Brandon Marcus

Software was never going to deliver the future. Software was the thing we did instead of the future, because it has orderly rules, because it’s cheap

They are far more focused on liberty than equality. They believe societal inequalities exist for the simple reason that people are different and some

As “government by the people” was reduced to formal civil rights, major forms of power—the most important being control over wealth—were magically red

Our oligarchic–democratic reality can be summed up as participatory inequality—a combination of maximum popular voice with very limited impact, so tha

Information and attention: A century in which the key to human history is not how the economy grew, but rather how humans learned to give attention to

Iris Murdoch, who extended Weil’s thinking into moral philosophy, made this point explicit in The Sovereignty of Good: the quality of our attention de

Murdoch suggests that the ego makes it difficult to properly attend to one another. We often fail to see others adequately because the ego gets in the

what gives categories their authority—what makes them appear natural to us—is the fact that they are collectively crafted, sustained, and enforced. Th