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The “Correlation” Between Statistics and Eugenics
In the second essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Aubrey Clayton excavates the troubling correlation between the birth of statistical methods and the history of eugenics.
Science & Technology
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein
The Last Avant-Garde
Alexander Billet reviews Dominique Routhier’s “With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation.”
Keeping Up with the Klimate
Hannah Bonner connects Kōhei Saitō’s book “Slow Down: The Degrowth Manifesto” to Sara Sowell’s short film “Color Negative” by way of the Kardashians.
Sacralizing Nature: On Marcelo Gleiser’s “The Dawn of a Mindful Universe”
Paolo Musso believes the work of an open-minded, bighearted scientist like Marcelo Gleiser is of paramount importance to our future.
Transcendent Luminescence, Ravaging Flames: On Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline”
Mala Chatterjee reads Alexander Kriss’s “Borderline: The Biography of a Personality Disorder” in the context of her own borderline diagnosis.
Hunger-Time
Alma Igra illustrates how, through the scrupulous caloric management of Gaza, Israel and the international community have weaponized food.
Bella Baxter and the Machine: On Yorgos Lanthimos’s “Poor Things” and Julie Wosk’s “Artificial Women”
Marion Thain analyzes Yorgos Lanthimos’s film “Poor Things” in the context of Julie Wosk’s new book “Artificial Women: Sex Dolls, Robot Caregivers, and More Facsimile Females.”
The Prehistory of Men and Babies: On Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s “Father Time”
Claudia Casper reviews Sarah Blaffer Hrdy’s “Father Time: A Natural History of Men and Babies.”
Keeping Humans in the Loop: On Hilke Schellmann’s “The Algorithm”
Evan Selinger reviews Hilke Schellmann’s “The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now.”
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.
Out of the Mouth of Bots: Child Genius and Generative Machines
In an excerpt from LARB Quarterly no. 41, “Truth,” Emily Wells and Aaron Bornstein scrutinize a pair of child geniuses.
Ozempic: Reshaping Desire Since 2023
Ozempic is a drug against addiction. Is it also a drug for … virtue? wonders political scientist Krzysztof Pelc.
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