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Latest Politics: Many articles like "The Pro-Palestinian protests", "If China did it... The West loves India", "Migrants, Authoritarians and the Unspoken Truth", "Should Europe kick the USA out of NATO?", "The End of an Era - The G7 of Losers", "Germany after Merkel", "Putin and Xi, the Involuntary Couple", "Britain the Incurable Patient", "Traitors", "The Evils of Mass Tourism", "The European Elections", "European Spleen", "Israel is becoming an Enemy not an Ally", "Who is the real enemy of Israel?", "The Trump and Biden inflations", "How China Outsmarted the USA on Greentech", "An Analysis of Polarization in the USA", "What do these Russians have in common?", "Putin's rhetoric mirrors Hitler's", Art: Updated version of "A Visual History of the Visual Arts", with additions of Remedios Varo, Viktor Popkov, James Nachtwey, Maqbool Fida Husain, Alex Katz, Hanne Darboven, Bruno Catalano, Florian Yuriev, etc Event: Virginia San Fratello on "3D Printing the Future/ Out of the Lab and Into the Landscape" (video) Event: Shane Denson on "How is Human Embodiment Transformed in an Age of Algorithms?" (video) Event: Fiorenza Micheli on "Harnessing the data revolution for ocean and human health" (video) Cinema: Bios of Quentin Dupieux, Gabor Body, Yujiro Harumoto, Tenghiz Abuladze, Chan-wook Park, Bertrand Bonello, Agnieszka Holland... Event: Sara Morawetz at Piero's LASER (video) Rock: Spotify playlists for my History of Rock Music - the 1990s Philosophy: Is Consciousness Conserved and Is there Life After Death? Politics: The First Nuclear War Politics: Europe's mess vs US mess Cinema: A History of Turkish Cinema Cinema: A History of Greek Cinema Politics: Why Poland should Worry Event: Video of "An Interdisciplinary Celebration of Kafka" Music: Reviews of Christine and the Queens, Petra Hermanova, Jacob Collier, Sault, Oren Ambarchi, El Marrano de la Razon, Behold the Arctopus, Blackie, Wednesday, Caroline Polachek, Lil Yachty, Celestaphone, Acloudyskye, Stella Research Committee, etc Rock: Russian translation of my History of Rock Music and History of Pop Music (in progress - huge pdf file) Cinema: A History of Yugoslav Cinema Cinema: A History of Romanian Cinema Politics: Netanyahu's War - Part II - The Genocide Politics: Trump vs Biden 2023 lists : The year 2023 in review: deaths, heroes, books, albums, films Music: Album reviews 2023 Cinema: A History of Hungarian Cinema Art: Chiharu Shiota Cinema: A History of Polish Cinema Art: Shenzhen Museum of Art Event: Videos of the special event on Russia's alternative media art: Intro & Nina Czegledy , Anna Frants, Elena Gubanova , Natalia Kolodzei, Olga Shishko, Discussion Art: Viktor Popkov Music: Recording dates of all top-rated albums Art: Remedios Varo Cinema: A History of Czech and Slovak Cinema Politics: Netanyahu's War New book: Dialogue of the Lovers - A Poem in 105 Cantos Cinema: Best films of 2023 so far Cinema: A History of Russian Cinema 1900-99 A.I.: Michal Kosinski (Stanford Univ) on "Theory of Mind Might Have Spontaneously Emerged in Large Language Models" Bioart: Amy Karle on "Digital Dreams and Bio-realities: Reimagining Humanity Through Art and Technology" at a Stanford LASER chaired by Piero Scaruffi Neuroscience: Eti Ben Simon (UC Berkeley) on "The Emotional Brain in a Sleepless World" Cinema: A History of Indian Cinema 1900-80 New book: A History of Silicon Valley - Vol 1: The 20th Century (2023 Update) (Amazon, 2023) New book: A History of Silicon Valley - Vol 2: The 21st Century (2023 Update) (Amazon, 2023) Cinema: Best films by country Computers: To Disable all ads on Windows 11 Rock: Spotify playlists for the last five years - (2018), (2019), (2020), (2021), (2022) (thanks Nick) Politics: Ukraine between Russia and China: Thoughts on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine - Part III Video: Ukraine between Russia and China Politics: Biden never won Politics: Trump 2024 Interviewed: Interviewed by Gerry Fialka Politics: Immigration is the biggest threat to Western democracies Politics: Why Stormy Daniels matters Politics: John Mearsheimer is wrong on Ukraine Event: Ravi Majeti on "Stem Cells and Reprogramming in Human Acute Leukemia", Thomas Haakenson on "Kurt Schwitters and Dada Resistance", David Stork on "Computer-assisted analysis of Johannes Vermeer", Paige Emery on "On Divinatory Ecologies for More-Than-Human Time" Computer Science: ChatGPT in Context. Part 1 - The Transformer, A Revolution in Computation (video) Computer Science: ChatGPT in Context. Part 2 - Social Impact (video) Computer Science: ChatGPT in Context. Part 3 - Philosophy (video) Politics: The Saudi-Iranian Axis - Netanyahu and Biden humiliated Interviewed: I was interviewed on ChatGPt and Silicon Valley Politics: Why banning TikTok is a bad idea Computer Science: Video: my version of the history of computers in 20 minutes Politics: Putin's Radicalization and the Russian Jihad Event: Videos of Jennifer Dionne (Stanford Univ) on "Silicon photonics", Alice Zhang (Media Artist) on "The Need for Intergenerational Tech" and Adegboyega Mabogunje (Stanford Univ) on "Children, Women, Sex and Bombs" Politics: Britain should quickly rejoin the EU and adopt the euro Philosophy: Expanded: "Fake News is the Hallmark of Human Civilization" (revised) New book: My History of Rock & Dance Vol 2 in Spanish New book: My History of Rock & Dance Vol 1 in Spanish Event: Conversation with Annie Kritcher (Lawrence Livermore Lab) on the state of nuclear fusion (video) Event: Conversation with Primavera De Filippi (National Center of Scientific Research, Paris) on "Do blockchains dream of electronic flowers?" (video) 2022 lists : The year 2022 in review: deaths, heroes, books, albums, films Neuroscience: Neuroscience news of 2022 Cinema stills: Jerzy Skolimowski Video: A Political Tour of the World Video: When A.I. makes it, is it still Art? Politics: A Political Tour of the World Music : Updated the overall index of rock, jazz, avantgarde: 9,600 musicians Book Reviews: Several books on cognitive science Music: New album reviews Tributes: Great minds we lost in 2022 Rock Music: Playlist for Cpt 5 of my history of rock Politics: Who's paying for the Western sanctions on Russia? Philosophy: Life eats Life Philosophy: All Men are Rapists Philosophy: The Self does not Exist, Free Will does Philosophy: Religion is Immortal Philosophy: The Real "I" is not the Soul but the Deeds and it's Immortal Music: Gustavo Necochea collected all the songs from "Songs" and "Extended Tracks" for the Best of 1990 to 2021 in: this playlist and this playlist. Book Reviews: Max Tegmark's "Life 3.0" Philosophy: Equations approximate Algorithms Literature: My conversation with Marjorie Perloff on TS Eliot's "The Waste Land" Book Reviews: "To Be a Machine" (2017), "The Discrete Charm of the Machine" (2019), "The Voices Within" (2016), "Life Changing" (2020), "A Brief History of Death" (2014) Politics: The Supreme Court is on track to become the LEAST trusted institution in the USA Video: Rand Paul and Anthony Fauci on the lab origin of covid Classical Music: Revised the chapters for a book on 20th century music Cinema stills: Aki Kaurismaki Cinema stills: Luchino Visconti Literature : My conversation with Sarah Cole about James Joyce's Ulysses Cinema stills: Akira Kurosawa Politics: Not "if" but "When and Where" - Guns in the USA Part 