Artificial

C Scott Jordan reflects on life, death and whether or not authenticity is possible, Jeremy Henzell-Thomas tries to pin down the numerous meanings and perceptions of artificial, Abdelwahab El-Affendi castigates sham (un)belief, Robert Irwin plays with medieval Muslim machinal devices, John Sweeney finds common ground between AI and Covid-19, Emre Kazim struggles with digital ethics, Colin Tudge wonders if it is bad to be artificial, Christopher B Jones explores four potential earths, Esra Mirze Santesso is tired of false feminism, Hassan Mahamdallie discovers multi-layers of real and artificial identities in his family history, James Brooks is angry at science propoganda spewing from universities and research institutes and Liam Mayo thinks modernity is as fake as the plastic pollution washing on his beach.

In this issue

  • Defining the Artifcial
    Philosophy

    Artificial Defined

    The word artificial, like many other words, is a mixed bag, best conceived of as a semantic continuum encompassing positive, neutral and negative…

    Jeremy Henzell-Thomas
  • a view of the earth from space at night
    Futures

    4 Earths

    For two decades, there has been growing discourse about the name of the rock strata that will be associated with homo sapiens in the future…

    Christopher B Jones
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