A provocative essay on the relationship between communism, philosophy and language

Since Plato, philosophers have dreamed of establishing a rational state ruled through the power of language. In this radical and disturbing account of Soviet philosophy, Boris Groys argues that communism shares that dream and is best understood as an attempt to replace financial with linguistic bonds as the cement uniting society. 

The transformative power of language, the medium of equality, is the key to any new communist revolution.

-Translators Notes
- Introduction
- Chapter.1 - The Linguistics of Society
- Chapter.2 - When Paradox Holds Power
- Chapter.3 - Communism, from Outside Looking In
- Chapter.4 - The Kingdom of Philosophy: The Administration of Metanoia*

*metanoia in Christian theology, is often translated as "conversion" or "repentance,".

The Communist Postscript by Boris Groys

The Communist Postscript By Boris Groys - (2006)

even bad bitches have a bad night :(

Tod Laursen , Chancellor of American University of Sharjah joins the Morning Majlis to discuss the inaugural Sharjah International Conference on AI & Linguistics (SICAL) that will be held October 17–18, 2024 at the AUS campus.

With sessions ranging from “Governmental Strategy for Linguistic Intelligence and Culture” through to “Language, Culture and Identity in the Digital Age,” the conference will touch on technology, language and culture, education and government, reflecting how pervasive AI technology already is in many key sectors of the economy.

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Inaugural conference on AI, Linguistics and Communication with Tod Laursen Chancellor of AUS

Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog...

In this episode, your hosts Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne get enthusiastic and ~spooky~ about possession! We talk about how the haunting type of possession and the linguistic type of possession do share an etymological origin, but how the term "possession" itself is misleading, because possessive constructions are used to express all sorts of relationships between nouns, including part-whole (eye of newt), material (a cauldron of silver), interpersonal (the wizard's apprentice), and general association (the school of magic). We also talk about the three big ways possession is expressed in English (of, 's, and have) and how languages can require some concepts to be possessed (like kinship terms and body parts) or consider others too significant or too trivial for possession (like the moon or a pen). 

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In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about how linguists might go about communicating with aliens! Drawing on highlights of the academic book "Xenolinguistics: Towards a Science of Extraterrestrial Language", we talk about how we'd actually go about trying to communicate with aliens.

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97: OooOooh~~ our possession episode oOooOOoohh 👻

Can you tell your real individual from your robot agent? In the ultimate game of Bot or Not, would you stake $26m of your own money on it? en clair is a podcast about forensic linguistics, literary detection, and language mysteries from past to present. You can find data, audio credits, further reading, and a transcript of the podcast at the blog: wp.me/paoUKh-tt

S02E10 - Bot or Not

S02E10 - Bot or Not (voice only)

When a human learns a new word, we're learning to attach that word to a set of concepts in the real world. When a computer "learns" a new word, it is creating some associations between that word and other words it has seen before, which can sometimes give it the appearance of understanding, but it doesn't have that real-world grounding, which can sometimes lead to spectacular failures: hilariously implausible from a human perspective, just as plausible from the computer's. 

In this episode, your host Lauren Gawne gets enthusiastic about how computers process language with Dr. Emily M. Bender, who is a linguistics professor at the University of Washington, USA, and cohost of the podcast Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. We talk about Emily's work trying to formulate a list of rules that a computer can use to generate grammatical sentences in a language, the differences between that and training a computer to generate sentences using the statistical likelihood of what comes next based on all the other sentences, and the further differences between both those things and how humans map language onto the real world.  We also talk about paying attention to communities not just data, the labour practices behind large language models, and how Emily's persistent questions led to the creation of the Bender Rule (always state the language you're working on, even if it's English).

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In this month’s bonus episode we get enthusiastic about three places where we can learn things about linguistics!! We talk about two linguistically interesting museums that Gretchen recently visited: the Estonian National Museum, as well as Mundolingua, a general linguistics museum in Paris. We also talk about Lauren's dream linguistics travel destination: Martha's Vineyard. 

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98: Helping computers decode sentences - Interview with Emily M. Bender

Voices from World Day of Remembrance for Traffic Victims in Los Angeles. 
1:48

Transportation under Trump according to Yonah Freemark, principal research associate in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute.
8:25

Los Angeles Bike Fest with BikeLA Director Eli Kaufman. 
13:37

Strong Towns Northampton checks its tone over a bike lane closure. With Danielle McKhan, Jennifer Nery, and Alex Bowman.  
19:10

Fighting for bikes means fighting back against the Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s attempt to rip out Toronto’s bike infrastructure- with Norm Di Pasquale, New Democratic Party Candidate for Spadina - Fort York in Toronto, Canada.
34:04

Studying the language of mobility with linguistics Professor Maria Caimotto. 
40:41

Stacey’s Bike Thought 
53:46

Bike Talk - Us Versus Them

In 2012 when I was in grad school, I took a sound design course. For the final assignment, I made an audio composition from a poem. I changed some of the lyrics to the poem In Love, His Grammar Grew by Stephen Dunn, had my boyfriend at the time, Ian Blood, record himself reading my lyrics, added foley sounds and textures, and edited them in ProTools.

Michelle Calabro - Ian Blood - In Love His Grammar Grew

A história dos dígrafos

A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics by Gretchen McCulloch and Lauren Gawne. "A fascinating listen that will change the way you see everyday communications." –New York Times. "Joyously nerdy" –Buzzfeed.  

Weird and deep half-hour conversations about language on the third Thursday of the month.

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