Julien Crockett is an intellectual property attorney and the science and law editor at the Los Angeles Review of Books. He runs the LARB column The Rules We Live By, exploring what it means to be a human living by an ever-evolving set of rules.
Julien Crockett
Articles
Everything You Think Is Physical
Julien Crockett discusses cognition and metaphors with George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan, authors of “The Neural Mind: How Brains Think,” in a new installment of the series The Rules We Live By.
Life Is More Than an Engineering Problem
Julien Crockett speaks with Ted Chiang about the search for a perfect language, the state of AI, and the future direction of technology.
The Rules We Live By: Year in Review
Julien Crockett looks back on the first year of the LARB series The Rules We Live By.
Play and the Engine of Creation
Julien Crockett interviews Kelly Clancy about gamification, simulations, and her new book “Playing with Reality: How Games Have Shaped Our World.”
How to Raise Your Artificial Intelligence: A Conversation with Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell
Julien Crockett interviews Alison Gopnik and Melanie Mitchell about complexity and learning in AI systems, and our roles as caregivers.
The City of the Future: A Conversation with Antoine Picon and Carlo Ratti
For the Rules We Live By series, Julien Crockett interviews Carlo Ratti and Antoine Picon about their new book “Atlas of the Senseable City.”
The Hold of the Dead Over the Living: A Conversation with Jill Lepore
Julien Crockett talks with Jill Lepore about her new book “The Deadline.”
Everything Is Embedded in What Came Before: A Conversation with Robert M. Sapolsky
Julien Crockett interviews Robert M. Sapolsky, author of “Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.”
In Praise of Failure and Storytelling: A Conversation with Costica Bradatan
Costica Bradatan speaks with Julien Crockett about his new book “In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility.”
Does a Final Theory Exist?: A Conversation with Alan Lightman
Julien Crockett talks with Alan Lightman about his new book “The Transcendent Brain: Spirituality in the Age of Science.”
The Rules We Live By
A series made up of conversations between Julien Crockett and those who dictate, think deeply about, and seek to bend or break the rules we live by.
Data in the Hands of Profiteers: A Conversation with Mary F. E. Ebeling
Julien Crockett speaks to Mary F. E. Ebeling, author of “Afterlives of Data: Life and Debt Under Capitalist Surveillance.”
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A History, A Philosophy, A Warning
Julien Crockett talks with Justin E. H. Smith about his new book, “The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is.”
Semipublic Intellectual Sessions: “What Comes After CRISPR?”
A transcript of the panel discussion “What Comes After CRISPR?” – a satellite event of the Semipublic Intellectual Sessions, which took place on November 5.
A Chinese Silicon Valley? Not So Fast
Julien Crockett on the future of tech in China.
Los Angeles Review of Books Digital Editions – The Digital Revolution: Debating the Promise and Perils of the Internet and Algorithmic Lives in the Last Years of the Obama Administration
The Los Angeles Review of Books offers its new digital edition, focusing on the internet, automation, and algorithms over the last few years.
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