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How is the use of artificial intelligence changing the practice of mapping deprived living areas? What does it mean for inhabitants and urban planners that machines are participating in the interpretation of spaces?
What can philosophers contribute to such issues?

These questions and much more are the topic of an interview I conducted with the philosophers Isaac Oluoch and Michael Nagenborg from the university of Twente in The Netherlands. It is published in the inaugural issue of the Philosophy of the City Journa.

The Ethics of Mapping Slums - An Interview with Philosophers Isaac Oluoch and Michael Nagenborg How is the use of artificial intelligence changing the practice of mapping deprived living areas? What does it mean for inhabitants and urban planners that m...

As a member of the editorial team and a co-editor of the inaugural issue, I am very proud to announce the launching of the new Philosophy of the City Journal. The call for papers for the inaugural issue is out and the deadline is 31 March 2023!

Philosophy of the City Journal As a member of the editorial team and a co-editor of the inaugural issue, I am very proud to announce the launching of the new Philosophy of the City Journal. The call for papers for the inaugural …

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The video of my interdisciplinary workshop The City and the Wild is now up!

Workshop video The video of my interdisciplinary workshop The City and the Wild is now up!

Really excited about this!

Collaboration with performers and designer Currently exploring entanglements with non-human agencies (particularly pigeons!) together with performance artists Jonas Gillman and Seraina Dür, as well as with the designer and ecologist Flurina…

Sanna Lehtinen and mine special issue on Philosophy of the City at the East Asian Journal of Philosophy is now out:

Special Issue on Philosophy of the City is out Sanna Lehtinen and mine special issue on Philosophy of the City at the East Asian Journal of Philosophy is now out:

In this interview I talk with the philosophers of technology Sage Cammers-Goodwin and Michael Nagenborg. We discuss the attractions and trappings of smart cities.

New Video: Smart City In this interview I talk with the philosophers of technology Sage Cammers-Goodwin and Michael Nagenborg. We discuss the attractions and trappings of smart cities.

I'm delighted to give an online talk at the Royal Institute of Philosophy (Oxford branch) next Wednesday at 19h CET. The title is "The City in Philosophy and Philosophy in the City".If you are interested in attending, contact Daniel O'Brien, [email protected] for the zoom link.

Talk at Royal Institute of Philosophy I’m delighted to give an online talk at the Royal Institute of Philosophy (Oxford branch) next Wednesday at 19h CET. The title is “The City in Philosophy and Philosophy in the City& #822…

New video :)

Alex King on Aesthetics What is the broader social and cultural relevance of academic aesthetics? Can it help us make out why a show seems a little flat? Or analyse for instance racial fetishes? What is the aesthetic atti…

It was a pleasure to work together with Alex King at Aesthetics for Birds and to produce this guest post.

Guest post at Aesthetics for Birds It was a pleasure to work together with Alex King at Aesthetics for Birds and to produce this guest post.

We are celebrating the centenary of Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus (published 1921) and the bicentenary of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky's birth (born 1821).This video is my tribute to both. I aim to show that there is more that connects these thinkers than accidental numbers. The video is based on Chapter 1 of my book.

Wittgenstein and Dostoevsky We are celebrating the centenary of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Tractatus logico-philosophicus (published 1921) and the bicentenary of Fyodor M. Dostoevsky’s birth (born 1821).This video is m…

I am very excited to have been granted a Junior Fellowship at the interdisciplinary institute, Collegium Helveticum starting September! My new colleagues are a primatologist, a terrorism scholar, an architect, movie makers, a historian of India, a perfume synthesiser, and a composer. The new place of work: the old Semper observatory in Zurich.

Junior Fellowship at Collegium Helveticum I am very excited to have been granted a Junior Fellowship at the interdisciplinary institute, Collegium Helveticum starting September! My new colleagues are a primatologist, a terrorism scholar, a…