Humanity 8.0

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Sun Park, a PhD candidate in Sociology at The University of Warwick who is currently working on a dissertation that explores the evolution of UNESCO's collective knowledge and common heritage of mankind in the age of Generative AI. Before enrolling into the PhD program at Warwick, Ms. Park studied politics at the University of Edinburgh for her BA and obtained...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Sun Park, a PhD candidate in Sociology at The University of Warwick who is currently working on a dissertation that explores the evolution of UNESCO's collective knowledge and common heritage of mankind in the age of Generative AI. Before enrolling into the PhD program at Warwick, Ms. Park studied politics at the University of Edinburgh for her BA and obtained...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Prof. Ljiljana Radenović, Philosophy professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. Her main research interests are in the philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, and the history of emotions. In this conversation, she discusses the concept of enchantment in the context of our evolving modernity and postmodernity, and now the age of G...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Prof. Ljiljana Radenović, Philosophy professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade. Her main research interests are in the philosophy of psychology, cognitive science, and the history of emotions. In this conversation, she discusses the concept of enchantment in the context of our evolving modernity and postmodernity, and now the age of G...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Prof. Lee Basham, Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas-Pan American,. Topic: Truth, truthiness, and conspiracy theories in our current post-truth age. Links: - https://social-epistemology.com/?s=Basham&x=0&y=0 - https://www.pitzer.edu/communications/2017/09/26/lee-basham-governing-crisis-toxic-truths-subvert-mainstream-investigation/ - http...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Prof. Lee Basham, Professor of Philosophy at The University of Texas-Pan American,. Topic: Truth, truthiness, and conspiracy theories in our current post-truth age. Links: - https://social-epistemology.com/?s=Basham&x=0&y=0 - https://www.pitzer.edu/communications/2017/09/26/lee-basham-governing-crisis-toxic-truths-subvert-mainstream-investigation/ - http...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Prof. David Gunkel, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University the founding co-editor of the "International Journal of Žižek Studies." He is the author of over 80 scholarly articles and has published 12 books, including, "Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix" (MIT Press, 201...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Prof. David Gunkel, Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Communication at Northern Illinois University the founding co-editor of the "International Journal of Žižek Studies." He is the author of over 80 scholarly articles and has published 12 books, including, "Of Remixology: Ethics and Aesthetics After Remix" (MIT Press, 201...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Karina Montoya, Senior Reporter & Policy Analyst at Open Markets Institute, a non-profit organization that focuses on issues related to competition, antitrust policy, and economic regulation. They discuss the current trials against Google and touch on the broader topic of Big Tech's digital platform monopoly and the current antitrust initiatives by the F...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Karina Montoya, Senior Reporter & Policy Analyst at Open Markets Institute, a non-profit organization that focuses on issues related to competition, antitrust policy, and economic regulation. They discuss the current trials against Google and touch on the broader topic of Big Tech's digital platform monopoly and the current antitrust initiatives by the F...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Prof. David McNeill, a philosopher and scholar of the history of European philosophy, now working as an independent researcher and writer. He formerly served as the Robert Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College, prior to which he taught for ten years at the University of Essex in the UK. The main focus of his work is the relation between practical and...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Prof. David McNeill, a philosopher and scholar of the history of European philosophy, now working as an independent researcher and writer. He formerly served as the Robert Aird Chair of Humanities at Deep Springs College, prior to which he taught for ten years at the University of Essex in the UK. The main focus of his work is the relation between practical and...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s conversation with Prof. Steve Fuller and Prof. Patrick Linden, where they discuss the topic of Radical Life Extension, with a special focus on the Power dimension: If we live in a society where people can live a healthy and productive life past 100 years, should we expect that such a society would be run, whether in the public sphere or the private one, by those who are old, s...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s conversation with Prof. Steve Fuller and Prof. Patrick Linden, where they discuss the topic of Radical Life Extension, with a special focus on the Power dimension: If we live in a society where people can live a healthy and productive life past 100 years, should we expect that such a society would be run, whether in the public sphere or the private one, by those who are old, s...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Dr. David Elliot Berman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Pennsylvania, where they discuss the state of the Internet and the obstacles that stand in the way of digital equity. - Academic Profile: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/david-elliot-berman-phd - Book: "After Net Neutrality: After Net Neutral...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview with Dr. David Elliot Berman, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Annenberg School for Communication at The University of Pennsylvania, where they discuss the state of the Internet and the obstacles that stand in the way of digital equity. Academic Profile: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/david-elliot-berman-phd Book: "After Net Neutrality: After Net Neutrality...

Ahmed Bouzid interviews Prof. Anne Alombert, Associate Professor in contemporary French philosophy at the University of Paris 8 and former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, who holds an aggregation in philosophy and is the author of a doctoral thesis in philosophy entitled "Derrida and Simondon in the face of questions of the human and technology: ontogenesis and grammatology i...

Ahmed Bouzid interviews Prof. Anne Alombert, Associate Professor in contemporary French philosophy at the University of Paris 8 and former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Lyon, who holds an aggregation in philosophy and is the author of a doctoral thesis in philosophy entitled "Derrida and Simondon in the face of questions of the human and technology: ontogenesis and grammatology i...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Prof. Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology Department of Sociology University of Warwick, and Michael P. Gibson, Founder and General Partner at The 1517 Fund. We discuss their perspectives on how to reform Academia through their respective latest books (see below for detail). Main Topics: The University, Academia, Education, Innovation, The Ref...

Watch Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Prof. Steve Fuller, Auguste Comte Chair in Social Epistemology Department of Sociology University of Warwick, and Michael P. Gibson, Founder and General Partner at The 1517 Fund. We discuss their perspectives on how to reform Academia through their respective latest books (see below for detail). Main Topics: The University, Academia, Education, Innovation, The Ref...

Listen to Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Michael P. Gibson, Founder and General Partner at The 1517 Fund, and author of Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University (Encounter Books, 2022). Main Topics: The University, Academia, Education, Innovation, The Reformation, Martin Luther Links: * Main website: https://athousandnations.com/ * The Book: https://www.amazo...

Listen to Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Michael P. Gibson, Founder and General Partner at The 1517 Fund, and author of Paper Belt on Fire: How Renegade Investors Sparked a Revolt Against the University (Encounter Books, 2022). Main Topics: The University, Academia, Education, Innovation, The Reformation, Martin Luther Links: * Main website: https://athousandnations.com/ * The Book: https://www.amazo...

Listen to Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Adam Davidson, Chief Executive Officer at Story as Is, Contributing Author at The New Yorker, and author of The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century (Random House, 2020). Main Topics: The Passion Economy, The Gig Economy, Work, Labor, Web 3.0 Links: * Main website: https://www.story.as/ * The Book: https://www.amazon.com/Pass...

Listen to Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Adam Davidson, Chief Executive Officer at Story as Is, Contributing Author at The New Yorker, and author of The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century (Random House, 2020). Main Topics: The Passion Economy, The Gig Economy, Work, Labor, Web 3.0 Links: * Main website: https://www.story.as/ * The Book: https://www.amazon.com/Pass...

Listen to Ahmed Bouzid’s interview of Eileen Reevey, National Grassroots Director at The National Popular Vote (NPV), where they discuss the NPV's push to effectively do away with the Electoral College through the creative strategy of establishing The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. Ths compact which would bind participating states to follow the National Popular Vote law. As of now,...