Some recent-ish publications

Experimental Publishing Compendium

Combinatorial Books: Gathering Flowers (book series)

How To Be A Pirate: An Interview with Alexandra Elbakyan and Gary Hall by Holger Briel’.

'Experimenting With Copyright Licences' (blogpost for the COPIM project - part of the documentation for the first book coming out of the Combinatorial Books pilot)

Review of Bitstreams: The Future of Digital Literary Heritage' by Matthew Kirschenbaum

Contribution to 'Archipiélago Crítico. ¡Formado está! ¡Naveguémoslo!' (invited talk: in Spanish translation with English subtitles)

'Defund Culture' (journal article)

How to Practise the Culture-led Re-Commoning of Cities (printable poster), Partisan Social Club, adjusted by Gary Hall

'Pluriversal Socialism - The Very Idea' (journal article)

'Writing Against Elitism with A Stubborn Fury' (podcast)

'The Uberfication of the University - with Gary Hall' (podcast)

'"La modernidad fue un "blip" en el sistema": sobre teorías y disrupciones con Gary Hall' ['"Modernity was a "blip" in the system": on theories and disruptions with Gary Hall']' (press interview in Colombia)

'Combinatorial Books - Gathering Flowers', with Janneke Adema and Gabriela Méndez Cota - Part 1; Part 2; Part 3 (blog post)

Open Access

Most of Gary's work is freely available to read and download either here in Media Gifts or in Coventry University's online repositories PURE here, or in Humanities Commons here

Radical Open Access

Radical Open Access Virtual Book Stand

'"Communists of Knowledge"? A case for the implementation of "radical open access" in the humanities and social sciences' (an MA dissertation about the ROAC by Ellie Masterman). 

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Thursday
Aug292024

What If Marx Had Had ChatGPT?: Revolutionising Philosophy Just Like the iPhone Transformed the Telephone

The musician Will.i.am has launched a new interactive radio platform powered by AI. The platform, called ‘RAiDiO.FYI', features AI presenters and aims to revolutionize radio in a way similar to how the iPhone transformed the telephone.

Unlike Spotify's AI DJ, which uses AI to suggest songs based on your listening habits, RAiDiO.FYI allows for two-way communication, enabling users to engage with AI personas by pressing a button at any point to ask questions or start discussions. These AI hosts interact directly with listeners, encouraging them to ask about music, song history or even discuss topics like news, sports, culture and fashion, making listeners ‘active participants’ in the listening experience.

But that’s radio. What would the equivalent be for philosophy, I wonder?

Or might the more intriguing approach be to move beyond using AI merely as a tool to complement, augment or enhance human creativity like this: even if it involves using small language model AI trained on a corpus of ‘meaningful’, subject-specific data to enable readers to enter into a form of personalised Socratic dialogue with an otherwise conventional human-authored book in which they can ask it questions and the book can reply.

(It is something of this kind the e-reading platform Rebind is offering with regard to classic works of literature by Austen, Conrad and Kafka.)

Would it not be more interesting to explore the potential of an AI platform for creating radical new forms of philosophy altogether - forms that may no longer even be recognisable as philosophy as we currently understand it?