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Am I still myself if my self is a project of transcendence? Do my prosthetic practices make me more myself or less myself? Is "transc...

In the process of throwing together my course this term I have managed to place online some documents and notes that I often make recourse t...

I'm going to be delivering a paper at the Fourth Congress of United States Basic Income Guarantee Network , which is taking place March ...

A week from tomorrow I will begin teaching a new course at the San Francisco Art Institute, entitled "Critical Theory, Network Politics...

Trolling around the cyberspatial sprawl I stumbled onto this half-remembered snippet, from, get this, the New Year’s Eve issue of Time Maga...

Lately, some of my friends and political allies have taken me to task for my eager acceptance of the designation "progressive," an...

On tech-oriented discussion lists I have noticed over and over these curious micro-managerial fantasies of control that pop up especially am...

For those of you who have asked me to say more about the dissertation I am currently finishing up (apparently, mostly in my downtime from wh...

I just stumbled upon a lovely piece by Bertrand Russell, called “A Liberal Decalogue,” with which others may be well familiar but which I ha...

It has become something of an NPR tradition at Christmas time to replay David Sedaris ’ "Santaland Diaries," a mildly funny, genia...

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...