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- New online, @freganmitts on what happens—and doesn’t happen—in the university committees tasked with “responding” to AI:
- Issue 30 | Summer 2023 What is beauty for? Featuring a rare all-editors symposium Coming soon. thepointmag.com/subscribe
- In this world Trump represented “freedom,” but what this meant was less a radical disruption of the status quo by an emergent political constituency with its own set of priorities and more a reanimation of the deepest and oldest of American fantasies.
- “She wanted philosophy to begin with lived experience, and the aspect of lived experience that obsessed her from the start was otherness.” New online, @TorilMoi on Simone de Beauvoir’s investigations of otherness, from “L’Invitée” to “The Second Sex”:
- “The earthquake exposed the gangrene that has been eating away at Erdoğan’s ‘New Turkey,’” writes @kayagenc. Will this finally be the crisis that ends Erdoğan’s grip on the country?
- Introducing our Quarantine Journal: Notes from Inside—a new series of dispatches about life during the coronavirus crisis: thepointmag.com/quarantine-jou…
- We're very pleased to announce a new podcast series hosted by @JessSwoboda and Zach Fine called "Selected Essays," where we invite on essayists to discuss their favorite under-the-radar essays. thepointmag.buzzsprout.com
- Coming soon: Issue 29 | What is tech for? 224 pages of non-artificial intelligence.
