Criticism – Davood Gozli

In her book “More than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability in Tech,” Meredith Broussard explores how various tech fields, including AI, user-interface design, surveillance, and predictive coding, perpetuate social biases on the basis of race, gender, and ability. She covers topics such as face recognition software, predictive policing, predictive grading in education, and medical diagnosis, and identifies problems in these fields that are exacerbated by blind faith in technology. Broussard uses the term…

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The Burnout Society (Byung-Chul Han)

By Davood Gozli | 16/09/202229/05/2023 by Davood Gozli

I think it was sometime during the summer of 2018 that my friend Peter Limberg gave me a copy of the Agony of Eros. That was my introduction to Byung-Chul Han. Han is an aphoristic philosopher, carrying the influence of Nietzsche quite visibly. He engages with cultural and social topics in a way that is timely, counter-intuitive, counter-comfort, and counter-status quo. I’ve been considering a systematic–and somewhat exhaustive–review of his works published in English. This…

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Commentary on Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 More Rules” (Table of Content)

By Davood Gozli | 08/02/202208/02/2022 by Davood Gozli

I wrote the following six short essays a while ago, and in somewhat of a haste. The haste came from knowing if I were to slow down, I’d not get to the end. There are some things you can do only in a rush, and those things tend not to be very pleasant. In any case, I’d like to return to them soon and see if I can reconsider some of my previous thoughts and…

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Criticism, Philosophy, & Love: An Exchange with Javier Rivera

By Davood Gozli | 26/01/202203/02/2022 by Davood Gozli

My friend, Javier Rivera, has posted a video about the relationship between religion and philosophy. Specifically, he talks about the duty of philosophers to ask, “What is religion?” Javier points out the dominant tendency in philosophers to fixate on their own discipline, asking again and again, “What is philosophy?” but a similar kind of (philosophical) attention is rarely devoted to religion. What we need, Javier argues, is a philosophical interest and engagement with religion. Something…

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Videos on Don Quixote (Cervantes)

By Davood Gozli | 22/01/202218/02/2022 by Davood Gozli

In my list of 22 books for the year 2022, Don Quixote was number one. While reading the novel, I also read a little from Vladimir Nabokov’s Lectures on Don Quixote, and I made references to Nabokov on Parts II and III. I enjoyed these livestreams and I’d like to continue doing them, despite the interruptions and disfluencies. I am going to miss Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, after having spent about a month with…

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Review of “More than a Glitch” by Meredith Broussard

The Burnout Society (Byung-Chul Han)

Commentary on Jordan B. Peterson’s “12 More Rules” (Table of Content)

Criticism, Philosophy, & Love: An Exchange with Javier Rivera

Videos on Don Quixote (Cervantes)