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On episode 086 of Black Tech Unplugged, Deena chats with Justin E. Samuels, the visionary entrepreneur behind Render Atlanta Conference and a senior engineer at Intuit Mailchimp. We delve into the upcoming RenderATL event, discussing conference tracks, special guests, and even sharing a discount code for listeners. Justin also shares insights on his journey in tech, balancing work, entrepreneurship, and family, highlighting his commitment to diversity and innovation in the industry. Connect with Justin: • Website | Renderatl.com (Discount Code: 'BTU') • Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/thugdebugger • Twitter | https://twitter.com/thugdebugger

20 décembre 2023 - Au podcast cette semaine : Entrevue avec Fred Savard et entrevue le groupe québécois Carotté, la compilation Zoo 8, Noel in extremis 2, Justin(e), Mr 82 et du métal québécois avec Strigampire.On jase aussi de Charlie Borown, Marc Hervieux, High on Fire, Diego Pallavas et de François Pérusse.https://lesgarsderipe.com/

Read the full transcript here. What are the limits of tech solutionism? Do technological innovations create as many problems as they solve? Or, in other words, do technological innovations improve the world on average over time? Are humans living in the 21st century actually worse off than those that lived in the 11th century? What's the difference between "art" and "content"? If image-generating AIs just produce images that are stylistic averages across all of their training data, then is it even theoretically possible for such models to create art that's edgy, avant-garde, or off the beaten path? Is cinema dead? Is literature dead? Are the humanities dying, especially in the US? And might that be a significant contributing factor to the withering of democracy in the US?Justin Smith-Ruiu, formerly known as Justin E.H. Smith, is a writer based in Paris. He writes speculative fiction, documentary metafiction, criticism, literary non-fiction, and poetry, and also translates poetry. In 2019-2020, he was the John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library. He is also a professor of philosophy in the department of history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Cité. Learn more about him and read his writings at www.the-hinternet.com [Read more]

Originally Recorded May 2nd, 2023About Professor Justin E.H. Smith: https://www.jehsmith.com/Check out Professor Smith's book, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Not-What-You-Think/dp/0691212325Check out Professor Smith's essay on Liberties, titled The World as a Game: https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/the-world-as-a-game/ Get full access to Unlicensed Philosophy with Chuong Nguyen at musicallyspeaking.substack.com/subscribe

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Why don't more philosophers take psychedelic drugs seriously as a means of examining reality? Sean Illing talks with Justin Smith-Ruiu, professor of philosophy, whose recent essay "This Is a Philosopher on Drugs" tells of how experimenting with psilocybin and other substances led to a radical reevaluation of nearly everything in his life — including his views on the nature of reality. They discuss the roots of an alternative worldview in the thought of German polymath G.W. Leibniz, what it means to say — as Socrates does — that philosophy is "preparation for death," and why psychedelics aren't more often explored in contemporary philosophy. Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling), host, The Gray Area Guest: Justin Smith-Ruiu, philosopher; author References:  "This Is a Philosopher on Drugs" by Justin E.H. Smith (Wired; Mar. 7) Justin Smith-Ruiu's Hinternet (Substack) The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E.H. Smith (Princeton; 2022) "The brutal mirror: What the psychedelic drug ayahuasca showed me about my life" by Sean Illing (Vox; Nov. 2, 2019) G.W. Leibniz, "The Monadology" (1714) René Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy (1641) Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason by Justin E.H. Smith (Princeton; 2019) Plato, Phaedo (for Socrates's claim that philosophy is preparation for death) Reality+ by David Chalmers (W.W. Norton; 2022) David Chalmers on The Gray Area (Jan. 10, 2022) Justin's review of David Chalmers: "The World as a Game" (Liberties, vol. 2 no. 4) "The Death of Ivan Ilych" by Leo Tolstoy (1886) How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan (Penguin; 2018) Enjoyed this episode? Rate The Gray Area ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of The Gray Area. Subscribe in your favorite podcast app. Support The Gray Area by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts This episode was made by:  Producer: Erikk Geannikis Engineer: Patrick Boyd Editorial Director, Vox Talk: A.M. Hall Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In what ways might the roots of the internet actually stretch back much further than we think? Does the internet enhance or distort our humanness? How is our deepening entanglement with algorithms shaping how we think and what we pay attention to? Justin E. H. Smith is a professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the Université Paris Cité, and is a writer of both non-fiction, fiction and poetry. His latest book is The Internet is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning, in which he traces the deep history of the internet and asks where these technologies may be taking us next. His previous books include Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. He posts regularly on Substack at Justin E. H. Smith's Hinternet. LINKS: Justin's book The Internet is Not What You Think It Is: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691212326/the-internet-is-not-what-you-think-it-is Justin's Substack: https://justinehsmith.substack.com Justin's book on Gottfried Leibniz: https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691141787/divine-machines David Abram on technology and animism: https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/magic-and-the-machine/ James William's Stand out of our light (Ted Talk based on book of same name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaIO2UIvJ4g Yves Citton on the Ecology of attention: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/The+Ecology+of+Attention-p-9781509503735 Support us on Patreon: www.patreon.com/forestofthought Share and subscribe. We're available on most podcast apps, including: Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2ue3XA6IQQLC05FQMINuy1 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/…/podcast/forest-of…/id1508610729 Links to all platforms: https://anchor.fm/forestofthought Our theme music is by Christian Holtsteen at stoneproduction.no.

