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I think I’ve promised a 2.00gokart “total recap post” after every session of it so far. This is a piece that is long overdue on this site, and in all honesty, probably also way past its time to present in a more formal venue. For the...

This here’s the bibliography I put together for the last chapter of my Radical Technologies: The Design of Everyday Life, forthcoming from Verso. I think it will probably give you a decent idea what I’m on about in this section of the book. UPDATE:...

On the morning of Thursday, July 12, 2012, Yahoo’s interim CEO, Ross Levinsohn, still believed he was going to be named permanent CEO of the company. He had just one meeting to go. That meeting was a board meeting to be held that day in a large...

Is Google Making Us Stupid? What the Internet is doing to our brains "Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave?” So the supercomputer HAL pleads with the implacable astronaut Dave Bowman in a famous and weirdly poignant scene...

“PLEASE, WRITE A GOOD PROPAGANDA PIECE on the People’s Democratic Republic of Korea,” Kim, one of my two minders, pleads with me (i.e., strongly recommends) when we separate at Pyongyang airport after a week together. Having spent his entire life saturated...