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mittmattmutt (27)in #postmodernism • 7 years ago
What Is Postmodernism?
The aim of this post is to explain, in hopefully intelligible terms, and by making reference to some of the central texts, what postmodernism is. I hope thereby to dispel two…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #literature • 7 years ago
“Generation X”, generation x, and millennials
People talk a lot about millennials as if they were some sort of brand new species, a wussy-feely generation faced with an unprecedentedly bad social lot: priced out of the…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #politics • 7 years ago
Why (I Think) Trump Won't Be President At The End Of The Year
According to the odds offered on British website betfair.com this morning there's a 7% chance that Trump won't be president at the end of the year. I think there's about a 15%…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #altruism • 7 years ago
An Idea For Twitter-based Philanthropy
I’m very taken with this idea: that we can do one big good thing for the benefit of others by each doing one small good thing for the benefit of others. That if we collaborate we…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #blockchain • 7 years ago
Why Left Wing People Should Like Blockchains (& An Intuitive Explanation Of What They Are)
(originally published on medium, presupposing an audience who doesn't know what blockchains are and doesn't like them) It’s easy to criticize cryptocurrency. Fun, too. As to…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #westworld • 8 years ago
Westworld As Prediction
(Draft, to be published in Ultimate Westworld and Philosophy. Do not cite, comments very welcome.) Call a machine which looks and acts exactly like a human being an android.…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #tv • 8 years ago
How The Simpsons lead to the TV of today eschewing contemporary life for fantasy
We live on the internet. This is a genuinely new way of being — this morning, for instance, I did my job, talked with friends, attempted to flirt, and read some things which made…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
Analytic Philosophy As Poetry
If anything at all comes to your mind when you think of analytic philosophy, it’s probably not the word ‘beauty’. Yet analytic philosophy has its own kind of beauty, akin to the…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #philosophy • 8 years ago
An Argument For The Existence Of The Devil, From The Many Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
I know, the title sounds a bit kooky. But the argument I'm going to put forward is serious, building on work done by David Lewis, perhaps the most influential philosopher of the…
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mittmattmutt (27)in #blockchain • 8 years ago
Introducing a blockchain-inspired literary journal: decentre
Hi all, I thought I would both introduce myself and a project I've been working on that I think may be of interest to the steemit community. I am a Northern Irish writer and…
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