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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
In 2021, Verso Books published Bratton's book on the COVID-19 pandemic based on his essay "18 Lessons for Quarantine Urbanism". [16] [17] The book argues that the pandemic demonstrates on ongoing crisis of governance in the West, and that technological capacity to respond to planetary crises outstrips the social and cultural capacity for collective self-organization. [18]
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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.
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Newton's flaming laser sword (also known as Alder's razor) is a philosophical razor devised by Alder and discussed in an essay in the May/June 2004 issue of Philosophy Now. [6] The principle, which addresses the differing views of scientists and philosophers on epistemology and knowledge, was summarized by Alder as follows: [6]
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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