Van Newman

should we be giving more or less of ourselves to the internet?

This question varies in levels of magnitude from one generation to the next. generation Z, inadvertently birthed into the norms of a life spent entirely plugged in, typically uphold a streamlined subconscious of online intentionality while millennials, straddling vague memories of life... See more

Viewing technology in the longue durée foregrounds how slavery undergirds conditions of contemporary extraction, surveillance, and the insistence on positing knowledge as outside of those arrangements—practices that produce today’s technologies. Contributors to this issue of Logic(s), “Out of Place,” challenge the logic that racism is contaminating... See more

The problem isn’t that machines are becoming more human-like, it’s that humans are becoming more machine-like in an effort to keep up.

I’m reminded of the words of sci-fi author Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.” Of course, it was also noted by philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Žižek that “It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.” Such a statement displays the narrative

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