“The scandal is not, as the term Anthropocene implies, that the boundaries between the human and nature get blurred. Rather, the scandal is that we humans still have not learned to think about ourselves in terms of the microbial — the viral — world of which we are a part.” | Continue reading
The idea of a home-owning middle class is broken. | Continue reading
What has not been questioned enough during the COVID-19 crisis is unrelenting capitalism itself. | Continue reading
“It is detestable to consider the armchair mental gymnastics of ‘robot rights’ as a pressing ethical issue in light of real threats and harms imposed by AI today on society’s most vulnerable.” | Continue reading
The distorted experience of time through the COVID-19 pandemic reveals it to be an atemporal liminal passage between two great historic eras. | Continue reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed how valuable it is for governments to have operational expertise, plan for the long-term and socialize certain risks. | Continue reading