653 Politics: Thoughts on Russia's Invasion of Ukraine - Part II History: Revised: Videos of my old class "A History of Knowledge" History: Revised: "A New History of Prehistory" Literature : James Joyce Book reviews : Phelps' "Mass Flourishing" (2013), Mishra's "Age of Anger" (2017), Bacevich's "The Age of Illusions" (2020) and Ansary's "The Invention of Yesterday" (2019) Politics: Putin's invasions (also a video interview) Culture: Conversation with Ewa Domanska on "Prefigurative Art in the Age of Catastrophe" Cinema stills: Jean Cocteau Politics: Nations in Crisis: Russia (worth reading again: i published it a few months ago) Book review: David Sanger's "The Perfect Weapon" (2018) Politics: Tucker Carlson and the Fifth Column Politics: China Cracks down on Big Giants but Raises Little Giants Politics: China's Debt Politics: The Real Victim of Islam: Islamic Civilization Cinema stills: Dusan Makavejev Rock Music: Playlist for Cpt 4 of my history of rock Politics: Nations in Crisis: Italy Politics: Nations in crisis: Britain Politics: Nations in crisis: France Politics: The USA never was a Democracy Politics: The US Slide towards One-party Rule Politics: Trump & the Shitholes Politics: Politically Incorrect Facts about the Covid Pandemic Politics: What if there is a Secret Russia-China Pact? Politics: The Anti-nuclear Movement is Putin's Secret Weapon against Europe Politics: The New Byzantium: The European Union Politics: Europe's Many Crises Technology & Philosophy: Cyberspace as Migration and Dematerialization Rock Music: Another playlist for the history of rock Technology & Philosophy: A Critique of Immersion Technology & Philosophy: Postmodernism, Cybertime, Utopia Cinema stills: Oliver Stone Technology & Philosophy: Death of the Author and of the Reader Politics: Both Republicans and Democrats don't Understand that Trump is a Loser Politics: Who covered up the origins of covid, China or Trump? Politics: Ten (Politically Incorrect) Things you can do about your Carbon Footprint Rock Music: Album reviews: La Novia, Land of Kush, Moor Mother, Madlib, Lingua Ignota, Morissette, Phair, etc Ecology: Will the human race succumb to overpopulation? Technology: A Crypto-history of DAOs Politics: China and the world according to China's intellectuals. Culture: Videos of recent LAST dialogues: Anastasia Raina on "Posthuman Polymythology", Warren Sack on "The Software Arts" Cindy Cohn on "Imagining A Future with Real Digital Privacy", Elizabeth Currid-Halkett on "Inconspicuous Consumption and Cultural Capital: the New Inequality", Alvy Ray Smith on "A Biography of the Pixel", David Kirby on Diegetic Prototypes, Alysson Muotri on Applications of Brain Organoids, Catherine Blish on Covid-19 and the Virusphere, Heather Barnett on "Compostulations: stories of interspecies encounters " , Clare Stanton on "Linkrot and Content Drift: The Irreversible Decay of Internet Content" , etc Technology: A Crypto-history of Blockchain Technology Society: Craigslist Killed the Local Newspaper... and Civility Technology: The Metaverse Art: My introduction to Leonardo DaVinci (video) Technology: Virtual and Augmented Reality Science: The Genetic Origins of Human Intelligence Rock Music: Playlists for the history of rock Science: The biggest neuroscience news of 2020 Technology: An introduction to Web 3.0 Art: A Visual History of Modern Architecture (downloadable pdf) Politics: Was is Worth it? The Bush/Rice Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq 20 Years Later Politics: Added several topics to my article on China (look for "2021 additions") Cinema stills: Jan Svankmajer Previous projects: click here

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