...has never been found. It languishes beneath the waves: a hidden trace of capitalism’s birth, of hundreds of peoples’ deaths, and of the ocean’s power to transport, to wreck, to...
...as data -- and the definition of executive function as work that could not be automated and that depended on "feel" and the expression of authority in unmediated interpersonal communication...
...machine gamblers pursue a more extreme version of "nonrational" coping behaviors that many of us may resort to in less drastic forms, in machinic responses and repetitions on social media,...
...points intersect with others and lend itself to further processing, further recombinations that expand it algorithmically beyond all bounds of our intent. The risk of feeding our data into the...
...actually improve computers. When a turker works on a project, she creates a data set which the computer can then learn from. “Computers document the signals generated by humans. They...
...network nodes. Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space (2016) SIMONE BROWNE. The soundtrack for artist Zach Blas's “Contra-Internet Inversion Practice #3: Modeling Paranodal Space” comes from the corresponding title...
...constitute similar systemic actions as normal, legitimate, or An earlier version of this essay noted that an 18-year-old had killed nine afghan children; this was based on an unconfirmed early...
...power of subjectivity, its capacity to produce wealth. These two senses of “the production of subjectivity” do not or have not coincided in the history of capitalism. In fact it...
...“the world,” a world obliged to “come together as one.” In the British version, the world was small enough that you could feasibly throw your arms around it (“at Christmas...
...as our resource and, conversely, our impacts as ecological footprints. A left version of this is evident in the subtitle of Naomi Klein’s latest book Capitalism vs the Climate, while...
An interview with Nick Estes about his new book, Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance
...and the grim, hard-faced operatives of the New Right who came to power under Reagan and Gingrich – what Thomas Frank calls “the wrecking crew” – were fierce in their...
...is especially ironic. But the Army’s version is much scarier than Medusa and her less famous sisters. There is no avoiding eye contact with these drones. The flying machine holds...