The Second Sunday in Lent. Imagine growing up with the knowledge that God loves everyone while also being terrified that God may punish some of the people you care about. Fr. Justin recalls his own struggle with this, the people who made God visible to him, and when he realized it wasn't his job to save anyone.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope

Justin E H Smith joins Celeste Marcus to discuss the thought and style of Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Ash Wednesday. Many people feel worn down and weary, often facing circumstances that require great resilience. Paul's second letter to the Corinthians speaks to the spiritual resilience within all of us, and Lent is the perfect time to discover it.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope

The Fifth Sunday after the Epiphany. Salt is a magical ingredient to cook with. Without it, our food tastes bland. Add too much of it and your meal can be impossible to eat. However, with just the right amount, food is given definition and vibrancy. Jesus' words to be "salt of the earth" is a call for Christians to see the world with that same vibrancy.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #Matthew5:13-20

The Feast of the Holy Name. Many people who don't believe the teachings of Christianity still believe in a higher power. However, when looking at our world, this more abstract approach makes it hard to determine whether God is actually benevolent or a serial killer. How can the birth of Jesus, God taking on human flesh, help us to know God in more concrete ways?#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #Luke2:1-21

In this episode, I speak with fellow philosopher (and substack writer) Justin E. H. Smith about the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. This is our final episode of 2022! As always, I hope you enjoy our conversation. Justin E. H. Smith is professor of philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris. In 2019-20, he was the John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library. He has written many books, including Irrationality: The Dark Side of Reason and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. He also authors a substack, which you can subscribe to at https://justinehsmith.substack.com. Jennifer Frey is an associate professor of philosophy and Peter and Bonnie McCausland Faculty Fellow at the University of South Carolina. She is also a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and the Word on Fire Institute. Prior to joining the philosophy faculty at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an affiliated faculty in the philosophy department. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and her B.A. in Philosophy and Medieval Studies (with a Classics minor) at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. She has published widely on action, virtue, practical reason, and meta-ethics, and has recently co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology. Her writing has also been featured in Breaking Ground, First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, and USA Today. She lives in Columbia, SC, with her husband, six children, and chickens. You can follow her on Twitter @ jennfrey. Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.

In this episode, I speak with fellow philosopher (and substack writer) Justin E. H. Smith about the short stories of Edgar Allan Poe. This is our final episode of 2022! As always, I hope you enjoy our conversation. Justin E. H. Smith is professor of philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris. In 2019-20, he was the John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library. He has written many books, including Irrationality: The Dark Side of Reason and Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life. He also authors a substack, which you can subscribe to here. Jennifer Frey is an associate professor of philosophy and Peter and Bonnie McCausland Faculty Fellow at the University of South Carolina. She is also a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and the Word on Fire Institute. Prior to joining the philosophy faculty at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an affiliated faculty in the philosophy department. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and her B.A. in Philosophy and Medieval Studies (with a Classics minor) at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. She has published widely on action, virtue, practical reason, and meta-ethics, and has recently co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology. Her writing has also been featured in Breaking Ground, First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, and USA Today. She lives in Columbia, SC, with her husband, six children, and chickens. You can follow her on Twitter @jennfrey. Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire.

