evanselinger.bsky.social
Prof. Philosophy at RIT. Contributing writer at Boston Globe Ideas. Tech (yes, AI), ethics, privacy, policy, and power. http://www.eselinger.org/
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Dodgy Data
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Congrats!
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Ha! But is that idea—that everything can be explained with the right mathematical take—the same perspective being advocated for here and also explicitly linked to ketamine epiphanies?
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with his take, his response was basically, “Well, I guess you don’t get math.”
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revolved around the idea—which he got from Deleuze—that you could explain all kinds of social phenomena through the lens of structures like soap bubble formation. I never really understood it. But he was clear to us that experiences with ketamine helped unlock his key insights. And if you disagreed
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Can you explain the ketamine part to me? When I was a grad student a billion years ago, I made a couple of trips with some Danish friends to visit Manuel DeLanda. Not sure if you’ve heard of him but DeLanda was a self-taught Deleuze scholar who wrote a bunch of weird and interesting books. They
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It’s worse than that, right? We’re constantly placed in adversarial settings, from peer review as the constant Reviewer #2 takes you down snark fest, to being disciplined by such limited resources that the culture is nudged to something worse than Hobbes’ imagined state of nature.
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I’m intrigued and looking forward to the next offline convo. 😀
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Having read the correspondence, reflected on it, and no doubt thoughtfully responded to everyone who reached out, any new thoughts on your end?
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What kinds of responses have you been getting? You know my obsession with this topic.
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You would really dig this! It was a glimpse into the full exhibit they’ll show at the Buffalo History Museum in the fall for the 200th anniversary of the Erie Canal. The full show will have more along with ethnographic displays. You should come in for it!
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Looking at these drawings, we see the expression of an event—an ecology shaped by biological processes, environmental forces, human intervention, and evolutionary history.
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Influenced by Latour and Deleuze, they attempt to decenter human perspective through trees equipped with drawing devices triggered by atmospheric forces. While these marks emerge through human-made tools, they capture something remarkable: trees bearing witness to change along a historic waterway.
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Given our age, this comes up often with my college friends. The convo often turns to the issue of age itself—for creative endeavors, does the magic have to disappear at some point? Perhaps it’s rare, but some bands & writers have incredible, almost eternal, staying power & don’t become caricatures.
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Lol. Part of my reaction here was, “I think my students might believe a demon possessed me if I spoke to them using this language, despite once being so proud of it.”