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"The stack" is a term used in science and technology studies, the philosophy of technology and media studies to describe the multiple interconnected layers that computation depends on at a planetary scale. The term was introduced by Benjamin H. Bratton in a 2014 essay [1] and expanded upon in his 2016 book The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, [2] and has been adapted, critiqued and expande
The Stack: On Software and Sovereignty (2015), ... Bratton is the Director of a new research program on the speculative philosophy of computation called Antikythera, ...
Buridan's ass is an illustration of a paradox in philosophy in the conception of free will. It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (or donkey) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water.
The saying holds that the world is supported by an infinite stack of increasingly larger turtles. "Turtles all the way down" is an expression of the problem of infinite regress. The saying alludes to the mythological idea of a World Turtle that supports a flat Earth on its back. It suggests that this turtle rests on the back of an even larger ...
The stack (philosophy), a political and design theory of planetary-scale computation coined by Benjamin H. Bratton Stack, an assembled multistage rocket Stack (microelectronics), a two-layer gate insulator in MOSFET, usually high-κ -oxide over SiO 2
The stack ranking system was relatively secretive for a long time at Microsoft; non-manager employees were supposed to pretend they did not know about it. [33] Microsoft was involved in lawsuits regarding its forced ranking system as early as 2001. Detractors argued that the use of the system in small groups was inherently unfair and favored ...
In his central work, Die Philosophie der Erlösung (The Philosophy of Redemption or The Philosophy of Salvation) [4] — according to Theodor Lessing, "perhaps the most radical system of pessimism known to philosophical literature" [Note 1] — Mainländer proclaims that life is of negative value, and that "the will, ignited by the knowledge ...
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