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Há 3 dias · In this episode we start addressing some of the serious problems with utopian thinking and, especially, progressive narratives. We unpack a bit of Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History," return to Barthes regarding myth, and bring a little Nietzsche and some Star Trek into the conversation as well.
Há 18 horas · The Old Testament covers large, sweeping stories that unfold over generations. Its focus is on big events that shape nations and reveal how God is involved in the world on a grand scale. On the other hand, the New Testament takes a much more personal approach. It focuses more on Jesus’s life, teachings, and interactions with individuals.
Há 3 dias · Between History And Theory. The Novel Form in the Work of Franco Moretti. If there is a quality that distinguishes Franco Moretti as a literary theorist, it is his systematically undogmatic method.
Há 18 horas · His legacy is not confined to South Africa, but it resonates globally, uniting us in a shared history of struggle and triumph. Speaking at the ceremony, Vladimir Medinsky, the assistant to the ...
Há 4 dias · Israel and Spain: between hope and disappointment. by Dr. Israel Jamitovsky. The regrettable decisions taken by the current Spanish government to join the lawsuit filed against Israel in the International Court of Justice, as well as the recognition of the Palestinian State, do not particularly surprise me. Beyond my attachment to ...
Há 3 dias · But it’s extraordinary for quantum computing and for AI in very different ways. In AI, practice is wildly ahead of theory, and there’s a race for scientific understanding to catch up to where we’ve gotten via the pure scaling of neural nets and the compute and data used to train them. In quantum computing, it’s just the opposite: there ...
Há 2 dias · The city lies at the northern end of the Cape Peninsula some 30 miles (50 kilometres), at its southernmost boundary, north of the Cape of Good Hope. Because it was the site of the first European settlement in South Africa, Cape Town is known as the country’s “mother city.”
