amor mundi

1 One of the many annoying argumentative tics in futurological discourse is the one I tend to think of as The Utopium Conceit… 2 in which ...

I admit with some shame that yesterday I had an initial guffaw at the naked Trump statues ... but it didn't take long for me to feel un...

In skirmishes with libertopians and libertechians so often I end up exclaiming: "I don't want to smash the state but to democratize...

There is plenty in Richard Rorty to disagree with, but he still has an outsized influence in my spiritual make-up. It is hard to explain, bu...

Don't doubt for a second these guys can ALWAYS get worse...

Watching the RNC is like reading the Book of Mazarbul: "We cannot get out. The shadow moves in the dark. We cannot get out. They are co...

Any radicalism that blinds you to differences that make a difference is reactionary in substance.

I have articulated this position over and over on Amor Mundi, and for years now at this point, but the heartbreaking nauseating unendurable ...

No shock: In the Future eveybody dies. The reason this isn't just a tasteless observation is because a disavowal of finitude, mortalit...

I re-post variations of the following bit of grousing more or less every year on Pride Weekend. Last year it was published in the afterglow...

I'm a champion of both performance art pieces and uncompromising ethical stands, but I don't think elections are good occasions for ...

The "Good Guy With A Gun" is just a techno-ruggedization of the usual paranoid aggressive American individualism of white-racist ...

Those who once said "let the market decide" will soon say "let the AIs decide" and they will mean the same thing by it: ...

I can't be the only one who strongly suspects the Klingon Empire is a matriarchy run by scientists and social workers and that all the w...

Futurological "progress" is a marketing phenomenon.

Futurists in the 1950s promised automation (technology) would usher in a utopia (politics) of universal prosperity and leisure. And now, for...

This afternoon in my Biopunk! graduate seminar we'll be discussing Octavia Butler's Dawn , which I have always loved so much. We...

Make America As Grating As Possible

House Joint Resolution 64: "Authorization for Use of Military Force," Sept 14, 2001: There was one and only ONE "Nay"...

The Future's so trite I have to give shade.