amor mundi

We lost an election we shouldn't have lost -- that was the beginning -- and now we confront a series of increasingly terrible battles w...

I can be an avalanche.

Thinking about the world is the world mattering to the thinker. So long as nothing matters to robots and algorithms, to speak of "AI...

Given how much I loved Next Generation when it came out and hated Enterprise when it came out I must say, in retrospect, with a longer ru...

Doing your politics on twitter is as hilarious as bringing a mirror to a knife fight.

Philosophy, originating in bad-faith denials of its rhetoricity, has always been an alientaed pseudo-science. But philosophy pressured by ...

The following are the posts from 2016 that people liked most and which, for the most part, I liked as well: Politics Is , November 16, 20...

"Acceleration" = Precarization "Artificial Intelligence" = Denial of Responsibility "Automation" = Dismant...

I think most of what passes for "Tech" design should be disregarded and most of what is accepted as "Tech" promotion sho...

As every year, the reminder:

I am less hopeful than I have been in years, but, this year as every year...

As every year on this day, a remembrance for a scholar who mattered to me when it mattered quite a lot: What’s “queer?” Here...

No E for my efforts, doncha know...

Marketing hype ("innovation"), parochially profitable fraud ("meritocracy"), deregulatory privatization and looting (...

We don't need saving.    Educate, agitate, organize, march, struggle, vote.

Nobody loses jobs to robots. People lose jobs to the owners of robots.

1 Do those saying "at least Rex Tillerson admits climate change is real" know he advocates futurological greenwashing via geo-engi...

1 When I think how much destruction and self-destruction is abetted simply by the GOP's disciplined repetition of false and facile sloga...