The Second Sunday of Advent. Old Testament prophets like Elijah and Malachi emphasized the need to repent because God would come one day. When John the Baptist arrived on the scene, he proclaimed that God was already here! What does the message of this fiery prophet teach us about God's embrace of us and the relationship that follows?#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #Matthew 3:1-12

The Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost. People throughout history have tried to predict how and when the world will end. Even some of the dire predictions Jesus made can be found in the pages of today's Wall Street Journal. While many see these as a cause for panic, Jesus offers an alternative response.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #Luke21:5-19

The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost. One popular hashtag going around is #BeBetter. Some people use it to encourage while others use it to complain. God's grace, however, is a reminder that we aren't brought into a relationship with God because of what we do but simply because we are loved. It's a grace that puts even the most beloved and most despised figures on an even playing field. What would it mean to see everyone as forgiven sinners?#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #Luke17:11-19

“The demotion of movies comes at a time when the world, in reality, is cracking clean open and we are fast losing the shared traditions that included a common artistic language and art forms with a life-breath in them that came down through the generations.” Justin E.H. Smith reads from his piece “We Don't Need Another Hero” from TANK's entertainment issue. Read here.

“The demotion of movies comes at a time when the world, in reality, is cracking clean open and we are fast losing the shared traditions that included a common artistic language and art forms with a life-breath in them that came down through the generations.” Justin E.H. Smith reads from his piece “We Don't Need Another Hero” from TANK's entertainment issue. Read here.

Justin E. H. Smith joins Leon Wieseltier and Celeste Marcus to discuss the gamification of reality, and the pernicious compulsion to control and describe more and more of human existence via algorithms and technology.

The Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost. People love to offer unsolicited advice on how to have the perfect family, the right credentials, how to be liked, and anything else that will lead to "a better you". We crave to know we're good and good enough. However, it's not advice we need; it's help. Jesus challenges us to ask if the things we give power to are actually providing that help.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #inflation #Luke16:1-13

Keith is joined by Professor Justin E.H. Smith, who just released a new book, 'The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is." He discusses his book which goes into the desire for humans to be connected over long distances but also the failures of the internet to allow actual smart discourse. Follow Keith on Twitter: @keithlaw Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost. The Bible has many stories about people who came into contact with Jesus, changing the course of their lives forever. We still encounter him today, through sacraments like the Eucharist and baptism and, as our lives become marked by Jesus, we are never the same.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #inflation #Luke13:10-17

The Tenth Sunday after Pentecost. Are you worried about being on your best behavior before God? Do you need to make sure the good deeds outweigh the bad? Just as Jesus twisted John the Baptist's prophecy of being baptized with fire, the forgiveness we receive twists our understanding of having to be "good enough".#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #inflation #Luke12:49-56

The Seventh Sunday after Pentecost. The economy has plenty of us stressed out these days! However, a closer look at one of Jesus' parables reveals some shockingly relevant advice for addressing our financial fears and helps us think through which of our circumstances are really God's will.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope #inflation #Luke12:13-21

The Second Sunday after Pentecost. After every tragedy, we hear countless people offer their thoughts and prayers. But what are we to think of prayer when the tragedies continue? Fr. Justin Crisp ponders if the era of miracles is over or if God is still finding ways to surprise us.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope 

Sheryl Sandberg has resigned as Chief Operating Officer of Meta, the company that brought us Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp. She, along with Mark Zuckerberg have connected us in ways previously unimagined. But it's also opened a Pandora's box of issues including privacy, political meddling and fake news. What does this all mean for us? With professor of history and philosophy Justin E.H. Smith.

