Tag Archives: technology

The Elder of Ziyon, Jewish Studies, & Me

Posted on October 24, 2022 by zjb

“Elder of Ziyon” is the nom de web of a rightwing activist. He’s including here yours truly in this piece about [1] real and imagined anti-Zionsts in Jewish Studies, [2] rightwing religious Zionists and provocative prayer in East Jeruslem and on the Temple Mount. He … Continue reading →

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Anti-Trans, Anti-Semitism

Posted on June 17, 2022 by zjb

Falling under the rubric of Reactionary Bio-Politics, a lot of this is flying online under the radar, both the discourse of transphobic activism and critical writing pushing back against it. If any of this is to be believed, there are … Continue reading →

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Virtual Reality Of Holocaust Memory

Posted on April 28, 2022 by zjb

There is probably no way around that the future of Holocaust memory is going to be virtual. As explained here by Esther Zandberg, architecture critic at Ha’aretz, “The litany of new terms appearing in ads for virtual exhibitions at Holocaust … Continue reading →

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(ADL) Anti-Semitism Algorithm

Posted on April 26, 2022 by zjb

Critics of the ADL are invited to pile on, but, for all that, I am posting here a precis and the full report here of their Online Hate Index. It’s an AI program whose alogrithm tracks anti-Semitic content at Twitter … Continue reading →

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(Technology) Slaves & Automatic Machine Gods (Aristotle)

Posted on February 16, 2022 by zjb

The question of technology (techne) runs across the entire Aristotelean corpus. Its most famous instantiation is in the Nicomachean Ethics. It’s there also in the Physics and Metaphysics. It pops up in the Politics in relation to the institution of … Continue reading →

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Heidegger and World Judaism (Black Notebooks)

Posted on February 7, 2022 by zjb

[Only the first 3 volumes of “Ponderings” are out in English. Not a lot on Jews and Judaism. The appearance of “Jewish” is garden variety anti-Semitism. The appearance of the word “Judaism” indicates an (anti)metaphysical anti-Semitism that forms, philosophically, a … Continue reading →

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Habad in the Metaverse

Posted on February 4, 2022 by zjb

Habad scales up and out, creating the first Jewish outpost in the Metaverse, about which here. “The MANA Jewish Center will sit on a modest, grassy patch of land, circled by trees and pink flowers that pop up from underneath … Continue reading →

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Universe of Technical Images (The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic)

Posted on February 4, 2022 by zjb

I was almost going to post the very polished photographic images that appeared here at the NYT about The 1.28 GHz MeerKAT Galactic Center Mosaic. They are definitely worth a look. But I couldn’t post them in good faith. The … Continue reading →

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I See Dead Professors On Zoom (Yevamot 96b-97a)

Posted on November 22, 2021 by zjb

Ripe for parody, this article at Slate about an online lecture-course hosted at Concordia by a professor of art history who had passed away sometime before says a lot about the neo-liberal university and the degradation of higher education, about … Continue reading →

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Space and Martian Synagogues (Larry Yudelson)

Posted on November 21, 2021 by zjb

To fantastic effect, Larry Yudelson put a bunch of images together at NeuralBlender, an AI site. From what I understand, you enter the prompt and the machine folds, in this case, a synagogue-look into 1970s sci fi cover art. For more … Continue reading →

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