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Dieuwertje Luitse @dluitse.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌 ⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT

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"There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable" www.wiley.com/Paranoid+Fin...

Fabian Muniesa (2024), Paranoid Finance, Polity (Theory Redux)

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Apolline Taillandier @blazefutures.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Check our new paper on how EA philanthropy measures and prioritises 'effectiveness' and supports interventions in global health, cultured meat and AI

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Neil Stephens @neilstephens.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

New paper: 'Effective Altruism, technoscience and the making of philanthropic value' with Apolline Taillandier @blazefutures.bsky.social & Samantha Vanderslott @sjvanders.bsky.social! Economy & Society Neglected tropical disease, cultured meat, and AI safety www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Effective altruism, technoscience and the making of philanthropic value

A recent philanthropic movement with advocates among high-profile tech entrepreneurs and philosophers, effective altruism (EA) has been widely disparaged for its flawed moral philosophy and conserv...

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).

DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D. C.
Dec. 2, 1949
Dr. Norbert Wiener
Mass. Institute of Technology Cambridge, Nass.
My dear Dr. Wiener:
The publication of your book on Cybernetics has caused the editorial staff which is in charge of the revision of the Dewey Decimal Classification considerable difficulty. We are in the position of being asked by sincere inquirers as to how to classify the book and by less sincere people who like to confront supposedly expert classifiers with problems which they are quite certain are beyond our capabilities. Quite frankly, cybernetics is. We have read and reread reviews and explanations of the content of your book and have even tried to understand the book itself, only to become more uncertain as to what field it falls into. I am appealing to you as the one person who should be able to tell us.
Possibly you already know that the Dewey Decimal Classification attempts to assign a number to the subject content of books. Generally speaking, a book can only be assigned one number and consequently we cannot take care of the many aspects that certain works cover. The problem must be simplified and consequently, is your book such as to place it in psychology? Does it belong in the field of electronic computation devices or does it belong in mathematics?
If we were not somewhat desperate about this particular problem, I should hesitate to bother you with it.
Cordially yours,
Esther P. Potter
Director

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Duncan Bell @duncanbell.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

NEW ARTICLE: Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social bit.ly/3D5vUY5

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Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age

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Journal of the History of Ideas @jhideas.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The new issue of the JHI is now available online, featuring terrific articles by Sophie Smith (open access), Mia Korpiola and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (open access), Alexander D. Batson, Tyler J. Thomas, Niccolò Valmori, Giuseppe Bianco, and Sarah Shortall. web.sas.upenn.edu/jhiblog/2024...

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JHI 85.4 now available!

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (volume 85, issue 4) is now live on Project MUSE. Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, ...

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