Conversation

still at a loss to understand why Hannah Arendt isn't treated as one of the most important thinkers of the 20th century. in 1963, long before Latour and Haraway, she gives us a nascent critique of "electronic brains" that supposedly replace and even exceed human brains. crucially, unlike electronic brains, human brains are as "terrestrial, earthbound, as any other part of the human body". as usual, next to impossible to capture the complexity of her argument in a couple social media posts but you get the gist #ai