Iris Murdoch’s Psychology of Haunting: Fantasy, Ethical Attention, and the Spectral Past
Iris Murdoch’s fiction is filled with the uncanny and the weird: drowned bodies, vampiric presences, telekinetic objects, angelic visitations, prophetic dreams, and adolescent “feyness.”...
Just Fake! Why Generative AI Art is a Myth
The year 2018 was a turning point in the debate about AI art. This was when Christie's offered the Portrait of Edmond de Belamy,...
Why Do I Advocate for the General Use of the Term “So-Called Artificial Intelligence”?
This post was originally published in Kronika: Filozofski magazin as “Zašto predlažem opću upotrebu naziva ‘takozvana umjetna inteligencija’?” It has been translated by the author and...
Harold, Maude, My Dad, and Me
My father’s birthday recently passed. To honor his memory, I decided to rewatch the 1971 cult classic Harold and Maude, which he once told...
Will Pricing Algorithms Spell the End of the Fair Market Price?
I hate haggling. I spent a lot of my life living and working in countries across the Asia-Pacific, where open negotiation for purchases is...
The Humanities Challenge: Expanding the Circle of Philosophy
“Philosophy is, or should be, a kind of magic. It is not an escape from but rather a new window—or many windows—onto our lives....
Dune’s Discomfort with Religion
Every adaptation puts a spin on the source material. Dune: Part One (2021) and Dune: Part Two (2024), by director Denis Villeneuve, are infused...
“When You See This Sign…”: The Power of Silence in Propaganda
“The best propaganda is that which, as it were, works invisibly, penetrates the whole life without the public having any knowledge of the propagandistic...
‘Totalitarian’ Technologies and the Transformation of the Political World: A Radical Cold War Critique
“The world in which we live today and which surrounds us, is a technological one,” wrote Günther Anders in 1979. The Cold War world,...
What’s Love Got to Do With It: Chatbot Wives and Lonely Hearts
As if stealing our data, copyrighted material including books, music, and films, and quite possibly many of our jobs, was not enough, AI seems...