Time, Temporality, and History

The emergence of the Western-centric worldview and science is also tied to a particular understanding of time. Time concerns the calendar system, techniques of synchronization, perceptions of the past, present, and future, and approaches to history. It is a universally obvious fact that the temporal system and calendar time which now dominate are those which arose alongside European imperialism and have been disseminated through colonialism and global trade

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AI and ColonAIalism

AI is not universal. It was created in the West and represents a structure of Western thinking, that is, a colonial network cast over all societies, subjugating them to Western meanings, goals, and procedures. AI has a civilizational identity. And it is Western. We cannot create a Russian AI until we have clarity regarding the Russian civilizational identity. GigaChat and other Russian knock-offs are simply import substitutions — cloned versions of ChatGPT with a few additional restrictions to please the authorities.

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