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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…
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Steve Fuller
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Steve Fuller
@ProfSteveFuller
Prof of Sociology, @warwickuni. Founder of Social Epistemology and Author of Humanity 2.0 and Post Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game
University of Warwick Katılım Temmuz 2011
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Hobsbawm is simply stating the way we normally justify great cost of life when the long term result turns out to be even greater. It sounds horrible only because he's dealing with the matter counterfactually.
Barry Wall@HeadWarriorTWM
People laugh when you talk about how insane the left is. Marxism/Communism/Socialism et al are popular amongst Ivory Tower academics and the luvvies and lefties of the middle classes. Despite the ideology having a murderous nature. Eric Hobsbawm was a renowned British Marxist historian and a lifelong member of the Communist Party of Great Britain from 1936 onwards, post Holodomor and Stalin's crimes. Here he is on the bbc, just listen, this is the mindset we are dealing with. Utopianism, at any cost.
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@ProfSteveFuller @carlgomb I have watched, interesting. Your name rings a bell, did you dip your paw into the more sensible UAP discussions, or just share a name with someone who did ?
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Great talk by @ProfSteveFuller .
Post-humanism, transhumanism, the precautionary principle and (although I don't think it gets an explicit name-check here!) the proactionary principle.
Steve coins two phrases for a new politics: not left wing or right wing, but 'up wing' and 'down wing'.
I think these phrases (in his framing) make a lot of sense and have potential. But can we change the 'wing' part to make the metaphor more catchy?
Steve Fuller@ProfSteveFuller
Someone just reminded me of this lecture I gave at @royalsociety before the pandemic, and it still captures my thinking very well about the future of humanity: youtube.com/watch?v=3_aMEr…
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@SteveDavies365 @carlgomb But FM-2030 lacked a 'downwing'. In fact, I didn't even know about him, until I started I started publishing on up/down-wing. He's an interesting guy, but very much from the Alvin Toffler era of futurism.
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@carlgomb @ProfSteveFuller The first use of that expression as a political label was probably 1973 in FM-2030’s book “Upwingers: A Futurist Manifesto”.
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@carlgomb @ProfSteveFuller Oooh that sounds interesting, think I'll give that a watch while "cleaning the kitchen"
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As I recall, Lennon liked the Rutles much more than McCartney, and Harrison actually helped them out.
Prof. Frank McDonough@FXMC1957
22 March 1978. The Rutles, All You Need Is Cash, was broadcast on NBC-TV in the USA. It was co-written by Eric Idle and Neil Innes. It follows the career of the Prefab 4: Dirk, Nasty, Stig and Barry. It was broadcast on BBC2 in the UK 5 days later.
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@carlgomb @ProfSteveFuller The phrase appears on a Bob Dylan liner note, one of the "11 Outlined Epitaphs" accompanying The Times They Are A-Changin' album:
"there is no right wing or left wing... there is only up wing an down wing"
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Someone just reminded me of this lecture I gave at @royalsociety before the pandemic, and it still captures my thinking very well about the future of humanity: youtube.com/watch?v=3_aMEr…
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@ArthurLHerman I only saw him in Salzburg after he published 'Realism and the Aim of Science' in 1983. He was quite clear and direct but also crotchety. It took a while for the experience to sink in, but it did.
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I met him when I was studying at U London in 1971.
Steve Fuller@ProfSteveFuller
Yep, he's cooler than people imagine.
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Risk wouldn't seem such a strange concept in epistemology, if humans weren't regarded as supine by default.
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Yep, he's cooler than people imagine.
Arthur Herman@ArthurLHerman
I'm liking the Karl Popper style message here.
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@ArthurLHerman Humanity is all about trial and error, baby. You're in it for the ride.
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Better to wind up like Galileo than Giordano Bruno.
Steve Fuller@ProfSteveFuller
People familiar with the history of early modern Europe will know that the Scientific Revolution emerged from many independently minded people sifting through overhyped claims and counter-claims. So, keep calm and carry on. We've been here before, and we've come out stronger.
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Hegel was right when he said that the Owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk. Philosophy is purely normative. It's about how it should have been and might be in the future. In any case, it has evacuated the present.
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Scepticism about the nature of life begins with one's failure to remember how they were born.
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Academics would have an easier time speaking to each other if they really thought they were part of a community of inquirers. Unfortunately, their practice suggests otherwise.
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Stripped of metaphysical BS, the crunch point.
Ronald Christ@RonaldCHRIST12
“The perverting and confusing of the claims and of their domains will no longer be possible, because the truth of being itself, in the sharpest falling apart of the fissure of being, has brought the essential possibilities to decision.” Martin Heidegger, Contributions to Philosophy
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The best way to demonstrate the value of intellectual history is to show that people are inclined to act on the basis of a strong idea regardless of its empirical basis. In other words, it's a history of venture capitalism.
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