Jay A Gupta
Biographic Data
| ID | 4466147 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jay A Gupta |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jay A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gupta |
| SIGNATURE | GUPTA J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mills College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Making the Hive Great Again
Barbarism by Any Other Name
Changing the Channel and Pulling the Plug
Welcome to the Machine
Recent advances in the functional power of artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted an urgent warning from industry leaders and researchers concerning its “profound risks to society and humanity.”1 Their open letter is admirable not only for its succinct identification of said risks, which include the mass dissemination of misinformation, loss of jobs, and even the possible extinction of our species, but also for its clear normative framing of …
Speaking B.S. to Truth
The epitaph to the Trump administration might well read′ “What Just Happened?” As we gently doze off to reports of the sober policy initiatives taken by the Biden administration′ it is easy to forget the tone and timbre of the “sound torture” that preceded it′ the shrieking politics of the “paranoid style.” Just as when a fever finally breaks′ and he sickness that urgently gripped the bodymelts into memory′ it might tax our imagination to recall …
You and What Army? The Moral Ghost in the U.S. Security Machine
The devastating footage coming out of Afghanistan presents us with a scene of catastrophic moral dimensions. With images of desperate people literally hurling themselves at a U.S. cargo plane in hopes of escape, we are left to imagine the terrible fates of those left behind, particularly Afghan women and girls. If the brutal facts of Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001 are any indication of what is to come, girls will be deprived of access to educatio…
Torches, Pitchforks, Smartphones, and Mass Delusion
On January 6, 2021, the nation, and indeed the world, witnessed a violent political spectacle that was both mortally serious yet ludicrous, and we have been left to process the ambiguity however we can. The immediate, honest reaction of some among the pundit class to the “attack on democracy” was to announce how hurt they were by what they witnessed. David Brooks choked back tears as he reported his reaction to seeing the sacred halls of the Capi…
The Aesthetics of Fascism
In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Eliah Bures does an admirable job of explaining why, perhaps despite strong intuitions to the contrary, it is ill advised to apply the term “fascist” to Trump and his “base.”1 For one, it has become a sort of rhetorical tic in the last forty years, shared alike by angry critics of not just Trump but also Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. As a term of abuse, it acts as a kind of c…
Covid-19
COVID-19 is of course a public health issue, but it has brought to light a set of ethical, political, and indeed psychological tensions that resist tidy resolution. A topic that has gradually become more explicitly discussed, particularly after major state-level decisions had already been made, has been, "Under what conditions should a government close down an entire society?" A kind of morally categorical discourse surfaced in conjunction with i…
Values or Virtues, Nietzsche or Aristotle
Normative discourse is said in many ways and takes many forms, but one form in particular deserves special attention. For the last century, and building momentum in the last few decades, we have heard lots of talk about “values” coming from multiple sources in all sorts of settings: politicians, corporations, self-help gurus, theists, social scientists, journalists, and even biologists. There are family values, personal values, cultural values, u…
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Values or Virtues, Nietzsche or Aristotle
Normative discourse is said in many ways and takes many forms, but one form in particular deserves special attention. For the last century, and building momentum in the last few decades, we have heard lots of talk about “values” coming from multiple sources in all sorts of settings: politicians, corporations, self-help gurus, theists, social scientists, journalists, and even biologists. There are family values, personal values, cultural values, u…
The Aesthetics of Fascism
In a recent article in Foreign Policy, Eliah Bures does an admirable job of explaining why, perhaps despite strong intuitions to the contrary, it is ill advised to apply the term “fascist” to Trump and his “base.”1 For one, it has become a sort of rhetorical tic in the last forty years, shared alike by angry critics of not just Trump but also Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama. As a term of abuse, it acts as a kind of c…
Covid-19
COVID-19 is of course a public health issue, but it has brought to light a set of ethical, political, and indeed psychological tensions that resist tidy resolution. A topic that has gradually become more explicitly discussed, particularly after major state-level decisions had already been made, has been, "Under what conditions should a government close down an entire society?" A kind of morally categorical discourse surfaced in conjunction with i…
Speaking B.S. to Truth
The epitaph to the Trump administration might well read′ “What Just Happened?” As we gently doze off to reports of the sober policy initiatives taken by the Biden administration′ it is easy to forget the tone and timbre of the “sound torture” that preceded it′ the shrieking politics of the “paranoid style.” Just as when a fever finally breaks′ and he sickness that urgently gripped the bodymelts into memory′ it might tax our imagination to recall …
You and What Army? The Moral Ghost in the U.S. Security Machine
The devastating footage coming out of Afghanistan presents us with a scene of catastrophic moral dimensions. With images of desperate people literally hurling themselves at a U.S. cargo plane in hopes of escape, we are left to imagine the terrible fates of those left behind, particularly Afghan women and girls. If the brutal facts of Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001 are any indication of what is to come, girls will be deprived of access to educatio…
Torches, Pitchforks, Smartphones, and Mass Delusion
On January 6, 2021, the nation, and indeed the world, witnessed a violent political spectacle that was both mortally serious yet ludicrous, and we have been left to process the ambiguity however we can. The immediate, honest reaction of some among the pundit class to the “attack on democracy” was to announce how hurt they were by what they witnessed. David Brooks choked back tears as he reported his reaction to seeing the sacred halls of the Capi…
Welcome to the Machine
Recent advances in the functional power of artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted an urgent warning from industry leaders and researchers concerning its “profound risks to society and humanity.”1 Their open letter is admirable not only for its succinct identification of said risks, which include the mass dissemination of misinformation, loss of jobs, and even the possible extinction of our species, but also for its clear normative framing of …
Changing the Channel and Pulling the Plug
Making the Hive Great Again
Barbarism by Any Other Name
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