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29 Apr 2024, 5:31 pm
This stream will delve into Asimov’s nuanced portrayal of intelligent machines, examining how his stories reflect ethical dilemmas, societal impacts, and philosophical underpinnings related to creating intelligent machines. [read post]
16 May 2015, 7:51 pm
(Pix (c) Larry Catá Backer 2015) With this post Flora Sapio and I (and friends from time to time) continue an experiment in collaborative dialogue. [read post]
21 Jul 2022, 5:01 am
Child sexual abuse is a societal problem that was not created by the internet, and combating it requires an all-of-society response. [read post]
16 Jan 2021, 6:36 am
However, the ideas are worth considering precisely because it is those who are n the world, who do not think about these things, who do not act consciously to transform societal instruments of management to one ends or another--these are the people who are actually driving the changes. [read post]
26 Feb 2021, 4:41 pm
There is no magic to plague; it operates in the environment in which it appears, and is both constrained by that environment (technology, societal taboos, hygiene and the like) and provides it with the openings through which rising societal contradictions, of its discontents, might be resolved or the level of their intensity advanced. [read post]
27 Mar 2016, 2:54 pm
(Pix © Larry Catá Backer 2016)Globalization has produced a wealth of marvelous work that seeks to theorize the emerging relationships between states, non-state actors (especially multinational corporations), and international organizations. [read post]
26 Dec 2021, 7:20 am
Society revolves around the human breast; it remains the most potent societal marker of possibility and of taboo.A woman who took a Delta flight recently wasn’t kitten around when she whipped out her breasts and started feeding her hairless cat. [read post]
20 Nov 2022, 7:01 am
The development and diffusion of biotechnology will test societal norms and pose challenges for ethical governance where differences in regulatory environments affect the safety, speed, and adoption of the technology. [read post]
8 Jul 2018, 4:48 pm
I have just posted a draft manuscript for comment. [read post]
8 Jan 2023, 7:35 am
This contribution approaches the examination of the semiotics of law (so-called legal semiotics), globalization, and governance through the lens of human rights, and more specifically the efforts and contestations around the project of coding human rights (at the international public and societal level), that is of signifying (Peircean secondness) these objects (Peircian firstness) with meaning (Peircian thirdness).[4]The contribution starts with a consideration of the semiosis… [read post]
4 Apr 2020, 6:16 am
Indeed, it is the cultural inevitability that makes the coverage both horrifying and inevitable--and therefore likely to be displaced as society confronts epidemic in which death is infused in all of the calculus of societal responses. [read post]
21 Mar 2014, 8:15 pm
Section 2104 in practice serves to perpetuate power imbalances in favor of those who control the pie (gosh, a reflection of our societal norms in general, eh? [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 5:27 pm
As part of the nearly unprecedented societal response to COVID-19, such apps raise difficult questions about privacy, efficacy, and responsible engineering of technology to advance public health. [read post]
10 Feb 2013, 10:03 am
(Pix Source HERE)This Blog Essay site devotes every February to a series of integrated but short essays on a single theme. [read post]
3 Jan 2023, 8:30 am
From that, and only from that, might a more plausible narrative, constructed in this case around race and ethnicity as the core systemic premise around which the societal order is reconstructed, be deployed to see the events around Basu in a more compelling light. [read post]
23 Feb 2016, 1:42 pm
It's values are peculiar to itself--reflecting both societal and temporal context--and also common to all communities. [read post]
17 May 2020, 8:14 am
More importantly, the technologies now available have substantially augmented their influence even if it has done little to change the fundamental character of the "office" that these institutional elements--simultaneously outside and inside the functioning of political-economic-societal power--occupy.Pandemic has provided a marvelous space within which these characteristics can be observed, and their effectiveness measures; within which the organization of stakeholder power can… [read post]
21 Aug 2020, 5:01 am
Russian social media operations have since evolved away from promulgating fabricated narratives and toward amplifying extant societal and political fissures among the target demographic. [read post]
7 Feb 2021, 6:20 am
By the 20th century, in line with the consequences of industrialization, effective management became more widely shared among leading groups (as measured by their control over the levers of politics, economic, religion, and societal organization). [read post]
6 Jun 2021, 9:20 am
Again the effort manifests in the criminal law but that is itself merely a means of declaring and vindicating a very specific view of the reality of human interaction--of the constitution of its participants--and of the societal expectations in that context. [read post]
