...a full analysis of the power of falsehood.’’ – Umberto Eco, "The Power of Falsehood" studious likeness he now begins to assume. He completes the first chapter of his thesis...
...they’re still not the classic “failed utopia” dystopia. They’re exaggerated versions of reality. Maybe “failed completist-power” dystopias. Aaron: How is that different than a “failed utopia”? It’s an interesting distinction,...
...“Brain!” We all pass. But abnormal brain is not a diagnosis, nor is it new information. I undergo seven more tests, the data from which yet again evade a secure...
...publishers, books will be defined not by the words in them so much as by the comprehensive numerical data set capturing the contours of the market for them. That is,...
...it’s supposed to be. Just as kitchen computers were not actually designed with household workers in mind, the aim of scraping the data off of every mundane human activity—from toasting...
...Our data helps them find the most profitable version of ourselves, regardless of whether that is our best self, or even a better self. (Of course, that seems to imply...
...the power of data, that the future of the economy is intricately bound to high-tech. A skilled population requires digital literacy of the sort that Snowden put to such disruptive...
...example of the indeterminate border zone as a place of absolute power. It is outside the legal jurisdiction of either Cuba or the United States but remains under the sovereign...
...it in Society Must Be Defended, biopolitical neoliberalism is “the power of regularization” that monitors “aleatory events.” In the case of yoga and Zumba, the practices aren’t so much commodified...
...hands. I took him into my mouth. Happiness for two minutes.” Ultimately, Vargas Llosa’s turn is a rather cheap way out, and one more version of the old homophobic binary...
...places all the players on the same field and positions any conflict squarely around the interpretation of data. A truly ideal scientific origin story that completely lacks petty human constructions....
...to push forward an “improved” version of the airport project, actually ending up stopping any attempts to start work or to evict residents for over a year. 8. The trêve...
...needs to be to thrive in a world where artifice is key to female power, there should really be nothing at all under the mask — and certainly nothing that...
...the King, without the rationale his enthronement guarantees, power courses though the social body in completely unpredictable circuits, in an unprecedented, "nonhistorical" fashion. The singer calls for a "spell or...