Tag: identity

• How to Survive Artificial Intelligence

  June 2, 2025

  This technology can usher in an age of flourishing the likes of which we have never seen. It will also foment a crisis about what it is to be a… more ›

• The fusion of two sisters into a single woman suggests that human identity is not in our DNA

  May 10, 2024

  The biologist Alfonso Martínez Arias defends that genes do not define the uniqueness of a person, citing the example of Karen Keegan, who has two genomes Two eggs fertilized by… more ›

• Me, My Selfies, and I

  May 5, 2024

  Icame across a TikTok recently that articulated something about my face I’d been struggling with. It was one of those videos where the speaker sits in the front seat of… more ›

• What do I think about biometric proof of personhood?

  July 25, 2023

  One of the trickier, but potentially one of the most valuable, gadgets that people in the Ethereum community have been trying to build is a decentralized proof-of-personhood solution. Proof of personhood,… more ›

• The role of the arts and humanities in thinking about artificial intelligence (AI)

  June 20, 2021

  What is the contribution that the arts and humanities can make to our engagement with the increasingly pervasive technology of artificial intelligence? My aim in this short article is to… more ›

• You are a network

  May 23, 2021

  Relational views signal a paradigm shift from a reductive approach to one that seeks to recognise the complexity of the self. The network self view further develops this line of… more ›

• William Davies, The Politics of Recognition in the Age of Social Media, NLR 128, March–April 2021

  May 16, 2021

  In the decade after the fall of the Berlin Wall, critical theorists paid renewed attention to what Charles Taylor famously called ‘the politics of recognition’. https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii128/articles/william-davies-the-politics-of-recognition-in-the-age-of-social-media more ›

• Identities of the World

  July 11, 2020

  Globally, billions of adults have no bank account. No bank account means no ability to save money for a family, to borrow to support a business, to send and receive money… more ›

• March 31, 2020

  https://www.onassis.org/open-calls/onassis-air-2020-21-school-infinite-rehearsals more ›

• Battery icons shape perceptions of time and space and define user identities

  September 17, 2019

  New research from Cass Business School has found that battery icons on mobile phones shape how people view time and space, and how battery conservation practices define user identities. https://phys.org/news/2019-09-battery-icons-perceptions-space-user.html more ›