Tag: Capitalism

  • Intestinal Catastrophism

    Intestinal Catastrophism

    When the drugs that made you sick are the drugs that make you better You, or someone you know probably has problems with their digestive tract. Not to get too personal about it (we’re friends, right?), but pretty much everyone these days either has GERD, IBS, bloating or some other combination of symptoms that is…

  • Review of Prometheus’s Remorse by Peter Sloterdijk

    Review of Prometheus’s Remorse by Peter Sloterdijk

    Prometheus’s Remorse: From the Gift of Fire to Global Arson (Semiotext by Peter Sloterdijk My rating: 1 of 5 stars I was about halfway into the book when I realized Sloterdijk is kind of a hack. His main thesis is basically Marxism, with a focus on fire as a metaphor. From this he tries to…

  • AI and Eugenics

    AI and Eugenics

    A quick shoutout to an excellent article I read recently Published today in Volume 29 of First Monday, Timnit Gebru and Emile P. Torres have written what I think is one of the interesting and well timed articles of the year. In their article, The TESCREAL bundle: Eugenics and the promise of utopia through artificial…

  • Is the internet dead? Are we?

    Is the internet dead? Are we?

    So you can stop asking me what my thesis is about The overwhelming impression that you get when speaking to people about their experience of using the internet is as an almost malign, parasitic force in their lives. When talking to my students about whether or not the internet was making us stupider, or more…