I'm Niel Bezrookove, a researcher, writer, new media artist. I was born in the Netherlands, went to Gymnasium at Marecollege Vrijeschool in Leiden, and graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 2018 with a degree in Cognitive Science (B.Sc.). I held a research position at the Cognitive Science faculty of the University of California, San Diego, held a residency at the Culture, Art, Technology department of the University of California, San Diego and had my work appear in the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. In 2024, I attained an M.A. in Logic and Philosophy of Science from the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, where I wrote a dissertation on the formal ethics of responsibility in groups entitled "the Conditions for Group Responsibility."
My research interests include logic (in particular Zalta's Object Theory, and the application of logic to ethical questions), formal ethics (in particular responsibility), social choice theory, philosophy of consciousness (in particular relating to Information theory and formal questions of phenomenology), epistemic game theory, philosophy of mathematics (in particular epistemological questions relating to proof and theory), and formal epistemology (in particular Bayesianism and its limitations with regards to epistemic approaches in game theory). As a researcher, I've participated in projects which included evolutionary biology, linguistics, and computer science. Outside of philosophy, I am particularly interested in formal approaches to communication and social theory; I am an enthusiastic supporter of using technology to progress society.
My creative work is in contemporary literature & avant-garde music. I've been part of several performance groups including Phosphor, La Montagne, Casi Casi, and Bill's Acountant. My own projects include Smogcat, Tomo Takino, and The Wretched Excess. My first novel was entitled "The Pupa Woman," (Gumroad link) a contemporary work of fiction concerning technology and desire. I am also the founder, editor, and typographer of NEKO GIRL MAGAZINE, the first academic journal for Fujo-Bataille studies. Currently writing two long-form works, which are tentatively named "Jester" and "Swords Under the Phosphor Sky." You can read a shortened and serialized version of "Swords Under the Phosphor Sky" at Andata Express' Holohaus.
I currently write fiction and philosophy at my Substack. I've written on countless earlier blogs, including FATE OF THE HUMAN CARBINE.
I can be contacted at nbezrook@ucsd.edu– my academia.edu page □
Мирним, лагідним сном.
Ген вогні, як намисто,
Розцвіли над Дніпром.
Вечорів оксамити,
Мов щастя прибій...
Як тебе не любити,
Києве мій!