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The best book table I’ve ever seen

15-Sep-12

I’m at the Aesthetics in the 21st Century conference, – I gave my paper yesterday; a haggard link between Turing and Fried, that hopefully made sense (not that most of the stuff I come out with makes sense). Along with meeting the rest of the Speculations team (minus Fabio), Paul and Jamie at continent, I [...]

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Some questions about Actor Recursion Theory (ART): An interview with me – (Part 1)

06-Apr-12

So what’s Actor Recursion Theory then? Actor Recursion Theory is a name I’ve given to a specific intervention outlined in my dissertation. It’s not fully developed yet, and as such links or presents my haphazard state of mind during a PhD thesis. It’s reflects an opinion, but I leave plenty of room for others. The [...]

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Machinic Intelligence: An Important Argument from Turing.

25-Feb-12

This time from Can Digital Computers Think?, a lecture in 1951. This passage is particularly important for my thesis too (my emphasis). Certainly the machine can only do what we do order it to perform, anything else would be a mechanical fault. But there is no need to suppose that, when we give it its [...]

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Aesthetics in the 21st Century updated

28-Jan-12

HERE. Plus Bios and Abstracts. But what I didn’t realise is that there would be a Speculations and continent. editors: The Aesthetics of Academic Practice session. Echoing Michael Austin’s recent post, I can’t wait to meet both him and Thomas Gokey for the first time ( I met Paul last year at Nottingham). Four Fifth’s of the Speculation team together [...]

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