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Rob Horning

Rob Horning (@marginalutility) is an editor at The New Inquiry.

No Mind To Lose: On Brainwashing

Rob Horning reviews Scott Selisker’s “Human Programming: Brainwashing, Automatons, and American Unfreedom.”...

ROB HORNING

HISTORY

Hide and Seek: The Problem with Obfuscation

Brunton and Nissenbaum outline a variety of techniques of obfuscation that ordinary people can deploy to camouflage themselves....

ROB HORNING

POLITICS

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Bot Like Me: Illah Reza Nourbakhsh’s “Robot Futures”

IN 1920, THE CZECH SCIENCE FICTION writer Karel Capek introduced the world to the word “robot.” In his play R.U.R, robots are not exactly the gleaming machines they would become in later science fiction; they are, rather, ...

ROB HORNING

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