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It’s Not What You Think: On Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell’s “The Smartness Mandate”
Evan Selinger reviews Orit Halpern and Robert Mitchell’s “The Smartness Mandate” and finds it “vertigo-inducing.”...
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Evan Selinger
Evan Selinger (@evanselinger) is a professor of philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology.
Articles
Whose Body Is in the Analog World?: On David Sax’s “The Future Is Analog”
Philosopher Evan Selinger eviscerates David Sax’s unabashedly privileged views in “The Future Is Analog: How to Create a More Human World.”...
Are You Living Your Best Multiverse Life?: An Interview with Jonathan Carroll
Evan Selinger talks with Jonathan Carroll about how to choose your best multiverse life in his new novel “Mr. Breakfast.”...
Metaverse Myopia
Evan Selinger has reservations about the metaverse....
Surveillance Gone Viral
Evan Selinger lauds David Lyon’s “Pandemic Surveillance” while quibbling with its lack of grounded analysis....
A Tech Critic Embraces Dave Eggers’s “The Every”
A tech critic lauds Dave Eggers’s ability to viscerally ground the issues he talks about in dry academese, like slippery slopes and normalization processes....
Be Skeptical of Thought Leaders
Evan Selinger picks apart Susan Liautaud’s “cheerful boosterism.”...
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.”...
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.”...
Ornamental Thinking: On “Irrationality: A History of the Dark Side of Reason”
Is Justin E. H. Smith's assemblage of material actually illuminating? Yes, but only sometimes....
Internet Privacy: Stepping Up Our Self-Defense Game
Despite all the coverage "privacy" gets in the post-Snowden world, many of us don’t see what all the fuss is about....
Bursting the Optimistic Technology Bubble
Machines themselves are turning into workers, and the line between the capability of labor and capital is blurring as never before....
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