Evan Selinger

Evan Selinger (@evanselinger) is a professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Be Skeptical of Thought Leaders

Evan Selinger picks apart Susan Liautaud’s “cheerful boosterism.”...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A Premature Eulogy for Privacy

Evan Selinger vehemently argues against the tenets of Firmin DeBrabander’s “Life After Privacy: Reclaiming Democracy in a Surveillance Society.”...

LAW

POLITICS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Why Technologists Fail to Think of Moderation as a Virtue and Other Stories About AI

Evan Selinger argues that Ted Chiang’s fiction is more useful for understanding the dangers of AI than “Possible Minds: 25 Ways of Looking at AI.”...

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Ornamental Thinking: On “Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason”

PHILOSOPHY & CRITICAL THEORY

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

HISTORY

Internet Privacy: Stepping Up Our Self-Defense Game

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bursting the Optimistic Technology Bubble

Blaming the Internet Is Not the Answer

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

The Black Box Within: Quantified Selves, Self-Directed Surveillance, and the Dark Side of Datification

NONFICTION

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Too Much Magic, Too Little Social Friction: Why Objects Shouldn’t Be Enchanted

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

OkCupid’s XOXO for Big Surveillance

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

CULTURAL STUDIES

Replicated Communities: Bianca Bosker’s “Original Copies”