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While some may view the ad campaign for Facebook?s new ?Home? application with sympathy, or even nostalgia, Evan Selinger sees it as something altogether more insidious: ?propaganda.? In a post at Wired, Selinger argues that the new ads expose the ?hypocrisy? of a service which sells itself as a way of connecting to others while simultaneously celebrating self-absorption. The ads involve familiar depictions of young people opting out of more prosaic day-to-day interactions ? a long-winded family member, an officious flight attendant, a droning boss ? in favor of their smart phones.
This kind of ?exceptionalism? may appear ?harmless,? but Selinger worries what would happen if everyone adopted the kind of behavior Facebook Home promotes, to the extent that it came to be viewed as ?an appropriate social ethic.? Invoking some ?old-fashioned? ideas of Kant, Selinger thinks we can still use social media to our benefit as long as the Facebook Home ethic doesn?t reduce our interactions to toggling between ?fleeting entertainment buddies? at the expense of our more authentic connections.
Performing Philosophy: Is it an accident that drama and philosophy flourished side by side in classical Athens? To what extent is philosophical writing and reflection a kind of ?performance,? and can the performing arts be seen as a way of doing philosophy? These are questions Miranda Nell asks in a short post at Talking Philosophy, which reports on a recent conference exploring the connections between performance and philosophy. Nell thinks that the two forms may very well be ?two sides of the same coin,? both of which are ?concerned with the duplicitous nature of the human experience.? That common ground, she thinks, is only increased by technological advances, and is prompting philosophers to ask sharp questions about whether the two fields are ultimately distinct, or deeply compatible and therefore good evidence for the ?multiplicity of knowledge.?
Philosophical Writing: At The Poetry Foundation, Laura Sims introduces a forthcoming series of posts which will feature her correspondence with David Markson, the author of ?Wittgenstein?s Mistress.?
At the Paris Review, Matthew Erikson sorts through the ?three-dimensional realia? of one of Markson?s biggest influences, William Gaddis.
At HTMLGiant, a review of ?Anathemas and Admirations? by the Romanian philosopher E.M Cioran focuses on his essay on ?The Great Gatsby.?
And at 3AM, Richard Marshall assesses the influence of German philosophy, and especially Nietzsche, on the work of Samuel Beckett.
Also:
At The New York Review of Books, John Gray considers ?The Real Karl Marx.?
At The Financial Times, Antonia Macaro and Julian Baggini on the importance of friendship.
At Open Culture, video of Martin Heidegger, and at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, a new entry on Edmund Husserl.
Finally, never underestimate the consolations of phiLOLZophy.
Source: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/zuckerberg-unbound/
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