What counts as authorship? Why does it matter? Should we stop putting our names on what we write and sign off instead, as early scribes preferred to do, as nothing more than humble servants of God? In this episode, Justin E.H. Smith thinks through these questions with Jonathan Egid, writer and doctoral student in comparative literature at King's College London. The two consider the Hatäta Walda Heywat—which, depending on who you ask, is either a seventeenth-century philosophical treatise by little-known Ethiopian philosopher Zera Yacob, or a forgery composed in the nineteenth century by the Italian monk who claimed to have discovered it. Was Zera Yacob a real person? If the monk did write the Hatäta, why would he choose to renounce his authorship, given how much work it would have taken? Smith and Egid discuss the motives behind self-effacement and self-promotion, the postmodernist idea of the death of the author, and why we keep reading Homer when we don't know if he even existed. What does this all mean, they ask, for issues of representation and efforts to meaningfully diversify the philosophical canon?

In this episode of “What Is X?” Justin E.H. Smith and Emily Thomas tackle the timely yet timeless question: "What is time?" Is time an external, objective fact, or is the flow and tempo of the world internal to us—in some sense, all in our head? Could a robot have consciousness even if it didn't understand time? To help concretize these potent questions, Justin and Emily look back at the thought of a now mostly-obscure metaphysician by the name of J.M.E. McTaggart, who argued that time was unreal. In doing so, however, he proposed a framework for time that philosophers have taken up enthusiastically ever since: either one must believe that time is purely linear—occurring as a series of discrete moments in sequence, plotted out on a timeline, simply past or future—or that there is some special interval we might call the "present," in addition to the past and future. Since McTaggart's time, philosophers have been excitedly proclaiming themselves either A theorists (partisans of the present) or B theorists (team pure past and future). Listen in to find out which identity Justin and Emily claim for themselves! Throughout the hour, they also touch on Leibniz and Aristotle's notions of temporality, Adorno on the spatialization of time, and why the ancient Greeks could dream up many notions we'd now think of as sci-fi, but the one thing that seemed to exceed their imagination was time travel.

In this wide-ranging discussion, Oliver talks to philosophy and history professor Justin E.H. Smith about his new book The Internet is Not What You Think It Is. Suggested Reading Smith, "It's All Over," https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-over/ "It's All Just Beginning," https://thepointmag.com/examined-life/its-all-just-beginning/ "The Internet Is Not as New as You Think," https://www.wired.com/story/the-internet-is-not-as-new-as-you-think/ "Working Arrangement," https://www.laphamsquarterly.org/family/working-arrangement "Meritocracy and the Future of Work," https://www.newstatesman.com/ideas/2021/04/meritocracy-and-future-work Justin E.H. Smith's substack: https://justinehsmith.substack.com/

Welcome to episode 344 of the show with Professor Justin E. H. Smith, author of The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, joining us on the program to discuss topics from his book. “An original deep history of the internet that tells the story of the centuries-old utopian dreams behind it—and explains why […] The post 344: Justin E. H. Smith | Philosophy Of The Internet In “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is” appeared first on The Armen Show.

The Fourth Sunday of Easter We sometimes ask for signs that God really exists. Through Jesus, the world could see God at work and through the Church, today's world can still see Jesus at work. Events like May Fair are a reminder that God is using all of us to do incredible things.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope 

The Second Sunday of Easter The Biblical accounts of the resurrection and the Greek story of Elektra  deal with themes of life and death. Though they end in very different ways, there is a common lesson about forgiveness that shouldn't be missed.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope

