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Rounding Up the Risks of Big Ag
Elena Conis considers “Whitewash: The Story of a Weed Killer, Cancer, and the Corruption of Science” by Carey Gillam.
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
The After of Disaster in “The Great Quake”
Henry Fountain’s scientific interests are wide-ranging and resolutely anchored in the human.
Delete Your Account: On the Theory of Platform Capitalism
The platform confuses capital-flow and social form, rearranging the relationship of profit to community and intelligence to organization.
How I Accidentally Wrote the Antithesis of a Spielberg Blockbuster
On the virtual reality of consumer capitalism …
Curating the Anthropocene
“Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance” at the MOCA confronts the Anthropocene.
Antonio Damasio, Feeling, and the Evolution of Consciousness: Siri Hustvedt on “The Strange Order of Things”
Consciousness is embodied, enacted, and extended. “The mind” can't be cut off from our corporeal existence in the world and our interactions with it.
Can Journalism Be Saved?
Through its many voices, "Trump and the Media" makes a convincing case that journalism has sailed into dangerous straits.
The Slippery Search for Creativity
Dan Falk reviews two new books on the cause of creativity.
The Critical Zone of Science and Politics: An Interview with Bruno Latour
Bruno Latour on climate change, the earth as termite mound, and why he only drinks Burgundy.
Present at the Destruction: Humanity’s Success in Ruining Nature
This unholy alliance of producers, consumers, and parochially focused governments is sleepwalking the Earth off the climate cliff. On "The Water Will Come."
Listening to the Dolphins: Leo Szilard on Nuclear War
When a nuclear physicist turns to fiction.
Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race
Safiya Umoja Noble’s “Algorithms of Oppression” explores how racial bias informs and shapes the very platform we laud as radically democratizing.
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