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Hemlock #43 - Enframing the Future with Emma Stamm, Nuclear Weapons, AI, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology, Walter Benjamin, Fascism, Fantasy, and Simple Folk Tales
Published 3 weeks, 5 days ago
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"Fascism is the desire for a simple folk tale" - Thomas Mann, I think.
Substack's and LEPHT HAND's own Emma Stamm https://substack.com/@elftheory rejoins Will for a follow-up conversation on nuclear weapons technology, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology (1954), artificial intelligence, psychedelics research, and why becoming idiots might save us in the end.
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References:
Walter Benjamin, Sixth Thesis on the Concept of History
Judith Herman (Trauma and Recovery)
Castle Bravo Thermonuclear Bomb Test
William Lovitt edition of Heidegger's essays, including Question Concerning Technology