Sean found the Internet on the Internet, Marco found it in his garden, but Professor Justin Smith will explain to us that maybe we didn't “find” or “invented” it all. The Internet could have always been present around us, and the latest technological achievements are nothing more than a natural extension of our humanity.“Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the “internet” has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry.”Stay with us, enjoy this podcast, and think about what this could mean to you and our society as we move into an even more technologically advanced future.  About the book: The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a WarningMany think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is, Justin Smith offers an original deep history of the internet, from the ancient to the modern world―uncovering its surprising origins in nature and centuries-old dreams of radically improving human life by outsourcing thinking to machines and communicating across vast distances. Yet, despite the internet's continuing potential, Smith argues, the utopian hopes behind it have finally died today, killed by the harsh realities of social media, the global information economy, and the attention-destroying nature of networked technology.Ranging over centuries of the history and philosophy of science and technology, Smith shows how the “internet” has been with us much longer than we usually think. He draws fascinating connections between internet user experience, artificial intelligence, the invention of the printing press, communication between trees, and the origins of computing in the machine-driven looms of the silk industry. At the same time, he reveals how the internet's organic structure and development root it in the natural world in unexpected ways that challenge efforts to draw an easy line between technology and nature.Combining the sweep of intellectual history with the incisiveness of philosophy, The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is cuts through our daily digital lives to give a clear-sighted picture of what the internet is, where it came from, and where it might be taking us in the coming decades.______________________________GuestJustin E. H. SmithProfessor of philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris [@Univ_Paris]On Twitter | https://twitter.com/jehsmithOn Substack | https://justinehsmith.substack.com/Website | https://www.jehsmith.com/______________________________ResourcesBook | The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning: https://www.amazon.com/Internet-Not-What-You-Think/dp/0691212325Wired Article: https://www.wired.com/story/the-internet-is-not-as-new-as-you-think/When Virtual Reality Is A Commodity, Will True Reality Come At A Premium?: https://sean-martin.medium.com/when-virtual-reality-is-a-commodity-will-true-reality-come-at-a-premium-4a97bccb4d72______________________________This Episode's SponsorsBlueLava ✨ https://itspm.ag/blue-lava-w2qsDevo  ✨ https://itspm.ag/itspdvwebAre you interested in sponsoring an ITSPmagazine Channel?

Good Friday. Picture sin as being estranged from those we love. Where is God in our solitude? What awaits us when we're ready to face the darkened places of our soul?#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope

Longtime Point readers may remember that Justin E.H. Smith contributed to our issue 14 “What is comedy for?” symposium back in 2017. He now returns to the subject for us with this episode of “What Is X?” on humor. Joining him is Luvell Anderson, a philosophy professor at Syracuse currently at work on a book on the ethics of racial humor, from its dangers and transgressions to its progressive potential. Humor, Luvell tells Justin, is “a kind of dialogue with its culture, the cultural milieu in which it's set.” So how, his project asks, should ethical considerations and cultural context bear on our judgments of what's funny? What are the advantages and disadvantages of crude and less “respectable” humor, and what do we miss when we ignore their function as highly ritualized practices? What forms of communication is humor capable of that conventionally rational argument is not? To explore these questions, Justin and Luvell tackle a number of topics: the limits of satire, the tense relationship between humor and morality, and what Dave Chappelle and Hannah Gadsby have in common. Along the way, they also discuss why the Greeks thought lettuce was so funny, the tragedy of Richard Pryor, and whether a theorist of comedy needs a good sense of humor.

Justin Smith, author, "The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is" Tomaš Dvořák - "Game Boy Tune" - "Mark's intro" [0:01:30] - "Interview with Justin E. H. Smith" [0:03:55] - "Mark's comments" [0:39:45] Colin Potter - "The State" [0:54:53] https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/114234

The Fifth Sunday in Lent.  Think about this statement: "We learn how to die so we know how to live." The Christian tradition has much to say about facing death and, in doing so, we learn to recognize the gifts life presents to us.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope

On this episode of “What Is X?” Justin E.H. Smith asks: What is friendship? His guest, S. Abbas Raza, is the founding editor of 3 Quarks Daily and has a graduate degree in philosophy from Columbia, but what qualifies him as an expert on this topic is quite simple: he is one of Justin's oldest friends. Together, the two settle into a relaxed conversation on the nature of friendship—once a high priority for the ancient philosophers, and yet strangely neglected today—and take their own as something of a case study, probing its start in the mid-Nineties, its roots in the cultural differences between American and Pakistani conceptions of friendship, and how it has changed over time. From there they progress to timeless questions: Can you have too many friends? Is there really a distinction between the “true friend” and the “fair-weather friend”? Does the classic “Friendship ended with Mudasir” meme bear witness to a kind of relationship that simply does not exist in the U.S.? And most pressingly of all: Is friendship overrated?

