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Apolline Taillandier
@blazefutures.bsky.social
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Postdoc in politics/intellectual history at Cambridge. Researches the history of postwar liberalism, futures, AI and transhumanism.
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blazefutures.bsky.social
Today! cis.cnrs.fr/hypertextes-... we'll be discussing Quinn Slobodian's new book at @cis-cnrs.bsky.social Hypertextes /10am EDT/3pm BST/4pm CEST/
28.4.2025 Hypertextes #28 Quinn Slobodian - Centre Internet et Société
Hayek's Bastards: Race, Gold, IQ, and the Capitalism of the Far Right, 28 avril 2025, 16h.
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April 28, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Hi ✨ Together with Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Tobias Blanke, I organize the #CriticalAI Seminar Series @uvahumanities.bsky.social. This is the 24-25 program🙌

⚡The sessions are online and open to everyone, find more info and sign up here: t.co/ScqpC7ZDrT
November 27, 2024 at 11:59 AM
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"There is a link between finance and paranoia, and that link may well be inescapable" www.wiley.com/Paranoid+Fin...
Fabian Muniesa (2024), Paranoid Finance, Polity (Theory Redux)
January 30, 2025 at 3:48 PM
blazefutures.bsky.social
Check our new paper on how EA philanthropy measures and prioritises 'effectiveness' and supports interventions in global health, cultured meat and AI
February 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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New paper: 'Effective Altruism, technoscience and the making of philanthropic value' with Apolline Taillandier @blazefutures.bsky.social & Samantha Vanderslott @sjvanders.bsky.social! Economy & Society

Neglected tropical disease, cultured meat, and AI safety

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Effective altruism, technoscience and the making of philanthropic value
A recent philanthropic movement with advocates among high-profile tech entrepreneurs and philosophers, effective altruism (EA) has been widely disparaged for its flawed moral philosophy and conserv...
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February 10, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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Check out this cool new article by Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten - "Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene," Political Studies (2025)

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Between Inevitability and Hindsight: End-Times and the Loss of Agency in the Anthropocene - Nanna Lilletvedt Sæten, 2025
Judeo-Christian eschatological time has re-emerged in scholarly and popular discussions of climate apocalypse in the last decades, also in attempts to mobilise ...
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January 20, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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A frustrated letter from the Library of Congress asking Norbert Weiner what section of a library his book is supposed to be in (1949).
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION LIBRARY OF CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. 2, 1949 Dr. Norbert Wiener Mass. Institute of Technology Cambridge, Nass. My dear Dr. Wiener: The publication of your book on Cybernetics has caused the editorial staff which is in charge of the revision of the Dewey Decimal Classification considerable difficulty. We are in the position of being asked by sincere inquirers as to how to classify the book and by less sincere people who like to confront supposedly expert classifiers with problems which they are quite certain are beyond our capabilities. Quite frankly, cybernetics is. We have read and reread reviews and explanations of the content of your book and have even tried to understand the book itself, only to become more uncertain as to what field it falls into. I am appealing to you as the one person who should be able to tell us. Possibly you already know that the Dewey Decimal Classification attempts to assign a number to the subject content of books. Generally speaking, a book can only be assigned one number and consequently we cannot take care of the many aspects that certain works cover. The problem must be simplified and consequently, is your book such as to place it in psychology? Does it belong in the field of electronic computation devices or does it belong in mathematics? If we were not somewhat desperate about this particular problem, I should hesitate to bother you with it. Cordially yours, Esther P. Potter Director
December 12, 2024 at 4:30 PM
blazefutures.bsky.social
NEW ARTICLE:

Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024)
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Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age
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December 10, 2024 at 7:43 AM
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NEW ARTICLE:

Duncan Bell & Apolline Taillandier, "Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age," Perspectives on Politics (2024) @blazefutures.bsky.social

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Cosmos-Politanism: Transhumanist Visions of Global Order from the First World War to the Digital Age
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December 9, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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The new issue of the JHI is now available online, featuring terrific articles by Sophie Smith (open access), Mia Korpiola and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (open access), Alexander D. Batson, Tyler J. Thomas, Niccolò Valmori, Giuseppe Bianco, and Sarah Shortall.

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JHI 85.4 now available!
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of Ideas (volume 85, issue 4) is now live on Project MUSE. Women and Intellectual History in the Twentieth Century, Part Two: Activists, Academics, ...
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November 25, 2024 at 3:22 PM