Hemlock #43 - Enframing the Future with Emma Stamm, Nuclear Weapons, AI, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology, Walter Benjamin, Fascism, Fantasy, and Simple Folk Tales

"Fascism is the desire for a simple folk tale" - Thomas Mann, I think.

Substack's and LEPHT HAND's own Emma Stamm https://substack.com/@elftheory rejoins Will for a follow-up conversation on nuclear weapons technology, Martin Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology (1954), artificial intelligence, psychedelics research, and why becoming idiots might save us in the end.

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References:

Walter Benjamin, Sixth Thesis on the Concept of History

Judith Herman (Trauma and Recovery)

Castle Bravo Thermonuclear Bomb Test

Atoms for Peace (1954)

William Lovitt edition of Heidegger's essays, including Question Concerning Technology