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    Discourse

    medium.com/discourse · Publication · on HN since 2019

    Discourse is a Medium publication of essays on history, politics, science, culture and technology by various authors.

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    HN commenters link it for essays such as one on surveillance capitalism; one thread debates Žižek's criticism of Peterson as pseudo-scientific.

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    Aug 2024last shared
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    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • aspenmayerApr 2020

      I'll concede that Žižek has a flair for theatrics, but I agree with Žižek that Peterson's claims are "pseudo-scientific" because they are fundamentally not truth-claims that are falsifiable. It's simply not science to say the things he's saying. He may wish to use science to fortify his philosophical or sociological claims, but you can't do that without making statements that are fundamentally at odds with the scientific method.

      Edit:

      live commentary:
      https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/04/live-commentary-on-the-zizek-peterson-debate

      a decently even-handed critique of both participants:
      https://medium.com/discourse/the-hidden-argument-in-the-zizek-peterson-debate-from-a-competitive-debator-4eb3238564c2

      an unedited transcipt I found:
      https://truefalsehoods.com/2019/04/23/transcript-of-zizek-vs-peterson/

    • fsndzAug 2024

      Excellent article. Reminds me of an essay I read recently about surveillance capitalism: https://medium.com/discourse/defending-freedom-in-the-era-of-surveillance-capitalism-99d1fc2946f9

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