Brandon Marcus

For Andreessen, technology and markets are inextricable from each other. The market is itself a kind of technology, a “discovery machine,” an “explora

Many of them believe not only in a hierarchy within humanity, with some people better than others, but that machines are or soon will be superior to p

The attention economy takes advantage of what philosopher Jennifer Nagel calls “our natural attraction to knowledge gain.” It is natural because this

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

Culture is itself a code/space. The danger of this emphasis on the coproduction of physical and cultural space by computation is that it in turn occlu

Just as global telecommunications have collapsed time and space, computation conflates past and future. That which is gathered as data is modelled as