The Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy Blog
Raymond Ruyer Test Drives a Tesla
Author: Ashley Woodward Recently it seems that everyone has been jumping on the AI bandwagon. The French philosopher Raymond Ruyer (1902-1987) made a pretty good head start when, in 1954, he published his book Cybernetics and the Origin of Information. The term...
Anonymity/Transparency: Millennials and Gen Z Clash over Harry Potter
If you are one of those people who browse Tik Tok at every lunch break, enjoying the ‘sped up’ versions of forgotten hits and trying to reproduce some dance moves when nobody is watching, you may have heard about the feud between Millennials and Gen Z. The feud is...
Severance, a theory of work alienation: Peace of mind for a piece of mind
Forget the big hits like Stranger Things, Squid Game or Bridgerton. You know, these shows that break records, generate trends on Tik Tok, and are responsible each year for a tons of new Halloween costumes. Severance, directed by Ben Stiller and released on Apple TV+,...
Undine Sellbach, ‘‘Why should our bodies end with our skin?’: Intergenerational longings, dislocations and waiting in BXBY’
Catalogue essay for BXBY, an exhibition by moving-image performance artist Soojin Chang, commissioned by FUV awards, Jerwood Arts London, and Leeds Art Gallery, 2022. Please click the following link to find out more:...
Horrible Creatures by Cally Nurse
Cally Nurse is an MFA student in Dundee. Encounters with the Velvet Swimming Crab: What do our feelings of disgust towardsanimals reveal about our attitude to the living world? Touch it, he says. There, in his blue,rubber-gloved hand, is a crab. Its antennae flick...
“Seeking Truth” by Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli
Dr Luca Siliquini-Cinelli (Law, University of Dundee) specialises in comparative contract law, comparative legal traditions, and continental philosophy and political theory. He is currently working with Dr. Thom Giddens (Law) and Dr Dominic Smith (Philosophy) towards...
Why lockdown life is a lot like insomnia – a philosopher of sleep explains
https://theconversation.com/why-lockdown-life-is-a-lot-like-insomnia-a-philosopher-of-sleep-explains-139156
Seeing the Shark
by Dominic Smith Two transitional moments in Spielberg's Jaws demand special attention. The first is when Richard Dreyfuss turns up as oceanographer Matt Hooper. In a film full of strong performances, he steals the show (opinion will be split on whether Robert Shaw...
Selling Nietzsche Short (Again)
by Ashley Woodward Popular culture has already had more than its fair share of misrepresentations of German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) and his ideas, from the comic book superhero Superman to the‘Nietzscheans’ – a malevolent alien race...
Ugly David
by Dominic Smith I wasn't in the habit of noticing it at all: a small rectangular fridge magnet bearing a likeness of the Scottish Enlightenment philosopher David Hume, gifted to me by an eccentric member of the Hume Society many years ago.... It is frankly...