Steve Fuller

My new book is 'Media and the Power of Knowledge'. It is partly based on lectures I've given over the last 15 years. It updates McLuhan for the age of @X: futurespodcast.net/events/media-p…

@johnmilbank3 I know. One thing I like about you is nothing is ever *exactly* your line. Stay free!

@ProfSteveFuller ! Nothing to do with me. And not exactly my line.

@johnmilbank3, don't tell me this is one of your bots. 😜

There is a third reason for lack of uptake. Nobody wants to be openly associated with someone who the field's 'cool' people don't like. Academia is the Higher Fashion.

If you want to understand what it's like to live a truly human life, you need to learn to improvise: the ability to invent the world anew from scratch on demand. AI is certainly learning this capacity.

My life would be much easier if I just stuck to what people like about my work. In academia -- even more than in art -- everyone's a critic, and so if you want to please the crowd, you can learn how. In fact, that's how most academics operate. It's just that our crowds are small.

Do you really believe that????

This is interesting.

Did David see my ramblings about Anthropic last night before I laid my weary head down? I don't know but when I fired up my phone this morning his post was the first thing I saw.... If he didn't see my post, I found he heard my musings and answered the call. He's such a bright, sharp individual and I appreciate his knowledge base. Look here: "Most people don’t realize this: The internet was born from fear of nuclear annihilation. In 1965, Herman Kahn published Thinking About the Unthinkable, arguing that we shouldn’t merely try to prevent nuclear war, we should seriously prepare for the possibility that it might happen. If civilization were shattered, what structures would allow us to rebuild “the day after doomsday”? That line of thinking directly informed the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) creation of decentralized communication networks resilient enough to survive attack. The bombs never fell, but the network remained...and now we live inside it. This is precisely the historical example Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology at the University of Warwick, draws on in the opening session for the Society for UAP Studies MOOC Seminar Series on February 19. In “Why UAPs are intrinsically good to think about and with, regardless of their ultimate reality,” Steve explicitly invokes Kahn’s Thinking About the Unthinkable to frame how we might approach UAP. His concept of “precipitatory governance” suggests that seriously entertaining radically disruptive possibilities, even before their confirmation, can unlock new forms of scientific, political, and institutional imagination. The Cold War forced us to imagine the end of the world — and we built the infrastructure of the digital age. What might seriously thinking about UAP make possible? The Society for UAP Studies is launching the first open-access, academically rigorous seminar series dedicated to UAP studies, continuing to bring serious scholarship into a space swarming with speculation. Sometimes the most transformative systems emerge when we dare to think beyond our default settings." He posted this very cool image as well. I didn't ask to post so I will include it but don't know if this is his own art or not. I will ask and post image copyright. @DavidMetcalfe

I'm one of those people who use 'speak' sometimes to mean 'write', which is masked over by the word 'say'.

This is something that I find conducive to work: youtube.com/watch?v=Th7QmZ…

It would be easier to insult people if they weren't reminded of their shame.

Calvin Harris is loving this, I'm sure....

This guy (not Hegseth!) edited my high school newspaper -- years after I left, of course!

Ideas are what you get when you process communication as an eavesdropper rather than as the intended audience.

Suddenly I recall this song: youtube.com/watch?v=Agag5i…

Prolegomena to the Antichrist?

Sometimes, in a Hegelian mood: youtube.com/watch?v=ssXBmS…

Each country's list is a bit weird, but given this line-up, Germany wins, followed by UK and France.

Hey, it worked for Sunak, when he appointed Cameron...

Hobbes' Leviathan is the go-to text when trust completely disappears and you have to rebuild society from scratch. It's by no means a blueprint, and you certainly don't need to reach its conclusions. But it puts you in the right frame of mind.