Category: Theology
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Interview with Professor John Caputo
As part of the series I did with Tripp Fuller about the book, I interviewed some leading thinkers across tech, governance, and philosophy about how they saw AI, and the issues I talk about in God-Like. It was a huge delight and honour to interview Professor John Caputo. He remains one of the sharpest thinkers…
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Advent – invitation to a journey
Every year for the past few years I’ve hosted a series of Advent reflections through the rather quotidian medium of WhatsApp. The idea is simple: a short reflection is posted to the group each morning during Advent… but with the added feature that there’s no responses allowed. All signal, no noise. Read, digest. That’s it.…
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God-Like in Frome
Delighted to be invited to Frome on 22nd of November to give a talk about the book, as primer for a discussion on human flourishing in an age of ‘intelligent’ machines. If you’re around the West Country, be lovely to see you there! Ticket includes complimentary glass of something, and there’ll be other refreshments too.…
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Future of (a Climate) Denial
Last Thursday I was honoured to be asked to join a panel celebrating the publication of my great friend Professor Tad Delay’s book on psychoanalysis and the climate emergency, Future of Denial: This was part of the Historical Materialism conference at SOAS, and it was great to speak alongside Richard Seymour, whose own response to…
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Take to the streets! (with chocolate)
It’s hard to know how to process the final run up to the US election. It seems so absurd and unreal – everything drawn in hyper-caricature, no sense allowed to be made, single apostrophes being asked to carry the weight of a whole democracy, and a stunt in a garbage truck more powerful a signifier…
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Eternally You – performing the god-like act of resurrection
Hitting TV screens in the UK right now is a new BBC Storyville documentary, Eternally You, ‘delving into world of startups using AI to create avatars of the deceased.’ The Guardian ran a 5-star review of it, which I do think it deserves. As they outline: Joshua Barbeau […] uses it to talk to his…