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- Foucault, Hyppolite and Marx (part 5): Alienation and Dictatorship
- Foucault, Hyppolite and Marx (part 4): Hyppolite’s Sins, Reconsidered
- Foucault, Hyppolite and Marx (part 3): Althusser attacks Hyppolite
- Foucault, Hyppolite and Marx (part 2): Hegel under Erasure
- Protecting Data: Regulation, Contract, or Privacy
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I’ve been working out some of the context for Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence and why it might matter for a reading of Marx (one, two, three, four). Last time, I started a look at Hyppolite’s late 1940s reading of Marx; today I want to finish that. Last time, I looked at (a) The line Althusser…
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I’ve been working out some of the context for Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence and why it might matter for a reading of Marx (one, two, three). Last time, I looked at Althusser’s 1950 (anonymously published) critique of the use of Hegel in understanding Marx, an essay that seems to be particularly aggrieved by Hyppolite’s work…
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I’m working out a thread (part 1, part 2) suggesting that that Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence (1953), which reads Hegel through the Logic and not the Phenomenology, and thereby pushes a non-humanist reading of Hegel, mattered for the French reading of Marx, which hinged on whether Marx inherited humanism or anthropology from Hegel. I then…
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Last time, I started a thread on Hyppolite’s Logic and Existence (1953) and its non-humanist reading of Hegel, and how that bears on Marx interpretation. The first step was to set some context, since Marx interpretation is always perilous, and was especially so during the 1950s, given the political demands of the French Communist Party…
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One of Monday’s Supreme Court rulings, Chatrie v. U.S., has flown under the radar, but I think it’s a potentially important privacy case. The case concerns the police practice of geofenced searches, in which the police would map out an area, usually a specified radius around a crime scene, and demand all of the cellphone…
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In the US at least, as far as I can tell, Jean Hyppolite is largely unknown outside of specialists in 20c French thought and Hegel. Hyppolite is best-known here for his influential Genesis and Structure of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit, which appeared in 1946-7. In 1953, however, he published Logic and Existence (L&E), which took…
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The judgments of algorithmic systems are often difficult to understand. The system says you do not qualify for this loan – sorry! You no longer qualify for x benefit – sorry! Why? Well, that’s just what it says. And it’s impossibly opaque, for a variety of reasons – the underlying code and data are trade…
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Forthcoming in Philosophy and Social Criticism; preprint here on SSRN. Here is the abstract: “Algorithmic governance is sometimes compared to Hobbes’s Leviathan. Here I argue that, while algorithmic governance shares some similarities with the Hobbesian schema, it goes further in its suppression of contestation. To show this, I read Hobbes against Rancière’s reduction of him…
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I’ve spent a lot of time on the various ways that language models are sociotechnical artifacts, and in particular the ways that they need to be thought of as normatively saturated. An large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT, for example, will pick up the patterns of language use in its training data, so a model…
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I am also sure you don’t, because the disease is made-up. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop major LLMs from credulously talking about it. Almira Osmanovic Thunström, a Swedish researcher, wrote a couple of obviously fake papers inventing the condition and put them on a preprint server. Within weeks, according to this report in Nature by Chris…
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