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An Interview with Tony David Sampson: Author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks
No full textTony D. Sampson is Reader in Digital Culture and Communication in the School of Arts and Digital Industries (ADI) at the University of East London, where he directs the EmotionUX lab, supervising research on the cognitive, emotional, and affective aspects of user experience. In 2013, he co-founded Club Critical Theory, an organization dedicated to the application of critical theory in everyday life in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. Tony is the author of Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks and The Assemblage Brain: Sense Making in Neuroculture, both from the University of Minnesota Press. He blogs at viralcontagion.wordpress.com.
The editors of this special NANO issue are delighted to have the opportunity to talk with Tony about how his work touches on issues of imitation and contagion—a loaded term unpacked within his 2012 book
Gandhian Satyagraha and Open Animal Rescue
No full textIn this chapter, Tony Milligan notes how the open rescue of nonhuman animals, as practised in Australia by Animal Liberation Victoria and Animal Liberation New South Wales, and by members of a variety of activist networks in Europe and North America, has been compared (by such activists) to Gandhian satyagraha. The latter, Milligan clarifies, may be understood, loosely, as a struggle that is based upon the power of truth and/or spirituality and non-violence. Milligan then argues for the relevance of such comparisons, clarifying along the way that this is not a case for some manner of descriptive monism. Animal advocates, Milligan contends, need a rich conceptual repertoire and multiple (sometimes more secular, sometimes more spiritualized) ways of describing one and the same set of events
Animals and the Capacity for Love
No full textA recurring assumption in analytic work on the philosophy of love is that love is best understood through an exploration of our human responsiveness to other humans. However, this plausible methodological preference has spilled over into two quite different and more restrictive claims about love, or rather about love in the deep and philosophically-interesting sense. The claims in question are: (1) that non-human animals may be loved but they cannot love in return (a view advanced by Harry Frankfurt); and (2) that love is a person-focused emotion, and so animals can neither love nor be loved without delusion (a view advanced by Bennett Helm among others). I want to present a counter-picture to both claims and to draw attention to the harmful consequences that claim (2) has for our valuing of animals. However, my approach will focus upon the shared presupposition of both (1) and (2) that animals cannot love. I will give reasons for regarding this as the driver behind both claims and will not attempt to challenge it through any revision of our understanding of animal cognition as, in some important respects, limited. I will argue that the rejection of the capacity of animals to love has come to rest not simply upon a plausible estimation of their limited cognitive capacities but upon an unnecessarily demanding account of intimacy, one which involves second-order desires which are unavailable to other, non-human, animals. While there is a good reason for accepting that love does requires intimate care (because it helps to distinguish love from altruistic concern for strangers) a plausible and rival account of intimacy can nonetheless be set up by appeal to clusters of conditional desires which remain resolutely first-order. Because such desires are an integral feature of grief, an endorsement of this rival account of intimacy will license us to say that those animals which can grieve will also have the capacity for love. (And, conveniently, animal grief is something for which we have a good deal of empirical evidence.) What will then remain in dispute is the kind of account of intimacy that we ought to adopt. I will try to resolve this in favour of the less-demanding approach by appeal to a narrative concerning what we need an account of intimacy for
The Peaks of Eternal Light: A Near-term Property Issue on the Moon
No full textThe Outer Space Treaty makes it clear that the Moon is the ‘province of all mankind’, with the latter ordinarily understood to exclude state or private appropriation of any portion of its surface. However, there are indeterminacies in the Treaty and in space law generally over the issue of appropriation. These indeterminacies might permit a close approximation to a property claim or some manner of ‘quasi-property’. The recently revealed highly inhomogeneous distribution of lunar resources changes the context of these issues. We illustrate this altered situation by considering the Peaks of Eternal Light. They occupy about one square kilometer of the lunar surface. We consider a thought experiment in which a Solar telescope is placed on one of the Peaks of Eternal Light at the lunar South pole for scientific research. Its operation would require non-disturbance, and hence that the Peak remain unvisited by others, effectively establishing a claim of protective exclusion and de facto appropriation. Such a telescope would be relatively easy to emplace with today’s technology and so poses a near-term property issue on the Moon. While effective appropriation of a Peak might proceed without raising some of the familiar problems associated with commercial development (especially lunar mining), the possibility of such appropriation nonetheless raises some significant issues concerning justice and the safeguarding of scientific practice on the lunar surface. We consider this issue from scientific, technical, ethical and policy viewpoints
Klara Ana Kapova, Erik Persson, Tony Milligan and David Dunér (eds.) Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today. New York: Springer; 2018
Full text linkObra ressenyada: Klara Ana KAPOVA, Erik PERSSON, Tony MILLIGAN and David DUNÉR (eds.), Astrobiology and Society in Europe Today. New York: Springer, 2018
Tony Tulathimutte: 48th Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textTony Tulathimutte is the author of Private Citizens and Rejection. A graduate of Stanford University and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, he’s received a Whiting Award and an O. Henry Award, was longlisted for the National Book Award, and has written for The Paris Review, N+1, The New York Times, Playboy, The Nation, and others. He also runs CRIT, a writing class in Brooklyn
Tokyo Burning Interview with Tony Barnstone
No full textInterview with Tony Barnstone about adapting his poetry to music. Tokyo\u27s Burning is a CD that tells history from the inside, telling stories of the Pacific theater of WWII not from the God\u27s eye view but from the points of view of American and Japanese civilians and soldiers who lived and suffered through Pearl Harbor and Iwo Jima, the firebombing of Tokyo and the atom bomb drop on Hiroshima. Songs in the CD are based upon 15 years of research into the Pacific theater of WWII by Tony Barnstone—poet, author, and professor at Whittier College in Los Angeles. Tony worked with oral histories, histories, diaries, letters, and memoirs, and did his own interviews with vets and their families to write a book of poems titled Tongue of War: From Pearl Harbor to Nagasaki (BkMk Press, 2009). Though many of the songs deal with atrocity—sex slavery, torture, internment camps, even cannibalism—the CD itself is meant to take a neutral stance, allowing each character to speak his or her view, without judgment, assuming that the readers will find their own moral paths through these competing voices and viewpoints. As one character says, Seems everyone has a point of view, but no one has perspective. L.A.-based songwriters John Clinebell and Ariana Hall, who work together under the name Genuine Brandish, were commissioned by Tony to work with him to translate his book into 15 songs (with the essential help of producer Andrew Bush). What if history had a human face? What if the people who lived history could speak to it? This CD is an attempt to amplify the smaller voices, the human voices, of those who lived through the war and help them to sing history to us
Tony Ardizzone, 3rd Annual ODU Literary Festival
No full textFrom the training grounds of Chicago and Bowling Green, Tony Ardizzone serves as running guard for the creative writing program at ODU. Author of a novel ( In the Name of the Father ) and a collection of short stories ( Idling ), he is also the editor of Intro, an annual journal of the best writing from college workshops around the country. In a nearly completed accompanying volume to In the Name of the Father, Ardizzone traces the route by which the character Vito Scaparelli reaches Vietnam. Ardizzone has published 15 short stories in distinguished fiction quarterlies. He believes that the writing of fiction is the crafting of interiorized drama
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