Someday quantum computers will sift through unprecedented volumes of information and solve processing problems once thought intractable. At present, the one in front of me can factor the number fifteen.
The virality of political memes this campaign season has had little to do with political messaging and more to do with posturing and identity projection
The mainstreaming of electronic dance music and the assimilation of non-Western music into hipster taste hierarchies owes more to biopolitics than beats
At a time when much of the world is mired by recession, and unemployment is hitting record highs, it’s not surprising that we’d want experts unafraid to make sense of it all. Enter the pop-economist.
When country musicians tried to protect the integrity of their genre in the 1970s against the likes of John Denver, it wasn’t merely aesthetic protest but an organized labor movement