What does it mean to be a philosopher? What does it mean to DO Philosophy? What are the boundaries of philosophy as a discipline? These are just some of the themes that have pervaded the work of Justin Smith. Justin Smith is a professor of philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris, and he has written several books, including the upcoming “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning” out March 22nd 2022.Justin and Greg dive deep into Justin's 2016 book “The Philosopher: A History in Six Types,” what it means to be a modern philosopher, the “bookshelf classification” problem, and how philosophy can address the modern economy of attention. Episode Quotes:On social media:And rather than social media being truly subjected to democratic oversight, things are going to continue to get worse. In terms of the topsy turvy social upheaval of social mobbing that is, in a sense, ruining everything. You can't do anything in the way you could have expected to do it 10 years ago.And in terms of the universal surveillance that these new technologies are affording, these things are just going to keep getting worse and worse until there's real democratic oversight. And that's going to be extremely hard. And I think that it's only going to come after a period of worsening of the conditions of our social life together up to a point where people just won't take it anymore.Philosophy as an academic discipline:Now, I think philosophy as an academic discipline has failed tremendously to discover interesting things about how we think. Because what it in fact ends up doing is reflecting on the way “we,” not Qua* human beings, but “we, Qua* WEIRD, 21st century wealthy, educated Americans take things to be.The importance of philosophy:One thing is that we live in a world where we're side by side, neighbor by neighbor, with people we don't understand. People who are strangers to us and of whom we're extremely suspicious and this leads to constant conflict. And one thing about this approach that I am promoting is that it enables a kind of humility.Once you start to realize all of the delirious range of ways people have made sense of the world around them and still somehow managed to thrive, even though these ways are totally foreign from the way we make sense of the world. Modern philosophy:So there's this new demand to find philosophy where we weren't detecting it before. That's coming down almost as a kind of administrative pressure - like philosophers, at least in the United States are under pressure to do this. And ironically for me, it's making them open, but also somewhat inconsistent because even though they're becoming more open about what can count as philosophy, they're still pretending, there is somewhere, a well-defined demarcation such that such that John Locke is a philosopher and Lawrence Stern is not, right?Show Links:Guest Profile:Professional Profile at Paris Diderot UniversityJustin E. H. Smith's WebsiteJustin E. H. Smith on TwitterHis work:Justin E.H Smith on SubstackThe Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a WarningIrrationality: A History of the Dark Side of ReasonNature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern PhilosophyThe Philosopher: A History in Six TypesDivine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life

Episode 47: Justin E. H. Smith by Sacred and Profane Love

In this episode, I speak with the philosopher, podcaster, and substacker extraordinaire, Justin E.H. Smith about Cormac McCarthy's fourth novel, Suttree. We were both struck by how different this novel is from McCarthy's later, more famous works—both in its style and in its literary ambitions. We resist the common temptation to read McCarthy as a nihilist; we puzzle over the beginning and the end of the novel, and how they relate to one another; and quite generally we just had a great time trying to figure out what McCarthy was up to in this beautiful and somewhat mystifying novel about one man's journey into the depths of the seedy underbelly of Knoxville, Tennessee. I hope you enjoy our conversation! Jennifer Frey is an associate Professor of Philosophy and a Peter and Bonnie McCausland Fellow at the University of South Carolina, as well as a fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and the Word on Fire Institute. Prior to joining the philosophy faculty at USC, she was a Collegiate Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Chicago, where she was a member of the Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts and an affiliated faculty in the philosophy department. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh, and her B.A. in Philosophy and Medieval Studies (with a Classics minor) at Indiana University, in Bloomington, Indiana. She has published widely on action, virtue, practical reason, and meta-ethics, and has recently co-edited an interdisciplinary volume, Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy, Theology, and Psychology. Her writing has also been featured in Breaking Ground, First Things, Fare Forward, Image, Law and Liberty, The Point, and USA Today. She lives in Columbia, SC, with her husband, six children, and six chickens. You can follow her on Twitter @jennfrey. Click here to find the podcast on your preferred streaming platform, my social media profiles, and recent episodes! Subscribe Become a Patron! Preview on iTunes Sacred and Profane Love is a podcast in which philosophers, theologians, and literary critics discuss some of their favorite works of literature, and how these works have shaped their own ideas about love, happiness, and meaning in human life. Host Jennifer A. Frey is associate professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina. The podcast is generously supported by The Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America and produced by Catholics for Hire. Audio Edited & Music Produced by Anthony Monson

