Let’s begin, predictably, with an Apple product video. The ad opens on a dark screen, pebbled with stars. As the music swells, our vision pans over a backlit curve — a planet, presumably, as depicted in just about every cinematic space _...Read More_

"This week’s newsletter is a little unusual. It only has one section, which is devoted to sketching out some possible contours of a left tech policy. In what follows, I take the basic principles of decommodification and democratization and _...Read More_

"I adore trash, cheap plastic objects, cracktros, single-purpose workarounds, fakes, forgeries, bump keys, and slim-jims. (1) Things either made as interference themselves or the symptoms of an imperfect world. Evidence of chaos and our _...Read More_

"On emotions, currencies, hierarchies and how to trace power through a global organization for art workers called "L'Union des Refusés""

>"The exclusion of poorer people from their own neighbourhoods is not just a social problem but a philosophical one"

As I read this prehistory of DAO it is profound how much embodiment will change what this space can eventually achieve. Earth Regenerators is a DAO of physical human beings in a web of prosocial relationships. We already are functioning _...Read More_

"The Theorizing the Web conference is in two weeks! In bringing social theory to social media through discussions that are conceptual, critical, and historical, it shares with Real Life a common scope, philosophy, and personnel, so we _...Read More_

"Surveillance capitalism turns a profit by making people more comfortable with discrimination"

In my previous article, I argued that societies advance through four emo­tional regi­mes: from fear, to guilt, to shame, to Sklavenmoral (which, if the patt­­ern holds, is only truly becoming dominant in the most advan­ced mod­ern _...Read More_

Everything has its own drawback, I feel the more we aim for more perfection through AI, the more we push away our humanity.

Our wired world is turning into a tangled web. Attempts to both exploit and regulate digital connectivity have revealed deeply rooted and distinctly different notions of where and how _...Read More_

What the digital worlds of Japan’s imageboards and America’s alt-right reveal about real-life precarity.

"The German philosopher Martin Heidegger famously remarked back in the 1960s that the advent of cybernetics meant the end of Western metaphysics. What do you think he meant by this comment? And to what extent do you agree?"