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Truth in the Age of Digital Reproduction
How do we even begin to describe the internet? It is a good question – such a ubiquitous tool surely has a good description… Yet, beyond a description of its code and impacts of its existence, our philosophical understanding of the online world is sparse. Academia has already created the tools, though, to begin to unpack this new (ish) frontier. In the late 1960s a new school of thought was established in response to the rigidity, both academic and cultural, of the prior period: poststructuralism. This framework prioritizes the multivalent, the contradictory. It is the philosophy of simulation and media studies and everything in between. How could this multiplicative philosophy help us in understanding the digital age? Philosophers have explained the epistemology of online chat-rooms and AI (or, of the AI we thought we were getting). They have codified the structure (for lack of a better word) that allows the internet to so completely break the rules of traditional society while still being bound by the same interests that govern our reality. But how does it all come together? How do we move forward from here? How does poststructural philosophy describe the internet?
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How do we even begin to describe the internet? It is a good question – such a ubiquitous tool surely has a good description… Yet, beyond a description of its code and impacts of its existence, our philosophical understanding of the online world is sparse. Academia has already created the tools, though, to begin to unpack this new (ish) frontier. In the late 1960s a new school of thought was established in response to the rigidity, both academic and cultural, of the prior period: poststructuralism. This framework prioritizes the multivalent, the contradictory. It is the philosophy of simulation and media studies and everything in between. How could this multiplicative philosophy help us in understanding the digital age? Philosophers have explained the epistemology of online chat-rooms and AI (or, of the AI we thought we were getting). They have codified the structure (for lack of a better word) that allows the internet to so completely break the rules of traditional society while still being bound by the same interests that govern our reality. But how does it all come together? How do we move forward from here? How does poststructural philosophy describe the internet?
WATCH HERE
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