You’ll forgive us for interrupting your rants on trivial matters such as, for example, the next rental property or, even worse, the massacres in the Middle East. Here the world …
mechanical love, mechanical despair
When at the end of 2013 the movie Her by Spike Jonze was released in cinemas (with Joaquin Phoenix in the role of a lonely writer and the voice of …
what do the neo-malthusians of the 4th industrial revolution drink?
We don’t know. However, it is certain that in their orgies and little orgies they make various “cocktails” – and they have been completely dumbed down. Of course, they can …
algorithms and totalitarianism
Historical fascism is generally (and often abstractly) known, although it is condensed into personalities (e.g. Hitler) facilitating misunderstanding and confusion: obviously “national socialism” either in its German version or in …
“A Cyborg Manifesto”: thirty years later
This text was first published in Cyborg no 2, in February 2015. More than 10 years ago. Why are we republishing it now? Because it still holds up. And because …
Organized stupefaction?
It is a position that we have publicly supported (i.e., in writing) on various occasions, despite it being particularly unpopular: every process of extensive mechanization of human capabilities quickly leads …
the eugenic dystopia of “artificial intelligence”
A few days ago, a relatively small Chinese company announced a new “large language model” (the official technical term for what is commonly referred to as “artificial intelligence”), which overturned …
Science; Of whom;
When in 1942, during the Second World War, a good portion of the Western physicists’ elite gathered in the US to transform their until-then theoretical knowledge and ideas into something …
Not everything is for sale!
This “beggar” (or perhaps homeless?) in the photographs (in the Moscow metro) is called Grigori Yakovlevich Perelman. He is probably the greatest living mathematician and geometer – certainly for half, …
the organism is the product (synthetic biology and the creation of genetic tailoring)
In the 1990s, the Human Genome Project—concerned with the “decoding of human DNA”—promised to provide humanity with its “instruction manual”: a document that would forever clarify how the human organism …
Statistics… as we say “state”
The phrase of Mark Twain (which he himself attributed to British Prime Minister Disraeli) is now widely known: “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” Despite …
Strategic mistake!
John Ioannidis was endlessly vilified around here when he dared to criticize the hygiene-terrorist hysteria. In the USA he was even threatened—he lives very close to the corporate (and not …