Category: Academic Analysis

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Melanie O’Brien, Associate Professor of International Law, The University of Western Australia In September this year, a UN-backed independent commission of inquiry released a report concluding Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The report said: Israeli authorities deliberately inflicted conditions of life on the Palestinians…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Aaron J. Snoswell, Senior Research Fellow in AI Accountability, Queensland University of Technology Sean Gladwell/Getty Images There are many claims to sort through in the current era of ubiquitous artificial intelligence (AI) products, especially generative AI ones based on large language models or LLMs, such…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Timothy McKenry, Professor of Music, Australian Catholic University On Taylor Swift’s highly-anticipated new album The Life of a Showgirl, track four, Father Figure, includes the late George Michael as one of the credited songwriters. But Swift’s song is not a cover of Michael’s 1987 hit…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Alexander Howard, Senior Lecturer, Discipline of English and Writing, University of Sydney Warner Brothers Perennial Nobel Prize contender Thomas Pynchon’s fourth novel, Vineland (1990) has been loosely adapted by Paul Thomas Anderson as a new film, One Battle After Another. The film is already considered…

Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Global Perspectives – By Tony Kushner, James Parkes Professor of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations, University of Southampton On the surface, I am ideally suited to write about the terrorist atrocity on the Heaton Park synagogue. The attack, on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, Yom Kippur, left two Mancunian Jews…