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The
Undecidable
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The Phallus and Its Discontents: Castration, Fetishism, and the Limits of Psychoanalytic Theory
Or ... The Fetish of Castration: Freud’s Parapraxis, Lacan’s Phallogocentrism, and the Unconscious Fetishism of Psychoanalysis Or ......
Eric Anders
Feb 2413 min read
Revisiting "The Digital-Humanities Bust": A Reflection on Progress Since 2017
In October 2017, The Chronicle of Higher Education published Timothy Brennan’s provocative article, The Digital-Humanities Bust , which...
Eric Anders
Feb 245 min read
Book Proposal: Undecidability for Beginners—The Shared Foundation of Physics, Philosophy, and Psychology
Three Alternate Titles Uncertain Grounds: How Physics, Philosophy, and Psychoanalysis Converge on the Limits of Knowing In the Shadow of...
Eric Anders
Feb 215 min read
Quantum Uncertainty vs. Calculable Complexity: Does Microsoft's Topological Computing Challenge Santa Fe Institute’s Models?
Introduction: The Battle Over Complexity The field of complexity science has long been dominated by the belief that even the most...
Eric Anders
Feb 194 min read
The Certainty of Climate Change and the Convenience of Apocalypse: How Eschatology Shields Climate Deniers from Responsibility
Kermode’s The Sense of an Ending and the Structure of Apocalyptic Time In The Sense of an Ending (1967), Frank Kermode explores how...
Eric Anders
Feb 194 min read
Suffering With(out) Meaning: Moral Masochism, Moral Injury, and the Fragility of the Self
The relationship between moral masochism and moral injury is complex and deeply consequential, particularly in the context of trauma that...
Eric Anders
Feb 196 min read
Crisis Narratives, Climate Change, and the Politics of Storytelling: the Sense of an Ending and Ecologies of Fear
Crisis narratives shape how we understand history, politics, and even our own existence. Whether religious or secular, these narratives...
Eric Anders
Feb 198 min read
SMC3 - California and the Health of a Society: A Historical and Theoretical Diagnosis
Or ... California Health for Beginners: An Undergraduate’s Guide to Evaluating the Health of California Throughout Its History Course...
Eric Anders
Feb 175 min read
SMC2 - Engineered Pathologies: Expanding Mike Davis’s 1990s Los Angeles to a Critique of All of California and All of Its History
Course Description: Mike Davis’s City of Quartz and Ecology of Fear provide searing critiques of Los Angeles as a city shaped by...
Eric Anders
Feb 174 min read
SMC1 - Honor and Betrayal: Moral Injury and the Japanese American WWII Experience
Course Description This graduate-level seminar explores the historical, psychological, and ethical dimensions of moral injury as it...
Eric Anders
Feb 177 min read
Crisis, Storytelling, and the Humanities: Rereading Davis’s "Ecology of Fear" and a Case for Applied Health Humanities in California Studies
Crisis, Storytelling, and the Humanities: Rereading Davis’s Ecology of Fear and a Case for Applied Health Humanities in California...
Eric Anders
Feb 177 min read
Crisis, the Humanities, and Storytelling in the Age of Climate Change, AI, and Populist Authoritarianism
Crisis, the Humanities, and Storytelling in the Age of Climate Change, AI, and Populist Authoritarianism In an era shaped by intensifying...
Eric Anders
Feb 156 min read
Reclaiming the Humanities for All: The Judge James Ware Distinguished Professorship in Digital Humanities at Saint Mary’s College of California
Harnessing Digital Humanities to Uphold DEI, Democracy, and Lasallian Values Saint John Baptist de La Salle championed education as a...
Eric Anders
Feb 1411 min read
Originalism, Derrida, and the Urgent Need for an ‘Applied Humanities’ in Our Courts and Beyond
By Eric W. Anders, Ph.D., Psy.D. Introduction: The Irony of Originalism as a Supposed Bulwark In a recent New York Times op-ed (February...
Eric Anders
Feb 1418 min read
Outline - The Undecidable Unconscious: Complementarity and the Future of Intelligence
Introduction: The Santa Fe Institute’s Master Discourse and the Myth of Kurzweil’s “Singularity” In the rapidly evolving domain of...
Eric Anders
Feb 124 min read
Book Proposal - The Undecidable Unconscious: Complementarity and the Future of Intelligence
In our rapidly evolving world, both artificial intelligence (AI) research and our understanding of human consciousness seem bound by a...
Eric Anders
Feb 115 min read
The Thinkable and Unthinkable IV: How Arkady Plotnitsky’s Complementarity Intersects with Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Complexity—Confronting the Santa Fe Institute’s Epistemic Blind Spots
Introduction In recent years, the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) has become a major interdisciplinary hub for studying complex systems,...
Eric Anders
Feb 1010 min read
The Thinkable and the Unthinkable III: Quantum Consciousness, Complementarity, and the Limits of Thought
The early 1990s witnessed a convergence of theoretical disruptions in physics, philosophy, and the nascent field of cognitive...
Eric Anders
Feb 107 min read
The Thinkable and the Unthinkable II: How Arkady Plotnitsky’s Complementarity Intersects with Deconstruction—and Where Does SFI Stand?
In recent years, the Santa Fe Institute (SFI) has become a major interdisciplinary hub for studying complex systems, artificial...
Eric Anders
Feb 1014 min read
The Thinkable and the Unthinkable I: How Arkady Plotnitsky’s Complementarity Intersects with Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, and Complexity
The intersection of quantum mechanics , deconstruction , and psychoanalysis is not an obvious one. Yet Arkady Plotnitsky’s work...
Eric Anders
Feb 910 min read
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