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Comradeship in Crisis: Climate Change vs. the Posthuman Threat

October 24, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Artificial Intelligence, Blog2024+, Capitalism, Climate Crisis, Democracy, Emergent Tech, Environmental concerns, Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, Public Philosophy, Technology and Human Values, Trump 0 Comments

Could the posthuman—rather than climate catastrophe—be the unifying force that calls us to arms?

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Humanity vs. Technology (in 5 minutes)

July 31, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Aesthetics, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Biotech, Blog2024+, critical thinking, Democracy, Digital Humanities, Emergent Tech, Ethics, Internet, Justice, Labor Issues, Machine Learning, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Politics, Posthuman, Public Philosophy, Social Media, Surveillance, Teaching, Technology, Technology and Human Values, Uncanny Valley 0 Comments

Dr. Leigh M. Johnson summarizes the challenges technology poses to humanity (and the humanities) in 5-minute PowerPoint.

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Lying Artificial Intelligence

July 27, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Blog2024+, Emergent Tech, Ethics, Hotel Bar Sessions, Internet, Justice, Machine Learning, Media, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, podcast, Politics, Posthuman, Social Media, SPEP, Technology, Technology and Human Values 0 Comments

Should we worry about a robot capable of lying about being a robot?

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Determining a Judgment of Taste

July 16, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Aesthetics, Blog2024+, critical thinking, Ethics, Open Source Pedagogy, Philosophy, Politics, Race and Racism, Relativism, Uncategorized 0 Comments

On Kant’s strange anecdote of the rue de la Huchette

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Paying It Forward

July 9, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Blog2024+, Digital Humanities, Philosophy, Professional Academy, Public Philosophy, Teaching, Uncategorized 0 Comments

Are you a recent grad student who just got hired or a junior faculty member stressing out about your Fall syllabi? I’m here to help.

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Pandemic Podcasting

June 20, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Blog2024+ 0 Comments

The running joke since March 2020 is that “anyone can start a podcast.” I’m here to tell you that is absolutely false.

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Once More Into the Breach!

June 15, 2024 Leigh M. Johnson Blog2024+ 0 Comments

Don’t call it a comeback. I’ve been here for years.

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