to be human.

Continue reading “Posthumanism”

So there was yet another recent article in the Guardian about how technology has an effect on social practices. Currently, performance drugs are banned in sport and are considered cheating. However, a sort of techno-transhumanist wants to innovate and see how far we can push the body through intervention:

Continue reading “Robot and Performance Olympics”

So this is out:

Posthuman Education https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/riph20/31/4

International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Volume 31, Issue 4 (2023)

Thanks to all the authors.