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Manet's Sources: Aspects of his Art, 1859–1865

From the archives: Michael Fried on Manet

Opinion | How Behavioral Economics Took Over America

The field of behavioral economics has shaped policies we encounter every day. But the science behind it is crumbling.

A spiritual journey and art exhibition

Clint Calleja's Anamnesis runsat Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta until February 26

The Case Against the Trauma Plot

Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?

Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion

There is no good evidence that facial expressions reveal a person’s feelings. But big tech companies want you to believe otherwise.

Why We Shouldn't Trust AI to Tell Us What We Feel

Artificial Intelligence Is Misreading Human Emotion Kate Crawford © Irene Suosalo At a remote outpost in the mountainous highlands of Papua New Guinea, a young American psychologist named Paul Ekman arrived with a collection of flash cards and a new theory. It was 1967, and Ekman had heard that the Fore people of Okapa were so isolated from the wider world that they would be his ideal test subjects. Like Western researchers before him, Ekman had come to Papua New Guinea to extract data from the indigenous community. He was gathering evidence to bolster a controversial hypothesis: that all humans exhibit a small number of universal emotions, or affects, that are innate and the same all over the world. For more than half a century, this claim has remained contentious, disputed among psychologists, anthropologists, and technologists. Nonetheless, it became a seed for a growing market that will be worth an estimated $56 billion by 2024. This is the story of how affect recognition came to be part of the artificial-intelligence industry, and the problems that presents.

The Barrier in Experience: The Holocaust Films of Canadian Survivor Jack Kuper

The Barrier in Experience: The Holocaust Films of Canadian Survivor Jack Kuper Jeremy Maron   |   May 2020 Jack Kuper is an author, filmmaker and Holocaust survivor from Toronto (Fig. 1). He immigrated to Canada in 1947 at the age of 15 as part of the Canadian Jewish Congress’ War Orphans Project, which brought to Canada approximately one thousand Jewish children orphaned by the Holocaust. 1 Kuper has published two autobiographical novels – Child of the Holocaust (1967), about his experiences on the run and in hiding in rural Poland during the Second World War, and After the Smoke Cleared (1994), which covers his post-war immigration and assimilation into Canada, and his adulthood.