Happiness is discovering your The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social Essential Knowledge Series book on 'Deconstruction' in the neighborhood independent book store. The Book Table

Analytic Philosophy is Prog Rock.
It is obsessed with the intricacies of the argument and the virtuosity of the instrumentalist.

Continental Philosophy is Hip Hop.
It is about crate diving in the texts of the tradition and remixing the extracted samples.

Pro-tip: If your critique/backlash against #AI generated art simply reproduces the logic and rhetoric of late-20th century rants against sampling, #remix and hip hop, you should probably check your privileged ethnocentrism.

This news about Kristi Noem 'disposing' of her dog and the very reasonable backlash that it has generated illustrates the inherent difficulties with the person/thing dichotomy. This is what 'Person, Thing, Robot' The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social is all about. Image from a recent presentation.

In presenting 'Person, Thing, Robot' The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social, I have been using the 'disposal' of a dog that is untrainable in the context of my explanations of the relational turn. Little did I know that Kristi Noem would make this horrendous practice all too real.

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As part of the Big Dada project, I prompted Suno for the following: 'Heavy funk song about the tech bros of Google, Facebook and OpenAI and how their AI ethics is going to save us all.' And this is what we got.
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'Data's the new dada
Disruptin' the art world y'all
Generative #AI
Makin' masterpieces that enthrall'

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'The Legal Status of Artificial Intelligence Systems and Models of Differentiation of Legal Liability for Damage Caused by Them.' New essay (in Russian) by D. V. Bakhteev and published #OpenAccess in 'Lex Russica.'
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Big Dada
The first (or maybe the third or fourth...who's keeping track anymore) full-length album of all- #AI generated music using Suno Get 'em now before some lawsuit shuts it all down. Sounds like #remix / #mashup all over again.
gunkelweb.com/BigDada/

New albums from Taylor Swift, St. Vincent and now BIG DADA!

Three all-new #AI generated songs for the Big Dada project. With these three, we now have 12 'original' compositions...enough for a complete album.
gunkelweb.com/BigDada/

Though I am sympathetic to the problem and find the image rather amusing, it fails to account for #collage and #Remix practices especially (but not only) in hip hop and other artforms that challenge the dominant Western/European understanding of what is (and what is not) art.

#robotrights and the moral status of #AI is exploding with activity. New commentaries in 'Phil & Tech' SpringerEthics from Josh Gellers and Nancy S. Jecker, Ph.D. written in response to recent essays from Anna Puzio and Paul Showler.
doi.org/10.1007/s13347…
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' #Robots are a queer sort of thing...'

'Person, Thing, Robot' The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social
Live in-person event with online option today at 3pm (CDT). University of Illinois Dept. of Philosophy Colloquium.
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TODAY - PTR University of Illinois
'Person, Thing, Robot' The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social at the University of Illinois, Dept. of Philosophy Colloquium.
3-5pm Gregory Hall 336 calendars.illinois.edu/detail/4705/33…

🆕 Non-Human Rights, edited by QMUL School of Law's Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa & Birkbeck, University of London's CostasDouzinas
Contributors incl' Jannice Käll Marie Petersmann David J. Gunkel Idelber Avelar

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🆓 Read Introduction & Chapter 1 by Colin Dayan ➡️ doi.org/10.4337/978180…

Camping.
Who would have guessed that the Scouts were actually training an entire generation in the strategies of social disobedience and unrest.