The world (the subjects of the capitalist world) haven’t even begun to grasp the changes—some of them fundamental—that 3G and 4G communications brought to their behaviors, lives, and views. The …
Fiction
This is how Blade Runner begins, the legendary film by Ridley Scott, shot in 1982. L.A. is a fragmented city with a “top” and a “bottom” world, and a key security issue is the seizure of “invaders” – biotechnological humanoids that “work” on other planets.
When free software drops bombs… literally!
One of the most persistent myths that techno-fetishism maintains around new technologies has to do with so-called “free software” and “open source software”. The words “free” and “open” create connotations, …
the racist origins of the American high-tech industry
How the tools built for the U.S. census fueled the Nazi genocide, concentration camps, and state racism—and helped launch the digital age. On a frozen December day in 1896, an …
the ideological management of climate change
“In the event that intense climate change phenomena occur, that is, an average global temperature increase of 2.6 degrees Celsius by 2040, then large-scale non-linear environmental events will cause large-scale …
the “philosophical” concerns of the mechanization of everything
At the beginning of the 21st century, the problematization of consciousness, in other words the formulation of questions such as “what is consciousness?”, could not belong to what has historically …
What did you say?
Does language have socio-political dimensions? Even when we are dealing with technical terms of a science? From the perspective of contemporary linguistics of structuralist inspiration, such questions seem non-sensical. What …
the worker and the queen: epigenetics on dna determinism
… The fundamental belief called genetic determinism essentially means that our lives, which are defined as the physical, biological and emotional characteristics of our behavior, are fully controlled by our …
artificial intelligence: the Golem of the 4th industrial revolution
You might remember it, or maybe not. There is a method in statistics, quite simple and widespread, so much so that it is often taught even in high school. It …
On/off
“One thing we know, that we know nothing.” This should be the motto of biotechnologists, if – as “scientists” – they were honest towards the populations that fund them. But …
Metabolism?
“Metamaterials” are artificial materials with not only a designed composition but also a designed molecular structure. As such, they display behaviors that are completely unknown (at least to common experience), …
about paradigm shift… again
Saying that capitalist relations of production and consumption are dominant, essentially across the entire planet by now, constitutes a truism. This is an obvious observation, at least for those who …