Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 3 days 11 hours 34 minutes
An overview of Season 8: a book (and movie!) club devoted to the canon (as we define it!) for technology and ethics.
Should we even keep reading this book—with its criticisms of books?
Jean-François Lyotard on postmodernity, science, and kitschy art.
Jean-François Lyotard on postmodernity, science, and kitschy art.
Lyotard’s postmodernism, the politics of power, and aesthetics: what do we keep and what do we reject?
Reading Ray Kurzweil’s prognostications about the future—and coming to terms with his ruthless optimism.
What the well-known novel and movie have to say about science, ethics, epistemology, and hubris.
Don’t go into science for the money: you will get killed by dinosaurs.