Curious about AI and democracy? blogs.loc.gov/kluge/2018/07/…

Boccaccio’s Decameron provides us with the fortitude and inspiration to craft our own renaissance for these uncertain times psyche.co/ideas/craft-yo… by Dan Turello

Dan Turello reviews “Love and Sex in the Time of Plague”: “Guido Ruggiero’s invitation is to fully appreciate the historical and theological context that shapes the stories, and in turn how those stories prompted new ways of imagining the world.” loom.ly/51rOdI8

Which Medieval or early Renaissance Italian writer would Hank Moody have most appreciated? I’m guessing Dante closely followed by Boccaccio Los Angeles Review of Books David Duchovny lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-14…

"The Bible continues to inspire our cultural and religious imaginary. The question is not whether to read it – it is how we read it." Dan Turello reviews Roberto Calasso's take on the Old Testament, "The Book of All Books." lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-new-…

Dan Turello reads Roberto Calasso's "The Book of All Books": "As I dig into Calasso’s book, I keep being surprised, laughing out loud, texting my Evangelical friends. I thought I knew the Bible, but clearly, I did not." loom.ly/dYDbF2s

Dan Turello (Dan Turello) speaks of Robert Zaretsky’s “Victories Never Last”: “Zaretsky favors the messiness of literature over the rigor of philosophy.” lareviewofbooks.org/article/covid-…

"Of late, there are entire industries sprouting up around the expansion of consciousness." Dan Turello considers Vladimir Miskovic and Steven Jay Lynn’s "Dreaming Reality: How Neuroscience and Mysticism Can Unlock the Secrets of Consciousness." lareviewofbooks.org/article/but-wh…

"Miskovic and Lynn shine in their rendering of how the brain represents reality, and about the mechanisms driving sight, sounds, sleep, touch, and lucid dreaming," Dan Turello writes, yet "the rest is best taken with a large grain of salt." lareviewofbooks.org/article/but-wh…

Photographing a robot came with a few surprises 🤖📸 Here’s an excerpt from my forthcoming book (Columbia University Press) via The New Yorker

💭 What does it mean to see in an age of intelligent machines? In "The Robot and the Philosopher," Center Fellow Dan Turello explores photography as a lens on perception, intelligence, and the enduring philosophical question of whether machines can ever be conscious. The essay

Read an op-ed by Dan Turello, author of CONNECTION, in THE NEW YORKER. buff.ly/LGEqIBQ Dan Turello The New Yorker #ai #philosophy #photography #consciousness

I had the privilege of taking part in a wonderful conversation with Timothy Kircher for Humanities Watch #technology #philosophy #history #humanities

In this episode of the Humanities Watch, Dan Turello, author of CONNECTION, discusses how technology shapes our lives. buff.ly/wUFZrVD #Ai #Philosophy Humanities Watch Dan Turello

Was St. Francis of Assisi the First Silicon Valley Critic?, by Andrew Keen open.substack.com/pub/keenon/p/w… Dan Turello “We read so as not to feel alone.” — C.S. Lewis (possibly) Dan Turello is a cultural historian of medieval Italy, a much published photographer, and the author of the new

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest." - Elie Wiesel

“Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."brainpickings.org/2015/03/18/mar… #resist