Category: Blog Series
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Process This – AI Series with me, Tripp Fuller… and leading global thinkers on AI
As you may have picked up, top US podcaster Tripp Fuller and I have been co-hosting a series of expert conversations with leading thinkers on AI, inspired by my book, God-Like: a 500-Year History of AI. The list of interviewees is PHENOMENAL! From Lord Tim Clement-Jones – lead on AI regulation in the House of…
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The Pirates’ Gospel
Thought it would be good to catch people up a little on what I’ve been working on the last couple of weeks. As you’ll know if you’ve read here for any time, one of my areas of interest is around pirates and piracy. I posted a series entitled ‘A Plea for Christian Piracy’ some time…
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Original Pirate Material…
Being in that part of the UK for holiday, and hearing on the grapevine that a few people are interested in exploring the thinking I’ve been doing around Hakim Bey’s work on pirates and TAZ, I thought I’d round up a few things here… Firstly, the series of posts I did on ‘A Plea for…
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Hell Is Other People [1]
In ‘No Exit’ – what is considered to be his best play – Sartre wrote the line ‘L’enfer, c’est les autres‘ which is commonly translated as hell is other people. I was reminded of this last night hearing AC Grayling introduce Zizek, who had written in the Guardian that the worst job he had ever…
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Has What Emerged Retreated? | Returning to Institutions [2]
Emerging/Retreating [1] I’m quite surprised at the traffic caused by the last post – been the most read thing I’ve posted for a while, and that seems to suggest that the theme has resonated, though not all in agreement. I had a good chat to Jonny on the phone yesterday, who said he initially thought…