To live in the U.S. is to live in simulations of real war. American mass shootings are, in many ways, “imperial.” The act is both magnificent conquering...
On this episode you’ll hear a recording of an online lecture by Andrew Archer. The topic is “mindfulness”: as a state of mind, as a principle,...
The British science fiction anthology, Black Mirror, depicts a world where the distinction between “real” and “virtual” is no longer relevant:...
We enter the virtual world because we are bored and want to escape the body (dissociate). The virtual world gives us what we want, but...
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is neither “artificial” nor “intelligent.” AI, and the tools as well as production of the virtual world,...