Whose Side is Technology On?
This is a post I forgot to publish a few months ago. Please pretend that I could be bothered to update references to the 2015 […]
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Robocop 2014: Freedom vs Technology
The Robocop reboot from earlier this year gave me faith that sci-fi isn’t dead. I expected a moody Nolan-esque remake, similar to the 2012 Dredd, that would […]
Film Review – Hannah Arendt – Philosophy and Harm
This review comes quite late, given that the film was released in 2012, but, despite the fact that Arendt is one of my favourite philosophers and […]
Book Review – Atheism Reclaimed
While my blog posts are usually exclusively egocentric rants about what I think, today I want to share some thoughts on a newly published book […]
Freedom out of Control: Heidegger on Freedom and the Will
The following is a paper I gave at an internal university conference a few weeks ago. Speaking broadly, it is an attempt to convey my […]
Old Books and Dead People – Common Complaints Against Philosophy 3
Why do you care what dead people think? What do you think? We live in a society that is the culmination of a history spanning back to […]
Common Complaints Against Philosophy Answered 1
More so than Dr. Pepper, philosophy is misunderstood, even by its practitioners. We who study it dread the question “So what do you do?”, since […]
The Need for Control or the Problem of Technology
This is a blog post about two ICT related issues that have bothered me slightly over the past few months: over-user-friendliness and internet privacy. Concerning […]
Update: Chomsky and Žižek
Since my last post on this, Chomsky and Žižek have replied to each other. I’m not going to spend long on this, but feel that […]
Are Digital Transformations Transformations?
So, I went to this conference called “Digital Transformers”, more info is here. Now, my reasons for attending this conference were entirely ulterior. That is, […]
Christian Philosophy as a Paradox
What follows is neither a criticism nor an endorsement of the passage it discusses. It is simply an attempt to start thinking about the relationship […]
Nature and Nurture
I was watching The Big Questions again today and the question of Nature vs. Nurture came up. So, I decided to write something to organise […]