In this episode of “Keen On”, Andrew is joined by Justin E.H. Smith, the author of “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, a Philosophy, a Warning”. Justin E.H. Smith is currently professor of philosophy in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Paris. He writes literary non-fiction, poetry, and fiction, and he also translates poetry. He is the former John and Constance Birkelund Fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers of the New York Public Library. Visit our website: https://lnkd.in/gZNKTyc7 Email Andrew: a.keen@me.com Watch the show live on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ajkeen Watch the show live on LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/gatW6J8v Watch the show live on Facebook: https://lnkd.in/gjzVnTkY Watch the show on YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gDwPgesS Subscribe to Andrew's newsletter: https://lnkd.in/gzwFsxPV Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode of “What Is X?” Justin E.H. Smith comes ready to be persuaded, as he tries to get a handle on one of the most difficult Xes of all: consciousness. What are the inner states we experience? Is figuring it out just a matter of neural activity, or might there be something to consciousness that science can't fully apprehend? What is the nature of introspection, the stream of thoughts and experiences we have in the privacy of our own intellects? What are the boundaries of consciousness? Is it different from sense perception? What does it mean to “see” a red dot? From the origins of psychoanalysis to philosophy debates of the 1990s, Justin and Eric try to answer the question so poignantly captured by The Pixies: Where is my mind?

The Second Sunday in Lent.  Our daily headlines, filled with the tragic news of war, are a reminder that we will always have enemies to face, just as Jesus and St. Paul did. While we may repudiate the actions of our enemies, the courageous perseverance of Jesus reminds us that we should also seek to recognize their humanity.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope 

The ancient conception of virtue is quite far removed from our own. Nowadays, we tend to think of virtue as a kind of moral righteousness, as opposed to sin. The Greeks, however, had a very different idea about virtue, or arete, as they called it. For Aristotle, virtue was a unique form of excellence, something that each person or animal or thing could aspire to. On this episode of “What Is X?” Justin E.H. Smith invites on philosophy professor Jennifer Frey to try to recover this idea of virtue and to ask whether Aristotle's definition can still work for us today. Along the way, they revisit the works of Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Anscombe and Alasdair MacIntyre, and talk about everything from Madame Bovary to sea cucumbers. They ask: Does virtue ethics fit into the purview of moral philosophy, or should it stand alone? Is living a good life a matter of luck or effort? Is there one particular path to human flourishing? How should philosophy orient itself toward literature? And what is the best Coen Brothers movie?

The Last Sunday after the Epiphany. In a world where we're taught to be dazzled by the digital and impressed by imitations, many of us hunger for something real. Surprisingly, that realness can be found, and God can be perceived, in something as simple as a painting, a song, or even a moment of silence.#episcopal #episcopalchurch #episcopalian #church #jesusmovement #wayoflove #christian #anglican #allarewelcome #christianity #prayer #jesus #iglesiaepiscopal   #theology #anglicanchurch #holyspririt #faith #stmarksnewcanaaan #revjustincrisp #ens #ecct #spirituality #bible #scriptures #joy #peace #grace #hope 

I talk to philosopher Justin E. H. Smith (author of 'Irrationality') about why, in his view, people know everything a priori, and therefore never change their minds. It's a wild ride. Also discussed: Bigfoot, Pascal's Wager, and what even *is* “rationality” anyway? Become a supporter at https://www.patreon.com/changedmymind Email us at changedmymindpod@gmail.com Subscribe to my Substack at https://luketharrington.substack.com Visit Justin at https://www.jehsmith.com

I talk to philosopher Justin E. H. Smith (author of 'Irrationality') about why, in his view, people know everything a priori, and therefore never change their minds. This is a preview of a bonus episode available exclusively to Patreon supporters. Become a supporter at https://www.patreon.com/changedmymind Email us at changedmymindpod@gmail.com Visit Justin at https://www.jehsmith.com