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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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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First Person Singular (Haruki Murakami) 1: “Creme”

By Davood Gozli | 20/06/2021 by Davood Gozli

The short story “Creme” is the first in the recently published Haruki Murakami collection, First Personal Singular (Ichininshō Tansū), translated to English by Philip Gabriel. The story’s title hints at the French expression crème de la crème, which refers to the very best part or the very best instance of something. We could, therefore, regard the story as an attempt at describing what is best in life. But this strategy only amplifies the strangeness of this story. Let’s begin…

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Review of “More than a Glitch” by Meredith Broussard

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)

First Person Singular (Haruki Murakami) 1: “Creme”