Brandon Marcus

As historian Jill Lepore wrote, we used to be in a world of mystery. Then we began to understand those mysteries and use science to turn them into fac

we need the ability to make sense of the torrent of information that we encounter every day while accepting that it will never be fully coherent, nor

As Mumford wrote in his classic history of technology, “The essential distinction between a machine and a tool lies in the degree of independence in t

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

The arguments for breaking up concentrations of property were at once pragmatic and political. For the new republic to remain free, land, wealth, and