amor mundi

Technophiles who drift uncomfortably in the direction of the megalomaniacal end of the temperamental spectrum often wax enthusiastic about t...

As a queer atheist for gun control, I want to send a shout out to all my fellow American citizens on the genocidal evangelical Right and the...

Oh, and another thing! Progressives must defend and champion urban Americans in the so-called “Red States.” We should distinguish spar...

As often happens among technology enthusiasts, there has been a flare-up of discussion about the politics of surveillance on one of the talk...

Emerging pharmacological interventions into mood, memory, and perception are growing more sophisticated and ubiquitous. These developments a...

I'll be giving a talk, "Vulgar Biocentrism Among the Technophiles," Saturday, August 7, at the University of Toronto as part o...

My friend and fellow progressive technology advocate, the socialist-feminist bioethicist James Hughes wrote an interesting column in Bette...

Many people are initially inspired (or appalled) by the sensawunda conjurations by radical technophiles of what I call Superlative State Tec...

My friend James Fehlinger just offered me his translation into Quenya (for me the most beautiful of J.R.R. Tokein's realized languages ...

Alex Steffen over at WorldChanging shared a passage snipped away from his upcoming book which he’s now pruning and polishing. If somethi...

Spontaneous Order on the Right Well-meaning and reasonable persons wandering for the first time into electronic discursive spaces where radi...

There is a saying that nothing is inevitable but death and taxes, but it is beginning to look, strangely enough, as if taxes will end up bei...

“Permitted in principle by the laws of physics” is a larger set of propositions than “stuff that can be plausibly engineered” is a larger se...

I agree with the many people who are claiming now that the wide circulation of damning digital images and documents from Iraq and elsewhere ...

My very good friends and colleagues and comrades-at-arms at Betterhumans have posted a link to this humble blog (thanks guys!) by way of re...